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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-12-29
BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, DECEMBER

Adams and David Dole had been cried
three times in the meeting, when the post
brought letter to Deacon Clufl. What
was his astonishment to find it an invita-
tion TO the wedding.
Taking heart of grace he determined to
go.
On lovely winter evening he again
found himself riding the long lane. The
large house was thronged. The bride and
her bride-maid, Tabitha Dole, looked as
lovely as maidens ever looked Miss Su-
san as mistress of ceremonies appeared to
great advantage both the bridegroom and
the groomsman, Edward White, were es
pecially attentive to the deacon. Mrs. Ad-
ans, little voting the reason, chided him
for not before renewing his visit. Miss Ad-
ans sweetly hoped they should sec him
again. She did not hope in vain.
The orthodox year of mourning having
ended, after little coquettish prudery the
lady consented to fill the vacant place in
the deacon's household, and before the
lapse of another year, his family received
mistress, and his children n mother, who
verified the scriptural description Of n per
feet woman, "Her children rise up and call
her blessed, her husband also, and he pras-
eth her her own works praise her in the
gates"
In his later years Deacon Cluff was fond
of relating how he found his second wife,
not failing to assure his hearers, with a
merry twinkle of the eye, that he never
regetted his visit to the Widow Adams.
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sPECrfLTERs T.v sCIBvCE.

BY carefully cultivating any one particu-
lar branch, more progress is made in ac-
curate knowledge than when an individual
attempts to carry on every department.
The man who sharpened the points Of
needles all his life, exclusively, could do
IL much better than workmen who made
both eyes and points.
Specialties are now the order of the day.
One artisan tempers gun-springs, another
cuts screws. third inspects the bore,
fourth gauges the sight, for example, and
thus every part is we'll done. Naturalists
are subdivided in similar manner. There
are some studying the structure Of bones,
some the nerves, others the organs Of sense,
and many in search of novelties that have
escaped the sharp-eyed philosophers who
have only generalized, instead Of describ-
ing differences lie species.
There Is microscopcal society in Lon
don that deals in little things not TO be seen
by unasssted optics. 1t also issues
monthly publication that abounds in very
learned papers on minute discoveries-so
small, the world would never have be-
leved there were such petit, invisible mon
sters in the full enjoyment of life, had the
microscope not been invented One is
amazed at the revelations appearing in this
periodical. Whole nations of strange be-
ings exist on surface that could not be
recognized without a multiplying glass of
extraordinary powers. They have quick
locomotion, voracious appetites, and what
more than anything else shows they are of
. H., ,.,a1 n.,1 f,VI
too, among themselves, like politicians.
In one of the recent numbers of the Mi
croscopic journal, collaboration dwells
with exceeding interest on the character of
the tissue, or membrane, that covers the
tongue of certain reptiles. Who but him
would ever have thought it Il topic Of any
importance, ,-oue way or the other? But ii
is solely by special attention to distinct
objects in the field of inquiry, that an ag-
gregation of facts, the product of many in
vestigations, finally establishes something
that otherwise might not have been sus-
! perted namely; that there is no void in
| the kingdom, no vacant, unoccupied spot
or place. Living forms gush into being
everywhere, in water, air, and the pro-
fuundest, darkest inches OF creation. As
pice finish appertains to each and all,
however humble, lowly, or small, as in the
highest types of intellectual manhood. No
slightcd workmanship can be detected
within or without. Tubes, the four thou
sandth part OF the diameter of fine hair,
have beautifully smooth caliber, and
fluids circulate through them with the
same freedom that the vitalized blood of an
elephant runs its rounds from the center to
the periphery of that huge mass Of mighty
muscles.
How grand the thought, how solemn the
contemplation of the attributes Of the God
of all, who, by fiat of his WILL said, Lux
ct lux fuit--"Let there be light and there
was light"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS.


An authority remarks tha' every i''
mer mas IL III MS power 10 uoup'o Tue yieiu
oi corn, or very nearly SO, ny using lor
seed only the pest ears from 'nose s'aiAs
tnat nave Perlecteu t"o soou e'iS'
"A i'tle ooy recently pecaihe sioa''H
en"iio' GU Vi " h'''o Wy lump,
been gwen NM ohe h'sn' "s nc was no
ing put III MS Il'te pea lie ha"ueu tue
trumpet 10 MS sr"hoiliother' say my i'''o
gran ma you plo" "nile pray
An EhS'ish Clergyman 'eliN s'orS ~
luslra'ihS tue way so'lc P'ie""H 'e'u '"'
bple' looking upon II as hiUo VI 'u'i'''
or fetlch. lie was called Ill 10 VISIT auyI"S
woman, and when he went he iound her
husband, his eyes streaming with tears
reading TO her list OF genealogIeS rom
the Book of Chronicles.
Miss Fowler the celebrated lady phy-
sician of Orange, y. D., has been la'ely
married, and is now Mrs. Ormsby' she Is
sister to Fowler, the phrenologst, and has
met with great success as homeopathic
physician. For some years her annual IN
come has been from $4,000 to 100000.
AT iOTtslloUln' ~ Nv i''0"''Hi " '"'''l
left burning in a private residence was
overturned late at night, and would have
destroyed the house had not favorite par
rot, noticing what had happened, cried
out. fire, fire, fire." so Justify that the
family were aroused and cxtinguished the
flames.
An evidence that the world moves is
afforded in the fact that two colored men,
named Harper and Griilen, have been ad-
milted to practice law at the Louisville bar.
They passed, it is said, very cedltable ex-
animation, were complmented by toe
Judges upon the manner ip which they
had acquitted themselves, aud received the
sympathy and encouragement of the white
n,ambers of their Drofession
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-12-29

4 TRAVELLING SIDEWALK Is the latest
and most curious of the various devices for
securing rapid transit which have been call
cd forth by the imperative demand in large
cities for some means of travelling quickly
from point to point. The inventor of this
novel design is Albert Spear, and his plan
contemplates moving sidewalk, which
shall be in perpetual motion, carrying pc
destrians at the rate of 10 miles an hour q
speed which they can increase by their
whole power of independent locomotion.
1t is proposed TO have series of pillars l.
long the outer verge of the curbstoncs, riS-
ing to the height of the second story of or
dnary buildings. The space between the
tops of these pillars and the buildings adja
cent is TO Le a sidewalk, onc-half of which
is to be movable and the other half sta
tionary. This is to be reached at every
corner by n stairway. On the inner or sta
tionary walk pedestrians can pass back
and forth at their leisure, entering the
stores and offices, which might then occu-
py the second story of the building, and he
entered Immediately from the street. The
other half of the walk, made of sort of lat
tice work and moving on small trucks
which are beneath the surface and altogeth-
er concealed from view, is to be propelled
at the rate of 10 miles an hour by engines
beneath the surface of the ground at such
intervals as may be necessary to secure the
requisite power. The sidewalk is to be
moved by friction rollers, worked upon by
shafts which pass up through the upright
pillars, and on one side of the street passes
up, and on the other side down, continu-
ally, night and day. On this moving road
way pedestrians may stand or occupy the
| numerous chairs and settees provided, and
be travelling toward their destination at the
rate of 10 miles an hour, or, if SO. inclined,
can walk at full speed in the same drec-
tion, thereby adding four or five miles an
hour TO their rate of progress. The machn-
| cry will work with very little noise, and
| that will be continuous and therefore scarce
| ly noticeable there will be no danger of
accident, and the contrivance can be put
| up in any street, long or short, where it
may be required. 1t is said that an at
| tempt is to be made very soon in New
| York to demonstrate the feasibility of this
scheme, probably on Chambers street
| from Pavonia ferry to Broadway. Whether
| ii proves successful or not, the project il
very curious and ingenious, and willthcrc-
fore attract no small degree af attention.
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BEAUTIFUL CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT.


Take two or three leaves of red cabbage,
cut into small bits, nut them into basin
and pour a pint of boiling water on them
let 1t stand an hour, then pour off the liq-
uor into "A decanter. 1t will be of fine
blue color. Then take three wine-glasses
into one put six drops of solution of soda,
into second the same quantity of alum,
and let the third glass remain empty. The
glasses may be prepared before and the
few drops of the colorless liquids which
have been put in them will not be noticed.
Fill up the glasses from the decanter, and
the liquid poured into the glass contain
ing the acid will quickly become beluti-
ful red, that in the glass containing the So
da will be fine green, that poured into
the empty one will remain unchanged
BY adding little vinegar to the green it
will change to red.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-12-29

ORIGIN OF LorTERIEs.-Lotterie We're
invented by the Romans TO enliven their
Saturnalia. This festival, which was in
stituted in commemomtion of the freedom
and equality which prevailed on earth in
the golden reign of Saturn, began by the
distribution of tickets which gained some
prize. Augustus appointed lotteries, which
consisted of things of little value, but Ne
70 established some for the people, i'm
which 1000 tickets were distributed daily
and a number OF those who were favored
by fortune became rich by them. Heliop-
abalus invented lotteries of a very singular
nature; the prizes were either OF great val
ne or of none at all one gained a prize of
six slaves, and another of six flies; some
got valuable vases, and others vases of
common earth. A lottery of this kind ey-
hibited an excellent picture of the inenunl-
ity with which fortune distributes her f,-
vors. The first lottery in England. OF
which we have any account, was drawn at
the west door of st. Paul's cathedral i'm
1869, aud consisted of 10000 tickets nj 40
shillings each. The profits of the lotter,,
were TO be applied toward repairing the
harbors. In 1912 King James appolnlod a
lottery to be drawn at the same nlace f,r
the plantation of English colonies i'm Vir-
ginia. The principal prize was 1000 crowns
in plaio.-Iroy Tines.
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P0etr,y.
THB PURET.s.vS.
ny OLIVER WENDELL HoLMKs.

When the Puritans came over,
Our hills and swamps TO clear,
The woods were full Of catamounts,
And Indians red as deer,
with tomahawks and scalping knives,
That made folks heads look queer
o, the ship from England used to bring
Ahundred wigs year
The crows came cawing through the air
To pluck the pilgrims corn
The bears came snufling round the door
whene'er babe was born
The rattlesnakes were bigger round
Th.n the butt Of the old rams horn
The deacon blew at meeting-time
On every sabbath" morn.
But soon they knocked the wigwams low,
And pine trees, trunk and limb,
Began to sprout among the leaves
In shapes Of stecples slim
And out the little wharyes were stretched
Along the ocean's rim,
And up the little school house shot,
To keep the boys in trim.
And when, at length, the college rose,
The sachem cooked his eye
At every tutors meagre ribs
Whose coat-tails whistlcd by;
Dut when the Greek and Hebrew WORDS
Came rumbling from their Jaws,
The copper-colored children all
Ran screaming to the squaws.
They had not then the dainty things
That commons now afford,
But Succotash and hominy
Were smoking on the board
They did not rattle round in gigs,
Or dash in long-tail blues,
But always on Commencement days
The tutors blacked their shoes.
God bless the ancient Puritans
Their lot was hard enough
But honest hearts make iron arms,
And tender maids are tough
SO love and faith have formed and fed
our truc-born Yankee stuff,
And kept the kernel in the shell
The British found so rough.
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AS to professional ability and skin he brings letters Of
the highest recommendation from II. L. Williams, M.
D., OF Woodstock, with whom tor the past two years
he has been associated aud also from Hon. James
Barrett aud Hon. iulius Converse, whose names are
TOO well known tu need introduction to citizens Of
Vermont tina
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Exchange Hotel,

T OVER TIDIoUTE, Pa, DIS. RAMS
~ DEEL & Son Props. This house having
been reiited is now the most desirable stop
ping place in Tidioute. A good Billiard
Room attached. fly
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The Temperance Ticket.
ne Editors of Pennsylrania

To the Editors Of Pennsylvania:
GENTLEMEN Having read the se-
lections from sixteen papers published
in the State Journal of August 26th,
condemning the policy in regard to
the temperance ticket of August 9th,
am satisfied the character of this
movement is not understood, Without
intending it, some of you are doing a
great wrong to he main body of tenn
perance men. You speak of it as an
action for which the temperance cause
is responsible, and ms if it had some
official character. 1t is only a move
ment of a very few dissatisfied men
who have separated themselves from
the main body, and in the language of
their address Of August 25, formed
a party, adopted a platform, and nom
irated candidates" This movement
had its origin with the present editor
ofthe official organ Of the Good Tenn
plars, who was Joined by few meu
of good character, he having made
them believe that the cause had been
"sold out" by the President of the May
Convention, and thus induced them to
unite with him in call for the Au-
gust meeting. On the 30th of June,
the State Central Committee was APP
pointed, and the leaders of this Au-
gust movement accepted positions in
that committee, and met with it July
IL. Having accepted this position
under the authority of the May Con
vention, the August Convention should
have been abandoned, as the reasons
assigned for it no longer existed. But
these men met, and in spite of all eff
forts to prevent it, placed in nomina-
tion State ticket. To justify their
action, they then said 1--WE are acting
as individuals, without any official
authority" Now they claim official
character, and say they "have formed
a party, &c"
From these facts it will be seen this
action is nothing less than rebellion
against the authority Of the May Con-
vention, Of which these men still claim
to be part. Temperance men, as a
body, therefore are in no way RESPONSE
BILE for this ticket. Already several
District Conventions in various parts
of the State have repudiated this ac-
tion, the State Central Committee are
preparing to DO 80, and other organ
izations will follow. Let this faction
be treated hereafter so us not to involve
any man who is true to his principles
and faithful to his pledges.
p. CooMBE.
Lancaster, Pa, Aug. 29th, 1871
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AMENDMENT.-Strike out the Sixth Sec
ton of the Sixth Article of the Constitution
and insert in lieu thereof the following:
"a State Treasurer shall be chosen by
the qualified electors of the State. at such
times and for such term Of service as shall
be prescribed by law.
JAMES II. WEBB,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
WILLIAM a. WALLACE,
Speaker of the Senate
Approved the 18th day of June A. ID. 1871.
JOHN w. GEARY.
Also, the following Act to authorize a
popular vote upon the question of calling
Convention TO amend the Constitution of
Pennsylvania:
See. 1. Be it Enacted, &C., That the
question of calling a convention to amend
the Constitution of this Commonwealth be
submitted to a vote of the people az the gem
eral election to. be held ON the I'd Tuesday
of October, 1871, the said question to be vo-
ted upon in the manner following, to-wit /:
In counties and cities i'm which slip ticket
voting is authorized by law, votes for and
against n Convention may be expressed
and given upon the ticket headed or en-
dorsod with the word State, and not 9TH
erwise and the words used shall be "Con-
stitutional Convention" and underneath
"for Convention" or 'aqainst a Conven-
ton - and in counties or districts in which
slip tickets shall not be authorized by law,
each elector voting upon said question
shall east a separate ballot, endorsed ON the
outside Constitutional Convention" and
containing on the inside the words ''for a
Convention" OF against Convention !"
and all votes cast as aforesaid shall be re-
ceived, counted and returned blythe prop
er election officers and return Judges as
votes for governor are received, counted
and returned, under existing laws.
Sec. 9. That the election aforesaid shall
be held. and are subject to all the provis-
ions of law which apply to general cleo
tons; the sheriffs of the several counties
shall give notice of this act in their cleo
ton proclamation the presentyear, and the
governor shall cause all the returns of the
said election, as received by the secretary
of the commonwealth, to be laid before the
at its next annual session.
JAMES II. WEBB,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM \. WALLACE,
Speaker of the Senate.
the Sd day of June, A. d. 1871.
JOHN w. GEARY.
And the Judges of the respective dis
tricts aforesaid, are required to meet at Ti-
onesta, on the Friday next following the
holding OF the said election, then and there
TO perform those things rCquired of them
by law.
Given under my hand Mt my Office in Tio-
nesta, this llth day OF September, in the
year ofour Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and seventySone, and in the ninety
sixth of the independence of the United
States. T.. l., DAVIS Sheriff
Shpriff's Office, Tionesta, Sept. IL, 1871,
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DRACTICAL Harness Maker and Sad
i dler. Three doors north of Holmes
House, Tionesta, Pa. All work is war
rantcd. IT,
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TIonosta House.

M rIrTEL, Proprietor, Elm St, Tio-
ltl. nesta, Pa. nj the mouth of the creek,
Mr.. lilo has thoroughly renovated the
TIonosta House. and re-furnshed it com
pletely. All who patronize him will be
well entertained at reasonable rates. 20ly
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DR.. ]. !. Acomb,

physician AND SURGEON, who has
L had fifteen yoars' experience i'm large
and successful practice, win attend all
Professional Calls. Office in his Drug and
Grocery Store, located in 'ridioute, near
Tidioute House.
IN HIS STORE WILL BE FOUND
4 full assortment of Medicines, Liquors
Tobacco, Cigars, Stationery, Glass, Paints,
Oils, Cutlery, and fine Groceries, all of the
best quality, and will be sold at reasonable
rates.
ii. r. BURGESS, an experienced Drug
list from New York, has charge of the
store. All prescriptions put up accurately
IT,
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In the "Jife of Banham, an anu
sing anecdote is told of King, the ac-
tor, who met a friend whose name he
had forgotten, and took him home to
dinner After several Intellectual at
tempts to find out his name, King
said: "Aly friend and | have a dis
pute as to how you spell your name;
indeed we have laid bottle of wine
about it," "Oh! with two p's," was
the answer.
Another wife has poisoned her hus-
band. The salutation among wives
has become, GLOW are YOU my dear?
Where do YOU buy .vour poison"
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Tiff Sons e. Co.'S

NEW ENGINES. The undersigned have
~ for sale and will receive orders for the
above Engine. Messrs. Tiff Sons & Co.
are now sending to this market their 12-
Horse Power Engine with l4-Horse Power
Boiler peculiarly adapted to deep wells.
OFFICES at Duncan Il Chalfant's, dealers
in Well Fixtures, Hardware, DC, Main st.
next door to Chase House. Pleasantville,
and Mt Mansion House, Titusville.
IT, X. BRETT d son, Agents.
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National Hotel,

VRVINETON, PA. w. A. Hallenbacx,
Proprietor. This hotel is NEW, and is
.ow oIen as first class house, situate at
nelunction of the Oil Creek Il Allegheny
6lver and Philadelphia d Erie Railroads,
pposte the Depot. Parties having to Law
yer trains will find this the most conven-
ent hotel IN town, with first-class accom-
nodations and reasonable charges. t.
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FOREST HOUSE,

n BLACK PROPRIETOR. Opposite
II. Coart House, Tionesta, Pa. Just
opened. Everything new and clean and
fresh. The best of liquors kept constantly
Oh hand A portion of the public patron
age is respectfully solicited. 4-l7-ly
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Holmes House,

1NoNESTA, PA, opposite the Depot.
L c. ID. Mabie, Proprietor. Good Sta
hlink connected with the house. u.
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w. p. Mercilliott,
Attorne at Law.
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
TIONESTA, Pa,
= T-sf
John *. Hallock,

A TTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor OF
n Patents, No. sos French street, opposite
Reed House) Erie. Pa VIII practice in
States Courts. Special attention given. 10
soliciting patents for Inventors Infringe
uents, re-issue and extension of patents
csrefSllyaattended to. References: Hon.
Jautes CTppbell, Clarion; Hon. John S.
McCalmcnt, Franklin; III. j. ~ A. B.
Richmond, Meadville; w. T.. Lathy. Ii
onesta. 81