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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-22
The sun.
NEW YORK., 1894.

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12
How New York Votes.

In view of charges and counter
charges of frauds in the vote of New
York last week, and of attempts to
" steal " the electoral vote of that state
by one party or the other, we have made
an abstract of the election laws of New
York. AT the annual town meeting
two inspectors of election are chosen,
and for a third the existing board of in
spectors issues a certificate of election
to the minority candidate having the
most votes. AS soon as the polls have
been finally closed the inspectors pro-
coed in public to canvass the votes.
The canvass proceeds from the COM
mencement by comparison with the
poll lists and the correction of any mis-
takes that may be found. Each box is
opened and the votes it contains are
counted, unopened except so far as to
ascertain that each ballot is single. If
two or more ballots are found folded
together so as to present the appearance
of single ballot, they are to be de-
stroyed if the whole number of ballots
exceeds the whole number of votes. If
the whole number of ballots exceeds
the whole number of votes according to
the poll lists, the ballots are replaced in
the box, and the inspector, without see
ing the name on the ballot, draws out
and destroys so many ballots as are
equal to the excess. The number of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
ny THE PRESIDENT.


The season is nigh when it is the yearly
wont of this people to observe day APP
pointed for that purpose by the president as
an especial occasion for thanksgiving unto
God. Now, therefore, in recognition of the
hallowed custom, I, Chester A. Arthur,
president ofthe United States, do hereby des-
ignate as such day of general thanksgiving
Thursday the 9th day of this present No
vember, and do recommend that through
out the land the people, ceasing from their
accustomed occupations, do then keep holt
day at their several homes and their several
places of worship, and with heart and voice
pay reverent acknowledgment to the Giver
of all Good for the countless blessings where
with he hath visited this nation. In wit
ness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed Done in the city of Washington,
this the seventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hum
dred eghty-four, and of the independence
of the United States the one hundred ninth.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
By the President.
FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYsEN,
Secretary Of State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12

court of appeal be in favor of Mr..
Cleveland. If the democratic candi-
date shall finally be declared to be cleo
ted by any plurality, no matter how
small, of the honest vote of this state,
we shall not forget either the duty or
the responsibility of American citizen
ship. If he be elected, he will cease to
be the candidate of the democratic
party; he will become the chief magis-
trate of the nation, and by virtue of
his office will be entitled to the respect
OF the American people without regard
to party. 1t is almost unnecessary to
add that if Mr.. Cleveland be officially
declared to be the president-elect, we
shall judge of him by the future, and
not by the past. All past scores will be
wiped out; we shall begin afresh, and
judge of him by his official acts. 1t
will be our public duty to watch his
administration closely, but it will be
equally duty and a privilege to give
loyal support to his administration,
whenever his public acts will warrant
approval. This we pledge ourselves to
do in advance of the final decision;
and we dare say that our friends, the
enemy, will see a similar duty, if Mr..
Blaine, as we not only hope, but believe,
shall prove to be the next president"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12
An Appropriation to Exterminate
Bedbugs.

The committee on the state prison has
visited that institution and made its re-
port. 1t speaks of this asylum for the
hayward in terms of pride, and believes
it to be "a credit to the state" Com
mendation is bestowed upon the man
agement for the manner in which it
has expended appropriations. The
new barn and piggery, the latest addi-
tons to the states means of entertain
ing its unwilling guests, are pronounced
excellent" and, in short, the criminal
beneficiaries of the state have now
nearly all that the most esthetic rascal
could ask for his moral and physical
comfort and improvement. One foe
only threatens his mental composure
and bodily safety" the festive bed
bug" as the committee felicitously
phrases it, To exterminate the pest an
appropriation of $4,000 was recon-
mended and gracious, humane and
tender-hearted senate has speedily voted
the money. "The wooden stairs and
walls around the cells" are, the COM
mittee says, the favorite lurking "and
breeding places for the vermin-and
the festive bedbug can, among their
cracks and crevices, escape from the
most persistent and determined hunter"
The craftsmanship that devised the
grasshopper bill seems to have failed in
this emergency. Instead of utilizing
the expert and persistent huntsmen
resident within the prison and encour-
aging a spirit of honest industry and
emulation by offering bounty for
every bushel of bedbugs captured, the
committee propose to replace the
wooden stairs with iron. In order that
" the clear, bright sunlight of publicity"
may be let in upon vermin and vaga-
bond, the enlargement of the front win
dows is recommended. For these OBJ
jects the sum of $1,000 is asked. We
do not pretend to judge of the necessity
or ACCESSIBILITY of these improvements.
They may be, and doubtless are, desira-
BILE. The reasons assigned have some
what ludicrous aspect and they are pre-
sented in not picturesque garb. AS
if somewhat conscious of the doubtful
expediency of this proposed expendi-
ture, the committee, half apologetically,
expresses the opinion that "it would
be very ingenious man who could
find place to spend much more money
on these buildings for many years to
come" Well, " in the future as in the
past" there will doubtless be every
ingenious men on visiting committees
and boards of management. The his
tory of the state penal institutions is
not altogether reassuring on this score.
While the state has scrimped and hag-
gled over appropriations for agriculture
and education, while it has been mig
gardly almost to meanness in its patron
age of those moral and material agen-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12
Notes and Notions.

BOSTON ADVERTISER "The prac-
teal decision of the question, and the
end of the fierce struggle of the last
five months, is recognized ON all hands
as an immense relief. BY the mass of
the people, we believe, the great length
of the presidential contest is felt to be
a nuisance, and an injury. The inter-
ruption of ordinary business, the ex,
element and the temporary exaggera-
ton of what is, after all, only one out
of many interests, tell severely as the
campaign goes on; and when the actual
election is followed, as now, by a
period of INDIGESTION, it is as common to
hear men wish that the thing might be
settled one way or the other, as to
hear them wish for any particular settle
ment. The plain people have their
party preferences, but they are not
such partisans as to be unwilling to
accept an honest result with cheerful
mind, and they prefer to accept it, if
need be, with as little delay as possible"
NEW YORK TRIBUNE: While we
believe that Mr.. Blaine has been cleo
ted by the honest vote of this state,
and that an honest count and an honest
canvass will prove this to the satisfac-
ton of all fair-minded men, we shall be
ready to acknowledge mistake in
judgment if the decision of this final
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12

membered that No. / is contributing
81 900, or fifty cents on the dollar of its
grand list, to the general expense of
running the schools while No. 2 is con-
tributing nothing. So an absolutely
equitable adjustment and equalization
is obtained. These two examples cover
the whole ground of all the fancied
difficulty about the division of school
property or the levying upon wealthy
districts to help out their remote and
less favored kin back on the hills. The
examples given are extreme cases.
They give the objections their greatest
strength. Inside of these extremes is
the great middle class of districts whose
status quo would not be seriously dis
turbed by the adjustment and equaliza-
ton of their property. We do not be-
lieve that Vermont Legislature will
allow the fact that this system equalizes
taxation for school purposes, fact
which should be one of the strongest
reasons for its adoption, to stand in the
way of the passage of the bill now be-
fore it. That "a great many districts
have been to the expense of building
school-houses that are both convenient
and comfortable while other districts in
the same towns have school-houses
which are in too dilapidated condi-
ton to house COW comfortably or in
which to keep an energetic shote, :"
may be strong statement of the con-
dition of many school-houses, yet it I'M
questionably has a broad basis of fact.
1t is another forcible argument needing
no elucidation in favor of placing the
schools of a town in charge of compe-
tent board of picked men who will re-
form so disgraceful a. state of things.
Under the town system the back dis
tricts have been the most benefited.
They share in the general expense and
their rights have always been and must
always be jealousy regarded. A vii
lage clique may here and there domin-
ate town, but we have no fear that
the back sections would suffer any de-
privation of their legal rights at the
hands of an intelligent school board
which they have the power to elect or
would long quietly endure any such de-
privation. 1t is not single individual
away in the woods against an entire
town-it is a community or commune
ties banded together to obtain their
just rights and they will invariably have
them. Our correspondent has in fact
presented in striking manner and in a
condensed form some of the strongest
reasons for the adoption of the town
system. Every argument which can be
made against the system is founded on
misrepresentation or selfish or false con-
siderations which are at war with our
whole form of government, and which
are practically condemned in the man.
agement of all town affairs except the
schools, and which in school manage
ment, with hardly an exception, other
states have utterly repudiated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12

RHODE ISLAND is one of the two or
three states in which the school district
system was early established and in
which it has maintained an existence
while new states were adopting the
township system and while old states
were changing their system of school
management to harmonic with the sys-
tenn of local management of affairs in
which the town is the established unit
and the smallest practical subdivision.
The Providence Journal, the leading
paper of Rhode Island, acknowledges
that the district system is worn out and
advocates its adjustment. In lead
ing article on the subject it says: "The
district system is rather an impeachment
than an aid to the cause of education.
Besides, the tendency of the district
system is to prevent the enjoyment of
equal opportunities for instruction, to
which all the children in town are en-
titled. In one district the taxpayers
may be well-to-do and liberal, and the
schools, consequently, kept up to a
good standard in all respects, while in
an adjoining district the taxpayers
may be comparatively poor, and conse-
quently unable to provide educational
facilities on par with those of their
neighbors. This condition of affairs is
directly opposed to the genius of the
free-school institution, which is not
supposed to recognize any difference
between the child of wealth and the son
of the humblest toiler, or even of the
town-supported pauper 1t may be said
that similar distinction would exist
under the town administration. 1t is
true that rich towns would, doubtless,
be more generous in the support of ed
ucation than towns of more limited
means, but a town meeting, as any one
who has had experience in town mat
tiers is aware, does not take such mar
row view in regard to public expend-
lures as district meeting, just as the
general assembly, representing all the
state, makes an appropriation much
more readily than each town would be
likely to, if called upon to raise its pro-
portionate share of an appropriation.
In word, the larger the valuation and
numbers represented, the broader and
more public-spirited the policy pur-
sued.N
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12

EXTENSIVE preparations were made
by both parties yesterday for the can
vass of the vote in New York by the
county officers. Each side is evidently
worried and nervous. A strong body
of lawyers has been retained by both
the republicans. and the democrats to
be present at the county seats to
watch the count in the interest of their
respective clients. William NJ. Evarts
is at the head of the republicans and
Roscoe Conkling has accepted a re-
tainer from the democrats. Although
the returns have been examined and
added many times by many different
people of all parties, no two accounts
agree. The totals show discrep-
ancy of several hundred votes. SO it
is possible that the most Trustworthy
unofficial reports upon which claims are
now based may be found to be as
widely at variance with the official
count when it shall be declared. John
Sherman's words are worth needing:
"The situation is as dangerous as the
result is close and doubtful. Each
party suspects the other of fraud. But
the mass of both parties will resist any
attempt at fraud or violence, and will
stand by the party that fairly wins"
Last evening special dispatch to THE
WATCHMAN announced that the board
of supervisors for Niagara county had
adjourned until this afternoon on ac-
count of incomplete returns. No others
had been heard from. This will delay
the official canvass for an indefinite
time
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12
WE call the attention of our readers

WE call the attention of our readers
to another very able communication
upon the . Property Rights of Married
Women" The writer is lawyer of
lifelong study and observation of the
matters of which he writes, distin-
guished for his ability, intelligence and
sound judgment. The statistics he
presents and the views he enforces are
worthy of careful and serious consider
alton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12
Taxation Under the Town System
OF Schools.

A correspondent gives as some rea-
sons which stand in the way of the
adoption of the town system of schools
the unwillingness of well-to-do districts
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-10
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Yawsy Notes From Various
Quarter.
TIE TRIAL OF CAPT. DUDLEY
,,..,nsss that KicKed-Ehe Spanish
sme-jcan Treaty Lynching in II
California-Burned.
,gg TRIAL OF CAPT, DUDLEY.
Rottom Touched.

Nru YORK., December 9.-The Posts
s-.n.isl saws: One Of the signs Of the
- Indicates a growing belief that
:.os of commodities are as low as they
p ;l,sIy to be at all II is announced
are - TS.-ccbeU Of Montreal. agent OF the
INA Mt - in that city in the interest OF
s{llI Hl,-'dian Pacific Railway Company,
the - = Manitoba for the purpose of
y . no" 100000, advanced by the
+ 6 70 - Montreal, in wheat, to be pur-
IlH a.'A ~ Winnipeg, a market rates
t ,i-.S Tie latest dispatches say ship
80. via the Canadian Pacific to. Port
nth Ietbnr will begin at once, and the
81 a cat he held in store there until
VIZ Still another instance of the
' 'P1,e lind is the advance in the last few
. "a in prices Of some metals, lead
G"yyinr advanced 10 per cent. in two
lots in consequence of speculative
Investments. Cotton has also advanced
h. so4e extent under the same intiu-
once. in the last few weeks. These fea
-. re the results OF endeavOrS TO find
em7la-ment Tor lille money. The I'M
nrrc,6ensed amount of idle funds III
New York banks, and lower rates OF in
t4-a,t here than in London, are also the
Chief causes OF the frmneSS Of the
market for sterling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-10
Lynching in California.

DAGGETT, California, December "a
mob of twenty men, this morning, sur
rounded the officers in charge of Lou
Farthing and William White. alias
William Pitts, charged with having
dubbed Josiah Harris to death with a
wagon spoke, on the night of the 5th
INST. The mob told the officers to keep
perfectly quiet and there would be no
tus They then marched Pitts to the
outskirts of town, put a rope around his
neck, threw the other end over the
cSrross-arm of a telegraph pole and hoisted
him up. He was dead in a few min
uTeS. Pitts was deserter from the
I. nlted States army, having been 'ei-
listed under tile name of William II.
White In the Second Cavalry, Company
/, stationed at Fort Ellis, Mon tana.
farthlnS was told to leave the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-10
Growing Serious.

LONDON, December 9. = Captain
Dudley and mate of the wrecked yacht
Hignoactte, found guilty of murder in
killing the boy Parker, for food to keep
themselves alive. were to-day sentenced
TO death. 1t is believed they Will
certainly be pardened
The courtroom was crowded, and the
scene during the prOnOuncing of the
sentence was most impressive. Lord
Chief-Justice Coleridge read the iudg-
ment OF the court, citing authorities at
length. The Court declared that the
taking of human life could only be justi-
tied on the plea of self-defense. The
commission of murder for the sake of
preserving ones own life was uniustifi-
able. OF course, it was a duty to
presrye ones own life, but duty
often required one not to save
but to sacrifice his own life.
The Court must apply the law and de-
clare that the prisoners were guilty of
wiltul murder, for which there was no
Justification. If this Judgment was too
severe, the court must leave the priS-
Oners to the clemency of the crown.
The prisoners We're asked what they had
30 say before sentence was pronounced.
Both Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens
pleaded for mercy in view of their ter
rlble situation when the deed was cone.
LORD COleridge said it was the iury's
privilege to recommend the prisoners to
mercy, and then sentenced them to be
hanged, but without the black cap.
The Secretary of State for the Home
advises the Queen to re-
spite the captain and mate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-10
The Opdyke Failure.

New YORK, December 9.-Opdyke &
Go. 5 Liabilities are stated to be little
over 500, 900. Only about 500 shares of
stock involved in the failure are on the
stock exchange. The failure is said to
have resulted from the inability to
renew loans on securities, which had
previously been accepted.
Assignee Peet, of Jhesuspended bank
ing firm of George Opdyke & Co., said
to-day that it was not such a failure as
should cause any great degree of I'M
easineSs, and one that aside from the
old name of the house would command
comparatively little attention. f.. f. NJ.
Miller, board member OF the firm stated
his belief that the total liabilities would
not exceed 100000 of which nearly
500 900 /, secured.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-10
The spanish-.A merican treaty

CHICAGO, December 9.-Daily NeWs'
Washington special: The full text of
the Spanish-American treaty having
been made public, there is much talk
and comment in Congressional circles
regarding its probable effect, if ratified
One of the first points made is that the
treaty cannot be considered without
bringing forward general and full dis
cussion of the whole tariff question.
This does not seem TO meet with much
favor among Republicans or Democrats.
1t is felt that the treaty would have
stood a better chance of being ratified
had it not been made public 1t is
thought at the department that bad
faith has been observed and that the
Spanish government could or would not
have been guilty of such discourtesy as
this. 1t is very evident that there is
going to be very bitter opposition to the
treaty on the part of the sugar and to-
baccO interests 1t is not at all improb-
able that the present Senate may, for
want of sufficient time, not consider the
treaty, but let it go over to the extra
session, which will be called as soon as
Mr. Cleveland tak,s the oath of office.
70 consider Cabinet appointments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-10
"Ten NIGHTS in a Rarroom. .

The temperance drama, entitled as
above, will be presented, for the benefit
of the Deseret Hospital, on Monday the
22d inst, in the Twentieth Ward As
selnbly Rooms, with the following cast:
G. J. Bywater, Joe Morgan; David
evans. Old Slade; Miss Florence Will
son, Mrs. Morgan; John Affleck, Sample
Switched; Joseph Raymond, Willie
Hammond; c. E. Clissold, Harvey
Green; Oliver Owen, Frank Slade;
Joseph Robinson, Mr.. Romano; Mrs:
Clissold, MehitabIe Cartwright, and
Miss Mary Ann Aff1eck, Mary Morgan,
with song, Father, Dear Father, Come
Home With Me Now" This is a good
amateur cast, and as the proceeds are
for very worthy object there should be
a iammed house.