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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
The Prophs.'. Birthday.

How the followers of Mohammed cele-
brated their prophets natal day, is thus
pictured by the Alexandria correspondent
of the London Times, writing on the last
day of March:
last week was given up to religious
feslivity by the Mohammedan world. II
was the occasion of the Moolid-en-Nebbee,
or birthday festival of the Prophet, and CO.
incides with the return of the pilgrims
from Mecca. The mosques are full OF wor-
shippers, aud crowds perform Zikro,
kind of prayer in unison, which is offered
up by a large company, seated cross-legged,
who cry aloud that there Is no Deity but
God, and swing their bodies rapidly back
wards and forwards as they shout, until
they become so excited by the motion that
the allt erative sentence they utter-la
Nah, Nah la becomes merged in fierce
howl. The pilgrims spread their merchan-
die out for sale in the public spaces, and
they and their friends take their pleasure
| on swings and whirliglgs, and sip and
smoke in the coffee houses. Tents are put
up, when coffee and pipes so on all day
long, and story-tellers relate never-ending
love stories, encouraged by frequent
1
"Yah" of lazy enjoyment from the audi
ence. Punch has found his way to Egypt,
and the Arabs intensely enjoy the apotheo-
sis of marital power, while their prejudices
are respected by the yelling of Judy's face
after the strictest fashion of the harem. The
whole festivity eliminates in The 'Doseh,
the 'treadlng,' when the Sheikh of the Saa-
deeyah dervshes rides over the PROSTATE
bodies of the faithful. 1t is still State GER
emony. The Princes aud Ministers all at
tend, the representatives. OF European pow
ers with their wives go 10 see il; tourists
crowd TO Cairo for the occasion, as they
would for an Easter ceremony at Jerusa-
lem, or a mystery play in Bavaria. Yet 1t
is almost as degrading a sight as the pro-
cession of the Juggernaut car ITSELF
Some 200 or 800 men of the Saadeeyah
sect, the peculiarity of whose religion is
that they eat serpents and hack themselves
with knives by way of pleasing Allah and
his Prophet, voluntarily lay themselves on
the ground in order that their Sheikh may
pass over them on horseback, thus treadinG
on their sins aud preparing them for Para
disc. They prime themselves with hash
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
BRATTLEBORO, VT. FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1877.

eeSh, a strong narcotic, made from hemp,
with much the effect of opium, aud then
are arranged by skilled packers, face
downwards, so as TO present compact un-
broken surface for the horse to pass over.
If the packers find flaw In their arrange
ments, they seize man from the crowd
and jam him in to fill the gap, and II would
be declaration of rank heresy to say them
nay. Vast crow DIS of natives assemble to
see the sight; the Sheikh in all his robes
appears, two men guide the horse, who, by
his hesitatng, delicate tread, alone seems
to feel the shame and scandal Of the pro-
ceedlng. As he progresses, the men scran-
BILE up Gs best they can, mostly with no ap-
parent hurt, but some hardly able to move,
and a few carried away in fits. 1t is alto
gether a degrading spectacle, and unwor-
thy OF county that claims TO rank with
civilized nations. It's sole effect is 10 keep
alive lanaticism, and this year an English
man was set upon and beaten by Arabs,
who would not raise a finger against a
stranger at any other time Of the year. The
Khedive is said to disapprove, and never
goes, but the attendance of the Princes and
digntaries still gives this scene the impor-
tance of a State ceremony. As they drive
up in their broughams, perfect Europeans
in speech and dress, one feels how much
this is a country of contradictions"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01

EARNEST WoRKERs.-A medical man
who gives dreary round of the old pre-
scriplions he learned at college leads very
different life from one who takes an inter-
est in each case, and is all the time coming
closer to his fellow-nan. submit that
ten years of real, earnest, active life are
thousand times better than twenty years of
a sleepy, torpid existence. A lawyer who
lives as a dead man among dead forms,
never looking at law except so much as is
necessary from day to day, does not know
how wise and noble he may become by a
keen and studious interest in the great un-
derlying principles of law as the root of
liberty. A merchant who works by prices
current and daily markets, never looking
into the laws of supply and demand, lead
ing duh monotonous existence, is poor
thing. Let him look into and study the
great principles which regulate commerce,
by which all the world is feeding and
clothing all the world, and then he will
cease to be like ferry-boat, which makes
so many trips and carries so many passen-
gers and collects so many fares, and be-
come an intelligent agent and man. Some
men in the ministry give out annually so
many sermons, embodying that which they
learned at college, and do just as little as
they can in attending lectures and prayer
meetings, and lead a pitiab!e, eontempti-
BILE life, instead of carrying truth to all the
hungry souls they can reach, and so do an
angels work.-Rev. DR.. John Hail.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01

PAINLESS DEATH.-In a recent holiday
lecture at the Royal Institution, Prof. Tyn-
dali, speaking of the painless death by cleo
triclty, remarked that Franklin was twice
struck senseless by the shock. He afler-
wards sent the discharge of two large jars
through six robust men, who fell to the
ground and got up again without knowing
what had happened, neither hearing nor
feeling the discharge; and Priestly, too,
who made many valuable contributions TO
electricity, received the charge oftwo jars,
but did not find it painful. Prof. Tyndall
said this experience agreed with his own;
that, in the theater of The Royal Institution,
and In the presence OF an audience, he once
received the discharge OF battery Of 10
Leyden jars. Unlike Franktin's six men
he did not fall, but, like them, he felt moth
ing he was simply extinguished for sem
sble interval. This may be regarded as an
experimental proof that people killed BY
lightning suffer no pain. Now, the meas
ured velocity of electricity is many thous-
and times greater than the measured veloc-
ity of sensation In the nerves. Hence the
electrical conclusion reaches the center OF
life, without any possible announcement
by the eve or ear or sense Of feeling. There
is abundant evidence that death by rifle
ball traversing the brain is for the same
reason entirely without consciousness or
pain. A rife ball, however, is tortoise
compared with the electric fash.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01

Mr.. GEORGE S. PARK, native Of Graf
ton, VT, the founder of Parkville, Mo-,
where in the old slavery contest his news
paper office was once mobbed and his press
thrown into the Missouri river, and now a
resident of Illinois, proposes to found col
lege for the education and training of Chris
tian workers In Parkville. He has taken
counsel of his brethren, the ministers and
elders, TO sustain him in such an effort, and
offers to give one hundred acres of land
and the buildings thereon in Parkville, the
present valuation of which is probably
twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars, al
though costing nearly twice this sum. UP
ON a high bluff overlooking the river and
the surrounding country for many miles,
Is the proposed site for the college build
ings. In addition to the property mention
ed, Mr.. Park proposes to endow one or two
or more professorships as the work pro-
gresses. At the present time he Is giving
literally of his means TO meet the expen-
ses of maintaining the school, which Is In
charge at present of tho Rev. Mr.. McAfee.
The generous thought of Mr.. Park has been
responded to, and preparations are now
making 10 establish firmly the institution
which he so literally alded.--Ruttdad Her
aid.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
Bar,hoIdr. Colossal Liberty

In AN article entitled "France TO Amer
ica," in Scrbuer for June, occurs the fol-
lowing description Of Bartholdrs Colossal
"Liberty," which is to stand in the barbor
of New York:
Allowing twenty feet for the height of
the island above the water, the pedestal is
TO he one hundred and ten feet high, and the
statue to The flame Of the torch, one hum
dred and forty-hve. This makes the torch
at least two hundred aud seventy-hve feet
above the level of the bay. 1t will equal
in height the column in the Place Vendome
at Paris, and will be larger than the colos-
sus of Rhodes, so much celebrated by antq-
uty. Like that statue it will have to be
cast in pieces of manageable size, and built
up much after the manner Of an armored
frigate. The construction will be curious
piece of engineering skill, for which the
sculptor and Mr.. de Stuckle will be re-
sponsible. At night it is proposed that
halo Of Jets OF light shall rsdiate from the
temples Of the enormous goddess, and per-
haps the flame of the torch may be fash
ioned in crystal, in order that it may catch
the light of the sun by day, and at night
form glowing object illuminated by cleo
tricity.
In respect to the pose of the statue, that
has been calculated with care. \ Liberty
would have to be drsped, even if drsped
statue were not advisable in a climate so
cold as ours, where nude figures suggest
extreme discomfort. But NJ. Bartholdi has
also used his drapery TO give a tower-like
and therefore solid look to his loily woman
without forgetting the necessity for variety
in the upward lines. Or perhaps it would
be better 10 say that he has followed the
laws of stability 10 be seen in the trunks OF
trees, which are very broad at The ground,
where the roots are indicated, yet by nc
means OF one monotonous breadth from
the root to the branches.
| She will stand so as to suggest that the
stongest hurricane could never bulge her
| from the pedestal she has chosen. Her ges-
ture is meant TO call the attention of the
most distant person, and, moreover, TO lei
him know Enthusiastically what the figure
means. For in this statue, also, NJ. Bar
thOldi has applied his science TO fine etfec
in getting the figure outlined against the
sky, while the energetic attitude has not in
terlered with a certain diGnitied repose
which inheres in the resting position ant
which may be owning TO the weight of tht
body being throws on The lett leg, as wei
as TO the grave folds Of ample drapery.
Even a stranger approaching from the Mar
ows should not know at once what she is
holding up for him 10 see, The energy o
her action will awaken his curiosity, anC
the dignity OF it will make him await 1
nearer approach with confidence. Wher
he can make out the tablets of the Law
which jut from her lett side as they rest OIL
her beut arm, and the flaming torch which
she holds high up above her head, while
her eyes are fixed on the horizon, he viii
be duh indeed if he does not understand
| what she wishes to tell.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01

We translate from German sketch OF
American travel the subjoined account Of
an incident alleged to have occurred on
Mississippi steamboat II short time before
the war,
~ ascended the Mississippi" says the
writer, ION a steamer ON board of which
were Judge ] - aud General X -, OF
Pennsylvania, with both OF whom l was
slightly acquainted.
"'A hard set, these Natchez men, said
the captain, who met us on the cabin-stsirs.
There's some of them down in the saloon
playing high game. How men can be
such fools, could never see!
"'Lers go down and look on awhile,
suggested the judge.
"In the saloon we found four men seated
at table, around which crowd of specta-
tors was gathered. The four were the
heavy players
"The game was poker, and the money
changed hands rapidly. We had not been
looking on long, when one of the players,
a middle-aged man, who l learned was
cotton planter, bet his last dollar against
the hand of one of his antagonists. The
latter showed four kings, while he had on
| ly four queens. He was cleaned out and
rose a though he we're going to leave the
table.
"'Are you broke, colonelH' asked one of
the men.
"'Deadr was the laconic reply.
"'Never mind; I'll lend you
"'No; can make a raise, reckon.-
Here, Pompr
"'Here, NASSAU responded an old negro,
as he emerged from one corner of tho sa-
loon.
"'Bring that girl and her youngster here,
that bought in Natchez.-Wait a few min
utes, gentlemen. I'll raise some money
"The old negro went on his errand and
soon returned with the girl and her young
ster. The girl proved TO be stately mulat-
to woman about thirty-five years old. Her
'youngster' was a fine, intelligent-looking
boy eleven or twelve years old, whose COM
plexion showed him to be much more near
ly allied TO the white race than TO the black.
"Here, gentlemen, said the planter, as
they entered, you see this girl and her boy
two as fine niggers as you can find any
where. l paid eight hundred dollars fol
them yesterday in Natchez. Who will give
me six hundred for themT
"'Wm you sell them separator asked
some one.
"'No, can't do 1t 1 promised not to
The girl swears she'll take her life If she's
separated from her boy, and her old mas
ter said that he was sure she'd keep hei
word. But don't you all see that the gir
is worth more money than ask for boil
of themY Come, who'll give me six hun
dred for bothf
"The planter waited moment for re
ply, and then said:
"'Well, must have some money. Come
J what say you to rafiie-thirty chances
twenty dollars a chancef Out with you
cash, gentlemen. The first on the list ha
the first throwP
"ThIs proposition created decided sti
! among all present. The three players =
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01

A BLACK HILLS correspondent of the
New York Sun gives an exhaustive review
of the gold dggings in that far famed re-
gion. From statistics obtained directly
from the miners it is computed that the to-
tai yield of the hills last year was two and
one-half million of dollars, four-fiflhs Of
which was taken from Deadwood and It's
tributaries. Competent persons estimate
that the yield the present season will reach
twenty five millions. In view ofthe fact that
ore to the estimated value of $500, 900 Is now
in plain sight in single tunnel, this pre-
diction cannot he pronoun ,ed extravagant.
Deadwood is the Bonanza of the Black
Hills. 1t paid immensely last season, and
is yielding larger returns at present. or
course, every foot of ground is taken and
held at most exorbilant prices, from SIS, 900
TO $50, 900 teing the ruling figures. Discov-
cry claim is owned by Messrs Allen, Flah-
erty & Co., who, not long ago, declined an
offer of $40, 900 for one-fifth interest. They
recently cleared up $1,000 at the close Of a
ten-hours' run. Adjoining it is the Wheel
er claim, which yielded s97 900 last season,
was then sold for $1,000, and is now pro-
duclng from $500 to $500 per day. fair av-
erage for the mines throughout the district.
The largest nugget found in, this district
weighed seven ounces. 1t was discovered
by the purest accident. Two penniless
prospectors, colored men, who had been
crowded out of Deadwood, were working
their way across the country. overtaken
by storm, they took refuge beneath the
roots of an overturned tree, where, while
gazing listlessly around, one of them dis
covered The nugget sticking to lump of
clay to a root hanging over his head. A
prospect hole was dug there and then, and
a pocket found that netted the negroes S2O,-
900 for the seasons work.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
The Deserted House.

A SONNET.
There by the roadside stands the queer old house.
Deserted II has been for many years;
And when enters FIRST one has strange fears
OF what may be inside. But not mouse
Raises its tiny head, or hides afraid
And the sole sound through the deep stiffness heard
Is the shr chirping Of a mo.her-bird,
Who right above the door her nest has made.
while through bare, lonely rooms my way wend,
feel kind Of pity for the thing,
Left thus alone, like to some fallen king,
Deserted both by enemy and friend.
But LIE is short so gently close the gate,
And leave the house TO mercy and to fate.
Nv. H. st. Nicholas for June.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
Miscellany.
FoR The VERMONT PHDNIx.
Beauty in Death.

FoR The VERMONT PHGNIx.
Beauty in Death.
Beauty in DEATH It no idle dream,
No phantom formed Of mingled hope and fear,
No glancing sunlight on a wintry stream,
But bright ray descending full and clear.
90 to yon chambers conseorated meeting,
Where the lost life has last word TO Eay
Where many flowers breathe round peaceful greeting,
And the soul speaks from out the lieless clay.
Beauty IN deathl 1t wears the crown aupernal
or all the loveliness that earth can knows
1t is to hear the rush Of things eternal,
Bearing us with them in their glorious flow
Yes, she is speakingl Come and look upon her.
Come, bear away the message Of her face.
Yes she is speaking though the skies have won her,
Turningto earth from her celestial place.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
If You Have q Sick Horse, 2ss gss

viii do more for him thSn Is cents spent In spy other
way. TRY THEM; they will give sAtiSfaction. Made
and sold. wholesale and retail. BY l. N. THORN
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
NO.22.

men who have themselves scarcely MASTER
ed the rudiments of education. Country
schools are kept up, as rule, only three or
four months in the year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
A II
.C.F. THOMPSON
& CONPANY'S.
ClE'S PHOSPHATE.

We sell the genuine f. FRANK GOES Phosphate
and II can be obtained no where else in town. All
Goes Phosphates sold by any other parties in thi
town entirely different from the "Coe's Phoa-
phate" which have sold for many years and which
has gained an excellent reputation.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01

IL w. sTODDARD,
1s .fffOrney y Counsellor at LnN,
And Solicitor Of Patents,
BRATTLEpoRo, VT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01

A ID. PUTNAM, Dentist,
IA Crosby Block, BRATTLEBoRo, VT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01

" J.CARPENTER, Market Block, Elliot st.
IL. Dealer in Toys, Fancy Goods, Books Stationery,
Newspapers Magazines and Periodicals. Subscriptions
received for the principal Newspapers and Magazines
and forwarded by mail or otherwise.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
BUSINESS CARDS.

MARTIN l.. BRUCE, M. h.,
wi PhgSicion and Surgeon.
Once with DR.. Holton, corner Main and Walnut SITS
BRArTLEBoRo, VT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
FLOUR 3 GROCERIES,

Our usual stock Of Choice Michigan and st. Louis
Flour. Also, full line Of Teas, Cohees, Sugars,
Spices, and other fine groceries.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
Hnm61n nW0Rnm wehave the best Force
EVW'H Uu MuV Pump for washing win
VHVIuR IuWNI n dows and carriages in
UAOA I UY4k Us the market.

n n THPN We keep the celebrated Auburn
m w\ Cross-cut Saws.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-06-01
Land PLASTER ;:!::; T: Ct a.! !: H. e
DNDE PERUVIAN GUANO,
And PURE PACIFIC eUANo, in quantities to suit.
LAWN MOWERS s; 4; +; E: ::::; ~: g:

lntendents OF the CentennaI Ground IN their report
said: "The Phiadelphia side by side with
machines Of the othLr makes, but in a short time the
difference great that when wanted more
machines procured the Philadelphia, and after the
first Of August the difference great that
used the Philadelphia almost entirely"
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-04-14
THE WIDE. WIDE WORLD.

Robson says that Philadelphia navy
yard money is all right.
New York city has paid $226,711 to
lawyers i'm the ring suits.
The citizens of this republic used 49,
100000 postal cards in 1876.
Gen. M. G.. Butler, or South Carolina,
will most certainly press his claims rs
United States Senator.
Senator Thurman is father -in-law Of
Richard Mccormick, the new Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
They are trying Altman again for the
robbery of that $47 900 package from the
cash-rOom of the Treasury,
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says that it
takes one third of the taxes OF Cleveland
to pay the interest on the city debt,
New York city has paid $2O5, 1S9 to its
SheriffS in the last ten years, anu their
unsettled claims against it amount to
$S17,050 more.
The Illinois Legislature is considering
bill for the purchase of statues of Lin
coin and Douglass, to cost $4,000 each,
for the state capitol. -..
Anna Dickinson has written new
play in which she will appear some day.
She declines to say anything about it,
save that it is society play.
Spotted Tail, Crazy Horse and ninety
of their warriors are on their way to the
SpOtten Tail agency to accept the terms
of peace. Sitting Bull still holds out,
but has but few warriors.
The New York Methodist preachers
have been discussing the itenerancy. and
one of them expresses himself in favor
| of compelling a minister who talks a
| congregation into debt tor costly
church to stay until it is paid.
The committee of the New England
Methodist conference, to which the pOlit-
| zeal resolutions cOndemning Hay eS
southern policy were referred, reported
yesterday substitute extending sym.
pathy to Hayes administration.
The President is reported as having re-
Gently stated TO several friends that the
BristOw officials i'm various parts of the
country who were removed from office
simply because they favored BrlstOw and
reform, will at the earliest convenient Op.
pOrtunity be reinstated in their old places
OF given other places equally good.
| Inc secretary OF the navy announces
that he has not money TO pay his officers
for April, May and June. and he will u>t
what money he has for the payment OF
the allotments of the wives of officers
and sailors whose husbands are abroad
The deficiency for the three months will
be about three-fOurths of Il million.
Packard has written an open letter tc
the President, presenting the Louisiana
case from his stand point, calling on the
President Tor help and asking that the
investigation by the commission be moi
confined TO the narrow inquiry of how
Nichols can be sustained and Packard
starved to death for lack of money tC
support his government, but that thu
commission be instructed to examine
which government in that state was chO
sen by Il majority of the people under
the constitution and laws.