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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

from this source amounted 10 many thous.
ands Of dollars annually.
To. day all this is changed. Instead OF
horses being sold TO go out Of the state, the
product does not nearly equal the home de-
mand. Every year, TO Windham county
alone, hundreds of horses are brought from
Canada and the West, and they find ready
sale at romunerative prices. The fault for
this state OF things lies with the farmers
themselves, and in allowing IL to exist they
deprive themselves of a very important
source Of revenue. Vermont farmers cannot
compete successfully with the West in raising
corn and wheat, but they can do so in horse
raising. A prominent Kentucky horse breed
er said not long since to Vermonter inter
ested in this matter, "What sils your Yer
mont people that they have given over their
old industry Of horse breeding? The Yer
mont grasses are the best in this country for
horse growing, and our Kentucky blue grass
comes next"
Cool Vermont farming is that which real
ICES what can and what cannot be done sue
cessfully and proftably among our hills aud
on our intervales, and adapts itself accord.
ingly. The breeding of good horses is one
Of the things that can be done here to the adj
vantage of everybody concerned, and for
this reason il is hoped that all active, enter
prisng farmers will interest themselves in
the work of the association here alluded to.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

TENEMENT or FouR Rooms to rent in Rythers
Block Inquire Of J. r. HfLDRETH.
f. W. Kuech Co. have good gauze vest at a. cts.
Good 3button hid gloves at 90 cts Ladies' aud chill.
dren's hose at from TO 10 cts.
EsriY GUARD UHIFoRMs.-1f any one has In his
possession any parts Of uniform belonging TO the
ey Guard, he will confer favor by returning them
or notifying me. Oh. BOND, Capt. Commanding.
ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMING at Cheney 4 Olapps.
To secure summer boarders, the Boston Daily Tran
script is the best advertising medium. 1t s the lead
ing family paper. Send for rates.
SEND MoSRY ny AMERioAs ExrREss Co. MoNEY
ORDERS. Receipts given. Money refunded II orders
are lost. Sold at all Offices Of the Co. Payable at $500
places Rltes-s5, &C.. tl0 &c. $40, Toe. $50. 100. ;
$40, l5c; $50, 2Oc.
No one ought TO be without the protection Of an
accident policy In the Travellers especially II travelling
for day even. The cost il mfAratiyey small. The
local agents are Cudworth and Childs.
PtcrURE FRAMES are cheap at Cheney h Clapps.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
some Recen. appointment.

Something like two dozen foreign appoint
ments by President Cleveland were announced
last Saturday, the most important of which
were those of Geo. V. N. Lothrop of Mohi-
gan 10 be minister to Russia, in place of Gen
Lawton, who declined the place; Boyd Win
chester of Kentucky to be minister TO Swift
erland, and John e. W. Thompson of New
York to be minister to Hayi. Mr.. Lothrop
is an eminent Detroit lawyer of mature years.
He was graduated at Brown university in
1888, and at the Cambridge law school three
years later, having for classmates in his law
studies James Russell Lowell, W. NJ. Evarts,
W. W. Story, Rufus King and E. r. Hoar.
In 1860 he led the Michigan delegation for
Douglass at the Charleston convention. Dur
ing the rebellion he was a war Democrat, and
seems in all respects to be pleasant contrast
to Gen. Lawton of Georgia, to whom Mr..
Cleveland first gave the Russian appointment.
Dr. John e. W. Thompson, minister and
consul-general to Hayti, is a young colored
physician of New York city, a graduate of
Yale medical school and also of Paris medical
schools, and is said to have been ga lifelong
Democrat" He speaks French, the language
of Hayti, and is well recommended by the
Yale college faculty. He is the first oOlored
man appointed by President Cleveland, and
the choice is universally commended as ju-
dicous one.
The appointment of Mr. E. G.. Graves, as
sistent treasurer of the United States, to be
superintendent of the bureau of engraving
and printing in place of Capt. Burrell, whose
resignation had been requested, was also an
nounced last Saturday. The appointment of
Mr. Graves is conceded by both Republicans
and Democrats to be directly in the line of
civilserviee reform. He has worked his way
up on his own merits from a subordinate
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
Horse Breeding in vermont.

We ask the special attention of Windham
county farmers to an article printed in our
agricultural department to-day relative to
1.-THE Vermont Association Of Road and Trot-
ting Horse Breeders" which has lately been
formed at Burlington. The society is intend
ed to cover and include the whole state, and
from a personal statement made to us by one
of the officers it is evident that its ultimate
object is to reach and benefit the farmers
We are assured that the association is not
meant for horse -trotting society, but to en-
courage and stimulate horse breeding. A
trotting meeting will be held each season as
the best and only sure means of getting both
hoTsemen and horses together but independ-
emily of the trotting it is intended to have all
the best horses in the state on exhibition.
Seventy-hv stations have already been
promised to be on exhibition at the first
meeting next October. On these 10 premi-
ums are offered and the owners will get no
return except the benefit of the chance to
have their horses seen in a show of this kind.
The exhibitions will not be confined to Bur
lington or any one location. Next years
show may be held in Bratteboro il local in
terest enough ia shown in the society to bring
it here.
The promoters of this society, in short,
want to see restored to Vermont her lost
prestige as horse. raising section. 1t is
within the memory af the older men of this
generation when some of the very best horses
which the country produced we're grown in
Vermont, and the state had reputation &C
cordngly. The best strains of the famous
horses grown in Kentucky and Tennessee to-
day had their origin among the Green noun
tains. Fifty years ago horses were a regular
and abundant article of sale from the state,
and the income which the farmers received
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
Danaasrssoa.


A maple tree, abouttwo and one half feet
in diameter, is growing in the pasture of
Charles Howard, which is quite a curiosity.
1t stands on the top of bare rock or ledge,
about 40 feet in length and 10 feet in width
at the surface of the ground. The tree Is
growing on a part of the ledge that is some
six feet above the earth's surface. There is no
soil within six feet of the trunk of the tree in
any direction. On the north side q large
root, two and one-half feet wide and some
sixteen inches in thickness, extends along the
top of the ledge into the ground some 10 feet
from the body OF the tree. large root pass
90 from the tree down the west side of the
rock and few smaller roots extend In other
directions in seams on top OF the ledge. 1t
is a strong healthy looking tree, not very tall,
with wide-spreading branches 1t is remark
able that tree could maintain its position on
the top of such a ledge against all the storms
and winds that have ragged for nearly cen
fury.
Bert M. Reed recently met with a serious
accident by falling and hitting his hand
against a circular saw that he had Just put in
motion. The middle finger of his left hand
was nearly split open more than half its
length.
Willie j. Barretts Plymouth Rock biddy
evidently appreciates The Phoenix at full
value. Last week she laid eItFA-big eggs
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

Whatever other mistakes President Cleve-
land has made and stubbornly stuck to, he
has shown real independence and manliness
in revoking two VIGOROUSLY unfit appoint
ments during the past week. Through the
Misrepresentation of personal friends of the
parties in interest he was persuaded to ap-
point brother of Senator Blackburn as col
lector of internal revenue in kentucky, and
Secretary Bayard to promise the consulate at
Nagasaki Japan, to j. Ernest Meier. Meier
turned out to be drunkard a dead beat, a
domestic tyrsnt and an unreconstructed rebel
His wife has just been divorced from him be-
cause of his brutality, and it is only few
days since he was in the lookup in Washing
ton for assRulting Commodore Truxton be-
cause the latter refused to recognize him after
hearing him boast of his treason. Blackburn
was the author of a letter, in the early days of
the war, in which he declared his desire to
make the Union men of Kentucky feel the
edge of my knife, invoked hell as his por-
ton if he ever spared one of them, and ex-
pressed his hope to ''see Union blood run
deep enough for my horse to swim in" On
learning their character and record, Mr.. Cleve-
land Withdrew the appointments of both men,
declaring them to be unfit to hold any office.
If he will now bounce Kelley, whom he has
booked for Austria, the record Of his foreign
appointments will be comparatively clean.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

The Canadian troops who were despatched
to the Northwest to put down the rebellion
headed by the half breed, Riel, have thus far
had three encounters with the rebels, none OF
which have been decisive. On the contrary,
their result seems to have verged SO closely
upon defeat for the government troops as to
encourage the rebels and extend the revolt.
The third fight, which took place last Satur-
day, was the most holly contested OF ALL II
is clear that the Canadian government has
very serious undertaking on its hands The
unframed militia whom it has sent into the
Businesses of the Northwest fight at a great
disadvantage. They are not so well armed as
the enemy whom they encounter, they are un-
familiar with the ground, and it il with diff
Guilty that they can keep open the lines of
communication and protect their supplies
from capture. They have suffered greatly
from the rigorous weather and the haTdships
of the march. The hall. breeds and Indians
on the other hand, are hardy hunters, we'll
armed with rifles and capable of carrying on
almost indefinitely harassing guerrilla war
fare. The present prospect is that before the
rebellion is put down some of the bloodiest
chapters in the history of Indian warfare on
the American continent will have been writ
ten.-Later news is TO the effect that General
Middleton won a decided victory over the reb-
els on Tuesday, driving them out Of Batouche
at the point Of the bayonet.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
VERMONT PHOENIX, FARMER

clerkship TO the position he now occupies.
He was one of the original oivil-service re-
formers and was perhaps the first govern
ment official to enter heartily into the civil
service. reform movement under the Grant
administration. He has fought for civil
service reform through several admiDistra-
tions and has had therespeCt and confidence
even Of the public men who differed from
him on civil service grounds. He had not
sought the position to which he has now been
appointed il came TO him unsolicited. The
bureau over which he will preside carries
from 1900 to 1900 employees on its payroll,
and in the hands Of a spokesman il would af
ford some of the richest "piokings' Of any
place in the gift of the government. Per
haps il should be added that Mr.. Graves is a
Mugwump, being one of the ''lifc-long Re-
publicans" who voted for Cleveland.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
Our suppIemenG.

In order to meet the demands of our ad-
vertisers, and at the same time to give our
usual amount and variety of reading matter,
we print a half-sheet supplement to-day,
which will not be found by any means the
least inviting part of the paper. Among 9TH
er things, the sketch of a curious Boston
character which it contains will attract atten-
ton because of its local interest. No previ-
GUS issue of The Phoenix has ever contained 30
many advertisers announcements as the pre-
sent one, and it is due our advertisers and all
other patrons to say that in no previous year
has the paper been sent to 30 large list of
auhaerihera
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

The Boston Journals Washington CORES
pendent says II is fact that Postmaster
General Villas has written letter marked
confidential to the Democratic Congressman
of several states outlining plan for the ap.
pointment of postmasters to what are known
az the fourth class offices. These offices are
the minor post offices in the country which
are filled by the Postmaster General alone
the incumbents of which are not confirmed by
the Senate. The letter indicates clearly that
It is the purpose of Mr.. Villas TO fill these
cross roads post offices with Democrats
whose party fidelity and capacity shall be
youehed for by party workers. Mr.. Villas in
his letter also furnishes definition of the
Offensive partisanship," which is evidently
intended to be broad enough TO include any
who even remotely participated in political
management.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

The death of Gen. Irwin Mcdowell, at
San Francisco, which was announced last
week. inevitably brings back to the public
mind the events of the summer of 81 and
the disastrous end OF the Army of the Poto.
macs first campaign. Against his judgment
and in obedience to the public clamor, Gen
Mcdowell led his improvised force of three
months men to Bull Run, to be defeated after
fight by no means discredtable, and to be the
first victim of the authorities and the people.
That battle was not inaptly called at the time
'the battle of the newspaper editors" for it
was tough: under thes spur of their ION to Rich
mond" cry led by the New York Tribune.
Mcdowell bore his undeserved disgrace with
sodiery dignity and fortitude. Ill luck fol-
lowed him through his campaigns In com
msnd of the First Corps he lost his first
pitched battle; he was unjustly charged with
the responsibility for McClellan's defeat be-
fore Richmond and an accident prevented
him from taking command when Pope enter
ed upon the second Bull Run campaign. He
never reentered the field, but administered
various departments with discretion from
1864 till his retirement in 1882. In private
life he was blsmeless he was the firmest of
friends and the most generous and graceful
of hosts But the good fairy Fortune was
absent from his christening
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
The Rutland Railroad Case.

The trial of the case of the Rutland rail
road company against its former president,
ex-Gov. Page, was concluded and given to
the jury last MISUNDERSTANDING lasted nine
weeks, or longer than any other case in the
judicial history of Vermont. The company
brought suit to recover $45, 900 which it claim
ed that Page had appropriated to his own
use. Page claimed in Offset that he owed
the company nothing, but that in reality the
company was indebted to him for money
furnished and services rendered. The jury
finally brought in their verdict on Thursday
They found that the defendant Page, should
recover 81 on his plea in Offset. This result
will be claimed as a vindcation for Mr. Page,
but the trial has nevertheless been very much
farce, for the reason that it is an impossi-
biity for any twelve men to carry the points
of trial like this in their heads for nine
weeks and arrive in the end at Just and i'm
partial verdict
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

neap 10 put the end through the ring. As be
did this the oxen started, pulling around 10
the right, throwing him down and drawing
the loaded cart across his chest, crushing him
40 that he died in about 10 minutes and be-
fore medical aid reached him. He was able
10 speak and retained consciousness long
enough 10 explain how the accident happen
cd. Mr.. Howard was a native Of Brattleboro
aud the son Of Truman and Electa Howard,
his mother now living in Grafton at the
age of S6 years. He was born with love
for horses and served for many years a.
hostler for Brattleboro hotel and livery men,
beginning with the time Of Capt. Lord Of
the old "Vermont House, which stood on the
site Of the present town hall building In
this capacity he always showed himself rare
" competent and faithful, and won we'll
earned name az the "best hostler In the coun.
try" or late years he had worked at odd
Jobs for various parties. His sister aud broth
er-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. French Of Grafton,
and a niece aud her husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wetherbee Of the same place, with other rel
atives, were present at the funeral which was
held on Wednesday from the residence OF
W. +. Richardson.
Another old and we'll known resident died on
Monday in the person Of Henry Harding, a
man who was employed for many years in
Brattleboro meat markets, first by VIM.
Brooks and then by Hannibal Hadley. After
Mr.. Hadley went out Of the business Mr..
Harding spent some time with son in New
Hampshire, but for two years past had lived
with his daughter Mrs. A. e. Rogers in this
village
VERMONT SONS OF vErERAEs-MEErINd OF THR
STATE ENoAMPMRNT.
There was full attendance at the third
annual enoampment of Sons of Veterans, Yer
mont division, held at Rutland last week. The
reports OF officers showed satisfactory con-
dition Of the order. The officers elected for
the year we're the following
Commander, @. +. II. Jenne Of Brattleboro; leuten-
ant commander, Geo. @. Terrill Of Underhill; vice
lieutenant commander, A. 3. brennan Of Hardwick {;
chaplain, o. r. Leonard Of Bratieboro.
The officers we're installed by Past Com
mander Louis V. Greene Of Rutland. A res.
olution Of sympathy for Gen. Grant was 0dopt-
ed. The mastering ceremony was eXempli-
fed by the Rutland camp, assisted by Past
Commanders Terrill aud JENNIE
Since the encampment Commander JENNIE
has appointed f. II. Allen OF Brattleboro adju-
tant and W. E Gordon OF Brattleboro quar-
termaster.
THE RpCORD MATCH oar uANaP
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
Sir Edward Thornton and Judge HSO.
land.

From the Pail Mall GaEette.l
Our st. Petersburg ambassador is much to
the fore just now. Here Isl good story anent
Sir. Edward Thornton for which we can vouch.
At Washington reception young gentle
man said to rather imposing looking man
Good evening glad to see you've have
not met since We parted in Mexico" The
person thus spoken to coidly replied, Il fear
you have the advantage of me-" why,
surely !" exclaimed the mortified young fell
low. "You don't seem TO remember me-"
TO tell the TRUTH have never been to Mex
ico." ''Are you not Sir Edward Thornton? ?"
mo, am Judge Poland of Vermont" A
few nights after this rebuff the young man hap
pened to be at another party, and, seeing the
Judge, made up to him. After a little desul-
tory conversation, he ventured to say THAT
was an awful blunder Of mine the other even
ing to take you for old Thornton" "And
whom do you take me for now, may ask ?"
why, you told me you were Judge Poland
of Vermont" The reply was crushing.
"on the contrary, sir, my name is Thorn
ton I"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

The sugar makers in school district No.
6 made the past season $500 gallons of ma
pie syrup estimating eight pounds TO the
gallon it would be SO, 600 lbs. of sugar or
IL TONS II there lie another school district
in the state that has done better let us hear
from it,
Our village school is again in session
with Miss Gertrude s. Sherman of East Do
YER for teacher.
Mrs. Sanger Cooper and daughter have
moved into the James Mann house.
j. A. Davis has taken the contract for
furnishing the lumber to build the creamery
buildings at Wilmington.
IN. d, May has returned from market and
is now prepared to show good line OF goods
70 his customers.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
The wheat CrOD.

In local item last week we referred to the
unfavorable prospect for the winter wheat
crop, and quoted the confrmatory evidence
given on this point by one of Crosby Il Co.'S
agents Since then the statstican of the ag-
ricultural department has published sum-
married. report in regard to the crop from
all the great wheat producing states and ter
ritories. He says that no improvement can
be reported in the promise OF the crop. On
the contrary, the good weather has developed
the actual damage done by winter killing and
other causes. Thousands of acres in the
large winter wheat producing states have
been plowed up and sown to oats and
other grains. The decrease in area, and the
damage done by winter killing, is general in
all these states except Michigan. That state
reports but slight decrease in acreage sown,
and no winter killing whatever or damage of
other kind. With this one exception the loss
TO the winter wheat states is the greatest ev-
err known and will prove a serious blow to
many Of the states that depend largely upon
their wheat product. The spring wheat
states, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebras
ka and Dakota, have not vet completed their
spring seeding, but are far enough advanced
to show that the area will be somewhat de.
creased from last year. The season is unus-
ually backward, and unless the summer is
very favorable the yield of spring wheat will
fall much below that of last year. 1t must
be remembered, however, that with 100, OOO,-
600 bushels of the old crop on hand and plenty
of time TO put in spring grain and corn, there
isno danger of a famine, and it will be good
thing all around if the farmers for once get a
profit on their wheat
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

The Democratic cry, Count the cash in the
treasury" has been complied with, prepare
tory to turning II over to its new custodian.
At first a shortage OF two cents was reported
in all the millions in the vaults, but the two
pennies we're afterwards found on the floor
where they had been dropped, the Democracy
breathe freer, and Treasurer Wyman's bonds
men have been discharged.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

The New York assembly has taken an i'm
portant step in behalf of the forests of that
state by the passage of bill which author
ICES the appointment of board of three
commissioners who are given power to ap-
point forest warden and forest inspectors
and assistants and fix their compensation.
All the lands in tn 10 counties of the Adron-
dack region, which will be known as the for
est preserve, are to be under the direct SUI
pervision of this commission and warden.
The commissioners have no power to dispose
of any of the preserve, but with the warden
and agents can arrest any person violating
the provisions of the act. There is provis
ion also for full reports on the condition of
the preserve, as well as the circulation of in
formation on the general subject of forest
culture.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

The Illinois Democracy literally gnash their
teeth in futile rage over the party negligence
which suffered Republicans to make sue
cessful still hunt in the 3Ilh Legislative dis.
triot Of that state, and 80 secure a majority
in the legislature. The result ia said to have
been due TO the over-confidenee of the Demo-
cratic managers, and to the quietness and efIec-
tiveness of the work done by the Republicans.
A Ohinaman with gift of sarcasm said in a
speech at San Francisco the other day that
this country sends millions of dollars TO
China to prepare her people for the kingdom
OF heaven, but refuses them q home in the
United States."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15

Western Democrats raise the same objec-
tioh to Mr.. Lothrop's appointment to the
Russian mission that their Eastern brethren
raised to Mr.. Phelps's appointment to Eng
land. They say he is only cultivated,
scholarly gentleman who "has never by his
influence added ten votes to the Democratic
score at any election" In other words he
has never made politics trade. The coun-
try likes that kind all the same.