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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30

Burlington has some 60 taxpayers who
are assessed on 500, 900 or over. The two
heaviest are Wells, Richardson a. Co., $105,-
494; Shepard Il Morse lumber company,
$lO3, 730.
-Brsndon's heaviest taxpayers are: Eliza
e. Marsh, taxed on $l15,059; E, d. Thayer,
$50, 4S0 John A. Conant, $50, $40 John II.
Vail $50, ,O50 Theron b. Smith, $4S, 565 !;
Volney Ross, S3l, $780, N. I. Sprague, $751;
574
Miss Ella Earle, who took leading part
in the recent Thomas concerts at Boston and
in the recent festival at Rutland, is a native
of Wallngford and comes of a family which
has been noted for its musical talent for sew
eral generations. Miss Earle's friends are
expecting great fame for her.
-Rutland's new grand list shows that the
marble companies pay taxes on 81 $50, ia,
Rpportioned as follows: Vermont marble
company 81, 40, 900; Sheldon q Sons $4O5, =
800 Columbian marble company, Sl2G, 800 I;
$780, 900 Dorset marble company, $51 $50 (;
Albion marble company, $25, 500; West Rut-
land marble company, $l1, 200; l.. A. Bar
din, $3.50; Esperanza marble company, ST.
500. About 300, 900 worth of new mills,
ETC., are not included, being exempted for
five years as now manufactures. The follow
ing pay on over $4,000 each: H. II. Bax-
ter's estate, S2G5, ,OlO; +, Chaffee, $50, 40 +;
Chas Clement, $l99,Ol4; Clement ~ Sons,
S74, 113 Howe scale company, $4,000; j.
W. Cramton, $l52, 7O5; H. II. Dyer, $l42,-
3s4; VIM Gilmore, $ll2, ,750; j. A. Mead,
Sss, 100; Redheld Proctor, $l37, ,747j VIM.
Y. W. Ripley, $67, 129i VIM. Y. Ripley's es-
! tate, $140,617.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30

A PUzzLISG LAW CASE. The lawyers have
abundant opportunity TO air their imagination
in survivorship case at Cincinnati. William
II. Woods and his wife went down with the
steamer Asia on Lake Huron in September,
1882. In settling the estate il is necessary to
know who died first. Woods in his will onu-
merates q 1926, 900 insurance on his life in ia
yor of his wife. In case OF her death intes-
tate the estate is to be divided among both
his and her family friends, they having no
children The life insurance policies were
what is known as wife policies, the premi
ums being paid by her and containing pro-
visions as to who is to receive the money in
case she dies before her husband. The ques
ton is Could he control these policies by
willy The wife had also $40, 600 in property.
She left no will II she died before the hus.
band, her property and the insurance money
would go to her husbands relatives. If she
survived her husband the S19, 900 would 20
to her relatives. There is ali old legal pre-
sumption that the woman, being the weaker,
would die first. In Georgia it is held that an
instinct Of chivalry would reverse this theory.
In the Cincinnati case the administrator for
Woods pleads his good health and swimming
abilities and his wife's i'll health, but the ans,
wer denies both, claiming that Woods had
rheumatism of the Joints which prevented his
grasping on to anything or using oars The
only survivors of the wreck were ID. A. Fin.
kis and Miss Morrison who succeeded in
climbing into an open boat. They did not
know the Woods and do not recall them by
the descriptions, They were even strangers
to each other, but now they are man and
wife
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30
CONTINUED from last ireetl
How Watch Cases are Made.

Imitation always follows a successful
article, and imitation is one of the best
proofs Of real honest merit and thus it is
that the james Boss Gold Watch Case has
its imitators. Buyers can always tell the
genuine by the trademark Of n erolCn, from
which is suspended a pair of ..,,, u var.
scales. BE sure BOTH erotrn and ] i
scales are stamped in the cap of the watch
case. Jewellers are very cautious about en-
dorsing an article unless they not only knov
that it is good, but that the character of
the manufacturers is such that the quality
Of the goods will he Kept fully up to standard.
WuLIAMsPoRr. Pa, Feb -, 1888
Tho James Boss Gold Watch Cases 90 like hot
cakes. Each one l Rell sells another. Don't need
to recommend them; they sell themselves One Of
In uso for ~ years. and it ia good With this
caso do not hesitate To give my own guarantee,
pecially with the new and improved cases, which
Bocm 10 he everlasting. JRssE f. LITTLE, Jerelsr.
NEW BRUNSWICK, Nj, Jan. 2, 1s99.
This gold case No GfS known IA the James boss
Gold Watch Case came into my possession about la5a
has been in use since that time, and is still in good
case when bought it, and its condition shows that
tho case has really outworn the movement which Ii
plAyedout MARTIN A. HOWELL,
Of Board IF Directors NJ. X. n. q Trans. Co.
Send cent stamp Esystoas Watch Case Fassrie PhA-
dspha Pa for handsome Illustrated showing how
danes BOss' and EsyutOhe watch Gases made.
Ito be C0RtinHed.l
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30

tFrOm the N. Y. Evening Postl
Tho history of commercial crises sho VIZ
that although they vary in many particulars,
they are uniformly alike in one most import
ant particular. They always, to oil but the
very far sighted or the pessimistc, come like
thunderclaps out Of a clear sky. The first
note Of danger is always heard in what seems
to be period Of great prosperity, marked by
high prices, large profits groat industrial &C
tivity, advancing wages, greatly extended
credits, eager demand for money, and great
mutual confidence These have been tho
signs and forerunners Of all the great fnan-
cal commissions It is needless to say that
every one Of them has been wanting in the
crisis We have just witnessed. Low prices
small profits IL any, reduced and declining
wages, and tho narrowest possible amount Of
Of credit have been for some time past tho
rule all over the country. The fuel of a gen-
eral and real crisis. which was accumulated
in the summer Of 1881, has been slowly burn
ing out. Perhaps II has not all been consum-
ed yet, but the residuum must be very small
The liquidation, which in real crisis has to
be done in a week. which in 1857 and 1873
was done in a week has in this instance been
distributed over three years. The markets
of the country are no longer overstocked.
Although the agencies Of production may be
in excess of the demand for many varieties of
goods, the pressure of the supply ceased
some time ago to reveal itself in the further
decline Of prices. The work of readjust-
ment has been going on steadily and safely
for nearly three years While something re.
mains to bo done in this regard, it is not of
such magnitude or importance ns to give
ground for uneasness. Unless the world is
entering upon an entirely new stage Of expe-
rience in which commercial revulsions come
in periods Of lethargy, dulness, languor, low
prices, and limited credit, we must conclude
that the panic was local phenomenon of
temporary character, affecting stock specua
tors only, and having no power to project It,
self into the currents of general trade.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30
Miscellany.
The Heroes Day.


Through the long bending grass
The white-r0bed maidens pass,
With tender faces, and with footsteps soft aud slow,
Upon each lowly grave,
Where sleeps the true and brave,
Dropping red roses and wan lilies as they 90.
Flowers for the patriot band
Who loved their native land;
Sweet rosemary, and purple panses and pale pinks
Green leaves from budding trees
Make sweet the passing breeze
Sweet as the elegy the grateful nation thinks.
For who would not prolong
With flowers and scent aud song
The memory Of those who fell In Freedom's fight?
From the sweet month Of May,
Then, choose the faireHt day,
And crown II for the hOnorcd Dead with all things
bright.
Then say: 30 singing birds,
Echo these tender words.
While bosoms nobly throb, and womens eyes are wet
While roses bud and blow,
While stars at evening glow,
While daylight breaks for us, we never will forget.
"As long as men shall stand
For home and native land
And while our starry flag flies DER the true and free
Honor and Love and Truth
Shall give immortal youth,
And wen remember you upon the land and sea-"
-Hdrper's Weekly
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30
The Methodist Conference has again refus-

The Methodist Conference has again refus-
cd to license women to peach or exhort.
A new and important view of the nature Of
nervous diseases has been presented by DIR.
Hughlings Jackson in lecture on "Evolu-
ton and Dissolution of the Nervous System, "
delivered before the Royal College OF Physi-
clans, London. The lecture is to be publish
cd in the June Popular Science Monthly.
NJ. Louis Pasteur, the great French chem
list, announces the discovery of specific for
hydrophobia. The remedy consists in inocu-
lation of the person bitten with virus origi.
nally taken from rabid animal and weaken
ed by a scientific process OF TRANSMISSION
through other animals of inferior size and
lower vitality.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30

Now shy
And bashful lovers sit upon the stoop
Aud sweetly spoon,
While downward summers first mosquitoes swOoT
With weird, low tune,
Aud high
And higher up the sapphire skies
Slow climbs the moon,
And eyes look love TO loving eyes,
Aud sigh greets sigh.
The frog
A nocturne MARBLES to his listening mate
In accents low;
The youth perceiyes the hour is growing late
Aud he must go
Yea, jog.
He kisses her a wild goOd-by;
Meanwhile oh, woe!
An irate pa, with angry eye,
Lets loose the dog.
Few moons
Fer gazed upon 80 narrowing sight
With smiling face;
youth, wild yelling, flying In alright,
dog in chase.
Still crOons
The frog within the sedgy pool,
While from the race
The dog returns with mouth crammed full
o. fpantaloons.
-SOnerpiHc Journal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30
iBORO, VT, FRIDAY, MAY 30. 1884.

plenty of good water, sleep in a shanty, eat
what he can get-in short trough it, as we
are obliged to out here on the plains-and he
will be surprised at the progress he will make
towards health aud robustness.
II. L. WH1THRD.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30


Nos. 1 g. 2 Granite Block.
OPENING OF
NEW
{ | 0 A K
DEPARTMENT
In rooms directly over my
Dry Goods and Carpet
Establishment,
Where may be found the fin
est and cheapest stock of
Spring and Summer Garments
in the state, TO which | invite
a careful examination by all
intending purchasers.
In fitting up this important
department for the exhibition
and sale of Ladies', Misses
and ChiIdren'S Outside Gar
mentS and ShaWIS, no pains
or expense has been spared
to make ii both pleasant and
convenient for patrons of the
department.
Entrance from Street or
Store. Respectfully,
Oh. PRATT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30
.Rs. DEARBORN & TALBOT.

VIZ l.. BEMIS, House and Sign Painter, or
w nRmental and Fresco Painting, Graining, Kal
somining, Paper Hanging, etc.
lvS Green street, Brattleboro Vt.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-01-05
CHANGES OF A CENTURY.

The nineteenth century has witnessed
many and very great discoveries and
changes:
In 1909 Fulton took out his first patent
The first steam ships which made regu-
lar trips across the Atlantic ocean were
the Sirius and Great Western in 1880.
The first public application to practi-
cal use of gas for illumination was made
in 1902.
In 1913 the streets of London were for
the first time lighted with gas.
In 1918 there was built in Waltham,
Mass, mill, believed to have been the
first in the world which combined all the
requirements for making finished cloth
from the raw cotton.
In 1890 there were only twenty-five
postofiices in the whole country, and up
to 1887 the rate of postage was % cents
for letter sent over 400 miles.
In 1907 wooden clocks began to be
made with the aid of machinery. This
ushered in the era Of cheap clocks.
About the year 1888 the first railroad
of any considerable length in the United
States was constructed.
In 1910 the first experiments in photo
graphy we're made by Daguerre.
About 1910 the first express business
was established.
The anthracite coal business may be
said TO have begun in 1920.
In 1886 the patent for the invention of
matches was granted.
Steel pens were introduced for use in
1888.
The first successful trial of reaper
took place in 1888.
In 1916 Elias Howe obtained a patent
for his first sewing machine.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-01-05
A GIANT PYTHON.

A chorus of discordant screams from
the threats of half hundred parrots
greeted a New York Sun reporter who
walked into the bird dealers rooms in
Roosevelt street. When he had become
accustomed to the rasping sounds suffi-
GENTLY to hear, the proprietor said:
Il will show you the largest snake in
captivity. Snakes in shows are usually
disappointing to the boy who has read
the cheerful tales of anacondas that swal
low nothing smaller than COW, but here
is sensation in snakes
lie unlocked the hasp on a heavy box
two and half by four feet large and a
foot deep, and raised the cover. There
was the snake in what sailors might call
two Flemish coils, one on top of the other
covering nearly the whole of the bottom
of the box. AS the light shone into the
box the snake raised its head, which was
as large as mans open hand. and moved
it about uneasily, while black forked
tongue darted out toward the spectators.
Its body was black, mottled with white
and olive green spots. The little, round
black eyes seemed to look steadily into
the eyes of the keeper and the reporter
at the same time, and nothiag could
withdraw their gaze until the lid was
shut down.
st is thirty feet long, and eighteen
inches in circumference in its largest
part said the proprietor. ut was cap
tured about eighty miles back of CAL
cutta. 1t is genuine python. We
have another one of the same kind about
eighteen feet long, that is probably the
second largest in the country. The
largest one could kill and swallow
man. 1t could kill horse"
"How are these fellows captured?'
by small mesh nets. The natives
spread large net over any that they
find coiled up. The snake at once jumps
becomes tangled up in the net. 1t is
then bound with cords and bands and
carried to the sea, and sold to some ship
captain
"What is the market price of q
python?''
''From So to $50 for the ordinary
museum snake. That smaller one will
bring $3.50, but the big one will sell for
500. am going to South America soon
to get some Of the water snakes. They
are said to measure from fifty to seventy
five feet in length None have ever been
captured
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-01-05
Saved Himself by Cutting.Of a Lint


If there was anything Father Bog
giles really delighted in, it was to spin a
yarn about the sharpness of his boy
Tom.
"Ah, said Boggles one day, as he had
fairly fixed his auditor, Tom is the
most remarkable boy ever set your eyes
on. He's like his old dad; you can no
more sarcumvent him than you can
catch a weasel asleep. You recollect
that choice apple tree by the heds, :
Well, forbid Tom touchin' those apples
but he would get 'em in spite OF ne.
One day caught the young scapegrac
up i'll the tree stuffin' his pockets with
the fruit, and l determined this time to
punish him for it.
"'Thomas, my son. says |, come
down. | thought I'd be sort of per-
suasive, SO it would fetch him; but he
smelt rat and didn't bulge an inch.
81 cant dad says he, these apples
are in the way
"'Tom,' | continued sternly, come
down this mint or I'll cut down the
tree and let yer fall
You see my poor limbs wouldn't per-
NIT my shinnin' after the boy.
"'Oh, no, you won't dad, says Tom.
Only think how you'd mourn if you
couldn't sell the apples.
That was too much to have my own
boy accuse me of such parsimony. So
what does do but get an AK, and cut
away at the bottom of the tree.
'Tom-Thomas,' cried. as the tree
was about half cut of, will you come
down now; and save yourself9'
"'Never mind, dad, said he, I'm all
right.
1T was nc use. couldn't bring him
down that way. SO | chopped away at
the tree till it began to sway, and fell to
the ground"
What. and crushed your own boy?''
calculated his Mortified listeners.
Not by long chalk" said old Bog
giles, winking knowingly. You couldn't
get over Tom in any such way. What
had he done but crawled out on a limb
and while l was chopin at the bottom
o the tree he had been cutting Off the
limb with his iack-knife, and when the
tree fell he was still up there on the
| limb
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-01-05
Mistaken Identity.

4 farmer, living a few miles from
Austin, whose wife was troubled with
an aching tooth, decided to come in town
with her for the purpose of having it
extracted. The pair took a seat in the
cars. and soon after the train started the
farmer walked forward INTO the smoking
car, telling his wife he would be back
directly. While her husband was alb
sent the conductor came leisurely along,
ticket punch in hand, and approaching
the old lady, reached over for her ticket,
whereupon the victim of the toothache
opened her mouth and addressed him,
saying:
"You needn't mimi giving me chloro.
form, doctor; just pull 1t right out, any
how. can stand it, and when John
comes back he'll settle with yer. "-SJt-
ings.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-01-05

When in Wilmington, don't fail to
call on w. NJ. Kennard Il Co., Cpl Market
street, and see their large stock of carpets.
Dry Goods, Silks, Cloaks and Fancy Goods
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-04
TaIs MoRNINe's NEWS.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1888 Tor "a Of 1907 11S for as; sterling,
81 s74@4 9O1 lo1 for 3s 100 for 5s; silver bars,
1923
Silver in London, 5lsl; consols, 1o1 1116di 5
per cent United States bonds, extended, los; As,
126; AIS, ll54.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars quoted at
Ssl@sSt cents.
Mining stocks were fairly active in San Francisco
yesterday morning. but prices were generally lower
especially on the second call About half the sales
OF California were at 25c and the remainder at zoe.
Bodie rose to s1I 624 on the iforma call, and 400
shares went off at that figure; another $50 shares
was sold at sl1 50. The best price on the regular
call was SO 62I and at the close there were sales
at $40 so.
Severe weather in Canada has caused much dam
age
Montreal complains of pauper immigrants.
A reward of 81 900 is offered in London for the
detection Of the authors OF the dynamite outrages.
The United States Supreme Court has decided
that the Legal Tender Act of 1878 is valid and con-
stitutional
For an indecent assault upon an S-year-old girl,
VIM Linn was sentenced at Salinas to sixteen years
imprisonment.
Ex- congressman ]. Hyatt Smith, pastor Of Bap-
fist church in New York for thirteen years has left
that denomination and Joined the Congregational
lists.
Slippery sidewalks in New York yesterday caused
numerous cases of broken legs.
Two men and their wives have been arrested in
Smithfeld, Ill, for counterteiting.
France has decided to expel all suspected dyna-
miters.
During January and February fire destroyed
property in New York city to the amount of sl9,-
100000
Near The Dalles, Or, Sunday, John Mieheloach
accidentally Shot and killed himself
child fell head first down well forty feet deep,
Sunday, at Alkali, Or, and was rescued unhurt.
At Portland, Or, yesterday, Thomas Sheridan
dangerously stabbed William Rose in saloon row.
J. W. Murray viii be sentenced to death for muir
der in Portland, Or, on the nth.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has raised its
blockade, and trains are running regularly.
1t is thought that Daniel Bohen, shot at San Jose
by j. G. Kennedy, will recover.
Two thousand eight hundred Chinese ci5armakers
were licked out in San Francisco yesterday.
John F. Kidder has secured control of the Nevada
County Narrow-gauge Railroad.
Eugene c. Gunnison killed himself yesterday in
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Montenegro is prepa ing for a campaign in Al
bania.
Near Huron, D. T, man named McCrosky shot
and killed his brother -in-law, named Meyers.
The thermometer registered IL below zero at
Huron, D. T., yesterday.
great financial panic prevails in Pekin, China.
singular railroad accident is reported from
Lynchburg, Va.
The Nevada Republican State Convention will be
held in Carson September 4th.
In the Mudoon-B Bauer wrestling match at San
Francisco last night, Bauer won the first fall and
Muldoon the second and third
Peter Sehwitz choked his wife to death in Chicago
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-04
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.


Six steamers sailed from this port OF
Saturday, and five arrived here on Sunday.
There is talk of the importation of 2.OO0
white cigar makers from New York to fill
the places Of the striking Cinnamon.
The receipts for duties at the Custom
house for the past week were sos, 946 AZ,
making { total since January lst OF $685.
74S l6.
T. w. Haynes, a middle.aged man, liv-
ing on Oak street, who is suffering from
melancholy, attempted suicide by drown.
ing on Sunday evening.
Julius Carson stabbed and dangerously
wounded James McGrath en- Saturday
night, and Edward Flood stabbed John
Herman the same evening.
S. a. Tucker won the % bird Hurting
ham pigeon match at San Bruno on Sun.
day. Crittenden Robinson won second
money. Tucker killed "a birds and Robin.
son %.
William Shaw, the driver for the Lyons
Brewery, who was so mysteriousiy shot
last Tuesday, is now slowly improving,
and hopes OF his ultimate recovery are en-
teTtsined.
Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, j. J.
OBrien, ex-Assistant Secretary OF the
Board of Harbor Commissioners, was SEN
fenced by Judge Toohy to ten years in the
State Prison at San Quentin, after a motion
for new trial had been made, argued and
denied.
The work of asserting delayed mail mat.
ter from the south, which arrived Sunday
by way Of the Needles, kept the Pos.ofiics
force busy all day. The mail covered the
dates between February l4th and Febru-
airy Dist, and came from New Orleans and
way stations.
George Stoneman, Jr., son of Governor
Stoneman, and Lovett Lafferty, son CT
Captain Lafferty, of the army, who were
! nominated by Congressman Lafferty for
appointment to the Annapolis Naval
| Academy, were examined at the Office OF
the School Superintendent Saturday morn
| ing.
| 4 mutiny broke ont Sunday among the
perforated inmates OF the Msgdalen Asy-
| Ium, upon the attempt Of one of the Sisters
to ohastise an impertiuent girl for some in
| fraction OF the institutions rules. The
Sister was quickly overpowered, and the
girl sought to be punished was seized by
about forty companions and rescued. The
police had some difficulty in suppgessing
| the Amszonian revolt.
During the month of February business
was transacted in the Land Office in this
| city as follows Sixty.nine presumption
claims were filed, ll,000 acres OF land
being taken 81 homestead claims, taking
| 1908. 55 acres, were filed IL final home
stead entries were made, taking l, 729 70
acres of land 90 pre-. emption claims were
paid for, "a, 377 06 being paid for ?. 627.S7
acres of land. The Receiver sold total
of S,203 o. acres of land, receiving in
cash the sum of SIS, 446 SO.