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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-19
BRATTLEBORO
Business Directory.

AgrtculturAa Amplemenns
c. =. THOMPSON CO., willistons Stone Block.
WOOD n MARSHALL Exchange Block, Main st.
y. A. CLARK, Tyler's Block.
BOOkseIIers and stationcrs.
CHENEY X CLAPP, 6 Crosby Block
F. c. EDWARDS, door south Trips jewclry store.
i. SrEEN, opposite Brooks House.
Boots and Shoes.
THE PEOPLES SHOE STORE, Fisk Block.
G.. W. SMITH, Rays Block, Main street.
Carpets.
O.. L. BROWN, Marshall K Esterbrook's block Main St.
-. J. PRATT, Granite Block.
J. RETrING X son, High ST., next Brooks House.
Cement Drain Pipe.
wM. 4. PELLET, mauf'r and contractor for laying
Chamber Sets.
L. DROWN, Marshall Esterbrooks block, Main st.
J RETrING 4 son, High ST., next Brooks House.
CIOthiers.
+. $. BRACKETT CO., L Granite Row.
PRATT, WRIGHT X co, 3 Granite Row, Main st.
F. A. WHITNEY, No. Granite Row.
Coal.
7. X. BAREOWS, office with p. Barrows.
A. ]. GLEASON, with A. V. Cox Co.
Coins and CasL
q. L. BROWN, Marshall Estorbrook's block, Main St.
Contractors and builders.
). A. CHURCH, Flat st.
CrOcEery and Glass Ware.
FRANK q. HOWE, door north Main st. bridge.
NJ. T. VAN DooRN son, Crosby Block.
Dentistry.
DIR. G. y. CLARK, over Pratt, Wright Co.'S store
Dining Rooms.
&. L. FISHER, No. l Market Block, Elliot st.
T.. L. COOPER, door south o. J. Pratt's store.
Doors, Sash and Blinds.
b. \. CLARK, Tylers Block.
.. T. THOMPSON co., Wistons Stone Block.
DruggiHIA.
|. y. THORN & CO., 2 Crosby Block.
a. L l RrOOEs IIOnep
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-19

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G. z. THOMPSON & Co, willistons Stone Block.
WOOD N MARSHALL, Exchange Block, Main st.
y. A. CLARK, ryler's Block.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-19

Suppose we pass law" said a severe
father to his daughters, that no girl eighteen
years old who can't cook shall get married
until she leans how 10 do ity" why, then,
Wen get married at seventeen!" responded
the girls in a sweet chorus
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-19

Radiant goddess Aurora!
open the chambers Of dawn:
Let the hours like garland Of graces
Enrich the chariot Of morn.
Thou dost herald no longer Apollo
The god Of the sunbeam and Tyre;
The pride Of his empire ia ended,
Aud pale is his armor Of hre.
From lofter height than Oly mpus
Light flows, from the Temple above,
Aud the mists Of old legelds are scattered
In the dawn Of the kingdom Of Love.
Come forth from the cloud-land Of fable,
For day in full splendor make room
For triumph that lost not it's glory
As 1t paused in the sepulchre's gloom.
She comesl the bright goddess Of morning,
In crimson and purple array;
Far down on the hill-tops she tosseB
The nrst golden Lilies Of day.
On the mountains her sandals are glowing
Der the valleys she speeds on the wing,
Till earth is all rosy and radiant
For the feet Of the new-risen King.
III.
Open the gates Of the Temple;
Spread branches Of palm and Of bay;
Let not the spirits Of nature
Alone deck the Cuuqueror's way.
While Spring from her death-sleep arises
And Joyous his presence awaits,
while horning's smile lights up the heavens,
Open the Beautiful GGtes!
He Is here The long watches are over,
The stone from the grave rolled away.
I'VE shall sleep!' was the sigh Of the midnight (;
ave shall rise!' il the song Of to-day.
O Music no longer lAmening,
On pinioua Of tremulous fame
Go soaring to meet the Beloved
And swell the new song Of His fame.
The altar is snowy with blossoms,
The font is a vase Of perfume,
On pillar and chancel are twining
Fresh parlauds uf eloquent bloom.
"Christ Is risen!" with glad lips We utter,
Aud far up the INFINITE height
Archangels the p@an re-echl ,,
And crown Him with Lilies Of Light!
Frances Mac, in Hrrp,r's for Mdy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-19
Miscellany.
Easter N nOrning.

Ostera! spirit Of spring-time,
Awake from thy slumbers deepl
Arisel aud with hands tba. are glowing
Put OF the white garments Of sleepl
Make thyself fair, o goddess
In new and resplendent array,
For the footsteps Of Him who has risen
Shall be heard in the dawn Of day.
Flushes the trailing arbutus
Low under the forest leaves
A sign that the drowsy goddess
Tue breath Of her Lord pcrceivts.
While He suffered, her pulse beat numbly (;
While He slept, she was still with pain;
But now be Awakes-He has risen
Her beauty shall bloom again.
o bark in the budding woodlands,
Now far, now near, is heard
The irst prelusive warblc
OF rivulet and Of bird.
o listen, the Jubilate
From every bough is poured,
Aud earth IN the smile Of spring-time
Arises to greet her Lord!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
The Pension System.

There is now under consideration by
the Committee OF Pensions in the lower
house of Congress bill to reorganize
the entire pension system of the Govern
ment. It provides for the appointment
of commission of three persons, two
of whom shall be surgeons, in each of
sixty pension districts into which the
United States shall be divided, who shall
make Investigations of claims for pen
sions, make surgical examinations, and
have power to administer the oath, and
compel the attendance of witnesses.
This is recommended by the Commits
sioner, as the Government in granting
pensions now acts conclusively upon er-
pGyte evidence furnished by the claim
ant. It is also proposed to have every
pensioner in what are known as invalid
cases examined once in two years, so
that if the invalidity for which the PEN
sion was granted, as is often the case,
shall cease to exist, the pensioner may
be dropped from the rolls. This bill is
in harmony with the suggestions of che
Commissioner of Pensions in his last an
nual report.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
+" impossible to tell /"

ssBut the knife - the one with six
blades, or five blades and a file ?"
eth send it tomorrow morning
early"
"You're a TRIUMPH exclaims the small
boy, cutting caper. "And, I say,
when you marry Vic and ask me out to
your country-house to spend my vaca-
ton, will you give me a boat and a
Shetland pony-one of them really jolly
ones with hair hanging all over their
eyes?"
"Wheaa I marry Vic, I will, ;" 1 prom
Use solemnly. "Good-by.'
But never marry Vic.
Mr.. Quimby, the rich old bachelor,
does, though; and precious time, they
say, she has with the cranky, hot-tem-
pered, asth matte old fellow.
My wife has soft blue eyes and faint,
golden hair; and have come to the con-
clusion that delicate, cream-colored
lily is much to be preferred to q
gorgeous, fame-dashed-with- crimson-
leaved, brown-throated gladiole. -Hor-
per's Weekly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
Anecdotes OF the Late pope.

The gossips told of his having been q
Free Mason; and of his having fallen in
love with beautiful English girl what
time he wore the breastplate of the
Guarda Mobile. History recorded of
him that he when elected Pope, warned
his steward: "When I was Bishop I
spent 81 day for personal expenses;
when was Cardinal I spent $1.50, and
now that [ am Pope you must not go
beyond 49," that he received favorably
the petition of the old market-gardener,
who, having lost his horse, walked bold
ly into the palace to beg one from the
Quirinal stables; that, when majority
OF the balls cast into the ballot-box by
his councillors on the question of an
amnesty were black, he placed his white
cap over them and said, CHOW they
are all white = that in the early days
of his administration the rage for the
Papal colors, yellow and white, was such
that boiled eggs were a breakfast de
regle with Romans. How he kept to
the last his kindly humor and caustic
wit, is it not recorded? "My daughter"
he said to tall American girl, zone
blessing is not enough for you-I must
give you two" "They say women are
the most beautiful, he said, as one day
he halted with brilliant train of digni-
taries of the church before splendid
peacock in the garden; ''no, no; it is
our sex that is always the most brill
liant. "What p he said, as he threw
away book wherein the pious author
spoke of sanity character who could
not escape one snare-that of marriage;
"shall it be said that the church has six
sacraments and snare ?" When a SOL
der of the French garrison asked the
Pope to say mass for him personally,
with no other auditor present, in the
Pope's own chapel, his Holiness con-
sented, and babe him come on the NOR
row. "To-morlow must see some of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
Texas GuanO from Bats.

The Commissioner of Agriculture has
reported favorably upon samples of
guano from caves in Texas, inhabited by
bats. He reports the material as worth
from $15 to $50 per ton, and comparing
favorably with fish guano for fertilizing
purposes. There are several caves con-
tanning such deposits in Texas, and the
estimated amount of guano is very great
perhaps $4,000 to 10000 tons for a
single cave. As to the bats, they are
simply innumerable; traveller, who ac-
companied Gen. Ord in a recent visit to
a cave near the little town of Salem.
computed the bats there at not less than
30,000,000. It is an unexplained mys-
terry how such numbers sustain their
collective weight when clinging to the
roofs of the caves. When the bats issue
forth they darken the air as if a great
volume of smoke was pouring out from
the opening.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
The Sick man of the East.

This striking phrase, as applied to
the Ottoman power. is believed to have
originated with the Emperor Nicholas.
In conversation with the British Min
lister, Sir George Seymour, in 1874, the
Emperor said: "We have on our hands
a sick man, very sick man. It will be
a great misfortune, tell you frankly, if
one of these days he should happen to
die before the necessary arrangements
were all made. But this is not the time
to speak to you of that" In another in
terview, few days later, Nicholas said
"Turkey in the condition which [ have
described has by degrees fallen into
such state Of decrepitude that, as I
told you the other night, eager as we all
are for the prolonged existence of the
man (and that [ am as DESTROYS as you
can be for the continuation of his life 7
beg you to believe), he may suddenly
die on our hands," A week later the
Emperor resumed the subject, saying
ct think your Government does not
well understand my object. L am not
SO eager to determine what shall be
done when the sick man dies as [ am to
determine with England what shall not
be done upon that event taking place.
I repeat to you that the sick man is dy-
ing, and we can never allow such an
event to take us by surprise. We must
come to some understanding" The
minutes of Seymour's conversations
with the Emperor were duly transmitted
to the English Government, and were
by the Ministry laid before Parliament
during the discussions that Immediately
preceded the declaration of war against
Russia. The phrase by which Nicholas
had designated the Turkish power was
so apt that it was at once caught up by
press and people, and "the Sick Man Of
the East" became the established sobri-
Quet OF the Sublime Porte.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

the boys off, replied the soldier; "but
next day. Pope, I'm your man." every
well, said the Pope, "make it next
day" Not long after his return in 1850
charming young English lady was out
sketching with maid near the Porta
PA. The Pope came ont in his car
riage, descended, and began to take his
usual walk. The maid, having gone to
ask his blessing, returned to say that
his Holiness would gladly give his hand
to be kissed to her young English mis-
tress. s. Indeed, said that lady with a
toss OF her heretical head, Ct think my
l hand better worth kissing than his. !"
The Pope. who had approached unseen
ana overheard this speech, laughed
gently and said, to her great confusion,
That's perfectly true; but you will
allow an old man to bless you neverthe-
less"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
The Progressive Ians.

The Japanese are getting along swim
mingly with their Postofice Depart
ment, and hope soon to get it upon a
paying basis. For the year ending
June 80, 1877, over 38,OO0,000 articles
were carried at cost of 1874, $50, while
the receipts were $697, 845. There are
now 3,744 postoffces. and the mail
routes extend over 81, 900 miles-a great
increase over the figures for 1876. The
Japs have all the conveniences of postal
cards and money orders, and are ahead
of us in the postal savings banks, in
which $50, 900 are deposited. The great
economical point of the japanese insti-
tuition is the low salaries of the post
masters, which are less than $25 each.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
ArfASiAn Wells.

Artesian wells number l, 900 in Califor-
MIA. Of these 800 are in Santa Clara
valley, fifty miles from San Fancisco
Most OF them overflow the surface, and
the tubes average seven inches in diane
ter. The local resources of artesian wa
ter are now mapped out. Under the
valley runs a broad river, coming from
the great lakes Of the Sierras, 200 miles
off. The pressure from 1000 feet. eleva-
ton sufices to throw the water above the
surface. The depth of the bore runs
from $50 to $50 feet. Outside the
boundaries of this subterranean river
several miles wide-no depth of boring
has struck artesian water. There is rea-
son to believe that every valley in the
State has an underground river, leading
direct from the same lakes, and lying
below the superficial currents that have
no direct connection with any elevated
reservoirs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
The Fever Tree. ,

Eucalyptus globulus is the botanical
name of tree of much beauty and me
dicinal worth. Its uses have not been
as fully appreciated in this country as in
some others. The tree is a native of
Australia, and its history, from its dis
covery in the latter partof the eighteenth
century, has been attended with interest
ing Developments. French and German
savants have tested its peculiar qualities
and found it preventive of malarial
sickness where it abounds. It is called
the fever tree from its medicinal proper
ties, and its cultivation is urged in all
lowland climates, making it specially adj
vantageous in the Southern States. The
tree draws moisture from the earth, ow-
ing to the evaporating surface Of it's
leaves, thus preventing the generation
of marsh-masm. Galveston NeaO8.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
HORRORS AT SEA.
Frishttul Sufferings of q Ships Crew-Can
nfba4ism on Board

Frishtful Sufferings of 3 Ships Crew-Can-
nibazism on Board
The narrative of the sufferings of the
crew of the schooner Sallie M. Steelman.
who recently arrived at New York on the
schooner Speedwell, is so horrible in de-
tail that it sounds more like q chapter
from sensational sea novel than stern
reality. For seven days they had no
sustenance except coffee, and then one
of the crew was shot in row, and the
survivors cooked and ate him.
On the afternoon of Dec. 80, when
about twenty miles to the southeast of
Cape Hatteras, they were caught in a
terrific gale from the northwest, and
were literally at its mercy for seventy
hours
On the 9th of January the colored
man, George Seaman, became almost
delirious and would occasionally leave
his berth and wander around the decks.
Early on the morning of the Both he
turned out of his bunk and came upon
deck. He first met the Captain. and,
after talking in an incoherent way,
threatened to shoot him. The Captain
walked away from him, and then Seaman
went to the forecastle. When he was
inside he called on Walter Sampson, an
other colored man, and ordered him to
get up or he would shoot him in his
bunk. Sampson got up and put on his
things and came back toward the door,
but before he got there Seaman put his
hand IN his pocket to pull his pistol, and
Sampson shot him.
After being shct Seaman rushed to the
deck, but fell dead in his tracks when
he had gone but few steps. The crew.
it seems, let the body lay for four hours,
during which time the proposition that
the dead mans flesh be eaten was dis
cussed. Then Sampson was given an
AK by the mate, and, approaching the
corpse, severed the head from the body.
The head was wrapped in canvas and
thrown overheard. Barrett then strip
off as much of the flesh from the legs
and trunk as he could, and, when he
finally ceased the butchery, the flesh was
placed in barrel and sailed down, and
the mutilated carcass was wrapped in
canvas and thrown overheard. Some of
the flesh was Immediately thrown into a
pot, parboiled, and then fried in pan.
Most of the crew turned sick at the
thought Of such unnatural food, but
their hunger at length prevailed over
their conscience and revulsion of taste,
and they partook Of two meals. Their
experience of the cannibalistic repast
was varied, Barrett, who butchered the
corpse, and who ate about pound and
half of the flesh, declaring it tasted as
"good as any beefsteak he ever eat. :"
The necessity for such food ended on the
following day, when, after forty five days
OF awful suffering, the crew Of the dis
mantled and fast-sinking vessel sighted
the Speedwell, and soon were safe on
boaSd the vessel and bound for New
YORK.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
THE NORTH WIND.
BY ALFRED 3. STREET.

Mean comes the current from the north
blue shines the slsy, clouds scudd1ng there
Rouse from your sleep and wander torth
And taste the sweetness Of the air
Eeave the dull city streets behind!
Launch out upon the country wide!
Plunge in the white sea Of the Wind
And swim wherever floats its tide!
,7sae north wind oh how sweet though cold
T91e north wind, fount of Joy and health
Net often has thy worth been told,
ExhaustIess though thy stores of wealth.
The east wind, chilly, vapid, damp;
How weary lag the cherries hours!
The sun is but a sickly lamp,
But noisome weeds the loveliest flowers
Esain, rain, throughout the shadowy day,
At night the same unvarving doom;
Earth in the first, dull, drenched and gray,
And in the last dungeon-gloom.
The south wind, warm, relaxing, flows
The tepid gulf stream of the air
NE0m chimes where endless summer CLOVIS,
And flowers are heaped up everywhere.
a torpor to the blood 1t yields,
Steals strength from ev'n the strongest frame;
$Goth Ger its prey it's Scepter Yields,
And Geshy ills their victim claim.
The west wind meIts in peach-sweet scents,
Breath Of the flowers through downy skies,
As In it fUrl the clouds their tents,
The sinews sink beneath it's signs.
The north wind, how it's currents draw
Welcome its honest, genial breath!
nc shaYes the rosy muscles raw,
But it brings life instead of DEATH
Hurrah Hurrah! It whistles blithe
Hurrah It stings the tingling flesh
TE cuts the skin cuts the scythe!
But oh, its kiss, how sweet and fresh
Up, up the screaming, icy crag
Up, though the pine-tree scars and swings!
Though the air streams as streams flag,
White with the storm Of winters wings.
Up, breast the torrent of the blast!
Scream with its scream run, plunge and bound
Until your blood pours hot and fast,
And all your frame in bliss is drowned!
Swing in the hemlock's shivering fringe!
Dive head-deep in the scattering snow
Though craven nature shake and cringe,
And fam would drive your steps below.
Shun the red hearth A glow more sweet
The north winds freezing pinions bear
Winters warm sparks are whistling seet
His freside is the open air.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
WIT AND HUMOR.

BAA tender-Spring lamb.
A CULTIVATED ear-An ear of corn.
A REGULAR Turkey-gobbler-Russia.
BAD punctuation for publisher
Stop my paper.
Is TT not fortunate that the furnace
fire always burns brighter when it is
coaled.
"HEwERs of wood and drawers of
water"-Wood engravers and marine
painters.
A YOUNG man has to take his chances
III this world the same as though it was
church fair.
WHAT ER-FALn was that when Mollie
Mcguire rolled out of the penitentiary
with a cask-aid
GOOD resolutions are like horses. The
first cost is an item of less Importance
than the keeping.
"WRING out the old, as the washer
woman said when she lifted an editors
shirt from the suds.
Why didn't he eat up the whole desk?
We refer to the anaconda who swal-
lowed plgeOn-WnOle.
MOST persons who pass a blind beg
gar IN the street cannot see any better
than he can. It is catching.
IT may sound like paradox, yet the
breaking of both wings of an army is q
pretty sure way of making it fly.
HUMAN jaws sell for So apiece at the
seat OF war in Bulgaria, and vet the
American people pay So, 900 year and
mileage to their Congressman.
A MONTANA Justice of the Peace
doesn't splurge any when he marries q
couple. He says: "Arise Grab hands!
Hitched Six dollars" And that is all
there is to it.
SLOW and tedious progression is one
of the immutable laws of nature that can
never be repealed. If you don't believe
1t, ask the young man nursing his first
Observation-Disclosures Table.
AN Indiana man has died leaving a
collection of 100, 1000 beetles. Yet there
are men right here among us who will
not leave collection of even dozen
beetles when they die. For shame =
Worcester Press.
IT is reported that when the Gear met
the hero of Plevna, and congratulated
him on his bravery, the intrepid Osman
replied, "Sire, I fight for fatherland."
" True, said the Gar, "and I also fight
for farther-land. "-Ja4dy.
He was tired and troubled about his
business, and, coming home at evening,
he muttered: CT believe Truth is
dead" ooh, no." replied CHEEKY
daughter, "not dead, papa, for if it was
it would be tolled more |" This made
him feel better. Chicago Journal.
PERHAPS there isn't anything new I'M
der the sun, as Wendell Phillips claims.
but in none of the deciphered hero
glypbics of Egypt has anything turned
up bearing the slightest indication that
the small boy of the Pharaohs was ad-
dicted to crooking his eye and twisting
his mouth with" What dyer SOY ?''N
Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
A FIFEsHTRE man took his child to the
minister to be baptized, who asked him,
" Are you prepared for so solemn and
important al occasion ?" prepared p'
he echoed, with some Indignation 81
haze friot O hammock baking, two
hams, an gallon O. the best Highland
whisky, and [ wad like to ken what bet
ter preparations ye expeck frae man in
my condition O. life ?"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
THE LOST METROPOLIS
BIZ SHERMAN d. R1cHAaDsoN.

Morning papers Two hundred lives los,
A bit of type, newsboy's cry,
A passing glance, perhaps sigh
at what is written there.
a flashing storm, coast Of dread
A shipwreck, and two hundred dead
The old, the young, the fair.
The hopes of better days ahead,
OF comforts store, OF warmth and bread
For dear ones left on shore.
A SINKING ship, one thought alone
VI orphans fears, of widows moan,
One cry, and all is Ger.
happy holne, with tender ties.
Awaiting, meath Brazilian skies.
A welcome just ahead.
An infant boy on mothers breast
As white as CLEANS the breakers crest
That shrouds the cold, cold dead.
The ships sail out, and ships sail in,
And wealth goes ont more wealth to win.
And love to meet its own:
But ships go down, and cries Conn.
ana wealth lnverts her jeweled cup
Above the dying moan.
bending sky DER ripping bay,
A noble ship with banners gay,
voyage to sunny lands.
bit of type, a newsboy's cry
Two hundred soulless bodies lie
On Cardinals sands.
Rochester Democrat
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
England's Military Force.

The following is the effective land
force that England might call into the
field at short notice:
Regular army $4,000 of these serving at
present in India) 189, 900
reserve and auxiliary forces. 346,000
Indian colonial troops. .127, 900
Colonial militia, volunteers, etc. $1,000
The unframed militia of Canada and
the contingents furnished by native In
dian states are not included in the above.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21

THH aerial quickstep is what they call
a hanging in Kansas.