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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25
The Cur.s Of sewInr.Mash,ns.

"A mother" replying TO some structures
in daily paper upon the bold, even i'm
modest conduct of the beautifully dressed
young girls who, out of school hours, pa
rade Finh Avenue, Chestnut, and Beacon
Streets" remarks, that "the censure prob
ably would not be so severe If 1t were
known how many of these beautiful dress
es were cut out and made on the machine
by the wearers. Innocence and ignorance
are the true apologies for their unseemly
behavior" She lays her finger on the
main-sprlng of all the trouble. What but
vanity and grossly vulgar subseryience to
fashion could induce any mother to de-
vote her child's few lelsure hours to the
construction of elaborate costumes, mar
vels Of shirring, anticipating, etc., etc. :
The real martyrs to fashion are, after all,
the shabby-genteel, whose souls and bod
les must be worn out in toillng afler her
whims and changes. But, leaving the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25
BrattlebOrO Church Directory.

FIRST BAPr1sr.-Man ST.; Rev. f. Z. Cummings,
d. d., Pastor. Sunday services 1880 q, M, 1880
p m. Sunday School IL $50 a. IN. Missionary Con-
cert lst Sunday evening in each month, Sunday
school Concert last Sunday evening in each month
Prayer meetings on the other Sunday evenings.
Monday evening, young peoples prayer meeting
friday evening, prayer meeting, 7:45.
CENTRE CoHdREoATIoHAL.-MainS 81. Rev. N Miph-
III Pastor Sunday services 10 $50 a. m., 1880 D. M /:
SUNDAY. School IL M Missionary and s. s. Concerts
take the place Of the evening service the LIST
"a sundays Of the month, respectively Young
peoples meeting Monday evening at IA to 8,
Prayer meeting Friday evening at IA to 8. Thurs
DAY p M, ladies' prayer meeting, O'Clock.
EPIscoPAL.-Main ST.; Rev. W. H. Collins, Rector.
Sunday services: Morning prayer and sermon 10 80
a. M evening prayer and sermon 80 p. m. ; Sum
day School 1918 p. m. Hely days, 10 80 q. M Holy
Communion Let Sunday in the month, and on ali
great festivals. The children Of the parish are cat
echised on the LIST Sunday in every month at p. M
METHoDIsT EP1scoPAL-Meetings 10 lower town hall /;
Rev. N. F. Perry, Pastor. Preaching Sunday
at 10:3O a. M. Sunday School IL M; prayer
meeting in the evening. S, s, Concert Ith SUNDAY
OF every month. Glass meeting Tuesday evening;
prayer meeting Friday evening. Seats free.
ROMAN CATHoLIo.-Walnut st. Rev. Henry Lane
Pastor. Sunday seryices-Hgh mass 10 $50 q. IN. (;
Vespers and Bencdiction 1880 p. m.
UNIrAnIAS.-AIain st. Rev W. L. jenkins, Pastor
Services discontinued until further notice.
FIRST UNIvERsALIsT-Canal st. ; Rev. NJ. H. Harris
Pastor, residence foot Of High st. Sunday sermon
1880 a. m. Services Monday and Friday evenings
at 7 80
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25
/ TILE OE TILE FUTURE.

"No, Sir, l will not--I never bet. Once
only in my life did make bet for large
sum, and lost that in such humiliating
way that I registered q vow not to be Bit
ten second time"
"You quite raise my curiosity. As there
is no chance of ouI settling by friendly
bet the little dispute as to what exact spe-
cies Of abomination our friend the coster-
monger is hawking, you should at least let
me have the benefit of your first and last
experience in that line"
at is an old story, now; but If you will
light cheroot SHALL let you into the Sc
cret of my dislike to betting"
The speakers were both Englishmen,
and had met by chance at little auberge
in an ut-of-the-way village Of the lower
Engadine. Having dined together, they
were having their cigars in the verandah,
when some triling difference OF opinion
brought on the conversation given above.
As soon as madame the hostess had sup
piled their wants, the elder OF the two be-
gan to relate the following incident with
an air of veraclty so strongly marked that
his listener found it impossible to doubt
the accuracy of what he said.
"The time speak Of is some twenty or
twenty-five years ago, when the Alpine
Club was still in its full glory. Things
were very different then from what they
are now. The Andes Association had not
vet been formed-desiined as it was utter
ly to cast into the shade its Alpine prede-
cessor. There was no railway over Mont
Blanc, and the idea of lift TO the hotel on
the top of the Matterhorn had not yet
been started; in fact, if remember right
ly, the hotel itself had not been built 1
was at that time a member of the club, and
few more enthusiastic individuals could
have been found among the number of its
admirers. Innumerable were the articles
that contributed to tsjournal, giving ap-
palling accounts of the adventures had
met with in scaling peaks and climbing
down preclpices, and other little perform
Ances Of that nature. Immense used TO be.
my delight and pride at being able to in
scribe the magic letters A. @. after my
name in the visitors books in Swiss inns
Astonishing used TO be the get up in
which 1 started for the most ordinary
mountain walk, girt about with variety
OF ropes, and ice-axes, and spectacles, and
belts. can speak jestingly OF these little
yanities now, but II took very severe
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25

TRANSIT OF VENUS ExPEDITIoN.-Tne
sloop-of-war Swatara, which left New
York year ago with the Transit of We
nus Expedition, arrived safely hack in
New York May, 81. During the entire
cruise the Swatara performed the work Of
three years cruise, having logged 5000
knots since her departure, aud having sail
ed as far south as within two hundred miles
of the supposed Antarctic Polar Continent
She brings all the valuable instruments
used in the expedition, besides large col
lection Of Australian animal and botanical
specimens. Among the former is wom-
bat, diminutiye bear also ferocious
little beast appropriately named Tasmani-
an devil. The collection also embraces
several kangaroos. a small animal with
claws like those Of mole and a snout re-
sembling the bill of a dnck, and a variety
of other curious-looking creatures.
The botanical collection includes, among
other strange specimens, about forty varl-
cites of fern, one Of which measures no
less than twenty feet in height and two in
diameter. A great portion OF the route
traversed by the Swatars, it is stated, was
never before sailed over by an American
war vessel. Her reception at such places
was an Ell thuslastic one, and the officers
spoke in terms of high praise of the hos
piIable manner in which they wero receiv-
ed by the English colonists In Australia,
who very generously assisted the expedi-
tion in various ways. The Government is
supported by population of less than a
million souls, and the people do not grum-
BILE about taxes, because their taxes are
honestly collected and honestly disbursed.
AT Melbourne every door was opened to
the Swatara's people, and If she had re-
mained there two months, still something
would have been in preparation for The en-
tertainment of her crew.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25


CERTAIN animals possess the power Of
changing their color at will, or according
to the circumstances in which they are
placed. This is convincingly shown in
some recent experiments made by Mr..
Pouchet, a French investigator. He chose
as his subject the PdL9mon serrdtus, a spe-
cies of prawn or crab. These prawns,
when brought ashore by the fisherman,
have rose or dark lily color but If they
are put into porcelain vessels with black or
white bottoms they will assume colols
wholly unlike. Those in the white dish
become yellowish, almost eolorless, as if
they had just shed their skin those in the
dark-eolored dish assume a brownish red
hue. If they are changed, the pale into the
black vessel, and Vioe versa, they again al
ter their color in correspondence with their
surroundings. The change of pale one to
a dark tint was more rnpid than the re-
verse. Thus, under favorable circumstance
es, a yellow, red or blue Palemon can be
created.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25


PRoMPTNEss AND PosITIvENEss.-Wha
is most of all needed now lin the admins
tration of criminal laws) is promptness
and pOsitiveness. No real right OF sus-
pected person need be infringed, no cruel
ty in sentence need be exacted, no irre-
sponsible person need be punished, II he
be properly restrained from inJurlng him
self and othersi but when crime is made
manifest, no unnecessary delays, no trivi-
al, technical legal difficulties, no false sent
iment or misplaced sympathy should him
der the certain and early administration
of the laws most fearful sanction. 1t is
not the worst thing that can be done with
a voluntary manslayer TO take his life. 1t
may be, with a proper space for repent
ance, the best for him. Certainly It is the
best for the community, as the law now
stands.-zi0n's Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25
The Young EditOri

Tribune Ben -whitelAw Zoe his list increasedD
Sat on his spre upon a night Of feast,
When, some six stories nearer to the roof,
He saw "devil" climbing with proof.
The hours wore on at last the devil" came
With painting breast, pearled brow and face shame;
Towhom Ben-WhitelAw: "Quick, thine errand teach
To whom the "deyI:" "'Tis FL Husteds speech,
Wherein among the sons of Gotham famed
Some six seven Journalists are named"
"And is mine there? Nay, never scant thy worst"
at Ia" the "devil" answered 'but not the frst.
Nor am sure yours is the name see,
Unless, indeed you spell 1t with we.'"
''rhen," quoth Ben-Whiteaw, in tone severe,
"Leave me that proof and walk of on thine ear"
But when next N orningIs Tribune did appear
He found the names Of journalists famed best,
Aid lol Ben-Whitelaw's name shone mid the rest
Shone mid them like bright particular star,
And, strange to say, they spelled 1t with an Il.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25
Literary Department.


One morning, hfty years ago,
When apple trees were white with snow
OF fragrant blossoms and the air
Was spell bound with the perfume rare,
Upon farm horse, large and lean,
And lazy with its double load,
sun Drowned youth and maid were seen
jogging along the winding road.
Blue were the arches Of the skies,
But bluer were that maiden's eyes.
The dew drops on the grass were bright
But brighter was the loving light
That sparkled meath the long fringed lid,
Where those bright eyes Of blue were hid.
Adown the shoulders bright and bare
Rolled the soft waves Of golden hair,
Where, almost strangled with the spray
The sun, willing sufferer, lay.
1t was the fairest sight, ween,
That the young man had ever seen;
And with his features all aglow,
The happy fellow told her sol
And she without the least surprise
Looked on him with those heavenly eyes,
Saw underneath that shade Of tan
Tho handsome features OF a man;
And with JOY but rarely known
She drew that dear face to her own,
And by her bridal bonnet hid
cannot tell you what she did
so, on they rode until, among
The new born leaves with dew drops hung,
The parsonage, arrayed In white,
Peers out,-a morethan welcome sight.
Then, with cloud upon his face,
"What shall we do" he turned to say,
"Should be refuse TO take his pay
From what is in the pillow case I"
And glancing down his eye surveyed
The pillow case before him laid,
Whose contents reaching TO its hem,
Might purchase endless Joy for them.
The maiden answers, ''Let us wait;
To borrow trouble where's the need7"
Then at the parsons squeaking gate
Halted the more than willing steed.
Down from the horse the bridegroom sprung;
The latchless gate behind him swung;
The knosker Of that startled door,
Struck asit never was Uefore,
Brought the whole household pale with fright;
And there with bushes on his cheek,
So bashful he could hardly speak,
The farmer met their wondering sight.
The groom goes in, his errand tells,
And as the parson mods, he leans
Far DER the window sill and yells,
''Come in He says he'll take the beansv
Lordl How she jumped with one glad bound
She and the bean bag reached the ground
Then, clasping with each dimple arm
The precious product Of the farm
She bears 1t through the open door,
And, down upon the parlor floor,
Dumps the best beans vines ever bore.
All! happy were their songs that day
When man and wife they rode away;
But happier this, chorus still
Which ochOed through the woodland scenes;
"Gpd bless the priest Of wbitinsyillel
r. NJ. Strsttsr in Ntir York Tribune
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25

Breathless the sunny meadows lie
In heat Of early afternoon;
Clouds faint upon the shapelets shy
Where sleeps q ghostly moon.
The farm-boy turns his masters hay
To ripen after summer rain.
while gay cries stealAcross the bay,
And echo wide again.
He hears the voices Of his mates
Gamboling in the fresh sea-wave,
And pauses while his heart relates
The JOY his freedom gave.
Where is my play-time gone 2 he said,
And turned him idly to his task:
Where are my moon-lit moments fled7
Earth's weary children ask.
"A. r., in HdyPer's Magazine for July.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25

Many strange shadows docs my rich Past keep,
Giving me glimpses Of them now and then,
Sometimes amid the busy ways Of men,
But oftener in the lotus-land OF sleep:
Faces Of friends that no more laugh or weep
On this our earth bend over me as when
They dwelt with US, and gladden. me again;
Dead lips call out to me across the deep.
And ever in my dreams l see thee stand,
o fAireEt, purest, sphered in sanctityl
With soft sad smile, and lifted fading hand,
Full In the pAllid moon, beckonest me,
And !, half wakened, answer thy command,
go on, sweet ghost, and will follow thee"
It. d. ALDRIcH, in HaTpers Mogdzine for July.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25

General Husted in his speech at the Masonic festival
in New York city, referred to various prominent news
paper men who were Masons. Among them he named
Weed Thurlow Of coursel In the report Of the pro-
ceedngs in the N Y. Tribune the next day the name
printed Reid!! rhe poetical editor Of the New
York World thus comments upon the typographical ~
error.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25

An old lady recently directed the at
tentlon Of her husband to pair of twins,
remarklng as she did so, "How much
those two children do look alike, especially
the one this way r.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-06-25
nHANHooD RnsToRnD.

victim Of youthful imprudence, causing premature
decay nervous debility ETC., having tried In vain
cry known remedy, has found q simple self-cure,
which he will send free to his fellow sufferers. Ad-
dress J. H REEVES, 70 Nassau St. New York. T. o.
BOZ SIS. A-20
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-02
Increasing Travel.

The almost doubling Of their fscili-
ties for accommodating the travelling
public by both the SteamshipCompsny
and the Telegraph Stage Company, is
indicative off rapidly increasing immi-
grafton to Southern California. A few
months ago the stages brought but the
fewest number of passengers. Now,
one stage is not sufficient and extras
are run almost daily. The number of
steamers has been increased one-third,
yet the demand in San Francisco for
passage to Los Angeles is so great as
to exceed the capacity of the compa-
ny's vessels, and it is probable still
another steamer will be added to the
line in short time. These are facts
of to-day. What shall We expect
when the travel into Arizona and the
mines of Inyo county sets fairly in !?
The Southern Pacific Railroad will
soon extend beyond San Gorgonio
Pass, and it will not be long before
the Los Angeles and Independence
road will be landing it's passengers in
Cajon Pass, ninety miles from the
landing at Santa Monica. and nearly
one-half the distance from this city
to Panamint. These railroad facili-
ties for reaching the great mining in
terror will draw the vast trade and
travel of these sections through this
city, which, compared with what we
now daily chronicle, will be as river
to a rivulet.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-02

A CORRESPONDENT of the San Diego
World advocates the establishment of
a ship-yard at that place for the build
ing of ships. We meant to suggest
such an enterprise for Los Angeles,
but our neighbor has defeated our pur-
pose and we must now turn to another
and equally practical. scheme, which
is the establishment of a mammoth
ice depot at Wilmington. The vast
iron mines, the wide forests, the ex-
haustless coal beds and the magnifi-
cent bay with its broad, deep channel,
of San Diego, all designate her as the
natural ship-building point on the
Pacific Coast; but where, we ask, can
such nice, clean, fresh, cold cubes of
ice be cut as in Wilmington harbor?
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-02
No Judge Of Democrats.

The San Francisco Post thinks ex-
Governor HAIGHT and ex-Mayor
FRANK McCOPPEN should not be re-
garded as Democratic leaders. The
Post should have stated that these
gentlemen are Objectionable as leaders
Of its Democracy. Had it made this
qualification the objection would have
been well taken. 1t cannot but be
amusing to Democrats to hear the
Post editor, who has about as clear an
idea of Democracy as police court
shyster has of common law, defining
who shall and who shall not be their
leaders. HENRY HI. HAIGHT led the
Democratic party of California to VIC
tory at time when fear and dismay
spread throughout their ranks, and
almost any other general would have
abandoned the field without q strug-
gle. AS Democratic Governor his
administration was one of the most
economical since the organization Of
the State. He may not have been q
very rampant Democrat in party
sense, neither while Governor nor
since, but he has always been DEM
ocratin principle--upholding that pub
lie officers are but the servants of the
people, and that they are unworthy
of the trust reposed in them the mo-
ment they cease to discharge their Of
fetal duties as carefully and economi-
cally as they would manage their own
private business. Such men may not
be good Democrats as the Post under
stands the term, but it is pity the
people have not a few more such DEM
ocrats. These remarks will also apply
to FRANK MCCopPIN. San Francisco
never had better Mayor than he
made her. The people knew this.
They showed their faith and conf
dence in him by casting majority of
their votes for his reelection, and had
the officers Of the election been az hon-
est as the voters he would have held
the Mayoralty for second term. The
Post is the only paper or individual
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-02
Decision Against Woman by She U. 8.
Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, March 29th.-The U.
s. Supreme Court to-day rendered q
decision in the case of Minor vs.. Hop
persOtt, error to the Supreme Court
from Missouri. This is case present.
ing the question whether, under the
Fourteenth Amendment, woman
who is citizen of the United States
and Of that State is a voter in that
State, notwithstanding the provisions
Of the Constitution and the laws of
that State confinipg the right of suf-
frage to men alone. The Court is
unanimous in the opinion that the
Constitution of the United States does
not confer the right of suffrage upon
any one, and that the Constitutions of
the several States which commit that
trust to men are not necessarily void.
The Chief Justice delivered the opin-
ion.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-02

CTATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNT OF
- Los Angeles.-In the Probate Court.-In
the matter OF the estate of Frank w. Elton,
deceased.
Pursuant to an order of this Court made this
day, notice is hereby given that Monday, the
18th day of April, A. d. 1876 at ~ O'Clock A. M.
of said day, at the Courtroom of this Court, in
the city and county of Los Angeles, has been
appointed for hearing the application of Alon-
20 Phillips praying that document now on
file in this Court, purporting to be the last will
and testament Of Frank w. Elton, deceased,
be admitted to probate and that letters testa-
mentary be issued thereon to said petitioner,
at which time and place all persons interested
therein may appear and contest the same.
Dated Los Angeles, April l, 1875. =
A. w. POTTS, Clerk.
By e. H. OWEN, Deputy.
MARSHALL, GOULD q BLANCHARD, Att'ys for
petiLiOner. Qp2 lot a
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-02
Outrages and yellow Fever.

WASHINGTON, March 9lst. = The
President to-day received dispatch
from Governor Coke, of Texas, detail
ing the border outrages by Mexicans,
and appealing to him to afford protec-
tion to the people. The Secretary of
War, in the absence of the President,
replied to the telegram, and stated
that orders will be given to the mill
tary authorities to take steps for the
protection of the people on the from
tier.
A telegram from Key West reports
that the yellow fever is spreading
greatly. The United States steamer
Dispatch, which conveys the Senate
rial party to Mexico, was at Key West
when the fever first broke out, and
solicitude is felt in Washington for the
excursiOnists. 8E M
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-02
Connecticut Election.


Connecticut will hold her State elec-
tion on Monday next. The campaign
opened lively and has grown warmer
as the day of election approaches.
Since their New Hampshire success,
the Republicans have felt more conf
dent and have redoubled their efforts
to win the victory. The Democrats
are working steadily and are confident
of increasing their majority over that
of last year. Predictions as to the re-
suit cannot be entitled to more weight
than mere conjecture. The parties
are so nearly equal in strength that
small, unimportant issues have and
may again decide the contest. Up to
1865 the Republicans carried the State
almost without an effort, but since
that time control has alternated be-
tween the two parties. In 1868 the
Republicans elected the Presidential
Electors, though the Democrats had
won the year previous. The Temper
ance party aggregates about five
thousand votes. This was its strength
last year. At the same election the
Democrats cast 46,755 votes and the
Republicans 39,973, giving the Demo-
Gratis a plurality majority of nearly
1000. The Republicans hope that the
New Hampshire elections will draw
into their ranks large proportion of
the Temperance voters and thus give
them the victory on Monday. The
signs indicate Democratic majority;
but the fight is too close to leave much
room for guessing.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-02

OUR Government seems inclined to
encourage the proposition to convert
the Sandwich Islands into fragment
of the Uunited States. His Majesty's
Kingdom is nice little Island and
good many Americans live over there.
but it strikes us that the experience Of
the last decade goes far to prove that
we have sufficiency of volcanic
States. Why 60 into the middle Of
the Pacific Ocean to find another?