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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Making the Best of 1t.

The country has had little more than
five months of the democratic admins
tration, and the results are not alto
gether as salutary and satisfactory as
the democratic and Independent news
papers would have us believe. Very
little of real benefit to the public inter-
ests has been accomplished, but the adj
ministratiOn has given good deal of
its time to filling the offices with its
partisans, though the democrats think
it has been too slow in bestowing the
rewards for party service. The indie
pendents, who aided in the democratic
restoration, are better satisfied, so far
as appearances go; in fact, they applaud
not only what is relatively or mega
lively good in the administration, but
they omit no occasion to apologize for
all that is bad in its conduct. Although
the administration is no longer con-
trolled by civil service reform princi-
pies, even in appearance-there being
wide gap between promise and per-
formance-yet its mugwump friends
are striving to make the best of the sit
uation, and claim that the President is
still marching at the head of the reform
procession.
Let us glance at the actual situation.
In the outset we were assured by the
independents that the President was
going to administer the affairs of gov
eminent strictly on business principles,
and that he would not remove faithful
and competent republican officials to
install democrats in their places. When
the administration sought to excuse its
removal of such officials through frivol-
GUS charges of offensive partisanship,
the Independents began to apologize for
this partisan action by claiming that its
effect would be to divide the offices
more evenly between the two parties.
Then the public service could be more
easily departisanized. After that a po-
litical millennium, we suppose. Now
that there is a fair prospect that the
democrats will get more than an equal
share of the offices, the independents
pretend to believe that the President is
filling the offices with better men than
those who have been turned out, and
that he will not tolerate the use by his
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Industrial Education,

There is growing sentiment in this
country in favor of some plan of indus
trial education, either in connection with
the public schools or in separate institu-
tons, in which boys may receive practical
instruction in the trades and occupations
they may be engaged in in their ma
turer years. There are already a few
such schools, and some of them are re-
ported as having exceeded the most san
guine expectations of their advocates.
Manual training in mechanical pursuits
has been given trial in some of the
public schools of Gloucester, Mass.
and fairly good results are reported;
but it seems obviously impracticable to
employ manual training in such schools
in the sense of teaching boys some par
ticular trade, or all trades. Besides the
time and expense involved, it would
tend to overstock certain trades with
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
Crop Prospects.

The crops this year, for various rea-
sons, are not quite up to the high stand
ard of several of the years of the last
decade. The official bulletin of the
agricultural department for July re-
ports a poor outlook for spring wheat
Taking one hundred as standard, the
general average condition of spring
wheat is ninety-three per cent. From
a careful analysis of over thirty-five
hundred special crop reports from prac-
teal farmers in every state and terri
tory in the Union, the Rural Ner
Yorker concludes that the winter wheat
crop will amount to 100000 900 BUSH
els and the spring wheat crop to 1861
100000 bushels, making an aggregate
crop of 800 900, 000-a falling off of
147 100000 bushels from last years
crop, Oats will be the largest crop ever
harvested; rye and barley, fair crops.
The corn area is larger than ever be-
fore, and the outlook is good for an
average yield per acre. There will be
an average crop of potatoes, and there
is considerable increase in the acre
age of tobacco. The cotton prospects
are highly promising, despite the in
jury from insects in Texas and other
places. There will be a fair crop of
apples for an :" off year." Many trees
are dying, especially in the West.
Peaches are failure in northern lati-
tudes, and there is poor outlook for
pears. There will be fair crops in New
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. There
is fair crop of hay throughout the
country. Good weather for the next
sixty days will have great influence on
the corn crop. AS to wheat, of which
there will probably be the smallest
yield since 1876, the surplus from last
year is, fortunately, larger than before
in our history. The inquiry made by
Bradstreets discovered 100000 bush
els of visible supply, which is enlarged
by various hypothesis to 105 100000
bushels. Deducting from this the
amount sure to be carried over of from
25,000,O00 to 35,000,000 bushels, and it
will be seen that 100000 bushels re-
main as the outside of probable exports in
the coming year. The prices may be
good, and they may not be; for it is not
now possible to tell the balance of the
crop the world over, and the wheat
crop abroad is reported as considerably
better than last year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

workmen. The most to be expected,
certainly for some years to come, would
be to furnish some elementary practice
with common tools.
But one great need of the country is
skilled workmen. There is an over
plus of unskilled laborers, of clerks and
half-taught and half-qualified lawyers,
doctors, etc. Something should be done
to train up class of skilled mechanics.
The public, which provides so literally
for the education of youth, with view
to their entering what are called the
professions, ought to make equal and
wise provision for instructing youth
practically in the pursuits which are
quite as useful and necessary to the
welfare of the country. Industrial
schools, which would give to boys
adequate preparation for pursuing all
the varied branches of mechanical in
dustry, would do quite as much to make
the country intelligent and prosperous
as colleges which afford them an OPP
portunity to dig out Greek roots and
algebraic problems.
Industrial schools might be established
as an adjunct to the public schools. In
the public schools of Sweden four
hours week are devoted to instruction
in the mechanical arts. In Paris over
a hundred primary schools are now
provided with workshops. We do not
expect any radical changes just at pres
ent in our school methods. The subject
of industrial education is still quite new
with us and not yet reduced to a def
mite system. Time is needed to de-
velop practical scheme for the work.
The need of better educational dis
eliminating process in our schools will
be generally admitted. There is now
too much of putting square pegs into
round holes, and uice rerso Now in
an industrial school it would very early
in pupils course be made apparent
whether he had in him the making of
skillful and successful mechanic, and
if he was found to be without that ca
pacity, then he should be, and would be,
dismissed, to find in some other course
of study and training the pursuit for
which he would be adapted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
appointees of the public offices for party

appointees of the public offices for party
advantage.
There are indications that the indie
pendent newspapers are getting ready
to endorse any policy that the Presi-
dent may see fit to adopt in the matter
of filling the offices, even though it
sweeps away every vestige of his pro-
fessed devotion to civil service reform
principles. The Boston Herald holds
that the public will sustain the Presi-
dent in " making all changes that seem
to him desirable" and that the incum-
bency of partisans of the republican
party in the offices is not an aid to re-
form. 1t is also amusing to hear George
w. Curtis declare that the President is
doing good work in overthrowing the
spells system, and talk about the grand
eur and sagacity of his positionl The
infatuation of the Independents is won
derful, considering that the President
has violated every principle and meas
ure of reform that they have been adj
vocating with more of zeal than wis
dom. The independents are either af-
flicted with some incurable form of
partisan blindness, or they are incor-
rightly obstinate in refusing to admit
the fact that the administration has
proved recreant to its reform profess
sions. 1t would seem that they have
fully determined to make the best of
bad case; and we may therefore conclude
that a good many of them have gone out
of the republican party to stay. They
can hardly do less under the circum-
stances, and it is certainly more hon
orable course than parading under false
colors.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

JONES has been indicated We re-
fer to Postmaster Jones of Indianapo-
lis, who has just been investigated by
the civil service commission on the
charge of having violated the civil SER
vice law in making removals and APP
pointments in his office. They find
that he did not violate the law, and that
his worst offence was in talking con-
temptuously about civil service reform.
But he is repentant, and will do so no
more. 1t was well for the mugwumps
to let Jones down easy. He is the vice.
presidents special pet, and the relations
between the Cleveland and Hendricks
wings of the democracy were becoming
strained. There is at least one thing
to be thankful for: Jones is no longer
an issue in midsummer politics.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

THERE has been much difficulty in
determining the death-rate of the whole
country, because there are few states
where the law takes cognizance of the
matter. BY the census of 1880 there
were seven hundred fifty-six thousand
eight hundred ninety-three deaths in
the United States the previous year,
which would be death-rate of only
1900 per thousand This is much
below the actual ratio. The regis
tration reports of Vermont do not
approach absolute accuracy. New
Hampshire has a new law requiring
burial permits. Its effect is seen in
the reporting of seven hundred seventy
three more deaths in that state in 1884
than in 1888, though there is no rea-
son for supposing that the mortality
was any greater. According to Sur
geon Billings of the United States
army, the death-rate for the whole
country is small fraction above
eighteen per thousand.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
The Mormon Situation.

There is revival of the rumor that
the Mormon leaders are seeking another
refuge for the polygamists who are find
ing it uncomfortable in Utah. Accord
ing to recent account of the matter,
large part of the Mexican state of So
nora is occupied by the Yaqui Indians,
who have never been entirely subdued
by the Mexican government, and last
fall Brigham Young, Jr. and Heber 7.
Grant made a treaty with this tribe,
and soon afterwards established Nor
mon colony near Cruces. John Taylor,
the head of the Mormon organization, is
now seventy-seven years of age, but he
found it necessary to make the long and
arduous journey from Salt Lake to
Sonora in the dead of winter to confirm
the treaty made by Grant and Young
with the Yaqui Indians. The Mormons
are now attempting to buy from the
Mexican government the lands which
they tried at first to secure from the
Indians. The Mexican authorities are
disposed to act with some caution, as
they know perfectly well the trouble the
polygamists have caused in the United
States, and they have informed the
Mormons that the Mexican laws do not
tolerate polygamy, and if they come
there they must expect to be law-abid-
ing. This, however, will give little
trouble to the Mormon leaders, as it
will be an easy matter in Mexico to
ignore the law. 1t is also rumored that
the church lands in Utah are offered
for sale. 1t is believed in Utah to be
the purpose of the leaders of the Nor
mon church to transfer their headquar-
tiers from Salt Lake City TO this point
in Mexico, and begin there the build
ing of a city of refuge for the faithful
who find that they must get beyond the
reach of the laws of the United States.
Although the Mormon leaders seem
as defiant as ever, they are probably be-
ginning to realize that their contest
with the government is likely to be an
unequal one for them. They may make
stubborn resistance for some time,
but the state of feeling against them
throughout the country indicates that
the polygamists cannot for many years
longer nullify the law for the extirpa-
ton of their abominable practice, or
evade the pursuit of justice. 1t is
stated that Joseph Smith, Jr., eldest
son of the Nauvoo prophet, and chosen
head of the Reorganized Mormons,"
numbering some twenty thousand, has
gone to Utah to plead with the Nor
mons there to give up polygamy, obey
the laws, and renounce all Brighamite
apostasy and heresy to the first princi-
pies of their gospel. All accounts agree
that he has been very well received,
except by the leaders, and his warnings
and exhortations are beginning to have
considerable effect. If the polygamists
do not leave the United States to estab-
fish themselves in another country, they
will be forced to abandon their " relic
of barbarism." The Mormons may en-
joy the religious freedom guaranteed by
the Constitution to all sects and creeds,
but they cannot be tolerated in prac-
tice that violates the law of the land
and outrages the best moral sentiment
of human society.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12
A National Funeral.

1t has been truly said that, consid-
cred in all their significance, the obse-
quies of General Grant last week are
without a parallel in history. The
funeral pageant in New York was mag
nificent and impressive, and no such
assemblage of soldiers, statesmen and
citizens, whose names are known
throughout the civilized world, was
ever before gathered on such an occa-
sion. Memorial services were also held
in most of the cities and chief towns;
and in the smaller places strong inter-
est was shown almost universally. Po-
litical and religious differences and race
preiudices were buried from sight in
the solemn hour, and all united in
mourning the great loss which they
felt that the nation had experienced.
But the funeral honors paid to Grant
have deeper significance than is to be
found in the formal expressions of
mourning. They embodied the ma jes-
tic tribute of nation to the memory
of man who had come to be univer-
sally esteemed for his positive merits
his heroism and generalship, his broad
patriotism, his noble humanity, and
the many excellencies displayed in his
domestic life and in his intercourse with
his fellow-men.
The exalted appreciation of General
Grant by his countrymen was mani
tested quite as profoundly in other
lands. On the day of the funeral at
Mount McGregor, memorable service
was held in Westminster Abbey, at
which Canon Farrar delivered a fer
vent and eloquent eulogy on General
Grant. "Such careers" he said, {" are
the glory of the American continent;
they show that the people have SOW
ereign insight into intrinsic force"
Among the notable eulogies pronounced
in our own country, on the day of the
great funeral in New York, were those
of Mr.. Blaine at Augusta, Senator Frye
at Lewiston, General Butler at Lowell,
Colonel Higginson at Cambridge, and
Senator Hoar and General Devens at
Worcester. Said Mr.. Blaine: Con-
tention respecting General Grants
rank as commander ceases, as Union
list and Confederate alike testify to his
powers in battle and his magnanimity
in peace. Controversy over his civil
administration closes, as Democrat and
Republican unite in pronouncing him
to have been in every act and aspira-
ton an American patriot" Said SEN
ator Hoar: {" For the last twenty years
of his life, if you measure him by what
it was his fortune to accomplish, or by
the honors which have been voluntarily
paid him by mankind, he was the fore
most citizen of the world" Said Gen
eral Butler: " l hold him to have been
substantially as worthy as mortal man
may be of the love, admiration and
plaudits of this great people; that
there is due for him all over this land
the heartfelt sorrow, the trusting love
and the reverent appreciation with
which the nation now weeps at the por-
tails of his tomb. He will, and ought to,
go down to our children and our chill
dren's children, as long as memory
lasts or records endure, as the soldier,
the hero, the statesman and patriot"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-12

THE last number of Puck pictured
President Cleveland as giant, bound
in the direction of non-partisan govern
ment, while Vice-president Hendricks
is depicted as endeavoring to drag the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-05-15
Tennegsee At New ORLEANS.

The exhibit of our state st the New
Orleans exposition compares favor~
ably with that Of any Of her sister
states, and in many respects riva's
that Of all oilers. Tie exhibits ale
well arranged and in that respect re.
fleets credit upon the management
Of om commissioner. The arrange
ment IS nothing ike as costly as that
Of many Of the states, bnt every dollar
expended in that way was made 10
count. In corn and marble, Tennes-
see IS far ahead Of anything we saw,
and after going through the exhibit
Of this state we made comparison Of
the other state exhibits with that Of
cur own. Vermont was next to Ten
nezsee in marble, aud Kentucky was
next to her in corn, South Carolina
had a very fine exhibit ofeorn: Then
in tobacco, Tennessee was equal, if
not superior t. any OTHER state. Viz
giuia, North Carolina and Kentucky
had very fne eXhibi Of tobacco, III
the Tennessee department we saw 5he
finest specimens Of clover, blue grass,
orchard grass and miiiet bay in the
whole building. Ia al kinds OF grain
our state compared 5aToFubly with
any other 10 ceal and Lro9 we were
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-05-15

The Forkcd Deer Blade in referring to
the above named prominent physician and
specialist OF Jackson, says:
In. G. G. Savage, who has hut recently
returned from Europe, where he has been
studying in the schools and hospitals Of
Vienna and LonInn, has decided to give
mp his general practice and devote himseli
entirely to the treatment Of the diseases
peculiar to the eye, ear, throat ana nos,
Dr.. Savage has enjoyed 4 lucrative general
practice in Jackson for several years. and
has been wonderfully successful, but hav-
ing devoted 50 much time and study to the
above named special diseases, lie viii no
dosbt 5e more useful to suffering humari-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-05-15
Blood on the I00n.

Last Saturday night Dock Hpus
ton and Sam Sain, both col0rod, had
some trouble in town and agreed 20
80 outside Of the corporate limits
aud settle tile trotble by IN old-fash-
Toned fisticuT Several parties went
with them, and we are tod that they
were pretty evenly matched, but
Sain was a little too mach for his an
ta@on;st, and Houston yelled that he
had p enty, pretty soon. They were
separated and Houston left tie par
ty and waylaed for Sain on the road
back to town, AMI as lie passed
knocked him down with a brickbat.
SANS would was at first thought to
be dangerous, but later reports are
that lie Is not 50 badly hurt. uous-
ton was arrested and held until it was
ascertainod that SJin was not dan
grously injured, when be WAS re
leased with a Gne.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-05-15
Death of Tames @. Fleminc

Capt. james G. Fleming was found
dead in his bed in jacksonville, Fla,
on the morning Of the 9Th inst. It is
Supposed that he died Of heart disease
and the news Of his death was a great
shock to his many friends and fela-
tives living at this place. He had
been in bad health for some years,
but his trouble was caused by his
wound in the hip received during the
war. lie has been a great sufferer
fof more than 20 years. In fact We
have heard him say that he was never
without pam. Heliyed in this county
many years and was universe ally es~
toemcd by cur people, He was a
warm friend, genial companion, a
man Of fine talent, and above all, "an
honest man, the MODEST work Of
God.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-05-15
= Cloxarnors Notes.

The health Of this section has greatly i'm
proved within the past few weeks.
The only saloon at Cloverp6rt has gone
the way el all the earth.
Mrs. Mayo Of Madison county, visited
her mother. Mrs. Alison, last week.
The school in charge of Prof. Mater;
giving perfect satisfaction.
Orr correspondent tells OF a Young lady
formerly lived in that section, but went
We. and married two years ago, and has
within that time presented her husband
with two sets of twins A former lover o.
The young lady pal,s at the thoughts Of his
marrow escape.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-05-15
Land and Lots For Sale
In aud near Bolivar, Tenn.

About $50 acres Of land near the town oil
Bolivar, adjoining the corporate line. also a
number Of lots within the corporate limits
are offered tor sale by the owners, G A
Swinebroad and WIFE, The lois include the
former residence ard grounds al Grecnberry
Bright, the property known rs Bright's Tan
Yard, and the cotton shed let opposite tht
jail. The lands immediately adjoin tho
corporate line Of The town and extend across
Spring Greek.
Either ,ands or lots will lie divided to
suit purchasers, and reasonable ternfs OF
& lie will be agreed upon. For informa-
uon apply to WOOD & MCNEAL,
Att'ys Bolivar, Tenn,