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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
Nov "UncIe Toms Cabin" Came TO lie
Published.

Mr.. John j. Jewett of New York city, the
original publisher of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
in recent interview with correspondent of
the Chicago Inter Ocean was asked
How did you come to be the publisher of
Uncle Toms Cabin 2
II suspect, he replied, lit was principally
because was a rabd anti slavery man, al
though the fact that | had previously been
the publisher of book by the Rev Henry
Ward Beecher may have had something to do
with it. After a careful examination con-
cluded that the story would not only repay
the cost of publication in book form, but would
yield some profit Possibly l was helped to
that conclusion by my firm conviction that
the volume would prove a strong anti slavery
document At all events, | expressed will
ingness to publish it, and the next thing was
to arrange the terms. Professor Stowe was
in favor of selling the manuscript for sum
down. i tell wife, said he to me, that if
she can get good black silk dress or $50 in
money for the story, she had better take it.
do you believe that you could have bought
the story for $50"
II believe l could have bought it for So. e"
$50 large were the orders for the book that
from the day first began to print it the eight
presses never stopped, day or night, save
Sundays, for six months, and even then there
were complaints that the volumes did not APP
pear last enough. IN lltlle Wnlle was hUle
to inform Professor and Mrs. Stowe that their
percentage already amounted TO $40, 1000, and
although my contract with them required me
to give note only, l would pay them that
sum in cash."
"How did they receive your information p
"They seemed little dazed by the news
The sum was so vastly beyond anything they
expected or had heretofore possessed that it
appeared to them like great fortune, When
they called at my Office handed Professor
Stowe my check for $4,000, payable to his
order Neither the professor nor Mrs. Stowe
had ever before received check, they told
me, and they did not know what to do with
it or how to get the money it represented. l
explained to the professor that he must ill.,
dorse the check and present it for payment.
l advised him to deposit the money in the
same bank. We went thither together
introduced him to the president and the
professor opened an account. After instruct
ing him how to keep his check book and so
on, and oautioning him and his wife never to
go about with more than 50 in their pockets
babe them good.day, and they went tn ell
way rejoicing. When gave them second
check for $4,000 l found they needed nc
further instructions"
"How many copies of Uncle Tom did yor
publish ?"
''More than 800, 900 sets of two volumes
each were published in the first year"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
THE LATEST.

Further details of the great Minnesota cy-
clone say that 2G persons were killed and 81
seriously injured, and that 800, 600 worth of
property was de stroyed. The storm started
near Owatonna and followed line nearly a
mile sou tn of the railroad, crossing at Roch-
ester and going north of the road, passed east
- miles Three miles north of the road it
varied in width from one to three miles, aud
did not skip, as is usual but swept everything
in its track. Houses, barns and crops are all
gone.
An exodus has begun at Pensacola Fla. on
account of the fear of yellow fever,
Very destructive forest fires are raging at
Bar Harbor Mt. Desert, Me.
800, 600 suit has been begun at Rutland
against ex Gov Page growing out of an old
judgment in the matter of Page and others
against the Montreal e Plattsburg railroad
Pages residence, which stands on the rec
ords as belonging to his first wife, also the
houses standing upon the records as belong
ing to the wives of his two sons, and other
valuable personal property, have been at
tAched.
Ex.Gov. Horace Fairbanks of st. Johns,
bury is said TO have been bit 800, 900 worth
by the Barlow failure.
The latest news from the Presidents Vel.
lowstone party is that on the goth they were
at Camp Hampton ON Snake river. Game
aud fish were plenty. The President landed
q pound trout that day, The weather was
fne,-a pleasing change from that at the last
camp where the party roasted by day and
froze by night, suffering, meantime, from &
/ binding chinook" wind which brought blind
| ing clouds of dust
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
nnn,h n1Inhre RIncL.

Jeremiah S. Black one of the most distin-
guished of Democrats and lawyers, died last
Sunday at York, Pa. at the age of 70. He
was notable in his profession, and had become
at 80 chief Justice of his native state of Penn
syvania; President Buchanan made him his
attorney. general, and in December, 1860, at
the beginning of the great breakup of Blu.
chanans cabinet, he was transferred to the
state department then vacated by Cass Judge
Blacks national reputation began with the
opinion he addressed to the president as at
torney general in November, 1860, holding
that while he could not recognize the indie
pendence of state on its declaration or alb
solve her from her federal obligations, yet
that the president had no power to act other
wise than on the defensive, and that the Union
must utterly perish at the moment when Con-
gress shall arm one part of the people against
another for any purpose beyond that OF mere
" protecting the general government in the
exercise of its proper constitutional functions.
The cancellation of the government IN this
fashion was precisely what the southern lead
ers desired, and Judge Black was by this
opinion certified as "dough-facs" to all the
North. In the approach and stress of war
Black was better than his promise. He was
the first of Buchanan's cabinet to realize the
danger of the incoming administration and to
urge the protection of Mr.. Lincoln by military
escort. He approved of the action of Maj.
Anderson in removing from Fort Moultrie to
Fort Sumter which action SO worried Bu-
chanan that he had half a mind to order the
faithful soldier back into the power of the
South Carolina sec0ssonists Black was
stung to indignation by the insolence of the
demand for the surrender of Fort Sumter,
and though far less important than either
Holt, Dix or Stanton in strengthening the
I L. III lu mr.
friend or aid of secession. In his later life
Judge Black has done much professional bus
iness. and has written great deal concerning
the history of the war and latterly on relig
ious questions. lie was undoubtedly con
scentious, though a very narrow man.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
ANOTHER MINNESOTA STORM.

A RAILROAD TRAIN WRECKED AND 100 PERSONS
KILLED OR INJURED - ONE THIRD OF THE CITY
OF ROCHESTER, IN RUINS GREAT DAMAGE At
OTHER POINTS.
Portions of Minnesota were visited by cy-
clone last Tuesday evening which caused ter.
rble destruction to life and property.
train on tho Chicago IL Northwestern
railroad, between Rochester aud Iumbrola,
was caught by the storm while running at a
high rate of speed, lifted from the rails aud
converted into mass Of ruins. Persons who
have been to the scene Of the disaster describe
it as one of the most horrifying railroad acct
dents they ever witnessed. Every car in the
train was a complete wreck, and was almost
literally shattered to pieces by the sudden
stop caused by the train leaving the rails,
burying the unfortunate passengers beneath
the debris, killing many and injuriug nearly
every person on the train.
The destruction through Dodge aud Ohm
stead counties was terrible. 1t is impossible
to give any estimate of the damage to the city
and county. Rochester was beautiful and
substantial little city of between 5000 aud
brick, and there were many stately and sub
stantial business blocks, The cyclone struck
that part of the city lying north of the rail
road track, and made a clean sweep of eleva-
tors, residences, railroad engine house and
other property. Some 800 houses were de-
molished and POO more injured. The long
railroad bridge was completely demolished
Major Whittier telegraphs that 81 persona
were killed and 81 wounded. The city is il
need of clothing, food and other assistance.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24

ord Of 2.14, will trot on the third day for
special purse Of $4,000 to beat his own record.
The Charleston News and Courier pub.
fishes reports OF great injury TO cotton by the
drouth, and that greater injury is threatened.
The uplands crop is estimated at three -fourths
Of an average and the sea islands crop at less.
A severe storm swept over a portion of
Northern Dakota early Sunday morning. The
damage in the Cheyenne valley is estimated
at $50, 900.
Africa exports every year an average OF
SO, SOC, 600 worth of ivory. 1t is estimated
that in the western portion Of the continent
over 81, 900 elephants are killed annually.
The tobacco crop in Connecticut is two
or three weeks earlier than last year, and the
quality is superb.
The grand oncampment of the Knights
Templar opened at San Francisco Tuesday,
with big parade.
The largest peremptory trade sale of cot
ton goods ever made in this country occurred
in New York this week No less than IL, 600
packages the products Of some of the best
mills in the country, were sold at auction with
out reserve.
Officer Van Deusen of Canaan, Ct, capt
ured two horse thieves at Ashley Falls, Mass.
last Saturday night. Two others of the par
ty escaped.
A form of blight that, for want of bet
ter name, is called 1.-THE yellows," has fallen
upon the peach trees of the Hudson River
Valley, shriveling the ripening fruit and de.
stroying the growers expectations Of prof.
table crop From Maryland and New Jersey
we have already had news of a similarly dis
heartening nature. 1t seems to be certain now
that we are to have no fine peaches from any
quarter this year.
The pork packers of Chicago have arrang.
ed for a thorough inspection of all hogs
slaughtered there, to silence European COM
plants about infected pork.
A singular affair happened in a Cleveland
drug store the other evening. woman came
in with prescription calling for nitric acid,
mercury aud turpentine, and the druggist,
/ without recalling the circumstance that
the ingredients formed an explosive mixture,
proceeded to put up the prescription. He put
the mercury into bottle and then poured in
/ the turpentine Then he poured in the nitric
acid from "A jar. A tremendous explosion
took place, SCATTERING the bottle to atoms, and
throwing the pieces of glass and burning acid
into the druggists face. lie was knocked
down by the shock and terribly hurt. Some
gentlemen came in and found him putting
sweet oil on his face. II was badly burned
by the acid, and his eyes were injured SO thai
he could hardly see He was taken home. Il
is a serious question whether he docs not lose
the sight of one, il not both, of his eyes
The strange part of the occurrence is tina
neither the woman nor the prescription coulC
be found after tho explosion. The woman
accompanied by man a. boy, drove hur
redy away from the store after the explo
sion.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24


The daily record of accidents proves that
in the rank and file there are heroes whose
Ieeds should place their names high on the
Gst of noble and self-sacrifcing men. Read
the brief story of James Elliotts death in
philadelphia On Wednesday last this man,
a moor cripple, whose years were threescore
and ten, was limping by the side of the rail
way tracks picking up scattered and neglect
al bits of coal Near at hand we're two little
boys between the rails of the main line, on
which the fast express train from this city
WAS swiftly approaching. The poor old Grip
Die shouted to them and they did not hear.
Rnt soon they saw the train and were made
holnless by fright. Elliott hobbled along az
fast as his rheumatic legs would carry him,
and reached them in time to save them from
a horrible death One had been pulled away
Inv his trembling arms and the other had been
nysbed aside with all the old mans failing
strength, when the merciless locomotive
struck the brave old cripple and the wheels
cut his body in pieces. He had rounded out
and completed his life with an act of rare
herosm.
railway track few days ago at Woodside, on
Long island. A train was coming, only TWEEN
tv wards away, and woman who saw it
stopped in her course paralyzed by fear.
When death was close upon her, Michael
Oninu leaped from the platform, grasped her
in his strong arms and threw her headlong
from the rails. But he could not save him
self and perhaps he had not thought Of his
own peril The locomotive hurled him
through the air with his blood streaming
from a dozen wounds and in twenty minutes
his wife was widow and his six little chill
dren we're fatherless. But the woman had
been saved without bruise.
fo,y dava bafnra Ouinn gapri6oad hia life
Jo5n Murphy was walking on the railway
track. near Ausonia, Conn, with two OF his
children whom he was taking out for a day in
tbe woods. Tho babbling waters of a little
stream drowned the rattle of an approaching
train and the cars were hidden by sharp
curve. When Murphy saw the train it was
plain that it would be impossible for the
three to escape. Catching up the little boy
he threw him down the embankment ON one
side and then threw his little girl to place
Of safety on the other side. His children
were saved. but at the cost of his own life,
for the locomotive cast his body against a
telegraph pole, and in twenty minutes he was
dead.
Murphy died to save his own, while Elliott
and Quinn sacrificed themselves to save the
lives of strangers but each one of these
men was a hero. They were not led by a
hope of fame or applause; they simply did
their duty and obeyed the impulses of their
great hearts. They we're obscure and un.
known men of the rank and file, in humble
life. and their names, as well as their deeds
will soon be forgotten, save by the two be
reaved families and by the strangers who
were rescued Yet, for time at least, theii
unselfsh heroism may make the world bright
or to those who know the story of these three
obscure great men.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24

A BALLooNIsTs PERM.-At Royan, France,
on the Geronde, there was last Friday scene
probably unprecedented in the annals of bal
looming. NJ. Gratien, well known aeronaut,
was about to make an ascent in hotair bal
loon. Mile Albertine, the heroine of sever
al balloon ascensions, was seated in the car,
and NJ Grafton was holding in his right hand
a loose coil tied to one of the cords that served
to attach the balloon. The balloon unex-
pectedly broke loose and the cord, unrolhng
itself with lightning rapidity, caught in sort
of running knot around the first and second
fingers of Gratien's right hand. Gratien
was Immediately whisked of into the air 600
metres high In vain he tried to haul him
self up on the cord and loop it over his arm.
After frantic efforts he became exhausted and
hung at the end of the cord suspended solely
by his two fingers aud suffering excrucating
agony Owing to the jerking of the balloon
the cord cut through the flesh to the bone.
In that situation Gratien was carried to the
distance of nearly four miles, at the height
of 600 u6tres above the earth. Mile. Alder
tine, overcome by the horror of the situa-
ton, fainted away and sank helpless to the
bottom Of the car. As the air IN the balloon
became cool the balloon descended, but
bumped against the earth in the midst OF
dense mass of thorny shrubbery. Gratien
was not only stripped of his clothes, but his
skin was literally torn in strips from his body
as he was dragged for nearly half mile
through the thorny brambles. Finally some
peasants managed TO cut the cord. Gratien
appeared to be a mass of wounds and to be
near bleeding to death. Strange to say he
did not lose consciousness for a single instant.
He suffered no internal injury, and, although
his condition is critical, he probably will re-
cover, Mile. Albertine was finally rescued
unhurt
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24

COMMUNISM IN RUssIA.-The government
of villages in Russia is a perfect realization
of the idea of communism as expounded by
its leaders Each village is governed exactly
as it wants to be. The property of the COM
mune is indivisible, and as each village
generally has more land than it can cultivate,
conference is held every year, and decis,
ion is arrived at as to what part of the soil
shall be planted, and what grains or vegeta.
bles shall be cultivated. Every member OF
the village commune is employed in cultvat-
ing the crops, and after the harvest the prof
its, if any, are equally divided. The lazy
good for -nothings are supposed to be Danish
ed and every member of the commune Is
held equally responsible for the payment OF
taxes. According to current communlstic
theories, happiness ought to be the result OF
this ideal state of affairs. But unfortunately
it is not. The personal equation" comes in
and sadly mars this beautiful picture. As q
matter of fact, the lazy good. for- nothings are
not banished, but, together with the ambi
tious and tyrannical leaders who are found II
every community, rule the peasantry with
rod Of iron. In view of these facts, 1t vii
be difficult for communism to persuade the
world that all society problems will be SOLVED
by tho adoption of its theories.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24

Natural gas is largely used in Pittsburg in
place of coal for manufacturing purposes. 1t
is furnished through pipes laid in the streets
connecting with the gas works. The New
York Plate Glass Works use it for making
steam in two 4OO,horse power boilers for sixty
annealing furnaces melting sixty tons of glass
daily, and for lighting fifty houses. 1t is also
used for various wire works, pudding fur
naces, iron mills, steel works and other manu-
factories for steam purposes and for melting
metals as desired, The pressure of the gas at
the point of delivery is equal to 100 pounds to
the square inch, producing a flame of intense
heat, exceedingly suitable for glass and metal
working purposes, requiring no carrying and
fetching, and being comparatively clean and
cheap. There appears to be vast store OF
natural gas underlying the western bitumin-
GUS coal formation in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
The PENALTY.
WHAT A RESIDENT OF THE ELM
CITY HAD To PAY---LET 9TH
ERs TAKE WARNING.

my case, said Mr.. Cutler Of No q Lyons-st, New
Haven, sis very simple one. l am not very sick /;
neither am we'll Nature marks out some people at
their birth to fall easy victims to indigestion and bill
iousnoss, and am Of them. My constitution
to be exemplary in the matter Of eating and
drinkng yet whoever follows the dictates of common
sense and experience as he ought? Probably not one
in a thousand. eau hardly recall the time when
have not had to pay heavy penalty, in the form Of
pain and distress, for every instance of oyer-indul-
gerce in hearty food. As you infer, big, formal din
ners which are attractive to a social man, yeri-
table temptations of Satan to me. l am at this mo-
ment settling my with my stomach for recent
slip of this kind"
"Isn't there anything you do or take to relieve
that Indigestion and So by the help Of art get the
better Of your nhrmity ?? asked Mr.. Cutters visitor
by way making talk and at the same time getting by
chance a little information for himself.
81 know of one thing and only one, that can be de-
pended on, replied Mr.. Cutler, "and that is Dr. Da
yid Kennedys Fayorite Remedy. When must nave
medicine take that. It does not exhaust, but tones
and strengthens the digestive organs. If did moi
have It always in the house think should give VI
the habit of eating altogether
The speaker is member of Quinipac Lodge, No. /
l. o. o. f., of New Haven, and well-known and re
spected citizen Of that city.
For DR.. David Kennedy's Fayorite Remedy address
Roudout, n, Y, or get at druggists. 81,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-24
The True Remedy.
New York Herald.l

When workman finds that his occupation
is overcrowded he has the right to go at some
thing else. That is the true remedy. 1t is a
remedy used by thousands of the best the
steadiest and most skillful workmen in this
country every year. They plod on until they
have saved enough to go on the land They
shake the dust of cities from their feet they
abandon servitude and become their own mas
tiers on the land. If trades unions were in
diligently managed they would use large
part of their funds every year to establish
some of their members on the land. In that
way they would cure overcrowding, and every
dollar of a unions funds thus applied woulC
help both those who went and those who re
mained