Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-11-27
THE ASS IN THE LIONS SKIN.
4 Tale Of the Here and Now.

The g. G. appeared last week in the old
role Of the ass in the lions skin. but its
bray gave it away, to say nothing of its
ears. The g. e., as has been previously
stated gets quite start on its local show
each week by making up items from The
PhHniX Of the week before. The Phoenix
asked for an explanation of this kind of
business, and the g. C. retorted by saving
that it did just what it charged. but that
The Phoenix did likewise BY going
through the local, personal and county col
umns of The Phoenix of Nov. Il it claims
to find five items which had appeared in its
own columns the week previous and asks
where The Phoenix got its information for
them. Here is the information, so far as
we are at liberty to give it in these col
umns-
Item No l. Florist McGinvrays marriage
The e. e. stated Nov. that Mr. McGillivray was
to be married Nov. 10 at Toronto The facts wer.
that he was 10 be married at Ottawa Nov. l..
a stated in The Phoenix of Nov H. The informa-
ton was furnished The Phnnix by man whose
name we will furnish if the e. c. will call at
office.
Item No 2 Death Of DR. Warren Garfield TIN.
Phoenix gave complete and interesting account
of DR. Garfield's life. such as had been published
in no Vermont paper The information was taken
from an article in the Granville " Y Sentinel
Item No. B Loyal Legion. 1t stated some
time ago and was generally known Throughout the
state that a cOulnlanueTy 81 this legion to b.
established at Burlington, and The Phunix used
an item on the 18th which was written by and pub
lished at the request Of person Interested.
Items Nos. and 3. Improvements by Lucien
Witt, and a personal about Mrs. Whitaker return
| ing to Springfield: The persons who furnished
the information will BE- named when the e. c. calls
to learn about the one above.
Right here allow us to say that The Phae-
nix never takes anything from the columns
of the e. c. The whole Phoenix force will
bear witness TO this, the e. c. knows it as
well as anybody, and the reading community
of Windham county knows it. The e. c.,
on the contrary, is constantly taking The
! PhpniX's leavings and serving his readers
with warmed-oyer news.
The e. c. goes on to give the number of
! items in the two papers, which he thinks
/ is illuminating As has before been
stated, The Phoenix is not run for count of
/ items, but for news that is worth printing
| If count was the object we suppose it would
| use the trivialties which are the e. C.. 5 dis
| tinguishing characteristics.
! 1t finally eXpatiates on the general news
| service of the two papers, and deliberately
| talsites in what it says about the mention
| of 500 fires at a distance. The e. c. SAYS
! The Phoenix had no mention of the ar
! rest of the Readshoro burglars. No? Well.
! what of it. These burglars have not been
arrested as yet, except in the columns of
the e. Q. The Readsboro officers would
gladly welcome any information in regard
to the whereabouts of these burglars.
Then the e. c. talks about the Identified
| ton of Amy as Abbott. Poor thing. it
did not know that The Phoenix published
a personal interview with the warden of
the Windsor prison several weeks ago,
| which settled the question beyond doubt.
And it says The Phoenix did not mention
other items, which the e. c. was too near
| sighted to see.
But the richest thing of the whole comes
when it talks about The Phoenix having
nothing about the hauling of Arnold's
flag ship out of Lake Champlain. This
article was published in the Vergennes
! Vermonter, and The Phoenix was the only
paper in the state which made the clipping
from the Vermonter The article was cop
led from The Phoenix into the papers all
over the state, and the e. c. saw it in one
of these papers, reclipped it, published it
week after The Phoenix did and then
prated about The Phoenix not mentioning
1t. That the e. c. took this article from
some paper which took it from The Pho
nix is proved by the fact that we added to
the original paragraph a clause concerning
the location, which appears in the clipping
in the e. c., and which was not given in
the Nermonter.
The e. c., backed by the paternal pocket
book, went up like rocket and long since
came down like a stick 1t expected to own
the earth and the fullness thereof, but in
stead it goes hobbling along only to see
the procession leaving it, while it wonders
what it was born for, anyway.