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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30
BelIOUa Falls.

Tho net proceeds to the band by their
two evenings dramatic entertainment last
week were Sllj, and pleased audiences both
evenings.
- The Liliputian Opera Company packed
Union hall to its utmost extent, and rs three
fourths Of the audience held reserved tickets
at 80 cents each, they took more money than
any travelling show Of any kind here for
years.
The directors Of the Bellows Falls bank
were reelected last Wednesday with hardly
any change, and the same officers were re-
elected.
The Canal Co. are to build n new brick
building at once for the use Of Brown a Co.,
manufacturers Of shoddy. The new building
viii be put just south of the last one, built
for the Vt. Farm Machine Company, and lot
yet occupied.
The st. Charles Catholic society fair Is
in progress this week, having begun on Tues
day. The weather thus far has been against
them, so they have not been as successful as
usual. The fair continues three days
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

The Quincy System" has been given
trial in one of the Boston primary schools,
and thorough success was the result. A wri-
ter in the Herald says that in few months
the little ones, many of whom did not know
their letters, have learned to read and write
correctly, not only in printed textbooks, but
in script. They also do sums in simple arith-
metic with remarkable facility, In class of
sixty, all of them under seven years of age,
there were at least forty whose chirography
was better than that of the average graduates
of our grammar and high schools, and there
was only one whose work did not show the
possession of the faculty Of observation and
form that goes to make the first-class penman.
A quantity of sentences written upon slips of
paper were distributed from a box, each pu-
pill selecting one, and they were read without
difficulty or hesitation by all the pupils in
turn. They also had good knowledge of
arithmetic
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

Fred W, Chase lately lost a good horse.
The avnils of the donation for Rev. r.
b. Fay were $50
Mrs, j. w. Morse was recently quite Sc
rionsly injured by falling down stairs while
on visit at Bratteboro.
On the 22d inst. the annual meeting of
Unity Lodge, No. so, was held and the fol-
lowing officers elected; f. l.. Roberts. w.
NJ II. NJ Roberts, S. W. A. c. Stetson,
j. W. Ezra Stetson, treas. w. p. Jones.
see.i G. Faulkner, S. d. ; S. Murdoch, J. d.
+, b, johnson, S, S.; j. b. Chase. ]. S. :
A. A. Butterfeld, chaplain; NJ. S. Fox. mar
shall f. II. stetsOn, chorister; Geo. Porter,
tyler
Our village schools close next week. on
Friday, Feb. G. The high school will have a
public examination on Thursday; Friday
evening the pupils will give an exhibition at
Glen hall A cordial invitation is extended
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

Last October Mr.. Hendricks, in a speech
made to the Hendricks club in indianapolis,
asserted that he knew the Republicans were
making an attempt to colonize the State of
Indiana with negroes for the purpose of car
rying it at the national election, and that the
Emigration Aid Society at Washington was
the organization through which the work was
being carried on. This and other statements
led to the appointment of senatorial COM
mittee to investigate the subject, and the
committee have now summoned the late can
didate for the vice presidency to Washing
ton, to tell them what he knows about the
matter 1t is shrewdly suspected that Mr..
Hendricks is painfully ignorant, as far as
positive facts are concerned, and it will be
very unfortunate for his presidential aspira-
tions if his political enemies drive him to the
corner, and compel him to confess that he
knew little or nothing of what he was talking
about.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

The PRINCETON REy1Ew.-The January
number of the Princeton Rerioc opens with
a very clever paper ON Historic Forces" by
Francis A. Henry. The various schools of
thought upon this subject are arranged I'M
der three heads: First, those who regard
human civilization as properly Il natural prod
uct, OF the complex result of physical condi-
tions that man is surrounded by. This view
has been held by such men as Buckle, Mont
esquieu and Herder Second, those who CON
tend that man only is the architect of his
own condition and destiny This is the the
DRY that some great Frenchmen held, as Ros-
seau. intellectual freedom born of the Ref
ormation, was the inspiration of this idea,
Conscious thought was to assert its suprema-
cy everywhere. Social life and civilization
were to be arraigned and recognized, and
the result was the illumination and the Rev
olution. Third, those who believe that all
events are ordained and controlled by Divine
Pro evidence. 1t would seem surprising to
Christian believers. the writer says, that any
one should find fault with this view, but that,
in fact, neither man nor nature can be left
out or sighted in taking proper estimate of
the forces of progress. Mr.. Henry discusses
each of these views at length and concludes
that the three forces enumerated are so cor
related, one to the others, that there could be
no independent existence of either. They are
not only so related, but they exist by and
through each other and for each other. There
is a spiritual unity in which all these are one.
God is the spirit nature the material, man
the union of nature and spirit. The uncon-
seriousness of mans spirit becomes conscious
of self by objective activity. The results are
the product of the whole spiritual and natur-
al forces.
"Spelling Reform, by Prof March, LII. D.,
of Lafayette college must attract great deal
of attention. This matter is coming serious
ly to the front, and it will probably not be
many years before some of our schools are in
Quoted into it, Prof. March brings forward
the most cogent reasons for its adoption.
"The Inspiration of the New Testament" by
President Bartlett, d. D., of Dartmouth col
lege, presents a valuable reinstatement and eX-
animation Of this, one of the most important
questions of the day. His views are strongly
put and merit study. The remainder of the
articles of this number are "Fulfllment of
the Berlin Treaty." by Edward A. Freeman,
D. c. L., London; Recent Progress in So
lar Astronomy" by Prof. Young, LII. D.,
Princeton college; "Rationalism in the Free
Church of Scotland" by Francis L. Patton,
D. D., Chicago 'The Old Roman Spirit and
Religion in Latin Christianity" by Geo. p.
Fisher D. D. Yale college, Subscription
So, 90 year; 81 Park Row, N Y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

CoNGREss. Thus far this Congress has plac-
ed but afew acts, public or private, on the stat
ute books, but the calendars of the Senate
and House have received daily additions of
bills upon which action is desired. During
the eight weeks that have passed no Demo
crat has made an indiscreet remark in debate,
and it is possible--nothing is impossible save
a stick with one end-that the Appropriation
bill may be hurried through, that other bust
ness may be shelved, and that an early ad-
journment may be secured without the com
initial of any Confederate mistakes in debate.
But have my doubts Boston Journal Cor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

On Monday last, as two young ladies
from Grafton were driving to SaItous River,
when near that place they met loaded team
which sued around striking the thill of the
sleigh. The horse reared, but Miss Mary
Davis, who was driving, with remarkable pres
ence of mind refined the horse out at the side
of the road, aud jumping from the sleigh was
at the horses head in a moment, and remain
cd there until help came.
Our thaw came to a close Tuesday night,
the ice going out of the river quietly about .
p. NJ.
-sociable at the Congregational chapel on
Tuesday evening, Feb. 3D.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

A PERMoUs WIDow.-An admirer of the
beautiful, 1, e., gentleman who has read the
Drawer for twenty years, and is still icing, in
Vermont, sends us this:
Democrats are the exception instead of the
rule in Vermont, and it is unusual to see more
than two or three gathered together. Wild
ow ---- has buried three husbands, all
prominent Democrats At the funeral of the
last, many of the ''unterrihed" wero in at
tendance, and us they were leaving the house
gentleman remarked, in an under-tone
This looks like Democratic State conven-
ton"
The widow is soon to marry fourth hus-
band, who is also noted Democrat, and as
the matter was being discussed recently, Jim
-, who is one Of the true blues, said
Boys, this thing is getting serious at this
rate the widow will in few years ruin the
Democratic IGrty Of Rutland County Ed
noT's DrdNer IN HGTpa'S for February.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

It seems rather a novel idea to pardon con-
yicts in patches of seventy or eighty in order
to save them from death by slow poison on
account of the malaria and filth of the State
prison, yet this is what the Governor of Ken
lucky has just done. The inmates of the
prison were suffering severely from diseases
caused by their crowded condition.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

The Portland, Me-, Press gives a two-col-
umn exposure of the designs and extent of a
Communstic organization, known as the
"Brick Pomeroy League" which, it claims,
exists and has large membership in Maine
The purpose of the order is to carry out by
force, if necessary, the theories of the Com
munists, and to set up a new Government.
The clubs organized under this league were
the force depended upon by those who con-
ceived the plan of getting possession of the
State House. 1t is intimated that Gov. Da-
Wis and his advisers knew of the activity of
these men and were thereby led to call out
the militia to check them at the outset.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

Talk about Canadian annexation seems to
have suddenly revived of late within the Do
minion borders. A new magazine has just
been started at Montreal, called Canadian
Emancipation, and its leading article opens
with this sentiment I'm unfolding the flag
of Canadian emancipation, and commercial
earnest call of patriots, citizens and business
men all over the land.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

An Augusta correspondent of the New
York Tribune sends that journal a column
that it was the deliberate purpose of the
Maine conspirators not alone to get control
of the State government, but to capture the
electoral vote of the State if possible, and in
any event to prevent its being counted for
the Republicans
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

Brownie, writing to the Boston Journal
of the Governor question, says: From OBJ
servations in all parts of the State it is evil
dent Secretary of State DR.. George Nichols of
Northfeld has the inside track for the posi-
ton. The genial Secretary has been in pub
lie life so long and is so well known that his
ability is at once recognized, and there is but
little doubt that he can be the next Governor
of the Green Mountain State if he so de-
sires -
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

The republic of France has not yet reached
the height of democratic freedom. Louis
BlNncs proposition in the Chamber of Depu-
ties Monday, to abrogate all laws restricting
the right of public meetings and the forma-
ton of associations was voted down by large
majority.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

Judge Poland told Tribune reporter last
week that it was 'our small-fry politicians,
who imagined while ago that the nomina-
ton of Grant was certainty, and wanted to
start early for fear they could not keep
abreast of the boom, that called the State
convention for the 18th of February" "But
it is plain, the Judge said that the Grant
feeling is diminishing every day"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

"Perley" writes to the Boston journal that
those who are engineering the denomination
of Gen. Grant are not pleased with the infor-
nation from Pennsylvania 1t was decided
that the Republican Convention in the Key
stone State should be called at an early day,
and that the choice of Grant delegates, al
most unanimously, to the Chicago Conven-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30
On the above basis, the several towns in windham
county will be entitled to representation follows

George W. Childs of Philadelphia is re-
ported rs saying that if Gen Grant is nom
mated for President all his friends would
vote for him. but that Grants best friends do
not want him nominated again for President.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30
GuilfOrd CenIre.

The second lecture of the series by Rev.
L. W, Whitney win be given on Tuesday eve
ming. Feb. 3D., instead of Wednesday as APP
pointed, commencing at $50. Subject,
Counting the Cost All are cordially invited
TO attend
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

AT the auction sale of the estate of Mark
ii'ermore' last week, everything was sold
out the real estate, aud bids were made ON
'ha'' but not struck of. The sale was con-
unued to Feb. ~, at Priors Hotel
-lownshend people favored Jamaica by
VISIT IN the form of a sleigh ride consisting
OF twenty-four couples.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30
a silent First Choice.


10111 wv
Senator Edmundss friends in Vermont will
make a mistake if they do not promptly start
as big boom for him as the State can hold.
1t might decide good many men who are
thinking good deal of Edmunds, but are in
doubt whether any one else wants him. Ed
munds is n silent first choice with many
men Of the first order in New York. Boston
aud WASHINGTON
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

One of the most horrible tramp crimes
on record was perpetrated at Groton, Mass,
on the 9TH inst, when a tramp went to the
house of a respectable farmer named Crue
and murdered Mrs. Crue, and then outraged
her body. The husband was at work in the
woods at the time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

The Worlds Fair proposed to be held in
New York City in 1888, seems to be taking
definite shape. A large meeting was held at
Chickering Hall, New York, Jan. 10, when
Gen. j. II. Hawley and others made address,
es. Mr.. Hawley believed that $40, 600, 900
spent in making this an international e1hibi-
bihon would be the greatest advertising ben
eft the country ever had.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30
GEORGE n. EDMUNDS.
WHAT SOME LEADING PAPERS AND REPRESENTA-
TIVE MEN ARE SAYING OF THE VERMONT SEN
AToR WITH REFERENCE TO THE NEXT PREs1-
DENCY.
A Leading Religious Papers Estimate
ofthe Man,

Ofthe MAN.
from the Congregationalistl
We have seen and heartily second the sug-
geston that the State Of Vermont is able to
furnish thoroughly first class candidate for
the presidency. Mr. Edmunds is q man of
great clearness and strength of mind, Of long
acquaintance with public affairs, and of ire
proachable integrity He is a party man.
and vigorous enough in that line TO satisfy "a
reasonable partisan but he has his own con-
yictions nevertheless and he is not twisted
every day over other mems fingers. He has
the respect and good will of his associates in
the Senate OF both parties to an unusual de-
gree. We confidently believe, withal, that
he is free from the faint of trickery, and the
thought is refreshing to us. lie is capable
and trustworthy suppose then we trust him
in the highest Office we have TO give2 We
can think Of no objection to him except that
he is too good a man to be chosen or nomin-
ated. Perhaps it is worth our while not to
give it up for that cause till we have made a
pull for it, But as TO availability, we see
some chances that he might after all serve
the purpose.
Vermont is well known throughout the
country as having been represented in the
United States Senate, through the whole
space within the memory of those now living,
by men much above the average rank in that
body for stoutness of mind and strength Of
character No President has been taken as
yet from their number. The State itself has
a certain good repute among us from the
days of the Revolution. Mr.. Edmunds ia a
downright man, and stands fairly for what is
well thought of in Vermont. Might not the
Green Mountain Boy" do for n rallying
cry?
And finally, if by so fortunate chance or
so favorable providence, Mr. Edmunds of
Vermont might be nominated by one party,
and Mr.. Bayard of Delaware by the other
while there would still remain political differ
ences TO be concerned for, the country might
have the happiness of being sure from the
first that its next chief magistrate ould be
at least man Of integrity and personal hon
or
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

from the Hampshire, Mass, Gazettel
Tie Congregationalist calls upon the Re
publicans to nominate for President, Senator
Edmunds of Vermont. That would be too
good to expect
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30
HI. Heart 1. u. sound US hi. Head.
GEI- CONGRESSMAN Robert g. Hale Of New York to a
New York Tribune Reporterl

"If were TO name my first and second
choice l should name two men who have
probably no chance of being nominated My
first choice would be Hamilton Fish. be-
lieve he would make better President than
any other man in the United States. l saw
great deal of him during the years when
was counsel for the government before the
British and American Mixed Commission mn
der the Treaty of Washington, and became
strongly impressed with his sound judgment,
great executive ability aud profound knowl-
edge Of public affairs. My second choice
would be Senator Edmunds of Vermont,
whom I regard as possessing the strongest
and clearest intellect in Congress and whose
heart is as sound as his head"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30

most lawyers and statesmen that this country
has ever produced. If he represented great
State like New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or
Illinois, his candidacy would be inevitable.
But as the ability to carry the electoral vote
of great and pivotal States is one Of the most
influential considerations that govern nomi-
mating conventions, where is the man, we
would respectfully inquire, who can carry
more of these necessary votes than Senator
Edmunds? Though he has been an active
and aggressive statesman, aud has dealt out
thrusts pnd blows right and left in the thick
of important national fights for years, he has
aroused no personal antagonisms, created no
unhealug wounds, left no ranking bitterness
behind. New York considers him to-day
with more universal favor than she does any
man of her own, able and distinguished as
several Of her statesmen are
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-30
nOnt's CIainl"---the best Man 20
Carry New York.

In one sense il may be said that no State
has any claim" to the presidency but as
political matters go, Vermont has as good a
claim as any other State, and if she offers the
most suitable candidate, she has the best
claim. Senator Edmunds is one of the fore
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-12-10

-Nourcddin Agha, chief Of the i'm
perial eunuchs, who died recently at
Constantinople, is said 70 have cxcr-
cised for more than thirty years I'M
doubted sway over his imperial mas
ter's harcms. and to have been dreaded
and respected only next 10 the Grand
.izier. Having access at all times to
the >ultan's ears, his influence was
enormous. Together with the Grand
Nizier and members OF the reigning
family, the Agha Of the imperial
eunuchs enjoyed the title of Highness.
and took precedence over other func-
tonsries in the empire. Sclim Agha,
chief eunuch Of the ex-khedive II Egypt.
was able. during his tenure Of Office
under that most lavish Of scyereigns. 10
amass a large fortune by taking brides
from clients and grants from Ismaii
fasha- On his death. which took place
AZ pjeddah. on the Red Sea, while he
was on q pilgrimage TO Mecca and Me-
una, his paper showed him 10 be the
possessor Of cash and titles amounting
70 more than $4,000, and land IN
various parts Of Cairo and the Feddan
70 me amount u almost thirty thousand
acres.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-12-10

-
The New Hebrides, where the British
have lately established q coaling station,
with the ultimate intent, as the French
newspapers not unreasonably aspect. Of
annexing the islands, are in the Pacific
Ocean, TO the northeast OF Caledonia.
and to the west II the Fills, and are con-
sidered the most westerly part Of Poly
nesia. The islands comprise Espiritu
Santo. sixty-iiye miles long by twenty
broad Mallicollo, sixty by twcnty-eight
miles; Ambrym. Annatom, Erromaneo.
TGnna, having an active volcano. and
Aurora. all much smaller. Most of the
group are well wooded and hilly, some
even mountainous. The most valuable
woods are sandal and ebony; the chief
vegetable products yams, sweet pota-
toes, cucumbers, bananas, c~ocoanuts.
and the sole animal Of consequence 4
small hog, which Is no bigger at mat,l-
rity than a rabbit. The area of the
group is estimated at 2j,COO square
miles, and the population az 100000.
The inhabitants, fierce, but incident and
ikhy, are Of the Papuan race. They.
like other Papuans, are generally well
formed, have regular features, ;ntelli-
gent black eyes, small white teeth, curly
hair, thick lips. and large mouths.
Their noses are sharp, though fiat be-
meath, nostrils wide, and their skin dark
brown. They are often taller than
Europeans, but their legs are long and
thin, and they have the splay foot 81
the negro. The men build the huts.
hollow trunks Of trees into canoes, hunt
and fish; while the women ill the fields.
make mats, cut wood, and do the heayi-
est work. Their food is fish, fruit. birds.
and the flesh Of the wild hogs. Their
weapons are mainly clubs and bows and
arrows. The hair Of the men is gener-
ally frizzled out into a large mop; but
the hair Of the women i always cut
short. The natives of the New Hebrides
have often been called ~cannibals; but It
i very questionable If they are such.
They diiier in many respects from
the Papuans Of New Guinea, and seem.
on the whole, 10 be rather inferior To
them. Nevertheless, they are declared
by all ethnologists 70 be OF the same
race, and in no direct manner related to
The Malays. P~olynesians, or Australians.
who, with the Papuans, compose the
Iour types OF the human family occupy
lng what Is known as the Oceanic ,epion !
the English should annex the New !
febrides, the aboriginals would very !
con disappear. ,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-12-10

Minnesota thieves hire The best
horses they find at the livery stables.
Win a driver, e take them a distance OF
NIFTY 70 2 hundred miles. When the
Journey has been made they leave the
lriver securely bound in the woods and
Then 70 of with the horses, having
gained the advantage Of a long start in
case Of pursuit.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-12-10

The Indianapolis Board Of Health
mas Manufactured a map, upon which
VIII pe noted the reports Of diphtheria.
scarlet and typhoid fever, so that the
location 81 the contagious diseases may
be seen at a glance.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-12-10

Don't take any OF the qnack rostrums, as they
are regimentalH 70 the human cistern; but nut
your trust IN Hop Btters, which will cure
keneIai n.iApidAtion, costiye habits aud all
comic diseases. They saved Isaac from 4
severe extact Of tripod fever. They are the
Ne bLs ususs OF medicines Bosfon Glob<-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-12-10

thing.