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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

BY al means, send those confederate brig
adiers oyer into New Hampshire and Maine,
and down into Connecticut. They, and their
copperhead allies, did splendid work for us
here in Vermont, and we can give them a first-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

That campaign of reconciliation" having
for its object the unconditional surrender of
the government to those who tried to destroy
it, didn't work worth a cent
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

Vermonts vote on Tuesday exceeds 20, 900,
and is the largest ever polled in the State by
more than 5000. A full vote always means
an increased Republican majority.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

Mr.. Tyler's total vote in 1878 was II, 2sl.
In 1850 it is 10, 27l, with three towns yet to
be heard from. These towns will undoubt-
eddy carry his aggregate vote up to $500
more than in 1873.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

The "Bourbonism" q. G., level-headedness)
of Vermont Republicans is really astounding,
Mr.. Springfield Republican. You are quite
right. Now give us some more good advice.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

Give us few more reams of copperhead
speeches, and another regiment or so of reb-
ell brigadiers
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

If you won't give us the names of those
going to vote for Hancock, Charles, will you
at least tell us whether they all voted for
Phelps on Tuesday?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

music TO loyal ears.-N J. Tribune.
Vermont has done nobly.--N. J. Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

The senatorial vote in Brattleboro was -
Fuller sjl, Bridgman 9Ol Campbell 27l,
Marshall PCS
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

class recommend. If Democrats won't en-
ploy them, let the Republicans take them up.
Keep them moving lively. 1t will pay.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

Wasn't it cheeky for copperheads and con-
federates to go about telling the honest and
loyal people of Vermont how to vote?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

Manhattan market, New York, was burn
ed Wednesday night, involving loss of over
one million dollars.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

One of the weakest things ever perpetrated
by the Dctdmor boy was his effort of last
week 10 make it appear that there was a
doubt whether L. j. Phelps's copperhead
speech was genuine, and whether Mr.. Phelps
ever delivered such speech. In reply to
the Dltdmers insinuations the Rutland Her
aid and Globe, which originally published the
speech, renews its assertion, which Mr..
Phelps has not denied, and which nobody
now pretends to deny that the speech was
delivered in Burlington, Sept. >, 1854, in the
Democratic club room in Payn block, that
it was taken in full by Mr.. John NJ. Converse,
a reliable gentleman and an accomplished
stenographer, and that not line was omitted
or a passage altered to the disadvantage of
Mr.. Phelps. The fact is that the speech fell
like wet blanket on the Democratic cause
in Vermont and it didn't help the case bit
for the Dctdmer to tell its readers that it was
fabrication and a forgery"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-10

1t was really beautiful TO note the subdued
tone which marked Chas. n Davcnport's re-
marks on State issues in his West Brattleboro
speech last Monday evening. Mr. DayCn-
port never so much as referred to that $780,
600, which, on previous occasions, he had
boldly and falsely asserted that the State
Treasurer borrowed in 1879, in addition to
the amount raised by the State tax of 80 cents,
to pay current expenses. On other points
Mr. Davenport was equally tame aud insipid,
and the general tone Of his address would
lead one to believe that he had received
good deal of new light from several direc-
tons Possibly he had been reading his De-
tamty exchange" copy of THE PHGN1x.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18

as the reader has it, gaining another
listen er in the person of Il charming girl
of 16.
1t was now o'clock. I had two
hours in which to travel two miles, but
l thought | had best set about it. The
mustang was as tired as myself. He
proceeded at walk. However, as We
reached the confines Of the town, he
increased his speed, and it was at a
lively trot that he entered the stable to
which he belonged. I exhibited a lit
tie of the same spirit when l presented
the coveted rifle to its owner, and re-
ceived the $40.
l was yet sufficiently recovered from
fatigue, at the close of the day, to be
among those who we're congratulatlng
the winner of the prize-my employer.
He forced upon me another $40 bill.
He would admit of no refusal. Those
two $40 bills proved the foundation of
qnite little fortune. am at present
married, and living in the ranch have
mentioned, but expect soon to leave
for the east. My wife being still very
young, is curious to see the shigher
civilization" of Boston and other
cities.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18

prentice in the brig Concord, of Mont
rose. in the year of 1901, and while ly-
ing at Copenhagen was pressed for the
navy the same year. James was sent
on board the Centaur, seventy-four
guns, commanded by Capt. Broughton,
in which vessel he first saw active serv-
ice, having been at the bombardment
Of Copenhagen on the I'd of April,
1901. After the treaty of Amiens,
James received his discharge, and was
sent on board his old ship to finish his
apprenticeship, which he completed,
and then sailed as an A. B. in anoth-
er local vessel. When lying at the More
in this ship he was again pressed tor
the navy, and again sent on board
the Centaur, where he was shortly
afterward appointed assistant quarter,
master, and was present in this vessel
at the battle of Trafalgar, on the list
of October, 1905. From this time on
ward he was retained in the service,
and by the time he was 81 was cir
cumnavigator. His most notable en-
gagement was the tl1ssel of the Shan
non with the Chesapeake, off Boston
harbvr, on the list of June, 1918, which
only lasted fifteen minutes from the
firing of the first gun to the running
up Of the union jack over the stars
and stripes. Cou]l, then being a petty
officer and a volunteer from the Ac-
taeon, had the honor of steering the
Shannon into action; and while doing
so he received a musket-ball in his left
wrist, which traversed his arm and
came out at the elbow. Coull, how
ever, stuck to his post, and after the
vessels had got entangled by the Shan
mons anchor catching hold of the Ches-
apeake, he formed one of the boarding
party led by Capt. Broke, receiving a
severe scalp wound while scrambling
on board. The scalp wound was
quickly patched up, but owing to the
bullet wound Coull was invalid in
1914, and finally the arm was taken off
at the elbow III 1916. Coull was then
discharged on a pension of Gig per
annum, which was augm ented some Il
years ago by 913 16s., SO that he had
been a pensioner for the unusually
long period Of sixty-six years. AL
though thus disabled, he sailed for
twenty years as cook in the whalers
belonging to the port of Montrose, be-
sides acting in the same capacity for
fourteen voyages across the Atlantic in
sailing vessels
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18
Mushroom Towns.

It would be hard for a stranger to
find spots wherein some of the most
hourishing of the Pennsylvania oil
towns once stood. Scarcely. a trace is
left of Petroleum Centre, which ten
years ago had population Of 1000,
with banks, big hotels, machine shops,
stores and churches. Pithole City is
nearly gone. When G. B. Duncan,
who died in Glasgow years ago, made
his will, he left to church of Pithole
5000. During the litigation that fol-
lowed a committee was sent to find the
church. They returned and said that
no such building was to be found. The
fact was that when Mr.. Duncan was in
Pithole the church was in fourishing
condition, but both congregation and
house had disappeared before he made
his will.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18
The French Vineyards in Peril.

The vineyards in the southwest of
France, which have suffered so much
from the phylloxera, are now being at
tackled by a new enemy; for mildew,
which is believed to have been brought
over with the American plants, has
been found not only in the Cognac
district, but all around Libourne and
Bordeaux the mischief done is already
very considerable; and NJ. Lesprault
a member of the commission appointed
to report upon the phylloxera in this
district, states that the disease is of a
similar kind to that which affected the
potato plant for so many years. It al
ways shows itself on the inside Of the
vine-leaf, its presence being made man.
ifest by white tspots varying in shape.
On the American plants they are al
ways round, and easy to detect; but in
che French stocks they are so irregular
that the discoloration is more difficult
to detect. In both cases, however, the
mischief done is the same-the leaves
curl up and fall off before the grapes
have ripened. Lime, sulphur and
ashes have been tried in vain; but sui
phate Of copper has done much good.
Some French vines are less subject to
the rnalady than others, although all
Of them are more affected than the
American plants, which however pro-
duce grapes of an inferior quality. The
same disease has made its appearance
in the canton of St. Gall, in Switzer-
land; and, as no American stocks have
been imported there, the germs of the
disease are supposed to have been car
ried there by wind. The Vinge Fraecoise
states that the vintage of 1880 will be
of good quality but middling in quanti-
ty in the Champagne, Burgundy,
Beaujolais, and Bordeaux districts. At
Beziers, Narbonne, and Perpignan the
vintage will be excellent, rather above
the average indeed, in striking con-
trasts to other districts in the south
affected by the severe winter and the
ravages Of the phylloxera. Al
though this scourge still makes pro-
gress in Spain and Italy, the vintage in
those countries is good and the prices
realized are above those of 1879. In
Austria Hungary both quantity and
quality are under the usual standard,
but prices are we'll supported.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18
GEN. PROCTOR'S TREASURE
What Il Ghost Has to lbO With IT,
Mysterious Occurrences on n Hill

side.
Toronto Globe.
At intervals, somewhat apart, stories
ale put in circulation of the presence,
at a particular spot on the road leading
from Woodstock westward toward En-
bro, Of ghost or "uncanny thing'' of
some kind that terrifies both man and
horse. In olden times and in older
countries strange adventures befell peo-
pie whose convivial habits induced a
late departure from the generous host
elrie, and the phantom of the disorder
ed brain was accepted as an unearthly
reality. Our people are not chargea-
BILE with indulgencies that might con-
jure up sprites or more offensive spir-
its; nor is it from imaginative persons
that our ghost stories come. Staid hus-
bandmcn on the homeward way have,
in the darkness of the nj ght, found
their horses to start and precipitate
themselves to fence side and tremble
as if in an agony of fright when this
particular spot is reached. Not long
since two young ladies riding past the
spot found their inability to press their
steeds onward, and We're rescued from
a perilous position on the top of an
embankment after calling for help.
These occurrences are not frequent,
but no sooner has one story passed into
oblivion when new and more SEEM
ingly absurd one takes it's place. In
the lifetime of the late Col. Light, that
gentleman was wont to affirm that the
treasure stolen from Gen. Proctor in
his flight from the west in the last war
with the United States had been secre-
ted near the spot indicated. That Proc
tor was robbed is historical fact, and
that suspicious plate and treasure that
no one could or did account for was
found, and not long ago, near Wood
stock, no one disputes. Col. Light was
SO convinced of the correctness of his
suspicious that he has confessed to
spending night after night in the quiet
of the hillside watching another hillside,
expecting to see advancing to the spot
supposed to be the dppot Of the treas
ure one or more Of his neighboling
yeomen. The colonel never was able
10 do more than hang together a few
facts that helped to prove the allega-
ton that Proctor was robbed at or near
Martifl7s old stand, and that traces of
the deed were distinguishap]e down to
a comparatively late date. It may be
that some one is pursuing the same
practice confessed by Col. Light, or it
may be that the hillside is visited by
some one who has q share in the i'll
gotten plumber, and in order to escape
detection adopts a guise or exterior
alarming to man and to animals. Any
number of highly respectable persons,
and of the most correct habits, will af-
firm as to the startling nature of the
midnight occurrences, and if they are
not supernatural we may hear before
long Of q key to a great mystery, for
quite Il number are determined to get
at the facts even if violence is required.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18
A SEASOXA1:LE CA roll
By WALT QCEVEDO.

By WALT QUEvEDo.
The melancholy days have come.
The sadest OF the year,
Too warm for apple toddies: and
Too cold for lager beer.
The bluebird, lark and nightingale
That three short months ago
Were warbling in the woodland glens.
Will soon be chewing snow.
The wheat and oats and rye and corn
Are garmered in the howell,
And soon we one and all can pick
The ]ucious: ripe snow shovel.
The poor man, who's our neighbor, We
Should cheer his weary soul,
And brighten up his fresile too,
By Il ton or two of coal
If this should be beyond orr means
One little hunk will cheer
His heart, and warm his body up.
If aimed behind the ear.
Then let the cold, bleak wintry blasts
Around our iircsides buster:
Wen paint a stove upon our back,
And valnish up cur buster:
And sandpaper our body DER
As warm rs warm can be,
And weac red peppers in our shoes
Hur'ah! Ha, ha! lie: he:
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18
Death Of an Old British Tar.
London Truth.

We have to record the death, at
Montrose, on Oct. 1, OF Coull, the old
tar who steered the Shannon into the
memorable action with the Chesa-
peake, off Boston harbor, on the LIST of
June, 1918. James Coull was born in
the fishing village of Ferryden, near
Montrose, on the 9TH of January, 1886,
so that he was in his 95th year. On
account of the death of his father and
the poverty of his mother, James start
ed life as a cabin-boy in one Of the
local vessels at the early age of 6 years.
He was afterward indentured as an ap-
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18

A "coon-hunting party" is reported
as among the. recent 'social events
in San Antonio, Tex. The participants
were five ladies, five gentlemen and
boy. They went picnic fashion, tax
ing camping equipage with them. They
were gone two days, and reported a
"ggay time, but no coons.'
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18

The Earl of Malmesberry, "A years O
age, has married Miss Hamilton,
lady of24.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-18

Bismarck has for many years believ-
ed that he will die in 1881.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

Hancock is simply, 80 far as the
Democratic party is concerned, Horace
Greeley on horseback.-[St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Chicago Inter-Occan reports a
Democratic orator as proudly saying
"Where, my countrymen, is that 1929
that General Garfield got at Mobile
We pause for some Republican to an.
swer if they can"
The rebel claims, amounting to mil.
lions of dollars, which have stood fol
years in awe of the veto of Republi.
can president, would be rushed through
at the earliest moment, were the Dem
Ocrats given undisputed possession al
Washington.-[Albany journal.
The Democracy need not hope 10
skulk behind the honors won by Gen.
Hancock in overcoming Democrats in
a Democratic war. The Solid South
and state rights, and the living princi-
pies of the party will come TO the front.
-[Chicago InterOcean.
Two prominent Democrats gave
notice at late Garfield and Arthur rat
ification meeting in Baltimore that thew
should support the Republican ticket.
One was Col. Edwin Webster, collec-
tor Of the port during President
Johnson's administration, and the other
Frederick Stone, formerly Represent
alive in Congress from the Fifth Dis
trict. Both pronounced unequivocally
for Garfield.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-23
A Little Romance.

Truth is sometimes stranger than fic-
ton. A case in point has just come to
our notice which has in il all the ele-
ments of a first-class romance. A Un-
ion soldier, well known to us, CHANGED,
during the sanguinary struggle be-
tween the North and the South, to rem
der an important service to a contcder-
ate soldier, which resulted in the
saving of his life. Twelve years passed
and the circumstance was nearly for
gotten, when news came of the dcceasc
of the party thus befriended, with the
intelligence that he had bequcathed to
our soldier friend in trust for the first
male heir born after his marriage the
snug little sum of fifteen thousand dol
lars payable in annual installments of
one thousand dollars each, payments to
commence when said heir should be
fifteen years of age. Being then in n
blessed state of bachelorhood, the
prospect of being benefited by this
strange legacy must have seemed OK
ceedingly remote. We are not aware
whether 1t had anything to do with the
change from single to double blessed
ness which occurred Inc year after.
but we do know that very happy mat.
rinionial alliance was formed, the con-
tracing parties being well known to
most of our readers, S-M-S-
and L-A-W-. July 3, 1880,
was the sixth anniversary of their mar
riagc aud the seventeenth OF the battle
of Gettysburgh, where this friend OF
ours was dangerously wounded and
manned tor life. June &c, 1880, a nine
pound boy put in an appearance, and
we arc happy TO state bids fair TO live
to claim his singular inheritance. We
most cordially congratulate thi happy
household upon this opportunc arrival,
and If name has not already been Sc
lectcd VIC would suggest that of one
whom millions of our people W i'll honor
by their suflrages on the first of Nov
embcr next, Jam es ALram Garfield.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-23

tho beginning, u party Of princilla, rc-
form and progress; and having very
great admiration for Samuel j Tilden
for the noble work which he had inangu-
rated and carried outin New York, 4, In
the election of 1876, deemed Il my duty
10 cast my vote for Tilden and, as l then
hoped, reform. Since then many
changes have taken place. We have
had the extra session of Congress with
It's bills asking for appropriations
amounting to many millions to be paid
from the United States treasury to dis
loyal claimants in the South; with the
persistent attempts on the part of the
Representatives of the Democratic par
ty to repeal all laws that protected the
legitimate fruits of the war; with its
shameful exhibition of greed for Office
and contempt of the North as shown in
the wholesale dismissal of all Northern
ofiicc-holdercs, clerks, ETC., and filling
their places with confederate officers
and soldiers. We have also had the
present session controlled by the Dem
ocracy with do-nothing policy inaug-
urated at the beginning and continued
to the end, plainly showing that its
Representatives could do nothing right,
and in the fear of the coming election
did not dare to do anything Also since
that time the Republican party has in.
augurated Mr.. Hayes as president, and
the administration has been one of the
best, If not the best, the country ever
had. 1t has extended to the South the
fullest opportunity decentralization and
peace upon national basis, and the Of
fer has been spurned. 1t has admins
tered the affairs of government so just
ly as to become above suspicion Of
wrong. Its financial policy and bust
ness management have been such as tC
give us at present and promise us fol
the future degree of prosperity une
qualed in the history of the country
And in the present canvass and nomi
nation the Republican party in its ranl
and file has risen above the counsels anC
control of its late leaders, and has nom
mated a candidate for tho presidency
under auspicies and upon a platform
that give the best possible assurance
that the wise policy of the present ad
ministration will be continued, if III,
Republican party is continued in pow
er. In brief, the past four years have
proven that the Republican party car
administer the affairs of the nation hon
estly and well, and that all industries
and all our people can prosper undel
it; and during the same time it hal
just as clearly proven that the Democ
racy as now controlled are tainted
with disloyalty and treason, and arr
seeking national power for tho sol,
purpose of building up the South a
the expense of the North. Believing
it to be the duty of every freeman f
cast his,vote for the right irrespective o
party, l shall cast my vote in supper
of the Republican party at the comm,
election. Very truly yours,
| GEO. G, UNDERIIILI,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-23
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Twenty Men Killed by the Gazing in of 8
Caisson.

Twenty Men Killed by the Gazing in of a
Caisson.
Wednesday morning, about half past
four O'Clock, a portion of the temporary
enterance of the shafts of the connecting
chambers between the two tunnels and
the sinking shaft of the Hudson River
Tunnel now in process of construction
at Jersey City, fell in while the men
were changing shifts. Twenty-eight
men were in the tunnel at the time, OF
whom eight escaped through the air
lock. Twenty were killed. The acci.
dent occurred at the connection of the
iron plates with the brick wall of the
working shaft, which duringIthe chang.
ing of the shifts was probably not
watched by the men as closely as il
should have been, and the compressed
air was allowed to escape. The com.
pressed air is relied upon to assist in
supporting the roof, which was also
sustained by strong timber bracing
and the escape of air has always been
prevented by stopping the leaks with
waste silt, AS the roof fell the plate
closed the door of the air lock into the
tunnel, and the water, rising rapidly,
cut oil the escape of the 20 men, who
were killed. The building of this con.
Meeting chamber, though difficult
piece of work, has progressed safely un.
til now. The roof was all in position
and securely bolted. The connection
of iron plates with the shaft was being
made at the time of the accident. The
work will be prosecuted night and day
with all the men that can be advanta.
geously employed until the bodies arc
recovered, which will probably take
three days. The accident will proba.
bly, delay work for three weeks. ~