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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-04
which Loved Bestf

~ love you, mother" said little John;
Then, forgetting his work, his cap went on,
And he was Of to the garden swing,
And left her wood and water to bring.
~ love you, mother" said Rosy Nell;
''I love you better than tongue can tell"
Then she teased and pouted full half the day,
Till her mother rejoiced when she went to plal
"I love you, mother" said little Fan;
To-day III help you all can;
How glad am that school doesn't keep"
SO she rocked the baby till it fell asleep"
Then stepping softly she fetched the broom,
Aud swept the floor and tidied the room;
Busy and happy all day was she,
Helpful and happy as child could be.
"I love you, mother" again they said-
Three little children going to bed.
How do you think that mother guessed
Which Of them really loved her best7
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-04
Miscellany.
The Child's Prayer.


His little dlmpled hands were crossed,
His face looked sanity fair,
with upturned eyes CT tender blue
And waves Of golden hair,
As by his dainty couch be knelt
To lisp his evening prayer.
"Doar Lord, l." he said, az want TO know
II you will bless tonight
All naughty, wild and wicked boys
The boys who swear and hght7
Please, too, to help those dreadful ones
Who steal and run away,
And never, never do what's right
Through all the blessed day"
Amazed, his mother heard the plea,
And wonderingly she said,
"why, what, my darling child, has put
Such fancies in your headf
Why don't you pray for brother Charles
And little cousin Fred7"
"why should pray for them, mammal
They're good and happy, too;
The Lord has done enough for them,
want Him now to do
Something for those poor friendless chaps
who must be cross and bad
Because they've nothing in the world
To make them good or glad"
Oh, wisdom OF the child's pure heartl
oh, sweet and loving creed,
That gives such tender, plying thought
To souls in direst needl
Gould tehoolmen, with their varied lore,
A larger lesson teAch7
Or churchmen, from the sacred desk,
Diviner doctrine preach7
Home journal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-04

The president has the most boundless
faith in his southern policy. Tomany per-
sons with whom he has lately conversed,
he has spoken in the most unreserved man
ner of his confidence in its ultimate success.
And by ultimate success he means the res
toration of an era of good feeling, and the
pacificaton OF the South on the basis of n
complete recognition of the constitution
with the war amendments, and equal rights
and equal justice to all men. The president
will not modify his policy; no matter how
great the storm may be about him, he will
not change Washington Correspondence
CHICAGO Tribune.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-04
BRATTLEBORO, VT, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1877.

"I like these best, because the colors are
so soft and subdued, silver and gray. The
bright red flowers on green make my eyes
ache" said the Rev. Mr.. Powerton. per
haps you could work another pair like
them, my dear"
"Perhaps could, as l made these my
SELF" returned elderly Jane, with glee.-
Harner's WeekLu.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-04

We may deplore the fact that Republican
rule fades away for the time; but we must
admit that it cannot assert itself without the
Federal arms behind it, and so we must
fairly face tho question whether we are
ready to continue military interference In
State affairs. If not, what else can we do
but accept such settlement as that which
comes in Louisiana? Is 1t not better than
prolonged controversy and turmoil.-Atbd-
M Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-04

THE MOUND BUILDERs.-This seems 10
he the day OF exhumations in the New
World Tor what used to be called that, as
well as in the Old. We have already noted
some important discoveries in The Western
mounds. One of the latest reported 10 Iowa
is that Of Two stone tablets, containing pic
torial representations and diagrams, appar-
emily of an Astronomical character. They
are yet 10 undergo the examination OF ex-
perls, who alone can pronounce upon their
value. Sill later, as we learn from a Ne
vada paper, mounds in Pason, Utah Terri
tory, have been opened, from which was
taken human skeleton six feet six inches
high. In the right hand was hugs iron
or steel weapon, which had been buried
with the body, but which crumbled TO
pieces on handling. Another skeleton, that
OF woman, had at its head neatly carved
tombstone. Houses were found in the
mounds, the rooms being nicely plastered,
some in white, others in red color. Crock
cry, cooking utensils, vases and millstones
were taken out, with many other curiosi-
ties, including, last spring, several grains
of wheat, which grew last summer and
proved to be unlike any other now growing
in this country.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-04
"A Wonderful Remedy"

MsssTs. Weeks & Potter GtnHemeH,-Your Col
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The pain reached from my back TO my sides and hips
My left side and hip feeling very WELL but think
1 require another Plaster for my right side. am
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i got your Plaster was unable to walk or stand
Respectfully yours,
MRS. RICHARD GORMAN.
Lynchburg, Va, July %, 1876.
P. P.S.-Since finished my letter some Of my neigh
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SANFORD'S
RADICAL CURE
For CATARRH

TIAS worked q revolution in the treatment Of Ca
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A Nevada paper speaks Of the oonduc-
tor Of rival journal as creature difficult
10 describe without doing injustice to infe-
rior but innocent animals.
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SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE
Is Prepared BY Distillation.

LIVERY plant and herb that yields its medical es-
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there mingled with solvent liquid, which, by heat,
the htalng essences or juices of these plants and
herbs free from every contamination, pure and col.
orless. Thus the active, medical constituents OF
thousands of pounds Of herbs may be condensed into
very small compass. In this way Sanfords Radical
Cure s dvested Of the nAuseAtng worthless features
Of Il other remedies while its curative properties
increased tenfold. 1t is positively the greatest med
cal triumph Of the age.
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BRATTLEBORO
Is MafMess DtrErtorp.

Name, business and Location fthe leading
Business Houses in Brdttle6oro.
"cur THIS OUT FoB RKFEREEoE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

-Girard College has educated / 300
boys, and expended 81, 500, 900 on them.
1t is remarkable fact that almost
every one believes that he will himself
certainly go TO Heaven, but there is
doubt about some other people-N. Y.
Herald
The American missionaries at En-
zeroum, Harcoot. Van and Btis, in
Turkey III Asia, have resolved to re-
move their families to Trebzond for
safety.
The Society of Friends in England
have had net increase during the
year OF 1SS members, and claim that
the statistics of their body, of late
years, show that it has fully overcome
the tendency toward decline it so
long manifested, and is now increasing.
Amherst College this year con
ferred the degree of Doctor OF Divinity
upon a Roman Catholic clergyman,
Father Hewitt, of New York. Tais
IS new and strange departure for
Amherst, which was founded by ortho-
dox New England Congregationalists
troll of that denomination.
The average age of the Dartmouth
seniors is twenty-one and half: the
eldest being twenty-eight and the
youngest eighteen. The average height
is five feet nine and a halt inches, and
weight, 1873 pounds. The most spent
10y any man IN the course is 81. 600, the
: IN al hn
Sl.T40; Sl9.977 has been earned dur
ing the course. one earning 81. 200, and
two men more than covering expenses.
The United Plesbyteri. Assem-
bly, of Scotland negatived the proposals
to modify the Westminster Confession
of Faith. In the Church Assembly,
very decided action was taken in the
case of Prof. Smith. of the Free
Church College, of Aberdeen. The
case is this: Prof. Smith. who is a
member of the English Bible Revis-
ION Committee, has written for the
new edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica an article on the Bible, in
which he is alleged to have given eX-
preston to very loose views of the in
spiration Of the historical books. The
matter was referred to the Presbytery
of Abe. deem, but no action was taken
DR.. Wilson offered, IN the Assembly,
a resolution declaring that the article
in question contains statements of
dangerous tendency" and suspend
ing Prof. Smith as a teacher of theol-
ogy until the case is Investigated. All
efforts to modify the resolution failed,
and, after Il spirited debate, it was car
ried by Il vote of 491 to ll3.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11
Scenes ut the st. John Fire.

The second day of the fire the fire.
men were SCI exhausted and food and
drink so scarce, that they asked for
nourshment ut any door they Glanced
TO pass.
Hour after hour went by, and yet no
abatement of the fury of the fire.
iend. The revels of the internal re-
gions seemed To have been visited
upon this unfortunate city. Human
power was unavailing to stay tho
awful doom that swept from house To
house, laying one home after another
to ashes, drivng families Of little
children into the streets. The sick.
the aged and intirm were obliged To
seek refuge III parks or any open space
that was considered reasonably safe
by those who kindly assisted them
out of burning buildings.
A panic seized the people. No spot
seemed safe from the infectious foe.
Men reeled in the streets who were
known to be of temperate habits, and
followed the crowd even to the verge
Of searching, eager to see whose house
would be the next to 90. Food was
not to be had for the poor outcasts.
Even the pantries of the few rich
whose houses were spared, were soon
emptied for those who came TO the
doors to be fed.
1t seemed as if the elements had
leagued with the iire-iiend to prolong
the torture until the city lay in ashes.
The wind tore the dust from the
streets into the air, and combined
with hot smoke TO blind the multi
tude, who waited in agony for tho
flames to spend their fury. There
was Il great deal of intoXlcation. Men
drank to sustain their strength and to
drown their sutlerings.
Along the principal business streets
crowd Of loaiers, or human vul-
lures, would pour into liquor and
cigar stores to help themselves.
Those in charge who were trying to
save the property, would throw out
box after box of cigars. and bottle
after bottle of liquor to them, and
beg them to 60 away and make room
for them to work
When the jail became in danger, the
prisoners were all in the main CORR
dor, waiting to know their doom. a
young man cd led there to speak with
"A prisoner on business. He was not
permitted to enter, but spoke through
the bars. Ellis, the forger, asked HIN
eff they would be allowed to roast
alive" The jailer stood waiting tor
orders. and when one end Of the Jail
caught fire IL WAS reported that
a number were set free. This terri
bic suspense must have been sore
reminder of their ofienses and posi-
bic penalties. They acted like lot
of Gagged animals, 50 this gentleman
said. Louise Pomeroy, IN HaltaU
Hefaid.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11
Into the Sunshine.

&" wish father would come home"
The voice that said that had troubled
tone, and the face that looked up was
very sad.
Your father will be angry said
an aunt, who was sitting in the room
with book in her hand. The boy
raised himself from the sofa, where he
had been lying in tears for half an
hour, and, with a touch OF Indignation
in his voice, answered:
Hell be sorry, not angry. Father
never gets angry
For a few moments the aunt looked
at the boy halt-curiously. and let her
eyes fall again upon the book that was
i'll her hand. The boy lald himself
down upon the sofa again, and hid his
face from sight.
That's father nowW He started
up. after the lapse of nearly ten min
utes, as the sound of bell reached his
ears, and went to the room door. He
stood there for little while, and then
came slowly back, saying, with a dis
appointed air:
1t isn't father. ] wonder what
keeps him so late. o, | wish he
would come nowP
Nou seem anxious to get deeper
into trouble" remarked the aunt, who
had been only in the house a week, and
who was neither very amlable nor
very sympathizing toward children.
The boys fault had provoked her, and
she considered him lit subject for
punishment.
81 believe, Aunt phebe, you'd like
to see me whipped, said the boy, IA
little warmly. But you won't
Il must confess" replied Aunt
Phebe, 'that | think little whole
some discipline of the kind you speak
Of would not be out of place. II you
were my child, / am very sure you
wouldn't escape
I'm not your child; / don't want
to be. Fathers good, and loves me"
If your father is SO good, and loves
you 50 well, you must be very migrate
full or a very nConsiderate boy. HIS
goodness doesn't seem to have helped
you much"
Hush, will you calculated the
boy, excited to anger by this unkiHd-
ness Of speech in his aunt.
Phebep 1t was the boys mother
who spoke now, for the first time. In
an undertone she added l on are
wrong. Richard is suffering quite
enough, and you are doing him harm
rather than good"
Again the bell rang, and again the
boy left his seat on the sofa, and went
to the sitting-roOm door.
"It's fatherp' and he went gliding
down stairs.
"Ah, Richardr was the kindly
greeting, as Mr.. Gordon took the hand
of his boy. But what's the matter,
my son? You don look happy
Wont you come IN here = and
Richard drew his father into the
library Mr. Gordon sat down, still
holding Richard hand.
You a-e troubled. my son; what
has happened!"
The eyes of Richard filled with tears
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11

az he looked into his fathers face. He
tried to answer, but his lips quivered.
Then he turned away, and opened the
door of the cabinet, brought out the
fragments of a broken statuette, which
had been sent home only the day be-
fore, and set them on "A table before
his father, over whose countenance
came instantly a shadow of regret.
"Who did this, my boy?" was asked
in an even voice.
Il did it,
"How ?'
:" threw my ball in there once
only once. in forgetfulness.
a little while Mr. Gordon sat con-
trolling himself, and collecting his dis
turbed thoughts. Then he said cheer
fully:
What is done, Richard, can't be
helped. Put the broken pieces away.
You have had trouble enough about it,
| can see, and reproof enough for your
thoughtlessness, SO | shall not add a
word to increase your pain"
80, fatherv' and the boy threw his
arms about his fathers neck.
Five minutes later, and Richard en-
tered the sitting-room with his father.
Aunt Phebe looked NJ for two shad-
owed faces, but did not see them. She
was puzzled.
THAT was very unfortunate, she
said, little while after Mr.. Gordon
came in. Z" 1t was such an exquisite
work of art"
Richard was leaning against his ia
Their when his aunt said this. Mr.. Cor
don only smiled, aud drew his arms
closely around his boy.
Mrs. Gordon threw upon her sister
a look OF warning; but it was I'M
needed.
81 think Richard was very naughty
boy"
1--WE have settled all that, Phebe."
was the mild but firm answer of Mr..
Gordon; land it is one Of our rules to
get into the sunshine AZ quick as posi-
bic. "--Christi an at Work.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11
Deep Sea Life.

The mystery of deep sea life lies in
the fact that here are multltudeS of
representatives of the animal world
which, in virtue of their animality,
are incapable of nouriShlng themselves
upon inorganic matter. yet which are
living miles below the limit at which
vegetable life ceases. Some of the or
ganlSmS found IN deep sea SOundingS
are undoubtedly of a vegetable nature !;
but these are surface-living diatoms,
or other forms, which sink when they
die. This animal life at the sea-bot-
tom is capable of appropriating as
food the organic matter held dissolved
IN the ocean water, as well as the in
organic substances necessary for the
formation of its skeleton and the gases
required for respiration. For life at
the bottom OF the sea is essentially like
all other animal life; it requires food
to eat, air to breathe, and minerals
from which to elaborate its frame
work. Careful experiment has served
the difficulty: the surtace-hving nutri-
ment descends after death; slowly and
laboriOusly the llfe-sustainlng oxygen
makes its way from the surface To the
depths where cold aud darkness reign,
and as slowly the poisonous cdrbonic
acid the result alike OF llte and death
makes its way to the surface.
Thus, just such life as can exist under
the difficult conditions there present,
does exist in enormous. eXtent.-Urs.
s. b. HerTick, IN ScribHe' for july.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11
BE HAPPY AS YOU CAN.

This life Is not all sunshine,
or il il yet all showers,
But storms and Gains al ornate,
As thorns among the flowers.
And while we seek the roses,
The tuorns full oft We sean.
Still let Us though tn y wound Ms,
BE happy Ne We can.
This life has heavy crosses
As well a Joys To share,
And grefs and disappointments
Which you and must bear.
Yet, if vi for unat : lava
Entombs hope dearest plan, il
Let u with what is left Us,
Be happy as we can.
The sum OF our enjoyment
l. made of Ii tie things,
As oft the bgoadest rivers
Are ormed from smallest springs.
BY treasu ing small taters
The rivers reach their span
So We Increase our pleasures,
Enjoying what We can.
There may be burning deserts
Throu- h which our feet must 20,
But there are z cen ses
" here pleasant al u-trees grow.
And if We may not follow
The paths our hearts would plan,
Let u- make all around u,
As happy AS we can.
Perchance we may not climb with
Ambition TO its goal,
still let Ne an Wer, = Present
When duty calls the roll
And wha g er our appointment,
BE nothing less than man,
And cheerful in Submission,
be happy as We can,
Baptist Weekly
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11

THAT stupid fashion. among ladies,
Of wearing high-heeled shoes, causes
a. most as many accidents AZ crinoline.
Lately, in London, lady of rank,
af.er giving grand dinner day or
two before hcI daughter S wedding that
was to be, accompanied the young lady
to her room. After remaining there
some time she left 10 go to her own
apartment, by a rather steep private
staircase, and her heel catching III the
stair she was precipitated 10 the foot,
broke her arm. and sustained so severe
"A concussion of the brain that the in
tended marriage was indefinitely post
poned.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11

HOBART PAsuAs yalor, lash and
impetuous as it seems TO the lazy
Turks, has been in the way of his pre-
ferment. He goes among them by the
name Of e" Yell Pasho' (Mad Pasha),
and they hold, or affect 10 hold, him of
little or no account in council.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-11

4 SCIENTIFIC exchange remarks
that wrought anchors are the best. d"
Notwithstanding this, a. the ships
that ever came into New York have
least anchors. "-I{iustrGteG Weekly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-16
TENNESSEE ITEMS:

The wheat crop of ~Lauderdale county
averages eight to ten bushels per acre.
Trenton is to have q genuine grand
balloon ascension on the 2lst of July.
Judge S. A. Dnling, Of Nashville, has
consented to become a candidate for
mayor of that city.
Wheat was selling in Dyersburg last
week at 81 and SIPS per bushel, with
a downward tendency.
The Methodist conference for the
Dyersburg district meets at Dyersburg
on the 10th Of this mouth.
The wheat crop of Rutherford county
is estimated at 100000 bushels, and it
has been nearly all threshed.
DR.. d. c Hibbett, fsr many years a
popular practiciug physician, died in
Dyersburg last Saturday week.
The GreeEeville Iutelligeneer suggests
that Yardley be appointed postmaster at
Knoxville. He will 'ardly get it.
r. G. Holzhauer, a travelling piano
tuner, who visited Ripley last week, is
denosnced by the News az a FIRST class
scamp,
Knoxville Tribune; That Kentucky
farmer who desires to purchase a still
house would do well to visit Knoxville
Just now. He could doubtless negotiate
for a few hundred gin mills of limited
capacity, besides supply himself with
1000 operators when their terms Of i'm.
prisonment expire,
Willard Fillmore Wilson, q stylish col