The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-02-18

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4" snys HIS morning sermon was al
S s,"1 % the question SIS the Grave tn
shaa.. although there is myster.
so os tne continued life of the sou afte
ue a ana the argument for it Ii in tn
'ee!n Of considerable sound logic it rest
~ ue goodness of God, and in it wha
hopes may we not indulge concerning
oiessed Immortal ty! The speaker pro
seeaed to point out the comfort to b.
derived from this thought to the old maj
and the mother who now mourns he
departed babe, but to whom she shall bt
restored at a not distant day. He alst
spoke of the hope for the unsuccessful
man, who has God for father and Chris
ior brother, and The possibility OF hope
ior the vain and irreligious man, If he
will but allow God to purify his soul
In this hope let us all live.
Receiver Price has to take gcoc
many hard rubs and hard words. simply
because he has gone straight ahead and
done his duty, no matter who was hnrt In
his letter to the Springfield Republican
last Summer he declared whit the RE
FORMER has for years maintained that the
state has been having some wretched in
competents for bank examines, that
their weakness was known in Washing
ton, but they we're kept in office by Con.
gressiopal influence as part OF the
dicker of Vermont's debased politics. In
the same letter he hit off Congressman
TYLER. and the other directors, Just as
they deserve, as LOT Of incompetents.
Then he found evidence which con-
WINGED him that the. old bank in 1864 was
nothing hnt hollow shell and for pub
fishing this 10 the world he fads another
hornets nest about his head, as Mr.. Dav-
exports letter shows. And now 20 cap
the climax up comes Waite himself with
the air of maligned martyr denouncing
him bitterly because he had dared ques-
ton his integrity. The path # duty
seemingly is not always rosy one.
A large number of people attended
the Unitarian sociable at Mrs. VIM.
~47u6srd's Wednesday, who were treated
to a first rate supper, and later in the
evening side splitting charade and
short play, both admirably presented by
the young people.
The rehearsal of the Choral Union will
be omitted next week. Next rehearsal
Mar. 81.
Rev. G. E Martin gives the next of
his lectures on Romans at the Congfe-
gational Chapel next Sunday evening.
The "band entertainment" tomorrow
evening is evidently to be the most
telling thing of the season, 3O9 tickets
were sold in the first hour and 80 min
utes, when the sale was opened, Wednes-
day evening. and there has been such a
rush for them since that most of the
available space is filled. At urgentrequest
therefore and to accommodate the many
who will be disappointed in not being
able TO get in the first evening, the boys
have finally concluded to repeat it next
Thursday evening, the danciag school
being postponed to give them Crosby
Hall. Something handsome towards
the new uniforms for the band will be
realized.
''Susan"is dead. For years she has
resided at the organ shops and proved
herself the most faithful and affectionate
of feline com panions to the boys there.
Every time she caught mouse she
would take it all around exhibiting to
her admirers Her end came Tuesday
by her get ing caught in a belt.
Saturday an elevator at Vinton's paper
mill loaded with box of pulp weighing
perhaps / 800 lbs. gave way and fell
down The passage, and smashed through
the lower floor. Some slight damage
was done hut luckily no one was hurt
The bankrupt boot and shoe stock of
Perry & Greasy has been sold to George
II. Perry of Chester and Parker D. Cressy
of Chesterfield, N H.
John l.. Ray lies critically i'll at the
Massachusetts, Hospital, Boston, viii her
he went two weeks ago. He has sub
mitted to two surgical operations, one on
his leg and the other on his bladder,
from the neck of which bone an inch
long was removed. Accounts last night
stated that he was worse, though he had
for few days been improving.
The Pitsfeld papers contain an account
of well-dressed, gentlemaply appear
ing Young man. falling in fit on the |
streets of Williamttown. A letter has |
also been received from Hou sat2nic.
Mass, of a young mai having hs there |
and giving bis name as Walter Harrison |
Carleton, and saying he was from Brat
tleboro He is wild during and just after
the fits, and though he started from Hou-
satonic for here, as he said, the letter is
written is written because it is feared he |
wandered away in mental alteration
Waite Pitches In.
Silas M. Waite has also taken umbrage |
at the report, and in an interview with
Springfield Republican reporter published
Wednesday, attacks it savagely. He evil
IDENTIFY thinks that instead of being brand
ed and punished as a thief he ought to
receive the eternal thanks of the stock
holders and to be pensioned off by them
for life for his unselfsh generosity in
keeping the bank SO long afoat, paying
go many dividends and using so much Of
his own money brains and energy. He
admits or claims that the capital of the
old Windham County bank was exhaust
ed before the National bank was organ
lied, and then goes on to figure, as Mr.
Davenport does, how much money he
has paid out in dividends and to run the
institution-with only this difference
that while Mr.. Davenport thinks 1t proves
the Impossibihty of there not being over
$150,000, Waite thinks it proves HIM a
sort of public benefactor i'll paying SO
much. Thirty-one semi-annual divi-
dends have been paid since 1t was made
National bank, l6 of . per cent, 10
of A per cent, and 3 of 3 per cent, aggre-
eating $4,000. Then he says, care
full analysis of this dividend state
ment allowing lHe SIOUX uOlueIS per |
cent on the capital stock actually paid in
and per cent when such dividend was
declared, shows that the stockholders
have been paid back all their capital
stock, and $204 l60.73 besides, since the
capital was exhausted. Deducting from
this the $4,000 for W ich they were as
sessed he still argues that they have
been overpaid 1929, l6073. Il
Waite swelIs the expense account high |
er than anyone else Calling his own sal
ary $4,000 a year, and incidentals 5000
year, he makes these expenses foot up
$l4l ,O9405. Add This to dividends paid ;
and he has $55S, 094 05, OF deducting the
capital stock of $4,000, $40S, O94.O5 for ,
dividends, expenses g., showing that
the $50 900 must have earned 1854 per
cent per annum. Then if Price Is correct !
that The bank has claim of S347 ,254 20
for money stolen, besides the $1,000 re- 7
uii.;sa frim the bridge property, 1t makes o
a total Of 1922, 1880, which must have a
been realized on this $4,000 capital, il
80 10 yer cent per annum. v
These figures may look plausible to
men who don't think, but they are some p
what weakened by the fact that Waite n
don't mention the $25O,5OO interest on r,
the government bonds which the bank d
has received or the S65,0OO which he mas k
borrowed on over issued stock. r
Waite of course claims that he has h
stolen nothing In fact The capital was y,
III exhausted in paying dividends before !,