Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-17

Give us net Republican gain OF SO, IL
you please not &C. as IL is going the rounds.
The vote in 1876 was-Fairbanks 231, Bing-
ham co. Willard 2.
The Woodstock Baptist Association will
hold meeting in this place next week
Wednesday.
The repairs on the Baptist meeting
house in this place are nearly completed, and
when done will give that society the hand
soonest audience room in the north part of
the county.
Crumbs of comfort for the Defamer boy
Charles, the North Derry Democrats are set
ting that last effusion of yours (under the
head of South Londonderry to music, de-
signing to serenade you Herewith the next
time you come up Well, that will be better
than they used you the last time you were
there. Isn't that so, Mishter Davenport ?"
Then, you know, dear boy that all the atten-
ton they gave you was to ask you to settle,
and discontinue the Defamer. It is even
said that one of the leaders went out of the
hall muttering $780, fool
Why did you put it in your local col
umns, under the head Of South Londonderry,
Oharles2 Was it to make your readers be-
lieve that it came to you from that place,
when really you wrote il yourself Oh,
Charles Has not your Grandmother told
you, time and again, that it would not nav to
use deception and fraud2 Is there nothing
open or manly about your Why not be a
handsome pup of the bovine species, as your
face would indicate, instead Of the sneaking,
cowardly cur that you are
Mr.. Mark Levy, who is now in New
York, making his fall purchases writes home
that, from personal interviews with the mer-
chants and business men of that city, he is
convinced that the vote of the state of New
York will be cast for Garfield and Arthur
Those who know Mr.. Levy as an intelligent
and discriminating gentleman, will regard
this as very reliable evidence.
Little Miss Alice daughter of Henry A.
Walker, gave birth day party last Tuesday,
and score or more of little folks enjoyed
pleasant entertainment.
BE more explicit in your denials, Mr.
Defamer, about those North Derry speech
es co. or rather, do better by owning up
like man. Could you make out more than
40 present, all told, men, women and chill
dren Did not Kirwan several times turn to
you and say isn't that so, Mishter Owen
port ?" And did not the boys cheer the Gar
field aud Arthur band, and did you not fail to
get single peep for Hancock and did you
not lose two or three subscribers If YOU
persist in n denial, offer reward for "taugi-
bic evidence" and the writer will guarantee
to produce affidavits to substantate these
lhcAh nut tuut nc WOulu expect 10 get luc re-
ward-he would only run his chances. the
same as your Grandmother did.
Mr.. Charles H. Davenport in last week s
Defamer, under the head of South London
derry, makes an unmanly and ungentlemanly
personal assault upon the writer, showing
conclusively that he was mad because he had
been touched upon sore spot. Among 9th
err false statements he charges the writer
with trying to be a correspondent of the De-
famer, and this was the unkindest cut of
ALL and one that he emphatically denies
True, he did once write up local matter
and, by the advice of several of the Defam-
er's subscribers, sent it to that sheet, but
never thought of becoming a correspondent
thereby, not a bit of it, 'Mishter Owen
port, and he is unwilling that any one
should be led to believe such disgraceful
charge. Call him "reprobate," Mr. De-
famer; exhaust your whole vocabulary of
slang upon him; send him to jail yes, ac-
cuse him Of offering rewards for tangible
evidence" or for the solution of puzzles an
never paying them but don't for heavens
sake, say that he ever tried to be CORES
pondent for the "Snollgoster." 3.