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BY Richard Leris, Esq, Judge Of Probate.
lVnEREAs, Henry B. Schroeder has made suit
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case was against man named Iurncr, and tho
last against 1. II. Philpot, cx-probate Judge of
tho county. Notice Of appeal was given in both
cases. A few OWL cases wero tried and all the
business ready for trial was disposed of.
An election for Intondant and Wardens of tho
town Of Walhalla was held in tho Court House
on Monday, the 10th instant, with the following
result:
4 For INTENDANT.
Il Brcnneoke, 90 votes
FOR wARDENs.
II. G. Rochnu, 90 votes
W. J. Stribling, % votes.
DR.. L. B. Johnson. 06 votes.
]. p. Mickler, 70 votes.
g. Wcndclkin, 78 votes.
G. II. IIessc, rs votes.
II. ". Pieper, 2G votes.
j. II. Ostcndorff, Is votes.
]. G. Mickler, % votes.
The first six are tho Wardens. There was no
Issue on wet and dry and no excitement in any
way. Mr.. ]. G. Mlckler was not a candidate
and was not eligible.
Mr.. William Lay, formerly citizen Of our
county, but at present citizen Of Atlanta,
is on visit to our town. lie has been ap.
pointed general travelling agent Tor tho Conn
mon Sense Engine, manufactured at Springs
field, Ohio, with authority to appoint agents
in every county. This engine took the pro-
MUM at tho Atlanta Exposition in class ID,
being tho highest premium for upright en-
gnes. 1t is said to be simple in all it's parts
and specially adapted to ginning, grinding
and all agricultural machinery. 1t is easily
transported and should any portion got
broke 1t can bo supplied by ordering from
tho factory. It is also cheap, ranging from
three to ton horse power ut from $275 to
$500 complete aod fully warranted. We
wish M. Lay much success in his business
and feel sure ho will meet is,as he is good
thaohiniSt.
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-03-17

Here is one of Fanny Ferns" old sketches,
which a friend has resurrected from a paper
of twenty yeArs ago and handed us for re-
publication
How did l ever live so long without great
green mountain in front of my window
That's what said to myself as I watched the
shifting shadows upon it, from my pro tenn.
home in Brattleboro. Perhaps tlat accounts
for my lack of reverence, who knows l hug
a theory, that no one can be born in the vi
cinity of any such grand challenge of Nature
without having a corresponding in his own
soul and the more l am laughed at for it,
the more obstinately cling to it. Why
that mountain is just like church to me. 1t
bushes all my nonsense, and bids me tread
with soft and reverent steps toward the heav-
en- that lies beyond. Why do l rise SO early
here, when the day is so long in the country
Do you think / would miss the gradual lifting
of the mist from that mountain Or that first
peeping of the newly awakened birds2 Or
the soft rosy tints that edge, one by one,
those gray clouds Besides, 1 do not find
the day long in the country. 1 could sit lazily
under that tree, all day, in a trance Of cat
like, purring enjoyment. But I'll tell you
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-03-17
Communications.


Here is a good man. See how bland he
looks. He has just cleared hundred dollars
on trade, and he is glad. He is kind. He
will go home aud give his wife seventy-five
cents, and tell her she must look out and not
fool it away.
What poor lad is this2 He looks sad He
says he is sick. 1t must be be was taken quite
suddenly, for he chased his fathers pet dork-
ings about the yard but an hour ago. will
tell you what laid him low A kind friend in
vited him to fill his mothers wood box.
Here is a picture of fue lady. She is too
sweet for anything. She wears fur cloak
and plush hat with big ostrich plume
She has Just started down town for bracelets
to put on her white wrists. Will she give
dollar to the missions this year? No. she will
not. She sGys she is fond of the beathen, but
two cents week counts up too fast for her.
Here is a bank cashier. He b, ems to be
great man. See him sit and spin his web.
He expects to catch lot of folt5 this time
But he is sharp. The next you know he will
go of and the bank directors Will not know
he was loaded.
This is maiden lady. She is tripping
over to see her married friend, aud her five
small children. Will she bone in and help her
with her work? All, no. She has a nobler
aim than that. She will tell her how she
should manage in her place. She will tell her
how her children act She will tell her they
are not well taught. She will tell her she
should strive more to improve her mind. She
should read more and go out more. And pre-
side at the aid society. And go to the mis-.
sionary meetings. And take a class of dear
children in the Sunday school. Do you think
this lady could do this herself and find time
TO do one thousand four hundred and seventy
five other things, every day, for her family
fear she will never have a chance to try, but
unless she does she will never find out what
wise simple ton she is.
Can you tell who this man is, who has four
or five smiles on his face? a? He keeps a sam
pie lot of them for his victims. He is book
agent. You may try hard, but you cannot get
rid of bin. He likes to yank on your heart
strings. Do not do him harm. He is a sad
bore but it would be sin to wiring his neck.
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NO. IL.
gorree.lnr I.rOf. Iroetor,. As.ronomy.

Correcting Prof PrOctOr's Astronomy.
Prof. @. A. Young Of Princeton college al
lays the fears of superstitious people and
takes the wind out of Astronomer r. A.
Proctor's sails by proving, as far as the mat
ter is susceptible OF proof, that Mother Earth
is in no danger of being burned up through
the agency of the comet of 1880, which Mr.
Proctor thinks is going to fall into the sun
before many years and furnish fuel enough
TO wither our humble planet. Mr.. Proctor is
sure that the comet of 1880 is identical with
those of 1868 and 1913 but, says Prof
Young, the evidence of identity is very small,
and the resemblance of the orbits is explain.
ed by the supposition that they belong to
so called family of planets" or are sister
COMETS like the two into which Biela's comet
separated before its final disappearance. If
the three comets were identical and preparing
TO fall into the sun, there would be a nearer
approach at each revolution but there is no
evidence of such an approach, and the clos
est of all was the first, in 1868. As to blight
ing the earth with the added heat produced
by collision with the sun, Prof. Young says
there is no known comet large enough to pro-
duce, by its downfall, an increase OF heat
great enough to destroy all living things on
the face of the earth.
Prof. Pierce estimated the average comets
mass as equal to a solid ball of iron 100 feet
In diameter. IhlS estimate Is probably too
high, but even if it is accepted as approx
mately accurate the average mass of comets
would not equal one e-hundred-thousandth
of the earth's mass. II the earth fell into the
sun it would generate heat enough to keep it
running at its present rate of radiation for
100 years, supposing its present supply to be
cut off. On this basis the fall of a comet into
the sun would generate only heat enough to
keep it running for less than nine hours As
a matter Of fact the effect would not be i'm
medately felt. Observers on the lookout
might at first perceive fash of heat but
others would probably know nothing about
it. The greater part of the energy would be
spent in the expansion of the solar orb, in
doing mechanical work in the sun. The ad-
ded heat would be radiated out during great
length of time, and, in the case supposed,
would be scarcely noticeable. Even if the
heat we're all radated within the nine hours,
Prof. Young thinks it would do no great
harm, though for short time, when the
suns rays are nearest perpendicular, we
might like to go down cellar or put mullen
leaves in our hats. A comet that gets very
near the sun will be torn to pieces from the
lack of enough conference to resist the divel-
lent action. So that it cannot fall on single
body, but must drop in separate parts pro-
cess necessarily slow. "If a comet drops in
to the sum-" says Prof. Young, 81 hope I
shall live to see it, and in that case shall ex-
pect to survive the event"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-03-17

Our treaty of alliance with France, made
at the time of the Revolution, compelled us
to defend her West Indian possessions if
these should be attacked by foreign power.
Fifteen years later they were attacked and
captured, with no thought on our part of de-
Tending them. In the following years, prior
to 1900. large number of American vessels
and cargoes were captured by French cruis-
ers. When these aggregate claims were pre-
sented at Paris, and their payment urged,
the government of that country presented as
an offset the failure of our government to
comply with its treaty obligation in relation
to the French West Indian islands. After q
great deal of negotiation, the American gov
ernment agreed to settle itself the claims of
its own citizens for losses due to French
seizures; while the French government
agreed to consider the guarantee we had given
about the West Indies to be null and void.
That is to say, this nation gained a diploma
tic victory, which released it from the disa-
greeable necessity of going to war with every
nation that might attack France, and prom
ised to hold France harmless for the acts of
her cruisers by paying itself for the damage
they had done. But, in spite of this promise,
from that day to this, the sufferers have never
had penny of their losses made good to
them. In private life this would be called
swindling, and perhaps no other name can
be given to it, even when the offender is the
Congress of the United States. Boston Her.
dd
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-03-17

party of San Juan ranchers made bon
fire of an Apache Indian, and the coroner's
jury returned verdict of overcome by the
heat"
An Oil City young lady recently visited
New York, and when she returned home re-
lated how she stopped at ''palatable hotel
and went up and down stairs in a cultivator. ="
Preacher (arriving drenched) )-"What shall
1 do Mrs. McGregor2 1 am wet through
and through" Old Scotch wOman-"Get into
the pulpit-as sune as ye can. Yen be dry
emo there"
Father and son were driving along under
the mild sunshine of an October afternoon in
the neighborhood of Niagara Falls, when the
child's face suddenly frightened, and he ex-
claimed, "What lovely place, papa whose
is it ?" "That is the country residence of a
well-known hackman. my dear" said the old
man. "And what big ice house he's got,
papa" "rhat isn't an ice house it's the
vault where he keeps his diamonds" Then
the lad settled down with tired look as if he
had heard something like that before, and re-
sisted all temptation to talk further.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-03-17

what rouses me out of it That group Of city
ladies', who came sailing past, inside those
enormous hoops freighted with round trim
ming and square trimming, and pointed
trimming, tripping daintily, lest an atom of
dust should invade those precious dry-goods.
Why, ladies', should you dltoays travel like
turtle with your city house on your back
Surely those swcet.scented clover blossoms
might suffice without shocking us with
"patchouli, " or any of those horrid perfumes
that stand In place Of good honest soap and
water. Ladies, avaunt You are not half as
pleasing as that spotted toad hitching down
yonder path in his awkward independence.
And now, a little two-and a-half-year old
toddles up to me on the grass and says, ''Tell
me, what are the trees whispering about p
She's the girl for me- Do you suppose those
dressed up ladies ever have such thought as
that? But why should l grumbe2 Surely
they have the worst of It ; compelled to ex-
hibit so many yards of silk and lace, and no
many flowers and feathers, each day from
the rising of the sun to the going down there
Of and to keep them Immaculate during the
process ladies' you have my sincere pity
l wish could provide you all with comfort
able home in youder lunatc asylum, but a
humane regard for the Directors Of that Insti-
tuition prevents. 1t is strange to me that
everybody don't live in Brattleboro. There
is not an ugly walk or drive in the whole
town. Pm exhausted admiring things. l sat
on the coachman's box yesterday, and for
bade him, as we drove along, to tell me of
any more BROAD brook roads, or cascades" 1"
or waterfalls, till was able to bear it. That's
the state / am in, and Vermont is answerable
for it. How l love to poke about and ex-
pore new place to pick handfuls of flowers,
and then throw them away for something
prettier to sit down on a fence when I'm
tired, and ask anybody l see milking a COW to
give me some. They are such nice people up
here. Why good Providence makes some
people to take hold Of things by the right
handy, and others to tip everything they
touch "bottom upwards" He only knows. l
am so glad to see that the repulsive old coun-
try church yards being done away wth-that
old church yard 'overgrown with nettles and
mullen stalks, where the cows browsed, and
where never tree or flower humanized the
place. Here there is a cemetery, on a rising
ground, commanding one of the loveliest
mountain and river prospects that ever was
seen carefully kept and ornamented with
vines and flowers, and every way lovely spot
"Our Bd5y," sour ChiidreH," My Wife"
How quickly even the stranger heart responds
to such inscriptions, whether those nearest
TO it walk in this sweet sunshine, or lie peace
fully with their eyes forever closed to it.
FANNY FERN.