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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
The Question about Marshals.

The investigation into John l Daven-
ports conduct in New York last fall as
federal supervisor of elections, brings
out the question over which Congress is
now wrangling in just the light that u
should be presented to the people. IL
was proved that Davenport had issued
warrants for the arrest Of naturalized
citizens without even going thr ugh the
formality of entering a sworn complaint
against them. 1t is true that one of his
clerks had copied list of naturalized
citizens, and sworn to complaints in
bunch, but in such wholesale manner
was the business conducted that Daven-
port did not atlix his jurat to them all
OF course the result was that large
number of legal and honest voters were
arrested and kept shut up until after the
election was over, when as no crime
could be alleged against them they had
to be released. Davenport himself
summed up the whole issue very APPLY,
as the damaging facts came out IN EVIL
dencc, when he exclaimed, swell, what
of it? The law does not even require
me to have written complaint in order
to issue warrant"
AS long as officials are the creatures
of any political party. and depend upon
partisan success for their positions, it is
unsafe to trust them with any arbitrary
powers; for they will surely abuse them
in their party's interests. What Daven-
port has done, Democratic supervisors
would do just rs quick if they had the
opportunity. The arrest of a man on
election day, practically DISTINGUISHES
him and the constitution of Illinois, as
well as some other States, wisely prohib-
its it for any cause or purpose while ihe
Is going to or returning >from the pdls
If our elections are not in time to degen-
crate to sham and mockery, we must
be on the guard against all encroach-
ments of this kind against their perfect
honest freedom.
The issue, as the Democrats now make
it in Congress, cannot be kept too prom
inently before the public view. They ask
that the army shall not interfere with,
be present at, or in any way take part in
elections; that supervisors, marshals, and
deputy marshals shall not have the pow
er to summon the army for any purpose /;
shall not be authorized to make arrests
without due process of law; shall not
receive pay for political service. They
propose that the supervisors shall serve
only as officials witnesses at elections to
secure evidence for the legal and regular
prosecution afterwards of all fraudulent
voting.
Stripped of all the humbuggery which
Congressman have thrown about 1t,
what could be fairer or more proper than
this proposition. Do the people of Brat
tleboro, for instance, wish to have it in
the power of any man to arrest them and
shut them up through election day, on
his mere say-so that he believes they
intend to vote fraudulentlyp Every fair
minded man must say that the present
Democratic position embodies the prin-
ciples which Americans ought to be
cherish.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

CoNJUGIAL murder is rapidly becom-
ing fashionable. Besides Wesley W.
Bishop and Kate Cobb, who are now in
prison for poisoning Mrs. Cobb's hus-
band, Mrs. Jenny Smith and Covert ID.
Bennett were on Saturday found guilty
by jury of having deliberately muir
dered Mrs. Smiths husband. Mrs. Geo
ii. Mack of Rock County, Wisconsin,
is IN prison for life for the murder of Mr..
Mack, and Frank Dickerson, Mrs. Mack's
boy paramour, on whose testimony Mrs.
Mack was convicted, is now on trial as
an accomplice in the murder. In Low
vile, n. Y, Mrs. Harriet MeIrihew is in
prison for the murder of her husbands
brother aud the attempted murder of her
husband, whose life was fortunately
saved by the timely dismissal of Mrs.
Merrihew from her position of nurse of
the sick man. Mrs. MeIrihew has con-
fessed her guilt, and her alleged accom-
plice is under arrest.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

Much confusion is caused by the care
les sness Of letter writers in neglecting 10
designate the State as well as the city to
which a letter is intended to go, and an
appeal is made TO the public to be more
careful. A circular has been issued
showing that there are large number
of places in the United States similar in
name. of b ooklyns there are Is; Bal
timores. 5; BOstons, 10; BuffiloS, l6;
Burlingtons. Ia; Charlestons. IL; Chica-
COS. 4; Cincinnaiis. 8; CievelAnds. 10;
Columbuses. 10; Daytons. p; Detroits.
5; IndianaPolises. ?; Douisvilles. Is;
Dowells. Is; Memphis :. s; Milwaukees.
3; Nashvilles. II; Omahas. ); Pittsburgs.
s; PhiladelPhias. z; PortlAnds. Il;
Quincys. Is; Richmonds. p; Spring
helds. %; St Josephs. Is; St Lcuises,
4; St Pauls. II; roledOs. Z; Washing
tons. 30; Wiimingions. Is. AID Williams
burgs. p In one day over 6o.0Oo let
tiers have been received in the New York
poet Office inadequaiely addressed.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

The " y. San has also adopted the
revolution cry but puts it this way The
Republican minorities in the Senate and
in the House of Representatives, COM
bining with the fraudulent President,
and pushing him TO an abuse of the We
TO power. have declared that the MAORI
ty shall not control legislation, and that
the public service shall starve unless the
minority be allowed TO dictate the con-
ditions upon which supplies are granted.
In other words, the Repblicans coniem-
plate a revolutionary proceeding. by
which the underlying principal Of free
government may be OverIhrown and tho
majority deprived Of the right TO govern.
Stripped Of Mr.. Conkling's vehement
rhetoric and Mr.. Edmuud's misinterpre-
tation Of the law. this is the whole issue
between the two parties.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

VIM. LLOYD GARRISON the veteran
anti-slavery agitator, died at New York
Saturday evening, at the age of nearly
rs. His father was confirmed DRINK
ard and he passed his childhood in ex-
treme poverty at Newburyport, Mass.
At the age of 9 he was apprenticed as a
printer in the Newburyport Herald of
flee, and the chief part of his youth and
younger manhood were spent at the
case. But before he was seventeen
/, years Old no began to write for thai
nal, and by the time he was % he5fad
established paper at Bennington called
the "Journal Of Me Times" radical OPP
ponent of slavery, intemperance and
war. This, however, proved financial
miscarriage, and he soon emigrated to
Baltimore, to become joint editor of the
Genius of Universal Emancipation, his
associate being Benjamin Lundy, the
Quaker abolitionist. Here he was fined
and imprisoned for a time by the slave
holders. Thence after short lecturing
tour he went to Boston and established
the Liberator in 1881. For years the
whole existence of the paper was
struggle against bankruptcy; he was
once dragged through the streets of
Boston with IA rope around his neck, by
a mob of Infatuated southern spmpathiz-
ers, and only saved from death Ply being
thrown into Jail: but through all he
stood to his duty manfully, striking
sledge hammer blows at the institution
of slavery which he knew to be crime
against God and blot upon our institu-
tons. He stuck to that paper until 1865,
when it ceased publication, the last num-
Der recording the ratification of the |
prohibiting slavery forever.
He had all the stuff in him of which he
roes are made. and was especially adapt
ed for the great work which in company
with Greeley, Chase, Gerritt Smith, Sum-
ner Mann, Burlingame, Maria Child,
Phillips, Whittier and Emerson, he per-
formed against such fearful odds. But
the very sincerity of his convictions
made him bigoted and intolerant despite
some pleasant personal qualities, and
since the war he has naturally dropped
,ut of influence. In religion he was
rigid Baptist. but the perse-
buttons which he suffered from that sect
IN ante-bellum days. soured him, and he
has of late years been inclined to spirit
ualism.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

THE New York Legislature which has
just adjourned, made as thorough botch
Gifts widely trumpeted reform measures
as that of Vermont did last fall. New
York's system of taxation is. if possible.
a trifle more crude and dishonest than
Nermont's, the great corporations in both
States esca ping their just share Of the
public burdens. After three months in
cubation an almost model bill was
reported TO remedy some Of the defects
of the old tax laws, but the pimps ofthe
corporations met i with several other
bills, different in character, and in the
disagreement and confusion succeeded in
getting the whole matter put over 10 the
next legislature. Instead Of retrenching
expenditures as promised, the apprCpria-
Sions Of money 10 be raised by taxation
ihis year, are nearly double those of1S7s
B-which is also good deal as our legis-
>stsre did, though somewhat worse. But
in New 1osk, the Republican managers
who controlled the Legislature have an
excuse which cannot be urged in Yer
mont-tbey we're afraid to push through
their reforms lest they should incur the .
opposition Of the corporations in the i'm
pending election
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

BANKS MUST PAY SOME REGARD TO THE
LAW.
The selectmen have begun an action
against The First National Bank of Ben
nington CT. W. Parks) for failure to re.
turn to the town clerk list of the stock.
holders OF the bank and the amount OF
stock held by them respectively. The
action Is brought under the statute.
which also imposes a penalty of $500
for each violation. No return having
been made by the bank for four years
the complaint demands judgment for
5000 besides costs. This i precisely
the offence for which Col. Waite was
prosecuted and made to pay over $500
by BrAfileboro.
john Donahue Of POwnAl. was con-
mittei TO Jail az North Adams SATURDAY.
tor non payment Of fines and costs Tor
q drunkenness.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

The returning business prosperity If
the country is inducing an eminous rage
of speculation in the cities. Railroad
stocks are rising, new lines and new
schemes for lines being opened in the
West, and it is reported that stocks to
the amount of Ss5,oOO,0OO were sold in
New York during the week ending May
10, and over 100000 shares were dis
posed of in the previous fortnight. Cot
ton has advanced or 4 cents a pound
and wool gone up still more; and even
government per cents speculatively
handled are selling at a good premium,
and everybody seems to be anxious to
get rich speedily as in the old times.
This is just the thing 70 bring another
financial crash and another era Of hard
times If it is continued. The country
needs now steady markets, honesty and
industry in trade, and until it has them
1t will never have a healthy prosperity.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

While no new cases of the plague
are reported in Russia, European medical
journals show that there exists, and not
without reason, the greatest fears that
with the return of warm weather 1t will
break out again with unabatcd virulence,
and that its ravages will then not be con-
fined to one distant district, but spread
all over the empire and intest as well al
Joining countries. There is now known
to exist in St. Petersburg, Vitefsk, War
saw, Odessa and in other districts in Rus-
STA bubonic affection, with which Rus
sian physicians are unfamiliar, which is
very similar to, if not identical with, a
bubonic disease which preceded the re
cent outbs-e-.a- s,r - f1---.-~-iEn AstraoiaH
and previous ones in Persia and Mesopo-
tama. By some, indeed, this disease is
considered a mild form of the plague it
self. While each new case of the plague
causes the greatest alarm among the peo-
pie, as the probable fore-runner of re
newed devastations, the medical trater
nifty see in this seemingly trivial bubonlc
affection cause for the ,avest apprehen-
sion in the near future. At any rate,
danger of recurrence will not be passed
for more than year
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

THE case ofthe black Edmund Kinney
and his white wife, who are serving a
term in the penitentiary for getting mar
ried, has excited attention throughout
the country; but everybody is not
aware that Rhode Island, one of the New
England States with large Republican
majority, has law on its statute books
prohibiting the intermarriage of white
and colored persons. The law is not
dead letter, and arrests have been made
under it within few years past. Some
is found, however, in enforcing
the law, as the burden rests upon the
prosecution of proving that the accused
parties are respectively white and col
ored, which it is hard to establish.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

BuRLlNGToN's city debt, according to
the Repie,o, is we'll along towards $780,
600, or about $50 for each inhabitant, or
$l2 for each dollar ofthe grand list This
is about as heavy burden AS the Ben
nington county towns are groaning UNI
der in consequence oftheir railroad bond
ing, and speaks pretty unfavorably of the
ring of party politicians which has so
long controlled Burlington.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

Advices from Mexico state that the
scheme of an international exhibition
will be abandoned, owing TO iealousies
in the Cabinet There is the usual pull
ing and hauling in politics.
Herschel Hardy's ~ years old son, Bit
ten by a poodle dog about the middle OF
April, il down with the hydrophobia at
Groveland, Mass.
The jury in the election case of N. A.
Hull, charged with frauds in last falls
election, returned verdict of not guilty
at Jacksonville, Fla, Tuesday.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

THE Ohio Republican convention
Wednesday, resulted in substantial VIC
tory for the Hayes wing of the party,
Charley Foster carrying off the nomina-
ton for Governor as against Judge Taft,
the Granite But the stalwarts were al
lowed to make the platform of bloody
shirt kind and to ignore John Sherman.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

The Rutland Inquirer sensibly re-
marks of its town, as it might of almost
any other, there exist striking Unequal
tiles in taxation in open violation of
right and justice. The people have a
right to say whether or not this state of
agairs shall continue. With them rests
the power to see to it that the owners
of property. whether corporations or in
dividuals. shall pay taxes thereon. Will
they do itp Will they be longer bam-
boozled into thinking that it is all right
for rings and cliques to go ahead and
control legislation in this state as they
have done in Pennsylvania and every
other state in the Union?
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

Ir is stated that in the past nine weeks
more than 5000 colored refugees have ar
rived at st, Louis, of whom one-third are
male adults and the rest women and
children About $500 have gone to Kan
sas 500 or more have found employment
or shelter in the vicinity of st. Louis and
perhaps 200 have gone back home. But
very few are now coming in.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
THE LATEST.


10y TbItBTHFII'I
President Hayes sent in his veto OF the
Legislative bill to Congress yesterday
The yellow fever is raging again in
Hayti.
Mount Etna, Italy, is in n volcanic
eruption again.
A hotel was burned at Hagerstown'
Md, early yesterday morning and 8 per-
sons burned to death and many others
injured.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

THERE seems to be movement, OF
which Boss Kelley of New York is
probably the originator, to make Thomas
A. Hendricks and Sanford e. Church
the presidential ticket for 1880. A
paper in North Carolina and several
further south have spontaneously" sug-
gested it, while two Indiana Democrats
urged it at the Iowa Democratic State
Convention. If the Democrats want to
get awfully walloped this is just the
ticket for them to put up.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

PORTIONS of Connecticut seem to be
overrun with large black snakes this
spring. The frost was hardly out Of the
ground when a nest of 4S were found
and killed near Trumbull. The other
day Lebanon farmer went down into
his well to clean it, but came out in a
hurry, for snakes were poking their
heads out between the stones in every
direction, and after days work he kill
ed IA. At North Ashford James Tyler
had fierce battle with six of the rep
tiles, none of which we're less than four
feet long. and destroyed them. Similar
reports come from other places, and
St. Patrick is longed for.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

SOCIALISM, by Mr.. Godkin; the Cur
rency and U. S. Supreme Court, by Mr..
Brooks Adams; the Indian Question, by
Ex-Secretary Cox; the State of Greece;
the Condition of Turkey; London Actors;
Recent American and English Literature.
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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
A CURIOUS case has lust come to ligh

A CURIOUS case has just come to light
at Northbridge of the death of two
persons and the expected death of two
others, all in one family, from the etfects
of cider drinking. As near as can BID
made out, the father aged 80, mother 90,
and two sons, SO and 81, have drunk
since last fall nearly 40 barrels of ci-
der. The mother was taken with fits
six weeks ago yesterday, and died the
next Thursday. The youngest son was
taken with fits three weeks ago and died
on Thursday, and last Thursday the
Oldest son was taken with fits like the
others, and Friday night his physician
gave him up. The father is also in Il
very bad condition. "sees snakes" nearly
every night, and frequently gets up in
the night and runs about the house cry
ing fire" at the top of his voice, doubt
less suffering from delirum tremens.
All parties suffered greatly. No cause
but the cider drinking can be found.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

Gee RGIA has just secured verdict OF
1922, 1876 against ex-Treasurer Jack Jones
for state bonds which he threw upon the
market second time after they had
once been redeemed. 1t is believed,
however, to have been blunder rather
than crime on Jones' part.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
Next Governor.
From the Burlington c1tppcr.


Already the Brattleboro REFoRMER
and other State papers are trying to
skill off" Col. John B. Mead, and blast
all his future political aspirations in pro-
claiming him at this early lay as the next
successful candidate for the republican
nomination for Governor. That the
Colonel mas no objection to being Gov
ernor, there is but little question, and as
in the case Of the last and least OF the
Fairbankses, since he must be Governor
some time, or not die happy, we can see
no reason why the groomcrs of Col. John
should not keep him in running order.
But then, there is our good old Deacon
Estey of Brattleboro, and the brilliant
Cotton of Irasburg, not to mention
carload of other ambitious men, who we
opine will be ready to scalp Bro. Mead
at the first opportunity. TO be sure,
John has the backing of the surviving
Changers and the loud-mouthed Good
Templars; but then, we think it little
too early in the season to fix things Tor
two years hence, especially when 1t al
ludes to politics.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

The Maine Republican State conven-
tion is to meet at Bangor, June 26. The
call is very stalwart and plainly shows
Blaine's hand. Judge Peters declines to
he n candidate for governor.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

The LAST statement made by the as
signee on Catholic Archbishop Purcell's
Affairs shows the total amount Of claims
to be IS COZ .65l and the assets of all
kinds sL1s1. sec. Of which sils.53s are
considered worthless. so that unless the
Archbishop gets help from the church the
poor people who trusted their money
with him. will get back only 20 cents on
the dollar.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

Gov. BECK of Iowa, like the politicians
of Vermont, does not believe that there
is any harm in public officials using free
masses over railroads. He takes his free
pass and puts the mileage allowed by the
state into his pocket.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

THOMAS II. TAYLOR. one of John
Browns followers in his Harper's Ferry
raid, has just been discharged from Mon
roe county N. Y, Jail, where be had
been confined for two months, on
charge of emb, zzling his sisters money.
Taylog isnew s5eAfs- ...ssl -s.ssF.s4-
in the Union army during the war, being
twice taken prisoner, and spending some
time in Libby prison. His mind has
been weak of late years.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

Gov. GARCELoN of Maine does not take
much stock in prohibitory legislation.
He says sensibly of the law now in ope-
ration in his State, 81 am not certain that
its operations have been beneficial. There
are SO many ways of evading it that it is
impossible to enforce it. One of the
most certain ways is the organization of
Clubs as they are called. A barrel OF
liquor is kept at certain place, is free to
all members of the club They, of
course, pay their share of the expense,
and then they go and drink as they
please. Then, again, we find that there
are a great many secret bar-rooms hidden
away in the vagabond quarters of The
city, usually in cellars and back-rooms.
1t is impossible, of course, to exercise
any espionage over them, because if they
were discovered at all they must be blot
ted out. The police in the cities are usu-
ally an unreliable class of men, being
politicians or the tools of politicians. In
many cases they are open to brides, in
consideration of which they agree to
leave these bar-rooms alone, and to even
protect them by their secret sympathy
Then, again, they know that they hold
their places on the force by consideration
of the votes they bring to their patrons"
The Governor should have added that
not only the police, but the prosecuting
attorneys and court officers, and almost
everybody who has anything to do with
the law, winks at its fragrant violations
In proof of which we could adduce nu-
merous instances in Windham county.
Vermont, if he can't in Maine. He thinks
that the present generation in Maine is
more dissipated than previous genera
lions, which were raised without any
liquor law, and he thinks that it has been
proved that it is impossible for any law
to be enacted that will put down liquor
drinking. In conclusion he says that
the question of prohibition is still an
open one, but no law can be made that
will take the place of the Temperance
or justify them in hating in
their work"
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

We venture TO express the opinion
that nobody ever yet made the gentle
man who ''still continues occupy the ed
itorial chair ia the Record office an Of
fer of money-of whatever amount
or for whatever eqnivaleni-that he did
not accept.-RhocRir.
Can it be possible that our timid
neighbor refers to the occasion when
Hooker offered him $50 to sell out his
manhood. in a certain memorable Polit-
ical canvas?