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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03
Then and Now.
IFrnm the BOSTON Lnnrnal
=, From Cleyeland's Inau-

From the Boston Journal
The Boston journal tries the deadly par
allel column device upon President Cleve-
land, with this result:
From the Stone Letter, From Cleveland's Inau.
Nov, 1875. gural, March, Is,
The administration Of Those who worthy
the government is not to seek public employment
be trusted, in places high have the right 10 insist
or low, TO those rhO are that merit and cOmpe
opposed 10 the party re- teHcB shall be recognized
spOHsible for such dd- iastedd Of party subser
mtnistrdtiOH. riency or the surrender
of honest political belief
An attempt TO reconcile these two utter
ances would be enough to make the stoutest
mugwump dizzy,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

Mis-, May Smith is home from school ON a
vacation
W. d. Spencer, Earnest Fairbanks and
Misses Lillian NJ. Cushman and Hattie Rob
inson will attend Schuol at the Vermont
Conference seminary at Montpelier.
Miss Minnie Ripley i, spending the winter
in New York
\. l.. Cook was called from town to at
tend the funeral of his father
Luman Farr and family have moved on to
the Morgan place
Sheriff Kidder arrested John DOYLE in
Springfield, Mass, ON Monday Doyle will
be remembered as the party who escaped
from Jail some time ago by throwing light
ed lamp at the head of the jailer.
q. +. Haynes and A. l.. Morri, have
gone To Brattleboro to work ON Postmaster
Childs's new house.
reamster Lamb has brought from fifteen
to twenty tons of freight a week into town
for the past four months This. with al
most AN equal amount of outgoing freight.
makes quite help to the Wilmington and
Hoosac Tunnel railroad, as the line from
Readsboro to the latter place is now called.
/ Misses Carrie Snow and Bell Harris ar,.
/ spending "A few month, in Philadelphia.
/ Miss Alice Batchelder will attend school
/ at Acton. Mass, this winter.
/ Very interesting union meetings are held
several evenings in the week
We are pleased 10 state that Mrs John
Morris. who has been an invalid for 81 long,
Is now able 10 20 about the house with a
/ crutch
Forrest Milington has gone To New York
20 work and 4. l.. Batchelder has taken his
place with C.. G. Winchester.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03
ermOm.

Elder j. Hemenway will preach in the
chapel next Sunday at 1920 A. NJ. and 1870
p. NJ.
Ed. Weatherhead has gone to his home in
Gulltord ON account of a sprained wrist.
Miss Nesta Cook has gone to Upton, Mass.
to work in a straw shop.
Miss Matte Reed returned To her school
in Westfield Monday.
Miss Eta Stebbins goes 10 FitchLurg this
week to educate herself in music.
leslie Streeter is staying with Dr. Good
willie this winter and attends school in dis
trict No B.
Charles Davis carried 1906 spaces of
cream 10 the Mortified creamery in the
month of Novpmbpr
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

The letter from George w Gable, printed
on our first page today, ON the unpleasant
ness at recent temperance meeting III
Northampton. is of interest as showing the
sound and invincible position of the great
novelist on the liquor question in spite OF
the fact that his speech did not meet the ap-
prevail of one or two extreme prohibition
leaders at the meeting. The essential point
about the letter is the general principle OF
universal application which Mr.. Gable lay'
down, that any law for the control Of the
liquor traffic, however stringent, is effective
oplr-so far as it is backed up by public sen
timent and so far, moreover, as public of
fcials are under legal compulsion to enforce
its provisions
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03
Pn.le min Yonr mn,..

TFTOH IHt MOHIItHtT ATEus,I
The penalty for the third offence of be
ing drunk is now 500 and costs with House
of Correction for 30 days in addition, and
the man who sells the liquor is liable To pay
81 day to the wife or any minor child for
the whole time Of such Imprisonment.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03
Close. the Case.

From the Woodstock STANDARD
The old letter from Senator Edmunds
closes the case and will be read by Yer
monters everywhere with pride and salts
faction, Every true man will honor him
the more because he was strong enough To
refuse TO stulufy himself.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

Stanley. the African explorer, is once
more in this country, having landed in New
York last Friday. He comes to fill list
of fifty engagements which have been made
for him 10 lecture ON Africa. Two nearby
points are Northampton and st. Johnsbury.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

Hon. l.. NJ. Read, who began his duties as
Judge of Probate for the Westminster dis
trict ON the LIST inst, gives notice that he
VIII hold sessions of his court at the probate
Office in Bellows Falls ON the first Saturdays
IN January, March, May July September
and November; at Coombs's hotel in Town
shend ON the first Wednesdays in February,
June, August and December; at Phelpss
hotel IN Grafton on the first Wednesdays of
April and Octoher
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

Mr.. Davenports comments last week on
c. b. Hyde's removal were as clear as
mud. His rambling. irrelevant talk was an
excellent illustration Of the way man
feels and acts when he is in hole and can't
yet out.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

We are informed that the proprietors, hessrs
A. +. Ordway a Co., recently sent three dozen OF
their reliable medicine sulphur Bitters, to the
Catholic Home for the Aged, which Is highly ap
preciated by the directors and inmates. As "
SOW, so shall ye reap. w. Ed Catholic Union
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

1t is announced that the English conserv
alive ministry has abandoned its policy of
cancellation toward Ireland. and will return
to the old method of coercion and repression
of freedom of speech. The sure result of
this action will in the end be the return Of
the liberals to power.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

The Phoenix will endeavor to accommo-
date Mr. Atkins next week with the publ
cation Of his "insoent letter to Mr.. Hyde.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

The Rutland Herald and Burlington Free
Press have both put themselves on record
this week in square, outspoken fashion ON
the attempt of certain Blaine partisans to
raise an issue over Mr.. Blaine's discourte-
Gus treatment of Mr. Edmunds and cast
discredit ON the Senator because of Mr.,
Blaine's pettish performance Extracts
from both papers which are printed in this
issue make interesting reading. The reply
of the Free Press to the absurd charge that
Mr.. Edmunds besought Mr.. Blaine to cal
off his dogs last summer is spirited and con
elusive. Equally so is the answer of the
Herald to the charge that Mr. Edmunds has
gratuitously assaulted Mr., Blaine or cir
culated charges against him.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

summary for me Month ~ N0rcmber
barometer highest ~ u. iGth lowest 2pas 9TH.
mean, &.Hi. Thermometer highest &C.. list low
est 49, 10th, mean 3D. mean muxmum. a. T.:
mean minimum, % Mean relative humidity
~ q. Wind prevailing. northwest Highest We
lucty per hour in miles, ~. Total movement
15B miles Precipitation rain. $50 in.: melted
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

Quarterly meeting viii be held at the
Stratton church Dec 1O-l2. Preaching ON
Friday evening, the 10th, by Rev. J. NJ.
langworthy. Missionary concert on Sat
urday evening.
Rev. f. NJ. Roel, who has been located
here for nearly three years past, has ac-
cepted a call from the Stephentown, ~ y,
Freewill Baptist church, and will remove to
that place Jan LIST
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

The Boston journal shows its intimate ac-
quaintance with Vermont affairs in this
item:
''Tht Vermont Legislature is required to adjourn
wc1gprr Thanksgiving, which afforded II session of
If if il weeks How would it do for Massachusetts
:, m =. constitutional amendment requiring the
30 ur,. to adjourn before Fast day:
The sp ,s,,.,,. ,,, .bonId say that if would
''c I"'' o.edlv do very well and save the state
""'' gro 5 of needless legislative tinkering-
determine sachusetts will probably get such II
Naihnil Cory provision about the same time
mat Vermont gets one requiring, by any
thing more than the law of custom, adjourn
ment before Thanksgiving.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

A New York contemporary having shown
signs of frenzy over the rather remarkable
discovery that Mr. Edmunds betrayed
Mr. Blaine in 1884 and has now "insulted'
him in 1856 the Rutland Herald makes to
the editor the kind suggestion that ''No
man will be elected PRESIDENT because he
has boil on his nose The Phoenix, too,
once remarked that-but no matter what
we remarked we're afraid them pesky
b'ys" will be out with another batch OF
pink trip slips
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

Asa NJ Dickey has had his thirst for Of
flee, which craved nothing less than the
District Attorneyship, appeased by an ap-
pointment as postmaster of Ibis native vii
lagc" of Bradford. This is supposed to be
Mr.. Atkinss way of getting rid of the last
remaining obstacle to putting c. H. Pitkin
of Montpelier in Col. Haskins's place. But
if Pitkinss appointment doesn't come be
fore the meeting of Congress next Monday
both he and Atkins are likely to have a
chance to cool their heels outside until the
adjournment on March 18th, at least.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-03

The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year at the annual meeting Of
Sedgwick Post, held Wednesday evening
Com Capt c. II Bond; Y. c.. II G.. Stpctrr;
J V. c.. y l.. Hrirfck Adjt., Chns Sturgt-,s Y.
NJ, rhos Harmon, surgeon. Henry Tucker; chap
lain q r Selleck. %. D.. Luke Ferrter; q. q.
Wallace Pratt; sent, A " kelrr, representa-.
tiv,s to department cucampm-nt q. Sturlr-ss. :
" Richardson T Harmon; alteiuatcs. job Long.
Luke Ferriter Wallace Pratt; eut, rtaiument
committee, T. Harmon. II r. Taylor. G. Sturgt-ss
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-01-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A BILL is to be introduced in Congress TO
lend the name of the government to the
International Exposition, which is to be
held in Chicago in 1892, to commemorate
the 4OOth anniversary of the discovery OF
America.
MRS. ELIZABETH ARLINGTON, a widow
aged so, was murdered at Fo1boro, Mass:
on the 2Gth.
NEARLY 100 cigarmakers and packers lefs
New York on the 26th for San Francisco
to work in factories where Chinese labor
as has been employed at Is per 1000 against
s. and S. to be paid to the New York men.
THERE were twenty-six applications at
the New Orleans hospital on the 18th tor
surgical aid in extracting balls and dress
ing wounds inflicted by toy and other
pistols, which were freely and carelessly
used.
JUDGE SAWYER, United States Circuit
Court Judge, of San Francisco, on tie 2bth
rendered a decision in favor of the plaintiff
in the suit offSharon vs.. Hill, brought to
declare void the alleged marriage contract
THOMAS KING, of Chicago, in quarrel
on the oath, murdered his wife by beating
out her brains with chair.
FIRE at Clarendon, Ark, on Christmas
eve DESTROYED one entire block, consisting
Of 10 to - stores.
A BILL in equity in which the ownership
of over $4,000 acres of Texas land is the
point of contention was filed on the 26th IL
the Court of Common Pleas at Phlladel-
phia.
Work at No. slope, where the accident
occurred at Nanticoke, Pa, will be aban-
doned The victims are undoubtedly buried
deep beneath the sand, culm and rock, and
can never be found.
The International Art Exhibition will
open i'll Berlin on May IS, 1886. The hlstor-
icai department will be a prominent part
of the exhibition, and will cost $4,000.
A FIGHT occurred on the 26th between
"scabs" and striking molders, at North
Dighton, Mass, during which Thomas
Donohue was seriously shot in the groin,
James McCanna badly cut in the head, and
Charles Van Valkenburg cut about the face.
FIRE destroyed eight stores, a large guam.
tity of cotton and the depot of the Alabama
Great Southern Railroad at Ellinsville, Ala,
one the 26th. The loss is heavy.
THE total exports of specie from New
York during the week ending Oh the Goth
were 1926, 270. OF this amount the exports
to Europe were $2s0,025 silver and SOL ,256
gold. The gold imports of specie during
the week were $762, 169.
Rev. J. PURsER, of Birmingham, Ala,
was called out Of his bed between II and
o'clock on the night of the 25th to officiate
at the marriage of Mr.. Cannon and Miss
G. A. Sale. of Macon, Ga.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-01-02
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Two men were killed and several seri-
susly wounded by boiler explosion on the
21st in distillery near Dayton, O.
THE rescuing party searching for the en-
sombed miners in the Nanticocke Mine, in
Pennsylvania had nearly reached their
comrades on the 21st, whom, from an
swers to signals, they had reason to be-
lieye were still alive, when another cave
in, worse than the first, occurred, by
which two Of the rescue party nearly lost
their lives.
THE French gunboat Chamois was re-
norted on the 21st to have foundered in the
Toulon Roads, having just sailed for Ton
uuin. No further particulars.
THERE was serious fighting among the
miners at Elkhorn, Pa, on the ed.
WIN. MOORE and John Ridgeway were
killed by coal train at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 22d.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

A DoRsETT Underground Conduit agent
has sold out to an opposition company in
Milwaukee, Wis, and that city will do
without the Dorsett patent. The authori-
ties are indignant.
SIX men have been convicted at Kirk
wal, in the Orkney Islands, for assaulting
John Fender, M. p, the telegraph mag
nate, during the recent election excite
ment.
QUINN BoHANNAN, convicted of murder
at Lincoln, Neb., has been granted writ
of error by Justice Miller, Of the United
States Supreme Court, the man having
been tried for manslaughter previously
Bohannan was to hang January 18th.
AN attempt was made at Cedar Rapids,
Ia, on the 23d, to burn up the Salvation
Army and their barracks.
MANY of the prominent manufacturers
are preparing to leave Paterson, N. j., and
locate in Pennsylvania.
THE Cork Steam Packet Company, which
was boycotted by the Nationalist cattle
dealers, has made complete surrender to
the cattlemen.
THE Coshocton CO., Iron and Steel
Works have shut down, owing to their
inability to do work at present prices.
A PROMISE has been made to the Sultan
by the Marquis of Salisbury that England
will defend Turkish interests in the
Balkans SO long as they accord with those
of Europe.
The midland journal., 1886-10-15
She Outweighed the Bible.

The sight of the old Church Bibles
reminds us of the days of yore, when
persons suspected of witchcraft were
often weighed against them, writes
William Andrews, F. r. H. S., in Home
Chimes. We find, in turning over the
pages of the Annual Register, under
the year 1859, the following allusion to
the practice:
zone Susanna Hannokes, an elderly
woman of Wingrove, near Aylesbury,
was accused by neighbor for bewitch-
ing her spinning-wheel, so that she
could not make it 60 round, and offered
to make oath of it before a magis-
trate; on which the husband, in order
to justify his wife, insisted upon her
being tried by the Church Bible, and
that the accuser should be present.
Accordingly she was conducted to the
parish church, where she was stript of
all her clothes to her shift and under
coat and weighed against the Bible,
when, to the no small modification of
her accuser, she overweighed it and
was honorably and speedily acquitted
of the charge"
The belief in witchcraft fingered a
long time in that country; and even as
late as 176S that great and good man,
the Rev. John Wesley, wrote in his
journal: "The giving up witchcraft is
in effect giving up the Bible" The
laws against witches were repealed
in 1876 with little opposition, although
not long prior to this year Mrs. Hicks,
together with her daughter, a child of
nine, was executed at Huntingdon on
July %, 1716, 81 for raising a storm of
wind by pulling off her stockings and
making lather of soap in basin in
league with the devil" They were the
last persons hanged in England for
witchcraft.
The midland journal., 1886-10-15
Great heavensl was that Robert

Denham's false wife, that
The actress started as if she had been
struck, and trying dizzily to move,
staggered back, as Robert Denham
sprang forward, and catching the slight
form in his arms, bore her from the
stage as the curtain fell.
Kate Fairfax, who was following to
Viola's dressing-room, said, II saw Miss
Courtnay and Sir Austin Ravenswood
start up the moment she fell, and leave
the box"
"Go-fetch brandy, girll' was the
short answer, as he laid his charge on
the little sofa. "Thanks, Mrs. Hilton"
to the utility lady. "Leave her with
me little, please; she's not insensible.
He was right, for she raised herself
with a wild look round, as if searching
for something, pressing her hands on
her bosom.
"Oh, forgive mel Tell me again."
she said, half frantically, "that that
woman in yellow was-is your wife
Charlotte, who left you and deceived
another into a marriage?"
"I swear it, child, if it were my last
word-my welded wifep'
"Then, before heaven and man, I
alone am Austin Ravenswood's welded
wife,
In the moment that with these words
the actress sprang to her feet, the door
was flung back, and Ravenswood, fol-
lowed by Helen Courtnay, stood there.
"My wife? Then here for ever to
thine own shelter, my hearts lifep'
One step forward, and he had her in
his arms, weeping the wild, passionate
tears of joy on his breast.
She knew now she had the right to be
there, but it was some moments before
even Austin, still holding her, could lift
his handsome face to trust himself to
speak, looking from Helen to Denham.
"I cannot understand it all, except"
and the loyal right hand clasped the
managers" that you have taken care
of my darling, and somehow restored
her to me; but"
"No!" said Denham, hoarsely; II only
pointed out to her the woman-my
wife, heaven help me!-who left me
eighteen years ago; and Viola, take it,
recognized in her the woman who
deceived you as cruelty as she had
deceived me; and I thank heaven, for
the poor child's sake, that the truth has
been at last discovered"
"Ah, generOus-hearted man! it will
be bitter memory to me for ever that
even so unwittingly I have wronged
you."
The midland journal., 1886-10-15


her husband and his relatives, but that
she had arranged to fulfil her engage
ment with Mr.. Denham, a fact which,
by eleven o'clock, posters and "sand-
wiches all over the town announcing
plot and Passion" confirmed beyond
question.
Before five all Loden was ablaze with
the whole story, as given by the parties
concerned in the examination before
the magistrate of Charlotte IJenham, on
the grave criminal charge of having,
eighteen years before, feloniously
intermarried with Austin Charles
Ravenswood, she being already tho
wife of Robert Denham. The prisoner
had no defence to make and was COM
mitted for trial.
The sensation and excitement
throughout the town was something
beyond all measure, and the crush at
the theatre that night inside and out
(hundreds never got in) was a thing
never forgotten. .
Those of the crowd round the stage
door who could say they had seen Lady
Ravenswood, as she drove up and
passed in with Sir Austin, were happy
indeed; and when the actress came on
the stage, as Marie de FoutangeS, the
storm of applause that broke out
almost unnerved her for some moments;
and Robert Denham himself, who
played Foatche, received a welcome
hardly less enthusiastic and sympathiz-
ing. People taken en- n1dSSe are gener-
GUS and kindly, and each night of the
remaining three weeks was hardly less
of an Ovation-the last one, indeed
being such a cram, despite double
prices, that hundreds were turned
away.
"But it is not really your farewell of
the stage" says Helen, smiling as they
drive home; "for in these days of
benefits and titled ladies' acting
about so much, it will only be what we
have right to expect to often see
gifted Viola VALERIE, even though she is
Lady Rayenswood"
"Thank you," answers the actress as
her husband laughs and mods. ~
should be grieved indeed to think
had seen the last of the boards"
X X
Charlotte Denham was sentenced to
penal servitude, and so vanished from
the sphere of those she had wronged.
1t is not surprising, either, with two
such friends as Austin Ravenswood
and his young wife, that by the new
year Robert Denham was sole lessee and
manager of high-class London Thea
tire, which opened brilliantly with a
weeks round of plays, in which the
beautiful wife of Austin Ravenswood
played the leading role, and this theatre
became the fashion.
GAS much as you are yourself, sweet
heart" says Ravenswood with his old
bright smile. "Ah! my own Viola, it
was a happy day that brought us both,
by seeming chance, after long years.
back to Loden."
The midland journal., 1886-10-15
CHAPTER TX.
THE CURTAIN FALLS

"John," said the manager, quietly, as
"May Bough brougham, "drive round
to the chief police-station first"
"Yes, sir"
John mounted his box and drove off.
The actress laid hand that trembled
a little on her companions arm.
"What are you going to do?"
The lamplight flashed on his face
set, and stern, and pale.
"My dear, take the first step towards
proving your marriage before the
world, by giving description and infor-
NATION which shall cause the arrest of
Charlotte Denham before she can hear
of all this, and attempt to escape"
"No, no; for your sake, it must not
shall not bel Why should you suffer
so much, and be forced to drag all your
trouble before the world?"
She had almost seized the check
string, but Robert Denham grasped
both her hands.
"You do not know what you are
doing, child, in your generous thought
for me. Absolute publicity by legal
proceedings for her crime is the only
means of clearing past and averting
future mischief. She deserves not, and
shall not have any mercy; and for me,
what matter?-i is only one more pang
"a nine days wonder, and all is over.
If | did not do it, your husband would
be forced to do So"
She bowed her face on his hands, the
hot tears wettinl them.
"Oh! l could weep tears of blood for
the misery and shame one false woman
can work to those whose heart and
honor should be her first sacred
charger
She might we'll say so, Denham
thought, looking down on the beautiful
face at his side-she who, through des-
perate trial and temptation, had carried
heart and honor in safety when both
seemed utterly wrecked and lost.
X X
All sorts of rumors were, of course.
rife the next morning, especially when
about ten o'clock two things transpired
as facts beyond dispute; first, that a
lady, who had been in the theatre last
night, and was somehow concerned in
the matter. had just been arrested by
the police at her lodgings as she was
about to start for the station; secondly,
that Sir Austin Ravenswood, with Lady
Mountfane and Miss Courtnay, had
driven down to the May Bough :" inn,
and after an interview with Mr.. Den
ham, sent for the proud and delighted
host and hostess and the company, and
distinctly Informed them that Miss
VALERIE was Lady Ravenswood. and