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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-07
NEWPORT and FALL RIVER

WARREN AND BRISTOL BRANCH.
Leave PROVIDENCE Qndia Street statlon) for
NEWPORT AND FALL RIVER
at 100. 745 express. and SIS a m. and l2 "a
Z Is and (yia New York boat at IS y. m. sun
days for Fall River so a. m; 80 y. IN, New
port (vla New York boat Q 80 p m.
Leave Providence for Warren and way stations at
800, 415. 3d. o IS C7 As p m. except saturdays).
Saturdays at IL 20 p. m Sundays at y 90 a. m
BRisToI-ft5 express. 8 90. 55 a. m. 12 40. %
urdays at IL 20 p m.) sundays o so a. m. and
Horse cars leave Exchange place. Providence. at
40, 25. 40 and 35 a. m. and IL %, 40. 65.
$40. 80, 9 Is, 80 p. m.
sundays at " 90 n aud 10 u. m.
Saturdays leave Market square at IL 05 p. m.
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Passengers can leave PROVIDENCE 90, 10 90
a. m; 12 As and 05 p IN. PAWTUCKET IL,
Mansfield for south Framinghain Marlboro, Clin-
tor, fftchburg Winchend on, keene. Bellows Falls,
Rutland. Burlington. ST. Albans White Rivcr
Mentpeliefs Montreal, Gardner, Athol,
Greenneld Brattleboro. Hoosac Tunnel and
Leave Providence for Lowell, Nashua, Manchester,
Concord, y. H.. and points north at oo. 10 oo a.
Leave Providence for Taunton and New Bedford at
600. 90, go0a m; i2 0o. Q 90, o 06. 49, 10 %
For Middleboro 20 a. m; I2 o5. 90, o5 p. m
For points on Cape Cod 20 n. m; 2 20 y. m.
For Cottage City and Nantucket. via New Bedford.
l2 90 y. m.
>. r. kENDRIcK. GEO. L. CoyNoR,
Genl Manager. Gen1 Pass'r Agent
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
MINOR NOTES.

Archdeacon Farrar of London offers 500
for the proof of any one case, either in
the church or out of it, where drunkenness
has been cured without total abstinence.
Lawyers still predominant in Congress, as
probably they always will. There are PIP
members Of the present session who have
at one time or another practiced law, while
~ are farmers.
Gen. Lew Wallace has a new novel in
hand on which he has been at work for
more than a year His royalties on the
sale of Ben Hur have amounted to consid-
erably more than 100000.
Senator Cullom proposes to have a COM
mission select the best automatic safety
car coupling in existence and then by law
of Congress compel all railroad companies
doing an interstate commerce business to
adopt and use it.
Fred A. Rowland who was secretary of
civil and military affairs under GOV. Dill
lingham, has returned from Minneapolis,
where he has been in a large law office
and will engage in the practice of his pro-
fession at Lisbon. y. II.
Secretary Tracy of the navy department
has designated the government sailing ship
Constellation to carry to Russia the cargo
of -four which the great milling concerns
of the Northwest have contributed for the
relief of the starving Russian peasantry.
The latest story of the Washington cor
respondents is that Mr. Blaine told his
personal friend, Senator Washburne of
/ Minnesota, in private conversation just be-
fore the holidays began, that he was in the
| field and would accept the presidential
| nomination if rendered him with substan-
| tial unanimty. This information was in
! tended to be strictly private. but it was too
| good to keep and so it leaked out.
\ copy of Walton's Vermont Register
/ for 1892 has been received. This time
| honored publication has now become the
property of the Home Publishing company
Of Burlington, and the current issue ap-
pears with this imprint \ very noticea-
/ BILE improvement is seen in the mechanical
execution of the work, and the new pub
fishers evidently intend to make the bust
ness directory as nearly complete and re-
liable as may be.
Gov Russell OF Massachusetts followed
on Christmas day practice which he has
observed for several years. OF giving in the
stable, in the rear of his Cambridge resi-
dence Christmas dinner to a party OF
100 poor children of the neighborhood
Besides the dinuera Christmas tree helped
the children to enjoy the day, The first
hour was devoted to games, and then the
governors brother, Col Harry Russell, ap
peared as Santa Claus, and, stripping the
tree of its presents, bestowed them upor
the merry and eXpectant company. BE
sides the governor, his wife and their two
sons, the governors father and many o
the neighbors dropped in to see the fun.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01

elected a member Of Congress and made
his mark in the House by an eloquent
speech in favor Of the abolition Of slavery.
He was elected to the Senate in 1864 to fill
an uneNpired term. He was an ardent al
mirer of President Lincoln and was a
member Of the Baltimore convention of
1868 which rcnominated Mr. Lincoln In
1869 Gen. Grant made him postmaster
general, and he performed the duties Of
the Office with ability and distinction until
1874. He afterward held other important
public appointments and, withal, was a
leading and successful lawyer. And yet
the ephemeral character of political repu-
tation in this country is seen in the com
plcte disappearance Of Mr. Creswell from
public life. In recent years he has been
quietly practicing law at Elkton, Maryland,
and attending to financial interests at that
point and Washington.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01

The evidence in the Graves murder trial
at Denver, Colo, was finished on Wednes-
day, and the arguments of counsel are now
in progress. The prisoner was put upon
the stand, and on cross examination ap-
peared at great disadvantage, confessing
repeatedly to having made false and con-
Trajectory statements.
Dispatches from the Pacific slope tell
strange story of heavy snow storms and
blockaded railroads, as compared with the
weather which prevails at the East. In
the mountains of New Mexico passenger
trains are stalled in snow drifts. and the
snow drives back upon the tracks as fast as
removed. The worst rain and snow storm
in years prevailed at San Francisco on
Tuesday and Wednesday. The snow is
reported to he II feet deep on level from
the Sskiyou mountains near the Oregon
line down to near Mount Shasta.
Miss Rachel Sherman, daughter of Gen.
Sherman, was married in Washington at
noon on Wednesday to DR.. Saul Thorn
dixie. The ceremony, which was according
to the Roman Catholic ritual, took place
in the drawing room of Senator John
Sherman, uncle of the bride. President
and Mrs. Harrison were among the guests.
The new postal cards, a small size print
ed in pale blue for ladies use, and a large
manila card for business purposes, have
been issued and are in circulation.
A pair of eagles out in the state OF
Washington have been named "Jim Blaine
and "Bill Mckinley"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01

In the several clippings from prominent
papers elsewhere printed indication is Civ
EN- of the severe criticism which has been
visited upon Speaker Crisp for the manner
in which he made up the House commit
tees. The main complaint on the part OF
the Democrats is that he has ignored the
prominent men Of the party, choosing new
men for important positions and putting
the older members of long experience to do
work with which they are entirely mfamil-
lar. The New York Tribune, however
makes a good point in telling the Demo-
Gratis that such complaints are absurd and
irrelevant. for the very good reason that
the Democratic party under every previous
organization of the House has been a fiat
failure in the conduct of business, and if
Mr. Crisp has now had the courage and
good sense to recognize this fact and shake
up his material he ought to be applauded
rather than blamed. For years past the
Tribune continues, Mr. Crisp has seen the
prominent Democrats with whom he was
associated proving their mcapacity in the
places to which they were assigned, and
that is reason enough for trying them in
other places for which they may prove to
have some sort of fitness.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01

\ little wave of sensation has been Gre
atcd by a letter written by William Lloyd
Garrison to President Eliot of Harvard
college on certain customs which prevail
among some of the students of that iusti-
tuition. The specific case in point OF which
Mr.. Garrison complains is that of young
man who was initiated member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon society, one of the
numerous Greek letter societies, and who
in the course OF his initiation was branded
on the upper arm with six deep burns from
lighted cigar, and blood poisoning and a
long sickness ensued. The victim is said
to have been Mr.. GalriSOn's own son. Mr.
Garrison complains that, further than this,
the d. X. +, is a drinking club and that its
influence upon the young men connected
with it is altogether bad. Its practices, he
says, are ''akin To the harbarism of the
/ Fejee islanders or OF degraded Indian
/ tribes, and he calls upon President Eliot
and the faculty to put an end to such a
state of things. Mr.. Eliot has made no
answer to the letter, but is reported as
/ saying in private conversation that the
/ college has no control over its students in
/ these respects and that it simply asks
them to conduct themselves as gentlemen.
/ An obvious answer to Mr.. Garrison's 5
/ complaints would be that young man who
/ had been well-hred and well-inhuenced at
home would not be likely to have any lean
| ing toward a society of the character of
the Harvard d. X. f. For the good name
of the general college fraternity which that
society represents it should be said that the
Harvard society was long since disowned
the unsavory reputation which it had ac-
| quired.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
NO. l.



There is practical manimity of opinion
among the Democratic newspapers that
Speaker Crisp has blundcred egregiously
and stupidity in the makeup of the House
committees. HIS own friends do not at
tempt to conceal their fears, and his oppo-
nents boldly pronounce his action "revo-
lutionary' and ''trcacherous' to the last
degree Even the Hll-Brice gang
of bourbons and reactionists, which was
chiefly instrumental in putting Crisp where
he is. has taken alarm over what he deems
the needlessly hurtful length TO which the
speaker has carried the game. No prede-
cessor of Speaker Crisp ever managed so
early i'm his course to arouse such antagO-
nism in his party or create such party
emergency as he appears to have done.
No other speaker has ever ven
tured to do what Crisp has done. No
other ever supposed it wise or helpful to
party unity to ignore the heads of factions
or to step out of his way to snub them.
Yet this is what Speaker Crisp has done.
1t is not in reason or human nature to sup
pose that this putting down of representa-
tive men of the majority, and this putting
up of new men, can rebound to the advan-
tage of the party. The appearances GER
tainly justify the conclusion of great
majority of the party papers that blunder
as stultifying as it is ineXcusable has been
committed
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01

From the indianapolis Sentinel 0Dtn.li
The announcement OF the House com
mittees will fall like wet blanket upon
the Democracy of the West and the North
west, as well as of New England. When
they returned such an overwhelming ma
iority of representatives to the Fifty-sec-
ond Congress they did so upon the issue of
opposition to McKinleyism, and upon
pledges to reduce the tariff to revenue
basis at the earliest possible moment.
They now find the House organized upon
such a basis as to apparently preclude any
hope of tariff reform legislation at this
session, and at the same time to insure the
bringing forward of the silver question in
such form as to threaten the disruption
of the Democratic party.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
Club Rates for 1892,

All the important features of The Ph0-
nix clubbing rates are still in force. These
include the Manchester Mirror and Farmer
for 80 cents, the Boston Weekly Journal,
New York Weekly Tribune and New York
Weekly Press at 45 cents, and the Daily
Press at $3.50 from this date. The New
York Weekly Mail and Express will be
furnished the coming year at 65 cents,
The same reduced rates with leading
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obtained with The Phoenix as with any
other paper This includes the low prices
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The rate for the New York Weekly
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ers, To those living outside of the state
the rate is - cents.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
Gbe Oermunt Qb@mrt.
The Vermont PhGniX has larger
paid circulation in Windham county
than any other paper.

BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, JANUARY ], 1892.

So many of our readers always show a
kind interest in the success of The Phu-
nix, by enquiries as to the condition OF its
business that it seems proper, at the be
ginning of the new year to say word per-
sonal. The year which closed yesterday
has been the most prosperous in the his
tory of The Phoenix, and no previous year
has ever shown more substantial gain in
the volume of its business Whatever
doubts were entertained of the wisdom of
enlarging the paper 10y an addition of
more than one-fourth its former size, and
of change of form to eight pages, were
quickly dispeled by the warm and cordial
response which this Improvement met on
the part of our clicntagc. Nothing but
words of approval have been heard, and
the appreciation of this enterprise has been
shown by a steady gain in our subscription
list in Brattcboro, and in nearly every
other Windham county town. There has
also been a corresponding gain in our ad-
vcrtising patronage.
In The PhuniN job printing office the
increase of business has been beyond all
precedent New machinery and other
material have been constantly added to
keep pace with the growing demand, and
to meet the requirement for work Of the
first class promptly done
As heretofore, We promise our readers
that the returns from this increased vol
ume of business shall he faithfully used to
give them an enlarged news service and TO
increase the value Of The PhmniN in every
way.
We wish our readers. one and all, a Hap
py New Year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
4 Timely nlt of rugllIve Verse.

4 Westminster friend sends us the fol
lowing verses, copied out OF an old scrap
book which was made at about the time
the first Atlantic cable was laid. IF they
are not Lowelrs,' he says, they are good
enough to be his in his lighter moods.
Remembering that the man of national
fame who laid the cable is now in sore
straits through the failure and disgrace OF
his son, our Westminster friend thinks il
a good time to reproduce this tribute tC
Mr.. Fields great achievement:
HOW CYRUS LAID THE CABLE.
Come listen all unto my song,
1t is no silly fable
'Iis all about the mighty cord
They call the Atlantic cable.
Brave Cyrus Field he said, says he
Il have pretty notion,
That can run telegraph
Across the Atlantic ocean,
Then all the people laughed, and said
They'd like to see him do it.
He might get half seas over, but
He never could 90 through it,
To carry out his foolish plan
He never would he able;
He might as well go hang himself
With his Atlantic cable
But Cyrus was "A valiant man.
A fellow of decision,
And needed not their mocking words,
Their laughter and deriSion.
Twice did his brave efforts fail
And yet his mind was stable;
He wasn't the man TO break his heart
Because he broke his cable,
"Once more my gallant boys he cried,
''Three times YOU know the fable"
t"I'd make it thirty muttered he
But will lay the cable!0
Once more they tried hurrah, hurrah,
What means this great comnotion:
The Lord be praised the cables laid
Across the Atlantic ocean!
Loud ring the bells for flashing through
Six hundred leagues of water
Old Mother Eugland's beniSOn
Upon her eldest daughter,
Now long live President and Queen
Long live the gallant Cyrus.
And may his courage faith and zeal
With emulation fire us.
And may we honor evemore
The manly, bold and stable,
And tell our sOns-tO make them brave
How Cyrus laid the cable
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
The Democrats Garry their Point i'm NcN,
York.

The New York court Of appeals render
tion cases for seats in the New y Nork senate,
and the board OF canvassers promptly pro
ceedcd to count in a Democratic majority
in that body. The membership now stands
16 Democrats to II Republicans. with one
case to he decided by the senate after it
conyenes. This decision will of course he
favorable TO the Democrats who will thus
secure majority of two. Having already
a majority in the assembly, with a Demo-
cratic governor, that party will have full
sway in the state. \ new districtng of
the state will be made for the election of
senators and a>semblymen, an enumera-
ton of the state being first made for this
purpose. The state will also be redistrict-
ed for the election of members of Congress,
and every means will be taken to make the
control of the state by the Democratic
party assured and invncible.
The effect of this turn OF affairs will I'M
doubtedly be to strongly unite the Repub-
lcan party and to make its members work
together with unity and force which has
for some time been lacking. In this way
the seeming defeat may result in final vic
tory
In spite of the decision of the court, the
fact remain, that it was the intention of
the state Of New York to elect a Repubi-
can legislature.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01

The differences between our government
and Chilli still remain unsettled. While
the officials in charge deny that these
movements have any significance it is a
fact that all our available naval vessels are
being made ready for the sea, the work go
ing forward both day and night. 1t is also
said that 10000 men from the regular army
have been selected for immediate services,
if occasion requires. The Chlian minis
ter at Washington takes care to maintain
friendly relations with the officials of the
state department, and was entertained at
dinner by Secretary Blaine last week. On
Monday he called at the department and
informed Mr., Blaine that he had received
official notification by cable, of the inau-
guration of the constitutional government
of Chilli, coupled with an official assurance
that the new government would consider
Immediately the demand of the United
States for reparation for the attack on the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01

Baltimores crew. Secretary Blaine is I'M
dcrstood to have answered that while our
government does not expect the new Chill
ian government to satisfy its demands in a
day, it does expect a definite indication at
a very early date Of the intention of Chill
i'm this matter
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
a CIergyrnon's Estimate of Mr. Elkins
From the Boston Journal

Some pretty hard things have been said
of Mr.. Elkins since his appointment to the
cabinet. 1t is only fair that the other side
should have a hearing. Here is the reply
of the Rev. r. Heber Newton, rector of All
Saints church in New York city: He has
been a member of the vestry Of my church
for more than eight years, and warm per-
sonal friend for longer period. He would
not have been either had | not believed and
been absolutely certain that he was an up
right man" "
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
The Pardon of WeIch.
[From the Rutland Herald. ]

The Democratic papers take lots of
space to prove that Gov. Hill had legal
right to pardon Welch. What of it?
President Arthur had a legal right to par
don Guiteau, but the nation would not
have endured such an outrage.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
VERMONT FARMS.

Editor Qf the Phenir:-Mr. c. l.. Clark
owner of the Lakeside farm at Marlboro,
n H., with several other parties, has been
here the past week looking at farms with a
view towards purchasing. Mr.. Clark is
one of the leading grangers in New Hamp-
shire, and says men are foolish to spend
their last dollar on worthless farm in Da-
kOta and then be obliged to walk East
again as many do, when they can come here
to old Vermont and for mere song buy a
good and productive farm. am
Yours truly,
EUGENE l.. SAUNDERS.
South Wardsboro, Dec, %, 1891.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
No wonder He Went to BED.
From the Boston journal.

1t can surprise no one to learn that
Speaker Crisp promptly took to his bed as
soon as his committees were announced.
He was probably as secure there as any
where, but if his physicians are prudent
they will not allow him to read newspaper
comments upon his extraordinary combi-
nations until he has fully recovered from
his present indiSpOsition.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
Death of welI-Known Public servant.

An eminent son of Maryland passed
away last week in the death of John 4. j.
Crcswell, postmaster-general under Presi-
dent Grant. Mr.. Creswell was prominent
in Maryland at a time when its allegiance
to the Union was a close question, and at
terward when the state was dark and
bloody glound between the contending Tn
ion and rebel armies In 1861 he was one
of the firm Union men in the Maryland
Legislature The following year he was
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
4 southern View.

lFrom the. Charleston News and Courier Dem j.
We cannot congratulate Speaker Crisp
on his committees, and we cannot congrat-
ulate the country or the Democratic party
on Speaker Crisp.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-01
Madame CriSWoId'S
Skirt Supporting CorsetS

For which We have the agency There are six
din rent STYLES. So We 30 not have To ht every
form with one style of corset We recommend
especially the shoulder brace corset for holding
back the shoulders and expanding the chest.
which would appeal To any lady judgment and
need only to hr worn To he appreciated. We
should be- pleased To- show these. goods It any
time As We feel positive that upon examination
you will hr convinced that for health, comfort
and durability. they are uneXcccd.
Those holding discount cards ~ presenting
them. will receive coupons as advertised. Don't
forget that We have moved To 81 Main street, en-
trance first door below Geo. +. Greeues drug
store.
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VOL. Liz.
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