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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

FROM the summary statement of the
imports and exports of the United States,
just published by the bureau of statistics,
it appears that the total value of the mer-
chandise imported for the twelve months
ended June 80, 1883, was 1928, 1S0,914.
Of this sum, $515,676, 1876 was dutiable
and s207 ,504,71S was free of duty. The
value of dutiable merchandise was more
than a million and half dollars greater
than for the preceding annual period, but
the imports free of duty were about three
million dollars less, so that there has been
falling off in the total value of imports
of about million and half dollars as
compared with 1882. The total value of
exports of domestic merchandise for the
year ended June 80, 1888, was 1904, $685.
632; for the previous annual period,
1888, 239, 732-showing gain in the value
of exports of nearly $71 100000. 1t ap.
pears also that the total value of the ex.
ports of domestic merchandise exceed the
value of the imports by more than $751;.
100000. Thus do the vital interests of
the country languish under republican ad.
ministration. "Turn the rascals out"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

THE Boston Advertiser speaks with
commentator of the working of the Yer
mont listing law, and says: There is
always an objection to any scheme which
compels the citizens to make oath to their
property and then have the schedule ex.
posed for the inspection of the idle and
curious. Much was said in Vermont
against this inquisitorial feature of the
law. But it is worthy of notice that after
a fair trial the objections have died away,
and the DIRECTORS have generally consented
to let the law take its course. The lash
of popular disapproval has done its work,
and it is now regarded in Vermont as
good form to pay ones taxes" The
advertiser is in error as to the exposing
of the schedules L" for the inspection of the
idle and curious" These are a matter of
strict confidence between the taxpayer
and the listers and are carefully kept from
public inspection. Only in certain cases,
for legal or other proceedings, can the
privacy of the property schedules be III
vaded and then only by certain specified
persons.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

inherent reasonableness of such q step at
this time, will be enabled to Justify his
recommendation by facts educed from
the recent strike and from the records of
his predecessors in Office as far back as
the democratic administration of Polk, in
the days of the infancy of the telegraph.
Postmaster General Cave johnson, of
Folks cabinet, and Attorney General
Reverdy johnson, of the next, it is said,
are found on record in favor of the right
and the expediency of governmental regu-
lation and control of interstate telegraphic
traffic. Among later postal officials, Cres-
well of Grants and Howe of the present
administration, have strongly espoused
the cause of government telegraph, and
the project has the high sanction of Ed
munds, among other distinguished men,
bers of congress. The New York Euening
Post thus succinctly sets forth some of the
reasons why government should take the
telegraph into its own hands "There is
really no argument in favor of govern
ment post-office which is not just as ap.
plicable to government telegraph, except
the fact that the government is already in
possession of monopoly of the one, while
the other is already carried on after a
fashion by commercial companies. The
strongest arguments in favor of govern
ment post-office are that the people have
some control over its management, and
that the first consideration of its mana
gers is the public convenience. Another
and hardly less powerful one is that its
arrangements can at any time be changed
by legislation without coming into collis-
ion with private rights, or giving anybody
claim to compensation. These are all
stronger, too, in America than in any
other country in the world. Probably
nothing has been more effective as civ
ilizing and consolidating agency than the
way in which the American post-office
has followed the settlers into the western
wilderness, and kept every back-woodsman
aud squatter within easy reach of the
world he had left behind him. No other
post-office has played the same part for
the community which it served. The
telegraph has now come to play the part
as a political and commercial agency
which the post-ofiice played at the begin
ming of the century. Business and politics
are both managed on telegraphic, and
no longer on an epistolary basis. Nearly
everything in life which is done in conse-
quence of news from other places-a
phrase which covers large proportion of
our industrial and political activity-is
done in consequence of telegraphic news.
Letters amplify and explain, but the de.
termining and essential facts which gov.
ern large part of the trade, commerce
and industry of the world, come over the
wires, and not through the post-office
Consequently it has now become all but 8
necessity that the telegraph should &c
where it will serve the popular con
venience, and not simply where it viii
pay expenses or make profits; and thithel
no commercial company will ever carry it
or can be expected to carry it."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05
Total tax for six months. .

The Passumpsic, the Grand Trunk, the
Delaware & Hudson and the Southeast
ern, with the "systems of roads which
they operate, have made no report, and
concerning their purpose nothing is def.
nitely known. The Bennington county
savings bank paid last year tax of
$410.54, and the aggregate revenue from
the savings institutions for the first semi
annual period will be nearly $4l 900, and
probably not less than $4,000 for the
year. The Western Union telegraph
company was unable to complete its re-
port in season. 1t has arranged to pay
the tax as soon as the amount can be
ascertained. AS the sum paid by that
company is the chief item in the tax on
telegraph companies, the revenue derived
from this source cannot now be deter
mined. The tax on the transportation
companies, small at the best, will be
larger for the next than for the past six
months. But the unknown quantities In
this problem of corporate taxation are the
railways and the insurance companies.
The returns from the latter are not due
till February, and the returns from the
railways are 80 incomplete as to be indie
cisive. OF those who have made no TO-
turns, the greatest Importance attaches to
the Passumpsic. The amount of revenue
derivable from the other defaulting roads,
on the business done in Vermont, cannot
be very great. According to the railway
commissioners last report, the average
gross earnings per mile of the Passumpsic
for 1882 was 5000. The total length of
the main line and branches was one hun
dred and sixty.eigbt miles, of which thir.
ty-seven miles was in Canada. What
would be the average gross earning per
mile for the one hundred and thirty-one
miles of road in Vermont can only be
"guessed at" If "shrewd guess {"
should make it such sum that with the
scale of rates fixed by the revenue law the
tax on this road should be $4,000 an
nually, some clue might be had both to
the amount of revenue the railway tax
will raise and also to the reason why the
Passumpsic company does not make its
return to the tax commissioner. As
things now stand, the returns are entirely
indecisive of the sum the revenue law will
raise. Definite knowledge will be attain
able only after the February returns are
made. The amount covered by the above
statement is $64, 700. Some of this money
has been paid by trust companies under
protest, and one of the railway companies
also protests that it is not legally obliged
to pay the tax for which it has RENTED,
by reason of an unexpired period of ex-
emption under an act Of former legisla-
ture. Some of the more recent roads,
like the Burlington & Lamoille, make no
returns, claiming exemption under the
act of 1875. The practical workings of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05
lehman & STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER s. 1888

the revenue law are really undeveloped,
yet 1t is safe to say that, if it does not
yield the full amount some of its enthusi-
astic friends estimated, it will yield
enough to tighten very materially the
taxes paid by the people. The expert
ment thus begun will be firmly wrought
out in a spirit of equity and fairness
against any obstructive efforts from any
quarter till it becomes an assured fact
and will yield annually an accurately cal
culable amount of revenue honestly due.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05
matters as to the valuation in some of the
towns of the state:

These statistics are of interest chiefly
for the purpose of comparisons, and as in
dicatipg the degree of efficiency and hon
esty with which the listing law is obeyed
by listers and property-owners. Should a
state tax be assessed, under existing laws
the basis will be population and not prop
erty. The state treasurer will apportion
such tax among the cities and towns &C.
cording to the number of inhabitants as
determined by the last census.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

THE recent election in France resulted
in an overwhelming republican victory.
The result is as reassuriug to those who
have watched with hope and anxiety the
career of the new republic as it is disap-
pointing to those who have looked to
see France come again under effete kingly
or emperor rule. For the perpetuity of
the French republic and its advancement
in the principles and practices of real
liberty the friends of freedom everywhere
will devoutly pray.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05
The CORPORATION Tax.

The revenue law passed at the last SEES.
sion of the legislature required all the
corporations. excepting insurance com.
panies, to make their returns seminar
nually in the months of August and Feb.
ruary. The time within which the returns
are required to be made for the first semi
annual period expired Friday last, August
3lst. The following returns have been
made to the tax commissioner
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

UNEASY lies the head that wears the DEM
ocratic nomination in Ohio. Judge Hoadly,
harassed by the perplexities in which his
candidacy for the governorship had in
volved him, was inclined to make a short
cut out of them, not exactly with ga
bare bodkip," but by withdrawing from
the ticket. Some of the old liners, Of.
Tended by his talk about "a new democ-
racy" and his tendency to injudicious
speech, felt an inclination to compel his
withdrawal. The sage of Greystone, it is
said, was invoked and truce patched
up. A deserter from the republican ranks,
to win the support of Mclean, the bitter
enemy of Pendleton, he deserts the latter
and justly creates new enmities. The
complications in the democratic camp are
further increased by the quarrel in Ham
ilton county. Indignant at the disgrace.
full and high-handed manner in which
Mclean secured the nomin ation of his
ticket, the men of the party representing
what little conscience it has, have called
another convention and will put another
ticket in the field. At this early day the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05
..... slO4,Sas.sn sas,5se,alO sl.esO.ss7 s.

Totals. slOi54s6H sis,5S6,3O 81 .6sO.227 81
The total valuation of real and personal
estate is 1854, 1876 9S4. To one per cent of
this sum add $l51 $40 for 1866 polls at
80 each, deduct $2,442 for exemptions,
and the total grand list of the state is
found to be 81 800, 227 81. The appraisal
of real estate for 1882 was $lO6,372 S97,
or 81, S23,223 more than for 1888; the
personal estate for 1882 was SAC, 800 735,
or 81, 695, 575 less than for lSS3-showing
an aggregate gain for 1883 of 1919 1852 ;
the aggregate grand list for 1882 was
$l,677, $50 32-a gain for 1883 of sl2,-
s97 so. An inspection of the list in de.
tail discloses the following interesting
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

d,feat of Hoadly seems to be an assured
fact, the only question being the size of
the majority under which he will be
buried. Fifty thousand dollars was " too
much" Judge Hoadly thought. to pay for
his nomination. There would be retribu-
tive justice in majority of fifty thou
sand votes against him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN 1T is re-
corded in New York paper as a matter
of national Importance that Samuel j.
Tilden the other day stepped into row.
boat on the Hudson river without assis-
tance.' When this able statesman was,
for all his election, rowed up Salt river in
ls76,-he was assisted by the entire re-
publican party"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

THE particulars of the appalling devas-
tation of Java by earthquakes and tidal
waves are given in another column. The
disaster rivals the most noted calamities
by volcanic eruption in these or earlier
times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05
Grand List for 1888.

The following table gives the valuation
of real estate and personal property for
the current year, and the grand list, in
Guiding polls, of the state by counties
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05

THE Argus says that THE WATCHMAN
"comes out for an attorney general to help
the inspector of finance interpret the law"
and argues seriously and at some length
against the creation of such an office.
The Brattleboro Reformer catches ON to
the alleged suggestion as follows: " Sew
eral of our state exchanges, vigorously
led by the Montpelier Watchman, have
raised the old cry for an attorney general
of the state" But for the apparent seri-
BUSINESS of the strain in which these pa
pers discuss this matter. we should regard
the part they attribute to THE WATCH.
MAN either as feeble attempt to joke or
kind of "silly season " effort to raise an
"issue." By way of illustrating the d.
versity of the laws relating to trust COM
panies we remarked, in the issue of Au-
gust Odd, that can inspector of finance, to
know with precision what are the require
ments and prohibitions of the different
charters, needs an attorney general at his
elbow" 1t seems to us that our amiable
contemporaries are little previous or
slightly obtuse in committing us to a
measure 80 decisively on such insufficient
grounds. As to the merits or dement's of
the old cry for an attorney general" we
confess that we have no opinion, and have
never given the matter moments con.
sideration; but when THE WATCHMAN
comes out for or against the creation OF
such an Office, for which the Argus and
Reformer agree that there is no need, our
position will not be found in an obscure
sentence in an article on savings banks.
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19
Had for Jacob,

"iou say your wife il trying to get
divorce:' said the LAWYER.
"iaw. answered Hans Sprecksndcuch
And that she's bad womer?"
"iaw, dat is So"
And now YOU want to sue Jacob
Schneider for damages for alternating her
atfections:"
"Yaw.'
was she good WIFI"
No, she vas bad vonans. She runs
nit de poys."
ibid you love her very m,ch:"
No I'm peter mid0ut her"
We'll. II she was a bad woman, and YOU
ARE better without her, YOU are no. 'nucn
damaged II Jacob Schneider takes her OH
your hands,"
"faw, it looks Ike dot, amt it. May oe
its peter l don't saw nuttings about II.
Schneider"
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19

The Honolulu (Sandwich Islands) Press
says: No wise man disputes the necessity
of exclusion; but there Is another side to
leprosy--a humanitarian side-a sentimen.
tai side, if you please. Recently fifty un.
fortunates were sent to Kalawao. In years
they ranged from early childhood to ad.
vancing age. They were going forth in
melancholy files to lie in the dread limbo
Of death BY hours and inches. Around the
embarking place. on the beach just south
of the marine railway, were gathered about
a hundred natives, relatives and friends Of
the exiled. No lesser pen than Victor
Hugos, no feebler pencil than the dead
Dore's might draw that picture as 1t was.
To the rear the careless, contented city in
front, the Implying sea; o'erhead, the fair
clouds, doubly fair BY contrast; in the dis
lance, the aspiring peaks Of Waianac. aAame
with the glow Of sunset; and in the fore.
ground Of the scene a band Of wailing
rourners, face to face with a grief mere
keen than death. It is idle to urge that
the native race is mercurial, incapable OF
continued sorrow. The grief of those pa
rents and children, husbands and wives,
brothers and sisters, playmates and
friends, was as real as any grief ever is.
1t was not merely pathetic--it was the
very apotheosis Of woe. Then, If ever,
was occasion for telling sermon. Then,
ifever, the consultations OF revealed religion
would have been opportune.
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19
NOTICE or FINAL ENTRr
United STATES LAND OEr,cE
HELENA, MOSrAva NJ. No

UNITED STATES LAND OEr,cr
>, HELENA, MONTANA, May s, 1851. /
NOTICE is hereby given that thu folio" ;ru.r.,,,
make . nr has d notice Of hi. intention to
such nr"ot " II IN Support ct his claim, and tn !,
'" "m judi Of 'eaverheal county, at Dillon Y
~ ~ yh s, !" ,e a"1 n, ,ss va spsr
H., SEC s. Up 9, OF K,s ". and ,,:,,n ."e
o one 'nGx'nS as his witnesses To 7rnv. his "o" t.
rhomls rr.i ind eai'Ha,ion ci said lands. viz
T., NJ. I. ''''''''cS' heaSerhc,d coun.
tIol F. anr,~c,,~,
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19

NOTICE.-DISSOLUTI OF CO-PARr.
NERSHIP.
TUE firm heretofore existing under the name
an! style ct stcdd,rd, Son & Williamson. do
my business 1T BEAVER Canyon, Idaho, as ,nanufc.
tur.rs Of and dealers in Lumber is this d.y dissolved
Ivy mutual consent. Dawn Sronn.S"
D,..,> y. W. STOpDAkD,
Jaw" '"''e" - 1893. JAMES WILLIAMSON.
NOTICE.
N BUSINESS hsrstnfnre carried on by the firm of
~" "nasrs'x'c who will collect all debts due said
urn: IN" pay all debts owed Nv s,i.i firm. ~"'"
W. ID. STODDARp L. Sow
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19
TEACHERS EXAMINATION

"a verhsad C Sa'n'n'o ; Of the Teachers OF Rel.
-, I'm =, Dillon, on Saturday junr ID re, ~ns
h. "ras.:, ~ Il m: \" Teachers are .xns;. ., :,
r. t.i r,'; ana vii! p"o"de themselves Win ,'.
'''"' t.'iN CANNON,
Dillon. May IL. 1854. SUPP eon'. schools.
- (io-lD
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19
FENALE FREAKS.

Patti uses 6ooo different kinds Of per.
fame.
Vermont has two women acting as mail.
carriers.
Paris surgeons now make dimples at ,
Napoleon each.
A Maine lady cabled the news ofthe death
Of her cat to her husband in Europe.
A Quenemo young lady shot eighty.two
rabbits in month, knocking their eyes oat.
Nothing like being we'll up in arithmetic
A vassar College girl has gone into half
mourning for half brother.
Several ladies in New York society cor.
template the re.estAblishment Of the old
style calico ball for charitable occasions.
The Queen Of Italy has Neapolitan ply.
stefan, who sits at the royal table to prevent
her from eating unwholeso.,,e food.
A servant girl in Brooklyn always blesses
herself with the sign fthe cross before get.
ting up on chair to put up the clothes
line.
Four ladies, each over 20 years Of age
and residing within mile from each other,
in Gainesville, NY, are down sick with the
mumps.
The museum at Reading, England, con.
tains a,noung its curiosities bride former.
" used to stop the mouths Of scolding wo-
men in that town.
Alta wood.cut'ing contest in Mexican
county, Pa, few days ago, two women
won the first prize for cross.cut saving, the
contestants working in pairs.
A Piute princess has just married her
twentieth husband. A few enterprising
Piute princesses would soon exterminate
the male portion Of the tribe and save our
Government considerable money.
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19
what was Your Name In the st.&s..


We have queer way In the West
Wien fellow his story relates;
We make this peculiar request:
Say: What was your name in the States:
CHORCs.
Oh! what was your name in the St,1c..
Was it Thompson, or Johnson or Bates:
Did you Mir0er your wife
And then fce for your life:
Oh! what was your name In the Statcss
OF course, sir, we all understand,
You say you are William q. Hates,
FROM New Hampshire you came overland.
But-what was your name In the Stat, $:
EMo.-Oh! what was your name, etc.
Your features are handsome It's true,
With luck you are blessed by the Fates.
Your clothing Is costly and new,
But-yvhat was your name In the States:
Cuo.-Oh! what was your name, etc.
You may be an angel, that's 30,
lust slipped through the Heavenly gates,
But st,ll we are anxious to know
lust what was your name In the States.
CHo. oh! what wis your name, etc.
hope no ono will doubt that sign my name lust
a. would were in the States.-SSasIev Il ood.
in Dtx1'er xsEfS-Ote0S.
The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-05-19

line TRIBUNE is on sale att ,Ovs
The daily gazette., 1883-11-15
LOCAL LACONIUS,

Smyth Post, G. A. R., will attend the
camp fire of DUPONT Post this evening
Heald q Co., yesterday contributed s.
toward the relief Of the Shenandoah suffer-
ers.
Martha Wilbur, colored woman was
yesterday sent to the insane department OF
the Almshouse.
Harmony Council, U. +, A., will give a
basket party in the McClary building on
Saturday evening.
E. Fl. Rumfori s. Brother, yesterday
morning took possession OF their new store
at No. 400 Market street.
A low stone coping has been substituted
for the high iron railing that has heretofore
surrounded the yard of Delaware Avenue
Baptist Church.
Samuel II. Dixon, after suffering with
paralysis for three years, died at his home
in BIHndywine hundred on Tuesday last
He was rs years old.
Register Blggs yesterday granted letters
of administration 10 j. j. McMullen on the
estate of Henry Thompson, the dwarf boot
black, late OF this city.
Thomas Ford bought the fast brown mare
Calico, yesterday, at the sale of William Y.
Warner, and shortly aiterward sold her to
John T, West at an advance of 800.
Work on the Market street bridge has
been stopped temporarily for few days.
The National Dredging Company will re-
move the remainder of the centre pier,
about eight or nine feet that still remains
embedded in the mud.
A party of about so masqueraders as
sembled at Mrs. Mitchell's residence, on
Third street, near Madison, last evening
and proceeded to house ON Fourth street,
near Pine, where they made things interest.
ing and had a lively time.
Extensive preparations are being made by
Admiral 8. +. DUPONT Post, No. 2, G. A.
R., for its open camp fire tomorrow night
and to extend frate' nal reception to Gen.
eral Thomas A. Smith, Post No. !, which
will visit 1t on that occasion.
Two houses were sold at public sale at
the meeting Of the Diamond State Loan As
sociation last evening. One at 4O3 East
Fifth street was sold to John Green, for
$3.50 and No. 426 Heald street was pur-
chased by W. T. Robinson for $40.
The supreme grand officers Of the Knights
of the Golden Eagle from Philadelphia,
have arranged to institute st. Johns Castle,
No. 4, in this city this evening. Delegations
from Philadelphia, Camden and Baltimore,
and Castles l, . and . Of this city are CT.
l peetsd to be present.