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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

UNIVERSITY OF NERMoNT.-The 6sth
commencement Of the University of Yer
mont and State Agricultural College will
occur next week. The program of exer-
cses is rs follows:
Sunday, July 7.-3 IL p. III, Baccalau-
reate Discourse, by President Buckham.
l-2 p. M, Anniversary of Society for
Religious Inquiry. Address by Rev. James
Nc Gosh, d. D., President of Princeton Col
lege.
Monday, July S.-9a. M, and > p. m.,
Examination of candidates for admission
to the University, at College rooms. p.
m, Commencement Concert at City Hail.
Tuesday, July % a. M, Annual meet
ing of Alumni at the College chapel adj
dresses commemorative OF Prof George
w. Benedict. IL p. M, Annual meeting
OF the Phi Beta Kappa Society. . IL p. NJ,
Celebration of the Phi Beta Kappa. Ora
tion. 4 p. NJ, Celebration of the Sigma
Phi Society. Grafton by Re-. Norman
Seaver, d. D.. of Brooklyn, n. Y. Poem
by George b. Remick, Esq, Of Detroit,
Mich. Sp. M, Junior Exhibition.
Wednesday, July 10th, Commencement
day. l-2 II. M, Procession from College.
10 a. m., OrattoDs of Graduating Glass /;
Masters Oraiions Comforting of Degrees.
Corporation dinner. sp. m, Commence
ment levee at President house.
Music to be furnished by the Germania
Band of Boston. Commencement boat ride
on Lake Champlain Thursday evening by
the steamer United States.
The railroad and steamboat companies
will carry all persons attending the Com
mencement exercises for fare one way. Re
turn passes must be procured of Charles Il.
Allen, Secretary of the Alumni.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

j. A. Barber of South Vernon has some
very interesting papers of Eye olden times"
which are well worthy of preservation.
Among them is the quantity worded will
Of his great granmother, dated March 1873.
Also, letters from his great-grandiather,
who was killed in an engagement in the
French and Indian war, dated July, l775,
and giving an account of camp life near
Schenectady, n. Y; quantity of paper
currency, with the famous old pine tree on
the back Of it; a certificate given to Ephra-
i'm Barber, March IL, 1887, showing that
the said Ephraim had been bileted at
Marlboro with fourteen soldiers for one
nights lodging and was entitled to pay
therefor; John Barber's journal kept dur
ing the French and Indian war. In one
place memorandum is made of the fact that
two soldiers were ordered before a court
martial for "cursing and wishing damna-
ton to themselves and Others" They were
punished, one with thirty lashes, and the
other by riding the "wooden horse" Ma
ny other interesting facts are are given in the
journal, which has evidently been carefully
treasured.-Gdzetted and Courier.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

The BosToN JUDILEE.-One of our Bos-
ton subscribers, in a letter written last Sat
urday, says:
"A word in regard to the Jubilee. Re-
gardless of the dismally funny attempts OF
the New York papers to decry the Inter
national Musical Festival it is a great sue
cess. The enthusiasm from day to day is
un bounded and l believe will not dimin-
ish till after the 4th of July. notice you
have a correspondent here; and, by the
way, she gives you a very correct account
of the reception of foreign bands, Herr
Strauss, Madam Leutner, &c. think the
Prussan band is rapidly growing in favor
Europe seems thousand miles nearer to-
day than month ago."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

The treaty middle is at length becoming
clear. The Geneva Arbitrators have swept
away and buried out of sight the whole is
sue arising from the indirect claims by
unanimously deciding that these "do not
constitute upon the principles of of inter-
national law a good foundation for awards
of damages between nations, and should be
wholly excluded from consideration"
The agents of the two Governments have
accepted the decision. England has filed
her argument, which she had been with
holding, and the court of arbitration Is
regularly going forward with the transac-
ton of the business before il.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

SOME INTERESTING COLLEGE STATISTICS.
The bureau of education will soon pub
lish an interesting work ON instruction,
which will contain statistics Of where the
alumni of four of our principal colleges
were born OF the 1894 students mention
ed in the Yale college table, more than one
half were born in the New England STATES,
nearly one-seventh in Massachusetts, and
more than one-iith in New York. Less
than one. third of the whole number were
born in Connecticut. Thirty states and
territories, as well AS some foreign c1un-
tries, are represented in the cata' ogue. The
alumni record of Wesleyan university does
not specify where 234 of the 6Sl graduates
under consideration were born. OF AZ
known cases, more than one-half were
born in the eastern states, and nearly all
the rest in the northern states. Nearly One
sixth of the number known were born in
Connecticut, anc thei sixth in Massachu-
sets, and more than one-thrd in New
York, so that these three states produced
two-thrds of the graduates. OF all tie
alumni of these four New England colleges,
more than twice as many were born in
Massachusetts as In Connecticut that New
Hampshire produced more than Connects
cut ; that about tive-seyenths Of the whole
number were born in New England, and
nearly one-eighth in New York. Four men
born in Connecticut went to Harvard, and
nine went to Dartmouth, while two hun
dred and tifty-four born in Massachusetts
and ihirty-four born in New Hampshire
went TO Yale. Eighty-iour New Hampshire
men went to Harvard POO Massachusetts
mer went to Dartmouth ; and about II per
Dartmouth.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

Those persons of our village who hap
rened TO be on the streets on Saturday eve
ming of last week were entertained win Il
serenade from the Jacksonville cornet
band, much to their pleasure, for which
the band have our many thanks; altho ugh
they would have played little more dis
unct, probably, had they known that there
were so many listening to them, they he
inc in the village of Jacksonville, some
five miles distant.
.-Horato N. Hix has sold his Sprague
pasture so called, to Henry Goodnow for
$3.50,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05
U'aIpofe, ". "a.

A correspondent of the Boston Journal
says: "Levi Lyman, whose death June
LIST, at Walpole, was announced in your pa
per a few days since, deserves to De ranked
among the benefactors of his race-not a
lone for his recent abundant charities (af-
ter long life of laborious industry and
rigid economy, embracing $1,000 to the Or
phan Asylum at Franklin, $500 given the
day before his death TO a bed-ridden inva-
lid confined to her couch for thirty-hve
wears, but also for the contemplated gift for
the whole State, of thirty thousand dollars,
to found a State Normal School for the
thorough training of the teachers of our
district schools. Induced by the simple
desire of doing good to his fellow men aud
especially to the youth of his native State
-modestly declining the proposition to
have his name affixed to the institution
he gave to the writer of this notice his
promissory note, payable 10 the stat Treas
urer, for thirty thousand dollars, on the
sole condition that the Normal School
should be located at Walpole, his native
town. This offer was accompanied by a
guaranty of Sl5, 900 more, which afforded
strong hope of its acceptance. This noble
and munifcent offer of hardly earned
thousands during his lifetime, by one
whose education was limited, but whose
true manlness and sympathy with his race
were unbounded, is here mentioned, not as
much in justice to his memory, but as a
noble example, worthy of Imitation by us
al
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

last Friday evening, having visited the
home of the Pilgrims aud looked out on
the bay whore the May Flower lay"
They have not had so much rain in that
section, but farming operations are more
perfect than in this part of Vermont. He
was also at the Coliseum Tuesday after
noon, and liked II much
There is nothing of special note In w.
Townshend. Some farmers have begun
haying. The weather is hot aud dry, show
ers having evidently passed both sides Of
us to day, July2.
We expect there will be picnic on the
Fourth.
We respond to all the efforts In behalf
oflhe Vest River Railroad 7
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

REPUBLICAN STATE COMMERCIAL the
recent Republican convention at Montpel-
Ter, the following gentlemen were chosen
State Committee:
George w. Grandey of Vergennes, Chas.
II. Joyce of Rutland, George Nichols OF
Mortified, Stephen Thomas of West Fair
lee, Franklin Fairbanks OF st. Johnsbury,
VILLA m Rounds of Chester, John l.. Bar
stow Of Burlington, Geo. n. Dale of Island
Pond, Carroll S. Page of Hydepark.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05
The Rutland Herald says that Hon. Jul

The Rutland Herald says that Hon. Jul
ius Converse of Woodstock was guest of
the Bardwell House, on Saturday, on his
return from western trip. He was in
good health, and most fully appreciates
the compliment OF his nomination as Re
publican candidate for Governor. Mr..
Converse is the oldest man who has
ever been nominated for that Office, hav-
ing been born, according the Herald, at
STAFFORD, Connecticut, December 9Th, IT,
as, and being, consequently, seventy-three
yparS old
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05
GaiITord.

John and Frank Thayer have bought
the farm owned by the late Geo. c. Hall.
Price $4,000.
A quarterly meeting will be held at
East Guilford, Sunday, July i4th, p. NJ.
Conference July 18th.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05
UrsfmorsIand, ". ~.

The store of Knight & Aldrich at West
morelaud depot was destroyed by fire
Wednesday night of last week, only about
$3.50 worth of goods being saved out OF the
stock of 5000; insurance $4,000. The store
was owned by Mr.. Cole, valued at $500
aud insured for $1,000.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05
-rhere are three thousand brew

There are three thousand breweries in
the country, employing a capital of over
one hundred million dollars and giving em-
ployment to thousands of people. The
trade yearly consumes twenty-three mill
ion bushels of barley aud over eighteen
million pounds OF hops. The revenue de-
rived by the United States from this in
dustry amounted In 1871 TO seven millions
eight hundred thousand dollars, being an
increase Of over six million dollars since
1863
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05
sfraffes.

Howard K Wilder recently had nice
two year old heller killed by the bears.
The hide and few bones were found a
bout mile from the pasture, where 1t is
thought she was chased before being caught.
Said heifer was killed In or near the road
leading to the Kimball meadow, so called.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

The Blodgett tannery at Wilmington,
owned by Wilder & Harrington, was burn
ed at an early hour Sunday morning; loss
$4,000; insured in the Home OF New York
for $1,000. A large quantity of bark in close
proximity was kept thoroughly wet during
the progress of the fire and thereby saved.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

MIR. Joel Todd OF this town has lost by
disease and accident, no less than seven
horses within about eighteen months.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05
Pmf.sB.

The barn of w. II. +. johnson III ms
town, was struck by lightning during inc
shower of Friday last, but was saved WIN
out or eat injury. Insured in the Farmers
Mutual
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-07-05

wet Tsrsskssd.
Mr.. Babcock arrived from his vacation
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21

own ungratIfied ambitions, and had
no motive higher than "any thing to
beat Grant" 1 did not attend the
Cincinnati Convention, but 1 have
seen all Intelligence Office in Chica-
go crammed full with second handed
wet nurses looking for a job, which is
similar to said Convention, only a
little more respectable in appearance
perhaps. The Tribune has a con-
sumptive aspect, its subscribers fail
ing to swallow the doses prescribed
by Horace White.
Our Grant and Wilson Club is 10 be
addressed by Gen. Logan in a few
weeks. The Germans of Chicago are
strong Grant men, and the colored
people are not mislead by the pen of
c. Summer.
Wages are higher than ever before,
crops are better than they have been
for years, and the country prospers
under the administration of President
Grant. MEMO.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21
A SUNBEAM.

The greatest of physical paradoxes
| is the sunbeam. tits the most potent
and versatile force we have, and vet
it behaves itself like the gentlest and
most accommodating. Nothing can
fail more softly or more silently upon
the earth than the rays of our great
luminary-not even the feathery
flakes of snow, which thread their
way through the atmosphere as if
they were too filmy to yield to the
demands of gravity. like grosser
things. The most delicate slip of
gold-leaf, exposed as a target to the
suns shafts, is not stirred to the ex-
tent Of a hair, though an infants
faintest breath would set it into trem-
ulous motion. The tenderest of hu-
man organs-the apple Of the eye
though pierced and buffeted each day
by thousands of sunbeams, suffers no
pain during the process, but rejoices
in their sweetness, and bIesses the
useful light. Yet few of those rays,
insinuating themselves into a mass of
iron, like the Britannia Tubular
Bridge, will compel the closely-knit
particles to separate, and will move
the whole enormous fabric with as
much ease as a giant would stir a
straw. The play of those beams upon
our sheets of water lifts up layer after
layer into the atmosphere, and hoists
whole rivers from their beds, only to
drop them again in SHOWS upon the
hills, or in fattening showers upon
the plains. Let but the air drink in
a little more sunshine st one place
than another, and out of it springs
the tempest or the hurricane, which
desolates a whole region in its lunatic
wrath. The marvel is that a power |
which is capable of assuming such a |
diversity of forms, and of producing |
such stupendous results, should come |
to US in so gentle, so peaceful and so
a guise.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21
A CONTINENT COVERED WITH ICE.

Prof. AgassiZ comes to the cOnclu-
sion that the continent of North
America was once covered with ice a
mile in thickness, thereby agreeing
with Prof. Hitchcock and other emil
nent geological writers concerning
the glacial period. In proof of this
conclusion, he says that the slopes of
the Allegheny range of mountains are
glacierworn to the very top, except a
few points that are above the level of
the icy mass. Mount Washington,
for instance, is over six thousand feet
high, and the rough, unpublished sur
face of its summit, covered with loose
fragments, just below the level of
which glacier-marks come to an end,
tells that it lifted its head alone above
the desolate waste of ice and snow.
In this region, then, the thickness
of the ice could not be much less than
six thousand feet, and this is in keep
ing with the same kind of evidence
in other parts of the country; for
when the mountains are much below
six thousand feet the ice seems to
have passed directly over them while
the few peaks rising to that height
are untouched. The glacier, he
argues, was Gods great plow, and
when the ice vanished from the face
of the land, it left it prepared for the
hand of the hUsbandman.
The surface of the rocks were
ground to powder, the elements of the
soil were mingled in fair proportions,
granite was carried into lime regions.
lime was mingled with the more arid
and unproductive granite districts,
and soil was prepared fit for the agri-
cultural use of man. There are ev-
licences all over the popular region to
show that at one period the heat of
the tropics extended all over the
globe. The ice period is supposed to
be long subsequent to this, and next
to the last before the advent of man.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21

Be frank with the world. Frank
ness is the child of honesty and eour-
age. Say just what you mean to do
on every occasion and take it for
granted you mean to do what is right.
Ifa friend asks you favor you
should grant it if it is reasonable: ifit
is not tell him plainly why you can
not; you will wrong him and wrong
yourself by equivocation of any kind.
Never do a wrong thing to make a
friend or to keep one the man who
requires you to do so is dearly pur-
chased and at a sacrifice. Deal kind
ly and firmly with all men, and you
will find it the policy that wears the
best. Above all do not appear to
others what you are not. If you have
any fault to find with any one, tell
him, not others, of what you COM
plain. There is no more dangerous
experiment than that of undertaking
to do one thing to a mans face and
another behind his back. We should
live and speak olt of doors, as the
phrase is: do what we are willing
should be known and read by all
men. 1t is not best as a matter OF
principle, but as matter of policy.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21
Is GREELEY HONEsTg

1t il hard to renounce an old pOliti-
cal friend, one whom you have trust
ed, sought advice from and in GER
tain degree, regarded as a leader. 1t
awakens feelings of regret, not so
much for the loss of u friend, as for
the loss Of that confidence which
made friendship possible. If there
was one man in the Republican party
whom we deemed more honest in his
convictions than another, thst man
was Horace Greeley. We know he
was eccentric, on some questions un-
reliable, but we never doubted his
honesty until now. We have been
forced to desert him, for when a man
deserts from himself how can he ex-
pect his old friends to remain by him
If we>ever believed in his honesty we
take it all back. We look in vain for
some grounds on which to justify our
past faith, but we turn unwillingly
from the search and confess there are
none. We can accept either horn of
the dilemma, and the result is the
same. If he was honest in the past,
he is dishonest now. If he is honest
now, he has been dishonest all his
life. Out of his own mouth he is
convicted of political dishonesty. He
advocated the elevation of the black
race; the granting of lands to freed
men; the necessity of passing laws
for the protection of southern loyal
lists; the absolute right of the Federal
Government to enforce these laws,
and the vital importance of defeating
Democracy, because its triumph
would defeat these wise measures.
Now he swallows his past record and
denounees the very acts he first sug
gested and advocated. The echampIon
of protection, a bitter, unrelenting foe
to free trade, he has left on record
more good reasons for making "pro-
lection" plank in the party platform
of engrafting the policy on the
administration-than any other pOlit- !
ical writer of our times. In his esti-
nation no greater calamity could be-
fall the nation than the triumph OF
The Democratic party, because the |
weight of its administrative and legis- |
lative influence would be in favor of
free trade. Now he ignores the past,
abandons the policy of protection,
shakes hands in perfect fellowship |
with free traders, and is willing to be
all things to all men, just to become
President of the United States.
Now he is at the feet of Democracy,
begging for political aid in his work
1f rule or ruin, doing his best to prove
hat his past life has been a miserable
Iham, q career of deceit and hypOcri-
", in the interest of his free trade
iriends.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21
Whole No. 2914
A Nation in Decay.

The accounts of the famine in Per.
sia which continue to arrive in
greater detail, bid fair to treat the
world to the spectacle of q calamity
the like of which has not been wit.
messed in historic times at least-the
sudden extietiOn of nation for the
want of food. This has really been
the fate of the great States which
once filled the great Valley of the
Euphrates, and it is fate which has
for centuries been threatening some
modern States-Spain for instance
Man has stripped the soil of trees the
absence of trees has brought drougths
has slowly diminised the productive
power of the ground, and finally de-
strOyed them-the population in the
mean time, dwindling in numbers
and vitality. Spain had forty mil
hons Of people in the time of the Ro-
mans. and flowed with milk and hon
ey it is now an arid region, only
half Oft under cultivation, with only
sixteen millions of inhabitants, and
if modern science had not come to its
aid, would probably go the way of
Babylon. Persia was one of the most
powerful States of antiquity, and even
in the fourteenth century was able to
the army of Tamerlane. who
without eOmmissariat or
baggage, during bloody contest. 1t
is now almost a wilderness, with a
of two milIions-about
half of them nomands, which are
rapidly perishing from famine
brought on by three years of drouth.
The worst of it is owing TO the alb
sence of either common roads or rail
roads, it seems to be impossible for
the charity of the world to reach the
sufferers, so that there is really
strong prospect of the depopulation
Of the country, The moral of this
horrible story is-loOk after your
trees.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-21
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS.
EVANSTON. LIS, Aug. II, ~

EVANSTON, Ills, Aug. II, '72
EDITOR CHRONICLE: E:-Evanston is
situated on Lake Michigan, twelve
miles north of Chicago, and is noted
as a great place of fsummer retreat. 1t
is exceedingly healthy, located on
high and dry ground, and the cool
and fresh air from the lake sweeps
over the village, supplying the lungs
with refreshment that well rewards
the tine and money disposed of in
visiting the place. Some OF the finest
dwellings of the Northwest decorate
the town-many of the wealthiest
merchants of Chicago residing here.
The University is in a promising
condition, constantly increasing the
number of students and annually
making RnneKations TO the course of
study. The Female College, now in
progress, is promising to be a first
class institution, and is to accommo-
date the attendance of large numbCr
of ladies.
1t is unnecessary to state that
Evanston is decidedly a Republican
town, as all places of such educational
advantages are unexceptionabIy con-
secrased to the support of Republican
principles. Politically, it must be
said, that Evanston is alive and in a
blaze. Over sixty Democrats have
decided to follow the Grant and VIII.
son banner, and that is six times the
number of Liberals" in the place.
And in all places where intelligence
has been richly and literally diffused
the so-ealled Liberals" of to-day are
scarce and unknown. Lyman Trum.
bull. with hair erect, trots from place
to place preaching the old doctrines
that were advocated by slave holders
of old, expounding the dangerous
"nepotism" exercised by the present
administration; and explaining the
governmental destruction that would
follow in case Grant should be re-
elected! But the spouting OF Lyman
does not change facts. The American
people know Grant too well 10 be
by such men as Lyman
Trumbull and Charles Sumner.
In the battle field and in the White
House Grant has been found to be a
good and faithful servant. When
calmly remarked, through
his paper to the seeding States,
"wayward sisters depart in peace"
Grant took charge of a regiment,
into the battlefield, and his
work there is familiar to every citi-
zen. He ended the war. JEFF Davis
was fugitive, having been put to
flight by General Grant. He was
captured and imprisoned on q charge
Of high treason, but set free again by
the bail Of Greeley.
The more I look at tue portrait Of |
the Cincinnati Convention, the more
discover the total want of principle
10 actuate the seIf-appointed dele
gates. They only represented their