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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03
Tn. Condition ofOur Count, Jail.

FAYETTEVILLE, VT, Nov. 80, 1880.
Editor Of the PhRnir Ever so many
newspapers lately have been saying DIRE adful
things about our Windham county jail, and
want to ask you if you don't suppose it is all
said Just because smart man is confined
here now. remember not more than two
years ago that this Jail was considered suffi-
GENTLY comfortable for prisoner sick with
consumption, and he died in the jail without
word being said concerning the horrible
place in which he was confined. | wonder If
the dying consumptve had been a smart man
with plenty of wealthy and influential friends,
whether some one would have discovered
that this Jail is not fit place in which to con-
fine human beings. l have seen the terrible
dungeons described, have opened and shut
the ponderOus doors, and have peeped through
the CRATES, and must confess that l shouldn't
like to be shut in but have notion that
shouldn't like to be shut into any jail because
10 is so Indicating to be confined in a damp
room, especially for some prisoners; but if a
criminal could take his choice in jals he
couldn't do better than to choose Windham
county jail True, there is no carpet on the
floor, no sunny bay windows and no nice
easy chairs, but plenty of room and rs good
chance for the circulation of air as could be
desired. Three years ago thorough repairs
were made on the county house and the Jail
was 80 well renovated that the place was rem
dered as comfortable as criminals could ex-
pect and so please, Mr.. Editor, tell every
body you see that the story about this jail
must be made up for the occasion, for GER
tainly no one who speaks truthfully can pro-
nounce II disgrace TO the county.
Yours respectfully,
SIMPLE SIMON
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03

THE PHOENIX piH be sent TO Men
Subscribers from this date to Jan. 4,
1882, for $500, the price Of one regular
yearly subscription. Back Numbers from
November 1st, If desired.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03

The NORTHERN PACIFIC. The New York
Evening Post says the largest transaction in
railroad bonds ever made in tho United States
has just been closed by Drexel, Morgan &
Co., Winslow, Lanier h Co., and August Bel
mont d Co., they having made contract
with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
for $40, 900, 900 six per cent gold bonds, run
ming forty years Part of the bonds will be
issued only as the road is finished and accept
ed by the Government. The bonds will be
secured by mortgage ON the line of road and
on land grant now estimated at Al, 900, 600
acres. The firms named above associated
with them several of the best known bankers
here and in other cities as we'll as in Europe.
1t is understood that John Jacob Astor is a
large subscriber to the bonds.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03

There will be lyoeum in the town hall
Tuesday evening, Dec. I, at y o'clock
Question, Resolved, that riches are great
err curse than poverty" Disputants affirm
alive, II. II. Burnett, Ed Stevens mega
tive, Herbert Jacobs, G.. E. CLARK.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03

The VERMONT RECORD AND FARMER 9cdS
,ou5iieJ irjh THE pHDSIx May lat, 1ssO-thc sui
y,iy'ion list name and good triU II the Record and
Farmer becoming the property Of the proprietors a
The Prnir wi'hoW rcserre.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03

ELECTION FRAUDS IN THE SoUTH. Reports
from the Southern States indicate a general
pr meditated purpose either to make the yo-
ting Of Republicans of no account or to pre-
vent them from voting by various preteHts
In North Carolina various frauds were prac-
t.Ced. The election officers were chiefly
Democrats. ln many instances they received
hundreds OF Republican votes for Represen-
t4tives to Congress and deposited them in
the wrong box, aud on that ground they
were thrown out. In many places where
the Republicans had large majorites it WAS
agreed that the white men should vote half
an hour and the colored men an hour The
white men voted without challenge, while the
hour OF the cOlored Republicans was con-
sumed in challenges, which prevented the
greater part from voting during the day. In
tao wards in Wilmington more than one
thousand Republicans were waiting about
the polls with ballots in their hands when
the hour for the closing Of the polls arrived.
In many cases from one to two hundred vo-
tiers we're prevented from voting by the same
tactics. In one precinct in South Carolina
(Haut's Cap 1895 Republican and 46 Dem
ocratic votes were changed TO ~ Republican
and 1854 Democratic. In that State the
Democratic majority for congressman is
Jj,G77.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-12-03

The public debt was decreased So, 6O0, 2G1..
% during November.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-27

The ancient drama of Potiphar's
wife has recently been re-enacted, ia
Russell, Kan. Mrs. Potiphar was the
young wife of doctor. She was mu.
steal, aud attended musical society,
and her husband was too much engaged
in his practice always to accompany
her. This duty, consequently, often
fell upon Joseph, who was highly
moral young man, a church member,
&c. A fortnight ago, on reaching her
home with him, she averred her, pas
sion, and, on his solemn remonstrance,
declared that she would kill herself.
Joseph, in pious perplexity, sought his
pastor. The pastor told him to go
straight to a justice of the peace
Somehow, before noon, all Russell was
informed of the affair, and Mrs. Poti-
phar, instead Of Staying herself, prompt
ly left home followed by DR., Poti-
phar. 1t is not stated whether she was
a woman of personal charms, and the
story of the occurrence in Egypt is also
silent ON that point and yet it makes
considerable difference, SO far as the
merits of the Josephs are concerned.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-27

A Hungarian entered the studio of a
portrait painter and said II want you
to paint portrail OF my late father. :"
With pleasure, sir. Have you a
photograph of the lamented deceased 2"
"No, but you don't want a photograph.
Just paint q wild-looking Hungarian,
about sixty years old and six feet high,
with big white mustache." -Four
weeks later the family CAME round TO
see the picture. Bravoi" says the
Hungarian, warmly; "it's speaking
likeness. only the old gentleman seems
to have changed q good deal sines ,his
dssth.ss.sa."
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-27
A CuE.RIets GAME.

Yes. Maud, it was perfectly splendid,
From the moment gave Gus his cue,
Till the wonderiel caroping endoa,
had little or nothing to do.
Why, he played from the spot and scored forty,
without even making miss
But he failed In q beautiful sortio,
And had to sit down for Hiss!
saw twas no use in my trying
I bade him go on with the playing,
And such "coaxng," ''caressing' and "shying,
And such "whecling the orbs into line y
Now bringing the ''red" to the front,
With more than an amateurs wont;
Then grouping fas worries ayisg-
oh, Lord Maud. what have been saying9
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-04-27
THE wORLD Is HONEST.
From the Detroit Free Press. !

From the Detroit Free Press
A dozen men were yesterday lcafng
away the rainy hours in business
place near the ferry dock when the
conversation turned upon the subject of
general public rascality. A citizen said
he had given a boy q quarter to get
change and never saw him again an
other said be wouldn't trust his own
grandfather, and = third would give
500 to see an honest man.
81 have not yet lost my faith in hu-
man nature" finally remarked man
ON a back seat Amy of You may
call 10 stranger to us all, and / will
give hin a. s. bill to go and get change.
IF he fails to come back / lose the MON
cy if he returns you will see how
foolish your assertions arc,
Half dozen men rushed to the door.
A seedy, gaunt, and evil-looking Afri-
can was padding by in rain, and he
was selected to make the test.
"Stranger, said the man who hadn't t
lost confidence, take this S. bill
arouad the corner and get it changed
and will give you ten cents, "
The black man departed without a
word, and for the uext ten minutes the
laugh was on the man who sent him.
1t died away, however. as the African
slouehed in, handed out the bill and
said
~ runned all ober an nobody could
change him."
He was given his ten cents, and the
man who lost the quarter by the boy
said he couldn't have believed such an
exhibition of honesty if he had not wit.
messed it, and he was willing to buy the
cider for the crowd.
1t was only alter the cider had been
DESTROYED and paid for that he learned
that the bill given the negro was a base
counterfeit which no one would accept.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24
Fellowship Meeting.

Rev. E. s. Williams is to conduct the fell
lowship meeting at the Minnehaha schoo
house to-day. The programme is as fol
lows:
10 to IL A. M.-Topic: The DEVELOPMENT Of
Christian character. Opened by Rev. Z. s.
Williams.
II to 10 A M.-The value of family religion
Opened by DR.. Tucker.
Q to SP M.-Our next seven years study OF
the bible, and the ideal Sunday Sc DOL. Opened
by Abram Adams.
5 to P. M.-Children's temperance meeting
Opened by j. G. Huntington.
to 73O P. M.-Praise meeting. Leaders
Messrs. Bardweil and Bode.
7:30 to P. M.-Topic: The Lords side? Elk
1896, 'Then Moses stood in the gate of the
camp and said, Who is on the Lords side lei
him come unto me-" First, what is the
Lords side? Second, who is on the Lords
side? Third, what has the Lords side accom-
pished for the benefit of mankind? Fourth
who will not decide to be on the Lords side
Speakers, Messrs Stevens and Bradbury ano
Rev E. 8. Williams.
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which are to make it in all respects q first
class six run mill.
In the town of Bath, Freeborn county,
there were thirty-two births in 1879, and
two deaths.
The number Of births in Wright county
during the year 1879 was $40; number of
deans 236.
Two rival village governments are con-
tending for supremacy in Little Falls, Nor
rison county.
Diphtheria is reported to exist to a con-
siderable extent in several towns in LIE
Sueur county.
Joseph Rayman lost his pocket book, one
day last week, in Austin, containing $341.
A reward of $45 is offered.
The Worthington Advance says there was
the heaviest shower of rain on the night of
January 20 ever seen during Minnesota
winter.
Window Reporter: Clerk Mason reports
1S9 births and 20 deaths in the county in
1S79-Ann, Dale and Germantown not be-
ing reported. Reports from these towns
would swell the number to upwards Of 200
births.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24

NHANCERY FORECLOSURE SALE CIRCUIT
" Court of the United states of America in and
for the D; strict of Minnesota-ss.
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
vs. Hellick o. He!lickson and Christine NJ. Hellck-
Pursuant to decree of the Circuit Court of the
United States of America for the district of Mime
sota, made in this cause, at the December term
thereof A. d. 1879 and the 18th day of January.
A. D. 1889, the undersigned, master in chancery, of
said court will sell at public auction to the highest
bidder, for cash,
MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH. A. D..
1880,
at IL o'clock in the forenoon at the front entrance
to the United States Custom house, on Wabashaw
street, in the city of st. Paul. in said district, the
place of holding said COURT, to saify the sum of
S3l39.99, found due the plaintiff by said decree.
with interest and COSTS all and singular those GER
tain parcels of aud situate and being i'll the
county of Fillmore, in the State of Minnesota,
known and designated as follows, viz: The north
half of the southeast quarter, and the northeast
quarter of section number twenty co. IN township
number one hundred and two (l02), north Of range
number thirteen O3) west, together with the rivi-
Ieges aud appurtenances to the same belonging
st. Paul, MIMI, January II, 1880.
q. E. MANN,
Master In Chancery.
GEo, L. & CHAs E. OTIS Plaintiffs Solicitors.
Jan l7-7WSat
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24
LEGAL.

OHANCERY FORECLOSURE sALE-CIRCUIT
" Court of the United States OF America in and
for the district of Minnesota-ss.
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
vs.. George Baldwin, Alexander Baldwin, and Il :
mira Baldwin, his wife, Maria l.. Kelsey, Char es
Goodman and May Goodman, his wife, and YER
razauO Simpson.
Pursuant to q decree of the Circuit Court OF the
United States OF America for the district of Mime
sofa, made this at the December term there
Of A. D. 1879, and OH the 18th day of January, A. d.
1880, the undeIHgned master In chancery, OF said
court, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder
MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH, A. D..
1880.
at IL O'Clock in the forenoon at the front entrance to
the United State, Custom house, on Wabashaw
street. in the city of ST. Paul. in said district, (he
place Of holding said court ITO satisfy the OF ST.
gil 81 found due the plaintiff by said Decree with
interest and costs, all and singular those certain
traces or parcels of land situate aid being in the
county of Winona, and State of Minnesota, known
and designated follows, viz: The westerly fifty
(5G) feet of lots eight 49, and nine (9, and Of the
southerly half of lot five i5 and the easery fifty (5O
feet of lots seven 81 and ten (0) and Of the south
erly half Of lot six 6) in block eightyseven 3D. In
the city of Wnons, in the county and State afore-
said otherwise described and bounded by line run
ming as follows: Commencing at point on Fourth
street hundred 600 feet easterly from the south
westerly of block eighyseven $50 afore> aid
thence norhery line parallel with the westerly
line Of said block eighty-seven (SD one hundred and
fifty 5O) feet; thence at right angles easterly on
line parallel it'll Fourth street one hundred QOO)
feet; thence at right angles southerly line
parallel will the westerly line Of said block one hum
bred and fifty (l59) feet to Fourth street; thence
westerly on the northerly line of Fourth street
hundred 900 feet to the place of beginning, together
with the tenements and Entertainments to the same
st. Paul, MIMI, January IT, 1880.
H. E. MANN,
Master in Chancery.
GEO. L. CHAs. E. OTIS, Plaintiffs Solicitors.
Ian
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24
The Great American Inter National Work
Triumph of American Civilization.

The Great American Inter- National Work
Triumph of American Civilization.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Shall the United States and the North
American States, including Mexico, have an
inter-oceanic and international canal under
their control, or depend upon De Lesseps-
the mountebank of Napoleon-to give
American commerce to Europe, by as big a
fraud as was ever attempted to be- perpe-
trated?
De Lesseps has arrived at Pana-
ma. Because with limitless money
and working the slaves of Egypt,
and bankrupting its ruler, under the grlod-
ing tyranny of England and France, he par
TALLY succeeded in building the Suez canal,
he thinks he can play the same game here.
These minions of money have no idea, no
conception, no appreciation of free people.
They are born absolutely to despise work
ing free people. Politics and politicians
have nothing whatever to do with the ques-
ton.
For sixty years or more the Monroe doc
trine has been recognized as the unquestion-
ed policy of our government. No foreign
soil.
What is now proposed to be done by this
| De Lesseps scheme of canal from Panama?
1t is to place lock and key en- the great
| route to the East--that secret for which
America was discovered and populated, and
| to place the key in the hands of England and
| France, with the French adventurer De Les
seps as the agent.
hivb onnlI opoSr 70 hot h.
caragua route is the only practical one. All
of our own best countrymen, men of world
wide regulations, men who
were patriots, men who
studied these questions in all their bearings,
who examined the surveys, who surveyed
the routes themselves, understood the winds
and currents of the ocean, declared in favor
of the Nicaragua route"
do not know whether General Grant has
any opinion on the subject, except what
have seen in the newspapers-and do not
| rely on them-but this know, that an inter-
| ocean and inter national canal by the way
of Lake Nicaragua under the exclusive con-
| troll of the United States government would be
not only the greatest achievement of our
history, but would place our government
| free and independent of all foreign entangle-
ments, and make it the master of the COM
merce of the world. Excuse me for using
the word master" think ruler in any
form should be master,-and that liberty IL
self should never have been personated by q
| female form.
| If Gen. Grant should succeed, or if he will
build under American auspices great inter
oceanic route by Nicaragua, tell you his
name will be haliowed, even where his
armies carried desolation to those who
thought they were fighting for constitutional
government. OSCAR STEPHENSON.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24
Arrival and Departure of Mails from the
st. Paul Post Office.

Edsterp-Arrves daily at Is m and IS m
except Sunday. Closes daily except Sunday at II IS
a m, and z 05 p m.
sPzcIAL-Hastngs, Red Wing, Lake City, wsbs-
shaw Winona and La Crosse, Wis, arrives daily at
10 . m. and closes daily at o5 pm.
MtlUaukee d 81. Paul Railroad, Io,cd Dir9-
Arrives daily except Sunday at 80 m. Closes daily
except Sunday at 90 m.
81. Paul q st. Louis, Mo-, Route-Arrives daily
except ondsy at ID . m. Closes daily except Sat
speo1ALs-Farmington Mortified and Faribault,
closes daily except Sunday at 30 p m. Arrives
daily except Sunday at II Is m.
West Wisconsin Rdilrodd-Arrives daily except
Sunday at l As m. Closes daily except Sunday at
IL IS a m.
spEc1AIs-Elroy and Harvard Route-Black River
Falls, Eau Claire, Hudson and Menominee, Wis,
arrives daily Monday excepted at Is . m. Closes
daily Saturday excepted at O5 m.
st. Paul d Siour City Raitroad-Arrives daily
except Sunday at II Is m. Closes daily except
Fort Smelling, Minn.-Arrives daily at 6:25 p m.
Closes daily at IS m.
SPEC1ALs-Shakopee, Jordan, Belle PLANE, Hem
and st. James, closes daily except Sunday at 80 q
m. Arrives daily except Sunday at IS pm.
Hastings d Dakota Railrodd-Arrives daily ex-
Sunday at Is p Closes daily except Sunday, at
6 80
ST. Paul d Pacific Railroad Main Line.)-st.
Vincent to st. Paul-Arrives daily except Sunday
SPEcIALs-Minneapolisc closes daily except Sunday
| at 80 m, II 30 m and so m. Arrives daily
except Sunday at 90 m. 90 IN and 80 p m.
st. Paul d Pacific Railroad Branch Line
Arrives daily except Sunday at 7 p m. Closes daily
| except Sunday at 6 80 q m.
Fargo, Dakota and Bismarck-Arrives daily
| except Monday at 80 p m. Closes daily except
| Saturday at 10 m.
| SPEc1ALs-Anoks, Elk River, Monticello. Nexan-
dria, BIainerd, Audubon, Detroit Moorhead and
| Fargo Sank Centre, Glyndon and Lake Park, MIMI
arrives daily except Monday, at 8 Is q m. Closes
daily except Saturday at so pm.
| st. Paul d Duluth Rdiirodd-Arrives daily ex.
| cept Sunday at 40 p m. Closes daily except Sun
| day at 30 m.
| Saltwater, arrives daily, Sundays e1.
| cepted, at 10 Is m, and 40 m. Closes
| daily except Sundays ct so am and 50 pm.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24
COURT CULLINGS.
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

The court business in Minneapolis yester-
day was very light.
John Malin, who assaulted his mother on
Thursday, was brought up. Being too old
for the reform school he was sent up for
thirty days.
John Sargent was out of work, he said,
but would look for it elsewhere. He was
given permission to seek employment.
James McDanald, Frank Crary, Frank
Grips, Henry May, John Anderson, John
Gran and Martin Jones, gang of tramps,
were sent down to the stone pile for ten days.
William WEIGH was up for disorderly con-
duct, but was discharged.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Alden, Freedom county, has only two sa
looms in operation.
1t takes 5000 year to get saloon license
in Marshall. Lyon county.
There were "a marriage licenses issued in
Mcleod county in 1879.
In Freeborn county in 1879 the births
were $40 and the deaths were 205.
The Okabena Touring mill, at Worthing-
ton, Mobiles county, has about twenty men
at work hurrying up the Improvements,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24

st. Peter Tribune, January 81: Henry
Seewald, the boy whom we mentioned last
week as having vomited up several cater
pillars, died on Sunday morning last after a
great deal of suffering. He was six and a
half years old. A post mortem examination
was made by DR.. Daniels, at the request OF
Mr.. Seewald, which showed extensive in
fammation of the stomach and bowels, but
no more caterpillers were found.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24
CITY NOTICE.
CITY Treasurer's Sale
,r,cr mr. rHr Crrv TRrAsr1pvR

OYFIcK OF THE CRY TREASURER,
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, Jan. %, 1880.
Notice is hereby given, that under and by
virtue of judgment entered on the 18th day of
January, 1880, in the District Court. second
judicial district Ramsey county, State of Min
nesota, against the hereinafter described real
estate, situate, lying and being in said city and
county, on assessment warrant for
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEWER ON
SUMMIT AVENUE, FROM RICE STREET
TO ST. PETER STREET,
in said city of St. Paul, the undersigned will
on the I'd day of February, $780, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the front do T
of the City Treasu-ers Office, In the city of St.
Paul, county of Ramsey, offer for sale at public
auction, as provided by law, to the best bidder
for cash. the following described real estate,
to-wit:
Harrington & Kinney's Addition.
Supposed owner and Amount of
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-24
MARKETS IN DETAIL.
The following quotations giving the range Of tho
markets during the day were received by
MORTON, DORAN d Co.,
Commission Merchants.

dnI. ic to o. lower FIoatinU cs,eoe, bs.yv nsr
goes on passage neglected; no business doing. Car
goes OF coast ed lower. Cargoes just shipped Is
lower. Cargoes nearly due Sd lower London very
heavy. English and French country markets quiet.
NEW YoRS, Jan. %, HOO 4. M.-wheat
10 off; March red n.
New YORK, Jan. %. 1850 M.-wheat
hc to 10 up.
NEW York, Jan. 7s. 1890 P. M.-spring
wheat lower; dealers wide apart; S1.s7 bid No. q;
l 80 bid No. 8; winter heavy