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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

is q wide-awake. public spirited man. heartily
IN favor Of the railroad and randy to pay his
just proportion Of its cost Mr. j. ON the
contrary, is a man who only looks out for
number one. cares nothing for the general
welfare Of the community in which he lives.
and never puts his name upon subscription
paper. The proposed railroad promises to
result in equal benefit TO both A and Il. a
subscription of $1,000 from each is needed for
the success Of the enterprise. 4 is ready TO
ray his share. bnt b refuses to pay dollar.
Now is it right that 4 should have to double
his subscription to make good the deficiency.
and thus bear the expense Of building up the
business of his rival? Or. in the case Of men
who are not rivals in business is it just that a
few who have regard to the public prosperity
and the woli-being Of future generations,
should bear the burden Of improvements
which. in a greater or less degree, are for the
benefit of all; For ourselves We fail to see
the superior justice Of such a method.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

For the past three weeks our local railroad
question has been before the people purely
upon its merits. When the meeting was held
January 2Gth, to see if the town would vote 10
aid the two-feet-gauge road to South London
derry, the general question was one which had
been but little thought about, its merits were
not generally understood, many misconcep-
tons existed, and the unfavorahle result of
that meeting was not surprise even to the
best friends of the road. But since that time
an entire change in the state of public feeling
has taken place. Every sort Of necessary and
desirable information relative to the enter
prise has been freely given, and the subject
has been constantly read about, and talked
about, and thought about, and the more the
people have considered it, calmly and candid
ly, the more have they come to realize that
the matter is one which has every argument
in its favor and against which no valid and
well subStantiated argument can be brought.
In the first place candid men have become
convinced that a two-feet-gauge road is en-
tirely feasible and practicable for every pur-
pose of our West River valley traffic; in the
next place they have come more and more TO
feel that the question is not one to be decid-
ed on a snap Judgment or upon any feeling
OF private pique or personal prejudice, but
that it is grave and important subject clear
ly embracing the whole question of the
growth or decline of all our local interests ;
aud lastly they have found themselves face
10 face with the stubborn fact that if we do
not now secure to ourselves the opening up of
the West River valley and the surplus trade
of all its towns, the people at the north of the
county stand ready, without delay, to send a
road from Bellows Falls up to the head wa
tiers Of the West River, and thus completely
rob us of the trade Of the whole valley. I'm
der weighty considerations like these it is not
strange that thoughtful men have found Their
scruples against the general principle of the
bonding of towns giving place to a feeling
that the present instance is one in which the
ordinary arguments against town aid to rail
roads do not apply. Day by day new con
yerts TO the road have been made every day
the public feeling in favor of the enterpris,
has grown stronger and more unmistakable
aHd Wa only express our candid conviction
shen We say that We believe that next Satur
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

~. l.ii.,. ti,t u,, t,,,,, ,.,..r had 81 l,at..r
o,ror,i,,i,, 70, nm, itself in ,b,. same unfortu.
nat. and embarrassing po.ition with respect to
IN. trad. of FL, surrounding country that
Nro,.f,,,li.r ,.,y, stands in than Br,ttleboro
ha. to.la, Ou, ro.;tiou ot tli. time is Ger.
,,i,l, ,,,. ..u.ii.,. to what AIoutp.lier's WAS
when four orr five. v.ar- AGO. while the Port
l.rl ,-.l o,j.,.l.rr, -,ad ,,.,. in, r,roress of
.,,.t-7,.,.o, III. ,.,oi,rtors came to the reo.
ti.t t.,,,,, ,,,l ,.ro,,is.d If they ,yo,ild
.f..--n, oo ~, aid Of tba roaJ to hiring il to
,,.i tlr,..b NI,ptrali,r For rsplv the Mont.
,.r.- ,,.,,I. ,,ilt'vl,.j larl. in the traces
anil mia ..rl,,,.r,,,, ,-ot f., iri,,., fine road
l.,. ANYHOW, whether we holm or not we
r,.,. ,. ,..li y,,it and have If ,yitbopt having
f.,'u R,t t... ,,.,r,,,.r- Of fine. ,,tarrri.s
.,,g tl,, ,.ati .r IL, arotl,.r LIGHT and ono day
1Ior,n.li.r ,yol... M, Il, ind III. Portland and
Ocs.r.1.pr, road Luil. I'D mile. TO fine north
,fl.r and tb. who'll --,i. of that saction
which had formerly, come to her Golfers. car.
ri-d AWAY. from her. east and west bevoud
Lor. of recall Ina l.su.r,it. and uuovail-
inc effort 70 retrieve her fallen fortunes.
Vo,,t,,ali,r ,,,,-. ~3-o noo to ssc,re tbc ron.
.,ruetion Of III. Well. River r1ad an enter
,,ri.s who's. ,or,tl.rio, ba- benefited bcr lut
ittl. l,y ,oi.,.a,i-ou. and She NOW groaps NM
5., fiji. l.,t,. al. Of. q, 9,q-t.. NJ 81 million
dollar. yh.,, ia, 15o..o6 r. IN. hal l.s,p
wise i'm time. .b. might law. cured a rail
r,,5 connection of tb. cr.af..t yalv,. and
which would lay. r,.-,nue,itly secured 10
l.r ,,.. tr.l. .of n ,.ti. tract Of tx country
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15
10000. and No More.

Diig-nt effort IS being made in certain
quarters to give currency TO an idea that, if
Brattleboro gives SiO.Uoo to aid the railroad
to South Londonderry, this SUN viii only be
the beginning Of what she must give to secure
the completion Of the lin. and this considera-
ton j., being urged as an objection to granting
town aid a7 proposed. It should, therefore,
be distinctly understood that any such charge
has its foundation in an entire misconception
or wilful Misrepresentation Of the terms upon
which subscriptions to the stock are made.
All subscriptions are subject to the express
stipulation that no money or assessment what
ever shall be called for or paid until the full
amount necessary has been pledged and the
road is under full contract for its satisfactory
construction and equipment throughout its
whole length, with bonds given to ensure the
strict fulflment of the contract. These pro-
visions apply precisely the same to towns as
to individuals, and every possible assurance
has been given that the sum asked for is all
that will be needed TO secure the completion
aud opening Of the line, in perfect running
order, from Brattleboro TO South London
l.,,.v
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

A letter protesting to have emanated from
a gentleman in Canada has been industriously
circulated during the past week with pur-
pose to kill of our two-feet-gauge railroad en-
terprise. The assertion contained in the letter
is neither more nor less than that two railroads
in Upper Canada, with gauge of feet 6
inches, were SO blocked with snow in 1874 as
to render their operation impracticable. The
bottom facts in the case have evidently not
been reached. but as soon as We can obtain
them our readers will have the benefit of them,
During the late heavy and driving snow storm
which visited Eastern Massachusetts the Bos-
ton, Revere Beach & Lynn hree.ttet-9aage
road was less troubled by the snow than was
any standard-gauge road running into Boston.
And, what is more, the whole question of the
effect of snow-drifts on narrow gauge roads is
edectually met and disposed of by the little
paragraph which we copy elsewhere from
Wednesdays Boston Herald
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

Capital should build our railroads." say
many men of slender means; and so it should,
mainly. But the man who has accumulated
property and is upon the down-hill side of
life, takes but little interest in public improve
ments, and with his money invested where it
is yielding him 10 or - per cent. interest, he
is not anxious to invest it in railroad stock
paying not half that amount. But if capital
will not invest in new lines of railroad, shall
enterprises of public importance be allowed to
languish, and the resources Of the country re-
main undeveloped: May not the community
supply its own needs and protect its own in
terests: Then why shall not we as n town
avail ourselves of the privilege which the law
affords, and tax ourselves in aid of an enter
prise which will not only increase our facilities
and add to our wealth, but which will be of
equal benefit to the generations which are to
follow after U.S.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

There are people in Brattleboro who re-
member that, in lS43, the town virtually
bonded itself in the sum of -, 800 for the
purpose of freeing the West River bridge so
as to give thirteen farmers families, who
lived beyond the bridge, chance to get into
Brattleboro village without paying toll charges.
And yet we are told that not one of those
thirteen farmers, nor any of their fellows,
at that time protested that such use OF the
public funds for the benefit of only few
was unjust" Fan oppression of the poor,
an outrage" or "A project born of the
devil"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

Certain captious opponents Of the proposed
new railroad still adhere to q bare and un-
supported assertion that there is no business
in the West River valley to support rail
road" But every candid man should remem-
Der that figures and statistics carefully gath
cred and stated by experienced railroad men
show that the business which exists in the
valley to-day is more than enough to pay the
running expenses of the road proposed. Fur
Their than this, every sensible man knows that
the building of railroad through the valley
would at once largely increase its business,
and thereby assure the financial success Of
the enterprise beyond question.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

, Ii is offered as an argument against bond
ing the town for $50. 900 to aid in the con-
struction of the Brattleboro & Whitehall rail
road, that the town is already carrying load
Of some $40, 900. This statement is untrue.
1t is q fact, however, as shown by the audi
tors report for the present year, that the
town has an indebtedness all told. of SOS, 44O.-
81 But it is also true that the town holds
property sufficient TO cover this Indebtedness
and leave a handsome surplus; and, we un-
derstand, our first selectman expresses his
willingness to pay the towns debts in consid-
Grafton for the property it holds, and give
$4,000 for the bargain. Not a very I'M
healthy state of affairs this, it seems to us,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

and permanent ,igor to It's every business in
terest will cost each farmer. at the rate Of
$3.50 per year on each $1,000 Of his property
valuation. or o. total Of S29.00 on each $1,000
for the whole ten y,ars-a sum which is so
small as hardly to be felt We have stated
the case precisely as VIC believe it to stand,
and we ask in an oaudor.-Can the farmers,
Of all others. afford to vote NO" at the meet
ing ON Saturday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15
LbrDtrmont 4Benit.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY Il, 1873.

One of Townshends wealthiest and strong
est men remarked in this village on Wednes-
day: IF Bratteboro votes NO on Saturday,
l shall dropall effort to secure railroad down
the West River valley, and, much as I should
prefer an outlet ut Brattleboro, shall do my
best TO secure communication by rail with
Bellows Falls The gentleman who made
this statement is known and honored through
out the county. He wastes no words and
means what he says.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

The Rutland Herald has o cheerful word OF
encouragement for us this week; Our Brat
tleboro friends can take comfort in the fact
that the narrow gauge is popular elsewhere.
The Buffalo. Syracuse and Albany railroad
company is the title of a company just formed
for the purpose of constructing a narrow
gauge railroad on the banks Of the Erie and
lateral canals. between Utica and Buffalo,
with branches from Rochester to AIillgrove;
to Oswego: from Rome to Carthage and
from Utica to Binghampton.'
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

Bellows Falls will get ahead of Brattleboro
people if our friends in the last named town
don't dispose of their surplus personal jealous
les. People at the Falls are discussing the
project of railroad from that place up
through the back towns. -RcpaJlieda O5seTG-
a.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

days vote will result in decisive majority in
favor Of aid to the railroad to South London
derry.
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-16
A TERRIBLE sunwREcK.
Particulars Of the Lose Of TIE sssamship
Metropolis On the NessA Carolina Coast-

Particulars Of The Lose Of tie Steamship
Metropolis On the NsssA Carolina Coast-
a sasvavor's Sssry.
WASHINGTON, February 3.-The Gen.
eral Superintendent Of the Life-Saving
Service received kilograms from the
keepers Of life-saving stations Nos. 4
and 5 on the coast Of North Carolina, in
reply to tho demand for information
made by him, from which it appears
that the crews of both stations did all in
their power 10 save the lives Of the un-
fortunate men on the steamship Metrop-
oils. The stations are about thirteen
and half miles apart, and the wreck,
unfortunately, occurred nearly half way
between them, and Just at the hour when
the patrOlmen had come in from their
severe night march upon the beach.
The maximum velocity of the wind that
morning at Cape Henry, about four sta
tons above, is given by the -nal office
at so miles an hour. When it is con-
sidered that the lightest life-saving APP
paratus weighs from 1000 to 1900
pounds, and that this has to be dragged
by a crew of six or seven men for sever
al miles, through yielding sand, and in
a gale of such violence that men could
scarcely stand against, it is easily under
stood why the wreck was not reached
earlier. The loss upon this occasion is
simply referable to the fact that stations
are zoo far apart.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-16

James F. Alcorn, temporarily attach
ed to the Metropolis, formerly an Off
Ger in the United States Navy, and n
journalist in Boston, makes the follow
ing statement:
Wednesday night ut 9 O'Clock l was
called by the mate To assist the carpen-
ter in stopping leak around the rudder
trunk. | remained at the stern-post and
made all possible exertions 10 stop the
leak or prevent its increase, till about
> 80 a. m, when was called on deck
and found the ship partial wreck, one
of the port-boats hanging over the side
by her bow, the smoke-stack gone, and
the ship heading for the beach. Reach
ed the fore-cutter, and, in obedience to
an order from the Captain, commenced
to start the water in the casks slowed
forward to tighten the ship; was as
sisted in so doing by the carpenter and
one of the quartermasters, who was
afterward drowned. Finding the mate,
| suggested that sail should be made by
setting the foresail, and, on getting his
consent, Immediately went aloft, and,
by Charles Seamen, loosened
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-16
admission of Turkey into the political

admission OF Turkey into the political
system of Europe dates no further back
than the treaties of 1910 and 1871. To
the same principle must be referred the
acceptance of the integrity Of Turkey as
a cardinal principle of international
policy ON the part of the Western pow
ers. Thirteen years after its adoption
this principle led to the Crimean war,
which resulted in the discontinue Of
Russia and the apparent rehabilitation
of the Ottoman power. But it has been
disavowed and set at naught by the At
titude of England since Rnssia's resets
sion Of the treaty of Paris, and through
out the present conflict.
1t is now five centuries and a half
since the crescent appeared in Eastern
Europe. Two centuries remain to be
completed, if the Turks are to exhibit
tenacity equal to that shown by the
Moslem conquerors in Spain. What
ever may be the terms of the present
peace, it is certain that the Sultan will
retain in Europe a far more defensible
position and more substantial resources
than belonged to the Spanish Moors in
the fourteenth century, relegated to the
kingdom of Granada. Let us remember,
too, that the Greek Emperors, without
allies and almost without resources out
side the walls of their capital, main
tanned themselves for some 800 years at
COnstantinople. Very different are the
means at the command of the Ottoman
ruler. His European provinces will
still equal in area those controlled by
Bajazet, and fall but little short of those
possessed by Mohammed III. when he
undertook the conquest of STEAMBOAT. In
Asia he keeps the whole of the superb
inheritance which Selim, the first
Ottoman Caliph, made over in 1920
to Solyman, and which, for the first
time in the history of the dynasty, in
cluded Mesopotamia, Assyria, Syria,
and Egypt. OF the conquests of Solyman
and his successors the present monarch
still holds Gambia, Rhodes, Cyprus, the
islands of the Egean, the suzerainty of
Tripoli and Tunis, together with Yemen
in the south and Armenia in the north,
unless, indeed, the latter country shall
be claimed by Russia as security for the
payment of the war indemnity. In L
word, Notwithstanding the repeated mu-
tilations of two centuries, beginning
with the peace of Carlowitz and ending
with the peace which Russian Grand
Duke is about to sign at Adrianople,
Turkey is yet no inconsiderable power.
The resources at the disposal of the
Porte are still superior to those with
which Mohammed III. marched, in 1853,
to the capture of Constantinople, and
they are at least equal to those with
which Selim l. accomplished the con-
quest of all western Asia.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-16

THE director of the French Museum
of Artillery at the Hotel DIES Invalides,
Paris, has opened a new gallery, which
comprises figures exemplifying the prin-
cipal types of warriors in the most re-
mote parts OF the globe. Asia is repre-
scented by the soldiers of China, Japan,
Corea, Mongolia, and AnDum, and by
Hindoos, Mongolians and Circassians
The tyes from Australasia comprise ma
tives of New Zealand, Australia, New
Caledonia, New Guinea, Tahiti, the Adj
miralty Islands, the Marquesas, Hawaii,
the New Hebrides, Borneo, and Sums-
ira. Africa is represented by Arabs,
Tonaregs, natives of Morocco, Senegal.
negroes on the gold coast, Kafiirs, and
Arabs of Zanzibar and Alden; while
from America there are the Esquimaux,
the redskins, the Mexicans. and the ma
tives of Brazil, Peru, La Plata, and the
Republic of Ecuador. These figures,
20 in all, and of lie size, are
of plaster, and were modelled in the
studio of the Museum.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-16
An Unseaworthy Vessel.

A special from Norfolk says:
The story of the wreck is one Of hor-
ror. 1t speaks with no uncertain words,
and will cause q just and righteous in
dignation against those who put at the
mercy of the ocean waves $50 lives in q
vessel that was in every respect unsea-
worthy; that was as rotten rs punk land
that could well be likened to death
trap. Owners, contractors and United
States inspectors are responsible, and
they should be held to strict account.
The route over the beach was thickly
studded with the newly made graves Of
the victims. They were marked with
rude boards, and in some instances were
buried five and six in grave. In the
immediate vicinity of the scene was the
true realization of the terrible word
''wreck," and to the shame of humanity
and civilization, there was vandalism,
the evidences of which were hard to be-
lieve. 1t was ghoulism almost incredi-
BILE, committed mostly by negro resi-
dents of the beach, and close by, aided
by number of whites.
THEY TOOK ALL THE yALUABLEs,
and even clothing, from the dead bodies
that had been washed ashore. The sa-
cred person of female was not bar
TO the worst sort of barbarism. There
was very large South American mail
on board. 1t is understood that regis
tered letters, receipted for by the pur-
ser, contained about S150, 200 in money,
drafts, etc. The Assistant Postmaster
at Norfolk went to the scene of the
wreck, to look after the interest of his
department, and found of eleven bags
containing mail matter on board, ten
were washed ashore; but he only sue
ceeded in recovering two-one intact,
and the other was being used as to-
baceo bag by one of the survivors. The
contents were missing and nothing
could be found of the other bags or their
contents. Parties on the beach say the
bags were cut open and rifled of their
contents. Letters, after being opened,
were strewn along the beach.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-16

i'm England they are adopting a
horseshoe made of cowhide, and known
as the Yates shoe. 1t is composed of
three thicknesses of cowhide compress
ed into steel mold, and then subject
ed to chemical preparation. 1t is
claimed for it that it lasts longer and
weighs only one-fourth as much as the
common iron shoe: that it will never
cause the hoof to split, nor have the
least injurious influence on the foot. 1t
requires no calks; even on asphalt the
horse never slips. The shoe is so elastic
that the horses step is lighter and
surer. 1t adheres so closely to the foot
that neither dust nor water can pene-
trate between the shoe and hoof.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-16

Rev. Mr.. Murray breaches in Ma
sonic Hall, Boston, and has over 5000
hearers every Sunday. The income of
the church is S20,000a year, OF which
he gets $1,000. The money is raised by
the annual auction sale of l,s00 seats,
and of single admission tickets OF 80
cents each.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-16

"A process by which iron may be
preserved from oxidation has been re-
Gently invented by Prof. Barff, and
submitted to the London Society of
Arts.