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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
THE GRANGE FAIR.
IL Was Up to the Usual High Standard
---SOme OF the Booths and Special At
fractions.

IL Was Up to the Usual High Standard
fractions.
The annual fair Of the Changers, which
was held in Grange hall Wednesday even
ing, was a success from beginning TO end
and every one of the many people present
from the babies TO the grandfathers,
would say the same thing in regard to it.
The chicken-pie supper of which so many
epicures partook was voted by all TO be up
to its usual standard, which is praise
enough to satisfy anyone who has ever
attended the fair in former years. In fact
SO good did the supper seem TO all who
tasted it that the management were near
ly eaten out of chicken-pes.
The upper hall in which the fair proper
was held, was trimmed with evergreen and
around the walls we're coops of prize poul-
try, pigeons, pheasAnts and squirrels,
which made very respectable menagerie.
A coop containing diminutive hen with a
brood of chickens greatly interested the
children.
A. the right of the entrance to the hall
was q small three cornered booth trimmed
with star cloth and bunting at which Miss
Cora EAmes served lemonade of Lood
people. At one corner of the hall in q
booth trimmed in red and white was a
grab bag in the form of large pie, which
was tended by Mrs. Il. W. Sargent in tn
costume of Mother Goose. Over the
booth was large sign bearing the words
Wont you come and have q try
At silly Simple Simons piei"
In the opposite corner stood the booth
containing useful articles, which was
trimmed in yellow and white. The goods
were sold by Mrs. j. A. Taylor and Mrs.
Maverette Fisher
The largest and most elaborate booth in
the hall was situated in the centre beneath
the chandelier of electric lights. II was
prettily trimmed in green and white and
contained q large number of fancy articles,
which we're sold by Mrs. A. j. Currier,
Mrs. S. w. Edwards and Mrs. Lois Clark.
A table reaching nearly half the length
of the hall contained many pumpkins,
squashes and other vegetables, which had
been raised by the thrifty farmers of the
grange and brought there to be sold by
auction. The sale took place shortly be-
fore o'clock, the auctioneer being Carl
Hopkins. Arthur and Fred Sargent had
charge of the vegetable table. Every
booth in the hall was lighted by incandes-
cent lights, which added much toward
making the scene attractive. This was
the work of Leon c. White, who with II.
w. Sargent and Harry Whitney, composed
the committee on booths. A short en-
tertainment was given at s o'clock, which
consisted of a harlequin quadrile the
participants of which we're Mrs. N. II.
White, Mrs. A. l. Miller, Mrs. Ernest
Goodenough, Mrs. Frank Streeter, Will
Willard, Leon White, Lewis Higgins and
Ernest Goodenough. After the enter
tainment dancing was INDUCED in till a
late hour, the music being furnished by
Leitsinger's orchestra. The proceeds Of
the fair amounted TO about $50.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
FIRE IN GUILFoRp.

J. M. HOughtOn's Fine Buildings
Burned Early This MOrninE---InSur-
anee, s6S5O---Threat Made by q
Tramp Last Night.
The fine set of farm buildings owned by
Joseph NJ. Houghton, about one-half mile
beyond the village of Gullford, were burned
at 2:30 this morning. The fire started IL
the barn and that building was ablsLe
when the family we're aroused by the light.
The horses were taken from the barn, but
five cows, two calves and the hogs persisted.
The house was soon on fire and there were
no means at hand for fighting the flames,
so that both buildings were completely de-
stroyed. Some of the furniture and valua-
BILE personal effects were saved.
The total loss is large, probably not less
than $1,000. The house was large two
story building, and both house and barn
were in excellent condition. Wagons,
sleighs, produce, ETC., were burned in the
barn, and the house contained many artl-
eles of value.
The insurance is $3.50, all placed through
Sherman d JENNIE, in the Continental and
Commercial Union companies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Leach, who lived
with the HOughton family several years
moved recently TO this village, so that their
effects were not burned.
The origin of the fire is supposed TO have
been incendiary. A tramp called at the
house during the evening and when MI
HOughton refused 10 give him lodging the
tramp replied, you'll be d sorry
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
BRATTLEBORO.

There will be meeting of the Valley
Fair at the Brooks House Monday evening
at7:30.
The Brattleboro Gas Light company is
laying a new gas main the length of High
street to replace an old one in use many
years.
Foss Brothers of Boston will have an
exhibition and sale Of art needle work and
materials at the Brooks House next Mon
day and Tuesday.
The Cleveland Press says of Rev. D. ].
Stafford, D. D., who is to lecture here Nov.
8, under the auspices of the Catholic Or
der of Foresters: "He has all the polished
finesse of Booth and the robust ferceness
of Salvini." The Cleveland Plaindealer
says: "Fully 5000 people listened to DR..
Stafford's lecture in Music hall last even
ing, and from the start to finish of one hour
and so minutes address, except for the
bursts of applause you could have heard
even a pin drop"
Haskins g. Schwenk will be the style of
a new law firm beginning Nov. l, Col.
Haskins having taken Anthony Schwenk
as partner. Mr.. Schwenk has been in the
Office with Col. Haskins the past three
years and was admitted to the bar recently.
Mr. Schwenk is a bright, diligent, popular
and pushing young man, and his faculties,
combined with those of Col. Haskins's
gained by years of study and experience,
ought to make legal combination second
to none in Vermont.
A telegram was received today announc-
ing the death last night in Omaha, Neb.,
of Louise Barber, q, wife of Arthur l..
Gushing. Mrs. Cushing recently under
went surgical operation from which she
failed to rally. She was sister of Frank
and Theodore Barber, the West Towns
bend merchants. Before her marriage she
was a teacher of the mandolin and guitar
at Miss Sawyer's North street school. Her
husband was formerly a resident of Spring
field, Mass. He is left with little daugh-
ter, Eleanor, aged four years.
Pastor and People" will push out into
the journalistic sea tomorrow, and will
make its appearance every other Saturday
under the guidance of the Murray club,
Rev. II. d Maxwell is editor, Col. II. E.
Taylor advertising agent and G. L. Stick
ney treasurer. 1t is fouI-page paper, II
by 9, handsome geographically, and filled
with interesting matter pertaining largely
to the Universalist society, and with local
advertisements. Editorially it discusses
the University extension movement, W.
II. II Murray's reading at the Auditorium,
and the Universalist general convention.
In connection with the theft of the COW
from the barn of Willard Smith of East
Putney, and its butcherng in the woods
as told on the seventh page, the arrest is
reported of Henry Gotta and one Tibbetts,
neither members of Putney families. They
were in East Putney on the day the act
was committed and inquired Of C. H. Con
verse if he knew of any one having a COW
for sale. They claim to have stayed in q
barn on the back road from Westminster
TO Bellows Falls that night, and went next
day TO Keene, where Cota's father lives,
and it is said that about that time Gotta
horse died from the effect of hard driving
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
BACK TO OKLAHOMA.
Lawyer Knight Returned Voluntarily
to Face the Charges Against Him.

to Face the charges Rainst Hin.
Gov Grout passed through Brattleboro,
on his return from his southern trip. Sat
urday, affording an opportunity for the
presentation, by Sheriff Nicholas of Okla
homa, of the papers for the arrest of
Henry r. Knight, indicted by the grand
jury of Oklahoma for the burning of the
court house at Arapahoe in November.
1896. The governor had been asked by
Brattleboro lawyers to postpone his action
in the matter until he had heard Knights
side of the case, but he stated to Sheriff
Nicholas that he would examine his papers
and if they were properly made out it
would be his duty to issue requisition
papers without going into the merits of
the case. Then il knight was so disposed
he could ask for his release on habeas
corpus proceedings and force the Okla
homa parties to produce their evidence
against him At hearing in this state.
Mr. knight preferred, however, to re-
turn without requisition papers, feeling
that the injury to his reputation would be
much less If the matter we're cleared up to
the satisfaction of the Oklahoma officers.
The fact that he was willing to return is
also one of the best pieces of evidence that
he is innocent of the crime,
onerlH NlchOlas stated MONDAY That he
had guaranteed knight $50 with which to
return home and that If possible he would
give him his freedom while waiting for
trial, which will probably take place next
April. The sheriff also said that the peo-
pie here need have no fear of mob law or
that any injustice will be done knight.
THE ones who had him indicted are not
the ones who want him to come back" he
said. They would like to have the in
vestigation stop where it is"
The sheriff is evidently sincere in his
statements and determined to GUST the
county attorney, against whom he has pre-
ferred charges.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
Annomncementa.

Losr-On' Monday. Oct 25 oni.Green street or
Western avenue, a thin, WOOL plaid hOrsel blanket.
Finder please leave at Soott's grocery store an
receive reward
Mis- Hunt has just returned from market with
more millinery See ad' on first page.
The hrst lesson to evening class, beginners,Twill
be mex. Tuesday evening. Social Saturday even,
ing, Nov. G. Ladies free. = ---E WALES.
To RENr-Nice tenement on lower floor. Six
large rooms
TX. CHANBERLAIN, 30 Greenistreet
& Foss Brothers, = HlmitonlPlacs, BlMon,i will
hold an exhibition and sale of art needle work
and material at tue Brooks Il luse Monday and
Tuesday. Nov / aud .. LADIES' are cordially In
vited.
still want to exchange cash fJr cider:apples;
will l1Il thu rest Ot this wssS, All hS- MOn1aY
Tuesday, Friday and Saturday of next week.
s e. MINER.
Miss Faith Tyler wishes to re GIVE pupils in
shorthand and also solicts typewriting. County
Clerks ONCE Room 5, Crosby;Bock.
For SALE, RENT OR ExoHANeE-For other prop
erty. good two-tenement house 10 Brattleb oro.
One acre land S. w. EDGETT & Co.
Special sale Of food on,Mondays and Saturdays.
Bread and rolls every day at the market. Orders
taken at the house every day.
MRS. RICHARDSON
Try Mrs Richardson's fish balls and mush
ready to fry foriSunday breakfast.
Marcus Ward & Co g Roysl Irish linen ststion
cry at Clapp & Jones's.
Special bargains in reIdy-made sheets land
pillow cases. T. W. BARNARD.
Beautiful framed pictures at low prices.
CLAPP JONES.
Waterman fountain pens the best. Fu3 as
sortment at CLAP & JONES.
Have your pictures framed at.Clapp & Jones's
SI.25 will replace that broken. handspring I'll
your watch and warrant.it for one wear at &C. w
Sawyer's, opposite American House.
Upstairs tenement to rent. 93:Frost street.
For SAIGON the island, Saturday, Oct. 80
25 good farrow cows A G. BARNES.
To BENr.-Upstairs tenement of five rooms.
c. H. TIMsoN, Western Ave.
Popular sheet music and books. Strings for al
instruments and musical supplies at Clapp 4
Jones's.
To REST-Stores, also tenement in my block.
JOIN RErTING.
To RENT Tenement of five rooms in Leonart
block. s. W. EDGErT & Co.
To RENr-Oottase house at 81 Elliot street
s. W. EDGETT & Co.
To The LADrEs-My hair-dressing, facial an
scalp massage aud mRnicuring parorIi is nov
open, and am ready for business. l twill igo t
our home by appointment, and special attention
iven to party and wedding orders.
MRS @. H. Saith. IT Main street
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
An Explanation.

BRATTLEBoRo, VT Oct. q, 1897.
The Vermont Ph9Rir:
Mr.. Editor, My Dear Sir.-Will you kindly
allow me a small space in your valuable paper to
answer oHoe for all, the question many pretended
friends have asked me, why do YOU not get DOS.
session of your chilirenf" Ny children are With
their mother. She is the uns to have them; she
/ the one to care for them, not only nOio, but
Glodys, SO long as God spares their lives This is
my wish II will never chan 20. So long as
have one dollar IL is theirs. / give mother and
children all have in this worlds goods.
ISAAC II. WILLIAMSON.
Elizabeth, New Jersey, papers please copy
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29

Dobbins Electric Soap does not chap the hands,
being perfectly pure. Many people AFFLICTED With
Salt Rheum have been cured by its use. Fer
serves and whitens clothes. Have your grocer
order it and try it now.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29

Dobbns' Floating Borax Soap is 100 per cent
pure. Made OF borax. 1t hosts Coss you same
this Is true You need t. Order one sske Of your
grocer, you'll want box next.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
Dr.. C.rricl.. chiropodIst,


viii be at the Brooks House. Nov. 8, Q, andiiO
He treats corns, bunions and ingrowing nails.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29

Pupils in shorthand. Typewriting solicited
Lillian G. PARK, stenographer and typewriter
once with H. z. Taylor & Son.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29
Vermont wheel Club,

Regular meeting next Tuesday evening at 7:SO
O'clo, K. M. AUSTIN, JR., Sec.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-29

LosT-on Monday. Oct 25, oni.Green street or
Western avenue. thin, wool, plaid horsel blanket.
Finder please leave at S,ott's grocery store an
receive reward
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26

OF the duties inferred by the bill might be
erroneous ana excessive. but as repre-
sentative of Louisiana, representing a
great and suffering interest, he should
support the sugar schedule.
Reeves (R.) Of Illinois advocated the
passage of the bill, as did Howe (R.) OF
New York.
Gaines (D.1 of Tennessee, in opposition
to the bill. presented in reply to Grosvenor
of Ohio certified copy of the letter of
Secretary Foster of February, 1898. order.
ing the preparation OF plates for bonds.
Barrows (R. of Massachusetts presented
the protest of the Massachusetts Library
Club against any tax on books.
Ridgely (Pop.) of Kansas opposed the
bill and advocated economic measures
and reduction of the expenses OF the
Government.
Hamilton (R.) OF Michigan supported
the bill as a patriotic and American prop
osition.
Todd CD of Michigan followed in oppo-
sition to the measure.
Crumpacker (R.) of Indiana approved
the measure because he believed that
under it business would revive and labor
find employment.
Fitzgerald CD of Massachusetts, con-
cluded his remarks begun to-day in oppo-
sition to the bill, and the House at IL
O'clock adjourned.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26

tne government engineers. This food
secuon ls separated al the river from the
tnuch smaller Cairo section by ridge of
iand running nearly north and south at
new Madrid. But very hightwater in the
upper basin hnds its way around the
rrioges ana reaches the lower through ST.
Marys Lake and ST. Francis River on the
west and Reel foot, lake anu river on the
east side
Inc stream now flowing through Reel
1901 Lake Is said to exceed in volume that
OF the main stream itself between the
new MADRID bluffs and 10 threaten a per-
mahent diversion of the channel. From
1ne NOUNS OF Reelfoot River 10 a short
distance below Memphis the high ground
approaches the Mississippi and forces the
Whole volume OF water therein over
against the levees on the Arkansas side
ana breaks are bound to occur. TIL re is
one redeemlng feature, however. to such
disaster and that is the relief afforded 10
the ievees below. Below Memphis the
ilver crosses the low ground until it
tonches the Arkansas bluffs at Helena
distant about twenty miles rom those on
the Mississippi side. and the food i, in
the main transferred to the low
grounds on the east, tho broad
stretch OF which, however, and the pu-
merous rivers and bayous tend to lessen
its height and the extent Of damage with
ordina floods in all of its upper basins.
The wees, as rule, serve as ample pro.
tex on, but with The simultaneous hi .h
foods from the Upper Mississippi and the
Ohio the tax is already too great, and still
the only prospectus OF further rise before
any fall. With the Arkansas addinp r. :
flood the district below Helena is also
destined to great loss and suffering, but j.,
case there is no high water athe Red
River Louisiana below It's ia. nth will be
largely spared, as lue Alcha, lava and
o'her large bayous can carry off the most
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26

that OF the President that the foreigner
pays the tariff taxes, Simpson claims we
have reached the ideal condition where
81 we have to do is to pass tariff bills and
taxing measures and lay back and work
no more.
Cox (D.) of Tennessee and McRae ID,
OF Arkansas followed in opposition to the
bill and Grow (R.) of Pennsylvania in
favor OF its passage.
Curtis (R.) of Kansas favored the bill.
Burke CD of Texas made a five. minute
speech against the bill. He was followed
by Lentz CD of Ohio, who entered a pro.
test against the passage of the bill and the
method of its con sideration. The six
Democratic Representatives from Ohio on
the floor, he said, VINO stood for the prin-
ciples of the Democratic party as exem-
r'litied in the Chicago platform. and with
William Bryan as their standard bearer.
had twenty minutes given them in which
to oppose the passage of a bill framed
under an insidious title, intended to de-
ceive, and having for its object the en-
riching OF trusts and the pauperization of
the people. The only letter he had re-
ceived from his district in favor of the bill
was from a whisky-seller, and in that fact
he saw that the whisky trust had Joined
the sugar trust and the coal trust in writ.
ing the provisions of the bill.
The speech of Dalzell (R) of PennsyI.
vania, member of the Ways and Means
Com mittee evoked repeated bursts of an.
plause from his colleagues on the floor.
He devoted a considerable part of his
remarks to the existing treasury condi-
tions.
Referring to the declaration in the re-
MORT of the minority members of the ccm-
mittee that this bill would raise too much
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26

protected by Ievees unusually high and
strong. The suffering and loss Of prop
erty cannot be even estimated at this
time, but it is safe to say that it will far
exceed anything ever known before.
From its peculiar situation Memphis af-
fords better opportunities for observing
and gauging the flood in this section tnan
any other point on the river Situated as
it is on the last of the Chicasaw Bluffs,
with an I'm broken stretch of forty miles OF
low country between it and Crowlevs
Ridge, the nearest high ground on the
Arkansas side of the river, below the
mouths OF the great upper tributaries and
above the lower ones. the readings OF its
gauge give the fairest averages of any.
The Government gauge shows the high
est water since It's establishment in 1872
81 feet above low waJer-nark-the next
hishest being the great food of 1880,
which reached 35.7 feet, the highest since
the sinking OF the lewlands about New
Madrid in 1911.
Along the Mississippi, as we'll as its
principal tributaries, the alluviaI lands
siole back from the main stream to the
natural ridges which in some cases as
near the mouth of the Arkansas River, are
as much as eighty miles away, and when
the levees, which confine the or.i mary
high water to the regular channel, break,
the waters pour over the djacent coun-
try in mighty food. The waters now
along the whole stretch from New Madrid
to Helena are flush with the tops of the
levees and the number of breaks above
and below Memphis, as far as known, al
ready exceed those of any previous food.
The bench mark on the levee at Mem
PMS Is "a feet above the level of the river
at its mouth, and the summit of Crowleys
Ridge, the nearest high land on the west,
IS few feet higher. Between the two the
surface Of the land varies from FIVE to fifty
feet, as is to be seen from the accompany
ing contour and an idea can be formed of
the present condition of things from the
measured depth of high water at various
points on previous occasion-1858-by
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26

they can earn the money to pay the
taxes Great applause.1
At o'clock the com mmittee rose and the
House took recess until S o'clock.
At the evening session. Prince (R. of
LIMOS spoke in support of the bill He
SAID the measure presented the views of
the Republican leaders and would protect
our great industries and provide sufficient
revenue to meet the expenses of the Gov
eminent.
Settle CD of Kentucky opposed the bill
because it was the most ultra protect
measure presented. 1t cared for the
wealthy and neglected the farmer and
laborer
Barthold (R.) of Missouri approved the
BILL because it would give the necessary
revenue and afford protection to Ameri-
can labor. He referred to Bailev's oppo-
sition and characterized the views of this
newborn leader" as "Siamese twinism
and popocracy vice."
Campbell Cd OF Illinois said that the
present bill was simply an exaggeration Of
the Mckinley law and would be repu-
dated by the people.
Skinner (Pop.) OF North Carolina. in
supporting the BILL said that ii for the
past twenty-five years the South had been
trying for protection as the North and
East had 1t would to-day be the most
prosperous section of the country. The
bill had its defects and he did not think
1t would bring prosperity without supple
mental financial legislation. Revenue, In
his opinion, sufficient to supply de-
ficiencies, could be sustained by reducing
by one-third the salaries of all Govern
ment employees or by proportionate in
come tax.
Myers CD of Louisiana said that some
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
OF Mtsstssihi River 71ear Mem5L;e

oy J. h. Wellington, the engineer of the
board, In half dozen places. The water
through these cuts devastated the fertile
country between Hugheys and La Coma
Circle. drowning cattle and other live
stock and driving the surprised and de-
frnseless Inhabitants TO the levee for pro-
lection. The suppostion is that the cut
ting was done in order to relieve the ievee
protecting La Coma Circle, but it will
hardly avail in the Judgement of those
familiar with the situation.
CHARLESTON, Mo-, March 25.-Sev-
eral more breaks in the levee occurred
since last night, and a current OF water
strong as mill-race was rushing through
the center of Birds Point. Already a
dozen houses are swept from their founda-
tlons, and it looked as if there would not
be building left.
HELENA, ARK, March 25.-Another
break in the levee was reported this morn
ing. 1t was 500 feet in width and hourly
increasing. 1t is thought that all the
White River levee system from Modoc
south Will eventually go to pieces.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-26
Nes0 York Capita7tsts Going Into the Bee,
BMsfueSs -. Mpr;-.

Ne'0 York Capisn1tsts Going Into the Beer
B"sfness in Meeico.
NEW YORK. N. Y, March 25.
Times Washington special says: A syn-
dicate of wealthy New Workers, headed
by Scion Humphreys, who has interested
J. Pierpont Morgan and others, is getting
ready to establish an immense beef-cau-
ming establishment in Mexico If the
cattle duties proposed by the Dingley
Dill are enacted into law,
AS the law now stands there is big profit
IN bringing lean Mexican cattle across
the Texas border and fattening them for
the Northern market. The new bill will
shut these cattle out of our markets ana
compel the Mexican owners to find a new
outlet. Humphreys and is synd icate will
have million dollar concession from
Mexico. which they propose to utilize for
cattle-ralsing purposes, and in connection
with this they propose to put 81, 600 600
into beef cannery. The establishment
they are planning will com mpete with the
ou put OF the Chicago and Kansas CITY
hrmS TO foreign markets