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Vol. IX.
BRATTLEBORO, VT., JULY 17, 1885.
No. 49.
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The circulation of The Reformer latt week
4tt various edition! tca 10.744.
BUSINESS CARDS.
Taniei Conland,
tf Surgeon,
irl. . 1'IivbIcIbu and
Brattleboro, Vt. Ofliso In Crosby
'Slock, opposite Tolephoiie Eichaute. Kesidunco
Vrs Kirklnnd'e, Walnut Bt. Ollice hours from 8 to
A. M., 1 to 3 P. M. ,
H. HOJuXOWv-M. $., .'arsiciAN anb
Surukon, llKAiiLtBOHu, Vt. ollice and
eTesidenoe ooracr Main and Walnut -treetH. At
home from 1 to 2. and from 6 to 7 o'clock P. W.
Oja. POST, Dentist. All operations
done in lha bebt manner and warr&nted.
Oflice and Kestdence junction High and tirVen
Street. Brattleboro. Vt. t
WM. I,, BEMIS, House an'J fcirrn
Va nrnr. itriu.tniti.tl 1'iiiiitinir. KrKcriiiij-J
Graining, KalsomiuiiiR, Paper HaDging, etc. i
3 (Sreen street. Brattlrro. Vr, ? I
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.f oirtLt'tJuuru, VI.
The laws passed by the legislature of 1S80
make a volurco uf 331 pages, including tbe in
Sfeaxeb Caeljsi.b says that "as a general
thing tbe people of Kentucky are pleased with
tbe administration." This la true of tbe people
all over the country.
It was a bogus report that Quoen Vtdtoria
had written a letter of sympathy to the' Pall
Mall Gazette for Its exposures of tbe London do
baucheries of the nobiUty. The Prince of Wales
however, stopped his paper.
Almost all the strikers at Cleveland,
are Poles imported by the companios to take
tbe place of other striking workmen because
the Poles were ignoiant and would work cheap
The companies can hardly expect sympathy
In the ;crape into which iher got tuemsolves
Mms Cleveland refused resolutely to per
mit her portrait to appear as tho frontispiece of
her book. She preferred to trust her fame to
the product of her mind rathtr than the beauty
of her person. But she was unable to cheat
public curiosity in this way. The pictorial as
eociated press has managed to get hold of a
photograph of her in some way and the result
appears in the Kefobbieu this week.
The new conservative ministry in England
has decided to appoint a parliamentary commls'
slon to investigate into the causes of depres.
sion in the various industries of that country.
Salisbury, the pressnt premier, is not a be
liever in free trade, and it is regarded as quite
probable that a commission appointed by his
government would find the facts very much in
favor of the growing demand for "iree trade'
or retaliatory duties. T :
President Clbveland and party were away
from Wasliington from Friday to Monday night
for a fishing excursion to Woodmount, on the
Potomac. We have been treated to a number
of dolorous editorials during the week about
the sinfulness of Sunday fishing by tbe chief
magistrate of the nation. But the New York
Herald denies that any fishing was done Sun
day, and insists that the day was spent quietly
in rest, f.nd the fishing confined to Saturday and
Monday.
The chorus ought to start in at once. An
other office holder has been "removed," by
Cleveland. IIo was the pension examiner at
Eimira, N Y. It was done solely to get a
place for some greedy aspiraut &c, &e, &c.
Only one thing savos ut from the usual wailing
a'lout tbe ravish of the civil service reform prin
ciple This offlcejholder was a Democrat. Probata
lylthe organs will be willing on mature refleciion
taadmit in this case that the man was removed
for inefficiency in office.
v rjiiv
E A. CLARK, Hard-Ware, Iron
iwa and Blinds. No. li Oroahy Hlock. Brattleboro
ITEimY TUCKER. M. Phyi-
)A c.a-i anil-sr.rL'eoti. omob iu Leuuftri' .Saw
Block. Reairtence. Hlgli ftreet. 0
R. D. P. WEBSTER, Elliot street,
tirattletioro. Office uoum. 7 to 8 a. in., and
I to 18 and 6 to 8 p.m.
t leans p
i' tjywit
PT WRIRITT & CO.. Cnitam
and ileady .Made (jiuthing, Gent's Fuiun.lim
Meade, tlie bounced Copiah county (Miss)
' do! t master, has written a letter to a New Or
t y-
paper to declare that he had no compile-
with the Matthews murder and to defend bii
course in endorsing it afterwards. He eayi
(ilevtland K-movtd hira to 'irteet tho endcrteJ
rient of his northern Republican allies. He
ihay now expect lots of sympathy from the Re
publican organs. '
WHITE & QALV1S, Stores; and Tto
Ware. Main tjtreet, Eay'a Block, .jopvoeif.
American Hotigft.
Dltl'A Woodbary. Dentist.. Office and
residence, Glllot-.t, Brattleboro, Vt. Anrea
theln given and applied, for Extractrng Teeth.-4yl
HM. BURKE. Iilrery. Feed and
. Boarding Stable, jnst irtl of Harmon yBl'k
CHENEY & ClaAPP. Booksellers
and Ht.Bt1oners.fi :ro!lr Block. Brattleboro
AF. BOYWTON, Dealer in Boots
. and KhoKg. Mursniill A KMerorooka Block.
AV. COX CO., Stoves and Tin
Wure. Main Street, opp. Amwricau tlouMe
THOMAS JUDCrK, L'cale. In Boot, and
JL tshoea, Judge Block, opp. American Bouse.
HAS. IP.. BARRETT, Machinist
Tyler eioce, Alain gireei, near me inuge.
SALISBURY'S Dining and Lodging
KooruH. 41 Main st. open Bt ail houra.
D
K. AT.LHN & CO., Lumber Deal-
. era, Flat Klrrei, Bratlleboi o. t.
R. A. .. PETXEE & SON, Den.
tiara, over i ripp a Mui e.
J. GEEASON, Coal Dealer, Office
i in Wreem;'' 1'Uk Htore. .
H
E. WIXLARB. Dealer in Rooiingr
bluto, 69 riouth Mulu tiireet. Uyl
ENRY PTOWE, Manufacturer of
liulUT lioies, ureen Klver, vt. ,- iwiy
M EO. E. GREENE, DruKgiat, Union
kji diocb, mailt at..
The first of Jufy witnessed the summary dis
charge of 200 clerks in a single department at
Washington. One of the backwoods papers in
this state, we notice, calls this proceeding "a
disgrace to tbe country, showing tbe inherent
vicionsness of the spoils system when men who
earn only their daily bread are sent adrift with
out notice." These clerks were discharged be
cause they were superfluous, and there was no
i x use for wasting the public money in employ
ing them. Their discbarge may look "mean"
to those people who suppose the sole purpose of
government is to provide salaries for Rep ibll
can office-holders, but to ordinary practical
men it looks like one of the most commendable
things this adminstration has done.
The polphln.
Attorney General Garland rendered his opln
Ion Monday upon the question submitted to
him by Secretary Whitney, as to whether
the government had In tbe new dispatch boat,
the Dolphin,!a bad bargain which It mutit sub
mtt to. or a broken contract against which it
could piotect Itself. The facts in the case were
plain. Aside from numorous technical defects
which the examining board reported, it is cer
tain that Mr Roach contracted to have the Dol
phin completed by July 23 1881. That he
failed In by many months. He contracted to
put into her steel shaft. That be failed in,
and at his own request was allowed to substi
tute iron. Congress ordered a ship of fifteen
knots sea speed. And that he failed to give
her. In fact, the Dolphin is not the kind of
ship congress ordered and appropriated the
public money for. She is perfectly -worthless
for the purpose for which she was Intended, too
slow io catch another vessel or to get away
from a pursuer, so constructed that it would be
Impossible, ibr her to fire at a ship she is pur
suing or one that she is running away from,
structurally weak and awkward, and with en
gines that .can't l)e depended npon. But she
was ballt under the superintendence of an ad
visory board appointed by Secretary Chandler,
and tbe contractor John Roach claims that
this fact relieves him from the responsibility.
It is a fine question, but Mr Garland decides
that the contractor cannot shelter himself be
hind the plans, where he knew that the act of
Congress, which was part of his engagement,
required a certain result in speed and in other
respects. He knew his own business; be had
the plans and specifications before him ; and if
they would not produce the required results.
he need not bid. This is substantially what
Roach himself said and promised, when he
was after the job, in his testimony before tbe
congressional committee. Ho said ho would
not undertake to build upon plans which were
faulty. He said : "If a merchant comos to
me and fays that ho wants a ship of such and
such speed under conditions which I think
will not permit me to get that speed, I tell him
that I will not build the ship in that way that
such and such changes must be made." And
again he said to Congress : "When the plan is
finally determined on make your contract, and
throw upon tbe contractor all the responsibility
that he would havo to bear if he were dealing
with a merchant." This is precisely what
Garland says the government has a right to do
under the law. He holds that the requirement!
of Congress as to results were a part of the con
tract which Mr Roach undertook to fulfill.
Nor is it true in point of fact that Roach has
followed the plans of the advisory board
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UNION BLOCK, BRATTLEBORO.
Appointments by telephone or mail.
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F. O. BURD1TT,
UNDERTAKER.
COVERED, BLACK WALNUT, WOOD
CASKETS AND COFFINS, with a complete
assortment of UNDERTAKERS' GOODS,
constantly on hand. Also, one of the best
Embalming Preparations in tbe market.
Fayetteville. Jone 9. 18X5! 6w44
GRANITE STATE MOWERS.
I bar for ale two prood reoood-hand Mowing
Machine which I will aell chrap; aim will ttirninh
new naehlne u cfaan aa they can be bone hi of
IK manufacture-ra. f am also atrent for eland
wheel liar Kakea ; all ordfm pronjp'iv attended
to . N. W. ULNKLKK.
Waet BniuVhoro, Yt. tf4t
BEAtOLL'TIOMS.
' At th rmlar awtlnc of Col Job 8 1 ylrr Camp
fo 2, 8 ut V, Jaly L It, th folktwlog reeolntwa.
mfrr xWwUI -
BMolTcd . that th tbaofc Of tbti Camp ar heart.
itv riKod4 10 Cot WllllM AoMla for the nato,
nd iDvaieabU juft of mm meient epanhh wall ran.
2d, KeolTd, ahat a copy of thea nwuimton.
.s anDear ta vruw "
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4 W t'lATTOa.
The best feature of this administration Is the
steady and uncompromising war it is making
upon land-grabbing. Commissioner Sparks has
rendered anotner decision this week which will
restore many millions of acres to tho public do
main for entry and settlement under the home
stead and other laws. These lands have in
previous years been withdrawn from the pablic
domain by the land office entirely without
requirement of law for railroad indemnity in
case of loss on shortage in the regular ' giants.
Tbe great corporations of course stretched this
contingent demand into a claim of abso.
lute ownership of every acre of the land, and as
long as the Republican party was in power, no
one interfered with the wrong.
The Congregationalism, tbe "Episcopalians
and the Baptists of New Hampshire have
united in a petition to the legislature of that
state for a reform of the divorce laws. They
show that divorces average oae to each 7 3-4
marriages in the state, a worse condition of af
fairs than any of the other New England states
show, and for a reform they recommend the
two main features af the restraining law of
Massachusetts, first, "that all decrees of di
vorce in the first instance be granted nm, to be
come absolute after the expiration of a fixed
time, say six months, unless the court shall
for sufficient cause otherwise order;" and sec
ondly, "that af.er a divorce from tbe bonds of
matrimony, tbe party against whom the di
vorce was granted shall not marry within a
fixed time, say two years from the final decree
of divorce." Tbe first requirement has been of
large practical good wherever it has been
adopted, because it affords a substantial safe
guard against fraud in undefended cases.
Tmb New York World correspondent, who
probably talked with half a dozen disappointed
would-be office brokers, has since been trying
to make out that all the Vermont Democrats are
sitting in bitterness "apon tbe towors of the
Green Mountains, trying to spy something good
In the political land at Washington." To ac
count for this imaginary wrath, he quotes a
conversation which B B Soialiey recently held
with the president on tbe subject of patronage.
"He asked tbe President to make certain chang
es here, so as to help tbe party. The President
replied: "What is the good of making any
change in Vonnont tor that purpose i What
could I do that would help the Democratic par
ty of Vermont !" He then went on to say that
he intended to devote himself to change in
Ohio and Virginia flrt-t and then take op New
York and other close states. After he got
through with that be might find time to give hs
attention to tbe Federal office of Vermont. Of
course inch talk widely reported and repeated.
tbe corresponCent made out was enough to tlr
all the depths of Democratic anguish. Bat the
main trouble with it is that Mr Smelly say be
never bad such a talk or anything like ft with
he president.
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as others, tbe boaj' protestftd'against his work.
Wm Ji Cnandler appeared Tuesday in one
of his usually trenchant letters, as the defend
er and apologist ot Roach. He does not un
dertake to say that the sbip as built is good for
anything. That would be too much evon for
his cheek. Ignoring the fact that the contract
or or secretary of tho navy is responsible for
the wretched failure, ho argues that Roach is
not at fault, because the act of congress re
quired that tlie bids should be made Upon
plsin and spcLI.&tions approved in, writing by
the secretary and a majority of the advisory
board, and Roach cannot be at fault if be has
done bis work in accordauce with these plans.
This is admitting in effect that the plans were
good for nothing, and it is probably the fact.
It is also possibly the fact that Chandler never
intended them to be, and that his whole ener
gies were devoted to making it a profitable job
for his old client and lobby employer, Roach.
It turns out that Roach has been paid $15,-
880.57 for extras and changing of plans while
constructing tho csel. It is apparently the
old game. It has been the regular way for the
last 19 years in nearly all the departments to
modify plans, specifications, terms ant con
ditions npon which contracts have been award
ed. This vicious system has extended from
the pettiest contract for painting a hall
way to the construction of great pub
lic buildings. . Its existence has been so well
known and its application so surely anticipated
that bidders have taken ruinous chances in
putting their bids below cost, in the expecta
tion of coming out far ahead by the whittling
down of the requirements of the contract, in
their interest, by the officials charged, with tbe
making and execution of it. Mr Garland hits
this practice a knock-down' blow by holding
that the requirements of congress must be held
to be a part of the contract and if they are dis
regarded it must be at tbe contractor's tisk.
This opinion if finally sustained will be pro
ductive of immense good, because it will com- j
pel honest dealings with the government,
Mr Garland's conclusion with regard to tbe
Dolphin is not only that Secretary Whitney is
not obliged to accept her, but that he has no
right to do so without a special act of congress,
and the large sums of money paid towards the
boat may be recovered.
It ought to begin to be understood before
long that President Cleveland was in earnest in
what he said about tbe misuse of official posi
tion for political purposes. A Democrat by the
name of George Parker, who was appointed
special treasury agent at Chicago about
months too has found it out. Instead of at
tending to the business of bis office as a "de
cent public servant" should do, he went to
Springfield and took an active interest in Judge
Tree's senatorial candidacy. Now he bas rot a
notice from Washington that his services wilt
no longer be required.
, . ltoyal Debauchery,
Royalty is doing its best In Europe to prove
itself a nuisance on the' face of the earth
Many events demonstrate this impressively.
A prince pf the ruling House of IloUenzollern
in Germany, gets into a brawl in a house of
prostitution this week, strikes a soldier in the
face, the poor fellow Is so mortified that he can
not resent tbe indignity that he goes and com
mits suicide, and Kaiser Wilhelm writes a
letter of condolence to the bereaved father. W hy
shouldn't the toiling masses of Germany be
asking themselves why 'millions of dollars
are wrung from their hard earnings every year
to support this brood of royal profligates in
idle debauchery and bagnio brawling f
A thousand times more impressively must
this question be forcing itself upon the English
people. Tho Pall Hall Gazette exposures,
however exaggerated they may be, however
much "sensationalism" may have been worked
into them,show a most hideous state of beastli
ness in the upper strata of London society,. Tho
curtain which Dickens prayed to be lifted, in
Dombey and Son, has been' lifted, and a state
of crime disclosed of which Dickens could never
have dreamed, of crime so revolting and un
bridled that it is a wonder that tho society
which contains it does not at once relapse to
barbarism. Tie Gazette when "good society"
turned upon It last week in all its fury, warned
it to be careful, unless it wanted to see tho very
foundations of social ordor overturned by tbe
summoning of the "princes of the blood" into
court to confront the victims of their lust. It is
understood and conceded "vow that the Gaz
ette's revelations are "based on facts, the gov
ernment prosecutor admits he will not proceed
against the paper, ncfife'ii shown by our "Old
World" news, some of the best men In England
have consented to act' as a committee, before
whom the Gazette shall confidentially place its
evidence.
The worst of the Gazette's charges is that
there exists a regular conspiracy and traffic in
young and innocent girls for the lusts of the
nobility and the so-called aristocratic classes.
These girls are procured from all over the
world, regardless of expense, allured into
houses of crime under the semblance of an
"employment bureau" or some other trick, and
in some private room brought by force or
threats into submission to iristocratic beastli
ness. Tiu desire for tenilaf and beautiful vic
tims seems to have develop d into a mania, and t
like all forms of unncittu.fjlioe, sweeps every
thing before jjBSV3Tame fBit-as nown to
exist ago, as is at wn ty oflicAl inves-
, No Need of It.
A foolish report was telegraphed from Wash
ington Tuesday that the president had called a
bait In tbe spoils distribution of the depart
ments and ordered that all dismissals and ap
pointments to 1111 places not vacant must stop
at once. .Of course tbe silly Ho was exploded
the next day. There is not and has not been
tbe slightest need of such action on the part of
the president in tbe fullest fidelity to his civil
service reform pledgts. - In the four months
ending on July 4, there were but J5108 appoint
ments made in all branches of tbe federal ser
vice. This is less than 6 per cent of the entire
number, and of these more than one-half were
appointments of postmasters, the larger por
tion ot tnem to till vacancies.
Neither tho president nor any fair-minded
man can believe that thore has boen any "lnde-
asm uuew in making coanges. Jsvery new
Republican administration has made' more of
tbem. . . -f i -
faithfully. In the matter of iron shafts. aswtfttti'jns ttt tbat time aa lav has '-ohtnb-
uteei n its rapid progress. These pirenscs
of ordinary degree are not easily reached by
criminal law ; only civil damages are permitted.
And it is not easy.it is n!orionily and iniquit
onsly difficult, for the facers and brothers of
poor working girls in Upland to push a civil
process against a member of the titled classes.
So notorious and so stanicluris the miscarriage
of English criminal procedure in this particu
lar; so hard is it for poor men to start against
powerful transiressors, iy 70 fibrous, intricate,
and antiquated? mechanlsajMt-h evon when
started can bidenecTeti Smt retarded In a thou
sand crooked and clandestine ways, that a
sweeping renovation of the whole apparatus has
long figured among Radical demands, and the
Pall Mali Gazette, as a Radical organ.has made
tenibly clear ,-the needot it. Now one of the
projects of reform gravely proposed in Parlia
ment is that the age when a girl can legally con
sent to criminal intercourse be raised from 13 to
18 years. What means tt, that With more or
less knowledge of this evil,wise legislators have
permitted the law to stand in its present shape
all these years ? Does the Brtitisb gorrnment
There were two bad cases of organic hyster
ics last week, one over the dismissal of Col
Stephenson, a Union soldier from the pension
department and the appointment of an ex-rebel
in his place, the other ever Mr Garland's solec
lion of a rebel, Col Howard, as bis assistant.
A shocking showing was made as to bow this
terrible rebel colonel would squelch all pro
ceedings against southern bull-dozers and ne-gro-shouters,
and fortify tho . whole of Dixie in
a reign of blood and anarchy. . Then a lot of
instances were narrated of the fire-eating career
of this unreconstructed' colonel.-'..: They were
easily manufactured from the fact that his
home la at Little Rock, Kansas. It may damp
en the ardor of the organs a little to inform
them that Col Howard was a Union soldier,
commanding a Nebraska regiment, and that ho
only settled at Little Rock, after he had laid
siege to it and helped to take it. As to the
other case Pension Commissioner Black's pri
vate secretary wntos to a Springfield citizen,
wno inquired about it.
'Your favor of Julv 3 incloslnir nrintetl lin
icinuvo i me uisuiissai 01 uoi steDnenson.
late chief of the middle division of tbis office,
came to tbe attention of Gen Black as he was
on tno eve 01 leaving tne city. I am author
ized to say that tbe statement is absolutely
lalse. Tlie successor of Col Steohenson. Col
Wm P Davis, is a Democrat and a soldier n(
high character, stainless courage and reputa
tion, having eerved gallantly during tbe war in
an Indiana regiment. He is a man who bears
such recommendations as few officers of the
volunteer services nave received and Is possess
ed of great business capacity."
TheJies about this administration seem to
be launched with singular stupidity.
ROSE E. CJ.EVIiI.AND,
At tbe meeting last week of the advisory
committee of the Bennington battle monument
association, it was unanimously voted to recom
mend a plain monumental shaft 300 feet high,
and that is doubtless what will be voted at the
annual meeting, Aug 12. ..
Secuetary Bayard, it is said, scouts at the
story la circulation that any steps are thought
of looking to the acquisition by this govern
ment of any part of Mexico by purchase.
Speculators have been prolific ot ; schemes
agnst Mexico, Cuba and Pertf, but Ui6y get
no encouragement at Washington.
It is pointed out that the decision of the New
York Court of appeals, annullng the anti-oleo
margarine law,strikes at the vitals ot liquorpro-
hibition also. Tbe New iork decision was
based on tbe 14tb amendment to th e Federal
Constitution, which says : "No State shall make
or enforce any law which shall abridge tbe priv
ilege or immunities of citizens of the United
States; nor shall any State deprive any person
of life, liberty or property ,&c," It was held that
the manufacture of oleomargarine, without de
ceit or fraudulent method, is tbe right of any
ciliaen, and tbe State has 10 right to prohibit it
because it may be a damage to tbe dairy inter
est. Tbe same reasoning will certainly apply
to the manufacture and sale ot liquor. But tbe
New York court applies the amendment to a
use and construction for which its framers never
Intended it.
Thb Spanish government declines to make
new commercial treaty xor wans ana lnu
country. It would be of too much benefit to
tbe Cuban people in relieving tbem from the
extortion of the Spanish Monopolies.
Gex Geabt's conditioa shows little change
from week ago. Saturday be seemed much
belter and hi voice wai clearer than for long
time, bat Monday be was won and hi voka
ha grown baaky and indistinct. He is bt jig
afforded absolute qaiet tad gains under that
treatment.
deliberately pander to the vices of it tv'ihflltv ?
The Gazette has made pablieiUHiaincs iu Its
revelations except to declare that "princes of
the blood" are among the criminals. No won
der. For what else do the1 miserable idlers ex
1st, squandering millions of the English people'
money ? Events are hastening with rapid tread
towards a political upheaval in England. The
suffrage has been enlarged and extended to tbe
country districts ; tbe demand for what honest
old John Blight calls real land reform has ex
tended from Ireland to Scotland and England
herself, and tbe people are coming to see that
tbe common sense of the age demands the total
obliteration of the old privileges and extortions
of feudalism ; tho House of Lords itself is the
subject of political attack; a political party is
consolidating whose watchword and whose
avowed aim is Democracy, and even tbe Con
servative party sees that its only chance of pow
er is in seeming to be at tho head of this current.
These revelations cf tbe iwttenncss, tbe absolute
putrescence of the titled classes, must ine itably
add a great impetus to the revolution.
It is stated and has not been denied that to
a gentleman wuo called upon Secretary Lamar
a few days since to inquire in iciard to an ap
pointment that officer made tbe following re
mark : "I care no more for a northern Demo
crat than I do for a northern Republican. It is
simply a question of north and south with me."
If this is lalse it should be denied. Boston
journal.
As Mr Lamar will not probably be Idiotic
enough to "deny" such stuff or pay any atten
tion to it, the Journal will by next week be
quoting it as proof of tbe desperate wickedness
of this administration and there will be as
much sense and plausibility Jo it, as to most of
its attacks.
Thb Montpelier Argus says, significantly
"There Is a great deal more opposition to Mr
Edmunds' re-election than is generally supposed
outside of Vermont." The only sense in which
this can be trne is that no one outside of Ver
mont can believe that the opposition to Ed
munds will have any Democratic help, openly
or on the sly, for tbe benefit of Qov Smith. Tbe
Argus has once promised, so far as it is con
cemed, that It won't, and we nope so. The
fact is that among tbe people of Vermont, as
distinguished from tbe free pass politicians,
there is a great deal less opposition to Edmund
than outsiders generally sappose.
1 B
Wat Shaw, a colleague of Parnell in the
leadership of tbe Home Rule party, was chair
man of tbe board of directors of the collapsed
Munster bank Inlreland. He turns out to be a
debtor' for 730,000. and to hare been largely
n possible for tbe loose and reck lea. manage
ment of tbe Institution Bnd iu 29 provincial
branche. The snflerirg from tbe failure will
be great and widespread.
Kerrwai Debllltatnl Ma
Yon are allowed free M of irfjr day of
th nee of Ir Dve' Celebrated ollajc Bell
with Electric SatprBsory Appliance, for the
tpeerlr relief and permanent care of Nervous
Debility, iot of Vitality and Manhood, and all
kindred trouble. Abe. tut many other d.a-
e. Complete rentoraUon to bcaitb. rigor
and manhood gaaranteed. No risk is incurred,
liiaatasaad pamphlet, with tall information,
krrraia, c, anal led fre try addraasinsr Voltaic
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A New Hampshire solon this year stepped
beyond the usual line in catering for the "sol
diers vote" by introducing a bill to exempt all
veterans from paying a poll tax. But the old
soldiers themselves set down plump on the silli
ness, every vot3 they could control In tho legis
lature went against and they gaye demagogues
to understand that they are self resDectinn
citizens, not state paupers.
It is a fact tact some of the most hopeful acd
philosophic thought on the negro problem
comes from the old slaveholding South itself.
The Charleston News and Courier for instance
recalls the fact, that the "Intelligent, far-sighted,
prudent, white man is the product of cent
uries of surviving, suffering and working."
And speaking to the philanthropists who are
discouraged because of the slow progress of the
colored peoplo of the south. "Can there be any
reason for serious discouragement in the circum
stance that the colored people, who have been
their own masters for only twenty years, and
whose ancestors 100 years ago were naked sav
ages, should at tbis time compare dlsadvanta
geonsly with the white citizens of tbe United
btates t . x
The New York Times gives the following
summary of what has bean done in France and.
Austria in promoting industrial training : "la
Paris sixty live evening art . schools are sup
ported by tbe municipality alone, besides the
numerous religious orders, workingmen's soci
eties and private enterprise. In consequence of
thfs, almost every workman in France is a good
draughtsman. In addition to this, evening lec
tures or 'cours' on almost every subject of in
terest in art, science and literature afford gratu
itous instruction to the workmen. The crowd
ed schools of drawing, modeling, wood-carving
and painting, -.furnished with the best models
and casts, and nnder the charge of teachers full
of enthusiasm for the work, give an impetus to
those trades and manufactures which are closely
connected with art which is without a parallel.
In Austria, which ranks next to France in ir
dustrial advance, eighty-four trado schools aie
already established, which may be classed un
der tbe following heads: Firtt, schools for
weaving; second, wood and iron trades; third,
ceramics and elai-s trades ; fourUi, metal indus
tries; and, fifth, toys and various small indut-
tries. Tne latter class of industries am princi
pally confined to the mountainous districts-ot
the Tvrol. It will be seen that weaving schools
take the first rank in Austria, and this is an in
dustry which employs a vast uumtier of work
people of both sexes. There are in Austria alone
twenty-two weavinc schools. Tbe local.needs
and resources of different localities in most rases
determine tbe character of the school. Thus,
tbe first trade school established in Germany
was fur the manufacture of metal work in the
collicrv district of Westphalia, and owed its or
igin to tbe want felt hy tbe manufacturers for
trained labor. It includes a three years' coarse.
and the pupils are trained as designers, model
ers, wood-carvers, founders, turners, engine-tit
ters, engravers, gilders and etchers.
Ir seems curious that there should never have
been a dedstun on tbe point which the national
banks of St Jobnabury, Brandon etc, bave de
termined to raise, in resisting tbe assessment
npon theia ordered by tbe comptroller of tbe
currency on account of tbe failed Vermont
national bank of St Albans. Tboy loaned Bar
low and Sow I money, and took the stock of
tbe St Albans banks as collateral, and the re
siat the payment of the assessment on tbe
ground that they are not tbe owners of the
stock.- It is d.fficalt to see however, bow they
can fapve a reasonable hope of escaping nay-
naent; when, bank Uke collaterals they are
careful to make thcnselres tbe absolute owner
as against any other claims, and ownership
doe not asually st p at just tbe point of risk
loss. . It if true . that atsessibihty make
national bank stock a risky kind of collateral,
bat tbe time to think ot that was when they
look It.
The most prominent figure to-day in tie
field of literature is Miss Rose E Cleveland,
the mistress of the White House. No book of
recent times bas created such widespread inter
est and comment as her maiden effort as an au
thoress. While this is true partly beca-ise of
her position as tbe "first lady of the land,'
there is, nevertheless, due to her the credit of
being a remarkably bright woman, gifted with
a lively imagination and originality of thought
and expression rarely encountered in the pro
ductions of female authors.
Miss Cleveland, of the long lino of ladies
who have presided over the President's Man
sion is the first to enjoy tho additional distinc
tion of becoming a lady of letters. Although
the inference may be drawn that Miss Cleve
land stands alone among her twenty predeces
sors as possessing 'sufficient ability to write a
creditablo work, the correct conclusion is prob
ably tbe fact that her past life has been devot
ed to teaching and lecturing upon educational
subjects. In fact, tho work she has now given
to the public is really the product of several
years' labor in her professional sphere, revised
and enlarged for publication.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was tho youngest
of nine children born to Richard and Anna
Cleveland. Her native home was Fayetteviile,
N Y, from whence her parents removed to
Clinton when she-was a little girl, and
later to Holland Patent, a littlo hamlet near
Utiea, where her father took charge of tbe
Presbyterian church in 1S53. Her father diad
in that year leaving little Rose an orphan at the
age of seven. The parsonage had to bo given
up and the education of Rose became the
mother's life thoupht and labor. In lateryears
she was sent to Houghton Seminary, where
she proved a brilliant pupil, graduating with
the highest honors. "Original People" was
tho theme of her graduating essay, her audience
pronouncing it a most happy effort. Miss
Rose then became a teacher in the Houghton 1
Seminary, when, after remaining In that posi-
as principal of the Collegiate Institute in that
tOWll.;- .-,. .y-. , ,. v .,, J...
She afterwards tauRht in Pennsylvania at a
private scnooi xor a snort time, and then con
ceived the idea of lecturing before classes, and
proposed to tbe Principal of Houghton Semi
nary to make the beginning ut her Alma
Mater.
Tbe latter entering heartily into the arrange
ment. Miss Cleveland wrote a course of histori
cal lectures which she delivered that season
As she devoted herself to ber aged mother, she
was unable to leave Holland Patent to pursue
ner wora continuously until alter ner mother s
aeatn in tne summer ot issz.
After this sad event her brothers and sisters
naturally expected that she would make her
home with one of them, but beine of an mde
pendent nature and Self-reliant, she preferred to
remain in the old home, where she continued to
live when not away lecturing until she assumed
tne exaitea position as mistress 01 the Whito
House.
Miss Cleveland will remain to the White
House as long as her brother remains a bachel
or, but by her own efforts she has created for
herself a position among celebrities in literature
that will be more enduring than the honor and
fame dependent upon tho political fortunes of
her distinguished brother. If a Mrs Grover
Cleveland should appear at the threshold of the
president s mansion, Miss liose wilj, quietly
reopen the door of the homestead at Holland
Patent (which she has purchased out of tbe
earnings of ber own labor), and resume tbe
work which she reluctantly abandoned for her
brother's sake.
Miss Cleveland is an earnest and industrious
woman, and never contemplated a life of lux
ftrv, much less one of conspicuous position be
fore the country. She Is as unique in ber way
as ber brother is in his, though they are ap
parently not at all alike in general character.
Nor does she physically resemble him. The
portrait at the head of this article presents the
reader with the features of Miss Cleveland, and
though a wood engraving for tho columns of a
newspaper precludes the possibility of doing
tbe fair subject accurate justice, our portrayal
nevertheless reveals the conspicuous traits of a
l8y irwed with superior talents, cultivated
and rjnueand withal a most pleasing couute-
.... Thb Brattleboro Phoenix has been wastlrg
stationery and postage to enquire of members
of the late legislature "whether they supposed
the bill for a state library building contemplated -an
annex or a separate building.'' Out of 180
answers received last week the Phoenix says
that HO say they supposed a separate building
was intended, 20 expected that there would be
an annex and 20 supposed It was left to tho
discretion of the committee. If all this proves
anything at all, It proves that legislators are too
apt to "suppose" Instead of knowing what they
arc- about. The plain, simple fact is that the
bill left tbe matter wholly to tho discretion of
the commtsrlorf, and nobody has any right to
"suppose"' that the legislature intended to do
anything different than it did do. . It is un
doubtedly true that a great majority of tho
legislature believed from what they knew about
the matter that a separate building would be
more desirable, and tbis is all that tbe Pba'oix's
suppose" convass means. But because its in
formation was not at the time exhaustive, be
cause of the doubt of the sufficiency of the ap
propriation, and because there were a great
many points to be investigated, tie leglslatmo
omitted to give any directions about the loca
tion, although it bad been much discussed, and
l;?t it to the discretion of the committee to do
what it thought best, taking every thing into
consideration, for the state. This is all there le
of it, and is all the Phwalx can make of it nc-
less it wishes to accuse the legislature of being
a pack of Imbeciles. -
A few more Vermonters ga week,
II M Teacbout has been appointed putw,a8ter
at Woodbury, in place ef L E Heath, resigned ;
John G Flanders at Canaan, in place of G W
Brackett, resigned ; and Andrew Applebee at
Morgan Center, in place of D A Currier, re
signed. Several other cases bave occurred
where tbe government has found (bat postmas
ters' bonds were defective, and bas required
their remedy. But this does not mean that the
postmasters have been reappointed, as several
papers suppose.
-" Jt poE PotAXD was Interviewed .at Montpe
lier last week by a Boston Record reporter, and
in referring to the newspaper . report that he
wanted Edmunds' seat in the senate said :
"What fool started that ? The whole thing is
so ridiculously absurd that I have thought a
denial uncalled for." The judge declined to
say anything further on the subject at present,
and closed with the following significant re
mark : "But I shall have something further
to say later, and it will be something sharp,
too. Understand I am entirely out of politics
now. I shall say just what I please, and I
don't care a copper for tho result. No, nothing
further now ; I shall put it in writing." It is to
bo hoped that the judge intends to empty out a
little truth about the ringsters and their ways
in Vermont politics. He bas known tbe facts
for the last twenty years. Ex-Govs Proctor
and Smith, Congressman Stewart, Judges
Powers and Poland, were the gentlemen to
whom Gov Smith's scribbler attributed this
senatorial ambition, with tie idea,apparently,f
of dealing the impression that the Blaine fee'-
ing against Edmunds was so tremendous in
this state that about all our pablic men were
eager to take adiantago of it. This looked
like quite a shrewd device at the time, as it wee
necessary to fan the Blaino feeling as the one
thing which Gov Smith's canvass had to de
pend on. But it has proved quite a boomerang
in the end; for Stewart, Proctor, Powers and
Poland have taken occasion promptly and em
phatically to say that they are not candidates,'
and that they believe Edmunds ought to be re
elected. : The astute Smith has simply suc
ceeded in drawlrjg the eyes of tbe whole state .
hpon fahnaelf as ilio only ma.a wio doesn't di4 "
claim any ambition in the matter, and as tho
man who has pulled the strings which have
produced all the anti-Edmunds', feeling that
appears. He always succeeds best when be
manages covertly.
Gov Smith is a very diplomatic gentleman.
There was never a better illustration of "this
than in his Boston Record interview about Ed
munds, which appears In another column. It
is In marked contrast with Ihe straight forward,
unequivocal utterances of all the other men
who were accused of intending to fight Ed
munds. Translated iito square, English, the
ex-governor's interview mean6 that he proposes -
to do bis best to beat Edmunds, and then if he
can't succeed, to be able 10 say that he never
wanted to.
A writer in the New York San reciles the
"noteworthy fact that after the inauguration of
Jefferson ther6 was a revival of the celebration
of tbe Fourth of July. For some years tbe an-
nivcrsary had not bten observed " in Pbilndel- .
phia, and in 1799 the feelings of patriotic Amer
icans were onuaved by the ringing of the bell of
the Episcopal church on the 4th of June in hon
or of tbe birthday of George III. But in 1801
there was a grand celebration of the Fourth of
July by the Republicans. And though tbe char- .
ter of the aforesaid Episcopal church reo.uired
its Incorporation to furnish a round ut' bells
from sunrise to sunset on the national anmver
sarv, no sound was heard from its steenle nn.
til 12 o'clock, when tm order came from thevj
governor to ring that bell." It needed a Demo-" ' ;
cratic vlirtory in those da vs, as in these, to bring
revival ct a uroad ana umy national patriot
ism.
, ! .fly-
Arnopos the current "ar articles" in the
A dozen counties ,of Southeastern Kansas
were in a panic at the close of last week over as
threatened invasion of Cheyenne and Arrap
ahoes Indians fr jm lot I in Territory. It seems
clear now that the reports of the danger were
greatly exaggerated, though bodies of the
Cheyenne, disliking Dr Dyer their agent, bad
become Insubordinate and threatening. The
government promptly concentrated 3000 troops
at tbe threatened points' and President Cleve
land ordered Gen Phil Sheridan to go and su
perintend the operations in psrsoi. The presi
dent said in tbe order; Your acquaintance with
the hiatory and the habits and customs ot these
Indians lead me also to request that yon in
vite statements on their part as to any real or
fancied iniurv or injustice toward tbem, or any
other caunet that may have led to discontent,
an 1 to inform yourself generally as to their con
dition. Yon are justified in assuring them
that any cause of .complaint will be fully ex
amined' by tbe authorities here and if wrong
exiat tbev shall te remedied. I think I hardly
need add that tbev must be fully assured of
tbe determination 00 the part of tbe govern
ment to enforce their peaceful cocduct and by
all th power it ha at band to prevent and pun
Iftaacuof Uwleasnea and any outrages npon
our settlers. Gen Sheridan think tbe trouble
I caused by the construction of cattlemen's
fences and the influx of cattle on Indian, lands ;
and that almost all Indian trouble arise from
accidents and snbanderstandings.
Te the KhnmaUa.
Kbfa.tl.ai bar . doai baa anrvalewt aa at
tbe pri.aai tlaa. alaaa'a slieiier kb Ihi
Pi a area. bae pM a w I mmrmt4 fwpatattww ft.
betag law Ml tfieeteal reawdy kao Try V
Century Magazine. Wade Hampton has written
a letter to the Charlestown 9 and Courier.
in which ho raises the claim and fortifies it with
reports and documents, that he with his legion
of COO men turned the tide of battle at tbe first
Bull Run. He shows that tbev arrested tbe
victorious columns of Keyes and Sherman, and
so delayed the federal advance that the confed-,
"rate reinforcements could come up and change
tno fc.Tpnt 0t success, The News and Courier
.ollows Hie kmT Wita n elaborate review of
the battle, reachm, conclusion that Hamp
ton was to Jackson at Mu, wbat j,,,,
was to the whole confederate- . Hampton
saved Stonewall Jackson as Jackson. u.i the
army. It was the magnificent nguting ot
legion under terrible odds tbul gave Jackson
time to bring his troops into position. Had be
not bad tbe opportunity to form the Virginians
who altcrwards stood "Uke a stone-wall,'' tho
battle would have heen irre,risMv lost, '
The New li.impahire kgitiaiura bas a num
ber of novel schemes before it. One of them
is a bill establishing flogging as a punishment
furwiie beaters. It provide that any man
convicted of beating his wife shall be publicly
beaten with lrom 10 to 40 stripes "well laid on,
or as an alternative imprisoned for ft months.
Another is a high license bill introduced by
S'.ilson Hntchins. It provides for tbe license
of a qualified voter woo shall present to the
authorities of hi town or city a petition to that
effect, signed by a rotiiority of the qualified
voters of his town or tity, the' full name and
addi esses of the signers being given. The h
cenne l to he good tor two years, and tbe fee
to he f 1000 iu every city and every town of
"i000 Inhabitants, 70J in towns of from 4000 to
jOtH), $600 in town of from 3000 to 4000, and
$100 leas for each 1000 decrease in population.
Another is what is called the "valued policv"
insurance bill, so that iu the event of a loss the
emire amount expressed on tbe face of tbe pol
icy may be paid without tbe necessity of an
adjustment. Such a measure might be a cor
rective in a measure of the reckless way in
hich iusorance is done through the overgrown
agency system, bJt the companies r.vt t.t
it woukl increase tbe expense of lookinw after
their risks tenfold, and they are so stirred up
a! tout it that out 01 the its companies now rep
resented there, 44 bave already notified their
agent that, it toe valued puiicv bill become a
law, tbey will w ithdraw from tbe state, whiic
several more will follow their example, and
" "noipante will at once canoe I
existing policie.
Perofala, am It rbram. Btasnbw, bet and all bcaxnw
will thrlT oa tbe impure nailer ta roar eyaarai if
oa arflect terrawi elu Thai la the bib whew vmir
wboW body ta .aawpilM to th m Uvea In lit..
raiwot Hrown'.UarwparHla. 1 bt bkvod, woaaarb.
ktdnrr and liver will imtM Iv hnDrov. Bun ih.r
the Bans, Brown. Xmtmpmtuim. XeB BB get at
any arf wore, - wot.