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and is still diminishing. So. too, as to the
expenses of the government And then with
that which helps us, a sound currency COM
ing, and immigration coming, may 1 not con-
fidently say that these are Indications at least,
that we are marching TO the threshold of re-
vivng general business prosperity? (Great
applause And now shall we look around for
n new way to pay old debts, or shall we
march in the paths marked out by the faith
ers, the paths of honesty, of industry, of
economy Shall we do what Washington and
Franklin would advise? That is the question
before the people to-day. My friends / en-
ter upon no argument of a disputed question,
but l say, as my opinion,-we may be mis-
taken, all of us, but believe it-that a re-
stored financial condition depends largely up
ON an honest currency. (Great applause
And why do 1 say this? The commerce of
the world is the commerce now in which we
are taking part. and that is the same thing
the globe around. We have with us to-day
the gentleman who is at the head of the sig
nal service of the United States. He is known
popularly as "Old Probabilities" (Great
laughter He is not old, and fear he is not
always probable (renewed laughter), but GER
tainly in the science of meteorology, he has
gone farther than any other, and what does
he tell us? He says that this atmosphere of
ours this circumambient air that surrounds
the globe, is one as a unit, and that they have
discovered by observations all over the globe
that great commotion, great disturbance
on any sea or any continent, sooner or later is
felt in every other sea and every other conti-
nent, and so the commerce of the world is
one. Where there is very hard times in one
great nation, sooner or later it goes around.
We should then base our financial system on
principles, and by instrumentalities that are
sanctioned and approved by the best judg-
ment Of the whole commercial world. Then,
l repeat, if we want our standard of financial
prosperity to be based upon sure and safe
foundations, let us remember, let us all re-
member, that its best security is an untarnish-
ed national credit and a sound constitutional
currency. (Great and prolonged applause
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20

TIL Howard ASSOCIATION Since the vel
low fever began its ravages in the Southwest,
and the Howard Association has become prom
incnt as arelever of suffering and rs an agen-
cy in the cause of humanity, many persons
have naturally wished to learn something of
the organization. The association cnme into
prominence - years ago, (lSj3, in New Or
leans, when it and other cities of the South
were so cruelty afflicted with the fever. and
such horror and panic We're excited that hus-
bands deserted their wives, parents their chill
dren, and the ties Of common humanity
seemed sundered. Napoleon b. Kneass, now
of Philadelphia, but formerly merchant in
New Orleans says that the organization orig
mated in his store, among his clerks, espe-
cially two of them whose mother was from
San Domingo and had seen much of the epi-
deinic. These went about the city, hunted
up new cases, and furnished the sufferers
with medicine prepared by her and found ef-
fectiye in Hayu. From the clerks as a nu-
cleus the association was formed. Young
men of wealth joined il, and adopted the
name Howard from the renowned English
phianthropist. They obtained medicines,
nurses, and physicians, and established agen-
cies in all the towns and cities that had been
or We're likely to be infected, binding them
selves to act together at every reappeamnce
of the pestilcnce. The body increased rapid
ly in numbers and means, aud before the civ
il war it was one of the richest benevolent So
cieties in the country. That bitter contest
left most of the members poor, and the asso-
citation has been crippled in its power to do
good. Until recently they have never asked
for aid but any contributions to the cause
We're received and distributed according to
existing need They divide the town or city
into districts to each of which members are
assigned, and when the disease reveals itself
each case is Immediately reported to head
quarters. The visiting committee at once in
vestigate the matter physicians and nurses
are employed, and everything done that can
be done to relieve the patient. Most of the
nurses have been negroes who have had the
fever, and We're not apt, therefore, to be in
fected. There We're, and there now are, es-
pecially, many volunteers who receive no
pay, the Sisters of Charity being most jealous
and devoted, while members of different be-
nevolent societies have taken, and still take
an active part in the noble work.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20

While we are talking about the Lowell car
pets, let's just take n peep at their ingrains.
In the weaving of an ingram yard wide
1850 threads are used to the width and thir-
teen to the inch in the filing. Now to test
the material of which the carpet is made.
Take thread of filling, bluck thread is the
best, for that will be the weakest in any car
pet, and try to break it, l tried dozen
threads Of as many different carpets, and Of
the whole l found the Lowell the strongest
regret to say that some of the manufacture
ers have yielded to the example set them by
few wooden goods manufacturers and card
ed cotton and wool together for the filling.
You can't detect it except by trying my ex-
pertinent, and you'll discover it by tho ease
with which the shoddy filling gives away.
All honor to the Lowell company they never
departed one hairs breadth from the stand
ard they first set up in the beginning.
As for the Roxbury topcstrics-I don't fear
any contradiction from those who know any
thing about these matters-they are the best
made in the world, not even excepting the
famous Crossey's, which once stood at the
head. This company has done what it was
claircd never could be done: they have
mai. .y,,oll a,,,r.d to,o.,ri,s ,osyillo. ,l,o,
i''''''' oe''.'''e ''',9
.'t' an! i''''SS'I' P.rie''ly' retaining al 'i'e
jacquard elects. In this carpetmg PIG
threads are used to the width threo-fourths
Of yard and - wires TO three inches, two more
than are used by any other manufactory, not
even cNeei'l"5 OrOSs'.y' He "o'S'eu 'S No
u, heavy, stout quality that Will wear Won
derfully we'll
There has been scpc question REGARDING
,l,, 1rrol,l;,,, Of A,,,,ico,, dv., hrt ,bo, IL
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20

THAT OREGON BUSINESS The New York
Tribune has access by some means to the ci-
pher dispatches and other telegrams which
flew back and forth between Gramercy Park
and Mr.. Tildens agents and friends in Oregon
and at the South pending the conclusion Of
the electoral count. 1t has been pUblshing
these dispatches by instalments for some time
past, and one day last week it achieved a
masterpiece by publishing entire the telegrams
which passed between New York and Oregon
relative to the purchase of an elcctor in the
hitter State. These dispatches are mostly in
cipher, but the Tribune gives the interpreta-
ton of nearly all of them, and as chronolo-
gcally arranged through some two columns
OF space in that paper, they apparently fur
nish a complete history of the whole disgrace
full transaction by which it was sought to
Oyerturn the decision of the people by the
use of money. The only reasonable conclu-
sion TO be reached from the perusal Of these
kilograms is that Mr.. Tilden, through his pri-
vate secretary, received the most important
of these dispatches; that Mr.. Pelton, the pri-
vate secretary, was chief manager of the ne
gotiation to buy one Of the Republican elec-
tors; that the terms were actually settled
not with the elector, but with Mr.. Tilden's
Oregon agents; and that the purchase mon
ey was actually sent to these agents. Con-
gresham Hewett, Democrat, said since the
publication Of these dispatches: Il think
if those cipher dispatches had been traced
home TO me, 1 should deem it disgrace from
which l would never recover"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20
HITS AND MISSES.

The compostor who made it read, 'In the
midst of life we are in debt" wasn't 70 much
out of the way.
lady having broken her smelling bottle,
was chided by her husband, who asserted that
she broke everything that belonged to her
True" replied the lady, for even you are
little cracked"
There are seventeen sculptors and paint
ers from the United States now residing in
Rome" read Mrs. Bemis from the newspa-
per. HIM" grunted Mr. Bemis, mo won-
der couldn't get painter to whitewash that
shed" Mrs. Bemis glore an awful glare at
him.-RockIdnd Courier.
"There are doubtless vocations in which he
could be trusted" was the reply. There's
real estate, for example; If that were put in
his care l think the owner would find his
property where he left it. shouldn't caro-
to speak as to any other kind of property"
Sonny" remarked mother to her young
hopeful, 'if boys were half as patient in
their attention to their studies as they are in
learning how to skate on rollers, they would
be perfect angels" That's so, mamma" 4"
said the boy, 'but then they wouldn't have
near SO much fun"
On Friday morning tramp marched the
length of Church street, with a fancy bou-
quet in the button hole of his coat, and the
rear portion of his pantaloons in q condition
SO fearfully mangled as practically to amount
to no pants at all. Still he bore himself as
proudly as q marshal of the empire-''forget-
ting" as Paul enjoined, ''those things which
are behind. ."-Btldst Journal
One night Jones came home very late, and
found his wife evidently prepared to admin
lister q caudle lecture. Instead of going to
bed, he took seat and, resting his elbows on
his knees, seemed absorbed in grief, signing
heavily, and uttering such exclamations az,
Poor Smith, poor fellow" Mrs. Jones'
moved by curiosity, said sharply, whats
the matter with Smith 2" "Ah," said Jones,
Jones let her husband off that time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20

ONE OF LIFE's SHADows.-At 8 O'Clock the
other morning Second street wife followed
her husband down to the gate as he was start
ing for down town and kindly said to him:
William, you know how sadly need a
blue bunting dress."'
Yes, dear" he remarked ''but you know
how hard up am. As soon as l can see my
way clear you shall have the dress, and a new
hat to boot. Be patient, be good, and your
reward shall be great"
Forty minutes after that he emerged from
restaurant with big basket and fish pole,
bound up the river. In the basket was q
chicken, pickles, cakes, fruit pie and a bot
tie of liquid of a rich color, and he was Just
lighting twenty-cent cigar when his wife
came along.
what you here!" he exclaimed.
''Yes, was going to the market. Where
are you going-what's in that basket 2"
Il was going to carry this fish pole around
to friend on jefferson avenue" he modestly
answered.
And that basket 2"
This basket-well, was going to take it
to the orphan asylum as a present to the chill
dren. 1t is donation from six leading citi-
zens"
William, don't believe it !"
''Sh Don't talk SO loud!"
William shall talk louder yeti" she ex-
clalmed. IN bet you are going nshlng.
Mary, have 1 ever deceived you 7" he
plaintively asked. 81 never have As proof
of my sincerity, you can take this basket to
the asylum yourself"
And I'll do it :" she promptly replied as
she relieved him of it.
MARY, hadn't you-?"
mo, sir, hadn't You'd better hurry up
with that fish pole, Gs the man may want it,
and be careful how you stand around in the
hot sun !"
She left him there. He watched her take
the car for home, and then he returned the
fish pole and crossed the street and said to an
acquaintance:
Tom, I'm suffering with neuralgia, and the
excursion is of till next week. Too bad, but
We can never tell what day may bring
forth"
There was chicken and pickles and other
good things on the table at dinner, but he
never smiled. Even when his wife wished she
was an orphan, if that was the way they were
fed, he never betrayed the gloom in his heart.
1t was only when she handed him the bottle
he had so carefully tucked into the basket
and he saw it labeled: Good for Little Chill
dren," that he asked
MARY, it's an awful thing for a wife TO get
the impression that her husband is a cold
blooded liar !"
1T must be, she replied, as she took the
other chicken leg.-DetrOn Free Press.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20

How THE Sun WAS SAVED During the
late total eclipse the Pueblo Indians of Taos,
n. NJ, were much agitated. The chieftain
of the village came forth in great excitement,
and declared that some one had committed
great sin, the destruction of the village was
imminent, or at least the extinction of the
sun. Three trusted messengers were there
fore sent to the priests to eonjure them to
keep the eternal fire on the altar burning at
its brightest, while all the women of the vii
lage were ordered to strip themselves naked
and run in pairs round the race course where
the foot races took place. Thanks to these
simple precautions; the eclipse soon passed
off. The custom of having the women run
these races in q nude state is universal with
the Pueblos on occasions of this kind They
have a tradition that Montezuma was betray-
ed into the hands of the Spaniards by his
daughter, and it is thought probable that the
requiring of females to humiliate themselves
as penance for the original crime committed
by one of their sex against this dignitary
grows out of the tradition Californian
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20

ceeded the fraction of cent. The total in
crease in the coin value of our paper curren-
cy since 1865 is about lTj million dollars
FoRE1dN TRADE.
Nothing connected with the financial af-
fairs of the government is more interesting
and instructive than the state of trade with
foreign countries The exports Of the United
States during the year ending June 80, 1878
were larger than during any previous year in
the history Of the country. From the year
1863 to the year 1873 the net imports into the
United States largely exceeded the exports
from the United States, the excess of imports
ranging from 80 million to 1S2 million dol
lars. During the years 1879 and 1873 the ex-
ports and imports were about equal. During
the years ending June 30, 1876, II and rs
however, the domestic exports from the
United States greatly exceeded the net i'm
ports. The excess of exports is increasing
rapidly from year to year. This is shown as
follows Year ending June 30, 1876, excess
of exports over net imports. S79, 6l3, ,4S1 I;
year ending June 80, 1877, S1j1, lj2, ,O94 !;
year ending June so, 1878, S257 s32 G77 The
total value of exports from the United States
increased from S2G9. 3S9, 500 in 1868 to $3.50.
GS3 79S in 1873, an increase of S4l1, 293. S9S,
or l53 per cent The following table shows
the principal commodities, the expectation of
which has greatly increased during the last 10
years
Commod- Year ending Year ending In
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20
President IIayes's speech.
[Fron the sprlngfl fleld Repub!ican.l

tfrOln the Springfield HepublcAn.l
Ii is an admirable and clear condensation
of the statement of the finances of the coun-
try. its foreign trade and productive capacity
now as compared with 1850, and shows con-
clusively the reduction of the debt and of the
annual burden of interest, the reduction of
expenditures and of taxation, the restoration
of the money to its true value, the expansion
of our industries and the spread of our trade
over the world, all, in short, the substantial
basis for a recurrence of national prosperity.
The facts are not new, but they will attract
wide attention. not only in this country but
abroad when massed and uttered by the
President of the United States. The speech
is also remarkable for freedom from party
glorihcation. 1t is this quality which lifts it
from the level of partisan haraDgue to
broad and comprehensive presentation of the
grounds for hope as to our national future
[From tie Boston Journal.l
Doubtless the repudators will find fault
with the President for making a speech in
which the country is encouraged to look for
ward to better days. Those who have been
trying to create popular discomfort by repre-
senting that the Understanding debt of the
country is larger now than at any period of
the past, will not relish the exposure of their
falsehoods by the President, and by figures
which show that such debt has been decreased
S722, 100000 or one-fourth of the entire
amount, in thirteen years. Neither will it
suit the purpose of demqgogues who are wick
edly striving to create the impression that
the country is being taxed into distress to pay
the interest on the public debt to be informed
by the Chief Magistrate that the annual in-
terest charge of the country has been reduced
from $50, ,917, 900 in 1865 to 500, 1871, 600 in
1873. The economists who beg for power
because of Republican extrayagance will not
be pleased with IA statement by the Chief
Magistrate that the amount of taxes collected
by the Federal Government has decreased
from S4SS, 273, lGi in 1865 to $40, 7j2, 304
for the past fiscal year. 1t will scarcely
please these people to have the President
show that the public expenditures have been
feduced Sl2O,57 3iS since 1867. and sos
$500 in the past five years. Nor will the
selfish and designing men who are going
about the country cxaggerating the business
depression, and making gloomy predictions
for the future be pleased at the encouraging
facts which Mr.. HAYES sets forth
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20

A SAFE PATH.-In these days Of depression
and uncertainty in business matters. it is cOn-
forting to thousands of men in humble life TO
bear in mind that he travels safe and not un-
pleasantly who is guarded by poverty and
guided by love.
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His FIrst LSVe.

remember
Meeting you
In September,
Sixty-tWo.
We were eating,
Both Of us;
And the meeting
Happened thus:
Accidental,
On the road,
Sentimental
EpisOde)
/ was gushing,
You were shy;
You were blushing-
30 was i;
/ WAs smitten,
So were you,
(All that's written
Here 10 true.)
Any money!
Not 4 bit.
Rather funny,
Wasn't itf
Vows We plighted-
Happy pair!
How delighted
People Werel
But your father
To DO sure
Thought Il rather
Premature;
Aud your mother
Strange to say
Was another
In the way.
What . heaven
Vanished theni
(You was seven,
l was ten.)
That was many
Years ago
Don't let any
Body know.
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The improvement in the currency since the
close of the war has been very great. In 1865
the paper currency of the country consisted
of Greenbacks, Si32, 757, ,GO4 national
bank-notes SIG, 3l3, $50; fractional curren-
cy, S2G, 344, 742 old demand notes, $402,
9G5 treasury notes, compound interest notes
and State bank-notes (estimated), 800, 600, =
OOO-total, S735, 7l9, 2GG. Its value was 90
32-lOO ON the dollar in coin, and its total val
ne in coin was 500, 800, ,595. In 1878 our
paper currency consists of Greenbacks
S3lG, l1G; national bank-notes, 1924
5l4, 2Si, fractional currency, $40, 547, 76S-
total $Gs7, 743, l6S. Each dollar of paper
currency is now worth 99l cents in coin, and
the total value in coin of our paper currency
is more than S6S4, 900, 600. The value of the
paper dollar is as staple as that of coin. Coin
and paper are practically abreast of each 9TH
er. The fiuctuation in the value of the pa
per dollar has not in the last five months ex-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20
TAXATION.

The burden of taxation has been reduced
since 1866, the first year after the war, as fol-
lows; The taxes in 1866 were Customs,
S179,OiG, ,G5l internal-revenue, $500, 22G, -
sl3-total, $4ss, ,273, 4G4. The taxes in 1878
were Customs $3.50, 40, $50; internal-rev-
enue, S11O, ,5Sl, 62i-total, S24O, 10, 304. Re-
duction of taxation since 1866, S247, ,52l, 100.
Taxation the year of the panic, 1873: Gus
toms, SlSs. .OS9, 522; internal-revenue, @l13,-
729, ,3l4-total, $3O1 SIS, S3G. Taxation in
1878, S2iO, 752, 3O4. Reduction since the pan
ic, SCI, OGG 532
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BRATTLEBORO
Business Directory.

CUDWORTII az CIIILDS,
General Insurance ana Real ES-
tate agents.
Represen nting the FARMERS and UNION MUTUAL,
as we'll as many of the largest STOCK COMPANIES,
together with the largest and strongest LIFE lNSUR-
ANCE COMPANY in the world, and the most econom-
ical ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY.
DEALERS IN BANK STOCK.
10 Crosby Block, Brattleboro, VT
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Now, my friends, with this picture, as l
think so full of hope for the future, for you
and for me as individuals, do not venture
with confidence upon predictions of prosperi-
ty reviying l have no spirit of prophecy,
but reasoning, Let us see how it stands.
The debt is great burden upon labor and
capital; it is greatly diminished and is still
diminishing. Taxation is great burden up
on labor and capital; it is greatly diminished
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Notice.

II refer all parties wishing either to purchase or
any property belonging to me, situated in Brat
81, Hoto W 70 Mai JOHN O. TYLER, OF that town.
plac'~'NN' COLUMBUS TYLER.
uslvale, Mass. Feb. 20. 1878. Sn
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