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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

The sneaLershIp.

Mai Grout Of Derby is making q strong
push for the speakership Of the coming
House. He is popular man OF good ability,
and many people would be glad, on personal
grounds, to see his canvass coed but, un-
fortunately for those who are in earnest about
the railroad commission question and other
similar reforms, bis opinion upon these issues
is not known, and be refuses to declare him
self 1t is openly said by well informed peo
pie in the central and northern part OF the
state that M4i. Grout is the candidate OF the
railroad men, and it is a suspicious circum-
stance that the railroad papers like the Mont
pelier Waterman and the st. Adams Messe n
ger have tolared for him, and that they ig-
more the candidacy Of any other person. We
do not believe that Maj Grout has made any
alliance, secret or open, with the railroad
managers, tut the danger is that the people
of the state will lose all the real fruits OF their
late canvass and victory in the ell, ction to the
speakership of a man of too easy views or
with opinions not sharply defined on the inn
portant reforms which the result Of the cleo
ton showed the people to be very much in
earnest about. The Rural Vermonter Of this
week forciby says on this point
"rhe speaker appoints the committees, aud his APP
pointmens are not suhje to review appeal Here
he is an auocrat II he is honest independent, fear
less and wise, he will try to make good appointments
If he is OF easy political virtue or ambitious
his acts will very likely represent the will Of others, Oh
Of interests which are to be benefited by legislation Of
which desire to defeat legislation"
We repeat this week. what we said las
week, that the Windham county representa-
tives-elect ought not to pledge themselves in
advance to any candidate whose views they
do not know positively about. There will b,
more than one candidate for the speakership
and in the list will be Judge Stanton of RoI
bury, strong, experienced man, who is no
an exponent of the railway interests and will
whom the advocacy of a railroad commission
bill and other similar legislation is a matter o
principle.
This is one side of the matter. 1t is onl
fair to say on the other that we have recent
ly convetsed with personal friend of Msjo
Grout, who AYERS in the most positive Ian
guage that he is in no way allied with the Gen
trail Vermont railroad interest, and that II elect
ed speaker he will be entirely free from it
dictation, and will make up his committee
so as TO reflect and carry out the prevRilin
public sentiment on the vital issues of tn
late election.
Under these conflicting reports, therefore
it is safe and wise for representatives to wa
and investigate before committing themselve
to any candidate. p.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

The Rutland Herald in an article, suggest
ed by the biennial report of the state super
visors of the insane, says, With reference to
their recommendation that the criminal and
convict insane should have separate quarters
provided for their in connection with the
House of Core ction. that
hese u1t ortunates sent to the asylum instead
vi W o the prisons because it is thought that they
tsPut' Treatment more than punishment. II now
Are to have quarters In connection with prison,
my will require the same expert treatment which it
supposed that they receive at Brattleboro. No
doubt this be had in Rutland II the state is will
ing to pay for 1t. 1t will not be humane to abandon
them to mere restraint, without trying to help them
to recover"
The Herald, we think, overlooks the real
point made by the supervisors Their whole
argument is based on the fact that the crimi-
nal and convict insane are "incurables. Not
only do their cases afford no hope of recovery,
but, if they should apparently recover, pub;
lie sentiment would not tolerate their liberia.
ton because Of fear that under another
seizure of their malady they might commit
other crimes They are sent to the asylum
not because they require treatment with hope
of their recovery, but because they require
confinement and seclusion rather than punish
ment If the editor of the Herald was &C
quainted with the individual cases, as the su-
pervisors are, he would at once see that the
only humane" thing that can be done for
them is to give them kind and humane treat
ment under proper restraint, and that no ele-
ment of trying to help them recover enters
into their cases as a hopeful factor, They
are a class by themselves, with habits and a
L = L 4 A.
citation with other patients of whatever con
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

A YOUNG MAN FALLS THROUGH AN ELEVATOR
SHAFT AT THE CARPENTER ORGAN WORKS A
DISTANCE OF FORTY FEET.
About half past two this afternoon, Will.
bur, only son of John p. Washburn, aged
about Is years, and employed at the Carpen-
Ter organ factory, met with serious and It
may be fatal accident. He WAS at work on
the fourth floor OF the chop and was drawing
an organ out to the elevator, which WAS on
the floor above him. As he had almost reach
ed the door leading to the elevator the side
handle OF the organ gave way, owing proba.
bly, to some defect in the wood, and be was
precipitated back wards through the opening
and down the elevator shaft to the cellar floor,
distance of about 40 feet. No one saw him
fall, but workman near the elevator thought
he heard cry, and looking down the shaft
discovered him. He was in an unconscious
condition when found; medical aid was at
once summoned, and Drs. Gale and Pratt
came to his assistance. He was removed as
soon a. possible to his home in the Lawrence
water cure building. Strange to say no bones
were broken by the fall, but internal injuries
are feared, and he is still unconscious
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

No recent public utterance on S3y subject
has attracted such general attention and been
so universally commendedess the state fair
address which So "dtor Edmunds gave at Bur
ilngsSSn.isn Thursday evening of last week,
sind " hich is printed in full on our first page
to-day. Departing from the usual custom of
attempting to talk to the people on purely ag-
ricultural themes, which he might or might
not have known something about the Sena-
tor talked for an hour on the leading economic
and social questions of the day, which are of
vital importance, not only to the farmers, but
to business and laborirg men and all the pro-
ducipg classes which go TO make up the great
mass of our body polite The address is
full of solid food for thought it is simple,
plain and Ineligible in its terms, and there
is no need to urge every intelligent person to
read it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24
MR.. EDMUNDSS ADDRESS
A High Compliment.

lfTom tut Aluhuy JouTuhl
When Mr.. Edmunds speaks he commands
the respect if not the concurrence, of his au-
dience to a greater extent, probably, than any
other man in the country. HIS prepared
speeches are not many in number, but they
present the conclusions of the most logical
and careful mind in the country, Mr.. Ed
munds suggests policies for whole people
where other speakers simply arouse the indi.
vidual to thought. His address at the Yer
mont state fair was not partisan in character
indeed, the event precluded a partisan
speech; but as the expression Of opinion of
the Republican leader on the floor of the
United States senate where alone tue Repub-
lican party is now in the majority-on public
questions it was necessarily political. 1t
traversed the whole battle-ground of political
parties in this country, not to the accompani-
ment Of a brass band, but with tine calm in
vestigation of great general explaining to a
staff the points of vantage.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

The New York correspondents say that
stuffed birds are again exhibited in the win
dows of the fashionable millinery shops, and
birds are to be in fashion for this seasons
hats and bonnets. The fact seems incredible,
considering the wholesome agitation which
the subject has received. The current issue
of HArper's Weekly, remarking on the sub
ject, says with deserved severity;
1.-THE agitation has turned public attention to the
subject, and the woman who a dead bird for
uament is in danger of being regarded by intelligent
persons as they regard fantastic barbarian. Saw
ages the sGaps of their enemies but the birds
have done the young women no harm that they shall
decorate their heads triumphanty with the dead birds
bodies. The lady who wears dead bird need
not effect contempt of her feow-savage who wears
nose ring
One thing is certain. The milliner who Of
fers for sale or the woman who wears a dead
bird, after all that has been said on the sub
ject, shows a callousness to public sentiment,
or a defiance OF it, which is by no means a
womanly or an admirable quality.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24
TBt Uermont 4Bonit.
BRATTLEBORO
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 90 1856
pnRLLsHERg NOTLCE.



During the past two or three weeks bills have been
sent TO all Subscribers who are in arrears for Tue
Phoenix As a matter Of justice to us these bills
should be paid promptly. Small as the individual
amounts are II is from their aggregate that our own
bills must be paid aud our business supported. But
this is not the only consideration We are more and
more convinced that the only right aud satisfactory
basis on which to conduct newspaper business is
that Of advance payments. 1t is not alone the right
and desirable system for the publishers, but it is
equally so for the subscribers. subscribers do not
nav their bills easier or more cheorfuly when they
have accumulated for two or three years. The pub
fishers must pay their bills out Of each years earn
inas and receipts and for this reason the really dc
srahle and profitable subscribers to have are those
who pay their yearly subscriptions year and as
soon as practicable after the year begins The de-
mand on the newspapers for broader and better news
gathering increased facilities, and greater expense in
every direction, grows steadily, and the only way to
meet it on safe business basis is to make every year
business complete within itself In this way the gain
is a mutual one between subscriber and publisher.
For two or three years we have made steady effort
to bring our business to the adyance-pay sys-
tenn aud we hope to have substantially accomplished
our object by the beginning Of another year. For
this reason we must insist on prompt settlement
as may be Of the bills recently sent out
;D- W. call special attention to those which run
back Of January 1885, and ask that they be paid with
out the further and personal solicitation which We
shall be obliged to make if they not settled within
the present month.
Bratleboro, sept /, 1885.
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GuIIford Cantre.

The Guiford seminary has opened with
quite encouraging prospects.
A singing school, to be taught by Mr.
Markham Of Brattleboro, will begin next week
All wishing to attend arc invited to be present
Mt the commencement
Mrs. Frank Hunt and children returned
10 Philadelphia Thursday, having spent the
summer at s. J.. Hunts
Mrs. @. A. King is visiting friends in
Massachusetts,.
-Jsd,diah Franklin, who has been in fec
BILE health for months, seems to be improving
and il now able to take care Of his farm.
-Silas Conant of Leominster, Mass, has
been visiting his brother Nathan this week
The lormer is 81 and the latter nearly %.
Mrs Mary l. 2. Willard, who has spout
the past year in Northampton, visited her pa
rents last week.
The ladies' eli Gle will meet in their rooms
next Thursday. A pleasant time Is anticipat-
cd.
Rev. f. W. Whitney will preach in the
Universaist church next Sunday al 2:3O ?. NJ.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24
MA HnlifaN.

Col A. b. Franklin of Newfnne, master
of the Vermont state grange p. Of H., will
deliver the address at our fair, which will take
place in this village on Wednesday, Oct 6
A new departure in planting has been
tried by several of our farmers this season /;
new, at least, in this section, which il sod
planting. The manure is spread upon the
swsrd, it is then plowed under to the depth Of
four or five inches, not deeper than five,
holes are then made with a sharpeued stick
at the proper distances, in every third fur.
row, the potatoes are dropped therein, cover.
ed by pushing some dirt over them with the
foot, and that ends the business, the iced ly-
ing in the furrow till boeing, when the field
is cultivated and hood as in the ordinary way
of planting no drag or pulverzing harrow
ia used upon the field at ALL OF course the
system has its enemies and it's friends, but
the Rjority of those that have given it a
careful trial are satisfied that it gave them
better crops than the ordinary way. The
advantages claimed are more plentiful crop,
smoother potatoes, and Less labor invested IN
planting, with no more labor in digging.
Elias Stone is building new cylinder to
his mill.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24
which Is Nos Probable,

The solidity of the Vermont Republicans
for Senator Edmunds is one of the cncourag-
ing features of American politics. Mr.. Ed
munds is not a po ular man in the general
acceptation of the term. 1t does not come
natural to him to go around kissing the bs-
bies and assuming TO know and take per
sonal interest in all his constituents. To
some of his best political friends it is said he
has to be introduced on an average about twice
year. He contents himself by doing his
duty in the Senate where he has become one
of the most Influential leaders Vermont ap.
precistes the fact that it would take new
man twenty years to reach the position which
Mr.. Edmunds holds to day, provided they
could find new man Of his intellectual abil
ity, which is not probable.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

September 2lst is late in the season for
ripe raspberries and straw berries, but the
Dummerston correspondent of The Phoenix
received this day small box of strawberries
aud raspberries fresh from the field where
they had riPoned during the hot days of
September.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hoyt of Davenport,
Ia, who have been visiting relatives in DUN.
mereton for two or three weeks past leave
tomorrow for Orange, Mass, where they
will spend some time before returning home.
Mrs. Betsey Reed has during the past
year pieced a bedquilt whose component
parts number 1850, and last Friday being her
S5lh birthday, party of about 10 neig6bors
gave her surprise party and did the quilt
ing for her.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

The United States minister at Pekin has
made report to the secretary of state upon
the recent outrages TO American missionaries
in China. 1t appears that in May the Pres
byterian mission property at Kwai Ping 400
miles southeast of Canton, was looted and de-
stroyed, and Rev. Mr.. Fulton and his wife
were forced to fee for their lives. In June,
the Methodist hospital at Chung King was at
tackled in the absence of the male missionaries
and the woman in charge was badly injured.
In July the mission property was entirely
destroyed. There was no loss of life among
the American missionaries. The Montreal
Star finds an instructive parallel in the cir
cumstances
The missionaries have been treated by the Chinese
very much as the Chinese commonly treated by
Americans In the land of freedom aud equality.
First Of ALL the walls of the mission station were
pacarded, "the foreign devils must co. paraphras-
ing the motto Of the Pacific slope the Chinese must
60" And finally, the patriotic Cinnamon threw
stones at the Americans, destroyed their property,
and, doubtless, would have cut OF their pigtas only
for the fact that the Americans took a mean advan-
tago of the Chinese and did not any. Then 1.-THE
foreign devils" went and, doubtless, the Chinese
patriots held and passed resolutions, viewing
with alarm the increasing foreign competition with
native labor Very lamentable the affair was, but
there is no denying that 1t was also very American
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24
M arlbOrO.

The first frost Of the season on Tuesday
night.
e P. Adams and wife are visiting friends
in North Adams, Mass.
Rev. @. II. Merrill and wife of West
Brattleboro were in town on Wednesday and
spent the day.
- Mr. Morris of Wilmington is painting
the town house.
Many of the farmers complain of rot in
their potato crop. Some fields are nearly
one-half rotten.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

Seventy Ave friends who took the band
along with them, called on Mr.. and Mrs. ST.
Leonard last Saturday evening, took their
house by Storm presented useful gifts, served
Refreshments, and conducted themselves after
the usual privileged fashion on goth wedding
anniversary days.
Ambrose II. Burgess, who died last Fri.
day after long and painful illness, served in
the war as a member Of Co. @, 18th VI. Vols,
and his funeral on Sunday was attended by a
large number of his old comrades, six Grand
Army posts being represented Mr. Burgess
was wounded in the battle OF Winchester, Va
Sept. 10, 1864, and his funeral took place on
the ODD anniYerearY Of that battle.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

The largest pension yet granted was paid
in Louisville, KY, last week. The amount
was $ll, 500. 1t was allowed for an injury to
the eyes in 1868, which resulted in total
blindness. The pension dates from the time
of receiving the injury.
The Argus says that David Stearns of Put
ney is to be the United States Deputy Mar
shal in this county under the Democratic reg.
ime.
The President aud Mrs. Cleveland left the
Adirondacks early this week and reached
Washington Wednesday evening. The Charles
ton people feel aggrieved and hurt, it is said,
because the President has not shown more
active sympathy in their behalf.
Capt. E. A. Morse Of Rutland will be can
didate this year for the office OF quartermas-
ter-general of our state militia. He had am
pie experience during the war and in the man
agement of large business enterprises at the
South afterward, which fits him eToellently
for the position.
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Announcements,

+. W. Kuech Co. will sell TIL gone three cases
ladies' vests aud pants at SOC each-beer than usual
fresh lot fall shades hid gloves, 4.button SOC.
Handsome styles remnants Turkey Red Damasks at
i9c. Red hannels-bargains at IS and 99c Carpets
are very low. Look at 2Oc stripe linen. Look "
you don't want to buy.
Wanted immediatey-a capable girl for general
Homework. Mas. +. p. CARPENTER
We have just received very handsome silver
ware suitable for wedding presents.
RANGER THOMPSON.
IosT-A bunch Of keys was lost In this village on
Wednesday. suitable reward will be paid on their
return to the store Of stickney Brothers.
Picture frames in great variety at A. F. wildcr's.
Shop open evenings from TO g.
Dr. Post has removed his dental Office to rooms over
G. +. Thompson Co.'s store, Willlston block, where
he will be pleased to his numerous patrons aud all
who may wish to consult experienced and success
ful dentist.
ARTISTIC PIcTURE FRAMING at Clspp 4 Jones's.
Picture FRAMES cheap at Clapp Joness.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24
from the Rutland Herald.

HE771E VIZ 1F1E17I71 110E"771'l
Chairman Manley telegraphs that Maine 8
Republican majority il $4,000 on the gov
ernor vote, $1,000 on the congressional, and
that Mr.. Hale will be reelected senator by
the largest vote ever cast in the legislature.
All in ALL he says this lis the greatest Repub-
lican triumph ever achieved in Maine" That
is good, and yet there are people in other
parts Of the country who say that since Yer
mont, with smaller population, gave still
larger majority week earlier, Mr.. Edmunds's
silence is more influential than Mr.. Blaine S
eloquence. But it was not question of
leaders so much as difference of people.
Mr.. Blaine needs to talk Mr.. E1muuds don't
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

INC AAepunhcah Victory an NHiHe'
Chairman Msnley of the Republican state
committee telegraphs to the New York Trib-
une that official returns from every city, town
and plantation in the state give Bodwell H.
600 majority over Edwards. "Our plurality
on Congressman is 1900. The Republicans
elect 14S members of the legislature, the
Democrats 80. A special effort was made by
the Democrats to capture the legislature and
defeat Mr.. Hale, but he will be renominated
by reclamation and elected by the largest
vote ever thrown in Maine for United States
senator. Our victory, taking it all in all, is
the greatest Republican triumph ever aohiev-
ed in Maine"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

mansion formerly stood, while attempting to
pass there in the dark, and received severe
injuries, including broken collar bone and
bad bruises on various parts Of tho body.
She is now comfortable and improving.
The Times says that the additional SIS.
600 10 complete the $50, 900 endowment for
the Vermont academy at Saxtons River il
likely to DO secured this week.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

Senator Edmunds's check for $50, accom-
panied by very sympathetic letter, has been
received by the Charleston relief committee.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher S'owe shows de
cline in health and spirits since the death of
her husband which alarms her friends.
portrait of the late Major General W. S.
Hancock in full dress uniform adorns the new
81 silver certificates.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

There are rumors of a contest over the will
70 of Samuel ]. Tiden, the Tilden boys-Sam-
uel j. and George II. feeling that they have
not received as full recognition at their I'M
cles hands as they had a right to expect.
Some unpleasant gossip has been occasioned
by the fact that Mr.. Tilden's sister and his
niece who lived with him at Greystone and
cared for him in his last illness, we're require d
by his administrator to leave the place on the
Sth inst. because he held that beyond that
time, the law made him personally responsi
BILE for the running expenses.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-24

from the National Republican, Washington, d. c ]
A bucolic once remarked in reference to
friend whom he considered frst-rale speak.
err that "whenever he opened his mouth he
was sure to say something" Senator Ed
munds does not make many speeches, but
when he does open his mouth he says some
thing" The speech at the Vermont fair on
Thursday is an excellent example of the
judgment and elaborated care with which the
senator places his ideas before the public
There is rarely any necessity for the verifca-
ton of reporters notes, or for the rsinvest-
cation of statistical jumbles The Vermont
senator may be right or wrong, but he is al.
WAYS clear
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He spoke for she whole Country.

IIUIII Iut TIUNIUtuUt IUWTUATsI
The worth of this address is in the real i'm
portanoe of the subjects discussed and the
wholly national view taken. There il not a
hint OF partisanship, nor a suspicion of sec
tonalism. The Republicans of Vermont
have just elected a legislature which is to
elect again Mr.. Edmunds to the senate of the
United States, but the speech of the senator
is in behalf of the whole country in its pro.
gress, with the argument throughout that the
people are one, with common rights and com
mon interests