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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-12

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=, Rothwell, Taylor &. MARKETS. new safe
arrived yesterday and was placedin their
office f. 1~.7..s :. #.5@s ~. s&&.'t.@
Sheriff Rasicot's new residence in the
seastern part Of the village is nearly com
pieted. ~7 49, H.. ...=..
On Saturday the first cor load Of 1884
wheat came in oyer the Iittle Falls &
Dakota ~ = ' ~ f s3.- e. 'F> s'
Attorneys D. T. Calhoun and Oscar
Taylor Of st: Cloud were in town On
Monday. s.s s..ss# ~. IT,, III .=5
Miss Tene Dennis Of Sank Centre COM
menced teaching the. Gravelyille school
on Monday. 8. s Ill -
Dana Brown, compositor& employed
sinzthis office, has been quite sick during
the past week NJ ! F
ii A masquerade party was given at the
Royalton skating rink on Tuesday eve.
ming of this week. m T. i
Miss Sadie FULLER returned Saturday
evening from her visit to Chicago and
southern Michigan. =& z....5.
The Ladies Social and working club
will meet with Mrs. e.. G. Hill next
WednesdaV afterf2 con 80 HI 'fsa
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-12

'1r. ., \. Trace. an Old acquaintance
Of Me>*r*. Lindbergh s. Bills, has heen
booking owe! oar town for few days
and as lie is fAvorabiy Impressed he Will
soon .?ocat" here and commence The prat -
,tice 81 me licine
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

cd here from Tennessee, North Carolina, Indi-
ana, Novia Scotia, Prince Edwards Island and
all intermediate points.
II W Hubbard has been engaged to teach In
tho academy another year.
There has been several severe storms in this
vicinity accompanied with mnch tightening
and heavy thunder. Telephone poles near the
depot and other points we're struck by the light
cning. NJ d.
The creamery paid for the month OF May,
20 cents per hundred for milk.
Herbert + Hide, a notorious character, and
Eugene Randall, both lately of Walcott, both
charged with stealing two pairs OF cattle from
the enclosure OF Daniel Kimball, of Cabot, were
arrested at Craftsbury by Sheriffs Lanpher and
Drury, and lodged in jail to await a hearing.
1t appears that three pairs were taken, but one
was lett after being driven a short distance.
or the other four two were butchered and sold
out, one sold on foot to Butcher Rogers OF Nor
risvillc and one was hid in the woods, which
has been rcgained. A hearing was held at the
court house before Justice w O Stratt6n, of
Walcott, Tuesday the LIST inst. Il Il Barker
and u b Sawyer appearing for the state, J L
Lamson, OF Cabot, for the owners Of the cattle
and Brigham Il Mcfarland for the respondents.
A plea of not guilty was entered and an exam
nation waived in each case. Hyde's bail was
fixed at $1,000 and Randalrs at $500 in defanlt
OF which were rccommitted to jail.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

THE commission of five sent TO Havana from
Madrid have prepared their report regarding
the condition of Cuba and the question of SELL
ing it, and have submitted a copy of it to the
captain general. The latter naturally disap-
proves its conclusions, as, if they were followed
he would cease to he chief ruler of the island.
The report is signed by only three of The COM
missioners, the other two will make a minority
report, and all five viii leave for Spain on the
steamer which sails next week. Briefly sum
married it is understood that the majority of
the commission are OF opinion that the interests
of Spain demand that she should be relieved of
Cubs before an instruction shall succeed or
bankruptcy in the island should produce results
like those of 1s2l-lS25, when the Spanish
american colonies were wrenched from the
. country. The report refers to the Of
declaration recently made at Madrid. that
government would never sell Cuba, and
gests a plan which has been elaborated by
of the commissioner and the Spanish Min
ter at Washington. The latter is said TO have
declared that in view OF the recent fierce dec
laration made by Senior Canovas del Castillo to
the Cortes, there could he no more talk OF sell
ing tie island to the United States for $780,
10000 or any other sum.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

BLAINE's managers boast that money Is al
ready pouring into their campaign Golfers in un-
precedented quantities. OF course, Blaine is the
candidate of the Goulds and Vanderbilts, of the
great corpo' atlons, land grant railroads, pro-
tected monopolics, Wall street spectators and
jobbing rings, from which he has become a mil
llonairc on a salary Of $4,000 a year. There
never was a time when these great aggregations
Of illgotten wealth were SO interested in main
tanning themselves; there never before wasa
candidate presented to- the American people
whose whole career shows such close and con-
slant sympathy, such suspicious relations with
them as James G Blaine's. They are eager to
spend money by the millions to elect him.
They are fully prepared to make the campaign
the most corrupt and demoralizing ever wit
messed, to force the issue to a de:ision whether
this is to be a republic Or a piutocracy.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

In Is reported in Washington that Blainc's
nearest friends are In a jubilant condition over
some recent Information from New York. tits
reported that two great railway magnates Zone
Of whom Is a man whose name Is a synonym
for shrewdness and cunning) have each agreed
to furnish 100000 to the Blaine campaign
fund, and that other smaller capitalists have
offered their assistance in sums In tho same
proportion TO their wealth, until about a million
and a half dollars have been promised. The
reason given for this most unexpected liberali-
ty is that the two great capitalists are the main
proprletors Of lines of railway running through
Texas to the southwark, and II Mr. Blaine IS
elected his foreign policy will very much stimu-
late the business of these roads, both In freight
and passengers.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11


THE Secretary of War has has had great diff
ficulty in arranging the detail for the Swain
court martial. There is an ancient rule which,
like the common law, requires an officer to be
tried by his peers. This rule was intended to
protect officers from the ambition of those be-
low; but in Swaim's case there is no off GERS in
the line who can be promoted to his place in
case the vereict of the court should result in
his dismissal. There are not general officers
enough to compose the court, and so it is
largely made up of colonies of the line. 1t is
expected that Swain will raise every techni-
cality and will object to the organization of
the court, but old officers say that the objection
cannot be sustained. The reason that the trial
is deferred until the 18th of September is be-
cause several officers who are detailed fer the
court are engaged in duties which they cannot
complete until that time.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11
BURLINGTON. July Q.

ate AlJentlOn.
BURLINGTON, July 8.
The Troy Times correspondent in speaking of
the Vermont liquor law says it is far from prov
ing q success. In this city it Is claimed there are
annually issued fifty United States licenses for
the sale of liquors, and the sales are gener-
ally made openly unless it is announced that o
raid has been started, when the stock on hand
is Immediately sent to the hole, there to remain
until after the storm, when it is fished out and
peddled as before. One of the Sunny ways"
of doing business is as follows: The law al
lows a man to keep q little for his stomach's
sake, so the wholesale dealer goes to some of
his neighbors and asks that kegs of lager or ale
may be sent, in their names in this way he en-
lists a dozen or SO, and SO it is shipped: the
party to whom addressed never seeing it, of
course. When seized the court is obliged to
order it returned, as on the "face of it" it was
not ordered for sale, but just for family use.
The second district affords about all the po-
litical excitement for the state at present, and
the contest is to be an exceedingly hot one.
The name of William p Dillingham;. son of the
venerable Gov Paul Dillingham;, and brother-in-
law of the lamented Matt II Carpenter, is being
most strongly urged. Mr. Dillingham; was born
in Waterbury, December, 1913, and is now in
the very prime of manhood; has been prosecu-
ting officer for Washington county, member of
the legislature and also state senate, and on all
occasions has acquitted himself commercially,
He is a good lawyer, a fine speaker, modest and
unassuming, and has a host of friends, who,
should they crowd him, will make it extremely
sultry for the other candidates, and tfeir names
are legion. Two years ago Mr. Dillingham;
would have been elected lieutenant governorha had
he allowed his friends to use his name, and he
received quite a popular vote at the congression-
al election, although in no way a candidate. OF
course the state does not expect to fully replace
the brass buttons that have so long adorned the
national house of representatives, but | opine
the second district will send a bright, clear
man. The convention will be held at Montpe-
lier on the 23d.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

MIGUEL SUAREz, consul-general of Spain,
states officially that the statement purporting
to be a correct synopsis of the report OF the
majority of the five commissioners sent from
Spain to Havana is absolutely false. He de-
clares that Spain has no idea OF giving up Gu
ba, either to Germany or to any other power.
He says, further, that the commission is not
intrusted with the consideration of the advisa-
bility of a sale of the island, and that the state
ments have been given out for private and ma
licious ends. The Spanish minister in this city
says that the reports that are afoat of the pro-
posed sale or transfer of Cuba by the Spanish
government, are untruthful and absurd. He
has not heard, he says, of any commission from
Spain having visited Cuba recently, and thinks
if one were there its mission was simply to in
quire into the condition of Cuba, and whether
any reforms. are necessary.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

THE Democrats, to-day, are Entrusted with
the administration of three-fifths of the whole
number of states. For the second time since
the war they are in a majority of the national
house of representatives. The Democratic pol
icy, upon both occasions when they have been
in power in the house, has been one OF con-
servatism and economy. During the period OF
financial issues, the Democratic party suffered
TO a greater extent than the Republican from
the western craze for Reputation and imitation,
but upon nearly all the great financial measures
the best men of both parties were compelled TO
unite to save them. Since these issues were
measurably settled by the resumption of specie
payments, the Democratic party has laid itself
open TO criticism more by its timidity and con-
servatism than by the exhibition of any other
quality. In the greatest test of patriotism to
which the Democratic party has been subjected
since the war-that of peaceable submission to
the injustice of the electoral count of lSII-the
conduct of the party leaders will receive and
deserve the highest praise of history.-lSpring-
field Republican, Rep.
We presume most sensible readers have long
held to the conclusions above given, for they
are based on facts. The appearance Of such
views in a Republican journal Is proof that the
nomination of Blaine has freed the better prints
of that party from bondage to prejudice. Ger
tsinly the Democratic speakers, Kerr, Randall
and Carlisle compare more than fayorably
with Colfax, Blaine and Keller, the Republi-
can product in that Office since the war.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

DOUBT and uncertainty seem still to surround
the fate of Gordon in the Soudan. Report says
Khartoum has fallen, but the news is vague
and the first report has not been corroborated.
Still it is disquieting to Englishmen because the
capture of Berber was just as vaguely an
nounced. Yet it is strange that the new is
reported in letters sent direct to Cairo from
Khartonm, and is unknown in the Egyptian
~outposts, which are in direct communication
with the capital. There would he nothing sur
prising, however, if the news were true, for
when the world last had tidings Of Gordon he
had retreated within the strong walls of the
Catholic Mission, where, amid the date palms
and the orange trees, he could look out on the
Blue Nile and the desert and watch for the
cames of the English relieving force. His pa
thence may at any moment have given way.
Weary of ~inaction, impatient of holding back q
garrison from the forces with which they were
longing to fraternize, fearful lest the fate of the
Berber garrison should befall them, he may
have sent a flag of truce to the Mahdi and con-
ditionally surrendered the gates of the city.
Years have brought the philosophic mind to
UOTuOn. Ie Is III longer luc IlOtspuI VI olleI
days. 1t needs no mental effort to see him a
self-constituted prisoner in the Mahdi's camp,
while the garrison, whose safety was the object
of his mission, were swearing allegiance to the
pretender whose sanctity the great Mohamme-
dan College has at length acknowledged. In
deed, if Khartoum still r%esists, its ultimate fate
is certain, and then the critical moment will
have come for the outposts of Lower Egypt.
The Mudir of Dongola has already sent word
that he will hold out no longer. The other
posts on the direct line to Cairo, which are now
held by small forces of Egyptians under Eng
lish command, can easily be masked by the
Mahdi's lieutenants. Then the Prophet, ac-
knowledged by the Moslem world, may en-
deavor to throne himself at the capital. A new
Arab viii have arisen-an Arab backed by
religious fanaticism-and a sterner fight than
Tel-el-Kebir must be fought before he can be
nuf down
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

spent at Saratoga and tho gang arrived home
Saturday evening well pleased with the trip and
In good health, although considerably out of
"spirits." The countenance of the genial ed
itor Of the REFoRMER was sadly missed, and
the hope was expressed that he might yet over
come his excessive modesty and accept Of a
free pass.
The local Blaine and Logan club is as yet in
the dire uncertain future, "why this GOODNESS,
brethren? !" en- 49,
George Harvey has returned to his post as
assistant editor Of the Caledonian, and being
a rank uncompromising Democrat is pleasantly
situated and derives considerable satisfaction In
writing vigorous anti-Blainc editorials each
week. George finds tho position Of political
editor of an anti-Blaine paper a very pleasant
one, and undoubtedly relieves editor Stone OF
much mental strain.
The probabilities now are that Sheriff Sullo-
way the present incumbent of the Office will run
as an Independent candidate, and that he will
beat Smith the regular candidate Of the party,
out Of sight. This Is a good year for bolts, and
everyone shows a disposition to take advantage
of the opportunity.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

In speaking of Cleveland's strength the New
York World saws: ''He is certain to make a
good president-not brilliant atrl "rnagnetic,"
but repulsive to the rascals V re pleying
upon the government, and who List be driven
out of Washington. He is certain to make a
very bad president-for all the jobbers and cor
ruptionists and on-the-make p~artisans." The
great objection to Grover Cleveland is that he
has trodden on the corns of those whose ways
are dark, and whose tricks are vain. The New
Workers who have had no axe to grind have
upheld their reform governor. True, he vetoed
the ~fve-cent fare bill. Why !? Because it was
saddled with number of Objectionable features.
He.las done what he believed to be right, re-
CARELESS of the wishes of this or that clique or
ring. He is a clean man.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

THE Canadian annexation union, of which
Alexander c Walton is president and George S
Harrison of Washington is secretary. is prepar-
ing to hold a convention Aug 8 at Niagara
Falls. All the friends Of the project OF imme-
diately Tor sooner) annexing the dominion to
the United States are invited to be present, and
a general invitation is extended to the presl-
dent, members of congress, governors of states,
members of state legislatures, mayors and al
dermen of cities, and with all the rest the gov
ernor-general of the Canadian Dominion, who,
as the representative of the British Crown, is
supposed to be specially favorable to the
scheme.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

THERE is no doubt that q majority in this
country favors Democratic principles and the
Democratic party. Twenty-Five states have
Democratic governors andthirteen Republican ;
twenty-three have Democratic legislatures and
fifteen Republican; twenty-three have a Demo-
cratic majority Of their delegations in the house
of representatives, and fourteen Republican, one
state, Florida, being equally divided; twenty
three cast a De no cratic majority at the last
state. elections and fifteen Republican majorities.
According to the result Of these last state cleo
tions the result 1.-THE electoral college would
stand 253 Democratic to l48 Republicans.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11
Judge Royce's suit for Libel.


CHIEF JUSTICE RoYoE has at last accepted
the Richford Gazette's repeated challenges 70
sue 1t for libel for Its explicit and detailed charges
of gross immortality apd dishonor in private
life. 1t is't 0 be hoped that this suit will clear
up the scandal with which the air OF st Adams
has been surcharged for several years by CON-
pletcly verifying or disproving the stories which
have been circulating there, and which haye
gained tho credence of many good people, far
more than they ought to against any man who
is allowed to occupy Judge Royce's lofty posi-
ton .asal-s 49,
These stories came to the REroRMER during
the fight over Judge Royce's reelection In 1882,
as they doubtless did to the other papers IN the
| state which resisted the shameless work OF the
lobby in his behalf. We ignored them, first,
because all such tales are so easy to retail and
go difficult Of certain proof, and second because
we found ample grounds in public policy for OPP
posing the Judge without any search into pri-
yate character. 1t was a question of unfolding
the integrity of the tax law, Of resisting the
| fearful Generalization of the participation OF
great corporate interests, which have stakes OF
hundreds of thousands and even millions OF
dollars before the courts, in making and I'M
making Judges, The issuo, was whether q man
who was himself q s~yiolator of the most bene.
ffcennt and important law Of the state, should
continue to be the chief interpreter and ex-
FOUNDER of that law. Whether the man whom
the Smith railroad ring proclaimed through Its
lobby it wanted upon the bench was the man 1t
was safe to keep there. We fought hard and
unsparingly upon this ground, because we be-
lieved that upon such public considerations
alone the reelection Of Judge Royce would be a
4 dishonor ana humiliation to the state, a be-
dragging of the judiciary in the corruptess
mire of lobby politics, and before issues OF such
overwhelming importance, we had no need to
ask or care whether the judge kept one or a dozen
mistresses or any at all.
We regard it as unfortunate that these stories
of immortality in private relations have come in
to conplicate or obscure the graver ones in
public relations. Still the private character of
men who have such vast and precious interests
in their hands as Judge Royce are legitimate sub.
jects of public inquiry. If the charges are true,
the Gazette cannot be blamed formaking them,
and doubtless felt that 1t was performing an
important public duty. If they are false, Judge
Royce only does his PLAIN duty, alike to him.
self and his exalted position, in bringing his ac-
cusers into open court.
If he has been maligned in these matters it is a
cruel wrong to him, for which his faults or
shortcomings in public life offer no excuse. OF.
course we know nothing definite of the truth or
falsity of the charges, but We hope that the
trial will settle the question beyond the pos
sibility of reasonable doubt.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

THE formal presentation of the Bartholdi
statute of Liberty enlightening the world, by
the French government to the United States
took place in the Gauthier workshop at Paris
the Fourth. Mr. L P Morton, United States
Minister to France, was present and received the
statute in the name of his government. Prime
Minister Ferry sent a letter this afternoon stat
ing that he regretted the illness prevented him
from assisting at a scene of fraternity between
two great republics. In heart and soul he
would participate. M De Lesseps made a
speech. He said France under all governments
had always been a friend and ally of America.
America now realized that the Panama canal
was a work of universal interest. The statute
would forever pledge the bonds of unity be-
tween France and the great American people.
Mr. Morton, replying, thanked France in the
name of President Arthur and the American
people for the statute. He SAID he was charged
to assure Admiral De Lesseps, M Ferry and the
French nation that the American people re-
sponded with all their hearts to the sentiments
of friendship. The noble gift which that
friendship had dictated would render the graft
tude of the American people still more pro-
found and stronger. He hoped the statute
would remain for all time an emblem OF the
imperishable sympathies uniting both coun-
fries
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

AT a recent interview Prime Minister Ferry
told Ii Fong Pao, the Chinese minister, that he
held China directly responsible for the Lang
son affair, and that measures would be taken
to obtain prompt redress. He stated, however,
that action would be delayed until the arrival
Of the official reports. In accordance with his
declaration at this interview M Ferry has tele-
graphed to the French minister at Pekin in
s~tructing him to demand from China a war in
demnety of 100000 ,000f. He has also telegraph
ed to Admiral Courbet, ordering him to seize
the Fou Tchou arsenal as a guarantee for the
payment of the indemnity. at, @
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-07-11

on Thursday by which the Fiiz John Porter
bin failedt to pass over the presidents veto post
pones the questions involved to the fOrty-ninth
congress and e new executive administration
that is to say, for two years, probably, il not
longer. 1t is not easy TO see how the c%onstitu-
tiunal objections to the bin that were raised by
the president can be met. Nevertheless, all the
Democrats present IN both branches of congress
and a number of Republicans voted To pass il,
Notwithstanding the veto.