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CANCELLATION OF TIE SOUTH.

Harper's Weekly recently attempted
to show wherein the North has made
mistakes in its treatment Of the South
and to Indicate the method of procedure
which must be adopted in order to more
closely unite the different sections. The
editorial to which we refer was in keep
ing with that once influential journals
Inconsistent course since it espoused the
cause OF that party which its able editor
only four years ago go unsparingly de-
nounced as conspiracy against human
rights" The article was an apology to
the South because the North had ever
presumed to express opinions unfavor.
able to Southern methods in securing
and firmly establishing the domination
of the white race regardless of the will
of the majority. In the article are found
these words: 1T, the South, must be
approached in a friendly and fraternal
spirit" That is all right in theory; but
what shall be done when in return for
the display of friendly and fraternal
spirit" the North receives nothing but
abuse and villification, and Northeners
who venture to live in the South and
assert their political rights are subject.
ed TO personal violence resulting not in
frequently in the loss Of life? The South
has shown no disposition to deal fairly
and honestly in the settlement of diff
culties which have arisen since 1865.
Southerners to carry their points have
resorted to the shot gun and the bowie
knife and are indignant whenever It is
suggested that the aTbitrament OF polit-
icai differences should be effected by
ballots rather than bullets. The only
cause for wonder is that the North has
not long since insisted upon its rights,
and il necessary TO secure them appeal
ed again to arms. In no other country
on the globe would such state Of
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1t has been great many years since
the complaints of inefficient postal ser
vice were as general as at present. Not
alone from remote and unimportant dis
tricts does the expression of dissatsfac-
ton come. But right in the busiest por
tions of the country there are delays in
the delivery of mail which are inexcusa
BILE, and which are the more noticeable
because of the high degree of efficiency
attained by the postal department under
the last Republican administration.
Boston beats Chicago in divorces as
we'll as base ball. The Hub now comes
to the front with BAL cases in single
day. Surely a place where there is so
much parting can no longer claim to be
the American Heaven,
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We have always commended that the
interstate commerce law was an at
tempt to regulate demand and supply
by arbitrary rules, and in the end
would cause its promoters grief. just
how this was to become the fact has not
vet transpired, but here is one instance.
Referring to an item on our outside
pages to-day, the reader will see that
both telegraph and railroad corporations
are liable to escape taxation. the former
in particular having obtained decision
to that exemption on account OF inter-
state business. If the telegraph compa-
MES, why not the railroads, the insuro,
ance corporations and all the others?
Perhaps this double sword of Granger
legislation, like the Vermont inquisito-
rial tax law, may eventually bring
all the taxes upon the land owned by
individuals. If so, it would be Chick
ems come home to roost" with a ven
Qpance.
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STATE NOTES,
Troy (Kan.) Chief.

Several snow-banks are still visible il
Wilmington.
The University of Vermont has bought
the Hubbard Chittenden firm at South
Burlington, just outside the city limits
for an agricultural experiment station.
The Universalsts of Wilmington have
voted to call the Rev. Edwin w. Pierce,
who has occupied their pulpit for few
Sundays.
The Rev. A. B. Flanders, rector of st,
Paul's Episcopal Church at White River
Junction, has accepted a call from the
parish at St. Adams, and will go there
about June /.
NJ. l.. Faulkner's presence of mind
and large overcoat saved the Roches-
ter House from being destroyed by fire
Wednesday night, May o. The Perci-
val Glass Blowers were giving an enter
tainment in the ball, when Mr.. Faulk-
ner stepped into the second hall and
thought he could smell smoke, and on
going down stairs found the stairs in a
blaze, which he soon smothered with an
overcoat that hung in the office. Ten
minutes later the fire would have been
beyond control. 1t took by the explo-
sion of the hall lamp.
The annual encampment at Norwich
University will open on June and con-
tinue through the commencement. The
Rev. A H. Webb will deliver the bac-
calaureate sermon before the senior class
on Sunday, Juns 10. The shooting
match will take place on Monday, and
Tuesday will be given up to field sports,
base ball, address before the Theta Chi
fraternity by the Rev. Walter Dole, and
the annual dinner of the Alpha Sigma
Pi society. The trustees will meet on
Wednesday and the junior exhibition
will take place on the evening of the
same day. The graduating exercises
will be on Thursday. when there will be
an address before the trustees by Colo
mel Albert Clarke of Rutland. The mil.
itary drills will take place in the after
noon, and the week will close with a
ball and concert in the evening.
Mr.. Shurtleff of Montpelier is running
as Democratic candidate for Governor
of Vermont By the time the Republi
can majority is counted against him he
will not have a Shurtleft.- Hartford
Post.
The steamer Vermont will commence
her regular summer trips between Platts
burgh and Ticonderoga on Monday,
May 2S.
The results of the canvass of the New
England Homestead among the farmers
of this corner of the country as to their
opinion of the Mills bill should serve as
a timely warning to the supporters of
that grotesque measure. By a vote of
ten to one the farmers of New England
and the eastern portion of New York
condemn it. A vote of three or four to
one against the bill would not be sur
prising. A vote of ten to one is an
and overwhelming answer
to the free trade sophistrIes. The free
trade strength in New England and New
York never was and never will be
among the intelligent and progressive
American farmers. 1t is to be found
chiefly in the slums of the large cities,
which have always been the Democratic
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Sunderland.

in. Stockwell, who is i'll with pneu-
monia, is gaining quite rapidly. His
sister, Mrs. NJ. jSchutt, is with him.
Mrs. NJ. VssB. Bacon is very sick.
She is attended by Dr. E. V. Trult.
David Snyder has moved to Arlington.
Mrs. Fred. Cook is absent on visit to
her parents in Pittsford.
G. G.. Houghton's eldest daughter,
Mrs. Yates Rogers Of Schuylerville, n.
Y, is visiting her parents and sister,
Mrs. E. G. Bacon.
Belated Items
j. N. Stockwell is very dangerously
i'll with pneumonia, at the residence OF
E. G. Bacon, for whom he is working.
DIR, W, s. Philips attends him.
G. G. Houghton has been quite sick,
but is improving.
]. Gavrean cut his hand quite badly
on a saw in G. w. Bradley's box shop,
one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt Bentley are both
very sick at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abel Goldthwaite OF
Troy, have been visiting in this place
this week.
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SOME FUN PROBABLE AT ST.
LOUIS.

The Express and Mail has special
from Washington yesterday that says
1t seems that the st. Louis convention
may not he as amicable a gathering as
is now expected. 1t has come to the ears
of the closest friends of the President
that therelis positive movement among
an influential portion of the delegates
from certain sections, notably Connect.
cut, New York and New Jersey, to an
lagonize his wish for an endorsement
of his message and the Mills bill. 1t ap
pears that there is marked division of
sentiment on that subject and that the
lines will be sharply drawn when the
question narrows down to an issue be-
tween the administration and protection
Democratic forces.
1t is expected that the action of the
Pennsylvania convention to-day will
exert formidable influence in shaping
the course of things in this line at st.
Louis. An outspOken endorsement at
Harrisburg would have weight at St.
Louis, as il will be claimed that il the
message and the bill can be endorsed by
Pennsylvania Democrats IN the very
stronghold of protection. it can be at
st. Louis, where the aggregate and ma.
jority view Of the Democratic party will
he in the ascendant.
1t is stated that the President makes
an overshadowing point of this endorse.
ment of his message and the Mills bill
framed in accordance with the doctrines
Il enunciated, and failing to secure such
an endorsement of his course he may
not be willing to take the field. On the
strength of such a contingency in
fluential politicians here are talking a
great deal in a quiet way about Secre-
tary Whitney. AS Gov. Hill has been
probably shelved, Whitney, in such an
event, might be available. 1t is known
that he has inclined more to the con
sentative side Of this question,
The denomination OF the President is
a certainty. but those who know his
views declare that il he IL to lead the
party again he will do it on his own
platform,
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LOCAL POSTSCRIPT,


Joseph Farnham and son, Eugene, are
home on visit.
Frank Gardner is visiting in Hoosick
Falls.
The Rev. G. II. Merrill Field, secre-
tary of the Vermont D. NJ. s., preached
a very interesting and instructive ser
mon in the Congregational Church,
Wednesday evening,
The Rev. G. G. Cook, Deacon B. W.
Stafford and wife. DIR. E. r. Clark, Mrs.
Fayette Shepherd and Mrs. N. H. Batch.
elder attended the Congregational Con-
ference at Manchester Tuesday.
Fayette Shepherd is improving his
house by laying a new cellar wall.
Several frosts here lately. some of
them sufficient to form ice on water
standing out of doors.
A young man came to one of our local
clergymen on a recent evening and said
he would like to have him perform the
marriage ceremony for him at o'clock
the next morning. This seemed like a
sort of Providence for the minister, who
was of course all ready at the appointed
time. The young man arrived, accom-.
panied by the object of his affections,
but to the minister's amazement he said
that it was raining and he guessed they
would not get married that day. He
in the clergyman's keeping, and after
securing it they went away. Let us
pray for sunshiny weather.
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Magnificent vestibule express trains
built expressly for this service, with all
the latest mprovements-nowr run daily
each way between Chicago and Council
Bluffs, over the Great Rock Island route 4;
time, sixteen hours. This is a splendidly
appointed series of continuous parlors
on wheels. including elegant dining and
palace sleeping cars, No noise, no dust
no swaying of coaches, no cold draughts
of air, no samming of doors, but restfuI
comfort the entire journey. No poten-
tate of the old world travels in a more
princely style, or commands greater lux
uries or more of them, than those going
west can now enjoy, if ticketed to or
from Council Bluffs via the Great Rock
Island route. This train also connects
at Omaha with the Overland flyer, +"
going through to and from Chicago and
San Francisco, Portland, Ore, and Los
Angeles, in eighty-seven hours. Tickets
and rates by the Rock Island vestibule
no higher than are charged by lines hav
ing greatly inferior accommodations.
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BY virtue of an execution to me ordered and di
rected by the plaintiff / have levied up ant
will sell at Public Vendue to the highest bidder
May Gath, 1883, on the steps of the Court House
In the town OF Bennington, at the hour Of II
O'Clock in the forenoon. five parcels or pieces o
real estate. the same being leased.ots and subject
terest, situated on the north side of County
containing six acres more or less,
Also, at O'Clock in the afternoon Of the same
day at the school house in District No u, in said
owned by Rhoda and Charlotte Stratton, and on
east side OF highway in said District,-said lot
containing about one-half acre, more or less.
Also all the right title and interest In and unto
the mineral, clay and ochre beds situated in the
northeast part Of said town Of Bennington, on
lands occupied by Rhoda and Charlotte Stratton,
purchased by Homer A. Lyons from Chas. L.
and Elijah Dewey, by quit claim deed, dated July
IS, 1877.
Also, at same time and place the equity OF re.
demption in the home farm owned and occupied
BY Homer A, Lyons in District No. 70, in the
north part of the town Of Bennington, containing
forty acres more or less together with the equity
Of redemption in ten acres more or less of wood
land situated on the Bald Mountain, so called
Also, on the 25th day Of May at II O'Clock in
the forenoon, al the hotel kept by Charles Hast
ngs in South SALISBURY, two-thirds interest in
certain wood lot situated In the west part Of the
town Of SALISBURY, known as the "Tinkham
lot"
JAS. L. MCCALL, Sheriff
Bennington, Vt, May I'd, 1888. lSw3
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Chicago Correspondence gives the in
formation that almost all the Prcsiden-
tial talk that one hears hereabOuts, as
doubtless the telegraph will long since
have told YOU, is for Gresham. An In
dianian by birth and legal residence,
this famous United States Circuit Judge
has become the "favorite, stepson' OF
Illinois by temporary adoption, and
with Blaine out Of the question: the
first choice of several of the Northwest
ern States as well. The Illinois delega-
ton is reported solid for him and even
Democrats here give ready assent to all
that is said in his praise. The principal,
if not the only known cause for the
doubt regarding Judge Gresham's or
thodoxy on the doctrine of protection
appears to be the fact that he is warmly
advocated by the Chicago Tribune,
which is also a rabid advocate Of free
trade as laid down by Grover Cleveland
The Tribune claims to be Republican
newspaper, though its course is pattern
ed on the style of the Providence Jour
nal. 1t every day tells the American
farmer that the protective tariff is rob-
bling him. The 1nterOcean on the tar
if question and Republican policy in
general, occupies in this western coun-,
try pretty much the same large and
prominent place that the Journal does
In Republican journalism in New Eng
land. Mr.. Nixon, its editOr-i chief,
who is very close to Judge Gresham and
supports him for the Presidency, says
editorially that the Judge is all right on
protection, and that the Tribune's mo-
tive for advocating his candidacy so ar
IDENTIFY is to get back into the good grac-
es of the party on the strength of his
popularity. 1t finds him. a convenient
candidate ito tie TO-" as it were. The
Tribune, on its own side, disclaims any
knowledge of Gresham's tariff views
other than is obtainable from his New
York speech inlss4 in support of Blaine
but in that Judge Gresham expressed
the opinion that It was the duty of this
country to legislate on the tariff for its
own benefit, rather than for the benefit
of all mankind. They could not well
construe that utterance as indicating a
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who Can - Ger There, Ell 30

With the right candidate the Republi'
cans can carry every Northern State
and, by working for it, West Virginia
also. There are 401 electoral votes, OF
which POI are necessary to a choice.
Here are the States and the number OF
votes that may be carried by the right
candidate. We make no suggestion as
to who that would be, leaving it to the
good sense of every Republican:
NEW JERSEY
MASSACHUSETTS Il
VERMONT
NEW YORK 30
WISCONSIN II
MICHIGAN 1a
INDIANA Is
ILLINOIS q
CALIFORNIA
MINNESOTA
KANSAS
NEW HAMPSHIRE
OHIO q
RHODE ISLAND
NEBRASKA 6
PENNSYLVANIA 80
IOWA 10
MAINE
CONNECTICUT
OREGON
NEVADA 3
COLORADO
WEST VIRGINIA 6
254
IN ~ FNt-s-
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Tbe 8tnnin9tun8unn
BENNINGTON VERMONT
thursday AFTERNOON, MAY "a

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas, living near
Amherst, Va, went off Saturday to a
church meeting, leaving their son Hen
ry, aged years, in charge OF three small
children. When the parents returned
they found this youth lying on the floor
in his blood, and the children more or
less hurt, STOPPING around him. He was
insensible, having been shot in the head
and his skull fractured. He cannot sur
vive. The three children, who can
barely speak said that big black man
came out of the woods and shot in the
room at them.
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MORE ABOUT THE Golden CLUI

The American people ought to be made
thoroughly conversant with the Golden
Club, its personnel and purposes. 1t is
an association of British noblemen (so
calleG), of lords and gentlemen ESQ
called). 1t was organized in 1866. Its
avowed object is to spread the commerce
of England through the world. Its
membership embraced at one time 200
members of the British House of Com
mons and eleven of the fourteen mem
bers of the British Cabinet.
In 1879 Mr.. Thomas Bayley Potter,
secretary of the club, came to America
with the avowed purpose of naturalizing
the institution here, and 80 well did he
succeed in the enserprise that on July
90, 1880, the New York Evening Post
made the announcement that the club
was then ION sound financial basis,
with working capital assured for several
years to come" and that it had decided
to "direct its energies largely to the con
gressional districts" True to Its pur-
poses, it proceeded to enlighten the
American people by scattering tons of
its precious literature among the farmers
of the West. Its well.fed orators went
abroad in the land to poison the mind of
youth in American colleges and to Sc.
duce and insult the American people.
1t was the British invasion In another
guise, with its assured working CAPT
tall seeking to secure by corruption
what it failed to achieve by war.
We are admonished by every page of
American history to "fear the Greeks
even when bearing gifts" For while
the British nation is the Ishmaelite of
the nations generally, her feelings to-
ward America are especially malevolent,
her animus the malignity of the weaker
rival. The apparent revival of her love
for the hayward child America is born
of her necessities. Every respectable
nation in Europe has erected the bars of
protection against her; the Russian army
is at her gate in India. A practically
solid North Indignantly spurns her offer
of free trade.
One only hope remains to them-the
Irish of New York city. While their
suffering kindred at home are struggling
CALAMITY in the loosening grasp of Eng.
land, she turns her bloodshot eyes to-
ward New York harbor. Her Golden
Club and her famine exiIes will "clasp
hands across the bloody chasm" of cen
turtles on the common platform of free
trade. The Celt who left with ven
geance" in 1847 is expected to dsarm
their further resentment by submission,
and, licking the boot that kicks him,
rush to the polls TO vote the very bread
from out his children's mouths, and to
still the spindles and quench the furnace
fires of America New York Press.
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During the tariff debate Congressman
Stewart of this district expressed his
unwillngness to commit the revision of
the tariff to gentlemen avowedly hostile
to the system. He feared the
Greeks, even when bearing gifts, and
could not believe IN the professions of
friendship for the protective system in
dulged in by the gentlemen on the other
side, The Mills bill was the shbboleth
of the Democracy. A notice was posted
on the doors of the White House that
no industrial Democrat need apply.
Laughter. This was the modern De-
mocracy. The fear of the executive
disapproval confronted every represen-
tative who felt constrained to follow the
dictates of his conscience and the COD
victions of his constituents. He argued
against the free wool clause, which was
not asked for or wanted by the wool
growers, the wool manufacturer or the
workingman. The only persons who
wanted it were representatives of the
traditions of another age and of the
British manufacturer.
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1t is good news to hear from the in
undated regions in the Mississippi val
lev that the flood seems to have spent
its force and that there is an evident
subsistence of the waters. No computa-
ton can yet be made that would give
any approximate notion of the damage
done by this calamity. If we could
imagine the Hudson river between AL
bany and New York to be so raised in
its elevation that it would cover the
country on both sides for general
width of seven miles we could under
stand from nearer acquaintance of
the country, the ruin that event would
cause.-the cities and villages that would
be submerged, the farms, mills and
great industries that would be destroy
ed. Such a ruin as this has resulted at
one stretch only of the great river OF
the West, and there are many other
points that have not Jared great deal
better. Thousands of people retiring
slowly before the advancing waters are
camped out on the hills, ruined and dis
heartened by the Aloss of all they had in
the world; so much broken up morally
that hunger and cold seem perhaps to
them the least of the evils they endure.
And when the waters are gone they
will be but little better off. They have
no homes, no cattle, no implements
nothing of all that is needful for a new
start in life.
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There are but forty-one Vermont
teachers who are members OF the Ma
tional Association. As Illinois heads
the list with one-tifth of all her teachers
enrolled in the national body, and sew
eral other States showing very finely as
to members, the Colorado School Jour
nal calls attention to the enthusiasm OF
Kansas, Iowa and several other States
contiguous. The New England Jour
nal Of Education points to some local
circumstances which take the edge OIL
this criticism somewhat. but still the
fact remains that many more OF our
teachers ought to become interested IN
both their State bodies and the National
Teachers Association.
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Dobbins' Electric Soap
NsTATE OF CLARIssA B. NORTON.


Will Presented.
STATE OF VERMONT,l In Probate Court held
District Of Bennington, IS. at the Probate Office in
Bennington within and for said Obstruction the Sth
day Of May, A D. 1883
Present, Hon. Edward L. Sibley, Judge.
An instrument. purporting to be the last viii
and Testament Of Clarissa B. Norton, late
of Bennington, in said district deceased being
presented by Frank Z. Norton, the executor there
in named for Probate, II is ordered by said Court,
that all persons concerned therein be notified to
appear at a session thereof, to be held at the
Probate Office in Bennington, in said district on
the 26th day Of May. A. D. 1855. at o'clock
In the afternoon, and show cause II any they
have, against the probate Of said viii for
which purpose it is further ordered, that this
der be published three weeks successfully in the
Bennington Banner newspaper printed at Ben.
nington in this State previous TO said time Of
hearing.
By the Court,
lows Attest E, L. SHELLEY, Judge.