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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-29
Vermont Central. Vermont & Can
ada Railroads.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT Commenc,
w on Monday. DEcEMbEK4 1871.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.


Leave Bellows Falls $3.50. A. NJ. T:45 A. NJ. "a,
Mail Train leaves Ogdensburg at 900 r. NJ n AZ
bans at O.2U a. NJ. arrive ia Bellows Fails ~
Waite River Junction or Rutland at a:.5 p N S.,,t
Vernon at 400 ?. A.. 6routs Corner at i:;si p VI
Night Express leaves og,lensburgh at la.
Montreal at $50 ~. ST Johns at $50 NJ n A.
oans d ~ p ~. arriving Ia Bellows falis (yis Wl,
River junction or kutiandl at 5.z5, i. NJ South ys
Mixed Train leaves White River Junction nj 4 s0
e. Rutland al $40 a, ~. Bellows Ialis tlass,tss
train i4o A NJ south Vernon $40 !. ", at Groat,
Gunner al $40 A.. NJ Connecting at Bellows mi
Nith trains for Boston, Worcester ~ south V.,saa.
with train Tor Springfield aud New York az tiropf.
Coraer with train Tor New London.
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Bellows Falls at 4.5O a. N. IL As A. ~, SIS
n.,ll.2pF. n.
Mai train leaves Boston. at 7.30 A. NJ Sprinrssl
II STU. A. NJ. New London AT 500 A. ~ Bellox,
Fails at Y . NJ. VIA w. k. JUNCTION or RutanJ
tor Burlington and ST. Adams, &C., arriving IL n
Night Express leaves New York at 800 p
Springfield ut $40, P. NJ CIRCUITS Corner at 9.0OPE
Bellows Fails at IL 20 r. NJ. (via. W. X. junction y
Rutland.J arriving in ST. Adams at go A. NJ Mon
treal at y.4o 4. NJ. Ogdensburg at l24S P. N.
Accommodation leaves CIRCUITS Corner at 39Opt
south vernon at 400 p. NJ, Bellows Falls SIS
SInixedl arriving in Rutland at o.3OP. ~. W.
Mixed Train leaves Bellows Falls at $50 NJ AZ
irving in Rutland at $40 A. NJ.
SLEEPING CARS are attached TO the Nizht Trains
between st. Adams and Springfield and Burlington
and Boston.
Connections at w. r. Junction with trains on n.
Northern N. II } and Connecticut and passumpsis
River Railroads at Ogdensburg with trains for la
west. at Rutland with trains over the Harlem RI.
tension Railroad also with trains over the Renge.
laer and Saratoga and Railroads for Saratoga TfOy
Albany and the west.
Through Tickets for Chicago and the West for al,
g. MERRILL, Gen. Supt
St.Albans. VT. Dec. l. 1871.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-29

THE PoTATo. The potato was first in
troduced into New England by the Scotch
Irish at the time of their first settlement
of Londonderry, N. H., in the year 1919.
Before that time the potato was unknown
to the eastern colonies, though indigenous
to Virginia.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-29

VNdE Subscriber offers for sale the well known
FARM late owned by SILAS DAVIS. deceased
consisting of about 200 acres and situated e-haif
mile westerly Of Houghtonville in the town of Graf
enterprizing farmer generally values containing
good proportion of Village, Moving. Grazing and
Wooaland. 1t contains also good Apple Orchard
and NAPLES in abundance. The buildings consist of
good Brick House. a splendid Barn. ali well finish
ed aud in complete repair. Water is plenty on the
farm. the house and barn supplied BY unfailing
and superior running water; The Farm is now of
1 se. nnb !. aos i9ia fsehi9us 70
ton Purchasers in quest of good farm. are inyt-
ed by the Subscriber living said farm call
and examine tor themselves. Reference may be
had Of FRANCIS PHELPS of Grafton village. for
information. JOHN MoQUAIDE.
Grafton, W.T. Sept. 18th. 1871. 1852
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-29
$40 DOWN.
FIRST PRIZE AND DIPLOMA
OVER EIGHT OTHER STANDARD MACHINES

Wv En- Eluul WHEN SlhNbAhD MANHANEo'
First Premium at Cheshire County Fair. 1870 on
Machine and Sample OF Work. First Premium at
Cheshire County Fair 1871, on Machine and sample
OF Work. First Premium at Windham County Fair
1871 Machine and sample of Work. Also. first
Fairs.
Machines Left on Trial Warranted and kept in Re-
pair when Sold.
You can buy one by paying $40 down, and the bal
ance in WEEKLY or MONTHLY Payments. or you can
have all the Rent Allowed towards paying Tor it,
You will be laugh at your Homes, free Of charge.
until you use il perfectly. full stock of Twist.
Silks. Linen and Cotton Threads for Machine Use
Of the very best quality. Also, Sewing Machine
Needles and attachments for various Machines. Ac-
tive Agents wanted in every unoecuped town in,
Windham and Windsor Counties. in Vermont and
Sullivan County. n. Ii. Send for Sample of Work
and Circular.
w. n. UPHAM.
40 BELLOWS FALLS. VT.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-29

DOWNER'S KEROSENE OIL. the
~ Best article in the market,at
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-29
PIANOS AND ORGANS.

fNHE Subscriber is agent for wILLIAMp P. ENFR-
l. SONS tof Boston, celebrated PIAN0-F0RTE
and aiso for J. ESTEY i cos. COTTAGE ORGAN
and PORTABLE MEL0DE0N. He will sell as low
as any and select every instrument himself thus
securing to the purchaser instruments which have
been examined and are warranted.
Grafton. JAN l6, 1871.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-29

Oct. %. 1871.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08

the war has been an extension of the suffrage
to all classes, irrespective of color; and though
we have at last incorporated this principle
with the Constitution, large section, perhaps
a majority, of the Democracy still refuse to
accept it. The most important Acts of Con-
gress passed recently by a Republican majority
against the most violent Democratic opposition
have been acts to secure absolute freedom OF
elections in districts where terrorism was ram
pant at the polls, and to purify the ballot
where fraud had made voting little better
than a farce. Our President came into Office
with the declaration that he should have no
policy Of his own to urge against the wishes
of the people, and he has kept his word.
Even in cases where he might have constltu-
tionally persisted in schemes which he believed
to be wise, he has listened respectfully to the
voice Of the majority, and the Democrats have
loudly accused him of pushing this Difference
to the people to an absurd extreme. We do
not believe that any administration in the
history of the country has been conducted
with such direct reference to the popular
wishes,-has been in fact Tin the non-partisan
sense of the wOrd) so truly democratic.
Capitalization to which Gov. Hoffman also
refers, is different thing from absolutism,
though he does not seem to know it. A gov
eminent whose powers are divided between
Common Councils, Legislatures, and Congresses
may be much more absolute than one whose
authority is concentrated in a single repre-
sentative assembly. But this has no practical
importance in the present political campaign,
since the powers of the federal and state
governments are as well defined as we can
hope to define them, and there is no DISPOSE
ton on the part of the Republican party to
enlarge the one or to restrict the other. 1t is
curious, indeed, that so soon after recognizing
the government of New-York City, the Dcmoc-
racy should inveigh against q purely imagin-
airy tendency toward Capitalization on the part
of their opponents The new charter COM
bines all the characteristics of which
they accuse the Republican legislation IN
Congress. 1t concentrates the powers
formerly exercised by great many elective
officials in the hands of four men. 1t enlarges
the authority thus centralized to an enormous
extent. 1t makes functionaries who used to
be responsible directly to the people now an
swerable only to these four men. 1t abridges
the facilities of the people for looking into
their municipal affairs, and it prolongs terms
of office. We do not say that some OF the
changes are not good ones; we are not dis
cussing the charter; but considering that this
was the latest great Democratic measure in
New York, it is uDbecoming for New-1ork
Democrats to accuse us of favOring n strong,
absolute, and centralized government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08
A STRONG GOVERNMENT OR a STRONG

" 4 STRONG GOVERNMENT OR SIRONG
PEOPLE,"
"The great political question now before u.s."
wrote Gov. Hoffman in his letter to the man
ayers of the Tammany celebration, sis whether
Gin the future we are to be subjects of what
is commonly called strong government, or
"shall continue to be, as heretofore, strong
people" There is a confusion of ideas In
this antithess which may deceive the unthiDk-
ing multitude, but of which Gov. Hoffman can
Hardly be supposed to be ignorant. Under a
constitution like ours strong government
and strong people are not opposed to each
other but it is the strength of the people
which gives vigor to the administration, and
when one fails the other fails with it, Neither
is it true, as the Governor assumes, that
whatever is conferred on the government is
(" SO much. taken from the people" In States
which are ruled by hereditary soveregns, hold
ing their power by divine right and exercis-
ing an absolute, inherent authority, the power
of the people and the power of the
throne are in opposition, and what
ever strengthens the one necessarily
weakens the other; but under representa-
tive government the case is very different.
Here the people rule themselves. They dele
gate their power to Presidents, Governors,
Congressman, Mayors but they do not really
part with it. They confer upon their agents
for the time being authority to exercise some
of the inherent power of the body polite
They withdraw that authority at pleasure, and
cOnfide il TO other agents. In all cases the
ostensible ruler is merely the channel through
which the people use their privilege of ruling
themselves
A representative government tends toward
absolutism (Which is what Gov. Hoffman APP
parently means by strength when the admin
istrative functionaries disregard the wishes of
the people whose will they were chosen to
enforce, or when the people lose the power of
making their will known by frequent cleo
tions. What reason is there for asserting that
the policy of the Republican party has savored
of this tendency The cardinal principle upon
which we have fought the Democracy ever since
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08

the cheapest and surest way of defeating the
others. The best assurance that the work is I'M
dertaken in good faith by Messrs. AstOr, Stewart,
Hilton and the other wealthy real estate
owners joined with them in its management,
is the Importance to them of keeping the road
away from their more valuable tracts. IL Is
these gentlemen who direct the work; it IS
their money and reputation which is at stake
and on their energy, and perseverance, and
sagacity, the public may safely rely. If Tam
many had the building Of the road, or if its
completion depended on the credit of the City,
which they are fast frittering away, there would
be some excuse for this underlined doubt of
the success of this great enterprise; but for
tunately it is based on better credit than the
Citys, and directed by men of undoubted
business renutatiOn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08
FREE-TRADE CONTRADICTIONS.

The World evidently assumes that its read
ers have short memories, or 1t Is very careless
of its reputation, or it realizes that 1T has no
reputation to lose. 1t declared that the peo-
ple were losing and mOnOpolsts" were gain
ing, $4,000 annually, because there is duty
of 45 per cent on sulphate of quinine. This
was based upon a general rule it laid
down in regard to it, and numerous other
chemicals, alleging that the price of all
manufactured and sold in this country was
enhanced to the full amount of the duty I'M
posed on the imported article. 1t now assumes
for its own argument that the British sulphate
of quinine would cost here duty free) 81 30,
and agrees that the current price of the Ameri-
can article is 81 80. AS this is an increase of
less than half "45 per cent" The World has
as completely refuted its first assumption
as we could wish. And as we have already
explained that the true difference in the cost
of the home and foreign product results from
the higher price for labor, and the heavier
taxes the maker has to pay here, the country
is well satisfied with the result attained, and
would gain if it could get all the manufac-
lures that it now imports on as good terms
from its own workshops. Under the same
conditions our chemical manufacturers could
make and sell as cheaply as any of their for
eign rivals.
The World says further:
Il" it up in price abroad because the Prussians
and French cutting anohers throats, the home
monopoly taxes the feyersick wretch in Minnesota 10 TO
Is cents bottle for quinne. Why not answer tins
direct charge we made against themi"
Our answer is that, while the foreign pro-
duct advanced 81 cents Currency per ounce,
the American advanced only cents, and even
that slight change of price was without rela-
ton to the advance abroad. When, month
ago. the British article (now 81 s5) was 81 20
per ounce, the American was cents lower
than it is at present, because bark was
cheaper. The whole history of this chemical
attests the economy of home manufactures,
and illustrates the security they give against
fluctuations abroad.
Regarding calomcl, The World has the want
OF candor to compare the London price OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08

Fosters lawyers are not the only persons
active in his behalf, and Gov. Hoffman, as
well as Judge Pratt, is to be appealed to to
save the criminal from the halter. Had the
proceedings to get stay of execution and
new trial failed, it was the purpose of Fosters
friends to appeal to the Governor to commute
his sentence, and they were arming themselves
with petitions numerously signed by the polit-
iCal friends Of Foster. Since the success of
the lawyers the circulation of the petitions
has been stopped, and it is clearly the present
hope of his relatives to defeat the law through
the law. While we cannot be indifferent to
the possible effect of such result on the fate
of Foster individually, this consideration is of
minor importance compared to that of the
disrespect into which his escape from pun
ishment will of necessity bring the law.
While we believe that the law is wrong and
ineffective, we yet believe in its enforcement
as long as it remains unrepealed; for every
evasion of it, even for the sake of mercy,
brings it into disrepute and contempt, and, as
a consequence, increases the number of its
violations. To pardon thus one man is to
make murderers out of his old companions;
TO punish him is to deter numbers of them;
and true mercy as well as true policy points
to the enforcement of the law in Fosters case
as the best ard wisest course.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08

1t is officially announced that the French
Government has paid three hundred and
twenty-five millions of francs on the German
indemnity, of which one hundred and twenty
five millions were paid before the new loan
was put Oh the market. Five hundred millions
of francs were to be paid in thirty days ac-
cording to the Treaty Of Frankfort, constitu-
ting the first payment on the total amount of
the indemnity, so there still remains the sum
of one hundred and seventy-fve million francs
due on the first or cash payment by the
terms Of the treaty, a second payment OF one
thousand million francs is TO be made within
the year ending May 1, 1872. 1t Is now
stated that efforts will be made to pay
the first and second installments of the in
demnity very soon, so as 10 secure the evacua-
ton of the Paris forts now held by the
Germans. There is no public reason for
expecting that the forts will be evacuated
upon the payment Of these two sums-amount-
ing in all to fifteen hundred million francs
but Bismarck, in a recent speech IN
the German Parliament, said that the
French proposed to anticipate the liquidation
of a portion of their obligations in order to
secure some favOrs not specified. The first
five hundred million francs not being avalla-
BILE at once, the Germans agreed to an extern
sion of time and now the Delegate Minister
of Finance says that when the portion of that
sum which is still unpaid has been received
by the Germans, which will be before the 10th
of July, the Departments of the Seine Infe-
rieure, SOmme, and Eure will be evacuated.
By the terms of the treaty this evacuation
was to take place when the first installment OF
five hundred millions was met.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08

June II with the quotation of New-York
dealers of six weeks before. Add, however,
to this London price 1884 cents per pound) the
80 per cent which it claims the consumer pays
because that is the rate of duty on it, and it
ought to cost American buyers 81 Is. But the
current price of one of the largest makers is
only 81, which is not 10 per cent above what
it costs in London. Thus again does The
World by its own figures, help to confound
itself.
However much that journal may try, we in
sist that it shall not dodge the main question
involved the advantage of Protection to
Home Industry as national, permanent
policy. We have shown that it has increased
the production of chemicals, reduced their
cost to the American people, and rendered rs
Independent of the great fluctuations Of
foreign countries for the most important.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08

A Washington special dispatch reports that
the Democrats of Kentucky are being much
exercised at prospective failure of the sinews
of war in the coming State canvass. Ken
lucky has a considerable demand against the
United States for expenses incurred by that
conservative and neutral State during the late
Rebellion, and a Commission has been ap-
pointed to push the matter through the
Treasury Department at Washington. These
Commissioners are all Democrats, and have
agreed to divide their commission with the
Democratic State Central Committee, in con-
sideratiOn of having secured their positions.
But the claim hangs fire; Secretary Boutwell,
is absent the Commissioners are cooling their
heels in the Hobbies of the Treasury Depart
ment, and the Democratic canvass in Kentucky
waits for Republican Administration to grant
the claim "to conciliate the conservatives of
" Kpntuckyr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08
DocTOPS AND POLSONEPS

The preliminary examination OF Mrs. Lydil
Sherman, accused of poisoning three husbands
and eight children, has brought to light some
facts in which the medical fraternity are espe-
cially interested. Analyses have been made of
the stomach and liver of four of the supposed
victims, and arsenic has been discovered in
all of them. The symptoms of their last sick
ness appear to have been clearly those OF
arsenical poisoning, and the physician who
attended Mrs. Sherman's second husband,
Hurlburt, at the time of his death, in July,
1870, confessed that he suspected foul play,
but held his tongue. The question suggests
itself, Is it conceivable that possibly eleven,
certainly four, persons in single family should
die of a poison so marked in its effects as ar
senic, and that these sudden deaths should
continue through a series of years without
criminal negligence or ignorance on the part
of the attending physicians What explana-
ton has DR.. Shelton to offer for not insisting
upon a pOst-mOrtem examination when Mr..
Hurlburt died of what he suspected" to be
pOisonl
Physicians are properly sensitive about the
secrets of their patients. and we are not sure
but an exaggerated estimate Of the sacrcdness
of professional confidence may have induced
the attendant of Mr.. Hurlburt TO smother his
half-formed suspicious and resolve to let the
crime, if there was a crime, 60 unpublished.
1t is unnecessary to show how grossly lie was
mistaken, if this really was the case Between
him and the woman there was no confidence.
His professional honor was pledged not to her
but to the husband, and it required, if his
patient died by unnatural means, that the
crime should be exposed and punished. How
far doctor is morally bound to go in de-
manding an investigation, when his suspicious
are but vague, of course cannot be settled by
any general rule he must consider the dam
ger of inflicting irreparabe injury upon the
innocent as well as of suffering the guilty to
go unwhipped of justice; but in the case of
Hurlburt it is not easy to understand how the
physicians misgivings, suppOsing him to be
an ordinarily skillful practitioner, could have
been SO slight as to justify his unfortunate
retcence. At any rate the Sherman story may
well point a moral for doctors who may here
after be tempted to neglect their duty to the
dead out of mistaken tenderness to the living.
If DR.. Shelton had taken proper pains to set
at rest his suspicious about the death of Hurl-
burt, he would have saved the lives of Sher-
man and his two children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08
Nem:21ork Daily Gribra1e.
SATURDAY. JULY S. 1871.

The French Government has paid another nstailment
NJ the war indemnity Amiens has been put uhder
martial law in consequence Of the murder OF Prussan
soldier 49, The PrUssian military law VIII soon DC
enforced in Alsace and Lorraine ===-- lne rope
announces his intention TO remain in Rome = vote
q, ensure of the Government has been defeated IN the
sp,Dish Cortes. Freshets have caused lnuch
damage in Eng land.
The Hon. j. J. Norreu Of Pennsylvania has been
dangerously injured by fan from carriage =- Inc
fossil remains Of mdstodon nave Deeh Ws'o'eieu ~
California s= The strawpaIer manufacturers OF
Couulna Will only run their mills on half time Tor
wear from Aug l. == 4 church in Hyannis. Mass mas
been struck by lightning and burned == The Indians
are obstructng collection OF the revenue III Arizona
and Dakota.
The favOrtes were beaten in the three Long Bfancn
races fire in East Thirtythird-st caused loss OF
s-5 ooo -- The yacht Columbia returning from Cape
NAV. narrowly escaped destruction. &c. Cold, lSt'
Il3 Thermometer, rec, SO, 75o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08

The French people have a lessen taught
them by the Germans at Amiens Prussian
was murdered in that city, and the local au-
thorities, probably sympathizing with the
murderers on account of the nationality of the
victim, took no steps to bring the guilty to
justice. SO the city has been declared in a
state of siege. This remedy for pronounced
anti-German feeling is in the hands of Ger
many as long as the Army of Occupation re-
mains in France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-08

Count Chambord, the head of the Legiti-
mists, has issued a proclamation accepting
"the situation" He announces his intention
TO quit France, and, in royal plural of the first
person, promises not TO be separated from MS
countrymen, but to be ready to come back
when the times are ripe, and found govern
ment whose principles shall be decentrdlIza-
ton, universal suffrage, and liberty. 1t IS very
Kind in Count Clambord to leave France IN
order TO prevent agitation. e>n@"i"ly after has
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