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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21
In the Illinois state prison are 1G men all

In the Illinois state prison are 16 men all
related to one another.
Edison leads all the exhibitions at the Par
is Electrical Exhibition, taking five gold med
ais.
The flag Of the rebel pirate Alabama is on
exhibition at Boston. Its possessor values it
at $4,000.
The rule forbidding the employment of
married women as teachers in Chicago schools
has been repealed.
An ex-slave in North Carolina is the own
er of plantation of 1900 acres, upon which
he has 10 tenants.
The negro in the South is said to be max
ing rapid progress in every branch of skilled
workmanship.
A Cleveland shooting gallery uses an eff
gy of Guiteau for target 1t proves great
hit. Every customer wants to pepper" it.
-Mothers-in-law are cheap in Maine. A
woman who pushed hers of a piazza, causing
injuries which resulted in her death, got off
by paying $500.
The Troy Times says: Saratoga Sun
day school teacher asked her pupils recently
if they could not bring in some new scholars.
One of them promptly replied, II can" and
then, with hesitation, added, "but he's Dem
ocrat."
The tenth anniversary of Chicago's great
FIRE occurred Oct 8, and the city is very nat
urally congratulating itself on tho wonderful
advance IL has made. All trace of the disas-
ter was long ago wiped out, and the city is
bigger, handsomer, buster and richer than
ever before.
In the recent death of Orson Pratt at
Salt Lake City, the Mormons lose the last of
their original ~ apostles. He was a native of
Hartford, Washington county, N. Y.
1t is stated that the longest drouth which
this country has ever known was in the year
1862, when for 1873 days in succession, end
ing Sept. l. no rain fell over a considerable
part of what was at that time settled territory.
Notwithstanding the political agitation,
the agricultural condition of ireland appears
to be improving. An official report shows
that there have been this year ITO, PIT more
acres under cultivation than there were last,
and the returns of 1880 showed an improve
ment over the previous year. Cattle have in
creased 32, 962 and pigs 237,772
"A case was recently tried in Paris which
seems to correspond very closely with tina.
for which Guteau is about to be tried.
Lucien Morrisset, young man aged 23, of
considerable education and refinement, was
charged with the murder of NJ Dormier, a
railway official. Morrisset had no grievance
whatever against Dormier, but he had long
cherished a deep-rooted hatred against socie-
ty. Convinced that society was rotten and
unjust, and smarting under disappointment
and failure in literature, Morrisset determined
to give free vent to his perverted instincts
He began by robbing his employer, and when
he was detected he resolved TO distinguish
himself as a murderer. He had previously
attempted suicide. One day last June he
procured revolver, loaded it, and, walking
out in the street he coolly shot down NJ.
Dormier. The medical experts, after a care
full examination, pronounced him sane, but
morally self-perverted, and he was sem
fenced to death. Morally self-perverted"
seems to apply we'll to Guiteau.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

The appointment of an influential commits
sioner by the Czar of Russia TO report upon
the best means of checking drunkenness in
the empire has resulted in thorough inves-
tigation of the matter, provoked much dis
cussion and ELECTED many interesting facts.
1t appears that drunkenness has largely in
creased since the emancipation of the serfs,
that the Russian peasant rarely touches his
"rodky" except for the purpose of getting
drunk, and that among the peasant classes
the habit of drinking is decreasing the popu-
lation by a more rapid rate than any war
which the country has ever suffered. The
Ozar proposes TO adopt extreme legal meas
ures against the liquor traffic, and in antici-
patton of this many cOmmunes have already
closed all the drinking places within their ju-
risdiction.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

carry it than did the supply in sight in 0cio-
Der, 1880. The visible supply Of corn is T.
500, 600 bushelsin excess of last year, involving
IS, 800, 600 more in nominal value, while the
visible stock OF oats requires 81 800, 600 more
Of money to hold it than year ago. To this
large amount Of money locked up in these
three products must be added nearly $1,000
600 which is necessary to hold back the ex-
cess of cotton now in sight compared with that
OF 1880. Here we have S31 600, 600 on these
four crops and this is probably but small
portion of the money which 'puts" on these
staples have withdrawn from circulation
ROst1p Journal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21


The Presidents determination not to re-
oeive office-seekers in person, but to compel
them to present their 'claims" to the head of
the proper department, is a wise one and we
trust he will have the firmness 10 adhere to it,
There is no reason why President should be
besieged and harried by a horde of hungry
place hunters, as Gen. Garfield allowed him
self to be. But, right and necessary as this
step is, it does not go far enough. II simply
transfers the pressure to the departments, or
adds to the burdens of congressman who serve
as office-brokers. Secretary Window testifies
that nine-tenths of the time of the President
and his cabinet officers was taken up with ap-
plicants for places" President Arthur pro-
poses to protect himself against this wasteful
practice. Ought there not to be law or
system to protect the other sufferers
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21
NO. ~.

easier, mother came where was and said, 'I
wonder where sister Eliza is, do you know
Jimmy?" And said supposed she was on
the roof, for / left her there when fast,
the scuttle just before it began to rain. Moth
ing was done TO me until after they bad got
two men to bring Aunt Eliza down and wiring
the water out of her, and the doctor had come,
aud she had been put to bed, and the house
was quiet again. BY that time father had
come home, and when he heard what had
happened But there It is over now and
let us say no more about it. Aunt Eliza is as
well as ever, but nobody has said a word to me
about prompt obedience since the thunder
shower -HdTpe1's Young Peop6.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

The Mormons evidently have little fear of
government interference with the practices Of
their religion. At large gathering of the
Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City recently,
Delegate Cannon hArangued them, saying /;
THE government of the United States will be
powerless in the future, as it has been in the
past, to enforce the anti-polygamy or any 9th
err law detrimental TO the interest or progress
of the kingdom of God on earth. Nine years
ago, on the second of July, the Congress of
the United States passed a law to prohibit and
punish the practice of polygamy in the terri
tories. How much prohibition has that law
effected How many of us have been pun
ished for the practice of polygamyS But one
man, and he furnished the evidence himself
for his own conviction"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

The Popular Science Monthly for October
contains many admirable articles Of the usual
order of excellence which obtains in this pub
lioation. DR.. Walterh0ter's article on 'How
the earth is weighed" Sir James Paget's on
the Cultivation of medical science" Prof.
Huxley's on the "Connection of the biologi-
cal sciences with medicine, and Herbert spen-
GERS development of political institutions"
are among the best of the dozen or moro
which make up the October number.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21
Miscellany.
Man's Mortality.

Mans Mortality.
Like as the damask rose you see,
Or like the blossom on the tree,
Or like the dainty flower in May,
Or like the morning Of the day,
Or like the sun, or like the shade,
Or like the gourd which Jonas had
Fen such is man, whose thread Ia spun,
Drawn ont, and cut, and so 10 done.
The rose withers, the blossom blasteth,
The flower fades, the morning hastetb,
The sun sets, the shadow flies,
The gOurd cOnsumes-and man he desl
Like to the grass that's newly sprung,
Or like a tale that's new begun,
Or like the bird that's here to-day,
Or like the pearled dew Of May,
Or like an hour, or like n span,
Or like the singing Of a swan
Fen such is man, who lives by breath,
Is here, now there, in life and death.
The grass withers, the tale is ended,
The bird il flown, the dew's assembled,
The hour Ia short, the span is long,
The swans near death-mans life is donel
Simon HdstsH
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

- The Probate Court for said District
TO all persons interested in the Estate Of ALMIRA
L. LAhELLE READ, late OF Marlboro in said District
deceased, Greeting.
You are hereby notified that this Court will decide
upon the allowance Of the account of VIM. M Cham
berlan, administrator with the VIII annexed upon said
Estate and decree distribution thereof to the persons
entitled at special session thereof be held at the
Probate Office in Brattleboro the last Saturday Of
October, A.D.18Sl when and where you may be heard
in the premises II you see cause.
Al Z. W. sTODDARD Resister
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

Balance OF debts chargeable the real es-
tate Of said deceased, 20 76s Ga
Praying for license to sell so much Of the real estate
OF said deceased is necessary for the payment of
said debts and charges Of administration.
. Whereupon II is ordered that the be heard at
the session OF said court be held at the Probate Of
nee n Bratteboro on the last Saturday Of October A.
d. 1881, when and where you may be heard in the
premises If you cause.
40 E. W. sTODDARD Register
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EATON & NEWELL.
PATENTS.
r.. FL. EDDY,

H. H. HDD Z
No. 40 state e., opposite I[ilDy, Boston,
Secures Patents in the United States; also in Great
Britain France, aud other foreign countries Copies
of the claims OF any Patent furnished by remitting
one dollar. Assignments recorded at Washington.
No gencV in the Uated States possesses superior ia
ciIitiSs FOR obtaining Patents aseertdning the pat
sntabilitB OF fsUeniiOns. K. II. EDDY,
Solicitor of Patents.
TESTIMONIALS.
81 regard Mr.. Eddy as one Of the most capable and
successJul practitioners with whom have had ofcial
intercourse. CHAs MASON, Commissioner OF Patents.
"Inventors cannot employ person more trustwor-
thy, or capable Of securing for them an early
and favorable consideration at the Patent Office.
EDMUHD BURKE, late Commissioner Of Patents"
Boston, Oct. 10, 1870.
RH EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir: You procured for
me, in 1910, my first patent. Since then you have
acted for nd advised me in hundreds Of cases, and
procured many patents, reissues and extensions.
have occasionally employed the best agencies In New
York, Philadelphia and Washington, but still give
you almost the whole of my business in your line,
and advise others to employ you, Yours truly,
GEORGE Draper
Boston, Jan. !, 1881.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

Mr.. Hughes gives some pleasant glimpses
of the late Dean Stanley in the November
Harper, and full-page portrait of the Dean
adorns the same number.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

news and pourishes the Nerve Tissues, and imParts
vital force. II should be at hand IN eV-
cry household. Urge your Druggist to get it, or we
viii mail II postpaid on receipt OF price oOc per pox
a boxes 80 so. Send for Authentic Proofs. Address
H. II. THAYER co.
2seov1y IS Temple Place, Boston, Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

MONEY LOCKED UP.-The visible supply of
wheat is 5000, 600 bushels more than year
ago, requiring $13, 600, 600 more money to
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

y The Probate Court for said District.
To all persons interested in the Estate of EMORY
PRATT, late Of Bratteburo in said District deceas-
ed Greeting
whereas s. NJ. CROUCH has presented to this
Court an Instrument purportng to be the Win Of
said deceased for te:-You are hereby notihed
that this Court will decide upon the probate Of said
Instrument at the session thereof to be held at the
Probate Office in Brattleboro, in said District the
last Saturday Of October, A. d. 1881, when aud
where you may appear and contest the same, II you
see cause. 40 L. W. SrODDARD, Register.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

AGENTS WANTED for NARY CLEA4ER's
LIFE AND DEATH OF Carl FIEEk!p:.
sSe p Ihe LAaiss sr thS hSSss and ID
yaralis ~ Preaei and A Gayeld send Tor circulars
Agents grand chance 70 inAAe money
Kddrsss The Martf6rd Iu blazing Co.. Hartford Conn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

STATE OF VERMONT, Marlboro ss

- =
~ The Probate Court for said District
To all persons interested In the Estate Of Z. WING
PACkER, late OF Brattleboro, deceased, Greeting.
whereas Eli S. W. Packer has presented to this
Court an instrument purporting to be the last VIII OF
said deceased for probaie:-You are hereby notified
that this Court will decide upon the probate Of said
instrument at the session thereof to be held at the
Probate ONCE In Brattleboro, in said district, the
last saturday Of October, A. D. 1881 when and where
you appear and contest the same IL you see cause
40 T.. W, STODDARD Register.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21
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For Sale.

A FARM Of 1850 acres, including good sugar Or
N ehard In strattOn. Price lowi terms easy. Ap-
Div to lafayette Sheldon Of stratton or to A. N ADJ
ANS, Fair Haven Vt. SO4z
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

- The Probate Court for said district
TO all whom 1t may concern, Greeting
Whereas o. f. Butterield administrator Of the es-
tate of Flavius j. Swift late Of Wilmington in said
District deceased has represented that the amount of
debts due from said deceased is 50, 3,s56 O4
Ihe charges OF administration, estimated, so 90
-r,.-,.-.., s,lO5 O4
assignment to widow Ia GAG Al
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21
CTATE OF VERMONT, Marlboro IS.

~ rhe Probate Court for said District
10 all persons interested In the Estate Of DAVID
BILLS, late OF Wilmington, In said District, de-
oosssu, t,,, ,-,.... - Greeting.
whereas EDWARD TITUS has presented 10 this
Court an instrument purporng to be the last viii of
SAID deceased, for probate:-You are hereby notified
that this Court will decide upon the probate Of said
instrument at at the session thereof to be held at the
PROBATE Once in Bratteboro In said District, on the
lat saturday OF October, A. d. 1881, when and
where you may appear and contest the same, II you
see cause. Al E. W. gTODDARD Registar
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-10-21

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legal Notices.
or VER1I0IT Wa.,,,,,.s,

SA@AAA - VI NGAhMDNI, WeHtminater IS,
~ The Probate Court for said District
10 all persons interested in the estate Of CYRUS
REED, late OF Londonderry, deceased, Greeting.
You are hereby notified that this Court will decide
upon the allowance of the account Of Joel Thompson
ADMINISTRATOR upon said Estate and decree dis
tribuon thereof to the persons entitled AT tbe sea-
sion thereof to be held at the Inn of f. Phelps IN
dratton on the FIRST Wednesday of Nov'r, A. d. 1881
When aud where you may be heard in the premises,
II you see cause. Al @. b. EDDY, Register.
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CEPHALINE.

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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-02-09
Mail Arrangements on the Upper
lanes

Fork UNION, va, February :, 1881.
Editors Dispatch: From all points | no.
tice complaints OF the fast mail. viii You
allow a subscriber TO direct the attention OF
the proper authorities 10 irregular, SlOU,
and sometimes 10 no MALI We have been
charitable enough 10 think that this irrCeu-
larity was due 10 new and inexperienced
mail agents on our new railroad; but VIII
they always he .suchi Once lately our en-
tire mail was sent TO Palmyra. Several
times a large portion Of the Columbia mail
has come to this Office The same has hap
pened at Biemo Bluff. This cannot be
attributable 10 fast mails, bat so far As our
northern mail is concerned, we do have
right to censure ibis continued nuisance.
The Richmond and Allegheny railroad
will be completed in few days to Bremo
Bluh, but If the present schedule be con-
tinucd all The communities IN tbs part OF
the country will not be in more direct com.
municatiOn with Richmond than before the
railroad was built. For instance, The mail
10 this Office comes from Columbia tn
weekly. ria the Columbia and Cbar!OtteS-
Vile route. II leaves Columbia seven
hours before the arrival Of the western
bound train, aud arrives four hours after
the departure OF the easter be und train,
utflGc We w uOt lNNNSt
dailies land goodly number come
to this Office till The second and
third day after publication. The same APP
plies to letters, when we are within fifty
eight miles of Richmond, and soon will be
within four and half miles Of the railroad
To remedy the latter trouble propose that
application be made for change Of route
as follows: Let the present Charlottesville
and Columbia Ui-weekly route stop at
Fork Union. there to connect with Il
daily route to BrcmO Bluff, distance
OF only four and half miles (tbe distance
from Fork Union 10 Columbia Is seven
miles. II we could prevail on the railroad
company 10 arrange Its schedule 80 as TO
leave Richmond in the forenoon, we and all
The Offices west OF us on this route would
get the mail the same day started from
Richmond.
Very respectfully, j. f. W.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-02-09
PETERSBURG.

INTEREST IN TuR ATLANTIC, MISSISSIPPI AND
opio CASE THE GREESviILt MURpkh
rRtA,.-.TrRwpT TO BURN JAIL--c"TToN
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BURNING ACCIDENT
f,orrc.,,ondence Of the Richmond Dispatch
FEBRUARY 8, 1881.
Intense interest Is manifested here to'dV
in the proceedings in the United states on'
emit Court In the case OF the Atlantic, MIS-
s,ssjnpi and Obio Railroad Company.
telcpraphed you last night The resuit vi
the trial, in the County Court OF pieem'
vile. of w. A. TrOtter. indicted ior 'he MN
inc of Claiborne Jackson, IN tnat coun'''
last fail. .Jobnson was tenant "f irot'e' -
and tho difficulty between the TWO aiose
about some work on wagon Jonuso"
was struck on the bead with SICK ny lio,-
for. from the effects Of which ne o'eu VI,
or two later. on his trst trial lrol'er was
sentenced to imprisonment III lhe pehnen'
ti,ry. The Court, on motion oil couhsei io'
Tho accused. granted new trial. ana Tue
verdict yesterday was nine months impri'
comment in iail and $50 fine. IL Is probable
MIR Trottcr will serve out his impris onment
in the Petersburg Jail. There are several
ntber criminal eases OF interest on Inc docket
OF Greenyille court for th. term.
An ATTEMPT was made on Thursday nlght
by y prisoner samed Robert Hines, charged
with larceny, 20 eject bis escape from the
jai of Sussex county by burning out. Inc
prisoner nearly lost his life by ms ac', "
" hen discovered he was found nearly sur
located by the smoke OF the fire he mad
knded, and which he was unable TO con-
troll.
A great deal Of cotton remains In the
fields uupicked throughout this section, ana
considerable portion OF the crop OF pea,
nuts also. simply for the want OF labor and
the unwilingness OF the c0lored people 10
work IN cold weather.
A little Girl named Geraldine Baptiste,
aged between seven and eight years, mar
rowlv escaped being burned TO death last
evening ia the house OF a colored family
named DabDey, living in the western por-
ton Of the city. She was fortunately rescued
from death by persons who went to her as
si,tancc from the street, though she WIS
badly burscd. ROBIN ADAiE'