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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-06
FLOURS.

~ these ddys, Whem IOC grades
of F1OUr are being sOId undeI. hi0h
sOundiHD names. IL does WeU for
purchasers to kHOW rhdt thcy are
buying. ! irish to sag am stiU
selling those WcU EnOiCn brands
Uhtch ! hare SOLd for so MANN
gears. The only recOmI3 nddtiOn
Hhtch they nced is 4 TRIAL. PTi-
ces that cannot be beaten.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-06

Mr.. A. G. Redwood, in one of his "Johnny
Reb' papers, in Scribner for June, gives this
description of an incident within the Confcd-
crate lines He says
1t was the end of bleak November day;
the fires of railway ties, extending in long
line either way as far as the eye could follow,
made still more neutral by contrast with their
ruddy light the dun-gray fields of stubble,
and the woods in which the gorgeous pano-
ply of the earlier season was paling into rus
set and ashy tones. The work was over and
We were waiting with some impatience for
the order to take up the line of march back
to camp; for the evening air struck chilly
through our threadbare and tattered Jackets,
and We had eaten nothing since early morn
ing Moreover, wild rumor had spread
abroad that an issue of fresh pork awaited
our return, and though the long habit of ex-
pecting nothing good until it came secured us
against any serious disappointment, there
were not wanting tender memories of 'short"
biscuit to raise our anticipations higher than
we cared to own. Thus preoccupied, we are
fain to refer a distant cheering further down
the line to tidings of the coming rations and
we gather by the roadside in order to get off
the more promptly when our turn shall ar
rive. The sound grows more and more dis
tinct every moment, and now, far down the
ipHu oOiht iiON4hB ObJtSi Ntih Jubt NC hlSCSin-
ed in a cloud of dust which travels rapidly
our way. Nearer and nearer it comes loud
er and more enthusiastic ring the shouts, and
now we make out in the dust the figure of n
single horseman, with clump of others trail
ing off into obscurity behind him-Jackson
is coming! A moment more, and he is here,
going at almost top-speed; his hat is off
his hair blown back from his broad white
forehead his eyes dancing and his cheeks
aglow with excitement, and the rush of keen
air And now the cheers grow deafening
and ragged hats are swung more wildly still
as the men of the foot cavalry recognize their
leader. The cayalcade passes like whirl-
wind and disappears in the dust up the road,
cheered to the very last tagging courier Of the
escort,-for We are in good humor now with
ourselves and all the world And as we step
briskly out upon our homeward march, the
air feels fresh and invigorating and the miles
seem shorter than they were in the morning;
even the beloved biscuit is of minor conse-
quence, and the promised pork pales beside
the thought which fills us-that we have seen
jackson!
And we got the pork besides
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-06

treasure Of strength and sympathy so mex
haustihlc that although il never shut the door,
nor refused the lifting of the hand, nor failed
to empty ont, more lavishly than prudence
would dictate the means, never reached the
point where a. himself IN his daily mood was
cloudy. God held over him in full sight un-
clouded the sunlight of lis countcnance.
Serene, brave, all-accomplished, marvellous
man sit down TO contemplate the make
up of his qualities. | remember hc was NOR
tai, and yet, where shall we find one among
those waging earnest, unceasing effort to
quell sin, TO reform error, to cnlightcn dark
ness, to bind up broken hearts, his cqual2
Farewell, for a very little while, noblest of
Christian men! Leader, brave, tiroess un-
selfish The ear that heard thee, it blessed
thee the eye that saw thee gave witness to
thee. More truly than it could be uttered
since the great patriarch wrote it, the bless
ngs of him that was ready to perish was
thine eternal great reward.
Though the clouds rest for a moment to-
day on the great work that you set your
heart to accomplish, you knew, God in his
love let you see, without a mistake, that your
work was done that through clouds and
darkness one thing, by the favor under God
of thy efforts, is fixed beyond the possibility,
as mortals would say, of change. While that
eye was open, while that ear could listen,
God gave what has been so rarely given to
man, the plaudits and prayers of five millions
of Victims thanking him for emancipation,
and through the clouds Of to-day, no matter
how dark nor how heavy, his heart, as it
ceased to beat, felt certain certain, that
whether one flag or two rules this continent
in time TO come, one thing is settled-it new
er henceforth can be trodden by slave
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-06

The INDIAN QUESTION. When the Pacific
railway had reached the forks of the Platte
river in 1867, and the Indians of the great
plains were all i'll ferment at the rumors of
the mysterious iron road that was TO cut in
two the buffalo range, and carry the white
mems settlements into the heart of their
hunting grounds, a distinguished Massachu-
sets man, with the government inspecting
commission, was expressing his faith that
fair treatment of the Indians would save the
bloodshed and nameless horrors of the border
warfare then fragrant. An old frontiersman,
clad in Sioux hunting-shirt and fringed leg
gins, who had pithily expressed the practical
view of the case, saying it was the natural
conflict between the two systems of life rep
resented respectively by the locomotive and
the flint arrowhead turned the tables ON the
statesman by replying, 80 far as real fair
ness of treatment is concerned, you should
have thought of that before you drove them
over the Connecticut river" The truth is
that however varied may be the circumstan-
ces attending our dealings with the Indians,
whether as feeble colonists or as nation of
irresistible power the principle of our con-
duct has been at bottom the same. We have
pushed onward with steady march intrud-
ing upon their domain, impeding and destroy
ing their means of subsistence, curtailing
their coveted freedom, and always finding
them in the wrong when they resist and mako
war upon us after their savage fashion.-HOn.
j. ID. Goa, IN June International
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NO. 23.

ball in Shelburne Congregational enter
tainment;" in North Adams a military ball
in Pittsheld symphony concert; in Athol
some Methodist tableaux and music in West
Warren an operetta in Congregational chap
ell; in Hardwick surprise party" and so
on. This is single days exhibit, and so it
goes on, day after day l make no account
of farmers clubs. harvest clubs, religious
meetings and lyceum lectures, though the
last, in these times, are certainly to be classcd
under the head Of entertainments. Here
we have amusements in abundant quantity, IL
it is certain and as to the quality you must
not be too particular whether in Europe or
America. If ! may judge by my own obscr-
vation, q traveller who should find such evil
dences of social vivacity as these is n series
of country villages in England, France or
Germany would be quite amazed, and would
write to the New York Herald to describe it
all and yet the scene of all this is what one
Of your contributors, borrowing the phrase
from Matthew Arnold, describes as q region
of 'hideousness and cnnui." am led to the
conclusion that such writers can never have
visited the New England Of my experience
or that have never had the ill-luck to visit
the New England of theirs; or else that in
social observation, as in the study of nature,
I'VE receive but what we give, " and find only
what we resolve to find.
II IL DC balu that nave taken rather su-
pertcial view, and that such details rs 1 have
mentioned do not, after all, make up the cs-
sentials of good society, am very ready to
admit it. But it is on precisely these super
hcial grounds that our rural society in New
England is condemned il is certainly rcprov-
ed and berated for the alleged absence of
popular amusements and cheerful relaxations:
and this seems to me wide of the mark. If
the complaint is shifted to higher grounds.
if it is alleged that our small villages do not,
as a rule, furnish adequate society for poets
and artists and men Of learning, the obvious
answer is that you cannot expect to find in
community of a few hundred what is often
wanting in cities of many thousand men.
make for New England rural life no such ex-
travagant claim as that and only wish to
show that it is not what Sydney Smith de-
fined country life in,Engand to be, kind
of healthy grave"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-06

Somebody says very beautifully, "a good
life is visible philosophy"
A lie is like a fish out of water. 1t may
wriggle and flop and make great fuss, but
if you let it alone it will die of itself,
1t may be, as some one has complained,
terribly monOtonOus for man and wife to live
together for thirty years without quarrel,
but it is an experience in which very few
couples have INDUCED themselves.
A German farmer disputed his tax bill.
He said ~ pays the State tax the county
tax, and the school tax but pays no total
tax. Use got no total tax and never had
any"
young artist has painted the picture Of a
dog under tree, and the work is so artistic
ally done that none but the best connoisseurs
can tell the bark of the tree from that of the
dog.
George" said a sohoolmistress to one of
her unruly scholars, why is it that you be-
have so badly? When you first came to
school you were obedient, submissive and
willing to learn now you are just the con-
trary." "Well, to tell you the truth, maTm,
said George, II was not much acquainted
then"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-06

The best armor against temptation is to
keep out of the range of its guns.
1t pays better not to do a wrong than to do
it and then repent
No man ever lived who had only one fault
A single fault has both sexes in itself, and is
sure to beget large family.
An Indiana paper tells of saloon keeper
who while bewailing the bad state of his bust
ness, looked towards n new spire creeping
heavenward, and with wave of his hand,
said, "Them's the id things that's ruinin
the country"
Mamma, said a wicked youngster, "am
canoe p mo, child, why do you ask 2"
"Oh, because you always say you like to see
people paddle their own canoe and didn't
know but maybe l was yours" The boy
went out of the door with more reference to
speed than grace.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-06
He that BeIieVeth shall not Make
Haste,

The aloes grow upon the sand,
The aloes thirst with parching heat;
Year after year they wait and stand,
Lonely aud calm, and front the beat
OF desert winds, and still q sweet
And subtle voice thrills all their veins:
"Great patience wins; it still remains
After a century Of pains,
For you to bloom and be complete.
81 grow upon thorny waste;
Hot noontide lies on all the way,
And with its seorching breath makes haste,
Each freshening dawn to burn and say;
Yet patiently bide and stay,
Knowing the secret Of my fate.
The hour Of doom, dear Lord, wait,
Come when II will or soon or late
A hundred years is but day"
Susan Coolidge.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-06
Miscellany.

'Ir. Whitticra Poem, Head at Mr.. danI
risOn's Funeral.
The storm and peril overpast,
The bounding hatred shamed aud still,
Go, soul OF freedoml take at last
The place which thou alone caust hl
Go up and on thy day well done,
Thy morning promise wcll fulfilled
Arise to triumphs yet unwOn,
To holier tasks that God has willcd.
God leave behind thee all that mars
The work below Of man for mani
with the white lcgions Of the stars
Do service such as angels can.
Wherever wrong shall right deny,
Or suffering spirits urge their plea,
Be thine voice to smitc the lie,
haud to set the captive froei
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

of this bill into law will establish q preoe.
dent which will tend to destroy the equal
independence of the several branches OF
the government. It's principle places not
merely the senate and executive. but the
judiciary also, under the coercive dictation
of the house. The house alone will be the
Judge of what constitutes grievance, and
also OF the means and measure of redress.
An act of congress to protect elections is
now the grievance complained of; but the
house may on the same principle complain
that any other act of congress, or of the
president, with the advice and consent of
the senate, nomination or appointment
to Office, or that a decision or an opinion
of the Supreme Court is a grievance, and
that the measure of redress is to withhold
the appropriations required for the support
OF the offending branch of the government.
Believing that this bill is a dangerous
violation of the spirit and meaning of the
constitution, | am compelled TO reiarn it to
the house in which it originated without
my approval. The qualified negative with
which the constitution invests the president
is trust that involves duty which | can.
not decline to perform, and q conscientious
purpose to do what can to preserve unim.
paired the constitutional powers and equal
independence not merely OF the executive,
but of every branch of the government
which will be imperilled by the adoption of
the principle of this bill. desire earnestly
to urge upon the house of representatives
a return to the wise and wholesome usage
of the earlier days of the republic, which
excluded from appropriation bills all irrele.
want legislation. Your action will be in
harmony with the fundamental principles
of the constitution and patriotic sentiment
of nationality which is their firm support,
and you will restore to the country that
feeling of confidence and security and
repose which are so essential to the prosper
ity of all our fellow citizens.
(Signed) RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
An Engineers Need of Nerve.

Unquestionably the bravest men in
America are those who can stand upon
the oot-boards of the locomotives which
draw the fast express trains. But few
persons are aware of it, but on the lead
ing railways, where connections must De
made if possible, only engineers known
to be brave and daring are given engines
on express trains, and as soon as an en-
gineer shows the least timidity about
running fast he is taken from his engine
and given one on freight train to run.
Two such cases have occurred recently
on Indianapolis roads. Railroad officers
state that the first sign that an engineer
is becoming timid is that he will be five
or ten minutes late, possibly half hour
for some days or nights in succession.
He is then called to an account, and I'M
less his reasons are convincing another
engineer is given his engine to run
for few times, and should he bring
the train in promptly on time, the first
hamed engineer gets a freight train to
run until he braces up. 1t is stated
however, that after an engineer allows
his timidity to get fair hold he seldom
so far overcomes it as to have the BRAY
cry to step on to an express train engine
and run it at the speed necessary to
make the time. Quite recently an
engineer of one of the roads running
west from here got an impression that
some accident was to happen to him, and
one night, when running fast express
he constantly lost time. At the first
station when the train stopped the con-
ductor berated him for running so slow.
The engineer actually shed tears, and
owned that fears had overcome him,
and that he dared not run fast, and at
his own request an engineer of & freight
train which stood at this meeting point
was given the train to run through
that night, the conductor telegraphed
to the train-master, asking that the
request be granted. The timid engineer
has since run freight ON the road
Indianapolis Journal.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Fate of the Shenandoah.

Everybody has heard of the Shenan-
doah, the notorious privateer of the
southerners of the American civil war /;
but | do not suppose that many know
what was the ultimate fate of the shi o
when the war ended. Of all places in
the world, she now lies fathoms deep"
OFT the island of Socotra, in the Arabian
Gulf. Her story is strange one. She
was busy burning whalers in Behring
Straits, when Waddell, her commander,
the mildest-mannered man who ever
scuttled ship or cut throat" heard of
the collapse of the south. His occupa-
ton being gone, and being without home
or harbor to which he burst with safety
return, he ran the Shenandoah to Liver
pool, and Immediately surrendered her
to her Majesty's ship Donegal in the
Mersey. She was handed over to the
American consul, and afterwards bought
at auction by Nicol, Fleming & Goa
firm that has earned notoriety in con-
nection with the failure of the CITY of
Glasgow bank-for the sultan of Zanzi-
bar. After remaining idly at Zanzibar
from for some years, she was sent to
Bombay for repairs, but foundered off
Socotra, all hands being lost except one
Englishman and few Lascas.-London
World
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

The village of Geatchinko, on the Volga
has been totally destroyed by fire.
A FIRE in the northeast quarter of Mon
treal, on the 3Oth ult., destroyed over forty
two-storied houses, and rendered seventy
families homeless. Total loss $4,000.
The factory of the Vermont Shade Roller
company at Vergennes, VT. burned on the
Goth. Loss $4,000; partially insured.
A special to the Memphis AUalanche from
Durant, Miss, says fire on the night of the
2Sth destroyed ten buildings. The entire
south half of the town was burned.
The Enterprise paper mills, at Whining.
ton, H., burned on the 2sth. Loss $50, 900
insurance $4,000.
The Logan House, Galena, ILL.,, was con.
sumed by fire on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
The Herkimer paper company's mill, at
Herkimer, N. Y, burned on the night of
the Goth. Loss $4,000. Insurance ST., 900.
The fire is supposed to have been accidental,
as the engineer, Henry Dietz, was burned.
The Piqua., o., Touring mills burned on
the Goth, also the extensive corn cribs of
Orr Leonard, adjoining, were badly dam
aged. Loss about $4,000.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
The Return from Leadyille.

Why is it," asks a correspondent,
that if Leadville is as bad a place as
you describe it, we never see any of the
people who go there come back?" Oh,
well, that is easily enough explained.
When young man sets out for Lead
vile he arrays himself couspicuously
for day or two prior to his departure,
then he has the fact of his going and the
train he will take announced in the
village paper, and at the appointed time
he goes rafting down to the depot in sn
open carriage two hours before train
time, and swaggers up and down the
platform while he waits, and as the train
goes off he leans out of the window and
yells personal good-by to everybody on
the platform. But when he comes back
he times his return 80 Is to strike his
native town by back road, after dark,
then he sneaks home through the alleys,
climbs over the back fence, taps at the
kitchen window and begs, under his
breath, to be let in, and when he gets in
he stays in bed three or four days, while
his new clothes are being made and the
doctor is trying to count the blisters on
his feet. Oh, it's easy to explain why
we never see them come back: but they
do come back all the same.-Burdetfe.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

NEW YORK, May 3-3 100 P. M.-Co.ton-
Quiet at 12c for midling uplands. Flsur-
Firm; receipts 900 bbls sales II 900 bbls;
unchanged prices; rye flour firm and uR.
changed. Wheat-Dull; receipts $4,000
bus; sales 10000 bus; No. 2 spring seller
June at $1.00. Rye-Quiet. Corn-Quiet;
receipts AZ, 600 bus sales Is, 900 bus at IL 10
1870. Barley-Dull. Oats-Steady; re.
ceipts 10000 bus; sales $4,000 bus; 500
33 sfor mixed western ;35K@37 4 for white.
Pork--Dull; sales at $1010. Beef-Firm
Lsrd-Easier at $500. Butter-At 15@17c.
Overwhelmingly. WhIsky-At $1.07.
Sugsr-At 316c. Eggs-URehanged. Pc
troleum- Crude at 711@Sc; refined I'M.
changed. Coal-Quiet. Lsather-Un.
changed. Wool-Weak.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10

the afternoon number of Second Advent
lists assembled at his house but the calie
had been killed. The little one was trans
fixed with knife and her blood poured
out upon the table improvised as an altar
Freeman has driven every one from the
house and locked and barred the doors and
windows, and having firearms, threatens
death to every one who interferes. Alone
with the dead child, he goes through horri
BILE incantations (Which" he says, sin three
days will result in the resurrection of my
beloved child"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
Struck the Wagon.

passenger train north on the White.
water Valley railroad, when near Brookville,
Ind, on the 30th ult,, ran into a wagon con.
tanning Henry Strawmeier, wife and daugh.
ter, aged 20, and young son. The wagon,
after being carried one hundred and fifty
yards was thrown beside the track, a COM
plete wreck. Mrs. Strawmeier was injured
internally, supposed fatally, and the daugh-
ter was found covered with blood, with a
piece of wood driven into her flesh. She
,sill probably die. The father and son re-
ceived slight injuries.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-05-10
The Trade Dollar.

Secretary Sherman appeared before the
coinage, weights and measures committee
in the house on the Goth, and gave his views
relative to the conversion of the trade dollar
into bullion. The value of the trade dollar,
he said, was greater than like amount of
bullion, hence it would not be possible to
purchase coin for the purpose of melting it
into bullion. He considered the act OF
1878 demonetiziug silver, grave blunder.
He stated small notes would be exchanged
for fractional coins, at the treasury depart.
ment, at any time,