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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13

There seems u bee disease among the
sheep in this vicinity. s. e.. and r. 4 Cut
ting have already lost y. and others are
sick The sheep live but short time after
they are taken.
The farmers are having "a big run Of sap.
and those who had the courage u break
through the deep snow u their sugar lots
are making a large quantity Of sugar
The Young people are thinking Of having
a Map day dance at Onion hall
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13

Dr { W. Ray has taken room, at + d.
I'er'e and will board at D. f. Taylor,
Fred Young and family were in t.,.,,
over %, sunday We understand that Mr.
l"uhs expects 10 move to Brattl.bo-.,
where he Will engage in the grocery bus
Preaching at the Congregational cbp-.a
next sunday 10y the Rev. Mr. Wbitna, III
East st. Johnsbury. ''''' '1
Mrs o. C.. Reed and her daughter I,.ri.
have returned from Holvoke
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13

There will be- no preaching at the Nethu.
dist church next sunday
One of the stage horses went of tl-
dungway i'm going down Brooksid" hill
"Wednesday morning. no serious duinasr
done
Mrs. Lambert Howe came home last
week. She has been staying with her rlal.
dreu during the winter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13
Rrgrc1. lhe Milhdrn,rnI.

From tn" ST. Adams Sentry.
Hon =. D. Harris has written a letter to
Mr.. G. q Benedict Of the Free Press with
drawing himself FROM the field as a caudi.
date for EuheIuatorial honors. We regret
thai this is so, for after reading the letter
of Mr. Harris we arc more than ever CON
WINGED that he is the man 90 nominate
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13

pure Vermont maple syrup or sugar ie'
ibo,p sopd their orders TO the Vermont Ma
rle Sugar Exchange at Brattlcboro, or 10
any honorable shipper in the state, and they
viii ret the pure quill beyond peradv'"-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13
Mr.. Gibb.,. CompIiu,ep,.

brattlcboro has one less candidate for
governor this year, Hon. y. d Harris hay
ing formally declined in a long letter 10 the
Free Press. Tine communication is more
formidable than the candidate has been at
AN. Time
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13
ermon.

IN: Eiuer e. a. Phelps of WestG.Id Ma.
VII WI preach in the chapel next SuuJal n,
1850 A. NJ and 30 r. M W '''''''"S 1|
Considerable local curiosity WINS or,r..i
10y 1he passage through town L,s, ,,,,I.
~ attlehoro lawyer ana sheriG bayin.. h.
uuslody one Charlie Semter. Frsncb,,.-.,
VINO came &" town the past yyintsr 80 ..
"oodchopper. lie was charged Win IL.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13

w. u. Fishers place was sold Monia, f..
Mr., Catharine Evnus. II is und,rsi...I
that she bought it fora friend Mr. F.L.'
and hi- brother Roscoe left Tuesday for ID.
kOtn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13

At the adjourned special meeting of the
Brattleh9r. Fast .Tpusrrartioun. society.
held las. evening, - consider the subject of
proposed church and parsonage repairs.
the committee alpo.u'ej-B d. Harris y.
J. Havley and q G.. Averill-reported
these repair, % lc necessary
y new plHzzu lu the south und west side,
1i the parsonage, and the painting Of the
outside OF the parsonage and barn.
A new slate roof upon the church
Painting the outside of the church build
ing and chapel
Puintinc and iresroiug the inside Of the
church. substantially d. shown in plan, hv
Butler x Nt-uhery Boston decorators. ex-
mhltei at the meeting
View windows for the church Of Scotch
cathedral glass
Carpet, and cushion, for the church
Repair, of pla,terinr and curnic-s. chap
81 roof chimneyS and furnaces, aud floor
supports for the church
The total estimated expense Of these re
pairs including the payment of "A debt of
$1,000, was placed at $500 Toward this
sum the ladies benevolent society has $1,000.
and the committee believed that the bal
ance of S,i,jU could br raised 10y subscrip-
ton half payable July !, 1855 and
one half July !. 1889 The committee fur
ther recommended that no contract, he
made and uo money expended until the full
sum uf $500 has been subscribed
The report was accepted and resuu-
ton was adopted iustructing the committee
90 go ON and raise the money and make the
repairs Dea. G.. f. Thompson WAS placed
upon the committee iu place Of r. g. eros
by, resigned The committee a. nov con
stituted consists Of b b Harris, H. l. Iaw
ley, {. F. Thompson, q. C.. Averill and j
+. Haywood
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13
a VERNON TRAIN WREcKER

March 18th, a~ l' Prescott and Steve
'r"7shhu wcr" walking mp the railroad
track in vernon near Nhlth-t , hotel. they
discovered upon rounding sharp curve,
IRONS placed upon the rail In reply 20
Prescott questions trp,>inau said that the
objects n >i-hi ""~" fish plate, which has
7enter, d Ir"nrhmrn, had arranged with
the intention oi "rrokius the train. ON
reaching the spot Prescott found Gross
man ; story regarding rhe nature aud ub.
Ie't of the Constructions o. dee true aud bee
removed tine dahs"roU' plates Two days
later Mr. ~irr.i.r i'unl Ties piled upon
The track near hl- h'u~" aud removed them.
March 5l third attempt at train wreck
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Gbr l)trmont 4lbrnit.
URATILEBORO:
FRIDAY. APRIL l#. l~so.

,.
The platform nd"pt'H 10Y 'N' "'l"'''.'"
state convention at burlington '''' "''N 'S
printed in full On our FIRST page '''"!'
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VII '''''f '......i.i... and ,,,.,, IL. ou
- ,..,, ,,bi.t tH.r,l extracts are
elsewhere made.
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senator MOTIF" '"''. WV "...i.....
PROMISED Sl'''" - n..
free TRADE u''''s' -. IT,.
strongest e""',S .!.'. ...;.
ever m"'' Jul ''"''' W v.r.' l;n .
aud showed e'pe''n"' INV w..
opposes Ine "l''' 'S' l...
shall make n'''"' H''''''
speech lh lu'"'
t,u.o pr.ss daries the
,I...i.... r,,,l,s Inn. como home
''' ''''' 1..l ,..;i ,,,t r.tprn to England
i.f, t.,,,,e Tor ENGLAND
~ .l.,l l,e,,i,.I, to return thi.
Nv '''' ','' it.a. mill. nm notters of pri
''1' -. a,,5 lis ,,.rsonal friends un-
,"'' ' U5.|a,t w. ',ronlj do So The present
.','.',,.f. t.u.sress character. and
..l.,,,o,,t If his private affairs
MT ue'Ps WI" T. :. tlt.ly that.
orlsl'"',s ', Ill g., r,si.., bs
" "' ''' =. w. Hf.. Dill. and his SON in
N'ui' ma
I'''''''"'
Senator Morrill, has introduced bill in
the Senate authorizing the director Of the
United States mint with the secretary of
the treasury. 10 have new designs prepared
f,,. the United States coins. The bill au-
tborizes the director of the mint to engage
the services of one or more distinguished
artists In assist in the preparation Of de
signs and if it becomes q Ian the coinage Of
the country will he likely to show some ev-
licences of the Improvement in the art Of
design which has been so marked in the
mast few wears The pasaage of this law
is strongly urged bv Secretary Farchild,
who saws that the artistic defects of our
coinage have been repeatedly brought to
the attention of the department under for
mer administrations as well as under this.
The bill provides that changes in the de
than once in % wears.
George White. alias Miles, Familiarity
known as the Barre bank robber, was re
leased from Windsor prison ON Monday
night and went to New York Tuesday. He
served sentence of u years for breaking
the Barre bank in 1919, having his time
reduced over two years for good behavior.
His trial was a notable one, and he was
convicted March 81, 1876, Oh the testimony
of "Curlev." "A confederate who turned
states evidence. Two or three attempts
were made to get him pardoned, but Yer
mont governors had good sense enough TO
keep the desperate man here he belonged.
White was engaged with Max Shinborn in
the robbery of the Walpole Savings bank
nearly p years ago and broke out of
Keene Jail the winter after Shinborns
conviction of that crime Methods of bank
protection have changed much since White
has been in retirement and it will he inter
esting TO see what phase of his profession"
he will first turn his hand to. He is pretty
sure to be heard from. ANYHOW.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-04-13

The attention Of Brattleboro readers is
called 10 the report If the superintendent
of schools, which i, printed ON our first
page today. Mr.. Spaulding's work is care
fully done, and a large amount Of informa.
tion is compressed into small space.
There will bee meeting Of the member,
of the odd Fellows mutual relief associa
ton at }ettinr Bro. store, April 20, at 1.3O
e.. NJ
The gale., 1888-03-24
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
SHORT NEWSY PARAGRAPHS FOR
HURRIED READERS.
Coudcused CnbIegrnms and TeIcgra phic
Dispatches Boiled Down-The
World nt Large.

The New York wheat market has been
lifted 2 cents by the foreign news, but
with the result of completely .arrcsting
the export demand
The employees of the Panhandle shops
at Dennison, o., were treated to sur
prise when III of them were presented
with tickets of indefinite suspension.
The British bark Lonews, from Laun-
ceston, Australia, for London, England,
with cargo of wool. was wrecked near
Weymouth. The captain and eleven OF
his crew were drowned.
A serious collision occurred on the
Burlington & Missouri River Railroad,
one of the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy
lines ccntering at Atchison. A through
Denver passenger train was standing on
the track at Humboldt, Neb., when a
south h-bound local passenger train from
Lincoln, with Reading engineer in the
cab. dashed into the station at the rate
of ten miles an hour. Fireman w. B.
Hill, of Lincoln, jumped as the engines
came together and suffered dislocation of
the right knee, and several others were
seriously hurt.
A fire broke out in the Methodist Uni
versity at Mitchell, Dakota, from the
combustion of oily rags in the oil room.
There were forty inmates, including the
faculty, students and servants. All but
ten escaped without trouble. -Four young
men jumped from the second story win
dows; four others and a professor jumped
from the third story, and another pro-
fessor descended from the roof by
clothes line. Horton Richer, of North
vile, OAK, received internal injuries and
died in two hours. Prof. r. H. Taylors
skull was fractured, an arm broken and
he was injured internally and will proba-
bly, die.
At Berry, five miles from Reidsville,
N. c., the dwelling house of G. w.
Mobley and his granary and stables were
fired, and he lost in the fire all his mules,
wheat and fodder and corn, wagons,
carriages and threshers. The plan of the
incendiaries evidently was to plumber his
store near the house. The same night
three stores in Reidsville were robbed.
Logan Fuqua, white man who is Mob
ley's miller, has been arrested for the
burning, and is In Jail at Wentworth
AT the granary is piece OF fallow land
that had just been turned over. Fresh
tracks were found over the falIow land,
and it is alleged they fit the tracks OF
Fuqua's shoes. Arson in North Carolina
is capital crime.
The gale., 1888-03-24

Zone Of the greatest terrors of the
oil regions" said John Morganthaler of
Titusville, Penn, sis the Man with
the Lantern He has been the cause Of
more needless confagrations among oil
wells than anything else, and has cost
the region millions of dollars. He is
usually an employe about the wells, and
nine cases out of ten man of experience
and intelligence, but he will persist in
taking tho chances in paying
a visit now and then to
some gas s-enveloped tank, carrying his
lighted lantern with him. The result
isn't always disastrous, but that is not
the fault of the Man with the Lantern.
Usually an explosion results. If a
destructive fire does not follow that, the
fact will be without precedent. Some
times the cause of fire of this kind will
not be quite certain at first, but it only
needs roll call of the employees of that
particular property and the taking of an
account of the tool house stock to
ascertain the cause. There will be one
employe short, and the number of Ian
terms will be less by one. Then it is
known that the Man with the Lantern
has been walking. Oh, yes! The Man
with the Lantern always disappears on
occasions Of this kind, and instances are
rare where even as much as piece OF
his ear is ever found. But he IS not
dead. The Man with the Lantern never
dies in the oil regions. He will be sure
to walk again shortstime after he has
disappeared once.
The gale., 1888-03-24
All Done for Money.

1t is somewhat strange that Mt the
very time when young Dodge was bring
ing disgrace to an honOred name by pub
fishing the false news of his engagement
to be married to an heiress an officer of
one of the crack regiments Of the Prus-
sian Guard, and belonging to one Of the
most ancient and noble families of the
Empire, was committing an identically
similar offence at Berlin. Young Lieut..
Count Won A., at his wits end for want
of funds, addressed himself in despair to
a well-known money lender for loan of
$4,000. On being asked what security
he had to offer, the officer was struck
with the brilliant idea Of asserting that
he was engaged to be married to the
enormously wealthy daughter of one of
the principal manufacturers of the city,
a lady whom he had only met twice be-
fore in his life. The usurer replied that
he was ready to advance the money if
the Count could convince BIN of the ex-
istence of the engagement. Accordingly
the following day the young nobleman
caused an advertisement to be inserted
in two of the principal papers Of the
capital announcing his betrothal and his
approaching marriage to the heiress,
Two days later the young lady's father
caused an indignant denial of the engage
ment tor be published, and addressed a
strongly worded complaint to the Colonel
of Count A. S regiment. The young no.
bleman was at once ordered to resign
his commission, and Immediately after
having done so blew out his brains. The
question now being discussed in Berlin
society is rs to whether he was successful
or not in getting the money from the
usurer in the few hours which elapsed
between the announcement OF the be-
trothal and its denial.-N. Y. World.
The gale., 1888-03-24
GOSSIP.

The report submitted by Senator Cock
rell from a special committee which has
been studying the methods of transact
ing government business in the executive
department, is volume of 1858 printed
pages, in addition to voluminous appen-
dices. The committee devoted year to
the work. Some of the examples of Off
cial circumlocution read as though they
might have originated in the brain of an
extravagant humorist.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture
resumed its hearing on the bill to protect
| the manufacture and sale of pure lard.
Prof. Sharpless, of Boston, appeared, and
at the request Of Mr.. Wilson, proceeded
| to compound an article out of twenty per
cent of stearine, twenty-five per cent OF
cotton seed oil, forty per cent of pure lard
and ten per cent of dead hogs grease.
The experiment was made to show that
refined lard manufacturers might use the
grease of smothered and diseased hogs In
the manufacture of the compound.
The President sent to the Senate, ames-
sage in reply to the resolution requesting
him to negotiate with the Emperor of
China treaty containing aprovision that
no Chinese labor shall enter the United
States. The President says, such nego-
tiation was commenced some months ago,
and its progress has been communicated
to such members of the Senate as sought
in ormation upon the subject, and he now
deems himself justified in expressing the
hope and expectation that the treaty will
soon be concluded concerning the imiiii-
grafton of Chinese laborers which will
meet the wants Of the people.
The following Georgians have made
claims on the Government for supplies
furnished or property destroyed during
the late War: Leroy Napier, $40, 900
heirs of Nedham Ballard, of Georgia, 5000
Samuel Wood, of Chattooga county, $503
William White, $576. 80; also $107. 06 te
George r.. Ward, of Floyd county $597,
so to Alexander Vaugn, of DeKalt
county, for same; 1922 so to John Smith
of Chattooga county; 81, 1915 so to Henry
A. Sims, Of Chattooga county; $249. 81
to William P. Ramsey, of Walker county
81. 3O5 to David r. Ramsey, of Chattoog;
county; $712 to Perry w. Partain, O
Paulding county; $2.015.50 to James M
Foster, Of Paulding county; and $77O tt
| Abner Worthy, of Chattooga county
John G. Whitehead, administrator O
John G. Whitehead, of Rome, ~, 1853
| Sam Allison, executor of William P. AL
| lison, of Walker county, 1891; Luthe
Walter. of Floyd county. $50S.
The gale., 1888-03-24
Baptized for His Brother.

Says the Harrodsburg (Ky.) Demo-
crat: Two brothers, not living more
than fifty miles from Harrodsburg, look
so much alike that when one OF them
joined the Baptist church, and was about
to be immersed, he found that he had
no clothes suitable for the occasion, as
he expressed it, and paid his brother ten
cents to be baptized in his place, which
was done. This story seems incredible,
but it is nevertheless the fact, and
would never have been found out had
not one of tho brothers gotten angry
md gave it away"
The gale., 1888-03-24
The construction of great canal for

The construction of great canal for
irrigating purposes has been commenced
in New Mexico. The dimensions of the
canal will be 80 feet wide at the top,
1S at the bottom, 6 feet deep, running
distance of 142 miles, through Rio
Arriba, Santa Fe, Valencia Bernatillo
and Socorro counties, on the mesa and
bottom lands of the Rio Grande valley.
1t will begin at point about three and
a half miles south of Espouolo, and will
stop near point opposite Socorro.
Over 1900, 900 acres of now useless
land will be reclaimed by the con-
struction, which will subject it to
copious irrigation. The supply Of water
will be practically inexhaustible, as the
canal taps the Rio Grande at the start
ing point, and will have immense stor-
age reservoirs at intervals along its line.
Much enthusiasm is manifested through
out the territory at the commencement
of the work.
The gale., 1888-03-24
SELECT sIFTINGs.

The lobster lays 12, 900 eggs year.
Lake County, La, has tomato farm
of 116 acres.
Gold was discovered in California just
forty years ago.
The children in Bogota carry their
own chairs to school, as well as their
own pens and ink.
Mrs. Martha Fayard, died near Biloxi,
Miss, lately, aged 106. She had ninety
| living descendants.
An immense locomotive just completed
at Paris is expected by its builder to
accomplish speed of ninety three miles
an hour
A French chemist says he has invented
a liquid which can be thrown into
swamps and marshes and make sure of
killing every mosquito.
A number of sparrows have built nests
in the Air Line bridge across the Con-
| necticut, and they are not disturbed by
the numerous passing trains.
In early times a kiss was the established
| fee of a lady's partner in dance Shake
| speare several times alludes 10 this GUS
tom, long kept up in England, as anti
| quarians say.
A New York doctor who has made a
| lifelong study of inebriates, says he has
known OF only four permanent cures of
old soakers, no matter where or how
| they were treated.
The municipality of Vienna, alter tho
strictest investigation, declares that
Madeleine Pouka, of Vienna, has COM
pleted her 112th year, her birthday hav-
ing been in the year 1875.
The position of postal clerk has been
| handed down in one family in Gollnany
was lately celebrated by the present
holder of the position, named Cleve.
There is woman living at Hannibal,
Mo-, who Is so heavy that she can't walk,
and is wheeled about in a cart by an
able bod ed attendant. She weighs 41O
pounds, and otherwise is in good health.
A squirrels nest, which cost $1,000.
was found in Pennsylvania Ey the heirs
of a miser who had put this amount of
bank bills in a box aud hidden it in
tree. A squirrel had utilized the box
and torn the bank bills into shreds.
The Neapolitans appear to have an un-
IiIHtteu ttPdCliy no. olly lor intCaIoIl,
but also for cells, which form favorite
food during the fasts pres ribed by the
Church. No less than eight hundred
miles of eels were sold last year within
the boundaries of the city.
An old Roman fire. place, with the
ashes and chimney well preserved, was
unearthed at the market-pla Mayence,
recently. The pipes were earthenware,
and fitted exactly into one another. A
monumental stone bearing the inscrip-
ton: LEG. Kill, G. +. NJ" found
close by, was nearly twenty-five inches
long by nearly twelve inches broad.
The gale., 1888-03-24
CAPITOL GOSSIP.
THE DOINGs OF A WEEK At OUR
NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Department tChnt-CongressIonal News
Movements of Our National Law
Makers.
a --4sss
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the House the dependent pension
bill was received from the Senate, and re
ferred to the committee on invalid pen
sions. The days business was of no in
terest to the general reader, being en-
| tirely OF a routine character--c --committet
reports, and the discussion of bill grant
ing lands in severalty to some western
Indians, but no vote was reached.
Among the petitions and memorials
presented and referred in the Senate, was
one with 102, 900 signatures from thirty
three states and territories, against the
admission of Utah as state, SO long rs
its people are under the control of the
Mormon priesthood. The pension bill
was then taken up, the question still be-
ing upon the amendment of Mr.. Wilson,
adding the words, s'the intirmities of
age" The amendment was voted down,
the amendment to include Mexican vete-
rams was rejected and the bill passed A
to 49,. -. In the House, Mr.. Tillman, OF
South Carolina, asked unanimous con-
sent for the immediate consideration of
the bill appropriating $40, 600 for the
purchase of certain swords belonging to
the widow of Gen. James Shields. The
bill was passed, but not without good
deal of discussion arising out of the state
ment by Mr.. Steele, of Indiana, that he
had seen newspaper paragraph to the
effect that there was some question as to
the ownership of the swords. Mr.. Till
man declared that there was no such
question, and the entire Missouri delega-
ton give the assurance that the swords
we're in the undisputed possession of the
Shields family. Mr.. Rayner, from the
committee on commerce, reported the
bill to establish postal telegraph. Mr..
Blount said the subject of the bill was
onc over which the committee on post
offices and post roads had jurisdiction,
md he reserved the right at the proper
line to raise the question whether the
committee on commerce had jurisdic-
ion over the subject of postal telegra-
ply.
The gale., 1888-03-24
SMELLS MURDERER.
A Man Captured Supposed TO be the
entity One.

A. B. Franklyn, a liquor dealer of
Pueblo, Col, who has been on the look
out for Tascott ever since it was an
nounced that the murderer OF Millionaire
Smell was en- route West, called to his
assistance Officer Connors, and after hav-
ing him sign paper to give him one
half of the reward, told the officer that
he had discovered Tascott, and wanted
him arrested. Together, the two went to
lodging house on West Fifth street,
where the supposed murderer was found
sleeping soundly. He was awakened and
handcuffcd and taken to the city Jail.
The prisoner somewhat resembles the
description of Tascott sent out by the
Chicago detectives, but he has no gold
filing in his front teeth, and one Of his
upper teeth next to tho eye-tooth was
missing. Again he ID too dark for. the
description published, but Franklyn in
sisted that the man is disguised and that
be is certainly Tascott.