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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20
I'uIney.

ph tuesday evening of last week the
West Dummerstou band gave Mr.. and Mr.
FRED +. Robertson serenade--a comuli-
ileht To Their late matrimonial alliance. The
hahd were cordially invited into the house
where they found the tables bountifully
spread cigars We're passed, very eniov.
anie time was had and good wishes extend.
ed to the bride and groom.
AT their recent annual meeting, the dra
matte club chose C. W. Kimball president
H. H. Walker secretary, and Dir. il. S. Nun
ger stage manager.
Il, e. Gorham intends to bring ont the
cantata of Esther some time i'm March
Marshall Pierce is ON the sick list throat
ened with typhoid fever.
The annual meeting of the Baptist church
ana society will he held in the chapel to
morrow at 2P, NJ.
There will be an old folks concert Mt the
Town hall next Wednesday evening. with
~ H. Siorham as chorister. An old-time
New England supper will be served by the
ladies' OF the w. c. T. u, for whose bene-
III The entertainment is given.
Prof. Ii. II. Shaw of West Brattleboro
occupied the Congregational pulpit last sun.
day' Rev. h. j, Colcord viii begin his en-.
gagement here next Sunday-a week later
imam at first announced
Delta lodge, No. 1917, X. of H., held their
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20
Few Figures.

The New York Sun is nothing if not wick
ed 1t has hated Mr.. Cleveland from the
start, and, whether it praises him or blames
him, its animus toward him is always the
same-to bring him into ridicue and con
tempt with his party. For three years it
has derided him for his civil-service reform
pretensions, taking the ground openly and
squarely that ''to the victors belong the
spoils that this is sound Democratic doc
trine, and that the President ought to live
up to it. OF late the Sun has taken new
tack, and with words of honied praise it
claims Mr.. Cleveland as a pure and spot
less spoils Democrat, on whom the Mug
wumps have no claim. To establish this
position, it takes the speech which Hon.
Eugene Hale of Maine delivered in the Sen
ate last week on the reform" record of
the administration, and tabulates from it
his statements showing the changes in Of
flee during the past two years. This is the
/ ,,,.,.1 o.. +la Gu, ,,nl,g - ont
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

N''ht BAD Accidents.
\. NJ. Darling. foreman in the Times
Office, while operating a cylinder press.
Monday, had his fureiinger taken OIL at the
hand JOINT aud the cord drawn out of the
arm from the elbow
man named McMichel, employed in
getting ice at the brewery, was injured
Monday afternoon The cakes are drawn
up chute at the rate of 30 a minute One
of these jumped the track and struck Ne
Michel ON the leg, smashing the bones above
the ankle so that amputation was neces
sary McMiche had worked at Bellows
Falls but two days, coming from New Jer-
sey.
SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT
Last evening, about 9 O'Clock a Young
Scotchman named Daniel d. Young, EN-
ployed in pulp mill No. |, was caught ON a
shaft and carried rapidly over and over
until the machinery could he stouped. He
was terribly hurt, causing internal bleed.
ing, and died about o'clock this morning
His injuries We're such that he could not b.,
removed to his home aud his life uus,ed
quietly away at the mill with his Young
wife, brother and other friends about him
Mr.. Young came here from Prince Ed
wards Island only short time ago. and
was recently married. He was only 20
years old. lie was Of exemplary habits
and character and an attendant at the
Methodist church His shocking death
causes a sensation and his wife and brother
have universal sympathy.
The poultry show closed last evening It
was ON the whole the most successful eNhi
bltlon yet held, financially and otherwise
The death Of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. DAYS
younger laughter, Margaret, from dinh
liberia, which took place last week, has
! been followed this week by that Of their
little Rohhy from the same dreaded disease
We have received line from G. r
Leonard, yard master of the Connecticut
River railroad at Bellows Falls. which
relates brave act performed by c. E..
Drew, son of Jerry Drew of this place
tie was coming toward the village in the
early evening when he discovered a heavy
timber sticking out of a culvert it was IA
feet long and l4xlS inches square. 1t was
too heavy TO remove, an express train was
nearly due, and had whistled at the cross
ing below. Drew had no lantern with
which to attrack attention. but realizing
the danger he took off his coat, twisted Il
around a stick and set it on fire and ran
down the track swinging it so vigorously
that the engineer saw something was wrong
and slowed up, thus saving serious acci
dent. Drew was presented with IA new
suit of clothes to make up for the burned
coat and received the thanks Of the pnrties
most interested -NetCpOH Express.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20
THE MOTHER STATE. A."

The sons of Vermont resident in Boston
held their second annual meeting at the
Hotel Nendume ON Tuesday evening, the
Eth There was a large attendance and
the occasion was brilliant and successful
one. Lieut.. Gov. Fuller was among the
guests OF the evening and responded for the
good old mother state" at the call of the
president Mr.. II. O. Houghton, the well.
known publisher The Advertisers report
says that The lieutenant governor was
given most cordial reception lie recalled.
in particularly happy way, the memories
of the old childhood days In closing, he
said
Our varied industries, our agriculture, our
schools ami colleges are to-day, a. ia former DAYS.
our pride and our glory Thcy have educated the
children with "a maximum Of excellence at a min
imum Of cost; and they Developed the, muscle
with that good, old fashioned game of saving
woud-bettrr than a thousand striped prison row
ing jackets and boxing gloves AMI wire cages and
Indian AMI other clubs Applause Aud though
We nave from time To time, as others have raised
the standard of scholarship it has not always nee
essallly meant increased gifth uf hex or size of
arm, ar the rich red color Of the NOSE the line
along which development has been made.
There were giants in those days There are
giants now II was a Nrrmlutcr at TicpnderOga
that invoked the prrrugatves Of Almighty God
and the continental congress In hi, fuur-o'rluck
in-the-morning kind of courage Il was a Yer
monter that exhibited like hcru~In when he met
lithttl ldiBt ON llt lhltN Ndl al gettysburg.
Applause. 1t was a Nrrnonter that said that it
must take Till of sale from Almighty God in
order TO prove ownership in imam applause 1t
was also "A NtrmOuter who has said taat the rights
Of property must still hr preserved. Applause.
When Nmdham County was in rebellion il was
Ntrmonter that said they must return To their
allegiance, or the place should he made as much
a desert as Sudom aud Gomurrah When our
forts were fired upon and oar munitions Of war
stolen from us, Il was Vermont federal judge
that said those men were liable t. be- indicted
tried and convicted OF treason, and to be punished
as traitors
Vermont has always taken hrr best men from
the bar and placed them upon the bench. Her
best have stood IN tine pulpit. Her choicest have
taught at the desk, 70 the halls Of congress she
has always sent her nhlrst and her best; and to-
day in the halls Of congress Vermont towers high
above the giants. Loud applause.
Keep ever, thea, green iu your memories the
old birthplace, the old childhood bone Az
keep II as green as our everlasting hills and our
mountains
May peace and prosperity abound,
No violence within her borders come;
Let every this tDast NOW drink
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

Senator Chandler of New Hampshire in
troluced "a resolution calling for an inves-
tigation of the recent election in jackson,
Miss, whereby a strong Republican city
was suddenly converted so that Democratic
officers were unanimously elected The
resolution was adopted, 20 to a. The
facts in this case as stated by the New
York Tribune, are, in brief, that jackson
has heretofore been Republican city, the
negroes voting without molestation but II
month ago, as the municipal election ap-
preached, White League was formed with
the declared purpose of carrying the city
by the Democrats. The murder of a white
boy by negro was made the pretext for
a proclamation by the league which pructi-
cally disfranchised every Republican vot-
er, and the pith of which is contained in
this sentence
driven by no sudden passion or blind impulse
| but actuated by firm and deliberate sense Ut the
! duty we owe to ourselves and to our race, We
hereby warn the negroes that il any one of THEN
race attempts TO run for office in the approaching
! municipal election he does so at his supremesi
peril, and we further warn any and all negroes OF
| the city against attempting, at their utmost hAZ
ard, by vote or influence, to fuist ON again th
black and damnable machine miscaled a govern
ment Of our city"
\ thousand copies of this proclamation
printed in red ink and surmounted by EN-
blematc shotguns and reviewers, wer,
scattered through the town. On Dec p {
Democratic convention placed in nomina
ton VIM. McHenry as the White Leagu,
candidate for mayor and appointed a com
mittee of 100 ito see that the ticket is elect
ed. The movement was an effective one
The Republican candidates for mayor an,
aldermen withdrew from the field on Dec
%. On election day, Jan. ,, not one col
ored Republican voted at the polls. Tn
White League ticket was elected without
dissenting vote.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

Here are ia-tS That might he studied with profit
What sort of protection is this that is driving the
sheep industry Of Vermont out Of existence.
that has in 3j years fostered the determination ~
near iuO,OO sheep out Of total of l,uli,uuut I'm
der high tariffs and low tariffs, tariffs framed
by wool growers and tariffs framed by 9th
ers, the downward course has been uniform
aud steady. When the wool tariff was lowest. Ia
lS5o-bl, and Canadian wool was admitted free.
Nermunters obtained an average of over 81 cents
pound for their wool where today they are get
ting less than 10 cents In the face If these facts
what school of political economy do the Vermont
sheep-breeders belong to and what stage have
they reached: And what have the people Of Yer
mont to say to this new and wonderful school OF
political econnIists who would tariff tax THEN
wool industry out Of existence.
We have Just this to say : that if there
had not been tariff we should now have
less than hundred thousand sheep left
The decline here has not been owing to the
tariff but to the enormous increase in sheer
husbandry in other parts of the country
Take few facts
In 1880 California had no sheep in 1856
that state had 4.lj2, $40 Colorado none IN
1850; 1i6, ALB in 1880. Illinois, s94, ALB IL
1850; ,031, 013 in 1880 Michigan, 746.
435 in 1850; ,, 1879, $50 in 1880 Missouri
1872, jll in 1850; All, 29S in 1880 New
Mexico, 31i,21l in 1850 2,0SS, S3l in 1850
Ohio, 3,942, 800 in 1850 400, 1856 in 1850
Oregon, -, 1872 in 1850 ,0S3, 1862 in 1880
Texas, 100, $50 in 1850: ,, 1913 in 1880
! Wisconsin, l24, 500 in 1850; 1896, S01 il
| 1880
These facts might be extended, but W,
have given enough to show why the sheer
and wool industry has declined in Vermont
The great new states, with vast areas o
cheap grazing lands, and territories wher,
ranching has been and still is carried OF
without any appreciable cost for land, nav,
! supplied the market. Vermont, of course
could not compete with them.
But if to this competition had been add
ed that of the immense wool clip of Austria
liza and some of the South American coun
ties, of Russia and of Canada all of whicl
seek our great market even through pro
tective tariff, it is obvious that the flock
would have been swept from our hills an,
it is probable that the development in tn
West would have been far less than it ha
been
Vermont farmers would, of course. lik
to prosper in wool growing as they did y
or 40 years ago, but they do not expect l.
until the country becomes more densel
populated But the school of economies t,
which they belong teaches them to reioic
that if they cannot make money as former
ly, some other Americans are making it
and are thus adding to the wealth of GU
common country instead of to some othe
country And they do not need to ask t
what school of political economy the Mug
mumps belong. for they already know tina
it is the English school
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

tory, so the number of "woolen and felt
mills has decreased just in the same way
as the number Of the shoe-shops Of we take
into consideration the number Of those small
shoe-makers) has decreased hut the prod
uct of wooden manufactures has greatly in
creased Thus, in 1860 it amounted to $50,
0i4, 402, while in 1880 it had increased to
S2Gi ,0i9,6lS In 1860 the wooden mills
consumed G0,jll ,343 pounds of WOOL and
in 1880 they consumed 240, 6Sl ijl pounds
know there is nothing funny to this, but
ex District Attorney Stearns is SO very
witty that in his hands a serious matter
almost becomes joke. His purpose may
not have been to misrepresent, yet never
theless it was one of the grossest misreprc
sensations of the development OF the WOODEN
industry under the influence of II protective
tariif that was ever made.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20
EE-Congressman E, S. Bragg h

EE-Congressman e. s. Bragg has been
cophrmed as minister to Mexico.
e'oth branches of the legislature of Wash
ton territory at Olympia have reGnacted
woman's suffrage law, but exempted
\ men from jury duty.
The citizens of Calhoun county, Ala. en-
gagged in agriculture, manufactures and
commerce, have petitioned Congress asking
e. the speedy and total repeal Of the in
ternal revenue laws and urgently deprecat
jig any reduction of the tariff upon the
ground that it will increase rather than
diminish the surplus in the treasury.
J 1t is an interesting fact that there are
Just now great storms on the surface Of the
sun as well as on the surface of the earth.
Many persons expert in meteorology attrib-
ute our terrestrial disturbances to the &c
ton of the sun-spots, which have been par
ticularly numerous this month.
The ship railway is apparently not only
not new thing, ~ but a very old one. 1t
has been scientific and engineering reali-
ty since 800 b. G. In l43s the Venetian
engineer, Sobolo, successfully moved the
Venetian fleet over land from the bank of
the Adige to Lake Garda, crossing high
mountain on his way With this incident
as the principal text, f, L, Hagadorn has
written an instructive interesting, and
timely paper on ship Railways-Ancient
and Modern" for the February Harpers.
1t doubtless was not intended to help ON
Capt Eads's idea of a ship-railway across
the lsthmus of Panama, but il is entirely
favorable to such II project Six maps il
lustrate it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

The St Johnsbury Caledonian last week
summed up the result, or effect on its bust
ness, of not having gone into the state com
mittee's clubbing scheme. The result is, in
brief, that not more than two or three sub
scribers stopped the Caledonian to take a
paper which used the committees club
rates. that less papers have been stopped
than ever before, and new names volunta-
rly sent in have been more numerous than
usual. Better than all, " the Caledonian
says, 'Ve feel each week that the subscrb-
ers of this paper have not been induced to
take it in order to secure some other paper
at a low price, but they take it because they
want it, hence the paper is n welcome Wis
itor in the homes of its readers
We should like to have an experience
meeting on this subject by the state press.
As our own contribution we rise to say that
we don't know of a paper having been
stopped because we didn't cut the price of
The Phoenix % cents and throw in some
metropolitan weekly at less than half price
There may have been such instances un-
known to us, but it is certain in our own
case, as in the Caledonian's, that orders to
stop have been less numerous than usual at
this season, and the number of names which
have come in voluntarily has been extreme
ly gratifying. The net result is IA handsome
increase.
The Springfield Republican remarks in
recent article on successful country news
papers that "a newspaper office with sound
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

You never hear of free trade philoso-
pher publishing a work on free trade and
neglecting to copyright it. On such pro
ducts he wants protection, and wants it
badly, That is where his inflated patriot
ism peters out and his enlightened self in
terest begins, -Phiiddeip hid Press.
Mrs. Mary Dow, of Dover, n. H., has
been elected president of the horse railroad
company in that progressive city, and we
note with special satisfaction that she has
appointed her husband treasurer of her
board of trustees This is CARRYING the
usual domestic order of things into affairs
in pleasant and natural manner. -Ecen-
Jag Record.
Since local option law was enacted in
Missouri, a few months ago, of lG cities
and 81 counties which have voted ON the
liquor question, % have gone for license
and 81 for prohibition, with total anti sa.
loon majority Of 55l0. If Missouri abol-
ishes Saloons Democracy will be the next
to gO.-RdtdHd Herald.
A letter from Pasadena, California, say.
the rush of people there is so great that the
post office department has been unable t.
handle the mail matter, and tons of news
papers have accumulated in the Office. and
no attempt made to distribute them Thi,
has been so for months. 1t must be a very
inefficient set of post office officials to allow
such a state Of affairs to continue so long.
The letter giving this information is dated
Dec. I'd, and reached us Jan. 14-Noifh-
dHiptoa Gazette.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

Not long ago at dinner in Boston of
the Tariff Reform association, ex-District
Attorney Stearns, of Chicopee, made one Of
his characteristic speeches, full of witty
sayings, which was accepted as a very
convincing endorsement of the free trade
policy outlined in the Presidents message,
but Mr.. Herbert Radcliffe, the secretary
of the Boston Home Market club, pricks the
sparkling bubble with few prosaic figures
from which we quote:
Mr.. Stearns in his speech said; There
are to-day S61 less wooden and felt mills in
the United States than there ere in 1861
and of course he went on to say that this
enormous decrease showed the fallacy of
a protective tariff 1t is an old chestnut
lie that Mr.. Stearns thus revamps The
character Of the wooden industry has
changed. Where in 1850 to 1860 a skilled
weaver would produce cloth for his neigh
bors running one set of cards, all that has
been changed just as the small shoemaker
has departed 10 give place to the shoe fac
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

The terrible effects of the great storm
which swept over the Northwest last week
and even reached with its icy grip down
across the territories and states to the Gulf
of Mexico on the Texas coast, are beyond
the realization or comprehension of the
people of the east. The list Of those who
died from freezing and exposure is not vet
made up, but it already reaches 2l7. One
of the most pathetic features Of the sad
story is found in the fact that many of the
victims We're teachers and school children
who were caught by the storm in the little
isolated school houses, or on their way from
them to their homes. Many eastern people
will get their first impression of what a
western blizzard is really like when they
read that at midday the air was darkened,
and the storm was so thick, and binding,
and driving, and bewilderng, that people
persisted close by their own homes, which
they could not see or reach, and that strong
men dare not venture even few rods
away over familiar ground, as from house
10 barn, or across the street, without a rope
stretched along for guidance. One of the
daily papers sums up the character of this
terrible visitation and its results in this par
agraph
Dakota never had more lovely winter
weather, as dispatches say, than at sunrise
of last Wednesday The air was particu-
larly clear, and warm south wind and
bright sun naturally led many people to an
ticipate the beginning of the annual Janu-
AIRY thaw. So exceptionally fine was the
day that farmers actually took advantage
of it to make longer journeys than usual
across the prairies Not till noon were the
slightest signs of the approaching storm
visible. In a single hour, however, the lit
tie cloud first seen low down in the north
west had obscured the sun the warm south
wind had shifted 10 the northwest and be-
come a gale, Snow as fine as -four began
10 fall and the mercury fell from 30 to 40
above zero at noon, TO 10 below at 5o'clock
With the darkness the fury of the storm
increased. A voice could not he heard at "a
distance Of six feet Every railroad in Da-
kota and Minnesota and many in Iowa, Ne
braska and Wisconsin were blocked. Tel
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-01-20

The rededication of the Baptist church
will take place next Tuesday at II A. NJ
Rev. F, j, Parry of Brattleboro is expected
to preach the sermon. The interior of the
church has been remodeled and beauti6ed
Many changes have been made, aud all for
the better, at am expenditure of $1,000. A
strenuous effort is being made u raise
funds by subscription to lift the debt of the
society previous to the dedication, and with
a good prospect of success
Different parties have been cutting ice
ON Q, l.. Browns mill pond, which they
consider of good quality.
lima Goodell lost valuable horse one
day this week
Mrs. Joseph Cheney of Dakota, former
~ OF this place, is visiting friends aud rel
atives in this and adjoining towns.