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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

IN the Sanders-Carr murder trial the
jury found the respondent sane, but
brought in a verdict of manslaughter
For murder in the second degree the
penalty is life Imprisonment; for man
slaughter, fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars, or Imprisonment for
life or not less than seven years.
Judge Powers sentenced the convicted
man to twenty years. imprisonment
at hard labor. BY good behavior,
it is in the power of the prisoner
to have ten months counted as a
year in the execution of his SEN
tence. In this verdict and sentence we
believe that substantial justice has
been done. In view of all the circum-
stances, verdict of murder in the first
degree would have been extreme Sc
verify. The jury finds the man not
guiltless, but his act stripped of the
elements of unprovoked, or "wilful,
deliberate and premeditated killing"
l. hC oOboChSC VI liiC SOulb 10 u lull
ure of the enormity of the mans offence
against the laws, of the peril of his eX-
ample to good order and the safety of
the community. He had a fair trial.
He was prosecuted with vigor, but in a
spirit that was humane; he was de-
Tended with the skill and vigilance that
it is right should be interposed, where
life is the issue, between the law and
the object of its prosecution; the jury
was one of exceptional intelligence and
mental sobriety, and the judge in his
charge and sentence divided justice
equitably between the individual and
the community The individual was
grievously at fault, but the community
was not blameless. The victim of his
pistol, in the sight of the state, was
violating the laws both of God and
man. His unrebuked trespasses upon
the rights of his neighbor, his wicked
and unrestrained forays upon the sa-
cred territory of domestic life led to
uio Nloiclil uOooh' iiau tiiO hldtO uoHc
its full duty, in the first instance, il
would very likely never have been
confronted with the question of the de.
gree of Sanders crime. The elements
of similar tragedies exist If the state
would save itself from embarrassment il
some future contingency, it should dc
its full duty before the crack of the as
sassin's pistol announces another cast
of the infiction of personal vengeance
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
ArbOr Day.

For several years THE WATCHMAN
has striven to excite an interest in Yer
mont on the subject of forest preserva-
ton. The Importance of the existing
forests, not only as the sources of
tangible material wealth but in their
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

WE notice that the Patrons Rural
has been awakened to the results in
distant Oregon of "foolish legisla-
tion," to wit: the Oregon mortgage
tax law. The Rural favored the
Douglass bill at the late session of the
legislature. 1t embodied provisions
very much like those which, the Rural
says, were carried through the Oregon
legislature by the farmer element.
When this law, requiring holders of
mortgages to pay taxes on land or
houses in the counties in which the
mortgages were recorded, was passed,
money-lenders, particularly those liv-
ing outside the state, refused to take
any more mortgages on real estate and
intimated to parties against whom they
held mortgages that when those fell
due they must be paid" The law, the
Rural says, has recoiled upon the
farmers and "has made it difficult to
hire money" In test case the supreme
court of the state sustained the law,
but it is believed the United States
court would declare it invalid. cit has
prevented capital from coming into the
state and has driven out capital that
was already in the state" These,
among others, are precisely the evils
which, THE WATCHMAN argued, would
afflict the farmers of this state if the
Douglass bill, which the Rural favored,
should become a law. 1t is as plain
as the sunlight that such measure,
pressed by the farmer element in Yer
mont, would recoil upon themselves"
We congratulate the Rural upon the
discovery it has made, and trust its far
sighted vision will now be fixed upon
Vermont and help to save the state
from similar affliction. The example
of Oregon was cited by Parker of Cam
bridge in the brief debate last fall. He
read letter from an Oregon farmer,
the substance of which was that the
law was very disastrous, it was running
the farmers, and the mortgages on theil
farms were being foreclosed In Ore.
gon, if the Rural is right, ga large pro-
portion of the farms are mortgaged.'
1t is evident that the trail of the mort
gage serpent is over all the states-les'
sharply defined, perhaps, in Vermont
where it is the stock-in-trade of certain
political economists, than in many
other communities. No such specific
as the Douglass bill will cure the evil
individuals and corporations, in every
other branch of business, are borrow
ers to a greater or less extent. Tht
farmers are no exception. Probabl,
as many of this class, in proportion t.
its numbers, are free from debt as mer
chants or manufacturers, mechanics
clerks or professional men. In farm
ing, as in all other occupations, brain
are better than special legislation t.
pay debts and raise mortgages, intelli
gent enterprise and industry than com
plant and whining. The Rural i
quite correct when it says of matter
in Oregon: "The course of event
there has lesson for the Legislators O
Vermont. Unjust legislation, like in
justice everywhere, sooner or later re
coils upon its authors"
ArbOr Day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

THE flying of the flag at half-mast at
the interior department and the sus-
pension of business for the day, in honor
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
The CoIIectorship.

Christian Knecht of Dayton walks
off with the Collectorship Of this Dis
trict. He is a young man who was
never heard of in the Democratic
ranks until he was brought forward
by Anderson as a candidate for the
position. 1t is said by knowing ones
that Anderson was under personal
obligations to Knecht as the .'boodle"
distributor that secured him his late
nomination for Congress, the same
that he failed to purchase at an ex-
pense of $1,000, when he bucked
against Ben lie Fevre several years
ago in the Sidney District. If Con
gresham Campbell had laid around
the White House for five weeks, wax
ed and twisted his mustache like q
Mexican brigand, licked the boots Of
the new President, slobbered ovel
his livery and kitchen servants
pledged his district Representatives
in the interest Of the coal oil gans
and threatened Butler county to e
Republican he might have succeeded
in getting his candidate FL Collect
or. MIR. Campbell has preserved hi
manhood.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

Geo. Schneider who was hanged at
Hamilton last Friday for the afro
cious crime of numbering his mother,
in his speech on the gallows said that
he expected to inject all his friends
in heaven where the Lord was waiting
for him." Isn't it about time that the
minds of all bloody handed murder
ers be disabused ofsuch q happy land.
ing for them in the beyond? Under
the influence of the talk of Ministers
and prayer, the gallows seems to have
Iost its terrors and devils inhuman
walk upon the scaffold, smilingly bid
all around good bye, and assert they
are going straight to heaven! If
Heaven is the destination of such in
famous wretches and inhuman devils,
we would prefer some other locality
after we are shufied out of this world.
No wretch like Schneider deserves
spiritual advisers that would lead
him into the belief that his crime can
be atoned for here or hereafter. They
should be plainly told that hell is
their doom, ~eternally and forever, and
that no praying could save them. It
is only a bid for more murders to
have these criminals made believe
that through prayers their crimes are
wiped out and they are quietly taken
to rest into Abraham's bosom.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

The mugwump dream of the mil
lenium is at an end. The President
has marked out a line of policy not
in accordance with their fond hopes,
and will no doubt follow it. The
following from a correspondent of
the Boston Advertiser, will give his
ideas on the matter:
"The President has made uD his
mind that the only way for him to
accomplish much in the line of econo
MIXING and renovating the civil SER
vice is by putting democrats in re-
sponsible positions. AS he has fire.
auently said of late to those who
have talked with him, 81 cannot &C
complish much without q constitu-
ency. That must be the democratic
party in the main. 1t is folly for me
to try to stand between the two
parties. l should come out like the
man who tried to occupy two chairs
and ended by sitting on the floor
He attempts no conc alment of the
fact that to have efficient organiza.
ton at his back is absolutely neces
sary. He talks plainly on the sub
ject. and leaves no doubt in the minds
of his friends that he will go ahead
as rapidly as is at all reasonable te
put the administrative positions in
the hands of democrats"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
NOTICE..

II EvI WOLF, Of DeIavan, Tazwell
IL county, State Of Illinois, will take
notice that on the 27th day Of May, A.
D. 1885, James Werts-surviving MEM
Der of the firm of j. w. Werts 81 Son
filed his petition in the Common Pleas
Court of Preble county, Ohio, against
the above named Levi Wolf, praying
Judgment for the sum Of $109.91 with
So Interest from April 1st. 1871, on a
note dated April 1st, 1871, payable n
day after date; and that an order Of at
tachm ent has been issued and levied on
the Undivided one-thirteenth part
subject to dower-of the following de-
scribed real estate in Preble county,
Ohio, to-wit: 16O acress off of the north
side of Section IL, Township Z, Range
8 east; and that unless said sum is
paid, said real estate will be sold to
pay the judgment so to be obtained In
this case on final hearing. Said Levi
Wolf Is required to answer said petit
ton and order of attachment on or be-
fore the LIST day Of August, A. d. 1855,
or Judgment may be taken against him.
JAMES WERTS.
By L. f. L1MBERT, Atty.
[iun11-6tl
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

We hope that Bro. Doren of the
Dayton Democrat, will Lot attempt
to class Knecht among the mossback
Democrats. He is far from it. II
not, how did he and Anderson hap
pen to have q meeting at the Gibson
House last April with Johnny Nc
Lean, and promise him the Mont
gomery county Representatives for
United States Senator, provided he
would secure Payne's endorsement
for Knecht as the Collector in this
District? Doodle" Johnny filled his
part of the contract, and neither An
derson, Mclean nor Knecht dare
deny it, because positive proof is at
hand to substantiate the charge
Now, Bro. Doren, what will you do
about it?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
NOTICE..

r EvI WOLF, of Tazwell county, Illinois,
II will take notice that D.. J. Werts. of
Preble county, Ohio, did, on the 18th day OF
A. D. 1885, file in the Common Pleas
Court of Preble county, Ohio, their petition,
with a certified transcript OF attach
ment proceedings had by said D.. ). Merts
against said bevi Wolf, before X. +. Meln-
Justice of the Peace of Harrison Town
ship, Preble county, Ohio; and there being no
personal property said proceedings were Ger
tilted to said Common Pleas Court according
TO law. Said petition setting forth hat SAID
Levi Wolf is indebted to said D.& ). Werts
spon a Judgment obtained by said ID. J.
Werts against said Levi Wolf, before ID. A.
Kepner, Justice of the Peace OF Twin Town
ship, Darke county, Ohio, on February 18th,
1871, amounting to SAL. so, and that the same
has never been paid, and praying that SAID
Levi Wolf may pay said sum OF S4l.Sy Win Q
per cent. interest from February 1th, loi4, or
that the following described real estate, OF
which he is the owner) being the undivided
lib part-subject to widows dower-of the
north half of the northeast quarter, ana north
half of the northwest quarter OF Section II,
Town. Z, Range 8 east, in Preble county, u,
on which an attachment has been levied TO Sc
cure said claim, will be sued to pay the same;
and the said Levi Wolf is notified that ne is
required to appear and answer said petition
and attachment proceedings on or before sat
urday, the 18th day of July, AID 1889;
T.. F. L1MBERr, Atty. [may21-6
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

Mark this: In the nomination Of
Democratic candidates for the Legis-
lature, this year, the contest in this
county will be between MCLEAN and
anti Mclean men. The fight will be
come bitter and, the probabilities
now are that it will result in the
county going in favor of the Repub-
licans at tie election.-GermantoWn
Press.
In order to secure the Payne ele
ment support for Knecht for Collect
or, Anderson promised the coal-oil
gang the three Representatives from
Montgomery county. Can he deliv-
er the goods? Where will Dorsn Of
the Dayton Democrat be about that
time? Somebody is bound to be
cheated.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
Legal Notice

Zebulon Harleman, Pltf.,) Preble
vs. common
Levi Wolf, Def':. Pleas.
EVI WOLF, of Tazewell County,
I \ Illinois, will take notice that Zeb-
ulon Harlcman, of the County of Darke,
in the State of Ohio, did, on the 10Th
day of April, 1885, file his petition In
the Court of Common Pleas, Within and
for the County of Preble, in said State
of Ohio, against the said Levi Wolf,
defendant, setting forth that on 18th
day o! May, A. d. 1868, the said Levi
Wolf, defendant, gave the the plaintiff,
Zebulon Harleman, his promlssory
note calling for $56.67 with 10 per
interest that there was due on the
10th day of April, 1885, h sum OF
$ll4.IS on said note and in said petit
ton asked for an order of attachments
to issue against the property of said de-
fendent. And the. said Levi Wolf 1s
notified that he is required to appear
and answer said petition or before the
3rd Saturday after the 25th day Of June
ZEBULON HARLEMAN.
By JOHN v. CAMPBELL & NJ. Il. ALLEN.
NAV 2l-6t. his Attorneys.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

The reunion of the Army of the
Cumberland, on Sept. 10Th and 18th,
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, promis-
es to be well attended this year. The
Michigan Railway Association has
agreed to make one fare for the
round trip, and will place tickets on
sale on Sept. 18th, good to return on
Sept. 18th. The Association has ask
ed every general passenger agent in
the United States to adopt a similar
course, and to make the tickets good
for a longer period for distant points.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

On the 10th day Of October, 1878,
ex-President Garfield in a speech in
Congress used the following langu
age:
81 want to say another thing. The
man who attempts to get up a poll
tical excitement in this country on
the old sectional issues will find him
self without a parry and without sup
port. The man who wants to serve
his country must put himself in the
line of its leading thought, and that
is the restoration of business, trade,
commerce, industry, sound political
economy, hard money and honest
payment Of all obligations; and the
man who can add any thing in the
direction of the accomplishment of
any of these purposes is a public
benefactor."
Will our Republican friends please
compare these u%tterances with those
contained in the Republican platform
adopted by their party at Springfield.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

Two individuals on the street the
other day were warmly discussing
the merits and dement's of the Scott
law decision by the Supreme Court.
As both were wrong in regard to
the political status of the Judges, for
their benefit and all others not post
ed, we give it correctly. The deci-
SIGN was sustained by three mem
bers, Judges johnson and McIlvaine,
Republicans, and Judge Owens,
Democrat. Two ~dissented, Judges
Toilet and Okey, both Democrats.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
The Washington Evening Star
(Indenandent Rpnuhlican) saws.

The Washington Evening Star
independent Republican says:
"The platform adopted by the Ohio
Convention and the speech by AIR.
Taylor are severely criticized by
Democrats, and some Republicans
who do not believe in tearing open
the old sectional sore. The opin-
ion is expressed that the nominee
for Governor, General Foraker, will
ind the platform a heavy drag, aid
that if the fight is made on the re-
vival Of old war Eatreds a large class
of progressive Republicans will take
no part in it. The declaration that
the Democratic Administration is
turning out of office Union soldiers
is met by officials in the departments
by the assertion that a Union soldier
is appointed for every one turned out.
The official roll Of watchmen in the
Treasury up to da'e shows that all
but sixteen of the fifty eight watch
men are Union soldiers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

Elk Governor Click, of Kansas, is
very hopeful of Demo cratic success
in his State next fall, provided the
Administration does something to re-
lieve the people of that State from the
tyranny of certain Republican office
holders, He says that "the Federal
offices in Kansas have been a power.
full political lever fol the Republican
party, the land offices alone having
supported sixty odd Republican
newspapers"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

Cleveland Plain Dealer. The two
men who at the Republican State
Convention howled the loudest "reb,
els" and waved the bloody shirt most
vigorously were Col" j. D. Taylor
and "Col." Allen Miller. Both walled
about the war and lifted up their
voices in dismal screeches over the
alleged woes of union soldiers. Tay
lor is, the man who made a condition
when he enlisted that he would'Lt
have to go outside the State. and is
til, refore called ''feather bed"to this
day. Allen Miller didn't volunteer,
but was drafted, and when he was
drafted set up the plea that he was
an English subject and got off that
way. These are the valiant heroes
that, twenty years after the real
fighting stopped and in the midst of
peace, stand up and bawl for gore.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
Proposed Amendments to the
Constitution Of Ohio.
ELECTIONS
House Joint Resolution No. 81.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing Amendments to articles Tpo,
Three, and Ten of the Constitu-
tion of the State.

Be It resolved by the General Assembly Of the
State OF Ohio: That propositions to amend sec,
section 2 Of article < Of the constitution Of
the State of Ohio, shall be submitted to the
electors of this State, on the second Tuesday
of October, A. D. 1885, to read as follows:
ARTICLE IL.
Section 2. Senators and Representatives
shall be elected biennially by the electors of
the respective counties or districts, ON the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November;
their tenn of Office shall commence on the
first day of January next thereafter, and con-
tinue two years.
ARTICLE III.
Section l. The executive department shall
consist of q governor, acknowledgement,
of state, and an Encouragement, who shall
be elected ON THE FIRST TUESDAY AFTER THE
aaf tSe seSeA and ~ at N4 aSe pIaees eg 81 tR Ret sle g fos
members of the general assembly.
ARTICLE <.
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November. by the electors of each county, in
such manner, and for such term, not exceed
ing three years, as may be provided by iaw.
FORM OF BALLOT.
At such election, the voters in favor of the
adoption of the amendment to section two of
article two, shall have placed upon their bal.
lot the words, Amendment to section two
of article two of the constitution-Yes;" and
those who do not favor the adoption of such
amendment, shall have placed upon their
ballots the words, amendment to section
two of article two of the onstitution-No.'
Those who favor the adoption of the amend
ment to section one of article three of the
constitution, shall have placed upon their
ballots the words, Amendment to section
one of article three of the constitution-Yes;''
and those who do not favor the adoption of
such amendment, shall have placed upon
their ballots the words, amendment to sec.
ton one of article three of the constitution
No." Those who favor the adoption of the
amendment to section two of article ten OF
the constitution, shall have placed upon Their
ballots the words, Amendment to section
two of article ten of the consIitution.Yes;,
and those who do not favor the adoption OF
such amendment, shall have placed upor
their ballots the words, "Amendment to SEQ
ton two of article ten of the constitution
No."
A. D. MARSH,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
JOHN G.. WARWICK,
President Of the Senate
Adopted March Is, 1885.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

We suppose n serious objection
in President Cleveland not giving us
the Collectorship, was that he didn't
want to spoil a good editor to make
a Revenue Collector. Now is the
time to subscribe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer meanly mis-
represented Mr.. Campbell in an in
teryiew, and then waited almost a
week to correct the misrepresenta-
ton! The Enquirer had a purpose
in it's Misrepresentation and in de-
laying the correction.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

The San Francisco people are in
trouble again over the influx of Chi
nese, who are coming thither in
swarms, in spite of restrictive legis-
lation. They come on certificates as
returning coolies.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

Has Montgomery ever produced o
candidate for Governor? If not, put
as down for John A. McMahon. The
remainder of our politicalslife will be
mainly spent to satisfy the capacious
NAV of Montgomery county's states
men for office!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

Since the inauguration of Presi-
dent Cleveland, there has been con
siderable ventilation of the word
partisan" Quite a number have
risen to explain what offensive par
tisanship" was, and we have defini
tions meaning anything from one
who merely votes a party ticket to
one who is bitterly opposed to the
admin tration. 1t is plainly evident
that the presid mt did not mean that
a man must be without party afiiia-
ton; neither did he that he
should be without party activity, for
an interest in politics is a thing to
be commended rather than despised.
In his inaugural Cleveland said:
sour citizens have the right to pre-
lection from the incompetency OF
public employees who hold their pla-
ces solely as the reward of partisan
service, and from the corrupting
methods of those who promise, and
the vicious methods of those who ex
pect such rewards" This is what
President Cleveland meant when he
afterward used the expression "of-
fensive PARTISAN" and it is no doubt
the only correct definition that has
been or will be given.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25

Mr.. Gladstone is now in the seven-
ty sixth year of his age and has sat
in every session of Parliament for
fifty-three years. History does not
record many such instances of con-
tinuous public service.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
NOTICE..

TINE BOARD OF HEALTH again
ask the aiL of the citizens Of Eaton
In their effort to place the town in a
good sanitary condition. We II Just that
each and every one will at once exam
inc their premises and remove or abate
any nuisance that may exist, and at
once report any cause of annoyance
that may exist near them. 1t is the OBJ
iect of the Board to do efficient work,
and any one permitting a nuisance to
exist on their premises will be visited
by q Sanitary Police, who will have
full power to take possession of their
premises and abate said nuisance and
charge the cost arising therefrom to the
property. We trust that these words
will be considered in their full mean
ing, as the Board desires TO lose no
time or make unnecessary delays.
Respectfully submitted by order of
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Eaton, o., June 2, 1885. 4