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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

AOIHEL JAIL HREAKING
On Sunday evening last q. W. Under
wood the jailer, locked the prisoners in their
cells about quarter past eight. As a matter
OF extra preoaution, IL has been his practice
OF late to put three of them In the cells up
stairs. As they we're going up Sunday night,
John Doyle, the Swede boy of IG or Il years,
who was taken in Putney for stealing. Wa
Just ahead OF MIR. Underwood with a lamp IN
his hand, when he whirled aud gave him q
savage blow ON the head with the burning
lamp, breaking 1t into fragments and cutting
g large cash In Mr.. Underworld scalp. stun
ming him and instantly filing his face with
blood and OIL Had the oil ignited nothing
could have saved him from a terrible death
The instant the blow was delivered Doyle
ran and, passing through to the room at the
head of the stairs jumped out of the windoW
The latest report is that be stayed at the
house OF E. @. White in the southwest part
of WardsbOro Wednesday night and took TO
the woods Thursday morning c.
Rev. VIM. Marble aud wife have moved
into the parsonage.
Elder Il. +. Barton will speaks at the
tent Sunday at P. N. on Christian Baptism,
Its action, subjects, and design.
Fayetteville school, to be taught 10y Hen
~ Bailey Of Williamsyille, begins on Monday
CAnaN0A AAaAAA uhuKnLcIt Alfh. nhANGTt
who came from Laramie, the land Of Wp-
mans suffrage to care for her feeble parents,
reports favorably of the general workings
OF the suffrage experiment in Wyoming.
DIR. q. ii. Howard has been in attend
anoe at the semi-oentennial reunion of the
Black River Academy, Ludlow, where be
was pupil from II 10 '73. To him WIS
assigned answering the Toast 10 1.-THE medical
profession"
1t has seemed q great pity 10 some who
have been interested in the youth John
Doyle, the Swede who escaped from jail
again last Sunday evening" that he should DO
confined 80 long without work and with
other more hardened offenders who may
have urged him on in plans of escape. He
was one OF the prisoners taken up stairs to
sleep, an opportunity being thus given for
hurting lamp at jailer UnderwOOd's head
and subseq uent leaping from q rear chamber
window. The local column may not call for
moralizing on the subject yet, the singular
desperation and reoklassnesa as 30 cOnse-
quenoes both 10 jailer and himself are 50
unusual in a youthful criminal as 10 compel
serious reflections ON the history of not only
this case but perhaps the whole system OF
county jail management and as usual there
Is a moral Certainly the boys story illus
tFates point IN next weeks Sunday school
lesaon-the growth of sin. AhAb's eoyetous-
ness lad TO robbery and murder John
Doyle's boyiah otiens6s led 30 reform school
and later transgressions 10 life in jail, Aud
now q certain fearful looking for In the way Of
Judgment by added ssntsnoe for Jail break
ing. Oh, boys remember the verse, Take Us
the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines
for our vines have tender grapes" aud ask
your folks at home what connection the
Verse has with swearing and taking of first
drinks" n
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28
&WllfOFn.

Last Saturdays Boston Journal contain
cd a two-oolumn account OF Tho blanchard
system OF the cheap production OF power.
including self-feeding, Theoretically sealed
furnace and steam boiler, which it is claim.
ed, saves 80 per cent of the cAloric power OF
coal, allowing only 10 per cent to 20 10
waste, exactly reversing the figures under the
systems nov IN use. The inventor is DR..
Virgil w blanchard, who is a native of Gull
ford and was formerly q school-boy in the
Gregory district. Afterward his father NOV
ed TO BrattlebOro TO the farm since ownsd
and occupied by Col Wells Young Blsneh.
ard studied medicine and prActised for a time
at BridpOrt this state, but finally went 10
New York and has since given his wonderful
inventive genius full play. He has taken out
more patents than any other man in the
United States Edison not excepted. The
sum total is over 500. He has a Food Cure"
establishment and lecture room on Union
square, New York city, and is understood 10
have been financially successful OF late. but
his head Is rs full OF brilliant schemes as ey-
er. recent Middlebury item mentions his
visit to that place 10 look after the interests
Of ''the blanchard Portable Building con
oern'-Rn industry which he wants to locate
IN that place.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28
W...Rum-.r.,o.

On Saturday evening, 18th inst, Abou,
O'Clock the hotel had a narrow escape from
a serious blaze. During the summer q guam
tity OF paper scraps had accumulated in the
stove IN the bar-room and match thrown in
the stove by some one set the paper on FIRE.
The discovery that this had been done irst
came from finding some bedclothes on fire
which lay near the stove pipe overhead. A
lounge was also somewhat soorched, but the
IRE was put out before great damage was
done, though few minutes more would have
endangered the building.
5. W. Wilson has gone TO Burlington to
sing for the SpirituAlists at their camp-meet-
ing at Queen City park.
The sewing society will meet at Towns
ends hall next Wednesday. They have plen-
ty OF work and wish all TO be present
Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. ROel have been on a
few days visit to their SOD, Rev. + NJ Roel
OF Stratton H. Il. Stoddard and wife spent
last Sunday At Lake Pleasant Mrs. g. c.
Newbury of Springfield Mass. is stopping
at j. T. Herriek's-Mrs 7. Is DeWolf Of
Brattleboro is spending the summer at her
fathers, Q. g. Roel
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

Downs, as lie alleged, and one night last week
be burst in her bedroom door and discovered
the two there in unconventional dress and at
titudes, but nothing TO prove or really indi-
cate criminal relations. Downs was arrested
and ever since his release on bail has been
working the affair for all il is worth, in
common parlanoe, ~ a sensation. Sunday he
preached twice on it TO crowded houses, and
in the evening he had the ine1pressible vul-
garity TO make joke Of the whole matter
and picture, for the delectation Of a gigglinR
crowd, the finding of one Of his deacons in
his wifes bedroom lying on the lounge in
half-undress-''s and yet he said, there is a
great deal Of satisfaction and sweetness be-
tween me and that dear brother who now sits
on the platform. That is the kind of a WON
an my wife happens TO be, and that is the
kind of man ! happen 10 be- and then the
crowd laughed again. Mr. Downs may not
have been guilty Of any technical sin against
the statutes of Massachusetts, bnt he has defied
the sanctuary and done what be could to vul-
garize the pulpit and deprave the feelings and
tastes Of all whom he could get to listen to
him. We have a poor opinion Of any church
that would not close and bar its doors against
such a man and refuse TO be party 10 his ef
forts to bring religion into contempt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28
A Had Case a. .he HI u.e Of Cerree,,op

A Had Case az the H Ouse OF Correction.
The Argus of this week says that mem
Der of the board of Supervisors of the Insane,
DIR. Butler Of Essex, probably, recently visit
cd the House of Correction at Rutland nd
found confined there Frenchman from Bur
lington who was a rsving maniac. He had
been sent up for % days for intoxication.
Much of the time he has been chained hand
and foot to keep him from injuring himself
and others. At the time of this visit he had
mutfiers or mittens on his hands, combining
them so as to prevent his tearing off his
clothes. He has been kept in a cell, and is
now part of the time chained by one leg in
a corner of a room, with boards for pen
and straw for bed His personal habits are
exceedingly filthy, and very little pains is
taken to keep him otherwise. person who
saw him few days before this, says he was
on the floor, in the midst of filth indescribs-
BILE catching the flies which surrounded him,
and burying them in the chloride of lime
which was scattered about to absorb some OF
the intolerable stencil, chattering and num-
bling to himself and to the flies, a most dis
gusting spectacle. At the time OF the Super
visor's visit he was circulating about, liv-
ing, walking stencil" The House of Correc-
ton authorities we're intending to ship him
back to Burlington when his sentence ex-
pired, but the Supervisor ordered immediate
steps taken TO send him TO the Brattleboro
asylum. The Supervisor blames the peniten
tiAry officials severely for not reporting the
case at once and having the man sent to the
asylum. Such inhumanity," he says, sis a
Disgrace to any civilized community. That
he is foreigner and a drunkard, is no e1
cuse for III treatment"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28


New Orleans is 10 make one more trial in
the exposition line. A new company has
bought, at one-tenth their cost, the buildings,
machinery and other appliances of last years
Cotton Centennial exposition and organized
the North, Central and South American e1-
position, which will be opened on Nov. 10.
The exposition is to be devoted to 'the most
complete and comprehensive display of West
ern Hemisphere products ever seen, and its
purpose is'the development of trade relations
between the countries of the two American
continents, and the finding of Central and
South American markets for our own surplus
products. Dol. John B. Mead represents
Vermont on the board of management and is
now trying to secure the cooperation of Yer
mont manufacturers
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

Rev. w. s. Williams delivered an clio
quent discourse here las, Sunday from LIST
Kings. 18th chapter and Dist verse, How
long halt ye between two opinions p
The delegates chosen from this parish TO
attend the Cheshire county association of
Univsrsaiists at Winchester next week are
For church, G. r. FAIR and L. n Oobleigh /.
society, Mrs o. Il. Farr and Ellen A. Smith
Sabbath school, Misses Mary Cobleigh and
Ella Smith willing workers, Misses Annie
and Mary Gibson.
AT this writing there is quite a number
from this place attending the Vermont state
convention Of Universalists at Bellows Falls
Mr.. Edwin Phelps and wife OF Holyoke
Mass, spending few days with bis sis-
ter, Mrs II. G. Smith.
Charles L. Farr and family OF Northamp-
ton, Mass, are visiting friends and relatives
here at the old home OF their childhood
The society Of willing workers will hold
their annual meeting with Master George p
Smith on Saturday afternoon, Aug - Old
and young are cordially invited
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

The silly season is certainly upon us, for
here we have story from Washington that
Ben Butler has made advances to President
Cleveland to have his last years attempt to
defeat the Democratic ticket overlooked 30
that he can resume his job of making things
politically lively in Massachusetts. Buffers
effort is said to have taken the form of a
letter written to William Dorsheimer, express
iy to be shown the President, in which he
announces the discovery that Cleveland is the
greatest President since Andrew jackson and
that he, Butler, last year altogether misconceiv.
cd the kind of man he is. 1t is added that
1.-THE President is understood TO have been much
amused at this flop" He will have a perfect
right to be amused" when his Uncle Ben
really cuts such a flop. The 'old man" is
liable TO bob up serenely" in the political
field almost any day, but he can be depend
ed on to do it without asking anybody leave
beforehand
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28
CauabrtsirePort.

Miss Emmie Ssbin Of Bellows Falls il TO
teach the fall term Of school commencing the
first Monday In September
John W. Burr bought the Cotton farm at
auction last Tuesday for SlGsO
The 18th birthday Of Miss Mary Nc
Quaide, which occurred last Monday, was
pleasantly obsered by party or 30 who gave
her genuine surprise and presented TO her a
pretty lamp and photograph album. Cake
and coffee were served by the ladies and
music for the evening by the orchestra
-OhAs Cox of Boston visited over SUNDAY
at s ~ Dimond's
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

SPANS cholera record showed 81, 52l deaths
up to last Saturday night out of LOG, OF cases
supposed to represent the whole number at.
taoked-hgures which indicate a mortality of
almost 90 per cent. American correspondents
who are on the ground say that the authori-
ties suppress the real figures as they did in
France last year, and that the actual number
of deaths has been not less than 20, 900. This
is more than five times the number of deaths
from cholera in France last year Besides the
present violence of the epidemic, Spain is
confronted with the frightful fact that the
worst period of the cholera scourge in Italy
last year was between the middle of Septem.
Der and first of November. Notwithstanding
the sanitary precautions taken in Marseilles
since last years visitation, the disease has re-
appeared there, while Toulon and other
French cities are overhung by dark and
threatening cloud. Nothing, evidently, but
the strictest quarantine regulations and care
full attention to sanitary condition will avail
to save this country from an attack of the
scourge sooner or later
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

ET-Gov. Reuben E. Fenton of New York
dropped dead Tuesday, while at his desk, as
president of the First national bank of James.
town. Mr.. Fenton was a native OF New
York and in his early manhood made some
money rafting lumber down the Hudson.
In 1852, at the age of 80, he was elected to
Congress as Democrat, Just in season to
witness the rupture of his party over Doug
lass as-Nebraska bill and the repeal Of
the Missouri compromise. With n. ?. Banks,
Ward Hunt and others, he opposed the
measure and became Republican. He
served in five Congresses, was elected COVER
nor of New York in 1864, and again in 1866
He also served in the United States Senate.
As war governor after the term of Gov
Seymour, a southern sympsthizer, Gov. Fen.
ton had great and delicate duties to discharge
which he performed with signal ability and
skill
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

Campaign for the Republicans on Wednesday
with speech nj Mt Gilead In reviewing
the acts Of the Democratic administration he
commented severely on the pardon of Mullen,
on the blow at American ship building in the
persecution of John Roach, on the treatment
of American steamship lines in the matter
OF carrying the mails, and on it's failure to do
anything toward revival Of industry. The
Senator showed no mercy to disgruntled Re
publicans who last year made Democratic
success possible, and laid the chief stress OF
his speech on the methods by which the
South is made and kept solid for the Democ-
rRcv
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

The highway agents are requested 10 70.
turn their books on or before the middle Of
September, to the town clerks office or So
lectmen.
The kind deed done James NJ Niles
few weeks ago was duplicated for tho benefit
OF his son last week
d. L. Tucker and Israel and Warner
Stowe have had sheep killed and manglsd by
dogs lately four dogs we're concerned
"A man from the SheIburne Falls marble
works has been adding some inscriptions 10
monument In the Niles cemetery.
doctors johnson Of Jacksonville, Rice
OF Wilmington, and Aillington OF HALIFAX
held post mortsm examination on the case
OF James NJ. Niles. IL revealed degeneration
OF the heart with perioarditis, and q rupture
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

driven through here. Monday night an I'M
successful attempt was made 10 steal horses
from H. H. Blairs barn In Westminster.
press item Of this morning says that an
abandoned horse and carriage we're found ia
the woods at Westminster Wednesday by
Sheriff Lowell Of Bellows Falls, supposed TO
be stolen property. A man and woman who
had left II there were arrested, one at Spring
field and the other below Bellows Falls
Mr.. and Mrs g. G. Chaplin celebrated
their 2Otb wedding anniversary on Monday
evening, with nearly 100 guests present.
There were many handsome presenla.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

The new OunArd steamship Etruria beat
all previous records on her last passage
from Queenstown to New York, covering
the distance in six days, five hours and
thirty-one minutes. She left Queenstown at
tWenty-siH minutes past two on Sunday after
noon and her passengers found themselves
steaming into New York harbor on the follow
ing Saturday afternoon in time for dinner.
On the first day oat the vessel made 424 miles.
and on the four succeeding days the record
was $50, 465, AGA and AGA respectively, leav-
ing 70 miles TO Sandy Hook TO complete the
trip. 1t was her sixth voyage, and the dis
tAnce travelled was 2795 miles She carried
about 700 passengers and 3 crew of PCS, with
few steerage and intermediate" passen-
gers. Her engines are of -, 800 horsepower
and her screw is 2S feet in diameter Seventy
nine furnaces consuming 300 tons of coal
every day, supply the heat for the genera
ton OF steam. An account OF the voyage
says that on the day when the wonderful re-
cord OF 465 miles was attained the captain
seldom left the engine-room keeping the
chief engineer strictly 10 his work.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28
RelIowsFaIIs.

THE UNIvERsAIIsT CONVENTION
The 52i animal convention OF the Uni
versalits of Vermont and the Province Of
Quebec opened on Tuesday evening with a
congregation which filled the church. Rev.
DIR. l. NJ. Atwood of the Canton IN. Y. the
illogical school preached from the text
Trust in the Lord and do good" Wednes
day mornings conference meeting was con
Quoted by Rev. G. w. Perry OF Rutland.
After the communion service at . O'Clock
Rev. j. n. Emery, the secretary, reported on
the years work, showing prosperous condi-
ton and more money raised than ever before.
There has been gain of ministers and
churches The most important work of the
year was the establishment OF the church al
Rutland. The occasional sermon was preach
ed at IL A. NJ by Rev. Edward Smiley of
Richmond.
Wednesday afternoon was devoted TO an
educational meeting with an opening address
by Rev. DIR. Atwood of Canton. At 3:45 a
meeting was held under the auspices of the
Woman's Centenary Association with sew
eral interesting addresses.
Wednesday evening was mainly devoted to
addresses on the Practical Power of Uni.
versalism" by Rev. S. A. Parker, The Work
Of the Uniyersalist Parish" by Rev. E. W.
Whitney, and Responsibilities and Duties
OF Individual Universaiists" by Rev. G. w.
Perry.
Thursday mornings conference meeting
was led by Rev. j. =. Eastman At 10
o'clock missionary meeting was held with
addresses by Rev. Walter Dole, and Rev.
Drs. Miner and DemRrest Al 2:3O p. NJ
Rev. Mr.. Baleh Of Elgin, Ill, and the Rsvs
Rhoades, Emerson, and Mead spoke on
"Our UNCONVENTIONAL Literature At $3.50
an interesting Sunday school meeting was
held with addresses by Revs. l. p. Booth and
g. w. Jenkins
The convention closed Thursday evening
with a service ordaining F. T. Lathe TO the
work of the ministry, the sermon being
preached by Rev. NJ TillotsOn.
The attendance Was large and the proceed.
ings of more than usual interest throughout
BURGLARS AND HORSE THIEVES.
Burglars entered several residences here
last week Thursday night They first visited
ii. W. Thompson's and we're in the house
when he awoke and make a stir which fright
ened them away. Al Col Kings they put
ladder up 10 a chamber window, but his
daughter heard tbs noiss and raised an alarm.
The houses of s. N. Alexander and James
Miller were entered and small sums taken.
The same night valuable span of horses
was stolen in langdon and undoubtedly
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

Washington despatch says that Senator
Logan's new home, out on Columbia Heights,
rs almost ready for occupancy. II is the
place known rs the old Stone mansion, and
for it the Senator gave $50, 600, with five
years 10 pay it in. 1t was a bargain. The
house is large, convenient, cool and hand
some Though built years ago, it is well pre-
served. There is about ! acres of ground,
and the view of the city from the front porch
Is one Of the handsOmest TO be obtained from
any point on the heights. Mrs. Logan has
selected all the furniture, and when she and
the general return in October they will move
in. During the winter they expect TO enter
tain quite extensively. The campaign of
1855 will not be loat sight of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

Halifax had several representatives at
the Heath, Mass, centennial
Some of the farmers think this 40 excel
ent year Tor humble bees and Wasps, but
the latest thing IN the bee line is the ind-
ing OF swarm of honey bees in an old
stone wall on the farm Of ID. ID. Barnes
near his buildings-lss, there were more
bees than honey I'd, they have to be ''hiv-
ed quite often.
Oscar Dix's horse became frightened a
few days ago at an old apple tree log that
had been lying beside the road for several
years, some of the bark having recently fall
en- Oh. Mr.. Dix was walking Two young
ladies in tho carriage were thrown ont. The
horse freed himself from the carriage and
ran, but was captured by q daring Manson
institution lad. The injuries received were
slight
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

A Washington despatch takes a good deal
OF space to explain that Mai Lyman Of the
regular army, brother-in-lsw of Senator
Edmunds has not been detailed for special
duty at Washington through the Senator'S in
Auenoe, as has been charged, but because be
has earned the leave Of absence from his reg
iment by long service in the field and accord
ing to the strict letter of the war department
repulatinns
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

The politically wise ones have settled it in
their own minds that the man whom Presi-
dent Cleveland drubbed 30 Indignantly for
recommending an unfit man for office and
then condemning bis appointment after it
was made, is ex-senator Slater of Oregon,
and that the appointee is E. J. Dawne, whom
the President has nominated to be Judge for
Alaska. We hope we shall know for a Ger.
tainty when Congress meets
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

Protective and Evening Star Oranges will
bold their annual basket picnic at the resi-
dence Of ]. G. Newton on the Rice farm next
Wednesday at 10 O'Clock A n. Speakers
from abroad are expected 10 be present, and
there will be dancing in the afternoon and
evening. An oyster supper will be served in
the evening A general invitation ia extend
ed Should the weather prove stormy the
picnic will be held the next day.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28

recent advertisement in the New York
World reads rs follows:
SALOON.-A rare chance; 500 will purchase
- the stock and fixtures Of beer salOon, with ly-
ing apartments; low rent, owner having obtained
government situation. D."
1t is pleasant to know whore the govern.
ment looks for its servants under the present
administration.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-28
A Deapairinr Crr.

IRON the Chicago Herald.l
The Democrats can throw away all the states they
ever held follow that up by presenting the House
the Republicans, and then go and beat their brains
out against stone wall, without causing change in
the policy Of the Administration, Il single shadow
of regret to cross the Presidents face.
We sincerely hope the event will prove the
Herald right in its estimate of the Executive,
but some things have happened which don't
really look like it.