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'rnude, mud for =. aosi'e tlMo phst . eon-
pioyott Ia tho ulco Of y. H.. !l!li i Co.,
oommissinn merchants Ut No. l57 Washington
ii bis attauhtuunt for Mtss Cra.u. who Is gMItu
YOUNG and stllt Xo!ng t9 Bchoos. Ihpy
Objected to the mAtCh f1r tue REASON
tt1At bDth weru too young TO entur upoI.
NlpTrtea 1Ife. a1ld about thrc0 ulauth
agn received Il PROMISE fr,n, thu hny That tls
i,,p1,lnl intonti,ns, and walt tur II cal,po ut
yours. until no could pl,t himself III stlch cl<oua'.
stuticcs a. would warrant hs uss1ttnln9 the r..
being informed OF thB horrbiu trnguly. l!ecaH}E
thoroughly dlsconaoatu, md tno!r grief kuhn
no bounds.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
WINDSOR COUNTY.

Springfield had curious sort of re-
union Thanksgiving eve,-a Notification
to commemorate a business disaster
The feasters will be the members of the
cooperative Industrial works which
failed in 1876 and is the result of a vote
taken at that time. As the venture re-
suited in a dozen or more marriages
among the members, if it didn't bring
them wealth, they perhaps feel that
they can afford to laugh at pecuniary
mishaps.
The state agricultural society will, it
is sail, endeavori 10 get the New ENGLAND
society to hold its fair at White River
Junction.
The farm buildings of W. d. Cloueh,
four miles from Norwich village, have
been DESTROYED by fire loss, 81 200; par
tally insur d. The cause was a defec-
tive chimney.
Harry, only son of II. George of East
Hardwick, collidel with a team while
coasting on Tuesday evening. His skull
was crushed and he died Wednesday
morning.
Otis p Srurr. while running a turning
machine at the Springfie d snath works
recently, lost his hold of the stick he
was putting through the machine and it
few out, fractured his skull Just over the
left eye, broke rib on the same side
and badly bruised his right shoulder.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.

Guiteau thinks the Lori is on his side
He'll Guiteau- yer that idea when he is
on the other slde-of the river-Bur-
lingtOn Clipper.
If the Radical party at the North is
composed of so much better material
than the Democratic party there, how
does it happen tfiat such an alarming
percentage of Northern Federal office
hold RS are thieves Sparta (Ga.) Lsh-
n1delite
Gentlemen may cry cashier and cash
| tb, re but when the board of directors
wake up there is cash nowhere.-Boston
| Star.
In his story of President Garfield's i'll
ness in the December Century, DR.. Bliss
mentions that when the news came from
Albany of Mr.. Lapham's election to the
United States Senate the president said
earnestly: Il am glad it is over. |
am sorry for Copkling. He has made a
great mistake, in my judgment. l will
offer him any favor he may ask, or any
appointment he may desire"
The Democratic party has had many
misfortunes. 1t has given refuge to a
good many marp,ots, sore-heads and stu
pids. Occasionally 1t mas narDofed an
adyenturer or two. But it has not yet
been converted into nest of robbers,
aud never, with our consent, shall 1t be.
-L0uisptlle Courier JDslrnat.
The Worcester Times offers prize for
a first class lie about Gen. Butler, one
that is fresh.
1t is not likely that Mrs. Meaker, SEN
fenced to death ivy srmont, will ever be
hanged, for pnSN tdtiMient doesn't take
kindly to hanging women, even in that
hardened state, and there is over year
in which it can dwell upon the natter
Boston Post.
1t is an odd thing to say of man on
trial for his life, but it seems to be true
of Guiteau, that he never enjoyed him
self so much in his life as he is doing
now. Notoriety is the breath of the
wretch's nosirils.-N. T. World
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

THE secondary German elections have
only added to the thoroughness of the rou
Of the National Liberal party, with which
Bismarck effected his last alliance. 1t can
not now muster even paltry fifty votes
in the Reichstag. The Conservative party
is also so much weakened that this won.
derfully adroit manipulation of men cannot
hope to accomplish his schemes by the
uniting of the two, even if it were again
practicable. Either the Progressists and
secessionists, or the Clericals, the Catholic
party, will WELD the balance of power,
and from one or the other Bismarck must
get his votes, if he wishes to realize his
project of securing for the empire the
monopoly and sale of tob1cco. This is
the most important of all his projects and
the one which he is determined at all haz-
ards to accomplish because, once executed,
IL would render the empire independent f.
napcially of the States which compose it,
and effect that consolidation of power to
which the iron-willed Chancellor has de-
voted his life. But an alliance with the
secessionists, whose sole object in politics
i, the disruption of the empire, would of
oour.e be impossible for even Bismarck.
The only recourse left him then is to make
terms with the Clericals, repeal the Falk
,.x. admit that his war against the Rom
;sb Church was wrong and that he is wors-
,ed This will be bitter drsrght for Bis
n.,ck but as he has decided not to resign,
!, !. clear tina, he proposes to sulPit
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
Bank Troubles In Boston

AS announced by brief despatch tt
the REFoRMER last week, the Pacific
National Bank suspended Friday. Il
had capital of 81 100000, but that has
all been swallowed up, and possibly az
much more, in Carrying" Theodore C
Weeks, broker and stock gambler, who
was allowed to overdraw his account al
pleasure. If the stocks in which Weeks
is dealing should happen to go up, a
portion, and ina remote possibility the
whole of this might be saved; otherwise
he, the bank, and the stock holders
must go down together in irretrievable
ruin. Weeks is man who has failed no
less than four times in bis career, and
that bank should trust hun to such an
extent shows how recklessly men handle
other peoples money in Boston. Ben
Won, the president of the bank, appears
to have been formerly connected with
E. d. Winslow, the forger, and to have
once been ruined by his operations. He
was set" up again at the head of the
bank by his admiring fri nds, who evil
IDENTIFY thought that because he was in
capable of managing his own affairs sue
cessfully, he was tie proper man to in
trust with those of other people.
Saturday, there was good deal of a
panic in Boston. The Central National
Bark was found to have furnished the
Pacific with 100000 for its wildcat ope-
rations on securities representing only
$3.50 900 at face value. A run on the
bank began, and it was obliged to sus-
pend for few hours. The other bank
presidents of the city, however came
promptly to the rescue, and furnished
100000 in cash to set it in operation
again. But for this, where the trouble
would have ended, we can only guess
Evidently the other bank presidents
were afraid to have the lid lifted off
their transactions.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
Two Millions of Acres OF Public
Lands Stolen.

The annual report of Mr.. Brooks,
chief of the secret service bureau of the
treasury department at Washington,
contains the following paragraph re-
garding and frauds: when the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1880, cl, sed it left
one of our operatives in the midst of an
impor ant investigation into alleged land
frauds origin ating in the state of Mis-
souri, and extending into Pennsylvania,
Ohio. and elsewhere. By action of con-
gress this division was prohibited from
spending any portion of its appropri-
alton in the investigation, hence our ope-
rative was compelled to transfer his SER
vices to the interior department in
order to complete the cases in hand.
The result of his work, so far as de-
veloped, show the rankest perjury and
forgery by which parties have wrong
fully appropriated nearly two million
acres of public lands up to the present
writing"
Mr. Brooks is 6. Republican official.
His evidence ought to be sufficient to
convince the country that a thorough
overhauling is needed at Washington.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

THREE times has Guiteau's life been
attempted since his arr st. No effort has
been made to punish the man who at
tackled him in his cell; and none has thus
far been made to punish Sergeant Ma.
son who shot at him through the gra'-
ing, and now the last man who shot al
him goes at large under 5000 bail. The
thing could not possibly be managed
more disgracefully for our government.
1t sinks us almost to the level of Lynch
law 1t ought to be the pride and the
grandeur of government of freedom
and law like ours, that the
life of the vilest wretch, like Guiteau.
should be as fully protected as tn of
the President himself, until in Just ven
geance it is taken bv process Of law. 1t
is Gen. Hsncock's duty to bring Mason
30 Court Martial punishment, and why
dosen't he doit? By letting tbs Sc matters
slip. he and other officers are contribut-
ing powerfully to make this govern
ment of ldrlcsmess.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

A GOOD MANY of the Virginia bourbon
skulls have at last been penetrated with
Tie lesson of tolerance and generous
treatment of the Mt groes which Malone S
success ought to teach them. OF cours e
they have no more love for the negro
voter than Malone has, but they begin
to realize that it is shrewd policy to get
his vote, if they are to check dangerous
and INSCRIPTIONS demagogues Ike Ma
hoLe. As long as they can't elect Uni
ted States Senator anyhow, some of them
are seriously urging the nomination of a
negro as a candidate. This would GER
tanly be an astute political trick, a strong
blow to the prospects of the Malone
party in the future, and as matter of
political morality fully as sincere and
iustifiable as the selection of negro cam
didates for minor positions by the repub-
lican congressman, when they Were in a
minority. But above all it would he a
great stride towards the obitera ion of
the color line in politics, for which every
patriot prays.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

THERE need be no fear that Malone
will go into the cabinet, even if Presi-
dent Arthur is so lost to all regard fol-
pnblic dee ency as to appoint him. Malone
is good ways from a fool. Now he
holds the republican majority" in the
s nate under his thumb; his vote is an
absolute necessity, he can dictate his
own terms, and exact a round price, in
patronage il not cash, every time the
parties measure strength. If he should
resign for pla,e in the cabinet, he
knows that he would not only have TO
run the risk of not being confirmed, but
he would sink to the level of other off
Gals; he would be the party's servant,
not its master; and ifthe republicans could
strike a trade with his successor, he
would very soon be discarded like any
worn out u'ensil. lie understands fully
that the republicans don't love or adj
mire him very extensively tt ey buy
him because they need him, and because
they can nay more, in patronage, than
the other fellows. He can be depended
on t. keep his dictatorship as lons as the
close vote in the senate gives him the
balance of power. He will never go into
the cabinet himself, but he will put This
man" there if he can.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

Rutland county liquor sellers in six
months have paid fines aggregating 81, TAO.
A decidedly hot crusade against the traffic
is being waged in many sections of the
northern part of the state. AT st. Adams
six men have been prosecuted for rum
selling, one has been sent to Jail, one sa
loon has been shut up and several seizures
of liquor has been made. A large citi-
zens' meeting was held Monday evening TO
enc )urage and uphold the war. Burling-
ton has about the same story. Nor can
right-minded citizens feel very deep SYM
pathy with the victims. For last year
when an organized effort was attempted to
be made, to secure license law
they, or some of them, refused to
join, on the impudent claim that prohibit
ton was unenforced, cost them nothing,
and never hindered their selling and they
liked it. For the sake of few dollars n
money they chose prohibition and now let
them take it,
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

1T was very common assertion and feaI
when President Arthur went into office
that it would somehow happen that the
governments prosecution of the Star route
rascals would slump through The pre-
dictions Of Gen. Arthur's enemies seem tC
be on the way towards realization. But
then perhaps the party may be ''harmon-
ized." From time immemorial it ha been
the politicians idea of Harmony" never
to disturb public robbers.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

inappropriate point, half dozen witnesses
related what they knew OF the hereditary
faint in the family and of the acts and say
lngs Of the accused. j. l.. Upon testified
to the facts about Guteau's lecture in Bos-
ton In 1879, when Guiteau said to him that
he was a member of the firm of Jesus
Christ & Co. that God was his teacher
Mrs Mary A. Lockwood, with whom Gui-
teau boarded in this city for five weeks,
thought him very nervous and abrupt.
During her examination Guteau frequent
ly interrupted, protesting against reference
being made to his failure to pay his board.
81 paid her So and owe her 1926" said
Guiteau; ''that's all there is about it.
They were very nice people to live with.
Gen. Logan and other heightened people
lived with them.
GuIieaU Again Shot AT.
The third attempt to kill the assassin
was made Saturday afternoon, while on his
way to Jail after the adjournment of court.
The van had started for the Jail, having
policeman as a guard upon the seat with
the driver. Before reaching the Capitol
the guard noticed young man on horse
back riding behind the van. Near the cor
ner of East Capitol and First streets the
horseman rode directly to the rear of the
van and hastily peered through the grating.
Guiteau was alone, seated on the right
hand side. After satisfying himself of the
location of the prisoner, the horseman
wheeled suddenly to the left and fired di-
rectly through the van. He then dashed
to the front of the van and pointed pis-
tol at the driver, with the evident intention
of intimidatng him Or of stopping the
van. Seeing On armed policeman by his
side he exclaimed: ''1've shot the of a
-" and putting spurs to his horse,
dashed down East Capitol street, in the di-
rection 81 the Congressional cemetery. The
policeman fired shot at the fast disappear
ing hoseman, and the driver whipped his
horses into gallop, keeping him in sight
severpLblaeks The would-be avenger was,
howl Ell upon blooded horse,
and steadily disappeared into the country.
The news of the attempt Great ed great
excitement, and the police and military
secured the country all around. Sunday,
VIM. Jones, half-crazed, half wittcd,
but rich planter, was brought in. He was
then in II state of the widest intoxication.
One of the two men who sat outside the
van positively identified him as the assassin.
The other swore as positively that he was
not the man. Finally, tuesday, after ex-
animation. he was released on $4,000 bail.
There is strong feeling in Washington
that the attempt was the outcome of con
spiracy. There were whispers and sort
of prevailing impression, just previous to
the adjournment, that Saturday would be
the last day of the trial, Indicating that a
good many people knew what was to be
done.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

Political rascals are not getting pun
ished much just now. The Phila-
delphia election officers, who were being
pro- ecuted for the false returns which
have given the Cameron ring their ma
jorities for the past ten years, were so
certain OF being convicted that two
of them fed the country. Now
when the third is brought to trial
this week, it was found that nearly all
the contents of the ballot boxes, relied
on as evidt nee, have been destroyed by
the city commissioners So be will get
ont of il
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

Again this year has the Republican par
~ made the gains in New York city and
Brooklyn, which gave them the State Of
New York. 1t was done by disreputable
dickers over local offices with Bosses Kelly
and McLaug. lin. 1t may be question,
however, if even the great gains which
were made in this way would have beer
sufficient without the frauds in the inter
ior. In a number of places the retures
were held back for full week, and in
every case when they came in finally, they
showed tremendous Republican gains.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
The Star Route Plan for awindlinR
the Government.

A. W. Gibson, special attorney for the
United States, who has been probing the
Star route rascalities, rendered his report
Wednesday, making clearer than ever, IL
possible, the fragrant character of these
frauds, and the entire inexcusbility of the
Government in letting them go unpublished.
In a document which would fill forty
columns of the REFoRMER, and which is
amply fortified in every detail by evidence,
he traces the growth and development Of
the ring He shows that the law for ex-
pediting the mails indicated clearly what
its Interpretation should be, that this inter-
probation was followed for full quarter of
a century, and that no robberies on an ex-
tensive scale were attempted till the advent
of the hypocritical Hayes administration.
In the most profigate years under Buchan-
an, while the mail administration of the
postcffice department became almost a
anonymous term for public robbery, there
was only one case of expediting Star route
mails In 1872, under Grant, there were
only six cases. involving $2l, 1888, and only
seven-amountlng to some SOL, 00O-dur-
ing the fiscal years 1S75-76. But in 1877,
when Brady came into office, there were,
on his orders, Is allowances for expedition
of mail service made on 10 routes. The
contract price of these Is routes aggregated
1854, 544 "a per annum. The allowances
for expedition increased the annual pay on
these routes $l97, 946 Is, and made the to-
tai pay $3.50, 400. 40 a year. During this
same year Mr. Brady made orders granting
trips added and speed increased on $50
routes, amounting in the aggregate to $604-
33609 The original pay on these routes
was 81, 900, $40. so, so that the increase was
about 5S l-6 per cent, while the additional
duties required of the contractors were, in
the aggregate, only about 33A per cent.
Then Brady seemed to have his plumber
ing ring fully organized. Thereafter he
deliberately advertised for star service on
such schedules as to leave room for premed-
itated increases of pay by means of allow
ances for expedition, ETC., and in almost
every instance he violated the letter and
spirit of the law in making the orders for
the additional allowances by which a few
contractors have been receiving more than
81, $50, 900 a year. The fiscal years of
1879 and 1880 there were A orders on
which allowances were made and money
paid which were retroactive and in direct
violation of law. In all, according to this
report, there were, during Gen. Brady's in
IA orders made in violation of
he law.
In each case Mr.. Gibson claims the Or
1ers were ''fraudulently, collusively and
,orruptly obtained" In one case where
IN expensive route was run 200 miles to a
,oint which had single dwelling, three
INES week, it is proved that the man
himself protested against it repeatedly, but
10 attention was paid to him by the de-
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

EARTHQUAKES, volcanoes and tornadoes
have all been hard at work destroying the
haoitations of man this year. Now, before
its close, glaciers are adding their efforts in
the same direction, the complete annihila-
ton of the Swiss village of Elm, by
neighboring peak, being pronounced only
question of time and bad weather. Yet
Elm is more fortunate than Agram and
New Ulm in having ample warning.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
shot gun.

In 1910 the United States sent abroad
merchandise and specie to the value of
1882, Os5, 900. In 1880 our exports in
those two items footed up $685.
$4,000. Any way that it may be
viewed this is tremendous stride in
commercial prosperity but it would have
been far greater but for the hamperng of
our stupid and awkward protective tariff.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
I'M 1879. thouph the chief hos

In 1876, though the chief bosses Of
Tammany hated Tilden, he got 112, 62l
votes in New York City, against
58,566 for Hayes, nearly three-fourths
Of the whole. In 1880 Hancock had
123,015, against 81, $50 for Garfield, only
thiee-fifths of the whole. This amountedtoa
transfer of 10000 votes-iust about the
number owned, body and soul, by Kelly
and Tammany-from the Democratic to
the Republican side. It is proof enough
that Hancock was defeated solely by the
treachery of Kelly, and his trading with
the Arthur machine.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

7. F. Baldwin, teller of the smashed
Newark, MI, bank, and IA br olher of the
thief cashier, has been arrested this
week He is guilty of making false en-
tries on the books of 100000, in one
month. of moneys pnrporing to have
been SEM TO New York, which had not
One of the stockholders has also brought
suit for private damages against the di-
rectors, as in the Brattleboro case.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

Senator Malone says the colored vote of
Virginia would have been practically solid
for the Readjuster ticket eff our move
ment had 'been heartily supported by the
Republican leaders of the North" This
means precisely that the whole vote could
have been bought If bride money enough
had been furnished. 1t isn't true.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

American explorers of the Arctic seas
are not the only ones who have been locked
up for the winter by the ice. The Dutch
vessel Willem Barents and Mr.. Leigh
Smiths yacht are supposed to be pent up
somewhere about the same general region,
namely. that of spitzbergen and Franz
Josef Land, but no traces of them can be
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

The South American complications are
getting decidedly exciting. Chill disre-
CARDS apd defeS the protest of the
United Mates, M has put President
Calderop of Peru under arrest. Just
what B 8 her, Blaics proposes to do re'
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

Malone, in explaining a ,out the Virginia
election says "Many negroes were hired to
vote on the other Oemocratic) SIDE. " This
is doubtless the fact, but it hardly dove
tails with the stock Republican argument
that no negro was ever known to vote the
Democratic ticket except at the point of
shot MN
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
A FLOon OLE MOLTEN STEEL

An iron bar sustaining the door of the
cupola of the new Bessemer depariment
Of The Penn ylvana steel works at Har-
risburg, Pa, broke yesterd day. Three men
were caneht by the food of molten
me al and terribly burned, one it is sup
nosed fatally.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
New Enterprise for Bra,tIebore.
Per.Onal

Gov. Far ham has appointed Herbert
Brainard of ST. Albans and DIR. II. A..
Cutting of Lunenburg, fish commission
ers for five years TO succeed Dr. NJ. Gold
smith of Rutland, ami Charles, Barrett
of Grafton.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

THURSDAY of last week was the 57th an
niversary of the foundation of the happy
and peaceful Swiss republic. The occasion
was celebrated by the Swiss residents in
Boston with a grand festival
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25

THE Greenback vote in New York and
Pennsylvania this year foots up nearly 81,
900, and in the former state it is even
larger than was given Gen. Weaver last