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barrels Of roo Lbs, Halves Ct 100 lbs. Quarter
bbis Of 30 lbs. Kills OF 20 and IL lbs. We are
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Forming la conjunction with perfect double track
and roadbed combination OF safeguards against &C
cideuis which have rendered them practically inpJs-
EIble.
luLLM4s PALACE CARS are run on all press trains
from New York Philadelphia. Baltimore and Wash
ngtuu 90 Chicago, Cincinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis
aud 81. Louis, WITHOUT CHANGE, and 70 all prin-
cipai point. The far West and South with nut one
change OF cars. Connections made union de-
pots, and assured 90 ali important points.
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In this iiur well illustrate the far-seeing and
liberal policy % its cement. III accordance with
which the utility ouly ii improvement and aot its
cost has been the question oi cuusIdcratI0L. Among
many may be noticed
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-20

The most delicate, tender and ine-havUred salt hsl
We know o. are the Labrador Salmon Trout
They are % for epicure, and nave been. fayOra
bile seasons, sold 90 prices which put them within the
reach % all-i.sr. o.. u. H. Murray go Goida4 f.Hff
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THE BLOCK SYSTEM OF SAFETY SIGNALS,
JANNEi COUPLER. BUFFER AND PLATFORM.
THE WHARTON PATENT SWITCH, and The
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BOSTON BAKED beans, in Cana.
BOSTON GOLDFISH HALLS.
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REVERE HOUSE,, Boston, April %. 1878.
We using the Minced Fish put up by Mayo &
Co. tluu II very excellent article. free from all i'm
purties easily prepared and very desirable fam
lily or hotel use. l recommend II 90 all who use the
article OF hsh. 2. L. WHEELER. Steward.
We have many other equally high and valuable tes-
timonials. Circulars furnished application.
Order OF your Grocer "Fisnm9n, or III they will
not furnish them) direct OF the undermined
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MINOR NOTES.

Cardinal McCloskey presented General
Grant to the Pope last Saturday. On the
same day the Cardinal babe the pope adieu,
and is now ON his way home
The Minnesota Legislature has made a con-
tract with responsible party to furnish the
people of the State with school-books for fif-
teen years for less than half the retail price.
1t is estimated that the people will be saved
$500, 600.
One of the best speakers and most highly
esteemed members of the Virginia Senate is
colored man, William-N Stevens. He is thir
ty years old, was born a slave, and has work
ed his way through college.
1t is announced that Larkin G. Meade has
made design for memorial monument to
Senator Morton which presents a shaft rising
from base and sub-base, and supporting Mt
the height of 10 feet figure of the dead
Senator of heroic size. He is represented in
the attitude of speaking, The cost of a mon
ument executed after this plan is estimated at
$1,000
Mr.. Edmunds has introduced a bill in the
Senate providing for the appointment of a
consulting naturalist, to be attached to the
department of agriculture to investigate diph-
liberia, cattle diseases, hog cholera the cotton
worm, the potato bug, the grasshoppers, and
other matters of that sort.
An ingenious man, who wants to be post
master, in Wisconsin, has sent the President
a map of the town, with all the houses paint-
ed in pink and yelow-the houses whose oc
cupants want "the other fellow" being color
ed yellow, and the petitioners houses being
done in pink.
Gen, Dumont supervising inspector of
steamboats,, has recently returned from an
examination of the wreck of the Metropolis,
off the North Carolina coast. He finds that
either the owners of the vessel or the contiac-
tors were guilty of criminal negligence. The
vessel was an old one the timbers of the up-
per part of the ribs were rotten and new tim
bers were only put in at the bottom. The re-
suit was that when the waves broke over the
vessel the rotten sides broke OFF lust at the
water line where the new timbers running
from the keel stopped, and the whole side
then operated as hinge.
In speaking of Secretary Schurz, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Albany Journal
says that lit is a singular feature of his adj
ministration that the clerks who owe their
appointments to the influence of Senators
Howe, Blaine, Sargent, and any other Sena-
tors who have conspicuously opposed him, are
as absolutely safe in their positions. SO long
as they do their duties well, as if these gem
temen were his warmest friends He does
not revenge himself upon the weak"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

The women of Virginia have begun move
ment for agtating the matter of paying the
State debt. They have an organization with
headquarters at Wamenton in that State, and
hope to render effective aid in bringing the
voters of the commonwealth to realizing
sense of the disgrace of reputation.
The Mississippi Legislature which recently
adjourned passed resolution thanking the
colorcd members for their uniform courtesy
and manly, dignifed devotion to public duty
during the session" and congratulating the
people OF the State upon the selection of Rep
resentahyes so worthy from that race, and
upon the arrival of that happy epoch when
race prejudices and bitterness of feeling exist
in our borders no longer"
The Connecticut insurance committee find
that the Continental Life Insurance Conpany
of Hartford is technically and commercially
solvent with clear surplus of 800, 600
above all Liabilities. Its report has been ac-
cepted by the Legislature.
The savings banks of New York appear by
the annual report to be in very fair condi-
ton. Nine of them failed last year, but the
sum they owed to their depositors. 81 GOO.
600, is little more than the half of one ner
cent. on the total deposits in the State. The
actual loss to depositors is much less than
even that small percentage. In spite Of the
hard times and other unfavorable circum
stances, the increase in the number of depos-
itors during the year was nearly LOCO.
The April dividends of the Boston banks.
which are the poorest ever known in that city.
show the effects of the business depression
and hard times. OF the 90 banks within the
limits of that city only two pay five per cent
dividends on the last six months business,
only IL pay over three per cent, II pay only
two per cent, and ~ pass altogether. The
average is only 2.34 per cent on the banking
capital,
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iy. but to show how these doctrines apply to
every day life. The sermon was both able
and eloauent. and. like the others of the
course, was listened to by a large and appre-
ciative audience Mr. Harris maintained that
in making practical application Of doctrnal
truths to the dnily conduct Of his hearers. the
preacher does not become a ''meddler," as
many are wont to declare he only fulfls his
duty. The minister should be a teacher. A
man among men, acquainted with their ac-
tons. comprehcnding their motives and see
ing their weaknesses and temptations, his po-
sition. ut the same time az the shepherd and
'chosen one" Of his flock tends to exalt him
above the mists Of prejudice and clouds Of
passion and enables him TO see and point the
way to those below Like the position of
the general on the hilltop, or that Of the sail
or on the lookout, so is that Of the pastor in
relation to his flock. True, the minister may
not dictate or prescribe for any individual
particular course Of action, but he may and
should insist that his course of action be con-
sstent with conscience: that in commercial
and business affairs he shall practice the rules
of honesty and fair dealing that in his po-
litcal action he shall work, not for his own
private interests, but for the good Of all that,
if lawyer, he shall seek, not to stir up strife
and litigation. but to further the ends of JUS
tice that, if physician, he shall not become
SO absorbed in the interests of his profession
as to ignore the dictates of humanity that,
if welding the sceptre of authority, he shall
not trample upon the rights Of those whose
lives and interests are in his keeping. As
one of the worst plague-spots Of modern So
cicty the speaker denounced Idleness dwell
mingling anecdote with invective, and apply
inc his remarks to each sex in turn. Declar-
ing that idle women were more TO be ptied
than idle men because of less opportunity to
labor. he nstanced the two subjects of educa-
ton in household duties and in the laws of
health as among those in which our young
women are most conspicuously and shameful
w deficient and from this he went on to
speak OF the movement for the higher educa-
ton of women to which he alluded in earn
est and hopeful terms The trouble with our
young men, said Mr.. Harris. is that they ey-
pect too much they lack patience, and are
too easily discouraged by difficulties. Not all
work is agreeable but take what you can get,
and ere long better opportunity will open
before you. Mr. Harris closed with final
word to his congregation declaring his sym
patty with them in all their trials and diff
culties and his ambition to be their true and
faithful teacher and "a helper of their joys
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

IL Barker has taken the place Of Thayer
in the Glen House
Rev. R. Il. Fay has moved from the
johnson to the Jillson place, owned by f. C.
Starr,
Albert Hicks moves to Guilford. and
Winslow Reed is to occupy his house.
Stephen Roberts has moved to the Jason
johnson place.
c. O. johnson has been appointed adj
mnistrator of the estate of his father, Jason
johnson, deceased.
Otis Pike has bought II. W. Lynde's
blacksmith shop for $50.
-Rey. j. L. Davenport of Chicopee. Mass.
preached at the Universalst church last Sab-
BATH and will preach next Sabbath, April 7tb
on individual Influence and the Universalist
view of Hell and its Punishments.
Officers recently elected in school district
NO ? for the ensuing year are as follows;
Moderator, ~ L. Stetson clerk A A R,t
terheid collector, Ezra Stetson treasurer.
D. W. Hatch auditors, A. A. Butterfield, L.
bro|n, w, p. Jones prudential committee. E.
H. Roberts. There are to be three terms of
school of ten weeks each, and one or two
teachers at the discretion of the committee.
VIM. L, Carey has removed to this place
from Wilmington.
e, L. Fuller has been chosen vice presi-
dent OF the Wilmington Savings Bank
The Grange is comforting degrees of
Philander and Minerva.
E L. Putnams dry house recently took
hre' but 1t was soon discovered and extin-
guished
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

The reception accorded to Senator Howes
speech by the mass ofRepublican newspapers
throughout the country proves what our lead
ing members of Congress ought at length to
comprehend, that attacks upon President
Hayes which have their only foundation in
party feuds or personal ill-will are not mat
tiers which the country desires to see. The
popular feeling is that Congressman can be
i'll better business. To the small politician
breathing the intoxicating atmosphere which
peryades the national capital, all objects
men, measures and motives parties, princi-
pies and Presidents-no doubt appear in mag
nifed or distorted proportions; and it is little
wonder that to Congressional eyes the small
affairs of detail of party interest or of person.
al feeling, sometimes appear to be of greater
moment than any and all considerations of
right and wrong, of patriotism and the pub
lie veal. To counteract this tendency, and
to set right the politicians at Washington. it
is essential that they take frequent drafts of
their native air. or, what sometimes answers
the same purpose, that they have waited to
them an occasional breeze fresh from the
country, in order to correct their vision and
enable them to see as with the eyes of their
constituents just such breeze has now
been waited to Congress from the North, and,
as was to have been expected of a northern
breeze, it seems to have had most cooling
and salutary effect upon the heated and self
deluded members who We're trying to pick
quarrel with the President. Perhaps it is not
too late for them TO learn that what the coun-
try desires of them is something of the same
absorption Of self and party in the higher in
terests of country aud humanity, the same
dignity and manliness of bearing, and the
salns talent for honest work, that characterize
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The Good Eject Of IHowes Attack on
the President.

Washington correspondence OF the Boston HERALD
President Hayes has certainly been wiser
than his friends this week They went to
him and told him that the "few feeble re-
marks" of the Hon. Timothy Howe ought to
be answered in the Senate. Mr. Hayes saw
that no answer from his friends was needed.
and told them so. The Democratic Senators,
whom Mr.. Howe sought to stir up, have also
seen the point, and have let the Wisconsin
Senator alone. Nothing has happened since
the assembling of the present Congress so
fortunate for the President rs the attack by
Mr.. Howe. The latter undoubtedly supposed
when he was making his speech that he was
leading a host of anti-Hayes politicians. who
were about to overwhelm the President 1t
is alreody apparent that his attack so far
from being IAN opening gun" will mark the
closing of period of excessive dissatisfaction
with the Administiation-dis dissatisfaction not
on the part of the people, but Il portion of the
Republican politicians. We shall hear no
more at present, l fancy, of that great
speech which Senator Conkling has been SO
long preparing. The truth is that the Conk-
ling crowd have been completely foiled in
their efforts to get possession of Hayes or to
deprive him of the good opinion of the body
of the Republican party. The strong con
domination of Howe's speech by all the lead
ing Republican newspapers helps to keep the
heads of the people clear on the political situ-
ton, and thus the Wisconsin Senator has done
Hayes and everybody else real service by
making his speech. Concerning the motives
of the attack there is really nothing that can
be said by any one who feels wish to be
kind to Mr. Howe. | think it can be said
with truth that, while no other Republican
OF prominence has asked so much of HIVES in
the way of patronage, there is no senator
whose support could have been had on n
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West Dunn nIerAIOn.

A town meeting has been called to see if
the town will assist in the construction of the
Brattleboro and Whitehall railroad.
The school in district No. closed with
an entertainment March u. The pupils each
took part in the various exercises. at the
close of which paper was read by Misses
Lizzie Knapp and Oily Roel. Wells S Brooks
Of Brattlcboro, the teacher. was highly es-
teemed by both parents and pupils The
kind wishes of all who know him attend him
as he continues his studies
The ladies' benevolent society. und.r the
supervision of the president, Mrs. Harris. are
toiling on, and although their numbers are
few, they have through their diligence been
enabled to aid in many benevolent objects.
The church, during the past winter, has
been undergoing repairs, and the ladies' soci-
ETY. have freely contributed Elder Carpen-
ter, who resides in Townshend, has supplied
the pulpit the past year. He has met with
us every Sabbath, when health would permit.
regardless Of the wind or weather
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

The spring term of the Academy opened
on Wednesday.
At the recent school meeting in District
No. D. proposition to build new school
house was dismissed by small majority but
the present house is in a bad condition. and n
petition for another meeting has been in cir
culaton.
Mr., Elbridge Gerry, who removed from
this place to Vineland, n. j., some years ago.
has been in town the past week, with view
of coming back here to reside. Both he and
his will be warmly welcomed.
E. R. Atwood has sold his farm at pri-
vate sale to j. II. Plummer
F. Curtis proposes to visit the Paris Ex-
position for the purpose of exhibiting his au-
tomato screw-making machines.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

Winhall held a town meeting on Tuesday
of last week which failed by vote of 80 to
;iS to pledge the aid of the town toward the
construction of the Brattleboro and Whitehall
railroad. Another meeting will be held next
Tuesday when it is believed that vote of
aid i'll the sum of ut least 5000 will be car
ried Wardsboro will hold a meeting between
the 10Th and 10Th inst, when Il result favora-
BILE to the road is confidently looked for. The
critical point has now been reached when the
success or failure of the enterprise rests with
the three towns of Wardsboro. Windham and
Winhall. The amount asked from each of
them is small but the sum in the aggregate
is one which will decide whether the road is
to be built during the season which is now
opening These towns should remember that
every friend of the enterprise looks to them
to see them fulfil their pledges, and no one of
them can afford to be held responsible for de-
featng the construction of the road
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

Montgomery Blair of Maryland has been
made happy by the passage, by the Legisla-
ture of that State, of q resolution presented
by him which looks to the unseating of Presi-
dent Hayes and Vice President Wheeler, and
that distinguished citizen is now sure-or, at
least, he says he is sure-that Tilden will be
in the White House before the year is ont.
Should the resolution be signed by the Gov
ernor of Maryland, the next act in the farce
will be the introduction in Congress of Il bill
to enable the Attoney-General of Maryland
to appear in the Supreme Court of the United
States to ask that effect be given to the cleo
toral vote of Maryland by directing that the
electoral vote of Louisiana and Florida be
counted for Tilden and Hendricks. This. it
is claimed can be done under the provisions
of the Electoral Count bill. On the contrary,
Senator Whyte of Maryland says that any at
torney of standing knows that the only posi-
BILE way in which the President could be re-
moved would be through a quo warranto fled
by the Attorney General of the United States,
in the Supreme Court of the United States,
and he further says that he feels ashamed
that the Legislature of his State has been so
foolish. In view of all the contingencies in
the case We do not imagine that anybody will
he in hurry to base any definite plans or ex-
pectations upon the probable or possible out
come of this latest Democratic wild-goose
chase.
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A Fnithfni r,unIic Omccr.

The bitter personal attack of Senator Blaine
upon Secretary Schurz for his efforts to pro-
tcct government property has certainly not
injured the Secretary. The attempt to ex-
cite prejudice against him rs n foreign-bom
citizen and to represent the timber thieves
as pioneers carrying the flag, was ingenious
but unsuccessful. Secretary Schurz prompt
ly published u statement of the facts. He
said
Some Senator's attack the Interior Depart
mcnt fer doing thing it has not done, and
scarcely mention the thing it really has done.
We were alraigned for having prosecuted set
tiers and miners who wanted little wood
and timber for their stores aud mines, while
we really had only prosecuted spectators
who had deprecated upon the public lands on
large scale for the sake of personal profit.
Under the instructions of this department not
settler or miner has been touched except
where persons have cut timber under the COW
er OF fraudulent presumption or homestead
claims. When these spectators have OBJ
tanned from five TO eight dollars per cord for
wood, aud from twenty to sixty dollars per
thousand feet for manufactured lumber which
they have taken from public lands, they can
afford to pay the government at least n small
part OF their profit, rs people in other parts
VI ~ County, nay 10 10 ,,
As 10 uepopualhB the territories there
are 10 signs of that, either in Montana or any
other Territory, in consequence of the action
VI 'l' INFERIOR apartment pGt II Is motto
I ,,Iis i"c. ,'i"t .no consumption u OF umoer
Ei'ieh PeiSTus '"he Ior holhlnB rom ihe pup
i i' i'l!.'' WIN oe lHIhitoy more "asteinl IMAM
u NV nav 10 I"'y lor H. IN inns way the
u"'"'i''Si,tl' W 'ueS3 territories VIII very
fooh We AtlII'u Oh tl'ir forests ana the
I ',I one destroyed thG monntaih-sldes
WIN remain uare forever II mat goes on III
Rod lonerr tbcn tbesa ,rerritari"s viii, ~iii be-
come in Dart uninhobitable md denopulnted
especially the valleys, which depend upon a
regular supply of water. If the consumption
VI ''iipet can DE reduced 10 'ne actual neces-
va ~. 1olir y! w. "'''on VI ',ic gov
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

Our railroad commissioners, Messrs. Bur-
dltt Wheeler and Green, completed the can
vass of the town in sixteen days and obtained
the assent to the towns railroad vote of a
majority of the taxpayers and about two
thirds of the grand list.
Prof Cressy's lecture Monday evening.
on the diseases of cows incident TO the period
OF calying, was able and instructive one that
every farmer in the county should hear. and
one that we are glad to say many did hear, as
Iownshend, Brookline, Putney, Newfano and
Dummerston We're well represented. The
trustees of the Vermont university are doing
good work in bringing these practical, COM
mon sense lectures before the farmers and
the farmer who fails to attend one when it
comes almost to his door is not up to the
standard of his calling