Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-12-03
NIIsCELLANEOUs.

The centennial fund having reached 81,
100000, Congress will be asked, as soon as
it assemblies, TO appropriate 81 800, 900 out
right TO enable the exhibition TO open on the
first of May free from debt. This Is some
what less than the three to five millions
asked for aud refused, two years ago, aud
no one can doubt that the commission have
managed with more economy and less job
berry than would have been the case had
the government given them margin. The
testimony TO the honesty and fidelity with
which the trust is exercised is general, and
the time has been favorable TO building on
the cheapest terms. AS most of the stock
has been subscribed as gift or in expecta-
ton OF reward in the way of business, it
would seem TO DO proper, II Congress adj
vances the sum above mentioned, that II
should he with the guarantee of first chance
for a reimbursement out of the receipts
Springfield Republican.
The farmer youths of New Hampshire
may read with surprise, possibly with
amusement, the pdtry figures which were
so important TO The late Vice President of
the United States when he was where they
are now. But the grinding poverty which
the lad endured, the close economy which
he was compelled 10 observe, and the pa
thence with which he could only hope TO
''get on in the world" helped TO make the
man he allerward became. Born in a very
obscure station in life, he must always have
been emphatically one of tue people. To
the day of his death he was thoroughly
identified with all the interests of that great
class which Lincoln called "the p! aiu peo-
pie" Extravaganza and looseness in the
conduct of public afaiis he aOhOrred as he
did the barbarism of slavery. Dish onesty
in politics, aud all that variety Of chicane
which small politicians call "smartness, "
he detested as cordially as he did the petty
WEAKNESSES with which 50 many people
keep up the appearance of being something
which they are not. Driven by an insatiate
thirst for knowledge, he overcame in his
youth such obstacles to securing a meagre
mental culture us would have dismayed
less determined spirits. And all his life he
followed the same habits of industry and
application with which he had conquered
fate.-N. Y. Times.
What is needed is TO set tho tramps at
work. No doubt there is occasionally an
honest and Industrious man who becomes
a tramp because he cannot fiud work. II
would be hard to refuse such man the
temporary relief which lie sorely needs,
but indiscriminate private charity encour-
ages score Of idle Migrants where it re-
leves one real case of suffering. The hon
est tramp will glIdly pay for food aud lodg-
ing by work, and the lazy tramp, who dis
covers that lie can no longer live on chart
ty, will ind the charm Of his profes sion
gone. Let us have, in every town, a relief
committee of the town officials, who will
require iramps 10 work out the full value
Of what they receive. In this way the
tramp nuisance can be speedily abolished,
househOlders can be saved from annoyance
aud danger, while no injustice will be done
to the deserving poor. The experiment
has been tried in many isolated towns, and
has been entirely successful. The uniform
action Oi all the towns in the country, how
ever, is needed before the tramp nuisance
can be finally and eilectually sup 1ressed.-
N. Y. Times.
Henry Wilson's father was the poorest of
New Hampshire county people, u halt va
grant, dissipated, shabby person, and his
son, Jeremiah Goliath, for that was the
name which Henry Wilson bore as boy,
found himself early in the village poor
house, from which he was apprenticed, at
10 years old, TO 4 farmer The Vice Presi-
dent leaves neither family or property his
wife, woman Of sweet nature and delicate
body, died in the last years Of his Senate
rial experience and his only son died ear
ly, amer some service in the war, and an
experience that confirmed the Vice Presi-
dent in his jealous total abstinence prnci-
pies and practice. AS TO pro rerty, he new
or had or sought more than a living from
month TO mon'h.-SPrinGfleH Republican.