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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-19

THE county canvass in New York
was completed Saturday. An unofficial
footing of the revised returns, which,
however, has all the credibility that
would attach to the canvass of the state
board at Albany, gives Cleveland plu-
rality of ,147 in New York. Adding,
therefore, the Empire states thirty-six
electoral votes to that of the other
democratic states and giving Cleveland
and Hendricks grand total of two hun
dred nineteen electoral votes to one
hundred eighty-two for Blaine and Lo-
gan, Governor Cleveland is duly elected
president for the next four years. He
is elected president of the whole coun-
try, and patriotism rising above parti-
sanship, or natural and honest party
preference, will sustain him in so far
as he honestly, impartially and eff
GENTLY administers the government.
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payers. We can tell him of school
districts in which the "voters have an
idea that they know about as well what
they need for schools as any school COM
missioner" In those districts Just so
few weeks of school as will entitle them
to the "public money are voted; some
simpering school girl or callow youth
son or daughter, niece or nephew,
perhaps, of the committee--is hired
to teach " at wages that will not ex-
coed the districts share of the public
school money and no school tax is as
sessed. This is done year after year in
some districts whose voters know so
well about what they need" But for
" ability as financiers " the voters of
district of which we were told recently
|" take the cake" The "public money"
if we remember correctly, was forty
four dollars; the committee contracted
for twenty weeks of school at twenty
four dollars, giving the voters divi-
dend in the shape of a rebate of twenty
dollarsl Under the " financieringn of
such committeeman, who can doubt
that the state will yet {" rise to untold
heights of greatness -? We believe
there is a touch of irony in our cor
respondents reference to the "penal-
ties under which parents and guardians
are required to send their children to
school, and to " the safeguards thrown
about the schools to prevent incompe-
tent teachers getting employ in them"
What and how effective these safe
guards are every observing person
has seen and estimates them at their
true value. Their efficiency and many
other beauties of the district system APP
pear to some extent in the report of the
hearing before the committee on educa-
ton last week Tuesday, published on
the sixth page. The safeguards "
the law interposes practically legalize
incompetency and inefliciency in the
school teacher, just as the district sys-
tenn makes petty meanness and parsi-
mony possible in school management
and perpetuates inequality in school
privileges and taxation for school pur-
poses. The district system must 90.
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WE greatly fear that our Chelsea co

WE greatly fear that our Chelsea cor
respondents bacon would incur the
indignity he courts if we were disposed
to heed his rash injunction; and with
full assurance that it would be done
"with neatness and dispatch" we
should entrust the job to our devil"
who is just getting an insight into the
first principles of political economy.
Our correspondent seems to have racked
his brain to contrive the EXTREMIST kind
of an extreme case and the most i'm
probable combination of circumstances.
Yet there is no hardship even in this
case. 1t illustrates exactly how evenly
and equitably the law works, and how
economical the system is. The evident
question is, AT the end of five years,
who owns the school property in Dis
trict No. L? Plainly No. has parted
with $500 of its ownership, and No. 2
has acquired that ownership. The dis
tricts are joint owners, having equal
interest in the property. Each year
No. has in fact paid 800 in money
towards the joint school expenses, and
800 in school property to No. 2; each
year No. has paid 800 towards joint
school expenses and received from No.
l 800 in school property, the equivalent
of a new school-house, to build which
it would have been compelled under
the district system to assess tax of
probably not less than seventy-five per
cent. AT the end of five years with
equal lists the two districts have equal
and undivided interests in the school
property in No. /, and, having settled
off their equalizing debts, will hence
forth raise the 5000 that suflices for
school expenses by tax of twelve and
a half cents instead of each paving
twenty-five per cent for separate
schools. Unquestionably, if the town
could show to the Legislature that it was
doing its full duty by its school chill
dren by a tax of twelve and a half per
cent, it would not be compelled to raise
twice that rate; and if the town should
foolshly vote to go back to the district
system, No. would reimburse No. 2
for the interest of $500 it has acquired
in the school-house in that district.
With this sum No. 2 could build new
school-house, or repair the old one, or
distribute the money back to the tax
payers, as it should decide was wisest
and best. The testimony in the Ran
dolph case and the evidence from the
score or so of towns where the town
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-19

SAFE burglaries are becoming alarm
ingly frequent. Several have occurred
in this county during the past year and
two were of recent occurrence. Reports
of fresh burglaries in other parts of the
state are published. House breakings,
with robbery of money, watches and
other valuables have been of not infre-
quent occurrence. We hear, however,
of no effort on the part of the officers of
the law to ferret out and arrest the
thieves and burglars. The rogues, APP.
parently, have no fear of molestation
except such as they may chance to en-
counter from a tradesman or house
holder who may put in a protesting
" Who's THEREOF if the operations of
the craftsman or housebreaker should
disturb his slumbers. Nor are the
sheriff and his deputies the chief sin
ners, if sinners at all, in this neglect to
pursue law-breakers. The law makes
no provision for paying the officers ade-
quately, if at all. If a sheriff devotes
his time and spends his money in eff
forts to apprehend criminal he must
wait for the biennial legislative session,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-19

WE ask the attention of friends and
opponents of the town system of schools
to the report of the hearing in the Ran
dolph case. 1t is the first instance in
which friends and opponents of the
system have come face to face in a pub
lie showing. 1t was the opportunity
the advocates of the system have long
desired, to hear the objections, if there
are any, to a system of school manage
ment which has so much to recommend
it to reason and common sense, and
which is so much in harmony with
the system and principles that prevail
in the management of other affairs.
Though nominally local matter, the
hearing was in fact trial of the main
question of the relative merit of the dis
trict and town systems. The utter unrea-
sonbleness and emptiness of the cause of
the petitioners, the bigotry, selfshness
and cruelty of the opposition in Ran
dolph have been completely exposed.
The iniquity, the wrong of the district
system, the blind and mercenary char
acter of the opposition to the town sys-
tenn generally have been unmasked.
If the system can do so much for
the schools of a town in less than
two years, contending all the time
against malcontents that were and are
determined not to be satisfied, what
could it do for town if all parties were
united, friendly and helpful? The testi-
mony in this case shows as clear as the
light of day that if the law were gen.
eral, all opposition, all cause for opposi-
ton, would disappear and the common
schools of the state would be put on
the sure road to vigorous and whole
some existence and an economical and
efficient management We trust this
legislature will have the courage, as
every senator and representative must
see that it is the duty his oath lays
upon him, to pass duly-guarded,
equitably-devised law making the town
system the system of the state. Let
the reform come now, without further
loss of time and money and further
suffering to the schools.
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submit his claim to the shrinkage, war;
rantable or unwarrantable, to which
economical solons may subject it and
finally rely on the general assembly to
pass an act granting him what even the
committee on claims say he is entitled
to receive. SO when thief has stolen
neighbours horse, or broken into his
house and run off with his pocket-book
or watch and silver, or blown open his
safe and taken his money, the sheriff
may feel neighborly willingness to
endeavor to recover the property and
capture the thief, but it is asking a
great deal of him, it is everlasting good
fellowship to expect that he will fur
nish time and capital and imperil body
or life in such service. There should
be legal ability enough in the legisla-
ture to frame law that shall do justice
to the officer and afford protection to
property by melting the police to vigil
lance and emulation in the discovery
and apprehending of criminals. AS
things are now, the thief and burglar
have practically carte blanche to break in
and steal.
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Thanksgiving Proclamation.
BY THE GOVERNOR.

1t becomes the people of Christian state
to make frequent recognition and devout
acknowledgment Of the goodness and mer-
cies of the Almighty God; to render him our
sincere and humble thanks as the fountain
Of life, liberty and happiness, and the source
Of every blessing. He has spared us the
wasting pestilence and kept from our fair
state all civil connections, and has vouch-
safed to us tranquility and peace, with all
the blessings which go hand in hand with
civil and religious liberty. Under the fos-
tering care of a government gentle and just
to the citizen, he has shown us how to pre-
serve our liberties, and we know that so
long as we devoutly regard and adore him
as the author and preserver of states as well
as individuals, we may continue to enjoy
the blessings of a happy and free people.
do, therefore, in accordance with the ven
Grated usage of our fathers, and the procla-
nation of the president of the United States,
appoint THURSDAY, THE 9th DAY OF THIS
MONTH OF NOVEMBER, to be a day of public
thanksgiving and praise to the Lord our God.
And I recommend that all our people ON
that day abstain from the pursuit of their
customary secular callings, and unite with
each other and the people of the nation in
devout Thanksgiving and praise to our Heav-
emily Father for the manifest blessings of
his infinite goodness to us.
Given under my hand and the state SEAL in
the Executive Chamber at Montpelier,
this eighth day of November, A. D. 1884,
and Of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and ninth.
SAMUEL K. PINGREE.
By the Governor:
ALFRED e. WATSON,
Secretary Of Civa and Military affairs.
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the cause OF difference. At best, the best
roads are poor enough"
Senator Chapin's bill comes up for
consideration in the house to-day, and
if just regard for the best inter-
ests of the towns and of the state and
general public prevail, it will pass by a
unanimous vote.
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system is in successful operation, will,
we trust, quiet our correspondents
nervousness about the awful charges
and despotic sway of school boards.
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And there were two blank votes. The
president declared that William II. Walker
was elected. And the business of the Joint
assembly having been completed, it was
dissolved
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-19

And there were two blank votes. DR.. Hol-
ton OF Brattleboro moved that a recess be
taken until quarter past two this after
noon. 1t was lost by vote of lis to 106.
The chair added Senator Mott of Grand Isle
and Mr.. Butterfield of Wilmington to be
tellers. The result of the second balloting
was as follows:
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president announced that Hon. Homer Il.
Royce was elected to be chief Judge.
ASSISTANT JUDGES.
Senator Ide nominated Hon. Jonathan
Ross for first assistant judge, and he was
unanimously elected. Mr.. Parker of Cam
bridge nominated Hon. H. Henry Powers
for second assistant Judge, and he was
unanimously elected. Mr.. Parker, in per-
fervid eulogium, announced that Judge
Powers lived in Morrisville, Vermont This
news was received with great satisfaction
by the members of the Joint assembly. Sena-
tor Field nominated Hon. Wheelock q.
Veazey of Rutland for third assistant Judge,
and he was unanimously elected Senator
Gibbs nominated Hon. Russell S. Taft of
Willston for fourth assistant Judge, and he
was unanimously elected Mr.. Butteried
of Wilmington nominated Hon. John w.
Rowell for fifth assistant judge, and he was
unanimously elected.
SIXTH ASSISTANT JUDGE.
Mr.. Brigham of Bakersfield said that for
the past fourteen years, and for all the time
since 1888, except from 1860 to 1870, the
democracy of Vermont had been accorded a
representative on the bench by the majority
party. If Judge Redfeld's health had per-
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And there were seven blank votes. The
president announced that Hon. Homer Il.
Royce was elected to be chief Judge.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-12-30
1885.

Ere another Sunday shall have
dawned upon US the year 1854 shall
be no more than the many thousands
of others which have gone the way Of
time, nor will we make less welcome
its predecessor 'S5. What if the year
just going has brought us losses,
broken our sweetest ties, destroyed
our dreams? Do not let us forever
look back with mournful Renaissance
but turn our faces forward to the new
year and gather strength from the
light of hope. 1t is coming with its
dawn, it is coming with It's monday,
it is coming with its sunset, and do
what we may, we can not hold it
back. After all, last year brought to
the greatest government an the face
of the globe, a result which it had be-
gun to despair of, and down in the
records of time 1854 should be written
in letters of a type which shall glow
and burn until the weakest and most
respondent among you shall cry,
"HalIelujah!"
Cheer up, men who cry "hard
times" cheer up, victims of melan-
choly, cheer up, soothsayers of evil,
look to the future and with clear con-
sciences and resolve TO make of life
the best, give loyal welcome to the
glad New Year, and trust to God the
rest.
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GERMAN COLONIES.

The Post-Dispatch has this to say:
The formation of large companies in
Germany for trade with Africa, and
for the prosecution of various colonial
enterprises, indicates that German
unity is about to bring forth some
fruit more substantial than military
glory and political influence in merely
European affairs. Bismarck's promi-
nence in the Congo conference, and
his efforts to acquire territory in the
large islands of the Pacific and Indian
oceans, imply the recognition of the
fact that something must be done in
that direction to prove the utility of
the German empire to the Germ an
states.
While they were disunited their
commerce remained "cabin'd ,cribbed,
confined" and little Holland, England,
Spain and France divided the western
world among themselves, with all the
commercial advantages of thriving
colonies and broad areas of product
i've land in every cline. For nearly
fifteen years German unity under the
empire has secured the internal peace
and safety of Germany and made her
influence prepouderant in Europe, but
has compelled her to pay dearly for
the glory of it all And still there is
no German colony to receive the re-
dundant increase of the overcrowed
and overtaxed millions of the Father
land The most vigorous and best
educated people in Europe are the
worst paid toilers in the civilized
world. No triumph of arms or of
diplomacy in European congress
can better their condition at home or
mitigate the necessity which compels
multitudes of them to seek new homes
and better chances for their posterity
in America and other lands over which
float foreign flags. An emigration
large enough to build up new Ger
man empire in two or three genera
tions is bound to 60 on for the benefit
of other nationalities.
This is not pleasing to the race,
pride and ambition of the Germans,
and they are already asking what the
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-12-30

empire is there for. if it cannot pro-
vide colonies 10 which a fruitful
people can find room for natural ex-
pansion where they can still contribute
to tie power and prosperity of Ger
many. The wonderful success of
England and Holland as colonizers
favors the idea that their German
kindred would be equally successful if
once fairly started in the business by
their home government, and if the
empire cannot do that much for them
they may soon begin to undervalue
its greatness.
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o TRuSTEE,S SALE.

Whereas. Rachael Thomas, by her certain del
of tfust dat tue 18th dav oil Juoe, 1851, and re-
co. ded 10 the recorGes office of Pet.is county at
trust deed and mortgage OooS No. 10, at pages 80,
to $50 conveyed TO unde ntd trustee, all her
ri-ht title interC aud estate, iu and 10 the fol-
lowing described real esi3ie s'tusled IN the ounty
OF petts, state of Nilsson, a, ": The north ha
o. the northwest QUE tie o. section tweutv-thres
(s3) tow lship forIg-Sic. t46l, f2pge twenty-five,
t2I efntai 'ig eShIy S0) ares. also ten (10) acr
beng the south par of the mort least qua Ter of the
southeast qua ser of section tlirt~ "a, ISL tow
shin fos, v-sLz. (46l. and range twenty two, (L2,
which sa,d conveyance was made in trust 70 secure
the layment of one certain p OnlissOry note aud
the interest COUPONS theGetI attached, in said de
described and wheres3 two OF said inte tceup0'
a . now que aad uups d, By reason OF which sd
whole amou lat becomes Que accoruing to the terBs
o. said deed Of pst, now, therefore, IA &C cOrdau
" tn che n,ovis,o0s of said deed OF trust, and at
the ,uest of tae legal holder OF said note, shs
roceed 10 sell the above desc real esl1te at
The court house door, in the county of Pe.tis, sta
Aforesaid to the highest bidder for sh, at pub lie
auction,
ON WEDNESDAY, 21Sr DAY OF JANUARY,
1855.
Betyeeu the hours of niue IN the forenoon and va
N the afternoon OF that day, sai,sfy ssid note
together with the ost and expense Of executing
this trust. y. y. i THOMPSON,
l2-3G.w4t Trustee.
Dated this, 9th dayof December, 1884.
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THE sEDALIA WEEKLY BAZOO TUESDAY DECEMBER 80 1884

was over he sank back with a prolonged
ooh ~
Cook Porter, K. Wadeson. Austin
Speed, John Smith, Jim Riglsnd and
Charlie Culverhouse occupied seats on the
front row.
Tyler Brandt was on hand. One Of
the yOungl?) ladies(?) pointed Tyler out as
dude Will Dratien was close behind him
and the girl might have meant Will.
Some of the boys visited Wsgner's
with the young ladies after the show. One
Young man who had been cIlling droI ped
in accidentally. Pity
Our apology is humbly rendered to the
man whose name the printer spells wrong.
We plead guilty to having skipped some,
but il was not our fault.
One gentleman who ought 10 know
what he was talking about, said the per
formers were "just frst-clsss s,rrant girls
all but Madame CoEt, who was notOiy's
Jim-crow."
"A prominent stock man who liv. s near
Boonvil'e, attracted considerable attention
by his antics. He occupied a prominent
place In the green room during the per-
Torrance. He is a recent Baptist coD-
vert, and his behavior was all
the more conspicuous, on that accouu'. His
fat body fairly shook with satisfaction at
the fun he as having. Ida Bertha &c mel
to erjoy his society or he hers.
The boy set in the gallery row,
Aud gaZed on the smooth, bald Dates below,
And SAID, Oh would not be glad
III was an old bald headed dad.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-12-30
GIDDY GIRLS.
They Visit Boonville in the
Shape of the Stanley
Mastodons.
How the Bald Heads Took Front
Seats and How the Boys
Gave Wine Suppers.
BooNvILLE. Mo-, Dec. q, 1884

BooNvILLE, Mo-, Dec. q, 1884.
Madame Stanley's Female Mss;odons
took our town last Wednss Fay night. The
bald heads and the boys were out in force
The BAZoo's correspondent, being unable
to be present him IF on account OF extreme
modesty and other m"re potent reasons, .
cured the services of three special repor ers
and appends few notes obt sined by them
and translated mainly by this correspond
emit
In TIE font -ow OF seats with eyes ODeo wide
Ed Chiffon lie sa; with Joe Sahm b. his side.
And a tile eyond with grin on his FACE,
A certain fat ockman filed N a sploe.
John Smith he was there, Cooke Porter aud Short,
Jim Eaylald who said The STOW was "h's SOFT"
Speed Siephe swho smile at the jokes of he g-is
AHd wink 4 al lhe one W.,h the bangs acu the
curls.
Lou Levens he ordered the wine for the one
They call ''Ida Bertha" hut oh, was outdOne
By the sfockman aforesaid and "slm" Austin
Speed,
Who swore by the Venus of MILO indeed
The spoils of the chase were his own, thea he
cbeered
With ,he heit OF his lungs as she oace more ap-
peared.
Bob Greenlease he sat-with his hat on as true,
but-ln-S IS secret between me ana YOU
TITS said that himself and modest Judge Silcke
Took brace of the MaStOdOns out on a lark.
/ hardly believe il but one thing know,
Cha. les Somba I he wanted the madam 10 so,
Aud somebody saw him trying to get
His arm 'roUnd the waist of w U Edgac's ''pet.'
Charles I.eoua d he laughed till it seemed he
would burst,
When the story of Washington not being first
In all things was proved, while the audience
tani1,
"Flom the fact that. another mans rel;ct he
married.
Yes, the boys were all out a Leonard a Id az,
p. johnson, S. sahm and back near the wall
'pious young man" who soon, il IS said
Expects fair Eelle OF the "bon TONS to we'd.
And some who had pla-ed lhe time hooOred dodge
OF telI;og their wives they were going 10 lodge.
Yet 10 it was s;raage when lhe MOI ow had come
Not mau could be foHn no mad rot been at
hume
On the evening before, and never a man
Had heard OF The Maslodon female "eaa. can"
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a Rich Strike.

st. Louis, Dec. GA dispatch from
Spring Place. Ga, says the recent discov-
cries about Fort Mountsin have now been
supplemented by the discovery of wonder
full silver mines and great excitement
exists throughout that section.
The richest deposit yet found is seven
miles from Spring Place and eighteen
miles from Dalton. The lead is about
fif zen hundred feet wide,' three hundred
feet deep and twenty-eight miles long and
is the sane as is now being worked al
Duck Team, Tenn. The ore is only five
feet from the surface and assays from $50
to g, 800 to the ton.