Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05

censes have been granted this week upon the
express understanding that the owners OF dogs
so licensed take their risk as to whether such
licenses are of any avail under strict con-
struction of the law If the provisions of the
dog law are properly enforced this year, there
will be a great thinning out of the CANNES af-
ter the 2jth of May The law is explicit in
providing that "within ten days from the 18th
day of May" n properly commissioned officer
"shall kill, or cause to be killed" all unll-
ccnsed dogs, and the owners of such dogs are
at the same time subject to fine of fifteen dol
lars, to be recovered by complaint or indict-
mcnt
We are glad to know that Col A. 7. Dun
ton who has just settled himself and family
in his newly purchased house ON Grove
street, will have an interest with Mr.. f. II.
Farr in the boat-house, restaurant, and other
summer conveniencos Mt Chesterfield Lake
during the coming season. Some new build
ings will be put up with view to improving
the dning-room accommodations, and for the
purpose of furnishing lodgings for a limited
number Of guests, but to what extent these
improvements and additions will be carried
has not yet been decided. Col. Duntons
wife aud daughter will spend the summer in
their cottage" at the lake, and Mrs. Dun
toms mother, Mrs Addison Brown, will occu-
by n similar structure which the Colonel has
erected for her accommodation during the
past week, close by his own.
In this immediate vicinity the maple sug-
ar season seems to be over, and in several in
stances the farmers are already gathering
| their buckets, but in the hill towns, where
snow and frost still linger about the roots Of
the trees. the prospect is that nearly as much
more sugar will be made as has already been
secured. The larger part of the crop which
is now being marketed at this point comes
from Wilmington, Dover and Halifax, and
other towns similarly located 1t will proba-
| bly, prove on the whole that the season has
| been about an average one, so far as quantity
is concerned while the quality, as "A rule, has
been much finer than usual. The complaint
is general among the farmers that the sap is
| less sweet than usual. The shipments by ex-
press from the Brattleboro office, up to this
time, have been upward of 40 tons, which is
about an average quantity. Larger amounts
than usual have been sent by freight, owing
| to the low price which the crop has COM
manded in the market. On Monday we no
ticed large shipment of syrup from Dover,
which came down in 10 gallon casks about
800 gallons in all-and was sent by freight to
Boston.
A. c. Howard. Esq, of Townshend passed
| through Brattleboro ON Wednesday on his
way home from his forty-third annual trip to
Kalamazoo, Mich. where each year he spends
the larger part Of the winter season. Mr..
Howard reports that the winter at the West
has been in all respects a remarkable one.
with little or no snow, and with mild and
beautiful weather prevailing for nearly the
whole time The crop prospects for the com
ing season are Of the most promising charac-
ter. The winter wheat is now farther adj
vanced than he has ever before seen it at this
season. Already the rank green growth is
ankle-hgh-as tall, in fact, as it usually is in
May or June Fields of hundred acres and
more show not'a spot where the grain has
winter-killed and if the season continues fa-
yorable the crop will be one of the largest and
best ever harvested. Business at the West.
as here, remains dull and shows few signs of
rcyvng. In Kalamazoo. a beautiful and
thriving town of some 1000 inhabitants,
where usually new buildings are constantly
going up, all building operations are at
stand still. Mr.. Howard was accompanied
by his SON. II. c. Howard, who has been.
during the winter, in the law school at Ann
Arbor, and who will return there next fall
A communication from Brattleboro which
appeared in the White River Junction OBJ
server two weeks ago, contains such an out
rageous Justification and misstatement of facts
in regard to case of discipline which took
place in the High school near the close of last
term, as to require neither comment nor cor
rection so far as any person is concerned who
is acquainted with the truth in the case
While, therefore, we are surprised that an ex-
perienced and conscientious editor should
have admitted such an article to his columns
without first assuring himself of its truth and
reliability We refer to the matter simply be-
cause it is hardly more than fair sample of
much of the irresponsible and ENTHUSIASTICALLY
newspaper correspondence and newspaper
work which has gone out from this town in
the past year or two, the only apparent OBJ
ject Of which would seem to have been to
create a false and foundationless impression
in regard to our institutions, our town and
village officials, and our people generally 1t
Will be useless, however to protest against
such way of doing things until newspaper
correspondents learn that their prope r prov
inco is to state facts without partisan or
personal coloring. rather than to create a
sensation, and until newspaper publishers.
young or old, arrive at some sort of an aCe-
quate conception of the real dgnities and pro-
prieties of their profession.
A well-known lady of this village. who
believes that the human race is entitled to
some protection against the dogs which are |
beginning to again run loose in our streets,
asks us TO print the following paragraph |
which is copied from the Brooklyn n. Y. |
Eagf:
80 common have the paragraphs in our
newspapers relating to death from hydropho-
bla become of late that we are fast becoming
Injured to the horror, and, modestly protest
ing IN the seclusion of our homes, lay down
the paper and forget that some human being
has been offered up MS a sacrifice for the
maintenance of dog rule in our land. 1t seems
utterly useless to protest against this outrage /
OF allowing swapping, snarling ours to run
loose in our streets. Scores of articles have
been written friends who have suffered have
by their cries of woe aroused for a short time
the dormant faculties of "A sleepy municipali-
". Have we, as citizens of a home common
to us all, so far lost our sympathy, our respect
for the rights of each other that we cannot
arouse enthusiasm enough to protest publicly
against this outrage daily perpetrated on us
as a community? We ought all to love chill
dren more than dogs, We ought all to desire
the life of fellow creature rather than that
Of Spitz cur, but it would seem that some
IN their enthusiastic devotion to black and
tans and full-blooded bulldogs have forgotten
that there turks poison in their fangs more
horrible in its effect than the deadliest drug
known. We appeal TO them to arousa from n