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BRATTLEBORO, VT., JULY 1Q, 1885.
No. 48.
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ItBffloB county newa, tssuaa at 8 o'f oak p. m
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rpobaoilbora mar have whloriver of these they
wafer, and will be changed Mm one edition to
Jsother If aatloa to aeat to Xsm central offloa al
Sirettleboro. , ,
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J to ell'.er of our tfiher ditlona may have tb'e IB
pere t'twi, aontahrjnganhstaatially ttaa additional
we at 7te a year.
Jones' Are losses are placed at $6, 750,000.
Tbe average for ten years past, omitting the
exceptional destruction at St John, N B, In
1877, has !een ?G, 800,000.
( AT) V1R TiSl-V (7 RATES.
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8.09 8.25 2.60 8.78 .00 10.00 15
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hnitMu nurd. ' Aral column, flr.t pars, 41.60 a
per year.
Ya RzroaMia la bow te leading country
ipaekry In New Eniland. Ka other weakly newa
uper, anoanaactoa wn nan, c -ilation
witbln one-third. Nor Is there a paper In
TTMitH tti.tM whoa elrenlation In lie home
JUld la ao nearly snlTeraal ae the Windhim Couh-
r41BroRlEB-a. li aTance. tne im vi wi to
Man i Rnttiehera. one la nine of the population
I Wladham eonnty aa a. whole. Jo the eounty and
ritory ImmediaUly adjoiaint: on me nonn, r
H weat, lia cinnianon bimwh mi i l"D "w
at paper, eombin.d which axe publUhed la the
aama Urritory.
A4verti.ini ardera may laeloda tba Bennington
r the Itate editlo e aa advance af 81 -i per oeM
aa the ao.ve rate. tba OreeuUeld at an ad.
nice of 66 per eeat, tad all four at as advance ol
vm aar east.
Entered at the Post-Office in Bbattle
boro fob transmission through the mails
As Second-Class Matter.
The circulation of The Heformer hit week
i It various editon$ true 10,744.
BUSINESS CARDS.
James Con land, in. It., Pliyeiclixn and
Burgeon, brattieboro, Vt. Ufllee In Crosby
Block, opposite Telephone Kscbuno. KeBidcnce
lire Kirklitnd'a, Wulnut tit. Ullice hours from 8 to
A. M.,1 to 3 F. M.
HD. HOI-TOM, M. D., Physician anu
SUKOEON, llRATTLKBOKO, Vt. OIHCO and
tesideuce comer Main aud Walnut -itrcet". At
home from 1 to 2, and from 6 to 7 o'clock P. M
OK. POST, Dentist. All operations
done in the beat manner and warranted
Dfficeand Residence Junction High and Green
Streets, Brattlohoro. Vt.
WM. Ii. BEMIS, House and Sign
Painter. Ornamental Punning, I rescoiug,
Graining;, Kalaomiulng, Paper Hauging, etc.
25 Green street. Braltleboro. Vt.
TAKE MT. TYLEH, Attoknet at Law,
V DiuLt.euuru, vi,
Moris than two thirds of tho Republican
chiefs of divisions in the post-offico department
still hold ther places. But the Republicans
are deeply grieved over the violation of civil
service reform involved in removing the other
third. 1 "
Collector Hedben begins his administra
tion of the New York custom house In a way
which answers the purpose of the administra
tion in appointing him. He has re-appointed
all the old deputies, 'nine in number, and as
sured them that they need have no anxiety
about their places so long as tbey are faithful
to their duties. '
,Judoe Powibas follows ex-Gov Proctor and
Congressman Stewart in denying the newspap
er report of a few weeks ago that he aspired to
Edmunds 6eat. He declaros to a Boston Rec
ord reporter, that Jje never dreamed of such t
thinir. fnv Smith and Judae Poland nave not
however, yet taken the pains to dsny that they
have had such an idea.
Tub subordinates of , the internal revenue
ofllce at Albany, N Y, show the usual office
holders' patriotic conception of civil service re
form. Mr Hess, the new collector, requested
some of them to remain in place for a short
time until be and his chosen subordinates had
become familiar with the routine of the ofllce.
Tbey refused unless they were guaranteed em
ployment for six months. '
It is very easy and cheap for the organs to
Insist without a scintilla of evidence, that Cleve-
land intends the newly appointed Collector
Heddcn, of the New York custom house, to op
erate as the political servant of Hubert O
Thompson ; but the intelligent and fair minded
public recognizes tbe appointment as promotive
of honest and efficient government. Cleveland
says : "Mr Hedden was selected as an intelli
gent business man to conduct a business office.
If ho fails t5 so conduct it, ho will be removed."
BA. CX. ARK, Hard-Ware, Iron
,& Steel, Agricultural Implements, boors,
Bash and Blind, No. Oroghy Block, Brattieboro
,.tJ.tTENRY,pCKB(l. M.S., Phyai-
K TXZL Clan and SurgeonroHoe la Leonard's ".New
5 Block. Resilience, High Street.
DR. D. P. WEBSTER, Elliot street,
B rattleuoro, Ofllce Hours, T to 8 a. m., and
1 to 2 and 8 to 8 p. m. i
PRATT, WRIGHT & CO., Cnatom
and Heady Made ClotMng, Gent's Furnishing
s GoofK 8 O'anite Kow. ;
WHITE & GAL, VII, Stovea and Tin
Ware. Main tlueot, Kay'a Block, opponlta
American House.
DKFA Woodbnry, Dentiat. Offlee and
residence, Klliot-at, Brattieboro, Vt. Anass
thesla given and applied, for KitractlngTeeth.-4yl
HM. BURKE. UTery. Peeal and
, Boarding Stable. Just weal of Harmon illlt
HENEY eft CZtAPP, Booksellera
and Hitttiimem.ti urosny moon, craumnoro
F. BOYMTOW, Sealer InBoots
t and SlioPB. Marahull A Kai erhrooks Block.
V. COX & CO., StoTea and Tin
l Ware. Main Street, opp. Amei lean Houhb
HOMAS JTJIOJC, Dealea in Boota and
bhOee,JUuge iloca,opp. American uuubb,
HAS. K. nABHSTT, Mnchiaiat
Tyler UJOCK, mam Bireei, near me urmae.
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ALISBURY'3 IMniaar and Lodging
Koomfl, 41 KMin 91, 7(eii ill an iniurn.
TT AT Mr. f.n. T.ntnh.. Ttonli
L. era, Flat Street, Brattlebm o. V 1.
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,R. A. I.. PETTEE & SON, Den.
1 tists, over Tripi'a Store.
A J. GL.EASON, Coal Dealer, Offloe
in (ireene'B Drug Store.
E. WXIXARD. Dealer in Hoofing
Kra J,.ih Mu1n Mi.ul S'Jvl
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EO. E. GREENE, Druggist, Union
DIUUa. Oiniu on,
PnOTO GRAPIIER
UNION BLOCK, BRATTLEBORO.
Appointments by telephone or mail.
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Advertisement for Building
Proposals.
Momtftlihr. Vermont, Jane 20, 188,
Tba nnderaigned, coramiaslonera appointed nnder
an act of the legislature entitled "An act for tbe
erection of a trol'ding for me nw or ine ouiie Li
brary and other like purpoae.," and approved No
11. 1S84. to which act reference ia hereby
made, Invite aealed propotale for the rertlon ef
aid bulldiua: aeeoraina: 10 pmn. anu .prmiicir n.
therefoi made by Joaeph R and William V Kich
arda, orehtiecte. Propa'. will Include the fur
niehinc of materiala. The plana and peeifli-ationa
ran be ocea at the offlee of the architect., 44 Court
Htreet, Hoston, omll and Including July, lW.und
at the omee of ntaia at uue, id jaoniueuer, irom
July 10, !8S, to July 20, 1SA, on which laM named
Am- a n'rl.,k d m. the nronorala will be opened
at the Pavilion Hotel, atontpelier. The Coromia.
rionera rwm the riht tj reject any or all propoa
ala as they deeia adviaable for the Intereat of the
lata. I'ropaala to be directed to "H A Unae, for
coumlaaloneie. wonipeiier, iirmoni.
HAaitL naoBBB,
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II H 1owbr, CoiaiaakaerB.
KEDriBLO Pboctob,
Jt.R. WARDfl.
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R O. BURDITT,
UNDERTAKER.
COTRffEP, BLCK WALNUT, WOOD
CASKET AND COFriNS, with a comnleto
aaaotttnent tf tDKtJkiiSOOOOS,
constantly w hand. Also, onetSTthe beat
Kmbaln.inr PrBparations in the market.
Kayeneriile. inne 9. 18HS.
GRANITE STATE MOWERS.
1 hav for 1 wa food eeemd hand afowinf
Machmea which I will dJ eh.ap; ahw will fornl.h
new oiachlne. ae cheap aa they ea he longbt of
tae maaufaeiarera. I am a, ar"' ,or ,ln
wheel Hem Kakea; aU ordera r""" ""JX .i t"
U,, K. W. Dt a.UEK.
mill. .-r ite vnliu I. ri'IKMH. at 1
1 Vmamt. Tbe Ml verm will axfa
V-.JW. aVi ol for a circnatr.
IWtwti JktWAtiii C0SA5T, PrlactBal.
The trial of Lonis Riel, the Manitoban rebtl,
is set for July 15. Wm MacDougall has been
engaged to defend him. This is the same gen
tleman who was appointed governor of Manito
ba in 1870, and was driven out of the country
during the Red River rebellion by RIoI. Tho
circumstance is seized upon by the government
organs to attempt to draw party lines upon the
trial. But Riel shows poor material for any
party to make a hero out of. He is whining
now that he wasn't responsible for the rebellion.
Judge Thoman, the Democratic member of
tho civil service commission, has sized up the
opposition to the reforms as accurately as any
one. "ine objection to tae civil service ruies,
he says, "comes from politicians whose occupa
tion has been to find employment for political
workers In their congressional districts men
whom tbe politicians themselves would not em
ploy as oflke-sweepers." The occupation of
the office-brokers is gone, and "the public busi
ness is rapidly getting into the hands of capable,
intelligent men."
John Bright says in writing to Deputy Pas
sy of the French assembly : "I cannot help
thinking that Europe is marching toward some
great catastrophe of crushing weight. The
military system cannot indefinitely be support
ed with patience, and the populations, driven to
despair, may possibly before long sweep away
the royalties and pretended statesmen who gov
ern in their names.' With half a dozen nations
on the verge of bankrupicy, in condition of fi
nancial chaos like that which preceded the
French revolution, Mr Bright's prophecy is
likely to be fulfilled.
Ricardo Becekra, the Colombian minister
at Washington, has written a letter giving quite
a favorable view of tho rebellion in his country
and expressing his belief that among the rebels
are many of the highest-minded patriots of
the country. He thinks that in a desire for a
wide sulfrage and a broad political union, the
United States of Colombia is in the position of
our colonies at tbe close of the revolution of
1776, and he looks to see in the South Ameri
can republic an attempt to reconcile strong state
government with a stable federal union.
' ' ' ' Tammany 'i Fourth.
The Tammany society in New York held Its
usual Fourth of July celebration Friday. In
the main it had the air of political discourage
ment and lassitude. The "workers" and "heoU
ers" who have given Tammany so much of her
vigor in.late vears, seem to find little to interest
them in politics now that the spoils era has gone
by, and they contributed no enthusiasm to the
occasion. But for that reason the high minded
patriotic dignity which was once the glory of
Tammany, and of which there is still a rem
nant in the organization, had an opportunity
to show itself. Ex-CongreBsman 0 B Potter
delivered an address, dwelling upon tho duty
of standing unitedly in support of the presi
dent's arduous work of returning to sound
principles of government. The idea was not
roccived with exactly enthusias tic applause, but
with more favor than the complaints and twit
tines of the administration in which some of
the speakers indulged. In fact the general sen.
timent of the occasion, though somewhat spirit'
less, was in favor of the administration.
Abram S Hewett sent a letter declaring:-
"We have a president who Is in dean earnest.
aided by a cabinet who are proving the sincerl
tv with which thev are scekinc to (five effect tt
the pledges made bofore the last presidential
Tub elections which have been held in Eng
land in consequence of the formation of the new
Ministry indicate that the Gladstone party has
a rather dark prospect of regaining power be
fore it. A vacancy in th3 district of Wakefield,
Which has always been counted on v. ith certain
ty for the Liberal side, was filed by the election
of ji Conservative in place of a Liberal, tbe late
member. This was a clear and unexpected
Conservative gain Mr Webster, the Attorney
General In the. new Government, was elected in
Launceston, Cornwall, which has been a strong
Liberal county. A special effort was made to
deleai Lord Randolph;Churchill tn the Wood
ctock district,all the energies of the Liberal par
ty were concentrated there, and Churchill's
own brother, the Duke of Marlborough, fought
him bitterly. Lord Randolph himself refused
to enter the contest, and when the situation be
came critical his gamey American wife, former
ly Jennie Jerome, jumped into the canvass and
won a Bplelidid victory. Even the agricultural
borongh ot Eye, which Is naturally Conserva
tive, was a black eye for the Liberals, for it gave
Mr Ashmehd Bartlett an Increased majority.
Thb American railroad companies in Mexi
co have themselves to thank, if not for a just
cause at least for a strong exense, for the gov
ernment's repudiation of its subsidy contracts.
Tbey have apparently been conducting their
business upon the system of discriminations so
common in this country. It is claimed by the
Mexican newspapers that the railroads charged
much more from points in Mexico to Mexico
City than from New York a course which
would of course be inimical to Mexican Inter
ests, and which the Mexican government can
not be blamed for not wishing to encourage
with public money. The truth of the charge
is practically admitted by the Boston officials
who say that they bare already compelled the
maaagers of tbe Vera Crux railroad to reduce
rate. Nevertheless the despei ate condition of
tbe Mexican treasury waa doubtless the chief
&he of the repudiation, aid the wirst ot it is
that tbe prospect of any Improvement if to
slim and m remote. Tbe lose to American cap
italist is aa enormous one, and there are aU
sorts of projects for repairing it. One ot tbem
takes It head la a call which has been issued
at Denver for nuws-meetfng to urge the ap
pointment of a eetnmission by tba Veiled
States government to go to Mexico and offer to
boy the rich northern Mate of Chihuahua, So
ft ora, purango ana uonu:ji bo e at turuuu
her money to relief her pressing OeM.
election. The work of reform has not len un
dertaken too soon, and now that it is under
taken it should have the cordial sympathy aud
support of every good citizen.
Mr Cleveland himself had been Invited to at
tend the observance, and he improved the op
portunity .for some vigorous and sensible words
on the situation. He said :
Of the ournoses sought to be accomplished
by the people in their recent choice of a chief
maeistrate. referred to in your note of invita
tion, 1 am serioutly mindful. In order that
the hopes.' of the people may be fully realized,
every member of the party in power should
yield a cordial support to all efforts on the part
of the administration to restore a pnre, free and
just government. Tbe statement contained in
your note, that "the administration should so
discharge all its functions as to merit not only
the approbation of the people but at the same
time insure a narmomous party united in jet
fcrsonian Democracy," meets my approval;
although my conception ot tbe true purposes
and the mission of my party convinces me that
If the present administration merits tne intelli
gent approval of the people, this result of itself
certainly should "Insure a harmonious party."
Secretary Bayard also responded to an invi
tation with one of those admirably statesman
like statements of political ethics for which he
is famous. He wrote :
Acting strictly within the limits of the con
stitution, allowing no public power and to pab
lic property to be diverted to any other than
public uses and interests ; maintaining the ab
solute equality of tbe states under the Union
and its legislative power, and of tbe individual
citizens before the law ; harmony between the
local industries, interests and diversified occu
pations among our fellow countrymen can be
secured, and a unification of sentiment in all
matters touching our national honor and ad
vancement will soon obliterate the blots of sec
tionalism and render it happily impossible here
after for any political party to make appeals to
class Interests, sectional jealousies, and domes
tic discord with any hope of success. In the
good work of knitting thinly the bonds of eur
national union, and healing'the wounds of in
ternal dissension, I hope your anciont and pa
triotic society may bear, as heretofore, an emi
nent and honorable part.
Mr Bayard may not be an entire success as a
nractlcal administrator, but as a political DM-
Uveophor aEd a teacher of sound abstract j?rin;end norolrated Noyes oD
ciples he fills, as he nlwayi has done, an im- I menaotion, without recWIei
portant place In the Democratic ecdnomy. And
it is profoundly significant ot the chango tak
ing place in the Democratic party, when advice
and leadership like this of Cleveland, Bayard
and Hewitt is accepted by Tammany, the
representative of all that Is bourbonish in tbe
party, as the policy to which it must ally itself
in the future.
This week's Democratic appointments in
Vermont include T Hoxie Hall, Esq. and K A
Paul for postma'ters at Pownal and East Berk
shire respectively.
Gun- Lonortueet is trying to write down
Stonewall Jackson. He says of him in the Ju
ly Century that "Jackson was a very skilful
man against such men as Shields, Banks and
Fremont, but when pitted against the best of
the Federal commanders he did not appear so
well." Longstreet invites unkind comparisons
when he delivers himself of such nonsense as
this.
Ex-Gev Hendee the present National bank
examiner says that he is not one of those Fed
eral officials who expects to hold his place. Ho
says that he believes that if the Republicans
come into power in 18S8 they will not leave a
single Democrat In a Federal places that he is
ready to go out any time that notice is given
him that his place is wanted ; and that if any
good Democrat wants and can get bis place, he
will prefer to go out without protest, and not
wait for charges.
Tub managers of the Ohio Republican can
vass have called upon tbe Federal office holders
in the state, who arastill Republicans, for cam
paign contributions. Of course the responses
are few. But what a howl there will be over
the "hypocrisy" of this administration on the
civil service reform question when the office
holders who do contribute are removed. The
common Republican conception of civil service
reform has been that It gives Republicans a di
vine right to every office in tho countiy. , The
next step, to claim tbe right of levying assess
ments, is very easy. And it will be very sinful
for a Democratic administration to interfere.
Thb country was treated to a number of ju
bilant editorials a tew weeks ago over tbe fact
that Capt Hugh Lewis of Wisconsin, a Demo
cratic veteran and door keeper ot the house of
representatives, had come out in a letter re
nouncing the Democratic ticket forever, be
cause the administration had shown such a
preference fur ex-confederates and Union sol
diers in appointments Now Lawis is out tn
another letter declaring thit tbe first falsified
his sentiments and that he was drunk when he
signed it. The story is that a Republican
newspaper reporter rilled him up with whis
key, wrote out the letter and got him to sign it
when be didn't know what be was about.
Logan and the 0ffli.
Gen Logan can gyrate In bd grammar bo
foie the Norfolk club of Boston, atom the sad
insincerity of the administration on the ques-
tion of civil service reform. But he has too
much rugged good sense to t' any stock in
his own assertion. This is shown In an 1 nter
view which he held with President Manning
last week and which is .reported as follows :
Gon Logan called npon Secretary Manning
before leaving Washington a few days ago.
He wanted to know if the rovenuo collectors at
Quincy and Cairo, in, ou ' were
friendi of his. were to be retamed or dismissed.
"Mind," said he, "I am not ; sjkmg their reten
tion, I only desire information on tho subject,
in oidor that they may arrangt tneir plans for
the future."
Mr Manning replied in his usual direct fash
ion : "Tbey will both be dismissed as soon as
suitable men can be found to fill their places.
I may as well tell you It is my purpose to make
changes in all the collection districts just as
rapidly as I can bring them atoti .
. "I have no lault to find with that et all," re
sponded Gen Logan ; "it is only right that men
filling responsible positions should be in full
sympathy with the administration. It I were a
Republican secretary of the t"ury, and I
found these important placea filled with Demo
crats, you may be sure I would remove every
one of them.
"I should like to ask yon another question,"
said Gen Logan. "I received a great many let
ters from old soldiers tbrougLont the country
asking me to protest against tho dismissal of
other ex-soldiers employed as watchmen and
messengers in the departments here. What
shall I say in response to these inquiries ?"
"You can simply say that these people are m
every case dismissed for cause. You may add
if you like, that their places are invariably fill
ed with veterans of tho late war, the only dif
ference being that a Ropubfcan soldier is re
placed by a Democratic soldier. The first
named have been carefully looked after for
nearly a quarter of a century. I think it time
to give tbe others a chance.
It is predicted that Postmaster Vilas will in
his next annual report reccomenda universal
postage of one cent for letter! and newspapers.
"The Independent," the long expected new
Democratic paper at Burlington, has made its
appearance, and is a very ciean anu wormy
sheet alike in tone and typographical appear
ance. C J Alger is its editor, and Cnittenden
county ought to afford him a good flold to build
ud a vicorous and influential journal. The
Rei ormek cordially wishes him success.
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The New York Sun declares that if Presi
dent Cleveland persists in his present course of
fulfilling his and his parties promises on the
subject of civil service reform "Ohio will go
about 40,000 Republican in October and New
York from 100,000 to 200,000 in November. The
bottom will then ba out." The Sun which sup
ported Ben Butler lives in painful anxiety lest
tbe administration should not dishonor itself
One appointment has been mado by Presi
dent Cleveland which justly aroused strong
Democratic indignation all over the country
that of E F Noycs, of Ohio, as a government
director of the Union Pacific railroad. - Noyes
was among tho foremost ot tbe conspirators In
stealing the electoral vote of Florida in 1876,
It Is said In the president's behalf thnt he want
ed to make one of the directory a iiepuoncan.
Qrax liaveley s reaom'
meeting his connection
with the Great Crime of 1871ut the storm
became ao strong that Mr Novell has weakened
before it and asked the- president to withdraw
His nomination. ,
T C Crawford is an interesting gossiper In tl e
Now York World and ho writes a letter f re m
Rutland to explain tho source ot the emniiy
betweon Blaino and Edmunds. He says It
dates way back to the time when Blaine was in
the House and Edmunds used to pooh-pooh his
spectacular successes, said more than once that
such antics would not be tolerated In the Sen
ate for a moment, and If Cover the Maine states
man came to be measured In the atmosphere of
the pitiless logic of the lawyer S.nators that ho
would be made to appear as a very tb, in
formed man. This proved to bo true on sever
al occasions. But Crawford continuos, "Blaino
understood all this, as he had numerous kind
friends who used to run to him with every
caustie remark of isamunu s. as mo muoi
was not at all guarded In his remarks the mis
cbiefmakers had plenty to carry. When
Blaine entered the Senate it was the one ambi
tion of bis life to have a bout with Edmunds.
The sensative ride of the nearly made Maine
senator chared unuer ma suggesuuu nut
was Inferior in point ri argumentative ability
to any of his associates. He disappointed sen
sational lovers by remaining very quiet for
nearly a year. He. awaited his opportunity.
He thought he had found it the consideration
of the Geneva award bill. Here was a theme
which it was considered only professional law
yers could properly discuss. Blaine devoted
weeks or uis most uuuvu uiwuigwmo
study of the legal aspects of this measure.
Senator Matt Carpenter, one of tbe greatest and
most brilliant of lawyers, said at tho time that
Blaine succeeded wonderfully well and that his
arguments were such as gave him great troub.e,
on account of their ingenuity and boldness.
Blaine tried with all his might to draw Ed
munds into the arena, out ine miter was uui
be tempted. He sat with a look of sllont con
tempt upon his icy face, and by his most con
temptuous silence refused to concede that
Blaine was capable of presenting a legal argu
ment that was worth a moment of tbe briefest
attention. This angered Blaino more than
would have the most virulent abuse. His
ancient enmity for Edmunds became thereby
thrice embittered.
Thpre may be considerable truth In the above,
though It is probnble that the dislike dated much
further back, and was due to Edmunds' dis
cernment of the dishonest and trickey side of
Blaine's character. But Mr Crawford is wholly
wrong when he says that it was the act of
Blaine's confidential friend, Wm Walter Phelps
in attacking Edmunds railroad record last
year, which set tbe latter so sternly against
Blaine and caused him to stuDDorniy retuse an
onooi. tn fakn tiin stumn. The fact Is, Ed-
"i i' vv - .
munds was penned where he couldn't move
He was on record with regard to Blaine as a
public man. and he knew that bis letters were
where they would surely b3 given to tbe public
if he opened his mouth. The only thing that
saved the country from being flooded witn lac
siuulies of them, was his keeping quiet.
mM ' -tegs .
MAYOR C II HARKISON,
Tub Indiana supreme court has just render
ed an interesting decision, in which a glucose
company is allowed $200,000 damages from a
railroad, for tbe burning of its factory by
spark from the railroad engines. There was
no question that the railroad company had
failed to exercise proper care for the protection
ol the property along it line, but it defended in
this case on tbe ground that the glucose factory
was fully insured, and it proprietor bad al
ready recovered tor its loss. The court hold
that this bad nothing to do with the railroad'
liability, that the glucose company was ap
posed to have paid for it insurance and that
it alone wa entitled to the benefit of it, without
reference to Its rights in any other direction or
aganit anybody elte. Tbe result i that the
glucose company now ha money enough to
build two factories in place of the one that wa
turned.
A savage commercial war between Canada
and Newfoundland la averted by the complete
back down of tbe Dominion government
suspending its resolution which went into eliect
this week, imposing a duty on imported fish
and oils. Tbe Newfoundland authorities, when
they found that their protests against cutting off
their time-honored privileges were unheeded by
the McDonald government, promptly met tho
rebuffby adding a barrel to theirduty on flour
and $2 on pork from Canadatand a number of
loaded steamers had to put back from the New
foundland ports to Montreal, creating a sort of
oanic in the board of trade there. The argu
ment of trade and of dollars; in the present de
pression of Canada's business, was one the goy
ernment 'couldn't resist, and the surrender
promptly followed.
Frederick Billing has already added
25,000 to the $75,000 which he originally gave
for the library building for tne university of
Vermont, and in a letter last week expressing
bis Inability to be present at the dedicatory ex
ercises, he enclosed another $10,000, and added :
"Jt is not improbable, indeed from your late
letters it seems quite. certain, that more will be
required before everything is finished. There
is nothing to do but to go straight to the end,
and if you will let me know the deficiency when
I come back from tbe We6t, tne bills shall all
be paid. In Ibis connection let me say it is not
simply money that I put into the building. My
love is built into it. If I was to be permitted to
do sometbicg for my own Alma Mater, nothing
could have been so agreeable to me as, In tbe
first place, to add tbe most valuable twelve
thousand volumes of the late George P Marsh
to the library, which had virtually its begin
ning in the wonderfully choice selection of ten
thousand volumes by Trofessor Torrey, and, In
the second place, to build a fit home for these
precious volumes and tbe other volumes that
have come in tbe year gone by and are to
come in tbe years not yet here."
Tub Montpelier Watchman has been sold
this week, as has long been rumored would be
the case, to D W Dixon, until lately the editor
of Gov Smith' organ at St A.lbau and in
many direction a very accomplished journal
ist. W W Prescott, who leaves the Watchman
to accept the presidency of the Battle Creek,
Mich, college, has la the past two years made
the Watchman one of the ablest, most progres
sive and independent paper of the state and
hU retirement will be a loss to a number of
good causes. Tbe Watchman being located at
Montpelier was, perhaps, tbe representative
among the purely weekly papers of Republican
ism In Vermont, and its independence has been
very objectionable to the politicians. They
have for months bemoaned tbe tact (hat there
was no Republican organ at Montpelier. It is
urmised that Gov Smith Is behind the pur
chase of the paper, to gain a mnch-need. d up
port for hi canvas against Edmond. Thi
will appear soon when the Watchman begin to
tell about tbe desecration of Venn'-of being
represented In tbe senate by a-njin who wa
unfaithful to the Republican party last fall.
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Wit E Chandler is out with a letter in tbe
Concord Monitor in which he claims that tbe
unaggressive character of the opposition to Sen
ator Blair's reelection was duo solely to love
for the Republican party, and a fear after tho
experience in Oregon and Illinois that the leg
islature might adjourn without electing a sena
tor and so imperil the Republican control of
the. senate. But he is caretnl to show his con
tempt for Blair i and to tbe charge tha tho op
position were ready to make statements con
cerning the senator privately which they would
not make publicly, he says: "Whatever atate
ments were made by me at any time or P'.con
cerning either the public or private acts of Sen
.... ?.. -in. if he reauests it, be put in writ-
ing bv me and furnished him, with authority to
," .w ,,Mtr." Then he points out in a
few caustic sentences, how tbe Rspublican par
nf New Hampshire stultified itself by pass
, resolution on tho Trxas Pacific land
115 aw
irrant. censuring Blair for dhobeying instruc
tions in voting against its repeal, and an hour
later reelecting him. But Chandler says that
he had nothing to do with tho introduction of
this resolution, because he would never have
believed that his party would degrade Itself by
passing it while reelecting . Blair. Chandle
Beems to be sensitive under the imputation o
an intent to play independent in politics in tbe
future, and clear to himself of suspicion emits
tbe following:
"The issues of f e f iture are too Important to
allow Republican d isension. Tbe national
government Is in the bands of a p irty alo-
lutely dominated by rebels who tried to destroy
if curo.iiinn and civil war. Every
dog may have his day, but that of the treason-
.h e northern J eniocrncy miicu nnu auuiuoiu
suppressions of free suffrage bv fraud and mur
win hn a hort one. Gen Logan and Sen
ator Hoar have sounded the call In strong
. .j. irn Uenuhlican will endeavor
to fight only against the Democratic party led
h.ih. onnfortprarv Bfain in toe sauuiu. i. m
not this time take lour years to unhorse it.
Senator Conobb thinks h9 has outlined
cunning plan for the Senate to follow in dealing
with tbe President's removals ana appoint
ments. It is to consider, first, whether the of
ficial removed laid himselt open to the charge
of "offensive partisanship" by serving on cam
paign committees and so on ; socond, .if be has
done so.whejhor the man appointed done the
same for the Democracy. An unfaltering reli
ance upon public stupidity Is indicated in the
reception of this scheme by Republican news
papers as the one to impale tho administration
on. lneiaitis mut mere w uu lum iuiiib
"offensive partisanship," In the sense in which
Cleveland used the term, In a private citizen.
In private life a man has the full right to exer
cise his every energy, and spend his every dol
lar, If he please, In honorable political work.
It is only when he become a compensated civil
servant of the whole people, whose time be
longs to the government, and as such is bound
to preserve an attitude of impartiality toward
men of all parties, that mere partisanship is
"offensive" to any right thinking man. Cleve
land hat recognized this vital distinction in hi
George WilUam Curtis letter, and in repeated
utterances since.and he has pledged himself that
any Democrat who abuses cfllela! position in
the future, as the Republicans have abused it
in tbe pas', shall be summarily Hipped out of
office. Hasn't the country good reason to iae
him at bis word f Tbe Republican leaders In
tbe Senate will make a great miscalculation If
failing to take into account tbe strong confi
fideuce inj bis good laith and good intentions
which tbe President has won from the Ameri
can people, if they precipitate a wrangle upon
any such fictitious issue at this.
Loan Slishbbt made the first statement of
the policy of hi administration Derore me
British house of lords Monday afternoon. It
is a square abandonment of the position which
be took in tbe impetuous epeechts in which he
denounced Gladstone to impetuously a few
month ago, and declared that tbe surrender to
Rusaia' demand had made a permanent peace
impouible. He now say. "So far as I hava an
opportunity of judging, the negotiation be
tween ftaa.it and England have beep conduct-
ed with aa earnest Ueirre to arrive at an eda-
a a ate eettHnrnt.- - lie proclaim that tbe
laiatoa licy taunt be pursued tcaue
matters art gearing aa end with regard to toe
Afghan and, Egyptian qaeetion alike, so that
no dUtwbaaat can be admitted
Learns the jDIffleulty of Pacifying a Body of
Uetermliiecl btriKerg. xwice a uoiiBreaa
man, and Xbrloe a Mayor, Ills Keiuarka
ble Career.
Few men, for the past decade, have received
a greater share of public notice than Carter H
Harrison, the official head of the municipal
government of Chicago. Mr Harrison, thrice
elected to the mayoralty, has had sufficient op
portunity to prove bis ability to govern. But,
during his official cumbency, there has not
arisen an event of equal gravity and serious
ness as the present street car strike in tho city
over which he presides.
Carter H Harrison was born In Fayette coun
ty.Ky, Feb 25, 1825. His earliest ancestors are
traceable to Richard A Harrison, Cromwell's
lieutenant general, who led Charles I to the
block. The name was prominent in Virginia
during the colonial period, and that of his
great grandfather, Carter H Harrison and his
brother Benjamin Harrison, the signer of the
Declaration of Independence, and father of
President William Henry Harrison. Tho fam
ily early inter-married with the Randolphs and
Carters two large Virginia families ; through
the former Thomas Jefferson and John Ran
dolph wera of near kin. Robert Carter Harrl
son, the grandfather of this subject moved to
Kentucky in 1812. His father died eignt
months after Carter's birth. At 15 ho was sent
to school to Dr Lewis Marshall, brother of the
chief justice, and father of the celebrated Ken
tnrkv orator. Thomas F Marshall. Ho wr 8
with bim two years, and then went to Yale col
lege, and graduated in 1815. After graduating
he returned home and studied law, but did not
practice it, going to his paternal faun, six miles
from Lexington. Having a fair competence, he
went to Europe in 1851, returning In 18u3.
To complete his law studies, he entered tne
Trarsylvania Law school, at Lexington, and
finished the course in 1S55. In the same year
he went to Chicago, ou bis wedding tour, anu
. i.. f...,V nnaitllltle..decidod to Beta
tie there, and invested all te was worth. He
began tr.e practice of law, dui oecoming linuueu
with tba suirit of real estate, (speculation then
pervading the city) be gave a good deal of at
tention to it, and "finally relinquished law, his
real estate business having assumed bucu pro
nortions as to force him to this step.
In 1871 he was brought out by lriends as a
candidate for county commissioner and elacted.
In 187a he was nominated for congress on na
Democratic ticket, but was defeated. In 1874
he was again placed in the field and elected by
a majority of eight votes. Tho spring and sum
mer or lS74,he spent traveling witn nis lamny in
Germany, Austria, tho Tyrol and Switzerland.
Hb left bis family and returned home, and in
the summer of 1875, he rejoined them, traveling
in wortnern Europe, au j cnuinjr at runs, .ma
family returned to Germany and he to Chicago.
In 1878 be was suddenly called back, and
reached Germany to find that his wife had
died.' During his absence he was nominated
and re-elected to congress. In 1878 he declined
a re-nomination, and on his return home in
Maicb 187'J, his name was suggested for the
mayoralty. In April he was elected to that
position by a majority of over 5000, although
the city had gone Republican the fall preceding
by a majority of 7000. In 1871 he was again
put up for mnror, and was re-elected by a ma
jority of 8000, in the face of a strong press op
position, although the city went Republican in
the November preceding by 4000 majority. His
election the third time to his present otllceship
will be remeuiliered as one of the most exciting
events in the history of Chicago's municipal
elections. During the late senatorial contest at
Spiiogfleld, 111, Mr Harrison aspired to suc
ceed John A Logan In tho United States senate;
but as one of the "dark horses" in that memo
rable and prolonged battle his popularity was
not sufficient to harmonize the bitter factions of
bis party. That Carter H Harrison is a power
in the Democratic party of his state is a recog
nized fact, and his oflk ial conduct in the pres
ent difficulties in Chicago will result iu either
increasing his popularity witn the voting popu
lace or in relegating biin to the shades of private
life.
Gen Grant has seemingly passed the crisis
of last week in his case. He says ho has been
growing steadily Btrnfor this week, and he is
in much better spirits and has added considera
ble to his memoirs this week, working four
hours one day.
The Pennsylvania Republicans did Wednes
day what no one outside the stato would have
believed in advanco they could be so foolish as
to do, and at the order of the house of Cameron
nominated Cameron's lieutenant, M S Quay
for state treasurer. The Philadelphia Press
made a strong fight against this edict of boss
ism, but it amounted to very little in the con
vention where Quay received 196 1-2 votes out
of 121 in all. The Tress predicts that the nom
ination will 'especially touch tbe fuse or a per
sonal explosion which will silence every Re
publican advocate. Every Democratic Btump
and newspaper will ring with the echoes of the
riot bribery and the parden board. And what
is still more important, such a campaign will
inevitably lift tbe lid from the administration
of the treasury itself, and uncover secrets be
fore which Republicans will stand dumb." Col
Quay was a member of the board of pardons
that'Tn 1881 relieved from punishment Mr
Kemble, an ex state treasurer and political
boss, who had been convicted by a jnry of
bribing the legislature to pass the bill giving
the Pennsylvania railroad $4,000,000 as indem
nity for the loss incurred in tbe Pittsburg riots.
The ofiense was flagrant and proved beyond
doubt, and the pardon was simply inexcusable
on any public ground, rod was attributed at
the time to the absolute necessity which tho
Republican manipulators were under of pre
venting Kemble from uncovering the history of
the tremendous robberies of tbe state treaeury, .
to which the Press alludes. It is asserted that
the Democratic leaders now have this story in
their bands backed with documentary proof.
and if it is used as campaign ammunition it will
work fearful havoc among the Republican
leaders. On the other hand it is widely sus
pected that the Democratic management in tbe
state, is only an annex of camerons and nig
gang of scoundrels, and that it can be trusted
to play into their hands whenever necessary.
This is at least true of one faciion of the Penn
sylvania Democracy. Quay's first and hardest
work since his nomination is now being devot
ed to controlling or influencing the Democratic
nomination and campaign management, it is
probably Impossible for him to suppress the
charges against him, because they are now so
widely known, but be can deprive them of con
siderable of their directness ar.d momentum,
and he may induce the Democrats to make
some weak and hopeless nominiton. ino
Independent Republicans of the state who
achieved the victory of 18S2 over tho machine
in electing Pattiscn, and bo last year feu
back into the ranks under the miasma of
Blaincism, find their rower for good largely
gone. Their subjection to Cameron has given
bim an opportunity to choke out all organized
strength on their part.
President Cleveland took a long con
templated step upon the Fourth ot July, In
closing the doors of the Whito House against
office seekers, and is determined to devote hit
whole time to tho duties of broader (cope,
its diplomacy, its finances and its home inter
ests which press npon him. It is impossib'e
tor him to give bis attention to the everlasting
appeal of intiiguing faction over the pation
age; for as surely as be does, he can find time
for nothing else. He sho.ved that he realizt d
this when he first entered office by delegating to
the members of bis cabinet tbe business of dis
posing of the offices to be filled in each depart
ment. But the appeal made to hun personally
have continued until at last be bas been driven
to give notice that he will not listen to them un
der any circumstances.
Tub Springfield Republicau which ha al
ways been an able advocate of the civil sen ice
reform principle, makes an admirable answer
to tbe nonsense of Henry Cabot Lodge, and fel
low of his ilk, that Republican office holders
ought generally to be retained, bcanse the gov
ernment business is like a banker's, where no
one would think of employing or discharging
subordinate on account of politic. The Re
publican lay :
"The retrence to a private banker is good.
but to make tbe analogy perfect, Mr Lodge
should have depicted the feeling and expres
sion ot thi banker, if be should arrive at hi
bank some day and find tbat his cashier, tellers
and office boy bad gone to Indiana to run a
Renulihcan ramnaira. or bad gone out npon
tbe street and assured voter that if one of the
great partiet in which the country is nearly
equally divided should carry tbe day, tbe bank
would' fail. It strikes as tbat a private banker
whose men should cenduct in that fashion,
would engage a new lot. -
Dr Beth Arnold' Boothloa aad Ontattof Cotcta!
for caii4rea.- KecoauModed by BMtar aatd narave.
The convention of representatives of agricul
al eolleges and experimental stations began at
Washington last Wednesday. There are be
between 50 and GO delegates, representing all the
leading agricultural colleges and experimental
stations of tbe United States. Commissioner
Coleman, who was made chairman, delivered
an atle and thoughtful address, developing his
idea of what his department should be and do,
to achieve the largest ptactical usefulness to
the agricultural interests of tbd country. Tho
fundamental idea is to arrest the tendency
shown by statistics towards a gradual diminu
tion in the quantity of crops, while the 6oil is
at, tbe same time being exhausted of fertility.
Ho ndmitted that our agricultural colleges.with
their magnificent endowment of lands, are not
fulfilling their purposes, and argued that their
chief opportunity for good now lies in experi
mental work. On the college farms Bhould be
tested every variety of fruit, cereals, timber
trees, and even domestic animal?, and those
found in all respect j alnpteJ to tte lociliy
should be disseminate! by the college. Thus,
one college firm would be trying experiments
for hundreds or thousand of fanners, nlo
could enjoy tho benefits and not suff.-r the lo'
cs in money, labor and time of making the tests
for themselves. He proffered the serviws of
the department in obtaining from abroad seeds
and plants of any product we are now in port
ing whenever lie faculty of any cc eg wished
to test the cultivation of the plant in this coun
try. He could see tbo necessity for a great na
linal expeiimeutal farm also, which be would
have established near thi capital, and,. if he
might go further, he wouid establish upon it a
permanent national or world's exposition, where
the products of this amlotLer nations might be
exhibited side by side. Mr. Colman proves
himself to be the first man who has held this
office who has any idea of it. opportunities.
Avrr.a the most protracted and bitter contest
ever known in Canada, tbe parliament has pass
ed a unilorm franchise bill applicable to all gen
eral elections. The measure is important, mak
ing as it doss an assumption of federal author
ity over tho provincial partiamcnts upon this
subjoct. The government bill broadens the rule
of the franchise in some provinces and narrows
it in others. In Prince Edward Island and
British Columbia, for example, where "man
hood suffrage" is tho rule, and in the great
commonwealth ot Ontario and the growing
province of Manitoba, mhcre the property qual
ifications are small, thi dominion bill is very
unpopular. The Indians in the older provinces
are given the ballot if otherwise qualified, the
sup. rlntendcnt-gcneral of Indian affiirs being
tbe judge as to the vainC of their holdings. Tho
most unpopular phae bf the bill is the system
of revising officers appointed by tbe govern
ment, a i innovation which t!:e opposition aided
by many French conservatives were unablo to
prevent. "
In the year 1792 there were 201 post-offices
In the Cnited States, and so light were the
Juties tf postmaster general that Presi
dent Washington was opposed to giving bim a
eat in tbe cabinet. Now there are nearly 50,
000 post offices, and the annual revenues have
swelled from t25,000 to $45,010,000. Ninety
years ago the department louUed wiih uncon-
cealed uitfuvor on the prt ject of admitting
newspapers to the mails, and not until the in
troduction of railroads did tbe opposition en
tirely relax. Nowadays hundreds of tons of
printed matter are handled and transported
daily. When Thomas Jelferson and Timothy
Pickering endeavored to expedite the scrvicj
between New York and Washington ao as to
attain a speed of 100 miles in 24 hours they
came into a eoliLWn wits a stag riirhts pre
tention which temporarily defeated the enter
prise, lor New Jersey insisted on exacting her
"stage and tavern" tax of $4u0 frcm the tod-,
eral mail coaches.
The rroduce Swindler foon.1 Gnllly.
Henry W Colson, Osruar W Roper and
James W Harris mb wtre tonvicted for con
spiracy to defraud the public by doing a pre
tended commission 1 mites at Sotucrviile,
Mass, were found guiitv on tbe superior crimi
nal court at Cambridge last week Tnureday.
Sentence wa deferred, exception having been
filed to the rulings of the court.
F.dwla Booth's KeUrcmetit from the Stage
To the grest rearrat of hi admirer, 11 r Foo'.h re
iterate, hie oVtrnninka ef permanently retiring
from the a:are at tbe end of lb? pre-rat mna.
We believe, fciwever, thai vhn ahla great trarr.
diaa haa Iborou.Vy anted the virtue, al Lhr K C
Flower a Serve I'll I, and foaod In tbem the relief
from aervou. proteralton and dti-iTy which alwaya
fo.lowa their uae, b. will racouatder hi. waonnen
ment, and the play-gi'Ug people of America i'l
enjoy ale eaprrb perfoiBMaai for tome) ear I)
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