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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
Fast Day.
A Proclamation by GOV. Woodbury.

A Proclamation by Gov. Woodbury..
Public expression of dependence upon God is
always conducive to the moral and religious well
fare of people and meets with divine favor
To the end that our people may unite in appro-
pirate service, l, Urban A. Woodbury., governor
of the state OF Vermont, do hereby designate
Friday, April 3, as Fast day.
! recommend that upon that day the people of
this state assemble in their usual places of wor-
ship and with humble and penitent hearts. CON
fess their sins to Almighty God and pray for his
continued mercies and blessings.
Given under my hand and the state
seal, in the executive chamber, at Bur
lngton; this eighteenth day OF March,
- in the year of our Lord one thousand
sr., eight hundred and ninety six, and of
/ hN' the Independence of the United States
- one hundred and twentieth. and of the
independence of this state the one
hundred and nineteenth.
URBAN A. WOODBURY..
By the Governor:
MAX l.. POWELL,
Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
Gbe DermOmt pberrie.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, MARCH p, 1896.

Announcement is made that, through
the good offices of the United States,
Venezuela has agreed to separate the
"Yuruan incident" so called, from the
boundary question dispute with Great Brit
ain. This incident relates to the arrest of
British officials on the disputed territory
last july.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
Daughter May Have Murdered Her
Parents.

Jacob Snyner, IS, an Erie railroad engi-
neer, and Frances Snyder, At, his wife, lie
dead at their home in Port Jervis, n. Y,
from the effects of what is believed to be
arsenical poisoning. Jacob died Tuesday
evening and his wife yesterday morning,
both in great agony. Suspicion is centred
on their married daughter, Mrs. Martha
Whitaker, whose erratic conduct, it is said,
led to her separation from her husband
some years ago, and who has since lived at
her parents home.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27

An important official note from Lord
Salisbury has been published in which he
announces that, in conformity with the
unmistakable wishes of the English peo-
pie, proposals for an agreement for the ar
bitration of all disputed questions between
Great Britain and the United States have
been placed before the government OF this
country
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
Trout Fishing.

WYE hereby give notice that we have leased
w that part of Fall River running through
our property, and we give notice that all others
are positively forbidden fishing on the premises
Friends, do not ask for the privilege for we can
not grant IL. ABBOTT O. BROWN.
RALPH H. CUSHMAN.
Bernardston, Mass, March "a, 1896. 12-l3
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
England Buys DeIagoa Bay.

The London Chronicle publishes under
reserve a report that Great Britain has
bought Delagoa bay, Africa, from the Port
uguese. The price paid, according to the
report, was &50,000,000. The purchase
includes the whole country between the
South African republic and the South In
dian ocean, from Amatongaland to the
Limpopo river as far as the territories of
the British South Africa company.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
A Card.

Permit us TO express our sincere thanks to our
nelghbors and friends for their kindly assistance
at the death and burial of our loved one, also
thanking the friends at the Brooks House, Balti-
more, Nd and Boston, Mass, for the lovely floral
offerings, also the choir for their well chosen
service.
CLARENCE f. WHITAKER,
MR.. AND MRS JOHN BROWNELL,
FLORA E. WHITAKER
AIRS. #. H. WHITAKER.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
Tenement to Rent,

OK rooms, good water, and sewerage, good To-
II Crosby block. RIA
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
HAWZEY.

The Chameleon Waists at
$I.5o are the quickest selling
waists of the season.
In separate dress skirts,
orocade mohair, plain mohair,
serge, silk and brocade satin
ire all in demand and our
present assortment is large.
Prices are all the way from
SLIGO to SIS.
New lot of Silk Ginghams,
BIZ IL cents per yard. Same
make as sold tor so cents last
leason.
New lot of figured Dimi-
es, IS cents per yard.
". l. HAWLEY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
National Life
Insurance Co,
MONTPELIER, W., March 10, 1895.


Dear Sir-The National, as you know, has
never practced forfetures of policies, three years
and, In some classes, two years old. 1t has often
happened that credits for paid-up policies have
their equity had wholly expired This fact has
been repeatedly attested by many people to
whom, after being found by diligent search, ma
tured values have been paid. The list of such
unpaid cases has been materially reduced during
the past few years, but the present addresses Of
the following members are still unknown.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27
WANTED,

Ion. CoiomE.., RELIABLE MAN AND WIFE
civ saws, "The pSework at the S. w Buffum
Panama Railroad cd, Within mile of post
which is being brougRh. Good wages 10 the
ferers by the fire, manouI chlidIen preIerred'
shelter" The loss ex, press mhS' B. w. BUZZ
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-27

AS the advances the first change clothing thought
the ovecoat Are that stylish spring
for small sunni spent looking our new
spring stock will be time we'll spent
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-01-18

This includes many negroes, doing the
lowest grade work at so cents IA day,
and many others at 81. So the estimat-
cd daily average of miners proper is
50. 40 per day, and few of the most
skilled make 49, The highest wages in
the district are paid to the head roller
in a rolling mill-namely, $40 per day
out of which he has to pay two help
ers. Similarly the boss puddlers get
high wages and pay helpers, so the
range in the furnaces is all the way
from $l.75 TO 81. Common labor is
rarely above 81 day, and many hun
dreds of negroes are working at so cents.
The negro quarters of the city are by
odds the poorest l have ever seen, north
or south. l really do not see how life
can be maintained ON the south half of
Second avenue and adjacent streets, and
my guess is that if the city authorities
do not bestir themselves before spring
they will have little pestilence to deal
with. A pathetic proof Of the narrow
lines ON which these poor creatures live
appeared in the fact that several with
whom l talked told me, with voice Of
gladness, that lately the price of flour
had been put down to 90 cents sack
(25 pounds) and meal to 20 cents.
/ need not give the enthusiastic talk
or the figures ON cost of material by
which the boomers prove that iron can
be made here much cheaper than any
where else in the world, and that Bir-
mingham is destined to be the Sheffield,
the Sligo, the Bradford and the Man
chester, all in one. of the new world.
Investors will investigate. and for 9th
ers such figures would be wearisome.
Whether this city is really to have 1885,
900 people in 1900 and 250, 900 in 1910
as the most moderate assert, is more
than know, and one mans guess is al
good as another's. J. b. PARKE.
Birmingham.
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tentious opera house they wear exactly
the same stolid air of indifference as at
home. They are as totally destitute Of
that intelligent curiosity which is the
germ and motor of progress as so many
Gosha Utes. Their first sight of the rail
way trains does not rouse even a culver
in their faces. Men who work in the
great rolling mills tell me that when
one Of these fellows delivers any back
woods product there he never manifcsts
the slightest interest in the ponderous
machinery or cares to look through the
place. They haven't even ambition
enough to get arunk, and if, as rarely
happens, one gets too much whisky, he
does not shout or fight, but drops ON the
first convenient spot and goes to sleep.
How did this class originate? There
is q tradition in the south that they are
descendants of those tramps and low
grade criminals who were transported
from England III early colonial times,
but l apprehend that the stock must
have been recruited considerably by the
drift from other classes. They rarely
commit crime of any kind and are radi-
cally distinct from the "moonshine"
distillers and fighters Of whom we have
read so much. Clay eaters are still found
among them, and l have had few
pointed out to me, but the tendency of
that class is to die ont. The clay most
affected is peculiar waxy kind without
particle of grit, and some physicians
maintain that the habit results from a
sort of low grade scrofula which affects
the stomach lining This cheesy clay re-
lieyes the irritation, and hence the GRAY
the habit is very rare, say IL is nothing
but shiftlessness. DAY doan' do moth.
in, sab, an SO day wants to be pickin al
somefin, an day amt got vittels to pick
at. an so day picks at de clay" Such il
the learned diagnosis of our hotel porter
who adds that "day mighty seldom mar
ries ceptin 'mong 'emselves, always
cousins an SIGH. " "A regular clay eatah
durn low down clay eatah, is this
country negro's term Of extreme con
tempt
1t is pleasure to turn from such PEG
pie to Birmingham and its very livel,
people. In 1881 l visited the city, but
cannot recognize a spot then saw. TIT
frame hotel l patronized r. gone, anC
the site covered by block Of stone an'
brick. The city then had 3, 100 iuhabit
ants; the census Of 1890 credited j
with 27 900 and the county with IS.
600, but soon after all the residenc
suburbs were annexed and now tn
school census indicates city population
Of 90. 600 The city stretches from Re
Mountain to North Birmingham an
from West End to East Lake. and stil
there are Is suburban towns outside III
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African Mahogany.

Mahogany. cut from the forests dis
covered by Stanley in his expedition for
the rescue Of Emin Pasha, now reaches
this country. These forests are said TO
be inexhaustible and are probably Of
equal perhaps Of greater, value than
the richest gold or diamond mines Of
the dark continent. Capitalists were
interested in Stanley's account, and a
furnishing trade in the timber has re-
suited. Prices Of mahogany products
were in fair way TO rise to excessive
figures until the cutting began in Africa.
This has only been within the past year,
but prices have already fallen 20 per
cent. A carload was recently delivered
at Louisville at net cost Of $50 per
900 feet, whereas it has been a com
mon thing for mahogany TO sell at auc-
tion in Liverpool for 500 per ! 900.
Heretofore the principal sources of sup
ply have been the forests Of Central
America Cuba, San Domingo and Bra
I'll. Already 1000, 600 feet have been
cut and exported from Africa, and the
trade promises to yield an immense rev.
enue TO the British and French colonists,
who have seized the mahogany terri
tory. This African mahogany has a
pinlxish tinge in contrast 10 the reddish
yellow color Of the American varieties.
The trees are very large, and logs re-
ceived in the shipment mentioned were
feet TO 3 " feet in size They are
squared before being exported. Wood
worker
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-01-18

A Berlin journal recalls the fact that
tho briliiance Of German humor remain
cd quito undimmed during the trying
times of 20 years ago. In the autumn Of
1870 the German humorist naturally
drew much of his inspiration from the
political events of the day. Among the
pleasantries related by our contempt
rary is the reply of Berlin photog
rapher to firm in a frontier town which
had asked for supply Of photographs Of
German generals as soon as the war was
declared. 1--WE have no more copies
left. the answer ran, "but we are send
ing you the originals. " On Aug. 8,
1870, the following telegram appeared
in n Berlin paper under the heading Of
--latest News :" "St. Helena, Aug. 7.
Have finished sweeping; the apart
ments are ready. In sending from
France 2 louis or to the King William
Aid society German wrote; 81 glad
ly send these 2 louis to the King Will
liam Aid society. 1t will be William
himself who will supply us with the
third" A riddle written in French by
a German humorist asked the difference
between Napoleon l and Napoleon III.
To this the answer was. Napoleon l a
Gu genie, Napoleon III n Eugenie. -
London News.
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PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Emperor Williams favorite drink is
large glass Of champagne containing a
few petals of violets.
William Black. the novelist, is also a
good portrait painter, an enthusiastic
botanist and a first rate all around
sportsman.
Beatrice Harraden's father enjoyed
some celebrity in his younger days ne
m organist, and all Of his three dangh.
ters are clever musicians.
Mr.. jameson. the sailing master Of
the Prince Of Wales yacht, is an Irish
man and perhaps the best living judge
Of yachts build and rig.
Anna Katherine Greene's real nams
Il Mrs. Charles Rohlfs She is married
and has three children. Her home is in
Buffalo, where she writes her annual de
tectiye story.
Senior Canovas, one Of the most
prominent figures in the Spanish cor
ties. Is reputed to bo the homeliest man
In Spain and 10 have the most beauti-
full woman in that country for wife.
Rev. Isaac Roberts. a United Breth-
rem minister Of Indiana. drove TO his
wife's funeral recently with his house
keeper From the funeral he drove to a
clerks Office, secured license and mar
ried his housekeeper in two days.
Lobengula is again reported to be
alive, this time by Father Andre, a
Catholic missionary at Bonoma, ON the
Zambezi, who says that the Matabele
king is with some thousands OF his peo-
pie in the Manika country near the Ka-
fue river.
Mrs Mary Coffey is the name Of a
white haired old lady who landed in
New York from Ireland fortnight ago
She says she is l04 years old and came
10 this country to find another husband
20 replace the one she lost more than
half a century ago.
One Of the priced possessions Of Mr.
Hobart @. Chatfield- Taylor of Chicago
is the pipe the Infanta Eulalie smoked
during her visit to the Columbian ex-
position. The precious relic is brier-
wood. with a stem seven inches long
and bowl correspondingly large.
Her majesty of England is evidently
bit of a humorist. She saw a very
much intoxicated servant at Balmora
and had the incident investigated. Later
she told one Of the maids Of honor thai
the man had been drinking healths will
some companions and was in "a STATE
Of great ecstasy"
Tuxedo people smile at Mrs. Jane
Brown Potter's assertion that Pierr
Lorillard presented her with the hous
in which her husband now lives. Mrs
Potter's further assertion that her hus
bands family is Of the shabby gentee
order is met with the fact that thei
home in New York cost them 800. 900.
Lieutenant Charles Hine, late of tn
United States army and a graduate iron
West Point in 1891, is working on th
Big Four railway as brakeman. ii
resigned from the army because Tn
chance for promotion was small and
now learning the practical end Of raj
way work with the intention Of follow
ing the business in higher capacity.
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Spider. That Change colors.

An interesting instance of color MINI
icry in spiders has been observed in the
south of France The spiders Of that re-
gion when in search Of prey hide in the
convolvulus flowers. 1t has been noticed
that a white variety of spider frequented
the white flowers; n greenish colored
variety made the green flowers his home
and pink one lived principally in the
pink flowers. The colors Of the three
varieties We're at first supposed to be
permanent, but il has recently been dis
covered that the color Of any one of
these spiders changes within few days
if the insect be placed in the convolvulus
Of different colored flower to that
which he has been using as his home.
-Four spiders-pink, white, green and
yellow in color-were all put in a box
together, and within three days all were
white. st. Louis Republic.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-01-18
OLD SOUTH AND NEW,
SHARP CONTRASTS OBSERVED BY A
NORTHERNER IN ALABAMA.

The Poor White Cuts Sorry Figure
rens who Are Making Birmingham the
Manchester Of America.
There is a paradox in the social make
OPP Of northern Alabama which is at
once puzzling and amusing. There are
many paradoxes indeed, but this one is
remarkable. In the midst Of wornout
old cotton fields, red hills and forests
has suddenly sprung up line of lively
modern cities, and in and around them
Is unique civilization Of a very high
order, as different from the old north as
nom the old south. Yet all this new
ness, all this stir of industrial life and
pleasant refinement have not produced
the slightest effect upon the old resi-
dents Of the hills, and from city with
90, 900 inhabitants, electric lights and
railways, magnificent hotels and pala-
tial residences, streets like Broadway
and churches and school buildings equal
to those Of Boston, one may pass in an
hours walk to district unchanged
since 1860 except by natural decay,
where lean and lanky men. and leaner
yellow and shriveled women, sit in
"shacks" unfit for blooded cattle, in the
midst of dirt, dogs and towheaded chill
dren, chew natural leaf tobacco and spit
through the cracks. Instead Of being i'm
proved, old citizens declare that these
people have refrigerated because the few
among them who had any talent and
ambition have been drawn away to the
new cities.
Just in front of the hotel where l am
writing is "a type Of this class. He has a
little bull Of scrub stock, clad in a har-
ness composed of rope, leather and old
clothes, in shafts made of saplings at.
tached to cart that would be show in
any northern city, and in that cart is
his family, all listless, dull eyed and
seemingly half asleep. Up our way we
smile at the country pumpkin who gaze'
in open mouthed wonder at the sights Of
the town and is curious about thing
long familiar to us, but these people dc
not stare or wonder or inquire. On this
magnificent street and in front of pre-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-01-18
TURF TOPICS.

Golden. Jr., is the fastest horse bred
and reared in Vermont
There are two Phenois and two Wan
das on the trotting turf
Miss woodford, o994, is by far the
best Of Sam Purdy's get.
Pierre Lorillard's thoroughbreds have
been shipped to England.
Hal Pointer, :04h. is now in the
stable of james Chambers, Dubois, Pa.
Tom Gillig, once touted as phenom-
enally fast yearling, has been added to
the list.
Edgemark outrauks the rest Of the
New England stations as sire of colt
stake winners
The appointment Of judges by the
parent trotting organizations is again
being agitated.
Frank Agan reduced his record 60
;06ls recently at Lexington. Agan
should pace close to 2 :0i in 1896.
A winter circuit composed Of meet
ings at Macon. Savannah, Colum
and Augusta seems likely TO materialize.
Fred Foster, DIR. Rice's child Of for.
tune, seems TO understand very clearly
that discretion is the better part Of
yalor.
M. A. Lupin, one Of the most noted
of French turfmen, is dead. He won the
French Derby six times and the Grand
Prix de Paris twice
A horse overburdened with the name
Tickle Wilkes died. Another is called
Tipsey Wilkes, and he lives and won q
race in the 2:34 class at Concord. ~
H., recently.
Good condition is worth more thar
good blood in the general market, " re
marked a successful dealer not long ago
A well balanced combination OF the tw,
is sure TO win.-Horseman
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The Intrusive Tulip Tree.

The tulip tree appears to be better
able TO reproduce itself and is evidently
more hardy when young than any other
of our native trees. Wherever there is a
bare or neglected place in Brandywine
park this species of tree immediately
begins to grow. Within the limits of
the park there are two or three aban-
doned quarters which have not been
used for years. In these quarters there
is already a rich and abundant growth
of young trees. and the tulip appears tC
do better than any others. This is true
of every place in this section. Every
abandoned road or bit of neglected
ground soon has these tulips OF poplar
trees in abundance. Wilmington (Del.
News
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No Proof of His Powers.

ETHEL -
Eyes, papa. "
81 believe you told me once that
young Litewait claimed to be hypno-
fist. "
"Oh, he is one, papa. know he is. -
Hes proved it to your satisfaction,
has he?"
Eyes, indeed.
"Was he trying to demonstrate it
when l saw him kissing you in the con-
servatory?"
The beautiful girl blushed.
eyes, papa" she said.
"You considered that satisfactory
proof, did your"
eyes, papa. -
"And you're sure it was hypnotism?"
Perfectly certain, papa"
"You wouldn't try to deceive your
poor old father in a matter of that sort,
would you?"
No, indeed, papa"
The old man shook his head doubt
fully.
II think it would have looked more
like genuine case Of hypnotism if he
had kissed your mother or me, " he said.
However, we'll not discuss that.
have made up my mind, though, that
all hypnotists must keep away from
here. -
why, papa?"
My observation convinces me that
you are too good a subject to make it
possible for any of them to demonstrate
any real hypnotic power to my satisfac-
ton. AS for young Litewait, you may
say to him that feel certain that can
hypnotic him so perfectly that he
would never know what hit him. -
Chicago Post
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limits. So the custom is To count ell in
dustl.ies as Birmingham which are in
the district-meaning in the limits Of
the peculiar oval valley, which was
made by the splitting Of an anticlinal
axis.
In this district are % iron furnaces,
five rolling mills, many foundries and
minor shops, two cotton gin manufac-
tories and great variety Of minor es-
Establishments. And all this is but be-
ginning, " say all with whom talk, "for
the great problem is solved. Carnegies
have shown that our low silicon ore is
readily convertible into steel by the
Basic process, and as fast as possible all
the furnaces will be changed so as to
produce the kind needed. Carnegies
have just bought $4,000 tons, and the
Illinois Steel company 10, 900 tons Of it,
but only two furnaces at present can
turn out this low silicon ore. When all
do so and many more are built-well,
the most riotous Imagination can scarce
ly picture the future of Birmingham.
There's 500. 900, 600, 900 tons of red
hematite ore in that one mountain and
plenty more all around, and we cas- turn
il into iron at less cost than anywhere
else in the world" And much more Of
the same sort.
But wanted to know what the labor
ing men We're getting out of all this, as
they told some very hard stories while
the great strike and labor war was on.
First be it noted that there are 1000
convict miners in this county, and the
gentleman in charge allowed me to
range the vast prison where those tenn
porarily idle are confined. OF the 400 or
so there at least three-fourths are col
ored, and so / am told it is in the stock
ade. A good deal of liberty is allowed,
and in the courtyard white and black,
male and female, enjoy social equality
which would have delighted Theodore
Tilton. Incidentally l may add that
interviewed Mrs. Howe, white wom-
an, whose case is interesting all Ala
bama, as she is awaiting final trial on
the charge of numbering her stepson.
She complacently called my attention tc
the fact that she did not "look like @
murderess, but / have not seen speci'
mems enough to be an expert.
There are 5000 free miners in the
county and about 1000 more in the dis
trict, and the average Of the pay rol
for the largest mine is $1.e5 per day