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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04

Two years passed, and the night of my
strange adventure in Paris had become al
most like dream to me. We left France af-
ter my husbands return from abroad, and,
on his quitting the army, we took up our
residence in London. | had meanwhile re-
ceived several letters from my brother, writ
ten from the Cape, and in answer to one
wrote him in reference to the robbery, he re-
piled with the most solemn assertions of his
entire ignorance of the transaction. l be-
lieved him my husband was silent on the
subject, and felt thankful the Cape was SO
far of. We seldom referred to the circum-
stances before recorded, for 1 could not bear
to recall the horrors of that evening in the
dark, desolate house.
One morning, however, l was startled by
my husband saying suddenly, as he looked up
from a letter he was reading:
81 say, Madge, they think they have found
a clew at last to your Partisan exploit read
that"
He passed me over an official looking letter,
and l read what follows:
Bureau de Police, Paris
ITO CAPTAIN BRANsCoMBE
Monsieur, We believe we have in custody
the boy who acted so prominent part in the
robbery committed on Madame your wife, in
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04
How 20 Cure a Toothache.

Some months ago an English tourist, lin
geriug in a country churchyard, was present
at "a funeral, and observed among the group
of mourners young man, who particularly
attracted attention by his swollen face and
the utter detection of his appearance. Here
at least is one true mourner," thought the
Englishman While this thought was pass
ing through his mind the supposed mourner
took up a skull which lay on the top of a
heap of dry mold and crumbled bones. He
raised it to his lips, and, with his own teeth
extracted tooth from it. Horror filed the
stranger as he watched his proceeding and
saw him throw the skull carelessly away,
while he wrapped the tooth in paper and
put it in his pocket Can you tell me why
he did that 2" asked our tourist of an old
man who stood beside him during the funer-
al ceremony. Aye, surely, your honor the
poor boy was very bad wi the toothache, au'
It's allowed to be cure if you draw q tooth
frae a skull wi your ane teeth. He'll sew
the tooth in his clothes an wear it as long as
he lives" You don't tell me so! Do you
think the remedy will be effectualY' Its
like enough, sir" replied the old man, show
ing where Il tooth was sewed in the lining of
his own waistcoat. Its five years since
pulled that ane the same way, an l never
had a touch O. the toothache since. "-AH the
YedF Round.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04

"The grass is turning green, was the OBJ
servant remark of young man escorting a
pretty damsel across the common, aud the
saucy miss replied that he had got ahead of
the grass by number of days
"But pass" said minister recently, in
dismissing one theme of his subject to take up
another "Then l make it spades" yelled a
man from the gallery, who was dreaming
the happy hours away in an imaginary game
of euchre.
A young man with an extremely powerful
voice was in doubt what branch of the art TO
adopt. He went to Cherubini for advice,
Suppose you sing me few bars" said the
master. The young fellow sang so loud that
the walls fairly shook Now" said 'he,
what do you think l am best fitted for ?"
"AuctiOneer," dryly replied Cherubini.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04

SAVING HIS LIFE.-A colored man pleaded
his own case with naked success in Dallas,
Tex, not long ago. He was accused of
crime as grave as murder, and had been con-
victed. The judge denied the motion for
new trial and asked the customary question,
Have you anything to say why sentence
should not be pronounced ?" The prisoner
responded that he knew nothing he could say
would influence the court, as all the forms Of
law had been observed, but he would'like to
say few words to his colored friends. He
started OFF slowly and deliberately, reviewing
the testimony, showing the Inconsistencies of
witnesses statements, and then, carried away
with the idea of the wrong done him, he
burst forth in a strain of eloquence seldom
heard. When he sat down the judge said :;
Sam, l thought you guilty; l don't believe
so now, and will set aside the Judgment over
ruling your motion for new trial, and give
you another chance" The county attorney
dismissed the case, and the prisoner walked
out of the court room a free man. He was a
common field hand, the local paper says,
land uneducated."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04

The New YORK DRY GOODS DISTRICT, as
the region south of Canal street and west OF
Broadway is called, is the standing menace
of New York insurance companies. On a
space of less than 80 acres is crowded inham-
mable property of value larger than the
amount destroyed by the Chicago and Boston
fires combined, or over $3.50, 600, 900. This
property is stored in lofty iron buildings, in
tersected by marrow streets and fanked along
the North river by rows of frame buildings,
which, as the president of the New York as
sociatiou of underwriters recently said
would be considered dangerous in Texas or
on the prairies of Illinois" New York city,
however, true to its easy traditions, has tax
en- no special pains for the protection of this
region.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04

cepting in June, July and August. The
slopes are covered with stuntcd growth Of
evergreen forest Almost hidden among the
gigantic domes of Marcy, Skylight and Gray
Peak, and lying at an elevation of 1921 feet
above the sea, is the beautiful lake Tear Of
the Clouds" where are found the sources Of
the Hudson
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04
Miscellany.
One by One.

One by One.
one by one the sands are flowing,
one by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going
DO not strive to grasp them ALL
One by one thy duties wait thee
Let thy whole strength go to each;
Let no future dreams elate thee,
Learn thou nrst what these can teach.
one by ouc-bright gifts from Heaven
Joys are sent thee here below:
Take them readily when given;
Ready, too, to let them go.
One by one thy griefs shall meet thee:
Do not fear an armed band;
one will fade others greet thee
Shadows passing through the laud
Do not look at lfe's long sorrow,
See how small each moments pain.
God will help thee for tomorrow;
Every day begin again.
Every hour that fleets so slowly
Has It's task to do or bear;
Luminous the crown and holy,
If thou set each gem with care.
Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despOnd;
Nor, the daily toll forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyond.
Hours are golden links, Gods token,
Reaching Heaven but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
-Houschold Words.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04

PITCHERS CASTORIAisnot
Narcotic. Children grow fat
upon, Mothers like, and PhySi-
clans recommend CASTORIA.
1t regulates the Bowels, cures
Wind Collie, allays Fcvcrishncss,
and destroys Worms.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-06-04

WEI DE MEYERS CATARRH
Cure, n Constitutional Antidote for
this terrible malady, by Absorption.
Tho most Important Discovery since
Vaccination. Other remedies may
roheve Catarrh, this cures mt any
stage before Consumption sets in.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12

try and placed it upon the true principle Of
National sovereignty, as found in the Consti-
Let us keep it bound together on this theory,
that It may be PerPetnated q. the grandes;s
ans 5y tS s
brought ruin upon the country, most terrible
and damaging to every interest. The opposi-
have ruined the country now, but where is the
proof? How and in what way have we ruined
and brought distress to the country? The Re
publican party has restored upon q solid basis
the payment of all our National obligations,
and has given US a currency in all parts of the
ed the credit f of fhe s' Nation from the T point
where orr six per cent bonds sold at eighty
six cents to where our four per cent bonds
After twenty years of Democratic rule loan
of sls,OOO,Ooo exhausted the market for six
After Republican rule for twenty years a
loan of Sl5o,OO0OO0 was taken in single day.
In twenty years we find an increase OF
An increase of several agricultural exports
stuffs of $50 per cent.
An increase of internal commerce of 700
An increase in railway mileage from 81, ,ooo
to over s., 900 niles.
9Ss q f. 5S au 6as increased from 500
Our exports, wHich were 10000, 900 less than
our imports in 1850, were SIS. 90 900 more than
The Republican party since the war closed,
besides paying the expenses OF the Govern
ment, including $Oe0),O0J of pensions, have
paid SSSs 000, ,0oO of the public debt and reduced
the annual interest from $l5l,OO1,OOO to $751;
100000. sI a.--- f .
No Government is in better condition or has
a better credit The people are prosperous
everywhere; labor is rewarded, our manu-
features increasing, our commerce growing.
This people ought to be a happy people
dition of things. The Democracy kept
your pathway strewn with thorns and
thistles. The Republicans have plucked the
thorns and thistles and planted flowers
there. Be careful not to pluck out the flowers
and replace the thistles and thorns. lGreat
applauSel
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12
That BrOnzed Seafaring Man.

Yesterday afternoon a man with a
bronzed face and the dress of n petty
officer on shipboard, carrying partly
concealed beneath the skirt of his
jacket a good-sized package, peered
into the Office of United States Com
missioner Shields and lodged back into
the hall. The Commissioner called
out, "Do you want to see me? Come
in" The man thereupon entered the
office and in a whisper asked Mr..
Shields if he would not like to buy a
silk dress pattern or broche shawl
very cheap indeed.
"How can you afford to sell so low?''
asked the Commissioner.
"Well, the fact is said the man in a
low tone, .. 1 don't mind telling you.
follow the sea, and bring over few
articles with me on every trip, just to
speculate on"
"Oh," said Commissioner Shields,
"then you smuggled them; is that it?'
The bronzed stranger winked. The
Commissioner said he thought Mr..
Drummond on the floor above might
like 10 buy shawl, and to the floor
above the bronzed person went. Special
Agent Drummond, of the Treasury
Department, examined theman's stock,
which was of inferior quality yet calcu-
lated to deceive persons knowing little
of such fabrics, and when the bronzed
person intimated that it was smuggled
Mr.. Drummond said:
"My good man, I'm revenue officer
and shall have to put you under ar
rest"
The bronzed man turned yellowish
green, and said he had been lying.
"You'll have to show the bills for this
stuff" said Drummond. He produced
the bills, which were from a cheap
east-side store, and as it is not an Of
fense against the customs laws to lie
about domestic manufactures be was
let GOA y World.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12
a VOICE FROM YAZOO.
ZEKx FREAR PREPARES FOR A FOE AND FIT

zEKx FREAR PREPARES FOR A FOE AND FINDS
COMPATRIOT.
Oh! Yeu do, heyl Come way from the Nawth,
Land ov that miz' able pize'nin' frawth
Called freedom, Matched in yer tarnal skules
An, the brains ov' greasy MECHANIC" fules,
Thet's more ov the stuff thet's seedin
Mulattahs an niggahs-the poa' trash
With idees, that bloom into sich swash
Whar we stomped 'em down with a tremenjus
We wants no sich varmin ne ,ts roun' heer.
An, onless you've hank'rin' fer a crapt ear,
Or a dose NV long hick'r 'ry, well applde,
Wnas tnets 70 am Ss eds
Oh, Thet's ii "The Kangaroo Hancock
Give US yer hand! Why didn't ye spit it right
out?
It's dansersome here to leave fellers in doubt,
When you carry sich size ov billed shirt,
Onless yen gifts on a little more dirt.
An yeu ur a Dimickrat; an yeu holler'd fer
An did all yen colud fer the Confed'racy;
An yeu wuz agin coercion: an agin the dran
An yeu encouraged desarting' ov the hirelin'
An you fit asin armin' the nigsahs, you say,
Cause II mout be h1rtin' 60 we uns In grey;
Yeu wanted ter put We jist whar we begun;
An yeu wuz furnist all the sinful roo'na-
Thet spilled niggahs with rights an, slSuie edi-
cashun;
An WQen we nuu lttlc ITOlilcS Win iihC uh
switch,
Yeu swore up an down thar wuzn't no sichl
An yeu did thet! 81! 81! Drat yer hide,
come heeri
Heah's Nawthen Confedrit! Give him q
cheeri .... .-f~..L -. -r
lie powerful glad! I is, glad clar through
To take holt oy yer hand heer in YaZoo.
Oil Inquirini Is Massissip solid for Hancock
That it bel Yeu kin bet! Solid ez rock.
What, niggahs! Will they vote fer we? Not
Agin weS What! Niggahsl No sab; not any
Persuade 'emi Sartin! Thet's jist the layl
We Dimickrats persuades 'em they Ort to
obey,
81! Git down the persuader, Yaas! Thet air
sartin a gun! -.
But, stranger, thet's fawty stump speeches
billed into one. ......- . - =. r
When agreements from thet bores a few holes
The rest of the "rads :" keeps way from the
polls. .-...s--.t4- - ..s... 100 -
Thet's how it liz we air solid for Hancock,
Yeu bet on IT, stranger! Solid ez a rock.
! - ID 1rnif RpNk md Tribune.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12
WELLINGTON O.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 1880.

way called himself a Count, which
it is needless to say he had never done
in his own land. He selected n good
looking young woman with money,
whom he married. She experienced the
sensation of hearing herself called a
Countess, and of seeing the appellation
inscribed on her visiting cards. He
could not take her to his provincial
home in France, where he and his father
were known as ameliorated peasants,
but he took her to Paris, where she al
presant resides under the pleasing fic-
ton that she has become part of noble
and illustrious family.
In conclusion, it must be owned that
the evidence of conjugal unhappiness,
however strong, will hardly deter the
young American woman from striving
to be a Countess, if her head be once
filled with the notion. Were il proved
to her that, in nine cases out of ten
such unions are miserable, she would
with fatal facility believe hers to be
the exceptional tenth, and unhesita-
tis-gly place upon her head the coronet
destined in the end to become a crown
of fthorns.-Al6ert Rhodes, in Scri6ner's {
MOnthtu.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12
NUMBER AZ.

On May 81. 1880. after twenty years
of Republican rule, the balance of trade
was over $162, 900, 900 in favor of this
country.
In 1860, after twenty years of Demo-
cratic rule and teaching, there was very
serious question whether we had any
Nation, and the old public functiopary
in the White House, whose chief ad-
wiser was Jere Black, the man who now
furnishes the craftsmanship for General
Hancock, announced that there WAS
mo power in the Government to coerce
State" leaving the inference that
JEFF Davis and Alec Stephens could send
the country to the demnition bow-wows
for all he could do to prevent it. After
twenty years of Republican rule there
is no doubt that we have country, and
Alec Stephens and Jere Black would
give all they are worth to have the peo-
pie forget that they ever questioned it.
The kind of ruin which five successive
Republican Administrations have inaict-
ed upon the country is just little strik-
ing in view of the figures, and the peo-
pie like it and can for more of the same
sort, and are bound to navo II, IUU.-
Washington o.. CO. Republican,. s .:
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12
The Way the Republican Party Ruined
the Country.

The Democratic orators and editors
are trying to make out that the Repub-
icans have ruined the country. Yes ;
and this is the way it was done:
In 1860, after twenty years OF Demo
cratic rule, Government six per cent.
bond sold for eighty-nine cents.
In 1880, after twenty years of Repub-
lican rule, a Government four per cent.
bond sells for S1.O8.
In 1860, after twenty years OF Demo-
cratic rule, a loan of SIS, 600, 600 ex-
hausted the market for six months.
At the end of twenty years of Repub-
lican rule a loan of $3.50, ,00O, 900 was
taken in a single day.
In twenty years of Republican rule
we find:
An increase of population of fifty per
cent.
An increase of general agricultural
exports of 600 per cent.
An increase in exports of bread and
breadstuffs of $50 per cent.
An increase of exports of manufac-
tured articles of 225 per cent.
An increase of internal commerce of
700 per cent.
An increase of railway mileage Of
1877 per cent.
In 1860, after twenty years OF Demo-
cratic rule, Congress authorized loan
of $25. 600, 900 to pay current expenses.
In 1880, after twenty years OF Repub-
lican rule, the Secretary of the Treas
ury pays SS5, 900. 900 of debt contracted
for war brought on by solid Democrat
ic South, which now wants power again
so as to stop the waving of that bloody
shirt. the wearing of which is Han
cocks chief glory and his whole availa-
BILE stock as candidate for the Presi-
dency. - --,i ta.
In 1860, after twenty years of Demo
cratic rule, the balance of trade against
| the country was over $40, 600, 600,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12
What Have Democrats Done I

The nineteen years since the begin
ming of the war have been fruitful of
imperishable achievements by the Re-
publican party. And these years have
rendered great opportunities to the
Democracy. How has it used those op-
portunities? What have the Democrats
done for the country?
What did they do as party to sup
press the rebellionp- 3ll - ssa = -
What did they do to preserve the
Union? ,-..-s
What did they do to emancipate the
slave? 3li --'as 80.
What did they do to protect the lib
critics and lives of loyal men in the
What did they do to prevent the
South from re-enslaving the blackse IT
What did they do to bring the South
into harmony with the Constitution and
the Union? 80. $1,000,
What did they do to secure the pass
age of the anti-slavery amendment to
the ConstitutionP .u s45 T. 7ar
What did they do for civil rights?
What did they do to suppress the
/" ku-kluxP" s-f's''
What did they do to suppress the
| "white liners" of the South?
w udI ulo stuCy oO w PAONOAo eh0
scourging, outraging and murder of
black and white loyal men in the
| Southp
What have they done for pure and
free ballot? -.-.u-~r
What have they done for free speech?
What have they done for free press?
What have they done to enforce the
| laws in the SouthP
What have they done to enforce the
collection of the public revenue in the
| South?
What have they done to preserve the
fruits of WARP - .-....-.
What have they done to preserve the
credit of the Government?
What have they done to prevent in
| f1ationp & r E1
What have they done to promote re-
sumptionp
What have they done for an honest
What have they done for an honest
dollar?
What have they done for the protec-
ton of American industryp
In all these years, with all their gold
en- opportunities, what has the Demo-
cratic party done to inspire the conf
dence of the American people?
| Let every voter ask himself these
Questions. The record of the party
gives back for answer only utter and
shameful barrenness. They have done
nothing. On the contrary they have
done much to hinder, obstruct. prevent
and nullify. These things voters will
remember, and that remembrance must
again cover the Democracy with disas-
| tSr.-Detreit Tribune.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12
The Hancock Plan.

If General Hancock should be elected
he would probably have Cabinet. and
it is likely that a good many new ap-
pointments to Office would be made
very likely. 1t would be interesting
then to see the Hancock plan of running
Government, as embodied in the
Generals extraordinary communication
to General Sherman IN 1877, put into
operation on large scale. The reader
will hardly have forgotten that this
plan involved, not the subordination of
the military to the civil power, but the
subordination of all power to subordi-
mates, including the right of a Major
General to start q revolution whenever
one of his political friends calls on him
for troops, and to give his ,superiors
notice that he will obey them or not, as
he pleases. The Tribune, with that
prophetic eye which is to be found
among the apparatus of every first-class
newspaper, is able to lay before its
readers specimens of the official CORE
spondence which would take place II
General Hancock should be elected:
forwards to President Hancock the fol-
lowing dispatch from Major-General
Boum: Z.
"H8V0 Just rGCofVed your OrO6r prOCc6O
against the Sioux with all possible haste. 1t is
my position is in this matter. win therefore
say that consider it much easier not to do
anything of the kind, and that propose to
stay where I am: FeI preeedents sustaining ing
"MAJOR-GENERALB BOUM."
But this is not a circumstance to the
following letter, written by Attorney
General Jeremiah s. Black to the Hon.
Morrison r. Waite, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court:
ut have observed your decision in the case
of Smith against Brown. 1t is due to you
iaf5 IS n fSs matter R say that
consider the decision bad law. and want 1t re-
voked at once. 1t upsets half dozen of my
Opinions, and is confoundedly inconvenient.
Please read up little more carefully on my
opinions" all --.- .-i----'i- z % -i-- ---.-.
This is enough to make President
Hancock himself stare, but what will
he say when he sees one of his over
jealous imitators writing as follows to
the Chairman of the Appropriations
Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives:
"DEAR SIR: see that Congress, following
your lead has appropriated only S4 l,00o0oo for
going % to have it. I shall draw On the Treas
ury for the money, and Secretary wallace
will pay it. He and nave had uttle dlcker
WILLIAM q. BARNUM,
"Postmaster-General."
The following, from Secretary of
State John Kelly, addressed to Sir
Edward Thornton, British Minister,
explains itself:
"DEAR SIR: What you say about the
Treaty of Washington amuses me. We aren't
keeping treaties much now. We're running
| this Government on the Hancock plan, which
means that all of us can do what we darn
| choose Receive, sir, the assurances, etc.
"JoHN KELLY, Secretary of State.
P. S.-The Iribuae's prophetic eye
also clearly discerns that General Han
cock will not be elected. But the
moral is just the same.-M r Tfs6-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12
THE DYING SHOEMAKER.

Dear wife, I'm waxing near my end"
The dying cobbler said;
Soon to an upper world my sole
Its lonely way must thread.
II fear, indeed, I'm pegging out;
But then what boots it, love?
Here we've been awell-fitted pair,
And so wen be above.
Nv ills know no drugs may heel,
So it's welt to prepare;
We can't run counter to our fate
Just put peg in there!
The future need not give you caro-,
I've left my awl to you;
For, deep within my inner sole,
know that you've been true.
I've always given you your rights,
But now you must be left;
However, do not grove too much
When Of me you're bcreft. -
A last farewell now win take
He smiled, and raised his head.
- Blast the cruel malady
That lays you low," she said.
I'll slipper way in peace" he sighed,
The strife will soon be past"
His head fell back, he sweetly smiled,
And then he breathed his last.
-SomcTrilic Jourpul
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-08-12

WELLINGTON Fl AIMING MILL Manufacture
snd dealers In sash. Doors. Blinds Brackets, Bat
efnes Lumber. Shingles. Lath. Cheese and Butter
Boxes. Scroll Saving. Matching and Planning done 70
,rdsr. d. l. wsdsworth. Prop. once. nesx ran
.oad Depot