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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-29

PRoGREss OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL
RoAD.-The Northern Pacific track has
reached bad lands 40 miles west of Bis
marck OAK, and will be finished to the yell
lowstone by December 10, when work is TO
be stopped for the winter. II has been de-
cided to bridge the shifting Missouri at Biz
marck The bridge is to be q high one, 20
feet, and contain three sections each 400 feet
and two of 100 feet each. The river is 5000
feet wide at this point but O dyke is TO be
built out 100 feet from the west side. The
east bank is high bluff The dyke will be
finished before the river freezes this fall.
Engineer Clough has great faith in the scheme
and thinks it will withstand the rush of the
spring rise and break up II it does the
bridge proper will be built early next season.
If not a tunnel will be Immediately begun.
The Eads scheme Of mattresses is the one
used, and the stone for sinking and covering
them is being hauled to the waters edge.
The bridge will cost over 81, 900, 900 and
rank among the great bridges of the world.
The annual report of Hon. Frederick Bill
ings, president of the Northern Pacific COM
pany, submitted to the stockholders at their
recent annual meeting shows that, on the
completion of the Pend d'Oreille and Missou-
ri divisions, now near at hand, the company
will own and operate 1908 miles of road, and
have a title to some IL, 500, 900 acres of land,
against which the debt will not exceed ST.
600, 900. The financial condition of the prop
erty seems to be in every way sound and
promising, and there is a commendable de-
termination apparent upon the part of the
managers of the enterprise to hasten its COM
pletion and the full realization of its possibil-
tiles. Mr., Billings estimates that the road
will be finished from Lake Superior to the
Pacific ocean by the close of 1884, and posi-
bly, sooner.
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Hancock at GeGtysDurg---He Thought
iI Possible 10 Retire.


1t has been so loudly proclaimed that Gen.
Hancock was the sole and solitary hero of
Gettysburg that it has provoked a little in
quiry on behalf of the other generals, of
equal or superior rank, who were engaged in
that battle. This inquiry has revealed the
fact, from the official reports, that Gen. How
ard first took possession of Cemetery Ridge
as q line of battle, and that when Gen. Han
cock came up on the day preceding the final
conflict, he sent a note to Gen. Meade, saying
that when night came it could be told what
had best be done-'I think aoe can retire ="
This is no slander, but the exact language
from dispatch signed Winfield S. Hancock
and its tenor is certainly not of the strategic
ability, the decision and the frmness which
have been attributed to Hancock as the first
to see the value of the position, and the most
determined to hold it against the doubt or
vacillation Of his superiors. Nobody doubts
or discredits the courage which Gen. Hancock
displayed on that memorable day, aud if there
is an individual who has not a tribute of ad-
miration for his magnificent ride down in
front of the embRttled line, he has more of
political prejudice than we have but when a
persistent effort is made to rob all the other
officers of any credit for the battle of Gettys-
burg, and to belittle the fame of the dead
commander-in- chief Gen. Meade, simply be-
cause Gen Hancock is the Democratic candi-
date for president, it demands protest, and
has provoked an inquiry which has not result
ed favorably to his military fame. 81 think
we can retire" is not war cry that will be
apt to be quoted with as much frequency by
Democratic orators as the celebrated and less
official, "Gentlemen, charge"
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danger Of delivering the government to the
men, or the party, that sought its destruction,
yet unrepentant of the damning crime"
Guess 1 won't jine if I've got to learn to
read t amt necessary to know how to read
to bo Dimecrat."
THAT is true. The self-styled Democracy
flourishes best by keeping the masses in igno-
rance As soon as a man becomes well in
formed if he is honest, there is hope Of him
politically while ignorant he is carried along
by the magnetism of party leadership. But,
Mr.. Stckleback, it is now two o'clock we
have awakened the children, and had better
discontinue our conversation until morning,
when hope you will be in better condition
to understand your duty as political adhe-
rent and as a citizen"
"Ugh better condition !"
Wilmington, Vt. HEcToR
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mAhShAl4L OEWELbi Ouhll lnuus
s. w. DORSEY, Secretary.
New York, October %, 1880
The pretended letter referred to in the above
was as follows
Personal and ConhdentALl
HoUsE or RrPREtEETATIvEs,
WAauNd1oN, j. c., Jan. IS, 1880. !
Dear Sir: Yours In relation to the Chinese problem
came duly to hand.
take it that the question Of employees is only a
question of private aud corporate economy, and nd
viduals or companies have the right to buy LABOR
where they can get 1t cheapest.
We have treaty with the Chinese government
which should be relgiously kept until It's provisions
are abrogated by the action Of the general govern
ment and not prepared to say that It should be
abrogaed until our great manufacturing interests
conserved in the matter Of labor. J. A. GARY1ELD.
II. L. MoRET, Employers Union, Lynn, Mass.
fac-simile Of this letter was published in
New York newspaper, called Truth on FRI
day. On Saturday this was submitted to up
wards Of fifty of the most prominent bankers
of New York, accustomed to paying out mill
ions ON the authority of a signature An au-
tograph letter of Gen Garfeld's was also sub.
mitted for comparison. In two instances an
opinion was declined, but in every other case
experts whether president, cashier or teller
without respect of party politics, pronounced
the TRUTHS photo-lithograph q very poor for
gerry.
AN APPEAL TO SOUTHERN VOTERS.
On Saturday the national Republican COM
mittee issued an address to the Republicans
of the South, which closes with the following
language:
The national Republican committee, speak
ing for the party which has struggled for
twenty-four years to make freedom national,
appeals to you to cast your votes on the I'd of
November for the candidates of your choice.
Have trusted Republicans at every polling
place during the election, to register in books
of their own the votes which you deposit.
BE prepared in this manner to demonstrate to
the people of the nation just how many votes
you cast in each State, and then let the Dem
ocratic party show the people how many of
them they will dare refuse as cast. You will
thus vindicate your manhood dignity your
citizenship, and compel the Democracy either
TO count your votes or stand convicted of hav-
ing openly defrauded you of them.
MARSHALL JEWELL, Chairman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-29

1t is said the ordinary life of bee is only
ninety days. The end of bee however, is
very lively.
A dull old lady, being told that a certain
lawyer was lying at the point of death, eI-
claimed MY gracious Wont even death
stop that mans lying?"
In 1852, during a passage at tongues be-
tween Napoleon Ill and his Uncle Jerome,
the latter went 80 far as to observe that his
nephew had nothing about him of the great
Emperor. eyes, have" said Napoleon,
with a sigh: ~ have his family"
"What are you looking for ?" asked one of
the Widow Bedott's two daughters, who were
entertaining two young gentlemen on the
piazza, rather late, one night last summer, of
their mother, who seemed TO be hunting for
something around the front yard. ''The
morning papers, answered the widow. The
young men left.
One of the guests recently at a party, ad-
dressing the gentleman next TO him, said,
''This is awfully dull suppose we retire and
get something to exhilarate US ?" IT should
only be too glad, was the reply. "But can't
leave" "How is that2" asked the inter
looutor "Why," said the other, ''you SEQ
I'm the party that's giving the party"
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A girl was frightened to death by dream
at West Chester, Pa. She was recovering
from typhoid fever, and was so weak that,
awakening in terror the violent action of her
heart proved instantly fatal.
Some boys recently dragged out of the
bed of the river near Saltwater Village, N.
Y, one of Burgoyne's four-pounder iron can
mons, which has lain there for nearly l03
years. 1t is in good state of preserva-
tion.
The presidency of the Mormon church,
which has been vacant since the death of
Brigham Young, was filed Sunday at the
church conference in Salt Lake City, by the
election of John Taylor, who was the ranking
member of the twelve apostles.
The "Stevens battory"-an immense
iron-clad, on the construction of which ST.
600, 600 was spent, by deceased Jersey City
millionaire, during his life, and million more
after his death, has been sold at auction for
$55, 200. 1t will be taken TO pieces
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Miscellany.


LOOK D. NOt down.
Life to some is full Of sorrow-
Half Is real, and half they borrow;
Full Of rocks and full Of ledges,
Corners sharp and cutting edges
Though the Joy bells may be ringing,
Not song you'll hear them singing;
Seeing never makes them wise,
Looking out from downcast eyes.
All In vain the sun Ia shining,
Waters sparkling, blossoms twining;
They but see through these same sorrows
Sad to-days and worse Tomorrow;
See the clouds that must pass over,
See the weeds among the clover
Everything and anything
But the gold the sunbeams bring.
Drinking from the bitter fountain,
Lol your mole-hill seems a mountain;
Drops Of dew and drops Of rain
Swell into the mighty main.
All in vain the blessings shower,
And the mercies fall with power;
Gathering chan, ye tread the wheat,
Rich and royal, meath your feet.
Let It not be so, my neighbor;
Look up, AZ you love and labor.
Not for one alone woes walls;
Every one has cares and trials.
Joy and pain are linked together
Like the fair and cloudy weather;
May we have, oh, let us pray,
Faith and patience for to-day.
TLe 4 4Jr1urs
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-29
Och, Katie's a rogue, it is thrue,
But her eyes, like the sky, arc 30 blu'

Och, Katie's a rogue, il is thrue,
But her eyes, like the sky, arc 80 blue,
An her dimples 80 swIts,
An her ankles so nate,
She dsEed, an she bothered me, too
Till one mornin' we wint for ride,
Whin, demure as a bride, by my side,
The dArlint, she sat,
Wild the wicksdeat hat
Meath purity girls chin liver tied.
An my heart, ArrAb, thin how it bAtei
For my Kate looked so temptin' an GwAte,
Wild cheeks like the roses
An all the red posies
That grow in her garden so nate.
But sat just as mute as the dead,
Till ehe said, wild = toss OF her head,
"If I'd known that to-day
Ye'd have nothin' to say,
I'd have gone wild my cousin, instead
Thin felt myself grow very bowld,
For l knew she'd not scold II toWld
w the love in my heart,
That would never depart
Though lived to be wrinkled and old.
An said: "If 1 dared to do so,
I'd lit go NV the bAste, an ia throw
Both arms round her vAiIt
An be stalin' taste
Nv them lips that are coaIin' me So"
Thin she blushed more illigent red,
As she said, widout raising her head,
An her eyes lookin' down,
Meath her lAshes so brown,
"Would ye like me to drive, Aisther Ted ?"
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The following is the sworn statement 10 the
Insurance Commissioner Of Massachusetts Of the
financial condition Of the
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seth Annual Report now ready for distribution.
Free TO any address.
BENZ. +. STEVENS, President.
JOSEPH NJ. GIBBENs Secretary.
March IL, IssO.-lyl1
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BRATTLEBORO, VT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1880

will be remembered in all future contests
MARSHALL JEWELL, Chairman.
s. w. Dorsey Secretary.
New York, October ~, 1880.
The pretended letter referred to in the above
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-10-29

IMPROVEMENT IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OF THE
sTATE-THE HOSPITALITY or THE PEOPLE,
WHAT THEY THINK OF THE YANKEE-coN-
DITION OF THE NFgRoFs
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21
In re Porter.


As there Is no chance for Porter's election
we submit the following to his consideration,
taken from the Chicago Tribune of yes
terday:
VHANTED-A YOUNG RED HAIRED
w LADY; travelling engagement. Apply
at once, Agency "a East Fourteenth-st.
A reporter applied, and learned that the
young red-haired lady was wanted 10 join the
side-show 70 a travelling circus. "What for?''
"Wny, to be an Albino. A red-headed girl
makes the best Albino. A human hair Is q
tube nearly white and transparent. The
colortDg matter is inside: This coloring
matter Is easily bleached out. When the color
ing matter is beached out of red hair it leaves
it shade OF white more nearly resembling
the hair of the true Albino than in the case of
other kinds OF hair red headed girl makes
the best AlbinO. Here Is red headed girl
that is willing to be Albino. Why
shouldn't advertise for her? don't see any
thing strange in that. The only strange thing
about the matter Is, that one of a hundred red
headed girls that have come here to day, not
one would consent TO go with q side-show.
They all want to go on the stage and be Clara
Morrises."
The late Governor Willard always con-
tended that A. Galatin Porter would pass
for O very handsome Albino. Being an
Albino pays better than running for Gov
ernor of Indiana and getting beat. There is
more actnal cash in IT. Like the red headed
girls who all wanted to 60 on the stage and
be Clara Morrises, there are too many fiaxen-
haired chaps 10 Indiana who want to be
Governor, but they are not adapted to the
business.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21

acted cautiously. II It had been possible,
James A. Garfield would have been declared
innocent, but he was pronounced
guilty, and the Democratic press snd the
Republican press, Democratic orators
and Republican orators owe It to their coun-
try, to its institutions to its good name, to
join in denouncing James A Garfield We
are told that 1t makes no difference with
Republicans for having nominated Garfield
they will vote for him though guilty of
crimes that shock the moral sense OF the
country. We do not believe it. Rspub-
licans there are who Will vote for their can.
didate, no matter what crimes stain his
record, but there are other Republicans who
will not thus degrade themselves. But IL
the Democratic press of the country
can be persuaded to treat James A. Garfield as
an honest, upright, honorable man it will be
regarded as a great triumph. and that there
no doubt While Democratic organs are
silent with regard to Garfeld's crimes, the
Republican organs are relentless in their
pursuit of General Hancock. They do nos
hesitate to lay hold upon falsehood and the
vilest ISLANDERS and seed them broadcast
over the land. Their mud batteries have
been at work from the hour that the illus
trious American was named the
Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent, and though his name
and fame are unblemished, and his deeds
of valor have gone sounding through the
world, still Republican organs and orators
do not hesitate to seek opportunities for
gratuitous and infamous defamation. Those
who lay bare Garfeld's crimes are not
required to indulge in such attacks. They
take the report Of the Poland Committee
and find that James A. Garfield swore:
NEVER owned, received, or agreed to re-
the Union Pacific Railroad, NOR ANY DIVE
DENDS OR PROFITS ARISING FROM
EITHER OF THEM.
And then with all the facts In full view
the Poland Committee declared as follows:
He (Garfield) agreed with MI. Ames to take ten
shares Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay for
the same. Mr.. Ames received the ~ per cent.
dividend in bonds and sold them for 81 per
cent, and also received the % per cent. cash
dividend, which, together, paid The price OF the
stock and interest, and left a balance OF sS29.
THIS SUN WAS PAID OVER TO Mr. GAR
FIELD BY CHECK ON THE SERGEANT
ALARMS, AND MR. GARFIELD THEN IN
DERSTCOD THIS sum WAS THE BALANCE
OF DIVIDENDS AFTER PAYING FOR THE
STOCK.
Such is the Republican verdict against
James A. Garfield. 1t could not be worse,
nor does the English language, 10 all of its
thousands of words, supply any terms too
harsh to fifty characterize James A. Gar
fields crimes. The Republicans will rstify
to night. We invite the speakers when they
refer to Garfield, to make mention of the
report of the Poland Committee. II they
refer to his youth they should also refer to
his mature manhood. The people are in
terested in hearing directly from Rspub-
licans upon the subject.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21
GARF1ELD-YoUTH AND MANHOOD.

Republican organs and orators continually
slop over with "reminiscences of Garfeld's
youthful exploits To this no one should
object. We are quite willing to admit that
James A. Garfield was a good boy; that he
was a nice young man, loved his mother, etc.
We care not how ford may be the eulo-
gums that sdmIring partisans lavish upon
him when referring to the days of his inno-
cence. But James a. Garfield is now a can
didate for the high Office of President of the
United States. The people demand, in esti
mating his fitness for such an exalted
position, a knowledge OF his mature manhood.
Nursery stories do not answer the require
ment. II Garfield was good boy-a good
young man-hss ne remained good? II Sd,
the public records will testify In his favor.
But to bring forward that record-public
documents in the archives of the Govern
ment-is said to be, by those who are opposed
to the truth. that ii is partisan mud hinging.
The Republican party has nominated James
A. Garfield for President It is anxious to
Why? Because that record is as infa-
nous as can well be conceived.
Il is record that covers
Garfield with odium, and, what Is still worse
for Garfield and the Republican party, it is a
record made by the Republican party itself.
If the Republican party can persuade Demo
cratic organs and orators to remain silent
with regard to that record they gain an
immense advantage, for in that case a candi-
date whose public career is stamped with
perfdy stands on an equality with a candi-
date whose whole life has been consistent
with virtue and honor. We abominate the
practice of manufacturing q case against
a political opponent. We hold it to
be in the highest degree execrable
to publish baseIess ISLANDERS against candi-
date for the simple purpose CT defeating
him. To falsely and maliciously sully the
good name of q candidate that he may lose
the confidence of his fellow citizens is q
crime 80 essentially devilish as to deserve
the uautterable scorn of all honorable men.
But if a candidate has shown himself to be
vile, il he has proved false to his trusts, IL
he has been guilty OF acts and practices
which disqualify him for positions in which
exalted probity is the supreme demand, and
the facts sre established above and be-
yond successful contradiction. then it
becomes the duty of all honest men to ex-
pose his crimes and deny him official posi-
ton. How stands James A. Garfield? He
was charged with official corruption. By
whom? By his own party, by his own po-
litical friends and associates, and the charge
was proved in open Court and the Conn
mIttee having charge of the case rendered
the verdict A majority OF the Committee
we're distinguished Republicans. They
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21
CLIPPINGS.
COLONEL FoRNEY is to have 600 for his life
of General Hancock. 1t will be published by
a Philadelphia house.
terializs.

COLONEL FoRNEY is to have s., 900 for his life
of General Hancock. 1t will be published by
a Philadelphia house.
EVANGELIST MooDY's school for girls, at
Mortified, Mass, has been endo we'd hand
somely by Boston millionaire.
PORTER will find out, as Harrison did before
him, that being Republican candidate for
Governor in Indiana is what the late William
Allen would have termed "a id barren ideal
ity."
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOC
% 67S 9l0l12IS l4l5 Is II Is 10 %
says the Washington Post, and calls attention
TO the fact that Hancock will be the twentieth
President.
GARFIELD got on George William Curtis
civil service platform and wandered along for
a short time, and then heundered over to
Flannagan's platform, where he was satisfied
and left himself in his letter of acceptance.
Mr. GARFIELD says very guardedly that he
Endorses the platform of his party ION nearly
all the subjects on which it treats" 1t might
have been well If he had labeled those he
thought better to reject.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN gives assurance that
New Jersey will cast its electoral vote for Gen.
I1duCOCk ny PTOuOunCcQ 1nbJOElby, anu
thinks the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac
viii give him a generous support
BISHOP sCorT, of the M. E. Church. has ac-
cepted rest from official labor, and at the age
of seventy-e:ght years he has retired finally to
his home, near Odessa, Del Forty. four years
ago he entered the ilinerant ministry, and for
twenty-eight years he has been a Bishop.
THE Amateur Journalists are holding their
annual Convention In Cincinnati this week.
The truly good Deacon Richard smith is CIV
ing them instructions, and seems to have
taken them under his charge generally. The
first question he asks each of them is, "Does
your mother know you're out?"
THE venerable Hannibal Hamlin, whose
term of Office as a Senator from Maine expires
next spring, announces his purpose to retire,
and the Legislature will elect his successor
next winter. He has been In public LIE, as
Legislator, Governor, Congressman, Vice
PresIdert and Senator since 1886.
TEN years ago the venerable founder of the
Koechlin family celebrated his golden we'd
ding, when 29S members of the family assem-
bled. The two hundred and ninety-ninth
member was in childhood, but during dessert
the three hundredth descendant made his ap-
pearance on the table In a cradle formed OF a
basket OF flowers.
VERY little attention seems to have been
given this year to the celebration of the
Battle of the Boyne, on the 18th Of July. In
nine years, when the two hundredth anniyer-
sary occurs, the exercises will doubtless be
very interesting and animated. Until then it
may better be celebrated in the breach than
in the observance.
THERE seems to be latent Republican fear
that Mr.. Tilden win recover his health suffi-
oIently TO assist in the management OF the
campaign this year. There u not musn