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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04
Chinc.r Ma,Im. and Pro,.rn..

The finest roads do not go far.
1t is the rich who want most things.
Raillery is the lightning Of calumny.
Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.
Great souls have wills others only feeble
wishes.
Attention to small things is the economy of
virtue.
All is lost when the people fear death less
than poverty.
He who lets things be given to him is not
good at taking.
Who is the greatest liar; He who speaks
most Of himself
Man may bend to virtue, hut virtue cannot
bend TO man
One may do without mankind but one has
need of friend.
The court is ike the sea everything de-
pends upon the wind.
One forgiyes everything to him who forgives
himself nothing.
The pleasure of doing good is the only one
that never wears out.
The tree oyerthrown by the wind had more
branches than roots.
Receive your thoughts like guests and treat
your d sires like children.
One never needs ones wits so much as
when one has to do with fool.
For him who does everything in its proper
time, one day is worth three.
The less indulgence one has for ones self
the more one may have for others.
He who wishes to secure the good of others
has already secured his own.
A fool never admires himself so much as
when he has committed some folly.
At court people sing that they may drink
in village people drink that they may sing.
Towers are measured by their shadows, and
great men by those who are envious of them
The dog in the kennel barIls at his feas
but sthe dog who is hJnting does not mind
them.
When men are together they listen to one
another, but women and girls look at one an
other
He who finds pleasure in vice, and pain
in virtue. is n novice both in the one and the
other
The truths that we least wish to hear are
those which it is most to our advantage to
know.
The wise man does not speak of all he does
but he does nothing that cannot be spoken
Of
We must do quickly what there is no hurry
for, to be able to do slowly what demands
haste.
What pleasure it is to give There would
be no rich people if they were capable of feel
ing ihis.
The way to glory is through the palace, to
fortune through the market, to virtue through
the desert.
If the heart does not go with the head, the
best thoughts give only the light. This is
why science is so little persuasive and probity
so eloquent
The rich find relations in the most remote
foreign countries the poor not even in the
bosom of their own families.
Virtue does not give talents, but it supplies
their place. Talents neither give virtue nor
supply the place of it.
The prison is shut night and day, yet 1t is
always full the temples are always open, and
yet you find no one in them.
Whoever makes great fuss about doing
good does very little he wlo wishes TO be
seen and noticed when he is doing good will
not do it long he who mingles humor and
caprice with it will do it badly he who only
thinks of avoiding faults and reproaches will
never acquire virtues.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

The HoRRIBLE FATE or Mrs. MARY MAIZE
GAN, the South Boston woman who was burn
ed to death Sunday night by the explosion of
kerosepe lamp thrown at her by Cornelius
Tobin, was the result of one of those drunken
rows frequent in Irish tenement houses. The
Mahegans occupied the third floor and the To
bins the second, and all hands had been glo-
rously drunk since Saturday. Sunday after
noon they all engaged in genuine Donny-
brook scrimmage, which ragged from story to
story as one party after another gained the
upper hand. The truth of Mrs. Mahegan's
death, as near as the police can get at it, is
that she was descending the stairs for n raid
on the Tobin fortress when Cornelius seized
the lamp and hurled it at the enemy. 1t miss
ed its mark and struck the step at her feet,
breaking and exploding and covering the I'M
happy woman with flames in an instant Her
agonized screams brought three men to her
aid, who eXtinguished the blaze and carried
her to her room, and soon afterward she was
taken to the hospital Even the terrible ca
tastrophe did not sober her, and through the
hours of her suffering she continued to pour
out screams oaths and the vilcst language.
until about midnight she died. Tobin was
arrested soon after the affair occurred but
was unable TO give any connected account of
the case, though he maintains that he drop
ped the lamp by accident. He is notorously
one of the ugliest characters in his ward, and
there is little doubt that the accepted version
of the affair is the true one.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

A NICE Po1Nr AT LAW PATHS PAMELA
Snow a town pauper Of Coventry, Ct, has
had singularly checkorcd matrimonial ca
reer. When II years of age she married Viii
liam bly, of Springfield, who deserted her af-
ter three days of supposed felicity. Hearing
of his death she married David Rogers of
Hadlyme, six months after which the sup
posedly defunct BY appeared, but was bought
off by Rogers for 81 and silver watch Rog-
ers soon after went to sea, and was reported
hung at the yard-arm as n pirate. She then
married Frederick Wheeler Of Columbia, and
had one child by him, after which event Rog-
ers, as good as several hanged pirates sud
denly made his appearance drove Wheeler
away and lived with her nine years, when he
died in good earnest. Five months after this
sad event she married Henry Myers of Will
liamsburg. l.. l., but was divorced from him
less than 20 months later. In the same year
she bestowed her hand upon James Davis and
moved TO Wisconsin, where she abode with
him for few years, afterward getting di-
vorce and wedding James Marshall. She
cheered him for about seven years, when she
got another divorce. came back to Connecti-
cut and married Emanuel Anthony, who tired
of her in six months and skipped out between
two days. Since then, though she may have
set many traps, Mrs. PATHS Pamela Snow
Marshall Anthony has had naught to do with
matrimony Seven in all, to their sorrow
apparently, had her TO wife and her case
would be nuts" to the Sadducees, did any
exist at present.
Out of this affair has grown a singular COM
plication, for the town of Coventry, on whose
hands she now is, has sued the town of Man
chester for her support, claiming that she is
settled there by reason of the fact that her
third husband, Frederick A. Wheeler is set
tied in Manchester. 1t is claimed that her
marriage with Rogers was void because BLY,
was alive at the time, but that Wheeler mar
ryiug her subsequently to Bly's death, the
marriage to Wheeler was legal. On the other
hand, the town of Manchester claims that the
BLY, whom it is claimed died in 1887 is not
identified as the man who married her in 1885:
that the man BY who married her, being
proved to have been alive in 1887 presump-
lively was alive in ISL when she married
void that the BLY, whom Coventry claims
married her in 1850 and who died in 1887,
was an entirely different man in character
and everything from the man whom she says
she married under the name Of Bly, 1t is al
so claimed that the marriage with Wheeler in
1871 was void. because at that time Wheelers
step mother was the sister of this woman.
married to Wheeler's father and living with
him as his wife, the law prohibiting marriages
within certain degrees, as in this case the
marriage of a man with his aunt Lawyers
nOtoriously delight in puzzling cases, and if
this one does not please them they must be
hard to suit
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

HENRY VI. STANLEY proved himself faith
ful in following out the unfinished explora-
tions of Livingstone. and now he shows an
equal loyalty in pursuing the brave Scotch
mans great purpose Of warfare ON the horri-
ble slave trade Of interior Africa. Having
taken his African fellow-explorers around the
Cape to Zanzibar, and there discharged them
from service, he took occasion to admonish
Seyyid Burghash of the yillainies of his Off
GERS and subjects engaged in that trade, and
that the civilized world would take it into
their own hands if he did not put it down
Stanley obtained from Seyyid promise to
recall the present governor of Unyamyembe,
who is a fragrant offender, and substitute
man who will labor TO suppress the traffic
Mr.. Stanley's last dispatch TO the Herald was
dated at Alden in Arabia. and he is expected
soon in England, where he will get out his
book. in which the infamies of the slave trade
will be even more fully depicted than by
Lieut.. Cameron.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

SIcRENISG HoRRORs AT PLEyNA When the
Turkish stronghold of Plevna was captured
by the Russians, famished dogs We're found
feeding ON the bodies of both the dead and
the still surviving wounded The savage
howls of the greedy brutes as they tore the
putrid flesh of the dead, or crunched the
bones between their teeth, the cries and
groans of the wounded, as they vainly strug-
gled with the dogs, were sickening and horri-
BILE Birds We're pecking at skulls, hopping
from body TO body with their beaks and plu-
mage besmeared with human blood, and
screaming with fendish delight. Dogs fought
among themselves and bird struggled with
bird for the possession of morsel of human
hesh, and the most indescribable horror pre-
vailed In one house alone 81 dead and 53
wounded Turks were found. Some of the
former were half decomposed and putrid, and
the wounded in n condition that can be better
imagined than described Some of the wound
ed were able to crawl about, and clutched at
odd morsels of food found in the hands of the
dead, devouring it with fendish avidity. But
Thousands were utterly helpless and awaited
death or suecor with listless fatalism. There
were 1900 prisoners huddled together ON the
banks of the Vid, and the horrors of their po-
sition equalled those of the plague Living
and dead We're piled together promiscuously
in heaps like wood and carted away There
were only three carts available for this work
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

Smith (after telling 'whopper'O; as
sure you, JONES' if hadn't seen it myself
wouldn't have believedit Jones; Hahn
well, you know, didn't see it,
"A young lady, following Shaksperian
play with the book, remarked to her compan-
ion; How imperfect those actors None of
them say exit when they 90 Of"
"A brave young man in neighboring
town got patriotically intoxicated the other
night, and while in that condition resolved to
avenge Clusters death-and next morning not
one sound wooden Indian could be found in
the place.-N NOrIfstOoR Herald
. "A rough old clergyman once took for his
text that passage of the Psalms, II said in my
haste all men are liars" Looking up appar-
entity as if lie saw the Psalmist standing be-
fore him. he said "You said it in your haste
David. If you had been here, you might
have said it after delibemtion."
The Graphic has a picture of disconso-
late school boy seated on the dry stone door
steps contemplating his sled and skates, with
this adaptation az explanatory
''The summers long, he said;
Snow eometh not, he sAidi
I'm weary and a weary,
Aud wish that were dead"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

PRAYER is too pure and holy an ordinance
to be made the tool of supernaturalists. 1t is
the simplest and most natural law within the
grasp of weak humanity, and the benefits it
confers are inestimable; but it never spreads
a table, pays debt builds church or sus-
taius an orphan asylum. 1t can nourish the
spiritual system with its invisible food until
the recipient is enabled to make a long jour
ney in the desert of life upon the strength re-
ceived therefrom, but it will never make the
sun less intense nor remove the burning sand
1t is the only way by which the finite may ap-
proach the infinite and commune with the UNI
seen and it is nothing less than desecration
to endow it with the powers of material jug
glery. The true and spiritually minded Chris
tian should leave the wonder stories and all
accounts of miraculous interposition to the
sect that makes spiritual transformations
specially and themselves the medium of its
operation, and should feel that it is privilege
to commune with God in the simplest and
sweetest way that man will ever know.--AM-
dHce
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

FLORA TEMPLE the renowned trotter.
died near Philadelphia Dec. 2lst. She was
born in 1915, in Oneida county, N. Y. When
four years old, she was thought to be so un-
serviceable that her owner sold her for S13
After passing through several hands she was
bought by G.. f. Perrin of New York for $3.50,
and he had her prepared for the trotting
course. BY 1851 she had secured a record of
2:2i!, ard was sold to William Mcdonald for
$1,000. In n contest at Kalamazoo, Mich,
she trotted a mile in , 1872. In the spring of
1850 she beat Patchen at the Union course i'll
? 2l, ? - and ? 2ll. The government con-
tiscated her in 1861 because of her owners Sc
cession sympathies, and her trotting days
were ended Mcdonald died in 1864. and
Mr.. Welch of Chestnut Hill, Pa, bought her
for 5000, and her last public appearance was
at Dubois's track when Gen. Grant reviewed
the great trotters Her hind legs failing her
soon after, she was thenceforth kept for
breeding
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04
Miscellany.


Inc Mheque OF MOutha.
with bright or sombre gear,
with smile or frown or song,
In a masquc the months go gliding
Perpetually along.
First January is here,
With eyes that keeuly glow
A frost-mailed warrior siriding
A shadowy stecd Of snow.
Then February, form
pale-yestured, wildly fair
One Of the North Winds daughters,
with icicles in her hair.
Then March, black-robed in storm,
The dread Of home-bound ships,
Who flies over lands ind waters
With trumpet at her lips.
Then April, gloom and shine.
Sad, merry, wilful, meek,
With crocus In her tresses
And with tears upon her cheek.
Then May, the nymph divine,
with shoulders white as curds,
O'ercanopied by caresses
OF butterflies and Of BIRDS.
Then June, whore beauties vie
With the roses richest shade,
So sweet as to set us dreaming
That rose has grown maid.
Then passionate young July,
That proud, hot-tempered lord,
Who bears, though Of genial seeming,
A lightning-nash for a sword.
Then August, grave, serene,
A dame Of stately grace,
with the touch of time Ia lid surely
on her lovely dimpled face.
Then soft September, seen
In nunlike veil Of mist
With lashes that hide demurely
Two glimmers Of amethyst.
Then flushed October, she
Whose Joys with pain are hlent,
Like queen whose soul is aching
Amid pomps magnificent.
Then dull November, free
From hope, desire or care,
Having done with all heartbIeaking,
Being simply cold despair.
And last December drear,
With piteous low-droOped head,
In a voice Of desolatiou
Crying out, "The year is dead"
And so, with changeful gear,
With smile or frown or song,
The months, in strange variation,
Are ever gliding along.
Edgar Farce
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

IHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF natural HIS
TORY in New York, which was formally OPEN
ed to the public 10y President Hayes during
his recent visit to the city. is situated between
'1th and sjth streeta, and sth and nth ave
nues, and the project is the most ambitious
plan which has ever yet been attempted on
this continent to make science popular and
difuse a knowledge Of its collections and
achievements among the people. The muse
um was chartered in lsGs. and the corner
stone of the building now open to the public,
WAS laid in June 1874. by President Grant.
The building now completed at cost of
e1OOOO0 is, however, but fragment of the
buildings proposed. which are to cover res
ervation three times as large as that occupied
10y the British museum and whose completion
VIII occupy at least quarter of u century vet.
When completed the buildings are to be $50
feet in length by GjO feet in width and there
are TO he eight lofty towers and dome as
large as that of the mosque OF St Sophia at
Constantinople. The collections already
made for the museum are very valuable and
are rapidly increasing.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

ly be said to have slept and when, about
morning, little Margaretawoke m altered crea-
ture-pale languid, and unable to turn her
self on her lowly bed, but with meaning in
her eyes memory in her mind, affection in
her heart, and GOODNESS in all her veins, n hap
py group were watching the first faint smile
that broke over her features and never did
one who stood there forget that Sabbath
morning Of the New Year on which she seem
ed to look round upon them all with gaze of
fair and sweet bewilderment like one half
conscious of having been rescued from the
power of the grave Lights dnd ShddO,rs IF
Cc0tfisL Jifs
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

4 HORRIBLE DEATH. The English papcrs
contain accounts of a frightful accident which
lately occurred at "a blast furnace in South
Stockton. The hopper of furnace was
charged 10y man named James Higgins and
other workmen with limestone etc. and in
order to allow the material to fall into the
furnace an attempt was made to lower the
bella large conical shaped apparatus fitting
into the bottom OF the hopper about two feet
into broader space. The bell had become
Jammed into the upper part of the ring and
could not be stirred After several ineiectu-
al attempts TO free it, Higgins procured a
large hammer, leaped on to the bell and
struck it blow. The apparatus immediately
sank into the broader space, and Higgins went
with it. A groan was heard, but nothing
could be seen of the poor fellow as he passed
swiftly with the material into the furnace.
The blast was at once thrown off and pow
erful current of air forced in, but the horrible
smell which arose proved that the poor mans
body was being rapidly consumed. and not
the slightest portion of it was recovered. A
coroner was summoned, but could hold no in
quest. rs there were no remains to view. A
Roman Catholic priest read the burial service
of the church, on top of the furnace, shortly
after the accident
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04
CURRENT NEWS PARAGRAPIss.

The L1QUoR TRArF1c.-From Trustworthy
figures just compiled regarding the liquor
traffic, it appears that there are nearly twice
as many drinking saloons in New York as in
any other State. The exact number is %,
Sj4. Illinois follows with 10, ,54s, Pennsylva-
mia with 10, lOj, Ohio with 1l,2is, and Cali
fornia with S,lOS. In Massachusetts there
are only G,3sG saloons, while in the compare
lively insignificant District Of Columbia, the
seat of National Government, there are no
less than !, lO5. North Carolina heads the
list with I POS distilleries, while New York
has only II distilleres. In addition to these
however, there are $40 beer brewerics in the
State. On an average there is in the Union
one drinking saloon for every two hundred
and eighty inhabitants. Considering the pro-
portion of the population, most of the whisky
is consumed by our brethren in the South,
while nearly ali the beer IS drank by the peo-
pie OF the West and North.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04

and the confusion was indescribable. Os-
mans bravery Is stained and blackened by his
treatment of the Russian wounded that fell
into his hands. His gallant defense of Plevna
for a moment blinded the vctors and Europe
to the fact that nll prisoners were butchorcd
by the troops under Osmans command
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04
VOL. XIV.
The Vermont Phoenix.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY ny
ruENCII ~ STEDMAN.
w Granite Row, Main street,
BRATTLEBORo, VI.

r,ov.-ro County subscribers, 500 per Snnuh !;
.sS,cribers outside Of Windham county, s2'2oi al
'l!' 'l!'r ~ AnyrRrtsING made known on application.
ns,tbs and Marriages inserted gratis Ooitu-
. ,i,ss or resolutions Cards Of Thanks, &C. lOc
Zine Of ten words s-.,,,,.
d. L. FRENCH. ~ -
New Ulm weekly review., 1878-07-24
Notice Of Mortgage Sale.

Default having been made in the conditions Of
certain mortgage executed and delivered by Henry
Rehfeld, OF the City Of st. Paul, Ramsy Co., Minn
Mortgagor, dated thefonrtecnth day of March. ID.
Eighteen Hundred and Seventy, and recorded AZ q
mortgage In the office Of the Register of Deeds OF
the County of Brown, in the State of Minnesota on
the 21st day of March,, A. D., 1870 at six O'Clock.
P. M. in Book ''E,'' Of mortgages on pages 325'
326 and 1927, on which there is claimed to be due AZ
the date of this notice the amount of Two Hundred
and fifteen dollars and sixty five cents rS2l5.651
been instituted to the debt secured bY said
mortgage or any part thereof. -"
Notice Is hereby given, that by virtue of power
OF sale contained in said mortgage and of the statute
In such cases madesand provided, the said mort
gage will be foreclosed by sale of the mortpaged
premises therein described, which sale will be made
at the front door of the Court House. in the CITY Of
New Ulm, in the County ofBrown and State of Min
nesota, at public auction by the Sheriff of said
County, ON Monday, the 11th day of September.
1875 at ten O'clock in the forenoon, to satisfy the
amount which shall be due on said mortgage. with
the interest thereon and costs and expenses of sale
and twenty five dollars attorneys fees as stipulated
In said mortgage in case Of foreclosure.
The premises described in said mortgage and 10
TO be sold are the lot, piece parcel land situat
ed in the county of Brown and State of Minnesota
and known and described as follows, to Wit:
The North east quarter Of the Southeast quarter
and the Southwest quarter of the South east 0uar
ter of Section number ten [10l inTownship number
one hundred and ten C11O] in Range number thirty.
two 1927 containing eighty 1901 acres according to
the Government survey thereof.
Dated at St. Paul, Mimi, this 23d day Of Jn1v A.
D., 1878. JOHN ]. SCHILLER, Mortgages.
THOMAS HOWARD, Atty for Mortgages.
New Ulm weekly review., 1878-07-24
OUR TEA PLANTATION.

AS we were sitting in our ssSanc-
tum the other day, vacantly starring
through the window in the hope that
our eye might catch something upon
which to base a local item, Mr.. Kirsch-
stein handed us q package which he
said had just been received in the
mail. A glance at the package con-
yinced us that it was from Gen.La Due,
the commissioner of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, and upon
opening it we found it to contain ten
very nice tea-plants. The General is
propogating the ea-plant in the govern
ment gardens, in large quantities, and
is extensively introducing them into
the southern States most suitable for
tea culture, and most promising results
are being experienced. The General
says that the tea.plant will stand the
cold down to a temperature equal to
zero, without injury, but below that
point it sucumbs to the cold-or, in
other words it freezes to death. Hence,
as there are seyera! months in MINES
sofa in each year when mercury ranges
considerably below zero, our hopes of
raising tea lin any great quantities
are not very bright. However, we
have set out our plants, and they are do
ing nicely; and, if we transfer them to
our cellar in winter time, we may, in
course Of time, raise tea enough, pro.
vided we mix a few wagon loads of
plumtree leaves with what we raise,
to supply our local trade. We will be
prepared to fill orders for gunpowder
tea, green tea, black tea, Japan tea, or
plumtree leave tea, we cannot say
which; but it will be tea all the same,
and Of quality that will astonish the
natives. Little did we ever think
when boy, that we should ever grow
up to be the owner of a great tea plan
tation- send in your orders.