The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.


The New York Star has discovered
that DR.. Mary was the first female Walk
or.
The Connecticut democrats are count
cd for Tilden by careful local student
of politics.
One hundred English farmers go into
bankruptcy everyeweek on account of
the importation into England of Ameri-
can beef. says n high English authority.
The Rutland Inquirer mysterionsly
remarks:
"The name of the next Governor of
Vermont will commence with Is. CT
pher, it out, gentlemen"
As for the Wing, it certainly prefers a
monarchy witlrGsant at the head OF it
to the rule of confederate brigadicrs.-
Quincy (IH) Wing
In other words monarchy is prefera-
BILE to giving up the offices. This is the
unanimous sentiment of all Republican
papers that have postmaster editors.
There is at least one southern republic
can who is not Grant man. Col. John
A. Macdonald, one of North Cardinals
Grant electors in 1868 and delegate to
the convention that nominated Hayes,
writes John Sherman and Reuben Il.
Fenton on his ticket for 1880.
Isaac W. Eaton. member of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee from Kan
sas says he has voted the Democratic
ticket unscratched for 81 years, but he
VOWS that there will be bolt in the
next national convention if Tilden is
nominated because he believes him to
be Sin coalition with the BODYBUILDING
Republicans.
The Louisville Courier-Journal is en-
gagged in meek -and-neck contest with
the Cincinnv Diapers to match every
| Kentucky murder that they publish with
one from Ohio, and 60 them one better
Excessive elaboration has worked al
the "spontanety" out of the Grant boom
As the second year of preparatory worB
wears on, its "improptu" character be.
gins to fall Washington PJst.
The democratic party has all it can dc
to elect president next time if it keeps
steadily on its good behavior. A little
seasoning of the contest with secession
sentiment or unconstitutional taxes will
decide the election in favor OF the repub
cans.-NeW York Sun.
The only safety of the masses is in hav'
| ing laws which do not admit OF abuse
To trust the liberties of the people to the
good will of Hayes or any other one mar
is to place a lighted torch in powder
magazine above which are stored the
most precious of all our earthly posses
sions. Huntington Sentinel.
1t would save no end of trouble and a
hundred thousand drinks if the confeder-
ate caucus would nominate the demo
cratic ticket for 1880, tack it to an appro
priation bill, and force it through Con
gress. The president would not veto it
-Cincinmati Commercial.
Mr.. Thomas. n Hendricks of indiana
is in conspiracy to defeat the renomina
ton of the old ticket. Mr.. John Kelly
of New York is his hacker. The two
are engaged in an intrigue to lose New
York to the democrats this fall. 1t is the
end of Hendricks. He is fool as wei
as conspirator. Let all men disowr
him. WatterSon.
The people will remedy all the linger-
| ING wrongs of the war in the fullness Of
time. but they will resolutely resent any
efforts to precipitate even just reforms il
a revolutionary manner or spirit. There
must be peace. Patriotism has fully de
manded it. but business now demands i
in such imperious tones that none dar'
disregard them. Philadelphia Times.
Moody. the evangelist. has strong
hold on the confidence of Christian peo
pie wherever he has labored, but IL il to
be feared his influence is on the wane
In discussing at Baltimore the evils ~,
the times, he stated that politicians are
striving to stir up sectional feeling. and
urged on Christians the duty of irwin
to prevent it. Such heresy should moi
pass without rebpke.-Bosion Post.
We observe - John G, Thompson
| oCi pllc iiOtSC vi IbcDTe
eentatives at Washington, has gone tc
Columbus, Ohio. to attend a meeting OF
the state committee. of which he is chair
man. and to regulate local politics gen.
orally Mr.. Sorham, the republican
clerk of the Sttate, was removed fol
partisan activiy''-which, however,
was always confined to the recesses oil
congress. Thompson's case is Gorham s
aggravated. Will he be remvvedP-
Buffalo Commercial.
The decentralization of gold and the
substitution of silver for it would not
paralize industry, nor rob the working
man, nor produce universal ruin; but,
on the other hand, it would work iDjus-
tice to vested interests, considerably in
crease the friction and expense of bust
ness, and do good to no one but gamb
ling spectators in land and in merchan-
disc, who desire to get out of debt at a
cheaper rate than they can at present
N. Y. Sun.
Sins aesinst The purity and integrity
of the ballot are by no means confined
to the South, as this leading republican
newspaper of Vermont (the Burlington
Free Press) has come tn admit. News
papers and dasnt public sentiment
ought to combine to make such crimes
not only thoroughly odious, but unsafe
investments for the INSCRIPTIONS politi-
clans who practice them with such i'm
pudent Immunity even in New England,
ESnr;nofeM Republicaa ON he Bennino-
ton Rouenness
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