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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-29

GOOD ADvIcE.-Two Roman Catholic
prelates have recently given utterance 10
sentiments which while intended for their
fiocks alone are not without value for the
rest OF us. Bishop Hendricken Of Provi-
dence has written letter 10 dlssuade the
Irish among us who are suffering from the
hard times from returning to ireland. His
advice to them is TO stay where they are
and wait for better days, or else "go West"
The Bishop of st John recently addressed
his people on the great good those who have
10 depend on precarious employment for
the means of support would do themselves
and their families II, instead OF clinging to
the cities and towns they would go into the
country and settle on well selected farms.
He described the condition of those in the
towns, sometimes earning good wages but
often out of employment and unable 10
procure the necessaries OF life, crowded in
filthy lanes and alleys, in garrets and eel
lars, working in mills, at the wharves, in
the sewers and trenches, harder than the
farmers ever work, but never attaining an
independence while in many cases their
children, allowed TO run on the streets in
idleness, were destroyed body and soul,
lost to God, to their parents and to society,
or scattered as they grew up, leaving their
parents helpless and comfortless in their
old age. He would not advise any one who
was comfortably settled TO break up his
home, but those who depend on their daily
labor would do infinitely better on good
farms than they can ever do in the city.
They would in few years be Independent.
God would so bless their labors that no
matter what the state of the lumber market
or any other market may be, they
would always have plenty, and what is of
far greater importance, they would see
their children grow up around them en-
gagged in honest industry, far removed
from the vices and temptations of the city.
They should go on the land, occupy and
own il for themselves aud their children.
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BRATTLEBORO, VT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876

ness. The rudest child, brought up by
slovenly and ill-mannered parents learns
in the kindergarten the true basis of polite
ness, the greatest good of the greatest NUM-
Der, and gives away 10 its companions for
its sake.
In the public schools, as n rule, the chill
dren either go home to dinner or bring
their lunch boxes aud eat their contents as
best they can, much as savage gnaws the
bone he snatches from the fire. Let them
go TO kindergarten, and the atmosphere
changes. Each child takes its lunch in n
little basket, and at recess the same table
at which they have played is spread, plate
and cup of water to each child's place,
and tho lunches are eaten as a civilized
lunch should be, at a table, in company,
seasoned with cheerful conversatisn, in-
culcated by example. Tho effect of this,
and other apparently trining features of
the kindergarten, Is that the children who
enter 1t little untaught savages, leave it po-
lite little ladies and gentlemen. They know
how 10 enter and leave a room, how TO
speak to strangers without bashfulness or
forwardness, and specially how to behave
at table, having learned at the most inn
pressionable age.
We have now shown in a brief sketch of
the work of the kindergarten what it does
for the child. 1t does 1t slowly and in the
midst Of variety. The different occupa-
tions alternate with each other daily, and
with the plays. Even the smallest child
begins TO work at folding, stick laying,
drawing, prcking aud modelling, from
the first, beginning with the simplest
forms, and going gradually to the highest,
aud stimulated 10 exercise invention and 10
make things "out Of its own head" The
kindergarten leaves the trained child at
seven skillful little workman, den in
finger and bran-an embryo artist or
sculptor, as its taste dictates, and free to
show the natural bias of Its mind.
The question remains, what advantage
Is all his to the child entering u common
school aud never having seen Il book
Will not the change from the delightful
freedom of The XII ndergarten infallibly dis
gust and dishearten II, and will ii not fall
benin other children who have only re-
ceived homo training?
\ little while ago the answer to these
questions in America could only he made
by assertion and probability. The present
year has furnished very decisive reply,
overwhelming in favor of the kindergar-
ten.-THe GALAXY for October.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-29

A VISIT TO BETHANY.-We went on over
the hill TO Bethany; we had climbed up by
the path on which David fed from Absa-
lom, and we were TO return by the road of
the Triumphal Entry. All along the ridge
we enjoyed a magnificent panorama; a
blue piece of the Dead Sci, the Jordan plain
extending far up towards Hermon with the
green ribbon of the river winding through
it, and the long, even range of the Moab
hills, blue in the distance. The prospect
was almost Swiss in lis character, but it is
mass OF bare hills, with scarcely a tree
except in the immediate foreground, and
so naked and desolate as TO make the heart
ache II would be entirely desoisle but for
the deep blue OF the sky and an atmosphere
that baihes all the great sweep of peaks
and plains in color.
Bethany is a squalid hamlet clinging 10
the rocky hillside, with only one redeem-
ing feature about 1.-THE prospect. \ few
wretched one story huts of stone, and a
miserable handful of Moslems, occupy this
f3vorite home aud resting place Of our
Lord. Close at hand, by the roadside, cut
in the rock and reached by steep descent
oftwenty-six steps, is the damp and doubt
ful tomb OF Lazarus, down into which any
one may go for half franc paid to the
Moslem guardian. The house of Mary and
Martha is exhibited among the big rocks
and fragments Of walls; upon older foun-
datons loose walls are laid, rudely and re-
Gently patched up with cut stones in frag-
ments and pieces of Roman columns. The
house OF Simon the leper, overlooking the
whole, is a mere heap of ruins. 1t does
not matter, however, that all these dwell
ings are modern; this is Bethany, and
when we get away from its present wretch
ed ness we remember only that we have
seen the very place that Christ loved.
We returned along the highway of the
Entry slowly, to identify the points Of that
memorable progress, up to the crest where
Jerusalem broke upon The sight OF the
Lord, and whence the procession, coming
round the curve of the hill, would have the
full view of the city. He who rides that
way to-day has grand prospect. One finds
Jerusalem most poetic when seen from
olivet, and Olivet most lovely when seen
from the distance of the city walls Charles
Dudley Warner; October Atlantic.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-29

THE DEPTH OF MINING SHAFTs.-Twen-
~ years ago the deepest mining shafts in
the world reached only about 1000 feet be-
low the surface. The very deepest, we be-
lieve, was a metalliferous mine in Hano-
yer, which had been carried down to the
depth of 229O feet. The deepest perpendlc-
ulsr shaft to-day, is the Adelbert SHAFT in
silver-lead mine in Prizibram, in Bohe-
mia, which has re ehed depth Of $3.50 feet.
The attainment of that depth was made
the occasion of a three days festival, and
still further noticed by the striking off of a
large number of commemorative silver
medals of the value of fiorin each. There
is no record of the beginning of work on
this mine, although its written history
goes back TO 1927. An elegant commemo-
rative volume has been written and print
ed, which is most interesting to those that
have taste for either the actualities or an
tiquities OF mining industry. There are
two other localities, however, where a
greater depth has been reached than at the
Adelbert shaft, but not in perpendicular
line. These are: l. The Rocksalt bore
hole near Sperenberg, not far from Berlin,
which few years ago had been bored to a
depth of 4l75 feet; 2. The coal mines of
Vivlers Remus, in Belgium, where the
miners, by shaft sinking, together with
boring, have reached total depth of 3542
feet. Turning from these two mines, no
shaft in unbroken perpendicular line has
yet exceeded the depth of $3.50 feet. The
deepest bore hole in the world Is the arte-
sian spring at Potsdam, in Missouri, which
reaches depth OF $500 feet.-BdHimore
American.
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kindergarten. and Common schools.

AAAnuerBarten1 ana common bchOOln'
This II is-the occupations" Dork
oft kin dergarten, that distinguishes it
from the purely mental training given In
the primary schools to young children. 1t
teaches them from The first the dignity of
labor; from the first they do things for
themselves, and rejoice in their work.
Not alone the head, but the hand, has been
trained. But the kindergarten does not
stop here. 1t educates the heart also. IN
the common schools the children rise from
class to class, silence being the infiexible
rule, each child working for ITSELF In the
kindergarten the little artists work like
grown men and women, happy and alb
sorbed in their work, but ready to help
neighbor, to drop casual remarks, even to
sing at their work. Besides this, the SOC
cupations" never last long. They are al
ternated with "games," which are really
calisthenics and object lessons In disguise.
In all these children and teacher are to-
gether, associating freely, politeness and
kindness constantly inculcated, and the
golden rule of society enforced by exam
pie. The kindergarten has but one pun
ishment, but that is all sufficient. The
sulky, selfish, and disobedient child is
doomed to idleness, sent away from his
comrades, and not allowed TO play with
them or work with them. This method
has never been known to fail in reforma-
tlon. The philosophical reader who has
followed us through the general features of
the system, will have doubtless perceived
ere this that the gifts and work are found
cd on the constitution Of the human mind.
The discipline is founded on the laws Of
human society, which constitute It's hapPl-
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Miscellany.


"Business" I'm NHissiasiPpi.
why howd'y, Mahs'r johnny Is you gone to keepin
store7
we sah is surprised neber heared OBJ dat afore.
Say, alnr you gwne to glib piece o. good tobacco,
pleasef
rs long wild you in Georgia. time all refugees.
know'd you would; alluI tells de people, white an
black,
Dat you's a raa gen1'man and dat's de libin' fac
Yes, sah dats what tells 'em, an it's nunhin' else
but true,
An all de cullud people thinks mighty heap oh you.
Yes, you do;
Deres oder parties wants IT, but I'd raider sell to you.
How much oh, jes bale-dAt on de wagon in de
Dis heah's de sample-dis is cotton mighty hard to
beatI
You'll hn it on paper wha. de offers is dats made;
Days all de seditons; half in cash and half in
trade
Deys mighty low, sah-eome now, can't you prove
upon de rates
Dat Burrot Brudders offers; only twelb and seben-
eights7
Lord Mahsr Johnny, raise III Don't you knows dat
rs a frien,
Ah Nheh mas ue inohegi Is NlllhB iOI
My customs wuf heap, sab jes you buy de bale
an see
Dere didn't ntbber nobody lose nufin' of o. me.
Now, what's de good OBJ gwine dare an a-Eamnin' de
bale7
When people trades wild me, dey alluz gifts a homes
sale;
amt han for cheatiA'; beliebes in actin far,
An ebrybody1 tell you dat dey AlluE foun squAr.
I isn't like some niggers; declar' II is a shame
De way some OBJ 'em swindles-whAt7 de cotton Amt
de same
As dis dats in de sampler Well, I'm blest sab II iiH
Did he Ah must be my brudder's sampe-yes, sab, dis
is his.
II dat don't beat crOaton Here I've been totin'
A sample different from de cotton! I-vill-be-con-
foundl
Mahs'r Johnny, you mus Take de cotton
as 1t stan's
And tell you're willin for to take 1t OF my hans.
sho! neber min de Auger! faint bit o. to bore
tore;
You hint to go pullin' oh de cotton dat a way,
1t spiles de beauty OBJ de-whAt sab rocks dA you
sayf
Rocks in dat ar cottOnH How de debbil kin dat beH
l packed dat bale mysel-hor a minnit, le me
Ny stars! mus be craIyi Mahs'r Johnny dis is
hnei
rs gone an hauled my brudders cotton In instead OBJ
mine! augusta tGA) Chronicle.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-29

WILLIAMS COLLEGE is located in little
village in the northwest corner of Massa-
chusetts which has no foreign trade or
commerce, but is simply just what the col
lege has made it, aud here we have their
report; Graduates, two thousand three
hundred and ninety Of this number thirty
have been members of Congress, eight gov
ernors, FIVE U. s. senators, sixteen judges
of supreme court, thirty-two presidents of
colleges, firty-seven professors In colleges,
eight hundred and ninety-four ministers OF
the gospel; and when to this We add the
fact that here Judson and his associates
wero educated, aud in this college our for
eign missions had their rise, surely they
have record Of which they need not DO
ashamed,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-29

Two great undertakings are now Gu
pying the minds Of European savants and
capitalists. The first, the tunnelling of the
English channel, was proposed by NJ.
Thome de Gamaud, since deceased, who in
1867 exhibited model at the Paris Expo
stion. In 1872 the Channel Tunnel Com
pany Limited was founded 10 establish
railroad communication between France
and England and preparatory shafts aud
galleries are now being excavated at Dover
and Calais. The geological surveys have
resulted in the discovery that homogene-
Gus chalk, Eve hundred feet deep, lies on
either shore below high-waIer mark and,
as the maximum depth along the line pro-
posed nowhere exceeds one hundred and
eighty feet, II is proposed 10 excavale the
tunnel at least two hundred feet below the
bottom of The sea. 1t is estimated that
drift-way, nine feet in diameter, can be
finished in two years, al a cost of 9sOO, 900
aud that four years more, and "a, 900, 900
sterling will complete the work. II is now
almost certain that this stupendous under
taking will be carried out.
Two years ago, Capt. Rondaise, of the
French staff in Algeria, received from tho
national assembly grant of ten thousand
francs, to enable him to make prelimina-
ry survey Of tho Desert of Sahara, with
view of letting the waters of the Mediter-
ranean into its barren depression; for the
traveller Barth estimates its level below
high-water mark at little less than two
hundred feet. Rpndaise has reported a
feasible route for a canal, at a cost of 90
100000 francs. Mr.. Donald Mckenzie, a
Scotchman, advocates an outlet by way of
the little river Bella, which emptes into
the Atlantic nearly opposite the Canary
Islands, on the northwest coast.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-29

IfGovernor Tilden has anything TO say
about that income tax business he had bet
ter say 1t. A good many people have caught
at the charge and believed it without wait
ing for proof. There is strong EriDla yfacie
case against the Governor, and If he can
not explain 1t he is not The man for Presi-
dent. Governor Hayes has met the charge
and crushed it. Tilden can do no less If he
wishes TO stand well with his countrymen.
--DOstOR Herald lad. DemOcratiel
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-29

-"I don't see how you can have been
working al day like horse" exclaimed
the wife of lawyer, her husband having
declared that he had been thus working.
swell, my dear" he replied. ~ have been
drawing conveyance all day, anyhow"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-29
COLLINS
VOLTAIC
?LASTERS.

For Local Pains, Lsmeness, Soreness, Weakness,
Numbness, and Inflammation of the Lungs, Liver,
Kidneys Spleen, Bowels, Bladder, Heart, and Mus
cles, are equal to army Of doctors and acres Of
plants and shrubG.
Price 25 cents. Sold by all druggists. Mailed on
receipt Of price, rs cents for one 81 6 for siI or
81 IS twelve carefully wrapped and warranted, by
WEEKS POTTER, Proprietors, Boston, Mass.
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COLLINS 60
VOLTAIC
PLASTERS.

A Electro-Galvanic Battery. combined with the
n celebrated MedicAted Porous Plaster, forming
the grandest curative agent in the world OF medicine
and utterly SURPRISING all other pasters heretofore In
use. They accomplish more in one week than the old
plasters in whole year. They do not palliAte, they
CURF.
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BRATTLEBORO
IS uatMtss Dttfrtntp.

Name, business and Location ofthe leading
business Houses in Brdtleboro.
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Agricultural implements.

sVcur THIS OUT FOR REVERENCE.
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

TT appparilg from the allegations in com.
plai6ants b,ll that Andrew Couch and
The heirs at law Of Henderson Couch,
decd, are non residents of the State Of
Tennessee, it is therefore ordered that
publication be made, FOR four successive
weeks, in The UNION A.YD AMERICAN, a
newspaper published in the town OF
Greeneville, Tennessee, notifying said non
resident defendants to appear at our
County Court to be held for the County
of Greene. at the Courthouse, in Greene.
vile, on the list Monday in February next,
to plead, answer or demur to said bill, OF
the same will be taken for confessed and
the, cause as to them set for hearing en-
pdrfe. We MALONEf, w.
Jan. 9th, 1876.
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

Green Click, Admir-, DC, of John Click,
decd VS.. Henry Click ct. ais.
Petition to sell land to pay debts.
TT appears from the petitions filed in this
case that Levi d. Click, one Of the heirs
at law of the said John Click, decd, is
a nonresident Of the State Of Tennessee
and resident of the State Of Illinois. 1t
is therefore ordered that publication be
made, for four successive weeks, in The
UNION AND AMERICAN, notifying said non
resident defendant TO appear before the
Worshipful County Court, to be held for
the County of Greene, at the Court hou'e,
in G~reeneville, on the LIST Monday IN Feb
ruary next, to plead, answer Or demur to
said petition, or the same will be taken
for confessed and this case set for ! caring,
as to him, eI.parte.
V. S. MALONEY, @. G. G.
January 9th, 1875.
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06

We bad the pleasure Of seeing
the Christmas tree around which
the family of Mr.. JOS. r. Brown
gathered at his elegant home, on
"Alansion Hill" last Friday eve
The tree was beautifully and appro-
priately decked . Pendant from it
were many presents for old and
young--for the grahd-sire and for
the toddlrng grand child while
around it were clustered numerous
gifts too weighty for the frail cedar
boughs. 1t was n charming picture
which will not soon fade from our
memory.
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LAND SALE.

w. G. Willis, Admir- VS.. Nacky Holtsinger
ct. ais.
Petition to sell land to pay debts, and for
distribution.
TN obedience to decree Of the Worship.
iul County Court, of Greene County,
pronounced at the January session. 1876,
in the above named case, | will proceed,
on the Sth day Of February next, at the
Court. house door, in the town Of Greene
vile, to sell, at public auction, to the
highest bidder, the real estate belonging to
the estate Of John p. Holtsinger, decd.
Terms OF SALE; One third cash in hand,
the balance in equal installments Of Twelve
and eighteen months, bearing i4terest ct
6 per cent. from day Of sale. Notes with
approved security will he required, and,
the better to secure the purchase money,
lien will be retained upon said land.
Said lands consist Of two several tracts,
lying and being in Greene County, Tenn,
Civil District No. 10 Of said county. One
containing II acres, more or less, in ! mile
Of the town OF Greeneville-adjoining the
lands Of j. b Dubson, D. 3. Patton and
the land belonging to the heirs Of James
Wilson. decd On which there is n toler-
ably good dwelling house. out houses, and
good Nater. The other tract in the same
Civil District. containing 1870 acres, more
or less-adjoining the lands Of John Mar.
shall. WIN. McAmis, Robert iller and
others Said land is well %limb}red, good
spring, fnc orchard and land ia good state
Of cultivation. W. G, WILLS,
admir- and Special Commissioner.
January 9th, 1876.
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T7or the Union and American.
RUH1MAH GRANGE---ELECTIOH
OF OFFICERS ron 1876.

Ruhamah Grange, ~. 697, met
Oh Thursday, December 3Oth, 1875,
and elected their officers for 1876,
as follows: Geo. L. Kenney, Worthy
Master S. J. Smith, Overseer f; Ed
win Wiener, Lecturer; AuIden
Tucker, Steward; J. b. Justis, A.
Steward A. H. Jones, Chaplain:
Wiley Campbell, Treasurer; j. X.
P. Sayler, Secretary; James Will
liams, Gate Keeper Miss Hannah
Sayler, Ceres Miss E. A. Jeffers,
Pomona; Miss Maggie Sayler,
Flora Miss Jodie H. Carter, Lady
Assistant Secretary.
The officers will be publicly in
stalled at l o'clock, p. NJ, on Sat
urday, January Doth, 1876. All
Patrons and friends of the Order
are cordially invited to attend on
that day and witness the ceremo-
MES. j. K. P. SAYLER, Sec'y.
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Dec. 9th. 1875.

IN obedience to an order of sale, issued
L from the Circuit Court of Greene Co.,
and to me directed, | vii sell for cash in
hand, at the Courthouse door, in Greene
vile, on Saturday, the 10Th day of Janu-
ary, 1876, all the right, title and claim
that George Click has in a tract of land ~
ing in Civil District No. !, Greene county,
Tennessee, containing 100 acres, more or
less, adjoining the lands of Jerry without,
Greene Click and OF ers--levied on as the
property of George Click, to satisfy a judg-
ment and cost that J L. II. Harris, admir-
of O. H. Click, decd, recovered against
him before G. s. S%entell, Esq, on the 9th
day of December, 1878.
WIN. S. WHITE, Sheriff.
Dec. 9th, 1875.
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Land Sales.

Tx obedience to an order Of sale, issued
i from the Circuit Court Of Greene CO.,
and to me directed. | will sell. for cash in
hand, at the Courthouse door, y Greene
vile. on Saturday, the ls'b day Of Janu.
ary, 1915, all the right. title aud claim
that George McAmis has in a tract Of land
lying in Civil District No. u. Greene Co.,
Tennessee. contaiDing 30 acres, more or
less. ado ming the lands Of Vim Ross and
others-levied on as the property Of Geo.
McAmis, 10 satisfy a judgment and cost
that Vim McAmis recovered against hin.
before John Kidwell, Esq, on the Slstday
Of January, 1874.
WM. s. WHITE, Sheriff.
Dec. 9th, 1878.
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06

TN obedience to an order of sale, issued
Il from the Circuit Court of Greene Co +,
and to me directed, l will sell, for cash in
hand at the Court hoase door, in Greene
vile, on SATURDAY. J, the 10Th day of Janu.
airy, 1876, all the right, title and claim
that S. S. NJ. Doak has in a tract of land
lying in Civil District No. %, Greene Co.,
Tennessee, containing 80 acres, more or
less, adjoining the lands of Henry Miller,
w. Brooks and others-levied on as the
property Of S. S. VI. Doak, to satisfy n
Judgment and cost that VIM. il. Mccoy
recovered against him before Vim. Jen-
nings, Esq, on the 4th day of Nov, 1871.
WIN. 5. WHITE, Sheriff.
Dec, 9th. 1875.
Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06
Dec. 9th, 1875.

TN obedience to an order Of sale, issued
Il from the Circuit Court of Greene Co 4,
and to mo directed, | will sell, for cash in
hand, at the Courthouse door, in Greene.
vile. on Saturday, the 10Th day of Janu
airy, 1876, all the right, title and claim
that Adolphus Easterly has in an undivided
tract of land of Susan Easterly, lying in
Civil District No. 8, Greene county, Tenn,
adjoining the lands of James Alexander,
James Taylor and others-levied on as
the property of Adolphus Easterly, to sa :.
isfy a Judgment and cost that A. j Nease
recovered against him before Jacob
Keicher, Esq. on the 2sth day of Nov,
1874. WIN. S. WHITE, Sheriff.
Dec, 9th, 1873.