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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

Two LITTLE GIRLS SMoTHERED IN TRUNK
The st. Louis Post of Tuesday has the fol-
lowing account of the death of two little girls
aged , and years, daughters of Mrs Amelia
Moench a teacher in one of the schools of
that city: THE children have for year past
been with their father on farm four miles
from Dixon, Mo, l3S miles distant from st.
Louis. Mrs. Moench spends her vacations ON
the farm, and was prepared to so to her hus-
band and children Immediately upon the
close of school Mr. Moench had gone to
Dixon on Saturday, and his two little girls
called cheerfuly after him to hurry back and
if he wrote to their mamma to send her
their love. On his return he was surprised
not to see them awaiting him. He called, but
received no answer. He went into the house
and saw the tray of n trunk sitting on the
floor. 4 fear flashed ON his mind he opened
the trunk and found the two little girls. The
younger. who was underneath, was evidently
past all hope, but the elder was still warm and
limp. Not n neighbor was within half mile.
The father dashed cold water on the children,
then rubbed them with vinegar and made
every effort to restore animation. labo.'ing till
after 10 o'clock but in vain. He then gave
up in despair, and went to seek help from
neghbor The distance from railroad sta
tion and telegraph caused delay by which
Mrs. Moench was prevented from even see
ing her daughters before their burial. The
little girls were in the habit of playing hide
and seek, and had often hidden in the trunk
separately. 1t had been their habit to hide
when they saw their father returning home,
in order to enjoy the sport of having him
hunt them. The trunk had no spring lock,
and why they were unable to raise the lid re-
mains mystery, but it is supposed that the
heat overcame them. Their faces gave no
indication that they struggled or suffered, be-
ing calm and smiling"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

4 SPARRow's REPREHENsIBLE CoNDUcT.-
The Hartford Times tells the following story
of an English sparrow on the authority of a
friend who had it direct from the gentleman
who witnessed the occurrence This gentle
man, who resides in New York, had erected
in his back yard large box for sparrows'
nests 1t was divided into three rows, each
containing four compartments. These were
all speedily taken possession of by n dozen
pairs of sparrows, and the business of max
ing nests proceeded amid the customary chip
pering din of these fussy and pugnacious
feathered colonsts. Sitting idly Mt the win
dow one Sunday, watching the birds, the
gentleman saw ONE cock-sparrow come flying
to his place with fine, soft white feather in
his bill. The box was so placed that he could
see into the compartments, and he saw this
bird fix the feather into an incomplete nest,
and then fly away. No sooner was lie out of
sight than female sparrow from the adjoin-
ing compartment who had evidently seen
that proceeding, hoped into her neighbor's
house and pulled out and carried off the COW
eted feather Becoming interested, the OBJ
server watched the performance, expecting to
see the little thief carry her stolen prize to
her own nest; but no. she knew a trick
worth two of that aud here is where she dis
played an undeniable reasoning process, and
acted ON clear perception of cause and ef-
feet, making prudent use of her knowledge
of the character and disposition of her plum
dered neighbor. She flew off with the feath-
er to neighboring tree, where she securely
fastened it in an inconspicuous place upon
and between two twigs, and there left it.
Pretty soon the bird she had defrauded came
back with n straw tO.add to his nest Dscov-
ering his loss he came out with an angry
chirruping that BODIED no good to the despoil-
er of his hearth and home, if he could only
find the rogue. His first demonstration was
to visit his next-door neighbor without any
search-warrant. In that abode of peace and
innocence he found no trace of the stolen
feather and as for the actually guilty party,
she was hopping innocently about, and loud
ly demanding-as far as bird tones could be
understood by the man at the window-what
was meant by this ungentlemanly intrusion.
The cock-sparrow was evidently puzzled.
Unable, after minute search, to find the lost
feather, he apparently gave it up, and flew
away in search of another. The thief de-
murely waited till he had got well of, and
then flew to the tree, secured the stolen feath-
er, and took it in triumph TO her own nest"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21
Miscellany.


"e TIT hree'
Hearst thou the song IL sings to me
The endless song Of the dark nr tree?
Before my window, beside my door.
II sighs and whispers forevermore
by dawn, or daylight or nights mid-hour
hear its STILL small voice Of power.
ETERNITY! Eteruityir
When Lam weary and worn with pain
Aud the burning sunshine hrcs my brain
Faint and liatless, and ft for death
IL swings and rustles with fragrant breath.
"Hot aud lonely tbv noon NAV he
But there Is a long iong rest for tbee.
Etornityl Eterpity -
This is the psalm OF The old fir tree.
sometimes the storms VI summer pour,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

The GRAssHoPPER COMMISSION which has
been studying up the causes and best treat
ment of the scourgc, reports that the perma-
nent breeding grounds of the locusts are here
and there in an area of 3OO, 600 square miles
in and about Idaho, from which they only
emgrate when their native region becomes
too densely populated. They have not stray
ed north beyond the timber line on the 53d
parallel, west of the Cascade and Sierra Ne
vada ranges, nor east beyond line drawn
from the western edge of Wisconsin to Hous-
ton, Tex, though they have been found south
of the Rio Grande. After one year in new
home the locusts invariably wing their way
back to their permanent breeding grounds,
though nearly all die of parasites or disease
on the way. This being the case, the scourge
is to be ayerted by destroying them at home,
so that it will not be necessary for them TO
swarm, and the commission give many means
of doing this. They prefer law compelling
farmers to harrow their eggs under in the fall,
but also suggest plowing irrigation, collec-
ton of the eggs (every bushel of which de-
stroyed is equal to 100 acres of corn saved),
burning, crushing, trapping the young locusts
with tar and coal oil, diversified farming, the
encouragement of birds to eat them and u
hundred other methods. The report is one
of the most exhaustive and valuable ever pub
lshed by the government, and will be in
great demand, especially in the West. The
commission desire an appropriation to con-
tinue their labOrs another year, and the char
acter of the work already done will probably
secure it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21
CURRENT NEWS PARAGRAPms.

The LATEST WONDER in the scientific world
is an instrument that bears a relation to our
capacity for hearing similar TO that which the
microscope or the telescope does to vision
II is called the microphOne and is the result
of the labors of Professor ID. Il. Hughes, of
London, who recently gave n full account of
the instrument before the Royal Society of
London and described the steps by which he
was led to the invention. The new device
magnifcs sound. by its means sounds so
faint that they have never before been heard
by human ears, may be made of any degree
of loudnCss feathers edge brushed over
the sounding board of this instrument, has
been made to crash upon the ears of the lis
teners. The touch of a tip of a camels hair
brush was the occasion Of a cracking noise,
of which the intensity was almost painful to
the ear. The faintest whisper of the human
voice can be reproduced in the loudest tones
1.-The maiden's sigh may roar like the catar-
act of Niagara" With it he has made the
footsteps of house-hy distinctly audible /:
and all these sounds after being intensified
are transmitted to any needful distance by
the ordinary telephone. At n recent exhibi-
tion of these experiments to few scientific
friends in London, all the astonishing effects
that have been referred to were easily pro-
duced, except the fly performance. With
Brt"t uIncu'y ule philosophers louhu ny
in the house. With great difficulty they
caught the insect. But the final trouble was
insurmouutable the captured fly would stay
on the glass tumblers that imprisoned him ;
nothing could induce him to walk on the
sounding-board which the tunbler covered
But a witness to the scene, describing it in
Nature, found consolation in watching Pro-
fessor Huxley talking with great solemnity to
glass tube two inches long, his grave tones
being loudly enunciated TO a listener with n
telephone in distant apartment.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

The RIGHT KIND OF A CABNET.-H. V.
Redheld, Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, writes l venture
that the President will retain the cabinet he
has until the end of his term. Grant was
continually changing his cabinet, putting out
that man and putting in another, so that the
total of cabinet officers he created during his
term was % ! He added much TO the tenn
perature of the hot water in which he contin-
ually found himself by this course, for each
removal led to a row of greater or lesser di-
mensiOns. The President is pleased with
each member of his cabinet he thinks he
has made fortunate selections, and that they
are operating the various departments in the
interests of the whole people, whose servants
they are. BY any amount of changing about
he could hardly get more honest, economi-
cal, efficient and laborious body of men than
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21
NO. 25.

the present cabinet officers. They are not
snowy men, but they have the qualities which
wear well. They do not set the bad example
Of giving grand entertainments" to be fol-
lowed by others who haven't money Of their
own, and must therefore use somebody clscs,
but they live plainly and economically, MS be-
fits officials of n republic. It is said that they
all live within their salaries except Evarts,
and he has a considerable bank account Of his
own. A majority are poor inen-working
men, one may say--who have no outside for
tunes to draw upon to maintain style here.
1t is well that il is so. Examples of extrava-
gance in official life are contagious. A lot of
poor devils with little brains and less money,
attempt to follow and land in bankruptcy,
with nobody to mourn them but their cred
itors. The plainness of official life here is
wholesome example.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21


A'P'ON'
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r.. A. CLARK Tvier's 'Block -
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l. SrEEN opposi,e brooks House
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L. BQM 5, y ~ Marsn1 = sttrofooAS oloek Main s'
J. RETTfSdS x son, High St, next Brooks House.
Cement Drain Pine,
WI. A. PELLET, manfr and contractor for laying
C,..,,,s,
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! RETTiNti 4 son, High St., next Brooks House. .
CIo,n.
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f. 5. BRACkEII CO., Granite Row.
rEtrT WRIGHT \ CO, Granite Row, Main st.
F. A. WHITNEY, No. 4 Granite Row.
Coal.
+. X. BAREOwS, Office with p. Barrows.
A.. GLEASON, with a. " Cox Go.
Collins and Caskets.
&. L. BROWN, Marshall Esterbrook's block, Main st.
Contractors and Builders.
J. A. CHURCH, Flat st.
CrOckery aud Glass Ware.
FRANK C. HOWE, door north Main st. bridge.
NJ I. VAN DOoRN son, Crosby Block.
Dentistry.
DIR e. :. CLARK over Pratt Wright 4 Co.'S store
pltn,u1 Room.
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EernhEers'
Z. +. THOMPSON CO., Wilhstons stone BLOCK
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

A little Brookline girl, being reproved the
other day by her elder sister for using slang
expression, sharply retorted, "Well, if you
went into society more you would hear slang" I"
To make picnic lemonade-Take a barrel,
fill it with water, put in two pounds of sugar,
add one lemon, and refill with water as often
as the barrel is empty.
When asked what he thought of freedom,
an African philosopher sagacously replied
"Well, air, freedom is a mighty fine thing,
but can't eat freedom, and can't wear free
dom, and now Use got to export myself"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

SALMON IN THE CONNECTICUT. Although
so many salmon are being taken out of the
Connecticut river by the fisherman in this the
first year of their return after half a century's
absence, the prospect for their determination
is happily less imminent than this state of af-
fairs would indicate. Scientific people re-
port that of the same Matching the males al
ways mature before the females, start for the
sea, and return a year before the females are
ready to begin their pilgrimage. So it hap
pens that all the salmon so far caught this
year are males. The males now running be-
long to a lot newly planted in the river where
there were few or none before hence there
could be no females ready to 60 to sea and re-
turn with them. This can only happen the
first planting of a depleted river; next year
and thereafter, the females will return with
the males. A dozen males can be better spared
than one female, and if the scientific per-
sons are correct, We need not despair if the
fishermen continue to take the salmon as
steadily as they have done. By next year
legislation ought to be commanded which
shall protect our fish adequately. Some fe-
males may yet be along this year of the small
paintings previously made, as they generally
come later than the males, and the fishermen
ought to give them free right of way to the
Holyoke dam and over the fishway II is es-
timated that every female salmon carries at
least 800 eggs to every pound of her weight,
so that ten-pound fish carries at least 5000
eggs. If the salmon are given anything like
a fair show. the Connecticut will be speedily
peopled again with these magnificent fish.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21
BRATTLEBORO
Marble Orks.
W. A. OUTT0N,

Manufacturer and Dealer in
Monuments, IIcddstOnes, TtJLetS,
St6tH6Ty.
Aud Marble work Of all kinds wrought from tue
choicest grades of vermont aud Italian Marble.
GIEANITIc WORK.,
OF every variety, both native and Scotch, hswn or
polished.
have constantly on hand Of the largest stocks
to he fuuud ia the state of FINISHED MARBLE
which Is now ready for inspection, and to which IN
Ntr the attention Of those about to purchase Parties
bnying from finished stock save the disappointment
and dissatisfaction which so often follow the pur-
chase of work sketches designs or photographs
My aim is
TO .HreI an the DeBIGMdS OF Dur Local
Trade,
And my patrons will in all cases save sam equal TO
at least 25 per cent Of the amount which must be paid
TO travelling agents invite purchasers TO call and
examine my goods and verify this statement
All orders promptly executed and satisfaction guar
anteed.
Marble and MarbIeized Slate MAN
TELS aud BRACH EFT SHELVES In great
variety. A large stock always on hand
w. A. DUTTON,
BRATTLEBORO, VT
Shop near the r. r. Station. u
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BRATTLEBORO
Business Directory.

CUDwOIITII ~, CIIILDS,
General Insurance ana Real Es-
tate -1geItS.
Rcprescntiug the FARMERS and UNION MUTUAL,
as well as many Of the largest STOCK COMPANIES,
together with the largest and strongest LIFE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY in the world and the most ecouom-
ical ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY.
DEALERS IN BANK STOCK
10 Crosby Block, Bratteboro Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

G. +. THOMPSON 4 CO., willistou's Stone Block.
WOOD MARSHALL, Exchange Block, Main 81.
B. A. CLARK, Tylers Block.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-05
RAILROADS:

EAS5ENGEA TRAINS leave Portland
for scarhoro,, ssco, giddeford, Ken
bebunk, Wells North Berwick. soath
Berwick. C0nway Junction, BIic q,
Mittery, Portsmouth, Newburyport,
salem. lynn Cheisen and Boston ~
s.45 a IN. and 8. as p. IN.
Wight Express wlfh sleeping Car, for
Sosson AZ S.i5 q. a.. every lay Except
MondaysJ
RETURNING
E4eave Boston at 80 n. M, 1880, and
700 o. M, connecting with mafne
Central and e. g. N, A. Railway for 80.
John and Halifax. Pullman Sleeping Car
attached.
Through Tickets to all Points South and West 81
lowest rates. Pullman Car Tickets for Seats and
8erths af Ticket Once.
my27dt A. P. ROCKWELL. President.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-05
The Rates of Postage.

Postal cards, one cent each, 60 without further
charge to all parts of the Uuted States and Canadas
with an additional onecent stamp they goto all parts
Of Europe.
All letters, to all parts Of the United States and
Canada, three cents per halfounce.
local. or "drop" letters, that is, for the city or
town where deposited, cents if delivered by car
riers, and cent where there is no carrier system.
Newspapers, daily, semi weekly, tri weekly and
scrbers cents per pound, payable at the office OF
publication, newspapers and magazines published
less frequently than once week, cents per pound.
Transient newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, books
and handbils, cent tor each two ounces OF traction
thereof ALI other miscellaneous matter, including
unsealed circulars, book manuscripts, proof sheets
photogrs obs &C.. and also Seeds cuttings bulbs and
ROOTS an merchandise not exceeding four pounds in
weight, ant for each ounce or fraction thereof
The folio ing are the postal rates with Europe;
The rates for letters are for the halounce frac
ton thereof, and those for newspapers for four
ounces or fraction thereof
To Great Britain and Ireland, letters 5 cent !;
newspapers cents; France, letters cents, news
papers cents; Spain, letters cents, newspapers
cepts; all parts of Germany, including Austria,
eters cents, csnts switzerland
letters cents, newspapers cent5 Italy, letters
cents, newspapers cents; Russia, letters cents,
papers cents; Sweden, letters cents, newspapers
cents; Turkey, European and Asiatic, letters 8
cents, newspapers cents; Egypt, letters cents,
newspapers cents.
For Asiatic countries, the half-ounce limit for
letters, and the four ounces for newspapers, still
holding good. the rates are:-
To Australia, letters via San Francisco Except to
New South Wales) cents,via Southampton 10 cents,
via Brindis 10 cents, newspapers, via San Francisco
cents via Southampton cents via Brindisi cents,
China letters. via San Francisco 10 cents, via South
ampton Is cents, via Brindisi 10 cents, newspapers
O. and cents, by the respective routes; British
India, italian mail. letters, 10 cents, newspapers
England 10 CENTS via Brndsi 81 cents, newspapers,
via San francisco cents, via Soutfs upton cents,
Wis Brindis cents.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-05
PORTLAND &NORCESlRR LINE
Portland G. Rochester II. R.
NOVEMBER Is. 1873.

-, Trains will rum as follows
Es srxS%sWa-s leave Grand Trunk Depot,
Portland a. S.S0 q. On. and
Leave Prebe St. Station at TAO a. m, LIP and $50 p.
IN.
1880 "A. IN. Accommodation for Worcester, with
through car tor Boston via Nashua and Lowell
Arrives at Rochester at 9.55 q. M, connect
ing with Eastern and Boston q Maine Rail-
roads) At Nashua 1.47 a. m, Lowell
IzI9 p: ms Rcsson LID p. m., Aver juno.
ton H. p. M, FifchburE lbs p, m, and
w Orcestef at 2.10 p. m, connecting with
trains south and West.
100 r. IA. Steamboat Express for New
London. Through Car for Lowell and
yer and Gress Falls, al f ppins for Mau-
chester anc Concord, at Nashua for
LEVEL and IL ost0n, at Aver snnction
toI Eitchburs and the West via Hoosac
Funues s-ine, at w orcester with Boston
q Albany Railroad tor New York. at Put
nam With Boston g. Philadelphia Express
Line'' fol philadelphia, Baltimore and
wash sn&t0n, at New london with Nor
witch Line Steamers. due at Pier No. 90,
North River, New ork, at 500 a. III.
$50 p. m.-From Preble Street. Mixed for Rcch-
ester and Way Stations.
Trains leave Rochester al 645, 100 m, and $50
p. arriving in Portland at s.35 a. M, LIS
Close connections made at Wesabroox Junction
with through trains of Me- Central R.R, and at
Grand Trunk Depot, Portland, with through
trains of Grand trunk r r
SUNE Az TRAINS Leave PrebIe Street Sta
ton at A2.35 4. W., arriving at Rochester at
$50 p. M, at Boston $40 p. m. and at Worces-
ter 6CO p. NJ, connecting with Boston q AL
bany X. h for New York and the West Leave
Worcester at 90 a. m. Rochester 1890 and
oc7dtf j. M. LUNT, supt.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-05
PORTLAND POST OFFICE.

Once Hours.
Eroms.oo a. m to $50 m, Sundays excepted .,,.,,
from 9 to 10 q M, and 1.3O to 23O p. m.
PORTLAND. ME-, Dec. 5, 1878.
Arrival and Departure Of Mails.
Boston and intermediate offices. Arrive at 1920
and l1.40 D. Close at SIS a. m, and 800 and 500
Boston and the West. Arrive at 5.2Opm.
intermediate or Way Mails via Boston and Maine
Railway. Arrive at 1920 and $40 m. Close at s.lb
Great II; southern and Western. Arrive at 1920
and 1l.4O p. m. Close at 8.15 a. NJ, 800 and SUI
Bangor and connecting routes Arrive at $50 p.
m. Close at 11.3 a. m.
Augusta and connecting routes Arrive az SOY a.
n e. By znq at
m. Close at 10 a m.
Lewiston and Auburn. Arrive at 2.o5 and $50
q. NJ, and $50 p. m. Close at $50 and ll.ao 81 M.
Castine, Deer Isle, sedgwick, s. W. Harbor, Mt.
Desert y0pespert Machias Machaspors hass ma
Passport, via each steamer. Arrive At 800 m.
Foreign Mails, via New York, day prsvlousuo Sail
ing OF steamers. Close at s.15 a; m.
Express, Augusta, Bangor and the East. Arrive
Skowhegan intermediate offices and the north.
Arrive at $50 o m. Close at 11SO a. m.
Skowhegan also closes at 900 pm.
Canada and intermediate offices, via q. I. B. Ar
''g Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island. Close
al 11.3J a. m. and p. m.
Swanton, VT, and intermediate Offices via P. &
o. r, r. Arrive $40 p. m. Close 500 a. m.
Fryeburg Me-, and intermediate Offices via P. &
ORR Arrive 11.15 a. m. Close 200 p. m.
Worcester Mass, and intei mediate offices, P.
s. r. r. K. Arrive 12o m. Close 1918 p. m.
Rochester, N. H., and intermediate offices, via P.
& r. K. R. Close a. m.
Boston and the South and West, Sunday only.
Arrive 12.45 p. m.
Carriers deliveries at ZOO and 1000 a. m. and 100
and 400 p. m. Collections at 700 and Ii 90 a. M.
and 2. 80 and 8 90 p m.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-05
AGRICULTURAL.

Farming in Maine pays when it is intel
ligently and energetically carried on. On
five farms in the town of Maysville the own
ers harvested the present season 10000 bush
els of potatoes, AS tons Of hay, 1920 bushels
OF wheat, 1900 bushels of oats, 1000 bushels
of peas and oats. 1000 bushels of peas, 800
bushels Of buckwheat, besides large quanti-
ties of sugar beets, corn and other vegetable
productions. In addition to all which are to
be reckoned sheep, horses and stock,
one farmer, of the five having eight
horses and sixty head Of Durham cattle.
The exceeding fertility Of the soil may be
judged from the fact that twenty-five bushels
of corn were raised on one-half acre, ninety
bushels of wheat on three acres, 240 bushels
Of peas and oats from another three acres,
100 to $50 tons of beets on nine acres, and
2500 bushels of potatoes on eleven acres.
The Portland daily press., 1878-12-05

Speaking of the business of wheat raising
the Belfast Journal says: "With the great
area of wheat production constantly moving
westward, the time is not distant when Maine
will be able to get her flour cheaper from
Aroostook than from any other point. And
Aroostook could produce bread for the whole
State. She produces bread enough now for
her population Of 5000, possibly enough also
for the large number Of lumbermen employed.
Besides this, Aroostook has increased $1,000
in population since 1860, doing that much to
Offset the migration westward from other
portions of the State. If Maine is to increase
her population it will be chiefly in Aroostook
county. Let then immediate steps be taken
to open its lands to settlement