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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
what Mrs. LiVermOre Knows about
Mrs. wendell Phillips.

Mrs Mary A. Livermore, in an interview in
the Cleveland Herald, says: II have a dis
tinot remembrance of the stirring events in
which Phillips figured in the abolition move
ment. 1 have been at public meetings when
rotten eggs came crashing on the stage about
Mr.. Phillips. | never saw him finch or man
ifest any excitement. He once told me that
he owed his success to his wife that she led
the way, and he had clung to the hem of her
garments. Those who know the wonderful
woman best understand that he did not over
estimate her. She was an invalid, afflicted
with spinal disease, when he married her.
The disease has progressed until, when she
stands as nearly erect as possible, her head
and knees are only few inches apart She
has been great reader, and Mr.. Phillips al
ways counseled with her on the most trivial
matters. His tender care for her was beau
tiful example Of domestic affection. To show
you of what sort Of stuff she is made, l saw
Mr.. Phillips on the Tostrum one night when
the feeling was most bitter. The mayor of
Boston-cultured Boston-had told Mr. Phil
lips that if he persisted in speaking he would
not be responsible for his safety. They were
very trying times and many a woman would
have urged her husband to come home. A.
Mr.. Phillips was speaking a messenger hand
ed him a note. 1t was from his wife and
contained these words, No shilly. .shallying
Wendell, in the face of this outrage She
had heard of the conduct of the mob, and this
was ber message. Mrs. Garrison, a young
and beautiful woman, with her frst-born in
her arms, showed an equally bravo spirit
When she heard that her husband had been
dragged through the streets with a rope about
his neck by a mob Of Boston gentlemen, she
turned white and said; 4 hope this will moi
cause my husband to forsake bis principles
mo wonder Mr.. Phillips WAS devoted to hii
wife. She was an heiress, and he inherited &
large property, but they lived simple life
The people in an adjoining house were inclin
cd to be noisy, to the annoyance of Mrs. Phil
| lips, and Mr.. Phillips rented the house snt
kept it closed in order that she might not bt
disturbed. He would never make out lee
| ture tour longer than a month ahead, and if
| as he was entering hall, he received telo
| gram that his wife was worse, he would taxi
the first train for home, and the audience
would call for him in vain, for nothing woulC
detain him. Mrs. Phillips is one of the bes
posted women on the question of Republican
| government in this country"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
Miscellany.



little while your coldncss ! shall bear,
A little while your silence mock my pain;
little while with you the past lll share,
And then but dust and ashes will remain.
A little while the hand you held 10 mine,
As whispered VOWS fell on my startled ear,
A little while you' give that touch divine
To other hands-pcrhaps to those more dear.
do not envy, sitting here tonight,
Your new.found treasures tho you count then
Nor would rob you Of the sweet delight
Found In your skill to punish or your power L
pain.
I'd rather suffer and be true Of heart,
E'en though 1t bring me but crown Of thorns,
Than wear aoft-acting falser part
The brightest star that Treachery's brow adorns.
You thought erred and at q single bound
Stood ou the other side among my foes,
Giving them aid and comfort while they found
Joy in my grief and pleasure In my woes.
could not do as you have done by me
Though all the gods IN earth, and sea, and SKY,
Speaking In thunder tones, might thus decreei
should alike their power and wrath defy.
could not with happy, cheerful smile
Deal out to others from my bounteOus store,
And gOu lie hungry, starving, all the while,
But just outside my bolted cottage door.
Nor could with careful, deep design
In shadowy silence hide myself from view,
when had promised "by the stars that shine"
To be your faithful friend, your lover true.
My will would falter and my heart would yearn,
As yearns the river for the waiting sea,
Till all the waters Of my life would turn
Back In their channel, o my love, to thecl
For faithful Memory with her magic wand
Would soften all my onmity 10 tears
And I should stretch Loye's all-fOrgiving hand
Across the gulf Of intervening years.
Then should see You ns in days Of yore-
Devoid Of colduoss, free from every wrong
Wearing the love-lit smile that crst you wore,
Making my life happy summer song.
Wilmington, VI, Feb IA, 1884.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
Geo. WIN. Curtis on mr.. Phillips.

From Harper's Weekly, Feb lG,l
His mein and bearing were Patrician. 1t
was Pericles rather than Pym who stood up
on the platform and it was this aspect of
high courtesy, of scholarly cultivation, of the
fastidious taste and tranquility of the most
conservative sentiment, which made his ap.
pearance as an abolition orator the perpetual
living attestation that the antislavery cause
was not that Of an ignorant class, and could
not be dismissed as a vulgar agitation. Moth
ing, indeed, could be more quiet than his
manner. His tone was always colloquial, new
er decamatory or strident. 'Do you call that
oratory 2" said hearer, who came away be-
wildered "why, he merely stood up and
talked like anybody else" His movement
was simple, graceful, and of a certain leonine
softness His feeling was repressed and in
tense, not volcanic. In his sharpest invec.
tive the eyes almost closed, the voice sank
low. The sincerity was too absolute to tOer-
ate stormy passion. Yet in the audacity of
oratory Phillips could do what Burke failed
in doing, and what in Everett seemed only ar
tifciAl. Once, as the antislavery debate was
ending in civil war, after mentioning tho
name of q man whom he held up to contempt,
he rinsed his mouth with water, aud spat it
out as II to avoid defilement 1t was not a
trick nor a habit. 1t was the deadly earnest
of a moral loathing, and the action thrilled
the tense nerves of the crowd before him.
The tranquility of his manner and the colo
quial tone were the product both of his tenn
permanent and his instinct of art He knew
that the truth of slavery was so terrible that
| any rhetorical decoration of II or vehement
defamation would make ii seem extravagant
| and unreal, and leave the hearer incredulOus.
Washington Allston was not a truer artis
than Wendell Phillips.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
"The PrettIest Girl"

We had such fun on Valentine day
With the little girls who live over the way
Teddy and l. and Jed and Joe,
Picked out the prettest girls, You know,
Aud wrote EN- things about "Yiolets blue,
And sugar is sweet and so are yOu,'
And only that Bobby said it was mean,
l wanted to write: "The grass is green,
And so are you" and send it out
To girl we fellers don't care about.
But Bobby he's queer aud doesn't go
For fun like the rest Of us chaps, you know,
Why, who do you think he chose to be
His Vaentiue7 Now, If I'd been he,
I'd rather have chosen-Never mind
III tell you about II, and You will hnd
That IL ever You want fellow that's queer,
YonI get him in Bobby, never you fear.
You see, we boys had all picked out,
As told you, the prettiest girls about.
But Bob he said there wasn't girl
As pretty as his, and there wasn't a curl
On any girls head that could half compare
with his chosen Valentines soft, ine hair.
And he said her eyes were a whole lot bluer
Than any skies, and double the truer.
Aud that he was going to be her knight,
And take care Of her always with main and might.
He wouldn't tell us his Valentines name
Till the regular day for valentines came,
Aud mamma had hers, and sister, you know
(Of course from papa, and sisters beau.)
Then Bob he told us to come ahead,
And he'd prove the truth Of all he said.
Aud where d0you think he took us, boys7
Hushing us up at the eastest noise,
And making us promise not to laugh,
Nor quiz him, nor give him any chat ?
Why, he opened grandmammas door "see there
He said.
II was grandmamma, l declared
GTandmamma sitting aud knitting awag:
Sweet grandmamma, with her hair so gray,
Lying all soft on her forehead in curles
Just as pretty as any girls.
And never had noticed before how blue
We're grandmammas eyes. 1t was really true,
AS Bobby had said, that there never were skies
One bit bluer than grandmamma's eyes,
So she was his Valentine, he her knight,
Aud somehow we all thought Bobby was right
When he kissed her hand and cried, In gee:
"Dear grandma's the 'prettiest girl you sec;
OF course i chose her instead of mamma,
For she, you know, belongs to papa,
But grandpa's in heaven, aud so / knew
| That grandmamma must be my Valentine true.'
Mary D. Brine in Harper's Young People,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22

80 you want situation as conductor, do
you 2" said the president of the road
Eyes, sir" the applicant replied.
Have you the necessary qualifications for
such responsible position ?"
81 am sure have, sir"
"Well, suppose your train should meet
with serious disaster in which a number of
passengers would be killed and a large
amount of property destroyed, what action
would you take in such a case ?"
~ would telegraph the newspapers that
the accident was of little importance, and
then send word to the president of the road
to sell the stock short"
HIM" replied the president, 81 am afraid
those are not the proper qualifications for a
good conductor, but you are man of ability,
see. We want firstcass superintendent.
You can consider yourself engaged as super
intendent of the road, at a salary of $4,000
q year. PHILADELPHIA Call.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22

ton street. The business has been In exs.
tence nearly twenty five years"
my father had It ten years, said the wo-
man, without halting in her work Of pouring
the broken bread into the baskets and Of TAX.
ing in the silver.
The man said that II took little time 10
make people understand that the food is clean
and wholesome, but for years many families
have lived entirely upon purchases from his
stock.-Nelo York Sun.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22

Mrs. G.. W. Noah retired actress, is liv-
ing at Rochester. We cannot recall tho in
itials of Noah, the bold sailor boy, but il the
lady mentioned above was his wife il strikes
us that, as actresses go now, she retired from
the stage prematurey. -EhiladelDhta CaH
An English nobleman now travelling in the
west is charged with falling in love with the
housemaid Of a Denver hotel and wanting to
marry her. This may be true and it may be
the invention of Denver hotel keeper who
wants to hire chAmbermaids cheap.
A story is current in Indianapolis that a
boy had his arm torn OFF by carelessly fool
ing near the works of a railroad brakeman's
watch. h.-CiR. Com. Gazette.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22

There are 800 geysers and 800 hot
springs in the Yellowstone national park, Gc-
cording to tho government surveyors.
North Carolina has tin fever piece
of very heavy ore sent to the Boston exposi-
tion marked unknown" proved very rich in
tin. Search at Kings mountain where it was
found revealed good many more pieces of
the same kind lying about, and the plan is to
vein of the ore. Theve has also been dis
covery of tin in New Mexico, near Santa Fe,
recently. The metal has been found in a
dozen places in this country, but only in Vir-
ginia has mining paid expenses.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
PATENTS.
r. FL. EDDY,
No. 20 state st, eppo.l.s Knby, no..on


No. 40 State ST., opposite RiIby, Boston,
Secures Patents in the United States also in Great
Britain France and other foreign countries. Copies
of the claims Of any Patent furnished by remittng
one dollar. Assignments recorded at Washington
No Agency in the United States possesses superior "a
oiliss for obtaining Patents or Gscertdinig the pat
entabflity Of inUentiOns. Il. II. EDDY,
Solicitor Of Patents.
TESTIMONIALS,
81 regard Mr.. Eddy as one Of the most capable and
SUCCESSFUL practitioners with whom have had official
intercourse. CHAs MASON, Commissioner of Patents"
"Inventors cannot employ person more trustwor-
thy or more capable of securing for them an early
and favorable consideration at the Patent Office.
EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioned Patents"
Boston, Oct. 10, 1870.
r. II. EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir: You procured for
me, in 1910, my first patent. Since then you have
acted for md 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. 1854.
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They whowork early
and late, the year
round, need OCCASION
ally the healthful stim- 70
ulus impaired by such
. wholesome tonic as
Hostetter's Stomac h
Bitters. To all, it's pu-
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remedy and prevent
i've Of disease com
mend II. 1t checks In e
cipient rheumatism
and malarial 8 y m p
toms, relieves consti
patton, dyspepsia and
biilousnoss, arrest a =
premature decay OF
the physical energies,
mitigates the inhrmi-
ties Of age, and hast
ens convalescence. For
sale by all druggists
and dealers generally,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
HTREIGREATU
1RTETRIVTET TGTOTN IQIUTETRTOIRl

II quc,s and composcs the patient--not by the
Introduction OF opatrs and drastic cathartics but
by the restoration Of Gctiyityto the stomach and
nervous system, whereby the brain is relieved
Of morbid fancics, which arc created By tho
causes above referred to-
To Clcrgymcn, Lawyers, Literary mon, Mcr-
chants, Bankers, Ladies' and all those whose sed.
eutary employment causes nervous prostratiOn,
Irregularities OF tho blood, stomach, bowels or
kidneys orwhO require nerve tonic, appetizer or
stimulant, SAMARITAN NERyISE is invaluable.
Thousands proclaim it the most wonderful inyig.
GRANT that ever sustained the sinking system.
$50 Sold 10y all Druggists. The DIR. S. A. RICH
MUND MED. CO., PrOprctors 81, Joseph, Mo.
cha:. y. cs..as.;a. Araa:. Nov Tsif City. %
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
TEAS S-TEAS
TEAS.
Large Stock, Best Variety, Excel
lent Quality and Prices Right

a FINE JAP, BOTH GREEN AND
UNCoLoRED, THAT TAKES THE
LEAD OF ANYTHING SOLD IN THIS
TOWN.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22

"A6KINS Il STODDARD,
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and Solicitors of Patents BnATTLEDoRo, VT.
Wy Il. BEMIs, House and Sign Painter, or
w nameDta and Fresco Painting, Granng, KaL
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ly9 Green Street. Brattleboro, VT.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-15
THE FLOOD.

The flood along the Ohio river has
grown worse each day for a week. 1t
is now worse than the great overflow
of last year. AT Cincinnati the river
was 70 feet 81 inches at 3 o'clock A.
NJ. yesterday and still rising. This is
over feet higher than the river has
been for a century. At Louisville il
was Al feet ~ inches and still rising,
IL inches higher than last year. All
along the river from Pittsburgh to
Cairo there is great and increasing
suffering and distress to say nothing
of the destruction of property. Con.
gress has appropriated 100000 and
the Kentucky Legislature 1000
and contributions have been sent in
from private sources, but still there is
need of more. Forty thousand peo'
pie are homeless and suffering. The
flood of 1884 will probably never bC
surpassed. The rains have ceased
and let us hope that the waters will
rapidly recede.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-15
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Shelbyville has six cases of small
pox on her hands.
Henry Wills was run over by the
cars and killed, at Lexington.
Glen. NJ. Conner, of Owingsville,
was found dead in his bed, in Rowan
county.
Dinah Monen, COL, died in Hardin
county last week at the advanced age
of lO7 years.
The cornerstone of the new gov
eminent building at Frankfort was
laid last Monday.
Russellville pines for a butcher
shop and refuses to be comforted be-
cause there is none in the town.
VIM. Toomey killed Mat Fox in
self-defense, in Madison county. Both
were colored. Toomey surrendered
Marshal VIM. Cardwell, of Provi.
dence, Webster county, shot and dan.
gerously wounded j. D. Mccain, fol
resisting arrest.
Joe Anderson, of Williamsburg
KY, was shot and killed while wait
ing for train at Jellico, Tenn, by
two men named Harris and Wiggin
ton from London, Ky. The murder.
ers were arrested while trying to es-
cape.
Steve Turner and four other roughs
waylaid and assassinated Cyrus and
Henry Young, in Madison county
because the latter who is constable
had Turner arrested and fined. Cyrus
was killed and Henry dangerously
shot. The murderers escaped.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-15
parties.


parties.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
l The city docs not assume TO con-
fer upon said Lowercc the right to
dam Little River without the con-
sent Of adjacent land owners, who
may sustain damages thereby.
2 Said Loweree and his associates
may have the privilege of organizin g
themselves into private corporation,
provided that the books of such cor
corporation shall be opened for 30
days at some bank in the city, for the
purpose Of giving the citizens an OPP
portunity to subscribe to the stock,
but said Lowercc and his associates
reserve the right 10 take two-thirds of
said stock.
3 The contract shall subsist for a
period of % years, but at the end of
Is years the city may buy the entire
works at their appraised value.
A Buff the city does not purchase
the works at the end of Is years, the
contract is to continue until they are
finally purchased by the city, and the
right to purchase them shall enure to
said city every five years thereafter,
by giving twelve months notice of
intention.
5 Said Loweree and his associates
shall forfeit the rights and privileges
granted them upon a failure to per-
form their part of the contract, and
they must complete their require.
ments before they can call upon the
city to perform its part of the con-
tract.
6 In the event that said Lowered
and his associates are unable to ar
range with property owners as to the
damming of the river, and they cal
not buy adjacent lands or Obtain
them by condemnation, they are t.
have the option, upon ten days notice
of cancelling the contract.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-15
Longview and Vicinity.
ED. SOUTH KENTUCKIAN:

Ed. SOUTH KENTUCKIAN
Miss Matte higgins, of Providence,
is visiting the family of Mr.. NJ. a.
Carrot. We also think some of our
young men would like to enjoy the
hospitality of Mr.. CARROT.
We are sorry to chronicle the i'll
ness of Mrs. w. S. Moore.
Miss Willie Feland, of Pond River
who has been teaching the public
school at Black Jack Academy, has
dismissed her school owing to the
weather, and is now visiting near
Pembroke.
Miss Lallic Woodbridge, of your
city, frightened us with her presence
recently.
Miss Lottie Carter, Of Springfield,
Tenn, is the guest Of her uncle, Mr..
A. L. Carter; her cousin Annie Car
ter, speaks of accompanying her TO
Tennessee in a few weeks.
Glad to state Mrs. Inez Bradshaw's
health much improved.
Some of Longview's intelligents
proposed "snipe hunt" choosing a
certain young man for their victim.
The crowd was made up, he thinking
of course they possessed the true
honest heart that he did, entered the
game with vim, displaying much
patience holding the bag, while they
sneaked off to their respective homes,
leaving him the victim Of their amuse-
ment. We will leave the rest for the
reader to imagine.
GAS truthful chronicler of passing
events" it becomes my painful duty
to tell that jim Bradshaw is no bet
ter looking than he was some time
ago.
Our neighborhood is thronged
with bachelors, NOW didn't say old
bachelorsO but since the weather is
less inclement some may be seen out
looking for housekeepers. We judge
not from what they said to us, but
from what they said to somebody
else. We wish them great success in
their new undertaking.
Messrs Harry and Upshaw Buck
ner are preparing to build new
residence.
After very pleasant visit to thu
family of her uncle, Mr.. j. H. Brad
shaw, Miss Ella higgins has returned
to her home in Providence, Tenn.
With best wishes for the success o
your valuable paper, and all its read
ers, am Respectfully.
HARRY DIXON.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-15

The sudden and unexpe cted death
of Mr.. Theodor Jansen at his room
in the Tobacco Exchange at an early
hour last Sunday morning, created
much surprise and regret throughout
the city. Mr.. Jansen attended the
tobacco sales on Thursday before his
death. Few suspected his illness,
and none that in three days he would
be corpse. Mr.. Jansen was a ma
tive of Hanover, Germany, but for
nearly seventeen years he has been a
resident of GAINESVILLE. He was well
known as large and liberal tobacco
buyer, representing the firm of D. j.
Waten d Co., Bremen, Germany,
and his absence from our board will
be marked indeed. He was thirty
eight years of age, Of quiet and re-
served manner gentlemanly bearing
and honorable dealings. He died of
bronchitis.-Tobacco Leaf.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-15
The Preachers Quiet Habits.

5edentary and studious men some
times become Frustrated before they
know it. Those who spend much
time in close mental work and neg
lect to take enough exercise often
find their stomachs unable to do the
work Of digestion. The liver be-
comes torpid. The bowels act If
regularly. The brain refuses to
serve it once did. Their preaching
becomes a failure, and there is a state
ofgeneral misery. So many minis
!ers have beer restored to health by
The use Of Browns Iron Bitters that
the clergy generally are speaking to
their friends OF this medicine as the
very best tonic and rcstorcr they
know Of Itrcstores thin and watery
blood to its proper condition by ton
ing it up with the purest and most
invigorating preparation Of iron that
science has ever made. 1t is pleas
ant to take, and acts Immediately
with the happicst results, not only
on the parsons, but on other folks
as well. 3
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-02-15
CONSUMPTION Cured,

An old physician, retired from practice, hav-
ing had placed In his hands by an East India
Missionary the formula Of a simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of
Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, asthma and
all throat aud Lung affections, also n positive
and radical cure for Nervous Debility and at
Nervous Complaints, after having tested it
wonderful curative powers in thousands of
cases, has felt his duty TO make it known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and desire to relieve human suffering, will
ceipt, in German, French or English with full
directions for preparing and using. Sent by
mail by addressing with stamp, naming this
paper. W. a. MOVES, l49 Powers Block, ROch-
ester, MY.