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Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

SHREWDNEss AND ABILITY.-Hop
Bitters so freely advertised in all the
papers, secular and religious, are hay
ing a large sale, and are supplanting all
other medicines. There is no denying
the virtues of the Hop plant, and the
proprietors of these Bitters have shown
great shrewdness and ability in com
pounding a BitterS, whose virtues are
so palpable to every ones observation
-Erdnliner and Chronicle.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
SHERMAN MORGAN, Jr

THE well-bred and natural trotter. will
i stand for mares this season as follows
Beginning March 7th at his home in St. Jones'
Neck, he will remain there on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday; and at John Down
hams residence, near Dover, on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of the same week. The
next week beginning March l4th. he will be
at Alex. MaXwellS Hotel, MiddlctOwn, on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day; and at Peter p. Collins Hotel, Smyrna,
on Friday and Saturday OF the same week.
The next week, beginning March 81, he will
be at home three days and at Downham's s
three days, and the following week at Mid
dletown and smyrna, and so continue during
the season.
SHERMAN MORGAN, JR, was sired by old
Sherman Morgan, grandsire of John Morgan;
his dam was Messenger, sired by Governor
Bowie Stonewall of Baltimore; all noted for
speed. SHERMAN MORGAN, JR., is Il beau
tiful bay, all black points, stands full four
teen and a-half hands high, and will weigh
about one thousand pounds.
SHERMAN MORGAN, JR., has record of
2.29, the best efany stallion that ever stood in
Delaware.
TERMS Single Service, 1890 cash; for
Spring Chance $500, to be paid at the end of
the Season to Insure, $500, to be paid on
the End day of january, 1882. Accidents and
escapes at owners risk.
JOHN b. WHARTON, O,Cner,
feb256t Dover Del.
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NOTICE

All persons having claims against the estate
Of the deceased must present the same, duly
attested. TO the Administrator, on or before
the eleventh day OF January. \. ID. 1882. or
abide the act of Assembly in such case made
and provided.
jan2l-2m. Administrator.
Address. McDonough, Del.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

The latest man who has been made
happy through the use Of this valuable
liniment is Mr. James A. Conlan, Ii
brarian of the Union Catholic Library
of this city. The following is Mr.. Con-
lan's Endorsement
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

M79 A WEEK. sl2 day at home easily
. y made. Costly outfit free. Address TRuH
& Co.. Augusta. Maine.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18
EGIsTER's ORDER

II REGISTERS OFFICE,
NEW CASTLE COUNTY. DEL.
January 4th, 1881.
Upon the application of Charles A KnOtts
and David A. Knots. Administrators of Will
liam Knots. late of st. Georges Hundred, in
said county, deceased, it is ordered and di-
rected by the Register that the Administra-
tors aforesaid give notice of granting of Let
tiers of Administration upon the estate of the
deceased, with the date of granting thereof,
by causing advertisements to be posted with
in forty days from the date of such Letters in
six of the most public places of the county OF
New Castle requiring all persons having de-
mands against the estate to present the same,
or abide by an Act of Assembly in such case
made isgPd provided; aid also cause the same
to be inserted within the same period in the
MIDDLETowS TRANSCRIPT, a newspaper pub
lished in Middletown, and to be continued
therein two months.
Given under the hand and Seal of Office of
the Register aforesaid at New Castle, in New
Castle county aforesaid, the day and year
above written. 5. G. BIGGS, Register.
Middletown transcript., 1881-03-18

A. s. ABELL & CO., Pub,
SUN IRON BUILDING.
Baltimore. Nd
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Veterans Reunion.

The state veterans reunion held at St Adams
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week
might have been expected, a nat failure Al no
time were there TWO hundred veterans on the
ground most oil tue time aoont haii that NUMBER
and at the closing campfire about twenty-five
Inc reasons were many ana obvious, chief oil
which was the short and insufficient notice given
lhose whose duty 1t was to take the initial steps
didnt take them until the newspapers prodded
then' and when they at last did move 1t was
with Slow hoobling and indecisive steps. Yet 1t
must be said that the interest taken in these gath
erngs has been gradually declining since the first
grand reunion. This ought not to be- and need
not 1t Is not so in other New England states,
and there is nothing exceptional about Vermont
to account for it. 1t was evident at the last one
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
by the Governor.

In this solemn hour, when the life Of the hon
ored chief magistrate OF this republic hangs
trembling between time and eternity, 1t seems
fitting that the people of every state should re-
member In whose hands are nations and rulers
and the lives of men, and turn to God and ask
for that help and comfort which we cannot re-
ceiye at human hands. Therefore, and in com
pliance with the frequently expressed wishes OF
the people, and my own deep sense oil the pro-
priety and necessity of so doing, hereby appoint
THURSDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN
SLANT. between the hours of ten in the forenoon
and twelve at noon, as a time for humiliation and
prayer by the people of this state for the recovery
Of President Garfield from the wound he received
at the hand of the assassin, and from which he
has suffered so many weeks of agony OF body,
and the nation has been SO long in painful sus-
pense During these hours earnestly recommend
that all people, RETAINING from their usual labor
and business, assemble in the house Of God, and
in humility and contrition of spirit, unite in ac-
acknowledgement Of their sins and those OF the ma
ton, and beseech the mercy of Almighty God in
this hour OF the nations affection and threatened
loss and in sincere prayer ask that our beloved
president may be restored to his stricken wife and
children and to the performance OF his public du-
ties, with measure of health and strength, and
that the country be relieved from its burden Of
anxiety and sorrow. ROSWELL FARNHAN.
Bradford, Vermont, September 4, 1881.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

New York SENAToRsHIrs.-Senat
Pugh of Alabama (democraD said to cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
last Saturday; al do not for moment
believe that Senator-elect Miller of New
York will be allowed to take his seat until
the circumstances of his election are investi-
gated by the senate. The charges of bribery
made before Depew withdrew from the can
vass in New York state do not appear to
affect Mr.. Miller's claim TO seat in the
senate. The question to be considered will
be as to the manner of his election; or, in
other words, as to whether majority of q
quorum of the legislature, or majority OF
the entire legislature, has the right to elect
Mr.. Miller was not elected by majority OF
the legislature. In the Kellogg case the
republicans claimed that majority of a
quorum of the legislature could elect, and
the democrats controverted that assumption
The question is just as important in the
case of New York as of Louisiana, and il
really hinges upon what the legislature of &
state, under the state constitution, really is.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

ing about half a million dollars annually on
its district schools. The system under which
this sum is frittered away practically le-
galizes incompetency in the teachers and in
efficiency in the schools, as any impartial and
well informed person will admit, and as was
conclusively shown at the late state teachers
meeting at Mortified. Under compact and
efficient system this sum would doubtless be
measurably sufficient to provide schools ap-
proximatng the German, and rivaling the
better schools of our own country in excel
lence. Vermonters, when they fully COM
prehend the situation of their schools, will
not cheerfully endure the present loose, in
efficient and Improbable system. They too
well like to get the full value of their money,
and when they are fully awake to the fact
that they are paying for poor schools the
aggregate price of good ones, they will sweep
the present imbecile system out of existence.
The extracts we have published from MIR.
Fuller's paper will help to form just es-
innate of what thoroughgoing educational
system should embrace and what results 1t
should produce, and in this view of the mat
ter we hope these extracts will be thoughtfully
read, carefully pondered, and lead the way
to educational reform in this state.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

The CRAMER CAsE.-The inquest in the
case of Jennie Cramer, found dead at New
Haven, Conn.,, results in verdict by the
jury that Jennie Il. Cramer came to her
death by poison and violence, and that James
Malley, Jr., of New Haven, Conn., is Grimm
ally responsible for her death. 1t is also
found that Walter +. Malley of New Haven,
Conn, and Blanche Douglass of New York
city are morally responsible for the same.
Besides the evidence, the jury had the state
ment of DR.. Prudden, who made the autopsy,
and Professor Chittenden's report DIR.
Prudden reported that there were no marks
of violence over the general surface of the
body. There were numerous small abrasions
and scratches over the face, and two irregular
wounds on the lower lip all of them prob
ably made after, or about the time of, death
The post norton examination did not reveal
the cause or manner of death. Professor
Chittenden reported that he had found ar
senic distributed in all parts of the body
and in such quantity as, under ordinary cir,
cumstances, would indicate probably fata
| dose.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

We complete in this paper the extracts
from Mr.. Fuller's paper entitled "The
Schools of Europe" A liberal amount of
space has been devoted to this subject for
the purpose of giving the facts collated
and set forth by Mr.. Fuller wider currency
than their presentation before the small
audience at Mortified would have given
them. The citizens of this state need
high standard of excellence in schools
placed in tangible form before them with
which to compare their own school system.
Doubtless many have been familiar
with the general features of the German
school system and the magnificent results it
produces, but the account Of an eye witness,
a citizen of the state, an intelligent and
entirely competent observer, may add much
TO the information OF even the best informed
and will also be like revelation to those
who believing in the superiority of every
thing American, have been hugging the
delusion that our public schools are the best
in the world. In point of fact, in compari-
son with the best in the world, the German,
the Vermont public schools as class are
the merest apologies for schools. For those
who are disposed to take a candid view of
this educational question, the extracts in
the last and the present issue of the WATCH
MAN will serve as food for thoughtful medi-
tation and if any, from apathy, prejudice
or selfshness, are not disposed to admit the
force of incontestible facts respecting our
public school system and the condition OF
the schools under it, conviction must be
brought home to them.
1t is not maintained that the German sys.
tenn is practicable here it may be, as it un
doubtedly is, impossible TO introduce it in
the United States and especially in Vermont
but the substantial results of the German
school system are attainable here. Thos'
results we need, must have, and the peopl
of Vermont, when they fully understand thi
matter, will not rest satisfied till changes il
their educational system are inaugurate'
which shall, in the course of time, insur
those results. The people have, for 80 long
have deluded themselves with the belief tina
the schools, as whole, are good and efficient
that it will be difficult to persuade ther
that the contrary is true. They pay thei
money for schools and send their children I
them TO be educated" but never intere,
themselves to know whether they are ge
ting their moneys value or not--a thin
they would never do in business transaction
OF even slight Importance. The state is pa
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
Unfaithful Listers.

Mr. Isaiah Dow, a respectable citizen of Hines
burgh, distinctly charges the listers Of that town,
in the Burlington Free Press, with having pur-
posely left out of the list items OF property re-
turned by the taxpayers in their inventories, The
penalty for such act ON the part of lister is
fine OF 500" and any taxpayer in such town, in
the name of the town. may sue and recover such
penalty for the benefit of such town" The Free
Press editorially says: "If Mr.. Dow's charges are
not true he has made himself liable to a suit for
SANDER aud the listers should invoke the law for
their own vindication and protection II they are
true the listers are liable, and ought to be pros
ecuted, both for perjury and for damages under
section IA Of the act Of 1880 to equaize taxation
1t would seem to be Mr.. BOWS duty, II he has ey-
dence to support his charge, to also bring suit for
the recovery Of the penalty. We have no means
Of knowing what the facts are In this case but II
Mr. BOWS statements are true-and the fact that
he is willing to publish them over his signature
affords fair presumption Of their truth, in the
absence Of any denial-he has done public ser
vice by calling attention To the matter, 1t il of
the utmost Importance that the new law should
start with full and fair observance, and 1t Is for
the interest OF every honest taxpayer and every
honest lister to have overy case Of gross and will
full violation Of the law put through"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

A TOUCHING LErTER.-Mrs. Garfield
wrote the presidents mother August 23, just
before the last relapse "Dear Mother -
Slowly, but very steadily, James is coming
up from this trouble with his stomach.
begin to wonder what can happen next, and
whether there is any lower note in the scale
for him to touch. But if there is ] shall
not despair, and you must not. His strong
constitution and superabundant vitality |
believe will carry him through. begin to
see how little knew of the troubles attend
ing such wound. 1t seemed to me that
when he got through the first week and then
the second so well it must be plain sailing.
/ can now understand why the surgeons
were never ready to say that the dangers
were all past. They would say that they
thought they were, etc. 1t has been a
strange, disappointing summer, but if we
all come through alive and well we will not
complain"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
The Irish Land League.

This organization by its relentless agita-
ton of the land abuses in Ireland has done
a great and decisive work in forcing the
English parliament to give the Irish tenants
the land bill. Its agitation of the land
question was right and legitimate, as just
and reasonable as the auti-slavery agitation
in this country. 1t has been guilty of overt
acts which admit of no justification, but
these were inseparable from the only eff ect-
i've agency for gaining the ear of England
to the demands of the Irish for relief and
protection from abuses that had become
intolerable. If the league under the leader
ship of Parnell or any other chieftain now
turns its efforts to defeat the benefcent
intentions of the author of the land bill, it
will forfeit all the sympathy it has justly
received in this country. Parnell and the
Irish leaders to merit American sympathy
must at least refrain from obstructing the
application of the provisions of the bill to
the state of things it was devised to remedy.
They should go further and use their inhu-
ence to secure fair trial for the law either
as against any prejudice of the Irish, or any
disposition of government officials to make it
a dead letter. In the latter event or in case
of the failure Of a fair trial of the law to
furnish the remedy for which it was de-
signed, the league would have legitimate
field of action in the renewal of agitation.
Dillon, co-laborer of Parnell is reported
to have frankly expressed his conviction
that the land act offers tenants such great
and tangible boons as cut the ground from
beneath the feet of the agitation which the
land league has been conducting. Dillon is
no agitator whose policy is dictated by the
necessity of raising American money, and
his estimate of the act must be accepted as
the real opinion of one of the bitterest
enemies of the British connection. If Par
nell again comes to this country, and it is
reported he is coming, to beg for funds to
carry on in Ireland what must now be
regarded as an incendiary agitation, it is to
be hoped that our sensible Irish-Amercans
will turn him a cold shoulder, and send him
home as moneyless as he came, with a
sharply enforced hint to use his abilities
and his influence in the future for the veal
instead of woe of Irishmen in Ireland.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

A FRAUD.-The Heraid's st. Petersburg
correspondent telegraphs "The Hartmann
who has visited you in America is fraud
The real Hartmann is known to have been
elsewhere throughout your country. This
has been affirmed to me in the most positive
manner by a high dignitary, whose name
you will easily guess He was formerly
ambassador at Constantinople, aud it was
rumored yesterday that Count Schouvaloff
was to replace him at his present post, while
himself was to be appointed minister of
foreign affairs. He has since contradicted
this report, aud as il is important, think it
right to repeat the contradiction. The
papers will however, most certainly publish
this news as true" The London Standards
despatch from Copenhagen says it is
| reported from st, Petersburg that Hart
mann, the nihilist, has offered TO turn
! inf rmer on condition of being amnestied
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

HARVEST Observation-Disclosures has again
oyertaken the British farmers. A London
despatch to the World says This is now
the third week Of this calamitous storm, and
all hope of half harvest has been aban-
doned Some authorities say the crop will
be less than that of 1879, and nearly all agree
that we shall be compelled to import as
much this year as we did then. The farm
ers' clubs in Norfolk and Suffolk report that
the cut grain is now worthless, and the
standing grain reduced to pulp. In the east
riding of Yorkshire and the south of Scot
land the stouks are in many places float
ing in the fields In Devonshire the de
struction is complete. In Cheshire ninety
five per cent Of the wheat has not been
housed and most of it is now worthless. In
Lincolnshire the fields are flooded and mil
dew is eating up the grain. In the midland
and southern counties the cut grain has
sprouted and grave fears are felt for the
root crops, which are literally under water.
At Darlington, in Durham, il is estimated
that the rainfall of the last eighteen hours
has been equal TO one hundred fifty tons per
acre. Oats and barley were mostly housed
in the south before the rains set in, but in
the midland and northern counties they art
almost destroyed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

The Boston Advertiser, after showing that
the national debt after October will be
s1,5S2,037, 300, with an annual interest
charge of Sol ,49S,O65, says: "During the
last fiscal year there was applied to the pay
ment of principal and interest of the public
debt sum Of one hundred eighty-fve mil
lion dollars. II we could assume that this
surplus would not be diminished, and were
to suppose that the debt would be reduced
by taking in the bonds in the order of their
maturity, the amount applicable to the pay
ment of principal during the coming year
would be one hundred twenty-four millions,
and at the end of it the capital would be
only LASS, 100000. The interest being re-
duced by the sum of four millions, one hun
dred twenty-eight millions would be avail
able for the principal the second year,
reducing the total at the end of it to thirteen
hundred thirty millions. For the third year
the interest would be but ffty-two and one
half millions, the amount applicable to prin-
cipal would be one hundred thirty-three mil
lions, and the remainder at the close OF that
year would eleven hundred nnety-seven mil
lions. In the same way the fourth year
would reduce the principal to ten hundred
sixty millions, and before one-half the fifth
year had expired-that is, about January,
1sS6-all the three and one-half per cents
would have been called in and paid, the cap
tal Of the bonded debt would be reduced to
one thousand millions, and the annual inter
est charge to about forty-one millions. AT
that point it would be necessary for the
government to 60 into the market and buy
up its bonds at high premium, there being
none to mature for five years. The adj
vantage of buying some of the long bonds
now, when the price is reasonable leaving
the three and one-half per cents to be drawn
upon whenever the other bonds are too high,
is obvious at glance"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

Miss ALICE TnToS, the second daughter OF
Theodore rilton, was married July ith at Stutt-
CART, Germany, to Mr., John Il. Gardin Of Charles
ton, South Carolina an attache OF one OF the
Stuttgart banks She had been studying art sew
eral years At Stuttgart, and exhibited at the last
Paris salon water color which was sold at a
handsome price. Mr. and Mrs. Gardin will re-
turn TO America in the fall with MIR. Tilton, and
will reside at Chicago,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

soME one has hoaxed the Bostonians with a
story that New York girl this summer has AS
tonshed her fellow boarders at n hotel in the
Calskills by pulling a tuning fork out of her
pocket and sounding it when she begins a CONVEX
saton in order to give her voice the proper pitch
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

IIuMoR IN rHE STOMACH Much of the dis
tress and sickness attributed To dyspepsia, chronic
diarrhml aud other causes is occasioned by humor
in the stomach Several cases, with all the char
acteristics OF these complaints, have been cured
Inv Heads Sarsaparllla. Other cures effected by
Ills n,ediciue are 81 wonderful that the simplest
statement Of them affords the best proof that il
combines rare curative agents and when once
used secures the confidence of the people.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07

wAnSra's Sale kidney and Liver Cure,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
SlEafrhnan Dc yonrraL.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1881.
A PROCLAMATION.

ERuss2 90 per year strictly in advance; or s2sO not
maid within three months.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-07
National Finances.

The public debt statement for the month
of August shows decrease Of the national
debt of over fourteen million dollars. 1t
also shows over five hundred seventy-eight
million of five and six per cent bonds con-
tinued at three and one-half per cent. The
entire Understanding debt, according to
this statement, is as follows:
Bonds al per cent continued at az per cent ssO55O 90
Bonds at per cent continued ....... iOoesia5O 90
Bonds at per cent not contlnued...... 25Oi9OO 10
Bonds at AZ per cent.....,,,,,,,,.. 25OOOO.OOO 90
Bonds at per cent. 7ss7O39OO 90
Reminding certificates ................. 6ia,9OO 90
Navy pension fund at per cent. ..... 100000 90
Total principal. 81 6O9 800 90