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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1879-09-11

Amt young ones cute?' said the fond
mother as she watched her darlings
sporting upon the lawn in innocent,
qleesome mirth. Just then croquet
mallet came ricocheting across the
ground, aud executing d graceful curve,
knocked q sixty-two-and-a-ha half cent back
comb into enthusiastically. There, you
horrid brats, see what you've donel
! March into the house, every one OF you'll!
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03

An article which we copy to-day from the
New York Times, on the condition of the fall
trade in that city gives highly gratifying
and encouraging view of the business pros.
poets in the metropolis of the country, or, as
that city has been correctly termed, in "the
pulse of the country in mercantile and COM
mercial matters On every side evidence &C
cumulates that the cheerful view there given
is by no means overdrawn or made unduly
promising. All accounts agree that the pres
ent is the most prosperous season since 1872.
In some of its features indeed, it is a season
of phenomenal prosperity, though in no re-
spect unhealthful What is true Of New
York, the centre and starting point, is true,
i'll proportion. of the whole country. Every
section begins to feel the impulse of reviving
prosperity. In all trades, all industries. all
legitimate enterprises, there is an activity
which promises the best things possible for
the future
In other words, the good times, so long
hoped for and talked Of are come to the great
business centres, and in due time the smaller
towns and remote country districts are bound
to feel their ,nlivening influence. Economy,
caution and patience have done their work
and at last, after seven years Of waiting, the
tide has turned. Hard. pan and n solid basis
have been reached, the lowest point has been
touched and now the whole tendency Of the
market is upward Already the advance il
many kinds of manufactured goods is very
great and farm products follow suit. Butter
lug QdNunpa1 ia q, mound aba.u.
30 to 50 per cent, and pork and pork prod
ucts are firm at advancing prices The net
advance in flour amounts to - couts per bar
rel, and on wheat to not less than 20 cents
per bushel. Iron, one of our greatest sta
pies, has advanced at least 30 per cent. and
more blast furnaces and rolling mills are now
under full Roadway in the United States than
was ever before the case at any one time il
our history. The railroads were never carry
ing so many passengers and SO much freight
as at present, and nearly all the travel it in
the interests of business. Wheat, corn. meat
and dairy products flow out of the country
in quantities never before known, and in their
place the gold comes back by the million.
In all this, as has already been said, there
is no indication of anything unhealthy or
merely speculative. The Frightening pros
pect is the legitimate and inevitable outcome
Of the wise policy Of specie resumption and
honest money unflinchingly adhered to by
our Republican Administration and the bet
ter business feeling which already prevails
throughout the country is the best possible
promise of the success Of Republican candi-
dates in the coming elections of this fall. and
i'll the great national contest of next year.
Best of all, it is pledge for renewed conf
dence and cheerfulness in the home and every
day life of the people throughout the coun-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03

A copper coin about the sic of an Amer
lean silver dollar, belonging to Johnny
Nourse, has been left with the writer for ex-
animation, On the diverse side is the date
l7S9, and the words 'Carolus ", Del Ora
tia, also portrait. On the reverse is the
following inscription, "Hispan Et Ind. Rex,
NJ. II. F. F. ;" also crown, pillars, etc.
1t is probably Real Weldon"
-Wransow Holton, very lame and quite
intrm man, on account of his advanced age
nearly ~ years, rode to Brattleboro last Sat
urday with his son Josiah Holton. He re-
turned by way of the West river valley road
for the purpose of giving his father an OPP
portunity TO see the narrow gauge railroad
now in process of construction. 1t was a ride
of about sixteen miles for Mr.. Holton. He
Is the oldest person in town. Jairus Haven
ranks next; but unlike Mr.. Holton, he is
able to do considerable work on the farm.
His age is ninety years. We saw him few
mornings since, at work with others on the
road, Intending their ways, and he handled
the hoe much more nimbly than the ordinary
worker of taxes on the highways does Mrs
Levi Bailey, who died a few weeks ago aged
IS years, was not the oldest person in town,
as reported, recently, in the papers
Rev. L. II. Stone of Castleton, Vt.
preached here last Sunday. The attendance
was small but very attentive to the interesting
and instructive speaker. His words were fit
ly spoken, and WithAl very appropriate TO
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03
TiIden's Plans and Purposes.

Washington despatch to the Boston
Journal says that gentleman who has re-
Gently arrived at the national capital from
New York, brings an authentic and some
what extraordinary account of the present
political views and purposes of Mr. Samuel
j. Tilden. The gentleman who brings this
information has long had intimate personal and
political relations with Mr.. Tilden, and has
recently been his guest at his Hudson river
country seat There can, therefore, be no
doubt as to the correctness Of the informa-
ton, although both Mr.. Tilden and the gen
ueman himself may be much surprised that
this information should be made public The
private views of Mr. Tilden. as entrusted to
friends i'll Washington, relate both to the ma
tional and to the New York State campaign.
As to the national outlook, Mr.. Tilden is by
no means as hopeful or confident us many of
his Democratic opponents believe. His dis
couragement arises not on account of the
conviction that his own political fortunes are
waning, but by reason of facts which are APP
parent to every candid Northern man, to
whatever party he may belong. Mr.. Tildens
hopelessness is for the Democratic party, and
not for himself The Southern Democracy
he thinks, have injured the chances for Dem
ocratic success in the North. The Southern
wing Of the party has seriously handicapped
the Northern wing in all possible ways. This
Is particularly true rs to questions of finance
and matters relating to the reputation of
State Indebtedness. To this are to be added
political assassinatious, for which no one is
punished, and numberless impolitic acts,
which Mr.. Tilden thinks would seem to make
the Democratic Presidential nominee little
better than the leader of forlom hope. As
to New York, however, Tildeu is doing his
best to elect Robinson, and is using a great
deal of his own money to that end. He
could not do more, this informant states,
were he himself candidate for governor
He is determined to destroy Kelly and Tam
many.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03

Charles Keller, the German who has had
charge of the brewing department of Walker,
Dewey, Blake a Co 3 brewery here since it
was built has just left them to accept simi-
lar position in one Of the largest breweries in
Brooklyn, n. Y, at salary of $500. He
received $1,000 here, aud is a thorough mas
ter of his business.
A large number of our citizens went to
Langdon on Tuesday to attend the town fair
and report Jolly good time all around.
-Atelegram from the selectmen of Hinsdale
n. H., received Monday reported the finding of
the body of man in the river there supposedto
be that Of Frank Tigh, the young Englishman
who was drowned here a week ago last Thurs
day Supt A. II. Fisher of the Fall Noun
tain Paper Co. went down the same day and
identified it as such, and it was buried there.
In all probability the body did not go below
the eddy just beyond the falls here until af-
ter the ninth day, when it foated down and
was found in an eddy some thirty miles
south
Mrs. Aaron Arms and Mrs Geo Andrews,
who were both so seriously injured week be
fore last by being thrown from a carriage. are
botn reported as dong well and will soon be
about again. Mrs Andrews will have no per
manent bad effects, but Mrs. Arms will prob
ably always suffer more or less inconvenience
from the serious fracture of the shoulder
The excitement regarding small pox is
rapidly subsiding, and but little is said about
it on the streets. The disease has been
wholly confined to the house where it started
aud 1 4.
of the girl who brought the disease here and
died with it, died Tuesday morning. The
other three children are likely to recover.
Bonds New Orleans Minstrels gave one
of the best shows of its kind that has ever
been given here, Last Friday evening. Mr.
Bond has % performers in his troupe and it
is first class in every respect. He drew
full house.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03

second year of this experimental lease there
was only a slight increase in the number of
conyicts, but a remarkable increase in the
death rate During this year negro convict
was brutally thrown into n furnace by one Of
the lessees and burned to ashes this occur
red in the city Of Atlanta. In addition to the
long list Of evils for the commission Of which
precedonts had been established, another now
seems to have sprung into existence pris-
onors made open complaint that for the same
offence judges had sentenced them to terms
of different length. Many prisoners received
five or ten years for crimes which in other
cases sentenced criminals for one year. One
negro was found to be sentenced for life
for stealing one mackerel from country
grocery. This evil, which crept into the sys-
tom nine years ago, has never been eradi-
cated-in fact no evil which took root in this
institution has ever been Gbolishod-but this
one OF unjust and unequal sentences has fall
ell so oppressivcly and so exclusively upon
the colored race, that many Of the more in
telligent negroes Of the South to-day stoutly
maintain the belief that the county Judges
and the lessees Of convicts are in league for
the unjust conviction of stout able.boded
negroes in order that capital may be realized
from their labor on the lessees' plantations"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03
MINOR NOTES.

The Georgia Legislature has appropriate I'd
money to furnish limbs for legless and arm
less rebel veterans.
En- minister T. Il. Washburuc SAYS that
| General Grant, in writing to him. has never
alluded TO political matters, and he believes il
to be the Generals desire to spend the re-
mainder Of his life in quietness il his old
home in Galena Ill.
Cyrus w. Field replies to Mr.. Tilden's re-
ply, reiterlting his former charges of trickery.
and want Of "squareness" generally.
1t is now stated that the full returns in the
third California congressional district elect
McKenna Republican, by 49, majority.
That makes the delegation solidly republican.
Mr. Tiden has been refused bill of par
ticulars in the suit brought 10y the govern
ment to recover his unpaid income tax, and
it looks as if he would have TO show his books
and tell Uncle Sam just what his profits were
during the years when the tax law was in
force.
George William Curtis advises Republicans
in New York, who do not want to vote for
Cornell since he is a machine candidate. not
to vote the Democratic ticket. but to scratch
the Republican. He thinks it will teach the
managers of the machine a lesson.
Preparations are already being made for
really national celebration of the centenary
of the surrender of Lord CORVALLIS at York.
town, which will occur Oh the 18th of Octo.
Der, 1851. Gov. Hoyt of Pennsylvania and
GOV, Holiday of Virginia have taken the in
itiative 10y inviting the Governors of the elev-
en- other original States to meet with them in
Philadelphia on the 18th of October to take
into consideration the necessary arrange
ments.
OF the called bonds which have ceased to
bear interest $50, soc, $50 ARE still outstand
ing, the owners being unwilling to make in
vestments ut present prices.
The Roman Catholic archbishop Wood of
Philadelphia has decided that the Grand Ar
my Of the Republic is not a secret society,
and that therefore Catholics may become
members
A British parliamentary return shows that
what is called the balance of trade between
England and this country turned in favor of
the United States in July, 1877. Down to
that time for years before Great Britain sent
NAAo Guilty Aiolt IL NAlut llhu WAS receive
ed since then, month by month, American
exports TO Great Britain have been larger
than British exports to the United States
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Sun, Mr. Gibson, who has never been
charged with any sympathy with bloody
shirt issues but who, on the contrary, is one
of the most stalwart of Democrats, has made
u formal investigation into the circumstances
connected with the murder of young Mr. Dix
on in Mississippi, and publishes a card in
which he declares that the murder of Henry
Nj. Dixon in Hazoo was a deliberate cold
blooded, political assassination, and that the
charges made against Dixon are false in ev-
cry particular.
OF one fact there can be no doubt whatev-
or. Gen. Grants reception in California has
surpassed in brilliancy and enthusiasm any
welcome ever before rendered TO any Ameri-
can citizen returning from abroad.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03

Fires The mining city of Deadwood. the
largest and richest town in Dakota territory.
was almost entirely destroyed by fire las,
Friday The buildings were of wood. cheap
ly and hastily built, aud when once the flames
got Roadway there was no means Of checking
them. The loss is estimated at no less
than $4,000, 900 The city will be rebuilt
and the telegraph wires are crowded with
orders for goods to take the place of those
destroyed
fire which broke out at half past four last
Saturday morning in J. F. Carriers oil cloth
ing factory at Gloucester. Mass, burned two
factories hotel several stores. three dwell
ings, two public halls and the Gloucester ma
tional bank aud Lows blocks, besides small
er buildings iuficting "a total loss Of So. 900.
Dover, n. H., suffered loss Of S2s. 600 on
Sunday from fire which broke ont in the
rear of Laws block and spread to several
large wooden buildings il the vicinity, which
were nearly all destroyed, while the Belkuap
church was slightly damaged.
The five largest stores in Bolton. Tex.
were burned Saturday. and two others were
pulled down to stop the flames: loss 500
600. well insured
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03

The Baptist church and society of this
place have secured the services OF Rev. II. S
Davis, late Of Wendell, Mass, for the ensu-
ing year.
Rev c. H. Merrill. with his family, left
Tuesday for Washington, d. c., where he
will spend three weeks vacation
A smart old man is Timothy Adkins Of
this village. We saw him few days since.
with paint-pot and brush in hand, near the
top of a ladder, improving the appearance of
a two-story house. Hailing him from the
sidewalk, We enquired his age and received
this reply, "Eighty-six years" A stranger
might have taken him for fifty-six.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03
The Georgia Chain-Gunrn.

correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
writing from Atlanta gives some particulars
concerning the workings of the iniquitous
chain-gang system i'll Georgia. which corrob-
crate numerous statements of a similar tenor
heretofore published. The system is applied
almost exclusively to the negroes so that the
chain-gangs resemble droves of slaves. In
Hancock county, for example, although the
docket has been crowded each year. no white
man has been sentenced to the chain gang
during the ten years that the system has been
in force, Negroes are given long sentences
for the most trivial crimes aud of late many
of them have been sentenced to years SER
vice on the pretext of having violated some
contract for labor. The whipping post is an
appurtenance of the convict camps. and
packs of bloOdhounds follow the gangs TO
track down escaping prisoners when the
guards miss their aim. Under the slave sys-
tenn il was for the interest of the slave-owner
to treat his slaves with some regard to their
health and welfare, because of their value as
property, but under the present system the
contractors pay but six cents a day for each
convict's labor, and as fast as they die of
their places are supplied by new ones. The
mortality from disease and ill-treatment is
frightful, averaging lG per cent in the camps
taken as a whole, and in some camps ranging
several times as high as that. An official re-
port states that more men have died in the
camps of one of the lessees in a year than
have died in the Maryland Penitentiary in tif-
teen years among the same number of persons.
In the summer of 1875 the mortality in one
of the convict camps was 10 per cent. in four
months, or 10 per cent. a month, but new
men were pushed to the front to take the place
of those who had been killed off by disease.
The following is the substance of one of the
official reports upon the abuses of the system:
The lessees had worked the convicts from
early morning until 10 o'clock at night, and
had not allowed them to rest on the Sabbath
Female conyicts had been worked indiscrim-
inately with the males during the day, and
chained on the same sleeping hunks with
them at night. One negro had been whipped
to death; the clothing of another had been
brought TO the State officer with the state
ment that the convict had escaped, but the
clothing was bloody and perforated with bull |
lets no report of his death was ever made |
Prisoners at the expiration of their terms had |
been turned loose without other clothing |
than their stripes, thus exposing them to the |
danger of being shot for escaped convicts |
The State officer reported the suspicion that |
many conyicts had been foully dealt with. as |
the lessees We're unable to account for their |
absence. Appalling facts but they seem to |
have made no impression, 10 have melted no |
action against the infamous institution. The
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03
VERMONT ITEMS.

Apples are said TO be so abundant III
Franklin county that hundreds of bushels
will be left on the ground.
A horse belonging TO Joseph Atkinson of
Newbury, was made deaf by the report Of
cannon at the late muster at Bradford
The Fairbanks scale company of St.
Johnsbury is now running evenings, the first
time since the war.
A 1000 pounds grinder at the Passumpsic
pulp mills recently broke scattering in all
directions and causing $500 damage A go
pounds piece went through the roof into the
river.
Tho Lyndonville cornet band took the
first prize of $50 at Saturdays band tourna-
ment at Bay View park, Lake Memphrema-
cog, with the City and Victoria bands OF
sherbrooke, p O., second and third respec-
lively.
Two prisoners walked out of the Middle
bury Jail last Saturday at noon, but were
headed of and taken back within II minutes
of their escape.
The annual meeting of the WOmen's
Christian Temperance Union, which has clos
ed at Nergennes was very successful gath
ering Forty-six delegates were present aud
atwo-days session was enjoyed by all
Harry Hedgcock of Passumpsic went to
Newport recently, TO see ''PinRfore,' When
lie went to get on the cars, coming home, IN
the evening he stepped of the trestle on
which the cars stood and landed in Lake
Memphremagog in thirty feet of water He
got out safely and received ten dollars DANA
ges from the road authorities
Norman Taylor, the vermont pie-eat-
or, who was conspicuous for being the last
man in the race in the Ashley belt contest IN
New York last week, belongs in Plymouth,
near Woodstock, and has quite a reputation
as short distance runner. He has frequent
ly taken IA jog from Plymouth TO Rutland,
nearly 20 miles over the Green Mountains,
and always has run in races for five, ten or
twenty miles.
The Connecticut river lumber company
are now busily engaged in blasting the large
boulders in the river on what is known as
Fifteen Miles Falls. They began at the
head of the falls and are blasting rocks in the
channel that stick above water at its present
low water stage, expecting that with the usu-
al spring rise the drive of logs will not be i'm
peded by anything that does not appear
above the present surface. The blasteTs, 20
in number, have cleared about ten miles OF
the river. This is rather an expensive way
of clearing the river of distractions to the
annual drive of logs, but there seemed TO be
no alternative after the experience of last
spring, when il cost over $40, 900 to get the
drive OF logs over these falls.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03

SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY


The silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
| Spencer Robinson, which occurred Oh the
27th Of September, was a grand and success
full affair Ill every particular. About 1870 Of
their friends and relatives assembled il the
afternoon and evening. bringing with then.
rich supply of those things necessary to meet
the wants Of the inner man and an abundance
Of good cheer which is so needful and wei.
come to the heart Among the guests were
Rev. Messrs. Netcalf, S T. Lovett and d. Wells
who performed the marriage ceremony and
We judge from the way they tied the matri.
monial knot that they were thoroughly &C
quainted with the business The mask Of
reserve or cold indifference which sometimes
characterizes such gatherings was laid aside,
and free play aud wide range given the social
and conversational powers, il which new and
pleasant acquaintance were formed and old
ones prohtably renewed and extended At
about O'Clock, remarks BETTING the occs.
sion were made by Messrs Lovett and Met
calf, to which Mr. Robinson responded in al
appropriate speech, rich in thought and
pathos, after which supper was served to all
present. The gifts which were all valuable
and useful, consisted of two large and nine
small spoons, all Of which were solid silver
from Mrs Foster Kidder, a beautiful silver
cake basket from their friends of North
Wardsboro, and twelve dollars in cash con.
tributed by friends in the evening, amounting
in all to S27. Mr.. and Mrs Robinson sin.
cerely thank their friends and relatives for
their good cheer, hearty congratulations and
valuable gifts.
Franklin Johnson is putting up an add
ton to his barn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-03

The great walking-mAtch at New York end
ed Saturday night, with Rowell, the English
man, again the winner. The final score stood :
Rowell $50 miles, Merritt 80, Hazael 800,
Hart 1872, Guyon Al, Weston 400, Ennis $50,
Krohne 400, Taylor 2jO. The receipts for
the week were upward of SO, 1000 Accord
ing to the terms of the contest each man who
made $50 or more miles in the contest was
entitled to share of the gate money, the
winner getting one-half of the net receipts.
Rowell received S2G, 900 for his weeks work /;
Merritt, $7312; Hazael. S4l92. 30; Hart,
S237O Guyon, 1880; Weston, Sl3Gj :;
Ennis, S972.5O; and Krohne, Ss77.5O. The
sums bet upon the contest counted up into
the hundreds of thousands of dollars.