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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

In the elections for filling our state and
county offices, there are two distinct Gle
ments one is the nomination of the per-
sons to fill these offices, and the other is the
casting of votes for them. Every man.
with but very few ex 'eptions, is supposed
to cast his vote for some one of the nomi-
nees but only a few-a very few-men
have the control of selecting these nomi-
noes.
This latter class of men has come at last
to have the virtual control of all our clcc-
tions for whomsoever they select as
nominees, are voted for by the people with
out much thought or attention of their own.
Hence, very small cliques or rings, are en-
abled to control and direct the official in
terests of the state. But this is not the de-
sign Of republican government nor is it
compatible with such government. 1t is
oligarchical, not republican.
1t is evident that if this system goes on,
any standing organization pervading the
principle centers of population, can control
our elections. Even Railroad organiza-
ton has great power in that way, buta sec
ret organization has greater power still.
The two combined would prove irrosisti BILE
unless the people should arouse and re-
solve to assert their rights.
We often hear it asserted that secret
society man is free TO vote rs he pleases,
and often votes against secret society can
didales but what does this signify il sec
ret societies have the nominating power? {?
There is nothing to prevent their having
this power, as our elections are now man
aged, or rather miS-managed. The Masons
and odd Follows may make or unmake
any officer they please. No one can fill
an oilico without their consent and when
ever one does go into office, he must give
the sign Of subseryience to Masonic
power, although, this power is oligarchical,
dangerous to republican government aud
injurious to the interests of the country.
In order to wrest the political power from
secret organizations and give it to the peo-
pie TO whom il belongs, We propose to make
use of one of our civil institutions, which
is open, fair, manly, and just. We allude
to the Town MEETING, which is one of the
safest and best organizations that we know
Of After the TowN MEETING has done up
the town business in March, we then pro-
pose that il should resolve itself into a
nominating convention for state, county,
federal officers, and that every freeman
should write his own ballot, and cast "A free
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

= WHATTHE MICROSCOPE REvEALs-wITH
\ MoRAL.-Lewenboe tells us of AN in
sect seen with the microscope, of which 27,-
coo, 600 would only equal mite.
Insects of various kinds may be seen in
the cavities of grain Of sand.
Mould is a forest of beautiful trees, with
the branches, leaves and fruit.
Butterflies are fully feathered.
Hairs are hollow tubes.
The surface of our body is covered with
scales, like Il fish; a single grain Of sand
would cover $50 of these scales, and yet
Il scale covers 800 pores. Through these mar
row openings the sweat forces itself like
water through sieve
The mite makes 800 steps second.
Each drop of stagnant water contains "A
world of animated beings swimming with
as much liberty as whales in the sea.
Each Leaf has a colony of insects grazing
on it. like a COW on a meadow.
MordL. Have some care aS to the air you
breathe, the food you eat, and the water
You drink.-Hcdrth and Home.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25
NO. 81.

independent vote for such nominees for
those offices rs he may see fit.
The DISTRICT School is another of our
republican organizations which ought TO be
made use Of for suppressing the oligarchi-
cal power of rings and secret cliques, like
Masonry. II is vital part of our constitu-
tion, as it is Of our living body polite; and
no one should be admitted to the ballot box
except through its doors. An evidence Of
attendance ut the DISTRICT SCHOOL for a.
certain number of years between the ages
Of five and twenty-one, should be an essers-
tial qualification for every voter. Without
these provisions the vote counts but little.
1t is pretty sure TO go in whatever direction
the Masonic Ring may choose to have it
CO. Look about among the men who are
now in official positions in society-in our
town offices, in our courts, in our telegraph
and railroad companies, in the newspaper
establishments, in the pulpit, aud see how
many are secret society men.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

WHAT is A CARAT? The carat is an i'm
aginary weight, that expresses the finenoss
of gold, or the proportion of pure gold in a
mass Of metal thus, an ounce of gold is
divided into "a carats, and gold of which
% parts out of "a are pure the other two
parts being silver, "copper" or other metal (;
the weight of 4 grains, used by jewelers. in
weighing precious stones and pearls, is
sometimes called diamond weight-the
carat consisting Of nominal grains, little
lighter than grains troy, or "A 1-G carat
grains being equal to ~ grains troy. The
term of weight cdrdt derives its name from
a bean, the fruit of an Abyssinan tree,
called hdHrd This bean, from the time of
its being gathered varies very little in its
weight and seems to have been, from a
very remote period used as a weight for
gold in Africa. In India also the bean is
used as a weight for gems and pearls.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

EARLY History OF THE Potato. The
potato in its early cultivation met with
strange vicissltudes, and with great oppo-
sitlon. The stern old purtans opposed its
cultivation, and denied its lawfulnoss as an
article of food, because the plant was not
mentioned in the Bible Sir Walter Raj
egh carried the plants to England from
this country in 1886, and put them in his
garden. His gardener thought the green
potato apples were the potatoes and ex-
pressed his disgust to his master at such
products. lie was told to pull up the
weeds and throw them away. In doing so
he found the true potatoes, more than a
bushel in quantity, and he hurried back to
Sir Walter in very happy humor, to show
him the sample and make known his dis
covery. So late as 1925 il was only cult
vated in gardens in England and Scotland.
During period Of more than one hundred
and fifty years after Sir Walter introduced
II into Ireland, It failed to rise superior to
the prejudices of English cultivators. This
is q singular history indeed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

inally laid out with great taste and the
grand old trees still standing give evidence
Of uniformity and care. 1t must have been
an elegant place, and cost a fabulous sum
to have built it. These castle ruins are to
be found here and there all over this coun-
try. They have history, but the truth is
wholly unknown to us. They were strong
holds against their enemies, when tribes
instead of nations contendod. This castle
is said to be tho home of the Royal McCar-
thy's.
There is a handsome lake not far from the
castle, and there is an underground passage
from it to the lake, out of which passage
there are vast caves and by-passagcs Who
ever comes TO ireland it will well repay
them TO visit Blarney Castle, which is not
all "blarney;" although, probably, the
strange stories and legends about it gave
rise to the term "blarney." G.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

THE ORDER FOR THE EXECUTION OF
JESUS CURIsT.-Among the manuscripts
which were probably burned in the recent
connagration of the archopiscopal palace
at Bourges, in France, the most remarka-
BILE was, without doubt, the order for the
execution of Jesus Christ, which was the
personal property of the family of DE la
Touc d'Auvergne. The order runs thus:
Jesus of Nazareth of the Jewish tribe of
Juda, convicted of imposture and rebellion
against the divine authority of Tiberius
Augustus, Emperor of the r. mans hav-
ing for this sacrilege been condemned to
die on the cross by sentence of the Judge,
Pontius Pilate, ON the prosecution of our
lord, Icrod, lieutenant OF the Emperor in
Judea, shall he taken tomorrow morning,
tho 23d day of the ides of March, TO the
usual place of punishment, under the es-
cort of company of the Pretorian guard.
The So-called King of the Jews shall he
taken out by the Strunean gate. All the
public officers and subjects of the Empe-
ror are directed to lend their aid to the ex-
ecution of this sentence.
(SignodD GAPEL.
Jerusalem, 22d day of the ides of March.
wear of Rome, 7S3.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

The STOCKING TRAnE.-The cost of the
labor ii is stated, forms very large part of
the price of stockings, amounting to fifty
percent. of the retail charges. A manu-
facturer, II is calculated, very seldom real
lies ten cents dozen on stock ngs, while
the great bulk of hosiery sold nets as pro-
fits from three fourths of a cent TO two cents
a dozen. A stocking, before 1t is ready for
sale passes through twenty different pro-
cesses, such, for instance, as spinning the
yarn, winding the yarn, knitting, cutting
and raveling, footing, sewing and hand
scanning, rough mendng, trimming,
bleaching and dyeing, boarding, wetting,
finished mending, tacking, mailing, 'olding,
pressing, stamping, boxing and casing.
The great centre Of the trade for plain
goods, it is reported, is in New England,
while Philadelphia produces every year
over two and half million dollars worth
of children and mems fancy stockings.
Shaker stockings are manufactured in
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont over,
three ffths of the whole supply being pro-
duced In New Hampshire. 1t the latter
State twenty-eight factories are in opera
tion, producing $500 dozen pairs per day.
These manufactures give employment to
about 400 hands in the mills, and over 49,
900 women on the outside steadily en-
ployed in knitting on the heels and toes,
and also large number earning one dol
lar dozen for this work besides attending
to their household duties. Tho monthly
pay rolls OF these establishments amount to
fifty thousand dollars in the aggregate aud
employ almost the entire female popula-
ton within a radius Of fifteen miles. In
Massachusetts there are seventeen hosiery
mills each producing from $50 to 1900 dozen
stockings daily. The five largest mills
produce an aggregate of 5000 dozen stock
ings daily and employ one Thousand hands.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-08-25

A WONDERFUL CLoCK.- "A clock has Just
been completed for the cath edral Of Beau
vais, France, which nr surpasscs all the
existing specimens Of the clockmaker's
art. 1t contains not less than 1000 wheels,
and indicates, among other things too nu-
merous TO rccite, the days OF the week, the
year, the signs Of the zodiac, the equation
of time, the planets, the phases Of the
moon, the time at every capital in the
world, the movable fcasts for a hundred
years, saints days, &c. Perhaps the most
curious part Of the mechanism is that
which gives the additional day in leap
year, and which, consequently, is called
into action only once in four years. The
clock is wound up every eight days. The
main dial is twelve feet in diameter, and
the total cost exceeds $4,000.
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P0etyy.
wR1TTrE ron THE VERMONT PHGS1x.
WEST RIVER u.TLLEI'.'

Sweet dale scquosterod, sense-enchanting grandl
Where 80 much matchless beauty lies outepread;
In this most witching hour, love to stand
where other foot than mine seems ne'cr TO tread
A low green valley stretches OF for miles;
Soft dimpling uplands rise on either sde
Fair meadows on the slopes the eye beguics
While dark rich wooded groves spread far and wide
Thy gentle undulations teen with wealth.
Raising each beauteous head like crested wave;
Until aspiring grown they, with sweet stealth,
Rise into hills like plum'd crown'd warriors brave.
And back Of these, sec mimic Alps arsel
Crest after crest Of gray, green varied cliff,
whose feet seem hidden in the gloom that lies,
Like deepest midnight, in each long low rift
And this!hemd in, as far as the eye can view,
By the faint outline Of distant range;
Which, almost melting in the ether blue,
Entice to the belief they interchange
Tho sombre shade Of that long belt Of fra
Falls on the riYpling bosom Of the strcam
One only wish my spell-bound bosom stirs-
To catch of its pure waves q single glcam!
No sound tells that the throbbing heart Of man
Dwes in or this rayishing domain;
No echo riseth from hillside or glen,-
Naught but the breeze signing its low refrain.
Oh setting sun, methinks that thou this day,
In all thy circuit DER this wondrous earth
Hast seen no spot where thy lifc-giving ray
To greater lovelinoss hast given birth!
No spot where the Great Architect hath pland
scono more fitted for thy hcavcn-born skill!
wonder not that thou dost lingering stand
As with last fond glance, thine orb to fiji
So keen thy look, that all things seem to blush
Beneath the rapture Of thy beaming eye
While silyory clouds geam with golden flush,
And hucs surpassng far all Tyrian dye!
Fain would I lnger, till the shadows close,
And wrap thy rnvishments in purple pail;
Till the deep stiffness Of thy pure rcpose
The whip-poor-will doth break with his lone call.
One hour Of such sweet converse far outweighs
Months spent within the city's lurid glare;
Once morc.I turn on thee ecstatic gazcJ
Strengthened for duty by delight so rare!
August Z, 1871. SIN
From "The Rice Farm"
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Tho thirty-frst annual cattle show and
fair of the New York State Agricultural
Society will be held at Albany, October 2
10 o, 1871.
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There are 1861 butter and cheese faclo-
ries on this continent, which produce an
nually about 100000, 900 pounds of cheese.
OF these New York State has 9i4.
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VOL. XXXVIII.

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DR.. C.S CLARK.
DENTIST.

WTouLD respectfully inform the citizens of Brat.
tleboro and vicinity that he has opened an. .ofice in
Crosby Block, over the Vt. National Bank for the
practice Of DENTISTRY, where he would be happy to
See any who may have need of his services.
DR.. CLARK was formerly a student Of Dr. o. Il Poet,
aud has had nearly five years practice including q
course of lectures at the
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nrattIcboro Post Office.

nrattIcboro Post Office.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, 1871.
May to Nov. 1.
lrrn from 1900 a. NJ. to r. NJ. Holidays from %
1850 4. NJ. and to G =. ".
ARRIvAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
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8ustmess Gar0s.

oreign mails close :45 Pm. day previous to sailing
steamer from New York. II. W. CLAIRE, =. NJ.
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WIN SLOW. -. MYERS. Attorney
w at Law, Bellows Falls, VT.
Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-03-10

ourselye, more highly than we ought to

ourselves more highly than we ought to
think"
lie was never disposed TO tlnd fault again
about the mismanagement of servants Af-
ter his three weeks experience AS head u
the house He only wondered by what
magic his wife had ever been able 10 get
10 much cheerful. valuable service out ol
such "stubborn, ignorant machine. -
Something whispered 60 his bosom, sit Is
the magic Of kindness, II grace you need
yet 90 take deep lessons IN
AZ last the cloud rolled up its dreary
curtains. Pale aud emaciated the mother
came forth from her chamber 20 resume
once more her duties as mistress Of her
house. Bat though 30 weak she needed a
strong arm % lean upon; there was hap
py light IN her eye, and a glad song Of joy
forever In her heart or on her lips.
This is something like home again.
said Joseph tenderly, as he folded her
shawl about her. aud placed her chair by
the table. IL seemed a year since il had
been filled before. Bridget came and went,
her broad face radiant with smiles, and she
had outdone herself in her efforts 90 have
everything ~ near 10 the old-time order
as possible. The supper eGcelled any she
had placed ON the table, for weeks, but the
household were 50 happy they would cheer
fully have supped on a crust.
Years rolled away. but the blessed les
son learned in that season Of darkness was
never forgotten. "That blessed sickness -
Phoebe often called il in her heart, when
she thanked her Heavenly Father for it,
IL gave her back her husband. lt brought
light and peace 90 dwelling over which
the goom Of despair was settling.
Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-03-10
A Magnificent Description.

We las leaning over the bows, now
looking up at the mist blown in never
ending yolumed sheets. noW AZ the sail
swelling in the wind before which il fed,
and again down Rt the water through
which our boat was ploughing IFS evanes-
cent furrOw. We could Sec very little
Portions Of the shore would now and
then appear. dim, like reflections from a
tarnished mirror, and then faie hack
into the cloudy dissolution Still il was
growing lighter, and the man who was
ON the outlook became less anxious in his
forward gaze-leSs frequent in his calls tO
the helmsinan. ] was lying hfh over
the gunwale, looking into the strange
colored water. blue dimmed with undis-
solved white. when q cry from Charles
made me start and look up. IL was in
deed a God-ike vision. The mist vet
rolled thick below, but away up. far away
and far up, vet as If close at hand, the
clouds were broken into a mighty win
dow, through which looked IN upon us
huge mountain peak. swathed in snow.
One great level band Of darker cloud
crossed its breast, above which rose the
peak, triumphant in calmness, and un-
utterably solemn and grand, in clouds M
white rs It's own vhiteness. II had been
there all the time / sank ON my knees
in tho boat and looked up. With sud
den sweep the clouds curtained the
mighty window. aud the Jungfan with.
drew into its Holy of HOLES. / am
painfully conscious Of the helplesSness Of
INV speech. The vision yanishes from
the words ms il vanished from the he
wildcred eyes. But from the mind Il
gloritied il has never vanished i have
boe,s more ever since that sight To
have beheld a truth il an apotheosis
What the truth was l could not tell but
/ had seen something which raised me
above my former self and made me long
to rise higher yet 1t awoke worship.
and belief in the incomprehensible
divine hut admitted of being analysed
no more than. i'm that transient vision,
my intellect could--ere davming il van
ished-analyze il into the deserts of
rock, the CULTS of green ice and flowing
water, the savage solitudes Of snow, the
mysterious miles Of draperied mist. that
went 20 make up the vision, each and all
essential thereto. 49, Scribssr's Hon0iy
Eyy M.gyr,l
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Charles T.. Bacon, at attaehe Of the
Newly York PoSl-ofiice. was arrested ai
New Haven ia the act of opening a let
ter which had been taken from the Bos-
ton mail Ia orier to facilitate the lis-
tributinn Of the letters ia the Eastern
mail which usually arrives ia New
York at an early hour in the morning,
Il has been the custom to detail two
clerks. one Of whom was Bacon, 90 pro-
eeed TO Hartford, and there inteacept
the owl train bound west Upon en-
tering the postal car Of the trsain they
would nnd bag containing all the New
York City letters, which had been as
sorted out by the clerks'0f the postl-ear
These letters would be again assorted,
and those directed to boxes were placed
in one package, while those for gen
eral delivery were placed by themselves
When the mail arrived at the Post-oHiee
the letters would be ready for immedi-
ate distribution, aud thus great deal
OF time was saved 10 the merchants.
Complaints have been made, from time
10 time, that letters containing money
were lost, but all efforts to detect the
robber wrre unsuccessful For some
time past the proprietor of the Florence
House, in New-Hayen, has noticed that
on the arrival 81 the owl train, about
2 o'clock in the morning, Bacon, leaving
the train, would enter the hotel, get a
drink AZ the bar and then go into the
watar-closet for a few moments, after
which he would got on the train again
and proceed with il to New-Hork On
one occasion, quite rsacently, some par
ties who were outside the closet heard
sound as IL letters were being torn open
while Bacon was in there Snspecting
that all was not right, they notified the
proprietor, who in turn communicated
the facts 10 the special agent OF the
Post-oilice Department, who detailed
Detective Camp 10 work up the case.
On Monday night Bacon, entered the
closet, opened letter, and put some
money which he took from the letter
into his yest-pocke,. Mr.. Camp at once
arrested him, when Bacon confessed his
guilt, and Acknowledged that be had
been robbing the mails for some
months He was committed in default Of
-, 500 hail. Bacon has been in the EN-
ploy Of the Post-ofiice Department about
six years, and for the past two years has
been detailed TO this duty. He in about
thirty five years of age, and has wife
aud an aged father residing in New
York.