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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

A WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHIC FEAT
Sometime ago Gov. Stanford, the owner Of
the horse Occident, which was made ia
nous from having been beaten in a race
with the Goldsmith Maid, desired to have
a photograph of the animal taken while
said animal was going at full speed. Mr..
Muybrldgc, the artist, was applied to, but
he expressed his doubts that II could be
done. He began experimenting, however,
and after a while was able to catch objects
on the wing with great success. few
DAYS ago he announced to the owner Of Oc-
cdent that he believed he could take the
picture. He procured all the sheets to DO
had In the stable, and with these made a
rejecting back ground. Over this Occi-
dent was trained to trot, and everything
was then In readiness for the trial. The
great difficulty was TO transix an impress
sion while the horse was moving at the rate
OF SO feet to the second. The first expert
neut OF opening and closing the camera
on the first day left no result the second
day, with increased velocity In opening
and closing, shadow was caught. On the
third day, the artist, having studied the
matter thoroughly, oontriyed to have two
boards slip past each other by touching a
spring, and In 80 doing to leave an eighth
OF an ipoh opening for the fve-hundreth
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

VERMONT INSANE AsYLUM.-P. s. Ben
jamin, Esq, Ovcrseer of the Poor for
Wolcott, in accordance with vote of that
town, recently visited the Insane Asylum
at Brattleboro, for the purpose of ascertain
ing the condition Of those persons in that
institution who are supported at the ex-
pense OF that town. Mr.. Benjamin says
he was much pleased with the management
of the institution throughout. Without
letting any one know his object, he went
over the building, aud in every department
found the utmost neatness and good order.
The rooms in which were confined the
most manageable of The patients showed
no lack of care. The food OF all descrip-
ton was well cooked, aud thore is an abund-
ance of 1t. Mr.. Benjamin advises all who
may have any misgivings in regard to the
treatment OF patients of whatever class tc
investigate for themselves, feeling conf
dent that they will come away perfectly
satisfied with the management OF the Asy
lum.-Arglts and Patriot.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

The action Of the Forty-sccond Congress,
in relation to the pay of members and Sem
ators, has given rise to much anlmadver-
sion by the Press, not so much on account
of the increase proposed, as of the fact that
the Congress that made the increase took
the benefit of it. The New York Times,
which has taken the lead in casting oppro-
brium upon the members who voted for
this measure, now admits that the retroac-
tive feature of the bill was perfectly in ac-
cordance with former precedents. Five
times the pay of members of Congress has
been increased, and each Congress that
fixed a new rate Of compensation, took it
for itself. That has been the invariable
practice since 1889, when the first act upon
the subject was passed. "Now," inquiries
the Times, Sin what respect is the Forty
second Congress more deserving Of censure
than any of its predecessors" A fairques-
ton, certainly. But even FIVE wrongs do
not make right; and it is a hopeful sign
that the public are becoming more sensitive
than formerly In regard to such abuses.
We apprehend that the neat time Congress
passes an act increasing the pay of mem
bers, the retroactive clause will be omitted.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
THE Mopoo wAa-A REcoSSoIrERrSo

THE MoDoc WAR-A REcoNNoITERINo
PARTY CUT TO PIEcEs.-Last Saturday
morning accommodating party composed
of batteries X and A, 4th artillery, and Co.
Il. 18th infantry, left camp proceeding In
the direction known to lead to, the pres
ent stronghold of the Modocs, Capt. Thorn
as In command. A dozen or 80 Of Warm
Spring Indians we're expected TO cooper
ate on Capt. Thomas's lon. The troops
having formed In line, skirmishers ad.
vanced without molestation until they ar
rived at the foot OF the bluff south OF the
lava beds, having meanwhile slgualsd TO
the captain that there were no Indians to
be found. On reaching the blum, the Mo-
does opened a severe DIRE, causing our
troops to seek such shelter a. they could
q nd In the chasms, etc. AZ the result Of
tho battle some twenty OF our men were
killed, and . number wounded.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
Iy,ardsboro.

Whit er sill lingers In the lap OF spring,
or in other words snow drifts are quite
plenty yet, 50 that travel by wheels is sad
ly impeded on most of the hill roads. The
common remark is, "Why, when are these
snow drifts going OFF, We must have a
very backwa spring."
The maple sugar crop has been very
small but sweet.
ID. G. Harrington has sold his place to
Mrs. Mary Whitaker of Dover. Price
$3.50.
Henry Harris having leased Of A. V.
May his dwelling house and store for the
term of i've years, will continue the mer-
camille business al The old stand.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

There are moro miles of railroad in the
United States than in all the countries of
Europe combined. Our completed line
would reach 20, lis miles, with an addition
al $4,000 in process of building. In nil
Europe there is less than $4,000 of railroad.
When we consider that in 1913 we had be-
tween five and six thousand miles of COM
pleted road, We can form an idea OF tho
progress we have made in the building OF
railroads during the past twenty i've years.
The amount of money, or IFS equivalent,
expended on the railroads of the United
States amounts TO the enormous sum OF
SO, 436 ,63S,749. II is estimated that 100000
600 of capital is annually absorbed by rail-
road investments. Is it any wonder that
an interest so powerful rs this Is begin
ming TO be felt as one of the controlling In
6uences of the land
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
.I0rkscarfIfe.

IL. C. Miliington has hired tie J. G..
Brown house for residence.
The Unlversalst society has engaged
the Rev. j. Clifford to supply lis desk for
one half the time another year.
Hon. Farley Starr has sold his house
now occupied by NJ. II. Crandall, TO j.
Briggs, who, 1t is expected, will soon &C.
cupy it for a residence.
The Methodist church has engaged the
services of the Rev. L. II. Bartlett for one
halfthe time, so called, for the present con-
ference year, and he commences his labors
next Sabbath, May 4th. The church this
year, contrary to its usual custom. has
raised the minister's salary, having the
requisite sum subscribed before he COM
menceS his labors.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
ReVle70 Of The Markets.

NEW YORK. April 20. Flour steady and in fair de-
mAnd; State IS S0a as round hoop Ohio s6 Soc $40
so; Western IS 9oss1o so Southern SO 90 sel2 so
for prime. Wheat arm aud higher; No. / spring
81 1881 so No. do 81 6l@$i II; winter red West
ern 81 sosl IS: white Michigan 81 s5Gs2 80 Corn
hrmer; new mixed Western Tie "a C; old do GO lao
69c IN store. Oats firmly held black Sic Sac; new
Western mixed 53lsb5c Beef steady. Pork shade
lower; mess s1S Lard steadier at o $50 lac.
Butter dull and lower; Western si $50; State IS
e39c.
CHICAGO, April 90 wheat active; No. 2 spring
u a 1-+tdS1 ~ lac case. Corn quiet mixed 81
Ss7 lac for regular, cash Oats quiet No. regular
and fresh on the spot 40 2s30c Rye quiet and un-
changed at 50 1-2@70c for No. fresh. Barley un-
changed and dull, Pork hrm, in fair demand and .
shsde higher at SIT So
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

DEATH OF BARON LIEBIo.-Baron
Justus Won Lebig died in Munich April
18th, after painful illness, aged so years.
He was one of the most renowned chemists
of the world, and his researches did more
to apply that science to the use of agricul-
ture than those of any contemporary or Of
all his predecessors combined. Whep in
early life he became professor Of chemistry
at the small university of Giessen, he at
tracted students of that science from all
parts OF Germany and from foreign coun-
tries. The Duke of Hesse raised him to
the rank of baron. Since 1860 he has been
president of the Academy Of Sciences at
Munich. He was the author OF several
works, one of which, that Of "Organic
Chemistry in its application to Agricul-
ture' has been through many editions, and
translated into several different languages.
The lesson of his life teaches the mastery
of mind over matter, and the success al
ways sure to follow singleness of purpose
and persistency of pursuit.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
wATERrOwN UNION LIVE STOCK MARKET.
wArERrows, April 20, II

WArERrows, April 10, 1878.
Prices Market Beef. A few choice $40 500 IL co;
Extra 50 so ssl0 as FIRST quality So o0@p 90; Second
quality, So 00s$7 50; third quality, IS o0sf6 so.
Stores-Working Oxen-s100, $3.50, 200s $3.50 D pair.
Mich Cows an Caves-s35 to 60; extra, s65 to IS.
farrow Cows sl6a $40.
Yearlinss-slo 90 g Ia Two years oid-sls to s2s.
Three years old-s3o to as.
Swine-wholessle 6d6 Lac IN
Prices OF Sheep and Lambs-In lots, IS 50, q 90,
N7s, 81 50, each; Extra, IS oo@s7 co. or n ON to
7 lac y Q.
Yearling LAmbs-7asc 81 o n.
Veal Calves-s4asl3.
Hides Brighton, 1900 "a eents per n Country
sl-2c p n
T.llow-Brghton, i-2@sc . n. Country T.liow.
IA as la cents per n.
Pslts 81 IS asa so each; Calf Skins is(save . N.
oLAssIyroArIoE CATTLE AND sHKEP.
n. B.-Beef-Choice grade includer nothi- q but
'tall-fed HOO to lto0 los Bullocks. Extra and
lnaty includes the best large fat oxen. Second
third quality includes Oxen and and three year
I'D ,teers.
sheep-EItrA include cossets, and when those OF
inferior quality are thrown out.
Poultry. Chickens and Turkeys zoe y n; medium
10 i-2Vsl9c y b; ordinary lots isc y II.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

John b. Miller, ID, of this village, died
yer suddenly on the morning of the 3Otb
ult., from hemorrage OF the lungs. His age
was "a years.
Mrs. Sampson, an old lady about "a
years of age, living with her daughter
Mrs. Roswell Newton, was found dead in
her bed on the morning of the Both ult.
Mrs. Sally Stockwell, who has been for
several years the oldest person in town
celebrated her 9th birthday on the Sott
ult. She is still quite robust.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

DEPUTY SHERIFFs.-The deputies of
Sheriff Francis Phelps for Windham Coun-
ty, are as follows, and they hold Office till
December LIST, 1874; s. N. Herrick and
Alonzo Starkey, Brattleboro Walter Tay-
lor, Bellows Fallsi Chas. T.. Esterbrook,
Guilford Lewis N. Sprague, Jamaica ;
Barnet S. Wait, Londonderry g. WASH
burne Mellendy and Thos. Evans, South
Londonderry Henry w. Bellows, Marl-
boro; Nelson Winslow, Townshend Wales
II. Willard, Wardsboro Ira A. Snow, Whit
ingham S. Wright Bowker, Williams
vile J. Henry Kidder, Wilmington.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

THE THEY who was arrested for robbing Parsons
store in this town. was found to have quantity Of
Arms HAZE vIoon in his possession. when asked
why he wished to steal that article he answered that
he wanted to restore his hair, for 1t hard to be
thief and bald, too II that invention OF the great
chemist could restore faded character anectua1y
does their natural beauty to bald and gray heads,
would surely be, they say is, truly invaluable.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

TOBACCO SALEs.-John Houghton OF
Putney, 90 through h. s. Wood, of YER
non, 20 and s; II. w. Bennett Of Dummers-
ton, 10 through; Leander Thomas of Hius-
dale, n. H., reported wrong last week y
20 and 10. Northteld, Mass, Henry Web
ster, Is and S; John l.. Nation, 10 througb
Addison Ware, private Z. 8. G. Lyman,
% and 8 Capt. Moody, % and s.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

"A few weeks since, one Of the Towns
bend correspondents of the PHOENIX SEEM
ed 10 be greatly sollcltous for the safety OF
Epsilon" and suggested that possibly the
latter was buried in the snow or In the law.
II the object Of his concern was, at that
time, down deep 10 the snow, he is certain.
ly IN that condition no longer for Ph9bus,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

The legislative committee appointed TO
investigate the affairs and management OF
the Vermont Central Railroad Is now In
session at ST. Adams. The committee
consists of d. r. Bailey, Jacob Es,ey and
J. NJ. Bartlett from the Senate, and Gen.
Perley p. Pitkin, Major Josiah Grout, Jr.,
and Ioveland Munson Of the House. II Is
the general impression that the committee
mean business, and the result of their do
lberatious will be looked for with Interest.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

Jared Briggs has sold his farm TO Sam
uel Chase. He receives therefor thirty
acres OF land near the centre of the town,
and one thousand dollars. Mr.. Briggs is
expecting son to move TO place recently
purcba Sod in the village of jacksonville.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
.Ifhens.

Mr.. S. Rauney has been appointed
post master at Athans, in place of A. a
Alexander, removed to Greenfield, Mass.
Alfred A. Hall of Athens, was recent
Nv admitted 10 the bar of the lin
County Court.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

"Annhiate them !" is the mad cry rails
ed against the Modocs by men who claim
to be civilized, and what is usually consid-
cred more-Christianized. Says the piOus
Springfield Union: 1--WE shall be as glad
TO know that they have been swept from
the face of the earth by our arms, or by
the outbursting around them of those old
volcanic fires, as the Israelites were glad
when Amalek persisted, and for much the
same reason. We have no soft spot in our
heart for these hoStes humane JentiS, these
enemies of the human race, whatever be
the color of their cutcie. Let them go
down quick into death, If they thus throw
themselves out from all human fellow
ship" But how will the shoe til upon the
other foot? A writer in the New York
Times, who was with Gen. Crook in the
Modoc region few years ago, says:
~ have no sympathy for Capt. Jack and
his associate murderers, and the plan for
their determination has my support, but ii
is none the less true the savage could very
properly say to the white man, in this case,
with tenfoid more truibiulnrs> than did
Shylock:
Tho villainy you teach me-
1 will execute
For the very commencement OF this Mo-
doc war was deed of treachery as black
as that which decoyed to his death the brave
and noble soldier and the excellent minis
ter of peace who fell by his side. Cover il
as we may, il is none the less true tina,
some years ago a Capt. Wright, OF the Uni
ted States army, did invite party of Mo-
docs to feast, and then treachetously mas
sacred them when they were as poweriess
TO defend themselves as were the Peace
Commissioners in the lava beds"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
BUSINESS NOTICES.

within the whole range of tonic and Alternative med
cines known, il entitled to consideration
than the Peruvian Syrup. In all Of enfeebled
and debilitated constitution it is the very remedy
needed. The most positive proof OF this can be ad-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

LSsxus the great naturalist. in consequences Of his
fondnes for chocolate conferred on the order caeao
the title Theobroma. or flood for god" II 10 GER
taiply food for men. we'll 80 most heAthfui bev-
srsgs, and medical the world over recommend lite
use The highest awards for excellence Of prsparanon
have bean won By Waller Baker Co.. Boston. both In
Kurop. and America Their goods ere sold BY al gro
sOs
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
KUsiff{ah,s sr}ffe.

b. ID. Dickinson has sold his butter
tub factory TO e. p. Wheeler and Luke
Morse, who will continue the business.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

MIR. and Mrs. Nathan Buxton celebrat-
cd their golden wedding on Tuesday, April
9th
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
Vow York Stock and Money Market.

NEW YORK, April 49, Financial Affairs nnset-
tied. Money was close most Of the day At l-l6sl-37
per day but An My became easier and closed at per
cent. Gold weak and lower, declining from III to
ZIG 81 Governments dull but prices were well sup
ported.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02

CnstOrta is more than . substitute for Castor Oil
Is the only safe article In existence which certain
to assmlte the food, regulate the bowels wind
colo and produce natural sleep 1t contains neither
minerals morphine or ALCOHOL and is pleasant to take
Children need not cry and mother may rest. 6mte
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
TO ADVERTISERS.

THE VERMONT PHGalx has a larger circulation than
ny other Newspaperln Southern Vermont,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20
Peck's Sewing-Machine.

A Mr.. Peck had long entertained the
idea that he could invent a self-acting
sewing-machine, and he did. He pro
cured a steel ribbon spring about twenty
feet long, and of sufficient power to run
a horse-car. This he rugged on his
wife's sewing machine with a lot of
cIockwork. and it appeared to him,
when he finished the job that evening,
that he had realized his hopes. If any
sewing-machine ever would go that one
would, so he wound it up ready for use
in the morning, and went to bed. At
At four o'clock Mrs. Peck aroused him
and told him to listen to the burglars in
the house. He listened and heard a
most terrific racket in the sitting-rOOm.
1t appeared to him that there must be a
million burglars refreshing themselves
with a prize-fght. So he loaded his
gun, crept softly over, and peeped
through a crack in the door. 1t was not
barglars, it was Mrs. Peck's sewing
machine. The peg had slipped out and
that spring was having full play. It
would rear the machine up on one end
and charge it three or four times like a
battering-ram against the glass front of
the bookcase then it would wheel
around and suddenly tear across the
room, and butt up against the mantel-
piece, and it would lie down and roll
over the floor, and hammer the sofa,
tear up the carpet, and boost the center
table and try and jam a hole through
the wall, and then endeavor to leap up
on the chandelier Then as Peck en-
tered the room, it few at him, and tore
in and out between his legs, the wheel
revolving like lightning all the time,
and the spring gradually Unwinding
And then Peck retreated and the family
all got up and got a mattress of the
bed, with which they covered the ma
chine, and sat on 1t for a while, but
finally pushed it out of the window into
the yard, where Peck piled boxes and
ash barrels and slOp-buckets and fence
pailings and wagon-wheels on to it to
keep it still. But all night under the
heap it kept up a continual buzz and
snort and hum, so that one of Mr.. Bird
sails boarders fired at it sixteen times
with the impression that it was cats.
Peck has presented his better half with
a new sewing-machine, and he IS salts
fed for her to run it with her feet. he
Is taking a short vacation IN the study
of mechanics at present.-NcoOs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20
Language: the Image of the Soul.

Language was long ago declared to be
the image of the soul. For truth and
beauty, nothing can surpass this def
nition. There are arts that can catch
and detain the image of the face, and
upon the physical features we may look
with the eye and perceive the existing
beauty; but the soul is invisible, in
tangible, inaudible. Through the gate
of music only small fragment of the
! spirit may be seen. Something of its
pensiveness or deIicacy might be in
| ferred, but reading the human soul by
its music alone would be the study of
| cOlOrs in a dim cavern, or of mankind
| by limiting your research to the small
est habitable island in the South sea.
Wonderfully beautiful and powerful as
music is, it is astonishing how little of
the soul can be learned by its medi-
| alton. When Beethoven calls sym
phony Pastoral" ," it is almost i'm
possible for rs to distinguish the trip
out of the city from the dance in the
field, and the dance from the storm COM
ing up in the valley. 1t is not other
wise with all the other fine arts. They
afford only glimpses of a broad world
such as is enjoyed by the English mi
ners, who, from the bottom of a shaft,
look up and see only a piece of blue
sky, no larger than carriage wheel
Oh, what a poor spectacle compared
with that great sweep of light and
shadow, peace and storm, granted the
heart which, from some old mountain,
overlOoks vast horizonl Compared with
all the arts, language alone is worthy of
being called the g image of the soul. "
Out of this ivory gate march in beauti-
full procession the attributes of the
spirit. Ambition, patriotism, friend
ship, love, religiOn-al memory, all
hope, all sorrow, all disappointment,
all genius, all Judgment, all sence of
honor and justice-emerg through
this portal of speech and, with a
magniicense SURPRISING the triumphal
pageants of Caesars, the souls vast
army flies before us, no longer invisible,
but IN the fields of light. What should
we know of the morals or love of the
Nazarene, what of the wisdom of New
ton or Bacon, what of the soul of
Dante, of the moral beauty of Bea-
trice, what of the poetic nature of
Shakespeare, what indeed of man or
God, if only music rolled its melody
around us, or painting unveiled its pic
lures? All arts are as nothing COM
pared with the divine gift of language.
1t is true creation and developement
and visible unfouIding of the soul.
Our histories, our poems, our phiIos-
ophies, our laws, our morals, are pho
tographs of souls truthful to an ex-
treme degree, and outlasting the souls
casket of dust.-DaUid StOing.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20
The Paris Woman.

Heinrich Heine thus wittily cata-
Iogues and describes the charms of the
Paris woman am their greatest ador-
er. admiring them far more because of
their faults than their virtues. I know
of nothing more fully appropriate than
the old legend which tells US that the
women of Paris are at their birth en-
dowed with every imaginable fault, but
that a friendly fairy, taking mercy on
them, lends them to every fault a spell
which converts it into a new charm.
And this friendly fairy is Grace itself.
Are the Parishian women beautiful
Who knows? Who can penetrate
through all the artifices of the toilet
Who can decipher whether that which
tulle suggests be real, or that which