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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

GEN. GARFIELD has as yet made no ex-
PLANTATION of his letter to Hubbell, saying,
''please ask Brady to do all he can. The
letter which Hubbell wrote to him and
which he must have, would show whether
there was any corrupt intent in this request
and every day now that passes before it is
brought out, intensifes popular suspicion
of the Presidents conduct. The latest
story about the matter is that the letter was
written when the pressure for funds in In
diana was most severe, that Brady applied
to HAYES for letter of authorization to
assess the contractors, was refused, and that
then he applied to Garfield, with what re-
suit the public knows. The matter smells
worse the longer it is left unexplained.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
A Washington man, and member of

A Washington man, and member OF
the Star route ring. has come out with a
doleful story that the prosecution is the
result of Brady's refusal or neglect to
assess the contractors last summer for
the campaign fund. He claims that Gar
fields letter of Aug. 20 was shown to
Brady and just the present onslaught
threatened unless the contractors were
made to bleed literally. This yarn Is
ridiculous on the face of it. Neither
Gen. James nor even Garfield is the
man to lend himself to blackmail
scheme of this kind, but it has a sort oil
confirmation by the foolish story. doubt
less lie, which the Republican cores
ponden,s sent out when the exposures
began. that only 500 was contributed
to the campaign by the contractors.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

James innocently began digging about
the posta department and found him.
self undermining the foundations of the
party. Instead of diseased parts he
found a gangrened whole. That which
he took for an ulcer. which surgery
might remove. be found to be merely an
external sign of fatal constitutional
malady for which the only remedy is the
death Of the patient.-NIshuille Anaeri-
can.
Swirdling :he government is bad
enough. but to find a Presidential can
didste soliciting part Of the plumber to
promote his own election. and actually
attaining his purpose by means Of it is a
transaction past precedent and beyond
endurance by a patient people.-BoSton
Post.
Why should Brady want to be asked
by the presidential candidate? But. when
he did want TO be asked, why did Mr..
Garfield, who knew about the star
route" swindle, fall into the trap? A man
who does such things. though with bon
est instincts. eonnot have keen moral
percep,ions.-B0st9H Herald
Mrs. President Garfield is 80 in with
intermittent fever that her friends feel
alarmed.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

Elk, Gov. Hall of Bennington jumps
at his conclusion too hastily when he as
sumes from the csnsus record of 1890
that there never were any slaves in YER
mont. The II persons who have been
currently reported as the number of our
slaves then, appear on the records as
''free negroes" it is true, but little de-
pendence is to be placed on this record.
The first constitution of the state ex-
pressly prohibited slavery, the law dis
countenanced it. and very likely if every
one of these II negroes had been slaves
they would have been reported just as
they were. There area number of wellau
thentie cases of slaveholdng in the state.
In Spooner's Journal. published at Wind
sor, is pointed out an advertisement Feb.
II, 1894, offering So reward for the re-
turn of an escaped negro, So years old.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

The radical prohibitory law of Kansas,
which went into effect the 1st, is already
confessed to be failure in many places
L. Leavenworth, at least, the temperance
people are compromising with the liquor
sellers by permitting them to go on with
their lager beer business unprecedented on
condition that they will sell nothing else.
This, of course, is the same in effect as
license, but involves the hypocrisy, viola
ton Of official oaths, and public demoraliza-
ton that usually accompanies prohibition,
which is impossible of enforcement, and
which as Massachusetts and Michigan sta
tistics show, results in sure and steady in
crease Of grog- shops and drunkenness.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
Two of the star route swindlers were

Two of the star route swindlers were
arrested in Philadelphia Saturday
charged with conspiracy to defraud the
government through straw bonds and
bids for carrying the mails in Texas in
1878. Tie proofs are abundant and
conclusive, and in clude several officials
and attorneys. The parties are held for
trial. attorney Gen. McVeigh is at work
untangling the other cases. and as fast
as Gen. James secures evidence of cor
ruption he hands it over to him. Mr..
James assures the country that he and
fairfield are both determined to 60 to
the bottom of the business. The facts
will show whogot the money, and when
a man is found with stealings in his
pocket, he will be turned over to Nc
Weigh.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

SECRETARY WINDOW has made such a
success in his extension of the $3.50, 600, :
900 of 6 per cent bonds at 81 per cent that
he projects the same scheme for the $780,
900, 900 of per cent to mature next year.
This is higher rate of interest than the
government ought now to pay, but 1t is I'M
doubtedly greatly to the advantage OF the
government to have bonds which it can re-
deem at pleasure, like these, rather than long
time bonds. Mr.. Window says that the
whole cost of the operation has been less
than $4,000 His scheme was wholly
illegal and sets bad precedent, but 1t must
be admitted that he has managed it very
skillfully, and the dilemma in which
Hayes foolish veto, made at the dictation
of the National banks, left the debt, neces-
STATED some extraordinary measure.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
Russia.
Beginning of n Social War Scheme
of Redress.

IN, T.. ~ AT
The frontier OF Ukraine, RUSSIA, is now
the scene OF series OF bloody riots. IL is
between the peasantry and the jews VINO
have been on terms OF enmity Tor centuries,
but it seems to be rather soclalistlc IMAM 10
originate IN religious anlmoslty' IL Is the
beginning OF social war long iofeseen ny
those familiar with the condition OF the
Ukarlne. 1t may assume 1rlghtiul proper
tons. OF the 3,ooo,o 900 Jews IN Russia,
an immense majority are crowded together
in the towns and citles OF the souln ana
west. In many towns they form MAORI
ty of the population. Through Their he
redltary avocatloes as usarers' spirit .t deal
ers, traders, ETC., they nave maze then,-
selves masters alike Oh 'ne inueoteu laiiu-
lords and OF the unfortunate peasants,
Disturbances began al Men al noon on
the sth. Several Jews were INJURED T ahu
some booths and shops were piilageu' Inc ne
military restored order ana arrested ooo
persons. The disturbances were renewed .,
on Monday, but were suppressed ny tne
troops when woman was hllieu anu sew
eral other persons were INJURED.
The town looks ASH 4, IN hau oeell uevas-
lated by a hurricane. nois s''eeSs ag
literally razed' All lhe jews n1 Iia anu
shops nave peen sacheu DDn ui., hase uuo em
stolen and destroyed, reopLe iilsl G wei
oil are oeggars lnT sSa,i VI 'e eSau; are
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
Hancock and the Star Route Ring

HIRAM ATKINS of Montpelier, who was
one of the chief Hancock workers at Gin
clnnati, denies emphatically that any money
was furnished by the Star Route ring, to
buy delegates, or work up sentiment for
the General.
He says that the whole expenses of
the Hancock headquarters were only
$500, contributed mostly by his friends,
and only 5000 of it coming from any man
whose name has ever been mentioned in
connection with Brady's frauds. Sena-
tor Wallace has also in the New York
World made the same. But it is need
less to say that the question is not yet
conclusvely settled. There were some
honorable men like Gen. Franklin at the
Hancock headquarters, and it is not to
be supposed if the Star route thieves did
put in any money, they did it through
them. 1t was easy enough to spend it in
other ways and places where it would
accomplish the object. 1t is not by any
means proved that Hancock was nominated
by the use of the money of these thieves,
but the story to that effect is plausible,
and backed by considerable circumstan-
tial evidence, and the notorious unscrup-
ulousness with which political conven-
tons nowadays are manipulated, will in
duce people to believe it.
But, however this may all be, Gen.
Hancock is unsmirched. He made no
demeaning alliances as Atkins says,
after the election, Gen. Hancock said
to us that while he had had many writ
ten and oral applications for pledges to
this and that conduct of affairs if he
were elected, or that this or that man
should have this or that office, to all of
which he replied that it was time enough
to think of such matters after he was de-
clared elected" Again, when an init
mate friend asked Gen. Hancock, as he
was starting for the Convention, for a
cvpher to be used in communicating
with him in case it might be deemed
necessary, the reply was, i want no
message sent me that cannot be sent in
plain, Ineligible English If he became
president he intended to be at liberty to
act as his judgment told him was right,
which to great degree accounts for his
defeat" Hancock's course was an hon.
orable and manly one throughout, in
agreeable contrast,-if Conkling's claims
regarding letters in his possession are to
be trusted-to that of his rival.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

PRINCE ALEXANDER of Belgium has hon
estly tried to give his country agovernment
in accordance with the exceedingly liberia
constitution which was given it by Russian
statesmen after the Turco-Russan war.
But the people were unfit for self-govern-
ment, and the Prince has suspended the
constitution for five years. 1t was at the
time the occasion for good deal OF sar-
casm that Russians who can give them
selves nothing but the sternest of despotism
should award to another people almost a
Democracy.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
lBrattleboroJs Grand List.

The listers completed Their WORK ~
noon to-day. The total - $S3.76o, prov :
ing the accul acy Of the REFoRMER hgur-
ine when we said it would be between
ass. 900 and $4,000. The first class
real estate valuation (houses and lots less
than 10 acres) is 81, 480. 800; second
class (farms and lands over 10 acres)
$685., 900; personal. 81, 246.6l6; an in
crease of 1881 ,244: real estate and per-
sopal together, $1,000, LOG; railroads.
1924, 799; polls. 1853. PIP fremen ex-
empt- The persons who pay on list
of over $l6 are:
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
COnkling's Story.
How Garfield Deceived and Betrayed
Him,
And How the President Was
Wnbbled Back and Forth by
0uherss


Others.
SENATOR CoNKLING retailed the story
which he has been threatening for sew
eral weeks to the Republican caucus last
Monday. Just what he said 1t Is diff
omit to learn because the caucus was sup
posedly "secret," but it is certain that
The narrative won the sympathy Of many
Republicans who have before been in
clined against him, and considerably i'm
proved his prospects in the fight In the
Robertson case against Garfield But as
his speech, which was singularly pow
erful one, is described. he described his
first visit to Mentor. accompanying Gen.
Grant, his understanding there, and more
particularly the long conference which
he had at Mentor on his visit there. after
tho election, in December. He stated
with great emphasis that Con. Garfield
had made pledges to him for the
control of New York patronage,
read two letters he received from Gen.
Garfield during the campaign urging
him to take part in it. The concluding
portion of one of these letters is the one
upon which Senator Conkling relies 10
sustain his statements that the president
in effect placed the patronage OF the
greater portion of New York at his dis
posal. The passage in the letter urging
Conkling to participate in the campaign
stated that if he did so he should receive
verv different treatment from that which
he had received under the Hayes admin
istratior He also accused the president
outright of wing in respect to the ia
mons ..Snndsv Conference" at the White
Honse
Mr. Platt sustained Conkling In every
thing that he said. particularly as to the
pledges alleged to have been given.
The Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Herald, which is now Conkling's
organ, details something of the same story at
length. And it makes some important add
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

JUDGE SpIER Of New York, has placed
one block in the way of the telegraph con-
solidation rascality by continuing the in
junction previously granted against the is
sue of $15, 900, 900 of new ''watered" cap
ital by the Western Union. He takes the
broad and logical ground that corporation
has no right to tax the public on capital
which represents nothing of value received,
Unfortunately there is little doubt that the
higher courts will override the injunction
and clear the way again for Gould & Co.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

''THE nomination of English for the
vice-presidency," SAYS Gov. Hendricks in
an interview, "was not felicitous one.
1t created no enthusiasm. There was moth
ing in common between him and the great
mass of people. Why, he didn't seem to
know how to conduct himself after his
nomination. During the campaign hun
dreds of gentlemen visited Indianapolis
who were entitled to little courtesies at his
hands. What, TO a man of his means,
would have been the expenditure of $1,000
or $4,000 for the entertainment of guests
And yet he entertained nobody, not even
to extend the usual courtesies to those who
called upon him.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

GARFIELD is mad clear through" The
Senators who have called on him this
week have been distinctly told that there
was nohalf way plaeefor them they must
range themselves either on his side OF
Conkling's for ahot fight, and he mean
to use all the power of his position te
win. In other words unless they sus'
tain him he gives them to understand
that they must first come to him for ia
vors in the dealing cut of offices. A dig
nified position for president to take.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

THK independent movement in Missis
sippi promises to amount to something
Some 60 prominent men, all but about hal
dozen of whom formerly acted with tho
Democrats, recently attended an anti'bour
bon conference. They hope TO take some
20. 900 white voters with them and will
the colored vote TO carry the state for eN'
tiov. Alcorn, a clean and conservative Re
publican. their candidate for governor.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

The conditions on which the nihilists are
willing TO cease the agitating were commu-
nicaied to the Russian Gar by delegate
of the revolutionary committee day or
two ago. The Gar listened TO all the mes
senger had to say, and then had him ar
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

The Chinese treaty ratified last week by
the United States Senate, does not entirely
check Chinese immigration. 1t simply
gives our government the power to regulate,
limit or suspend the incoming of Chinese
laborers, but not to prohibit II altogether.
The government may apply this power
whenever the good order or the interests of
the country are endangered, or are likely 10
be endangered, by that immigration. The
power is to be applied only in the case of
iaborers, not in that of merchants or Other
classes of Chinese subjects.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

Nix. CoNKLING, SO it seems. did not
enter The campaign until he was person
ally appealed to by Mr.. Garfield and
pledges made for his support. Anybody
but Conkling would blush to acknowl'
edge such state of things. but he seems
TO consider it a very proper kind OF
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
A Grave Matter For Mr.. Hayes.


The republican members of the con-
gressional committee of inquiry into the
star routes in 1880, feeling that the ex-
posture would prove grave scandal upon
the party unless prompt measures were
taken agains. Brady, some ofthem went
to President Hayes and laid the case fully
before him, assuring him that it was es-
sentially bad and corrupt, and that his
administration and the party would GER
tainly suffer unless he dismissed Brady.
Mr.. Hayes merely listened and said he
would give the matter attention, which
was his stereotyped expression. As is
well known he did nothing whatever,
and now the disgrace of the present ex-
posures is properly his.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

The Boston Post narrates an aggravated
case of murder in Louisiana, in which a
Democratic politician, named Ransom shot
down an unoffending Republican, named
Bullock. and killed him. But in a post
script it correcis some eros m the inst ac-
count. Ii seems, by these corrections, that
the muri,r occurred in Illinois, that the
murderer was Republican politician, and
the victim a Democrsi-
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

SENATOR DAVIS and others have spoken
very impressively of the ''eternal prlnci-
ples" at stake in the contest in the Senate !;
but. now that the deadlock is broken, Mr.
Conkhng confesses that he promoted it not
to secure the ''eterual principles" Ringing
on Gorham and Riddleberger, but the
"eternal principle with HIM of having his
own Way in New York.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

MASSACHUSETTS, voters who have seen
very little to be pleased with in their pres
ent Legislature, are getting ugly over the
proposed infliction of an extra session. the
only excuse that can be made for it is to
pass upon the revision of the statutes. But
committee Of experts have been through
the work, and any further tinkering il
pretty sure to be bungling and damaging.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

J.B. D. CoGswELL, ex-president Of
the Massachusetts Senate, has just been
removed from the receivership of the
Sandwich savings bank because he is
defaulter for $4,000. He is fair speci-
men of the men whom the ''spoils" OF
POLITICS have brought to the surface for
thu mat faw years.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

Saturday was all that could be asked.
but for some reason the shooting for
the medal, At Oak Grove Range, was
very poor. Howe taking the medal with
string of As. Considering the present
standing Of the Club this 10 strangely
poor record. But In the practice shoot.
ing later, some remarkably good strings
were made. Cobb leading off with 48,
which IL the best ever made at of hand
In Brattleboro. and which WAS rarely
ever excelled by professionals. Append
ed Is the ecore:
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

Ed. WILCOX. an ex-Arkansas politician,
has brought suit against ex-senator Dave:
for his services in circulating petitions and
doing dirty work generally in the ''expedii-
ing Of the Star routes A similar suit has
also been brought in Oregon.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

In was for doing just about what Gar
field is trying now, that impeachment was
attempted against Andy johnson. lie
Thought the constitution conferred the ap-
pointing power upon the President. The
Renublican party denied it then.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

Conkling prefering war. Garfield pro-
poses to give him war all along the
line. not in the matter of the Collector
ship only, but in all the other nomina-
lions as we'll. The night shall be filled
with music!
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
NEW ENGLANDNEWS.
Vermont.

Louis Burgoyne, Second Advent
preacher. was arrested Saturday on
charge Of adultery with the daughter of
man with whom he was staying during
n revival at Walden.
Two children at Beebe Plain, aged a
and respectively, were recently given
revolver to play with. OF course 1t
was thought to he unloaded. and Of
course it went of, killing the younger
child, little girl, almost instantly.
Webster Whitehall, the man who poi
soned his child in Groton, has run away.
A warrant for bis arrest has been in the
hands Of the officer for about week.
and he has been trying to make the ar
rest. but the criminal Is still at large,
probably lurking around Peacham and
the north part of Groton. The neigh
borhood has been carefully watched
every night since the warrant was issued.
Cattle in Stockbridge have been poi
soned by eating hay cut near potato
field where dry paris green had been
used.
The prosecution of DR.. M. E. Smith
of Hyde Park, for a. ortiOn and man
slaughter stopped suddenly Wednesday.
the court not admitting tue testimony OF
Flora Heath, made to her mother on the
day of her death, on the ground that
she was not then apprehensive of death.
Orris Ballard of Georgia hung him
self Wednesday.
A man in Holland has just had a pea
taken from one of his ears tn 1t had been
there at least five years.
A Morrisville lamb was born with its
heart on the outside of his breast, and
lived several hours.
A French woman, bound for Canada,
gave birth to a child on the cars near
Essex Monday. 1t lived but a short
tip,a
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13
MURDER WILL OUT.

The missing skull of Lizzie Lowell.
who was supposed to have been muir
dered by her husband about ten years
ago, has at last been found. Friday af-
ternoon Il workman named Moses Day,
while building a fence for Edwin Wake
field, on his farm near the Switzerland
road, accidentally came across what he
supposed to be rock. 1t being nearly
covered with leaves he gave it kick and
found it to be the skull of human be-
ing. Examination proved it to be that
of a young lady, as it was free from ossi-
fication. The atlas, the top bone of the
vertebre, which connects the body to
the skull was also found in the same
spot, This was the missing bone wanted
at the time of the trial
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

A PAPER that favors prohibition says
that Temperance prosecutions drag be-
cause the fees have been cut down, In
other words the opportunity for rob-
hing thesState treasury is lessened.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

I have been driven many times to my
knees b. the overwhelming conviction
that I had nowhere else 20 go. My own
wisdom. and that Of all shout me. seem
ed insufficient for that dAy.-Asrahanl
Linooln.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

THE latest is that it was just 1926, 600
which the Brady ring sent to Indiana in the
dark DAYS of the Republican campaign.
The managers wanted $50, 900.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

EDuuNDs AND DAVIS, anxious to join
the iamboree, are both back at Washington.
Both, ct is understood, will side with
Conkling in the fight agains, Garfield
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

The REFoRMER's circulation last week
NO editions for Windham and Bennington
Counties was 1900.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

REeioIpK is seemingly having an cpl
demic run in Europe. A plot to assassin
ate the King of Italy is said to have beer
inst discovered.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

Now that the worlds fair project at New
York has slumped through, Boston is seri'
ously agitating similar enterprise FOL
1885 or 1892.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-05-13

Iuesuay, Nv VernOh range There was
some mid range shooting with the fol-
lowing results. Howe makes the very
c-editable record at 4 and 5 hundred
yards of 80 out Of possible hundred
which has been beaten but once or
twice.