Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-07-27

Colonel John II. George, well.known
New Hampshire lawyer and Democrat tells
good story of himself Meeting an old far
mer recently whom he had known in his
youth, the old fellow congratulated the Colo
mel on his youthful appearance. How is il
you've managed to keep so fresh and good
lookingall these yearsYquoth he. "Well, said
George, 'I'll tell you; I've always drunk new
rum and voted the Democratic ticket" ooh,
yes" said the old man, 81 see how it is ono
pizen neutralizes the other"
The general verdict on the Dorsey state
ment, as summed up by the Chattanooga
Times, is that there is in the stuff an map
preciabe poor scruple' of truth and many
tons of lying"
First Comptroller William Lawrence is styl-
ed the autOcrat of the Government. He coun.
tersigns all warrants drawn on the Treasury
or directing payment of public moneys His
| decision on balances is final and he can re.
| verse the decision of any member of the Cab
met or of the President himself His Office
is older than the Constitution, having been
created in 177S.
James S. Morrill,, son of Senator Morrill, is
among the recently admitted members Of the
District of Columbia bar.
fund of 81 900 has already been raised
IN bloomington, ILL.,, for monument to Lit
| ia, and it is proposed to open substitution
lists in all cities and towns where the lament
ed prima donna ever sang.
Gen. f. o. c. Ord died a victim to yellow
fever Sunday at Havana, where he had been
landed from the steamer City of Washington
bound for New York. Ord was a man of
splendid solderly qualities, an old soldier
when the war began fighting all through it
| from beginning to end, receiving wounds and
well-won honors.
ChiefJustice Waite while riding on horse
back from Livingston, Mont, on the North.
| ern Pacific Railway, 70 Yellowstone Park. in
company with General Sherman, was thrown
from his horse last week and was so badly
shaken up that he was obliged to give up his
| visit to the park aud return east. He is now
in Connecticut and will recover his usual
health.
Senator Edmunds' idea of the Tiden boom
is that it will not amount to anything" but
was set in motion SOLELY with the intention
of killing of some of the old standing candi-
dates, and making room for new man"
There are now in England and Wales be-
tween 3O0,0 600 and 100000 women who can
vote-that is to say, one woman to every sew.
en- men. More than los, 600 women possess,
as householders, the municipal franchise.
| The number of women land owners in Enc.
land and Wales is 81, SOG.
1t is said that an expedition to explore the
bottom of the Red Sea for the purpose of dis
| covering the treasures which were left there
on certain memorable OCCASION is to be or.
ganized. A sum of $50, 600 francs has been
subscribed for the purpose and stems will
speedily be taken to drag the Red Sea and the
Bitter lakes, with the view of bringing TO
light such remains as there may be of "the
chariots and horsemen and all the host of
| Pharaoh"
Ginery Twitchell, of Massachusetts, who
died last Tuesday, was born in Athol Aug
2G 1911. In 1880 he began the business of
staging and carrying the mail, and was the
| first to establish a daily line of coaches be-
tween Boston and Brattloboro. In 1917 he
became identified with the Boston & Worces.
ter railroad as n subordinate officer but was
subsequently appointed president, holding
the position for many years He was also
connected with the Boston a. Albany, Hoosac
Tunnel ~ Western railroads, being elected
president of the latter after the death of Gen.
Burt. He served as representative in the
fortieth, forty first and forty second con.
crosses.
Samuel Francis Smith, D. D., the author
of our national hymn, MY Country, It's of
Thee" now resides, at the age of -, in New
ton Center, Mass.
In view of the alarming prevalence of vel
low fever in the West Indies, Gov. McEnery
of Louisiana has issued a proclamation di.
recting that all vessels now at the quarantine
station in the Mississippi which are infected
with yellow fever be removed without unpec.
essary delay to the quarantine station at Ship
island for inspection, cleansing and fumiga-
ton. The governor further orders that all
vessels from the ports of Vera Cruz. Rio de
Janeiro and Havana and such other ports as
may become infected with yellow fever be
prohibited from entering the waters of the
Mississippi river.
West Virginia reports another case of hasty
appeal to the shotgun. Calvin Williams of
Parkersburg was engaged to marry Miss Mel
lie Coe, "a beautiful young lady who is con.
nected with highly respectable family :"
a report was started that their relations had
been improper, and the young womans aged |
father and elder brother went cunning for
Williams. They blew the top of his head off
and stamped on the PROSTATE man till his /
life was extinct" "All parties are well-known
and highly connected, and now il is said that /
there is no foundation for the report that the
young people had misconducted themselves.
This is indeed beautiful example of shot
gun justice.
telegram has been received at the Japan
ese legation, Washington, announcing the
death Saturday morning at Kioto Japan, of
Mr. lwakura, the second prime minister of
Japan. Mr.. Iwakura was one of the most
distinguished men of Japan. He belonged to
the old court of nobility and the office he
held was hereditary. He took a prominent
part in the events which led to the restoration
of the empire in 1865, and in important &C.
currences which have marked the social and
political history of Japan since that event
In 1872 he visited America and Europe at the
head of the embassy which was sent from
Japan to the western powers, and he took a
leading part in inaugurating, on his return
home, the policy which has since been fol-
lowed by the Japanese government. He was
man of fine presence, of singularly attract
i've manners and of pure and upright charac-
ter
Oberlin was the first college in America to
make an experiment of co-educaton on an
ample scale. For the first twenty years she
had an annual average attendance of 500 stu.
dentsi since that time, for thirty years, it has
been fully 1000, rising the present year TO
about 800. During the greater part of this
half century the young men have outnnm-
bered the young women by third or a quar-
ter. But in the time of the late war the wom-
en- were the most numerous, and during the
last two years they are again in the majority.
Whichever sex, however, has numbered most
at any time, there always have been several
hundred of both sexes in attendance, meeting
together daily il the class rooms for reoita-
ton.
Belle Harris is heroine ana mastyE in the
eyes of the Mormons. She is confined In the
penitentiary, near Salt Lake City, where she
IS daily visited by men and women high in
the church, who continually exhort her 70
hold firm and not betray her Saviour into the
hands OF the Gentiles. In the Mormon be-
lief a womans husband is her only Saviour.
and she cannot be raised after death except
through him. Bellies case ia a tea. one under
the Edmunds law. Several years ago a Saint
named Clarence Merrill took her for his third
wife. She has borne two children, whose
paternity has never been questioned. Merrill
is being prosecuted for polygamy, and Belle
was summoned as witness. She refused TO
answer questions as to her marriage, and was
guilty of contempt of court and SEN
fenced to pay fine of S25; also to be i'm
prlsoned until she should become a tractable /
witness.
A circular has been issued from the ONCE {
OF the third assistant postmaster general OIL /
oialy notifying postmasters throughout the ,
United States of the reduction in postage
rates, which Is to take eject on the lsl of Oe. !