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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Washington and Orange counties are en-
titled to representation as follows:
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Thurman's Record.

1t is evident that Cleveland dictated
Thurman's nomination for the vice
presidency in the belief that it would
add dignity and strength to the ticket.
He is apparently distrustful of securing
a reelection upon his personal merits
or upon the record of his administra-
ton. Therefore Mr.. Thurman has been
" drafted" to inspire an enthusiasm in
the democratic masses which the pres
dent can not hope to enlist 1t must
be said, however, that the selection of
Mr.. Thurman for the tail of the ticket
is not happy one when the record of
his public life is brought into view.
To say nothing of his being too old for
the office for which he has been nom-
mated, he represents much that is bad
in the history and tendencies of his
party. He is man of eminent ability
as lawyer and legislator, but he has
been for thirty years one of the rankest
of the bourbon element. Many times
during the war he was charged with
giving aid and comfort to the rebellion.
He represented substantially the same
principles as did Vallandigham, though
he was more discreet in his words and
acts. This fact is well understood in
Ohio, if not in the country at large.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean recalls that
when Vallandigham ran for governor
of Ohio in 1868 he was opposed by
Brough, war democrat, who had be-
come member of the Union republican
party and as earnest and thorough a
republican as ever lived. Brough's
majority was over 100000. The first
campaign after the war was made in
1865, with General j. d. Cox as the
republican candidate for governor and
with General G.. w. Morgan as the
democratic candidate. General CoX's
majority was 20 ,546 In 1867 many of
the war democrats who had voted
against Vallandigham were whipped
into a vote for Thurman. Many others
who had acted with the republican
party voted for him or remained away
from the polls because the republicans
came out squarely in favor of the con-
stitutional amendments and negro
suffrage. The bounty-jumpers and
draft-evaders who had been sojournine
in Canada had by this time returned
and they voted for him. On one side
was a democratic leader appealing tC
bourbon and conservative prejudices al
a critical point in the experience of the
republican party. On the other was {
man of irreproachable character, who
had been a good soldier, making the
advance fight for negro suffrage. Thur
man and his party counted on certain
victory, but they were defeated by ;
majority of 5000 and the man (Hayes
who defeated them gained such prestig,
in that campaign that a few years late
he became president of the United
States. In all of the campaigns durin,
and since the war Thurman supporte,
all the candidates and measures of hi
party. In 1861, in a speech before tn
democratic convention at Columbus
Mr.. Thurman declared that Z" it woul
try the ethics of any man to deny tina
some of the Southern States have caus
for revolution, The South are bray
people. The Southern States can nc
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

THE republican state convention will
be held in Montpelier on Wednesday
of next week for the nomination of a
state ticket and presidential electors
at-large. The convention of the second
district will be held here on the same
day for the nomination of member of
congress and two presidential electors.
We believe that the nomination of the
following state ticket is practically as
sured by reclamation: Governor, Will
lam p. Dillingham;; lieutenant-gov-
ernor, U. A. Woodbury.; treasurer, w.
II. Dubois; secretary of state, Charles
w. Porter; auditor, E. Henry Powell.
We have heard no names suggested for
presidential electors. In the district
convention the denomination of Con
gresham Grout may be expected by a
unanimous vote. In the furtherance
of every interest for his district and
state General Grout has been earnest
and faithful, and he commands the
good will and confidence of his con.
stituents in high degree. If the state
ticket is made up as we have indicated
it must be regarded strong one, and
it will deserve the hearty support of all
who believe in the success of repub.
lican principles and sound and con.
servative policy in state affairs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Republican District Convention.

A republican convention for the second
congressional district of Vermont will be
held at Montpelier on Wednesday, the 9th
day of June, 1888, at two p. NJ, for the pur-
pose of nominating a candidate for repre-
sentative from this district to the tifty-hrst
congress of the United States. Also dis
trict committee for the ensuing biennial
term. Towns will be represented in said
convention by their delegates chosen upon
a basis of one delegate from each town, and
an additional delegate for each one hundred
votes, or fraction of one hundred votes over
fifty, cast for the republican candidate for
district committee is empowered to act as
a committee on credentials, and delegates
will provide themselves with their proper
credentials, signed by the secretaries of
their respective primary meetings. and inn
mediately on their arrival at Montpelier
present them to the district committee at
their headquarters-the Pavilion. The sew
eral railroads will extend the usual courtesy
of fare one way.
WIN. II. DUBOIS,
HENRY G. BATES, ni.,.,.,
CHAs. w. KING, N''"' ~
A. 7. FOSTER,
l.. BART CROSS, C,,,,,,,,;,,oo
j. j. WILSON, O'"'''''''''
A. b. FRANKLIN,
West Randolph, VT, June 9, 1888.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

THE proceedings in congress are
just now of little interest. Several
senators and some sixty or seventy
representatives are attending the Chi
cago convention. The tariff bill has
been temporarily laid aside in order
that the house may pass the appropria-
ton bills. In the senate a resolution
of inquiry into the recent Louisiana
election was offered. The agricultural
and post-oflice appropriation bills were
passed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

GENERAL SHERIDAN's condition con-
tinues to improve and considerable
hope of his ultimate recovery is now
entertained.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14
Fccundity of Fishes.

Fishes produce so many eggs that If
gast numbers of the latter and OF the
fishes themselves were not continually
destroyed, these ANIMALS would finally
fill up all the waters. For example,
man annually takes gu, 600 OF TO-
000, 900 Goldfish from the sea around the
shores of Newfoundland. But even
that quantity seems small when we
consider that each cod yields about
45, 900 900 eggs each season. and that
5000, 900 have been found i'll the roe of
a single cod. We're the GO, 000,0 900 cod
taken on the coast Of NewfC midland
left to breed, the 5000 900 females
producing 5000, 900 eggs every year, 1t
would give a yearly addition of l50,-
000, 100 000,000 young Goldfish. Other
fish, though not equallng the cod, are
wonderfully productive. A herring
weighing six or seven ounces is provi-
ded with about $1,000 eggs. After
making all reasonable allowances for
the destruction of eggs and the young,
1t has been calculated that in three
years a single pair of behring's would
produce l54 900, 900. Button calcula-
ted that il a pair of behring's could be
left to breed and multiply undisturhed.
for a period of twenty-years, they would
yield an amount of fish equal in bulk TO
the globe on which we live.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14
The Very Essence of the World.

men will praise thee when thou
doest well to myself" Politics, relig-
ion and social life, as they generally
exist, are all animated with this same
principal; everybody expects, as Is ex-
pected, to do the best for himself.
Children are educated to look after
their own interests; men 60 into bust
ness to secure a fortune for themselves;
people build a church or a mission to
secure the interests OF the denomiRa.
ton to which they belong; nations go
TO war in order to exalt themselves, or
to attain territory, or commercial ad-
yantages for themselves. Again, men
enter into an argument to prove them
selres in the right; they play a game to
show their skill; they furnish a house to
secure thetr comfort; they pray to God
to ease their conscience; and, from FIRST
TO last, self is the object of all. In a
little country town, the squire cannot
dine with the merchant, nor the mer-
| chant with the shopkeeper. nor the
shopkeeper with the dressmaker nor
| the dressmaker with the servant, nor
| the servant with the scavenger. because
| self would be supposed to lose some Of
! Its contemplate superiority.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14
Easter Egg Parties.

have you ever attended an Easter
egg partyp No? Then YOU are uRac-
quainted with one of the most delight
full of social %enjoyments peculiar TO this
eason For a party of young people,
the hostess has prepared "a large basket
full of beautifully dyed and decorate /
eggs from which II present draws
The couples are assorted for the even
ing through the correspondence OF the
eggs. Not until midnight are the shells
opened. wien much interest and amuse-
ment is manifested over tbs notices
and tiny souvenirs found within.
Many artistic souvenirs can be pre-
pared by an arrangement of pressed
flowers and grasses upon plain gilt
edge cards. Fanciful designs may he
traced, and where the flowers are faded,
they may be restored to their original
color by the touch of the paint brush
Such cards are considered much more
original Just now than either the pain
ted or printed ones.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14
HE SAILS IN MARBLE HALLS.
Young Captain n ,rles Bird and his
Flight of $4,000 Miles.

At Canton Is an English steamship
which, from herlfull bark rig and light
yards hanging gracefully squared by
the ''lifts'' and "braces," distinguishes
her from any of the others in the har-
Dor, whose abbreviated masts and
clumsy yards are positively Il painful
comparison for beauty's sake.
The steamer alluded to is the Port
Victor, Captain Charles Bird, belong
ing to the Anglo-Australasian Steam
Navigation Company of London. She
is a beautiful vessel of 1928 tons reg
lister, 3s5 feet long, 40 feet beam and
rs feet depth of hold. Her engines are
pf the triple expansion type, and she
has tubular boilers, which are fired at
both ends. Her crew is a cosmopolitan
mixture of Irish, English, Chinese AMI
Japanese, the two latter n~ationalitles
being seen Oh board In the peculiar rig
of their respective countries.
When the Port Victor make fast to
her Canton pier she had just completed
a trip begun in London sixteen months
ago, and which up to date represents
over 65, 900 miles of ocean travel made
without accident, but full of incidents,
as one must expect by the itineracy
given. Beginning at London the Port
Victor went to Adelaide, Melbourne
and Sydney, in Australia, thence to
China, remaining there three months
lin the coasting trade. Returning to
Australian ports she vas again headed
for China and Japan, thence to Van
Icouver, in British America, back to
China and Japan, and lastly leaving
IHiogo with every part filled with tea
Ishe steamed away, taking in Shanghai,
Hong Kong and Singapore on her way
Ito New York, where she arrived with
her valuable cargo in the best condi-
tion on FEBRUARY 90. During the trip
from London to New York, the Port
Victor carried 100 passengers, for
the accommodation of which she has
been fitted with places for seven hun
bred thlrd-class and a number of first
class passengers.
An interesting feature in the cabins
Of the Port Victor is that the walls i
of marble. The marble is highly pol
ished and divided into panels by beau
tiful pilasters of the same stone. Gold
ornamentation prevails on the panel,
and various colored marbles are used
with effect. The purpose Of the mar
bic walls are to make the cabin less liza
BILE to heat, as trade IN which the An,
glo-Australasian line is engaged is il
the most tropical in the world.
Captain Charles Bird, who is in com
mand of the Port Victor, IS but q
years old. She is his first command.
and both master and ship are admir-
ably matched In good qualities. Hi.
steamer will load $500 tons general
cargo here for London, which will com
;plete a tour of 10000 miles.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14
5Oth CONGRESS.-Firs Session.
SENATE.

In the U. S. Senate on the 9th, the
Joint resolution appTopriating $4,000
for participation in the Brussels Exhi-
bition was reported and passed. The
Military Academy Appropriation bill
was reported and placed on the calen'
dar. The bill to extend the time for
claims for French spoliatlOns was re-
ported adversely. Bills were intro
duced and referred for the establish
ment of a permanent court OF arbitra-
ton between the United States and
Great Britain and France, and (by Mr..
Chandler) for the completion of the Di-
rect Tax of 1861. The bill to author
ize the sale to aliens of certain min.
eral lands was discussed. The question
being on an amendment by Mr.. Faux
ner providing that where mining
claims which have been patented are
acquired by q partnership, a majority
of the partners and of the trustees or
directors shall be citizens of the United
States, the vote was announced as yeas
20, nays LIMO quorum. Tbe roll was
called and a quorum answered, but the
bill was laid aside. and the unfinished
business, the bill to admit Dakota to
the Union and to organize tile Terri
tory of Lincoln, was taken up. Pend
ing discussion the Senate went into
Executive session and afterwards adj
journed.
In the U. s. Senate on the 10th, the
Freedmen's Bank bill Vas taken from
the calendar and referred to the Com
mittee on Finance. The bill to au-
thorize the sale to aliens OF certain
mineral lands was passed-yeas 81,
nays Is The bill for the admission of
Dakota into the Union and the organi-
cation OF the Territory of Lincoln was
discussed. After an executive session,
the Senate adjourned.
In the U. S. Senate on the 18th. a
resolution was adopted requesting the
President, If not incompatible with the
public interest, to furnish any informa-
ton In his possession regarding the
boundary dispute between Great Britain
and Ven zuela. An executive session
OF 10 minutes duration was had. Mr.,
Morrill, spoke at length upon the SUBJ
ject OF the Presidents message, oppos-
ing his recommendations In regard to
the revision of the tariff. AT the con-
clusion of the remarks the Dakota
Admission bill was taken up, and Mr..
Davis spoke in his support. MI.
Turple obtained the floor, and the bill
was laid over. The House bill appEo-
priating $40, 600 for the purchase Of the
swords of the late General Shields, and
the Senate bill appropriating $4,000 in
aid Of the erection in Boston of anon
ument to General Joseph S. Warren,
who fell at Bunker Hill, were passed.
Bills were also passed sppropristing
$3.50. 600 for a public building at Bridge
port, Connecticut; $4,000 for a public
building at Fort Worth, Texas; $780,
600 for a public building at R'rming-
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14

ham, Alabama; $4,000 for a
public building at Tallahassee,
Florida; INCREASING to $500 0 the limit
of cost for u public building at De-
troit, and providing for the establish
ment of a life -saviDg station between
Indian River Inlet, Delaware, and
Ocean City. Maryland. The West Point
Appropriation bill was passed with
a slight amendment, and goes back to
the House for concurrence. A bill for
the purchase, from Miss Virginia Tay-
lor Lewis, of a sword Of Washington
for $40, 900 was read. Mr.. Cockerill
objected to the price as exorbltant,
there being no pretence that the ac-
tual Talue of the sword was even 500.
After discussion, without action o.
the bill, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE
In the House, al attempt was made
by the friends of the special order, the
Direct Tax bill, to arrange for a final
vote on the bill at five O'Clock, and Mr..
Taylor, of Ohio, moved to limit general
debate to one hour. This led at once
to ''hlibustering" tactics by the OPP
ponents of the bill, and the whole day
was consumed in voting on dilatOry
motions. Adjourned.
In the House on the 5th, which had
taken a recess from 2.15 A. NJ. until
11.45, the struggle on the Direct Tax
bill was resumed. After a dreary
round of roll calls, continued for sew
eral hours. the House adjourned.
In the House on the 9th, the flibus--
tering on the Direct Tax bill was kept
up until, at $3.50 2. NJ. the House adj
journed.
In the House, On the 9th, the fill
clustering against the Direct Tax bill
was resumed, and the contest was
continued until a quarter past 10
O'Clock at night. Adjourned.
In the House on the 10th. the dead
lock on the Direct Tax bill was kept
up.
In the House on the 18th, which
had been in session all night, the fruit.
less struggle W the Direct Tax bill
continued until s o'clock in the even
ing. at that hour the exhausted men,
bers agreed to take a recess.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14

There will never exist anything pei
manently noble and excellent in a chai :
acter which is a stranger to the exei-
else of resolute self-denial.
Frown down all tricks, all cunning,
all those winding and crooked COURSE
in business. Take an honorable stand
and boldly maintain it.
A well-managed credit amounts t.
ten.fold the funds of a merchant; ano
he gains as much by this credit as II hi
had ten times as much money.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14

PIG pens should not be in the same
location every season. By having them
movable much valuable manure a be
secured from the saturated earth around
the old sites, while the change to fresh
places Will greatly promote cleanliness
and health.
There will be trotting at Pittsburc
on Decoration day.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14

when Baby was sick, we gave her csstoriA,
When she was a Child, she cried FOR castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to CsstOria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castsria
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-11-30
A Preachers Encounter with Catamounts

Rev. Shamrock Henderson, an aged
and well-known minister of Mcdowell
county, this State had thrilling eX=
perience with catamOuntS few days
ago. which he will be likely TO remem-
Der for some time. While riding along
Cole creek he saw a couple of cata
mount kittens on the bank and con
cluded to capture them, which he did
with considerable difficulty, and plac-
ing them in his saddle pockets, he re-
sumed his journey. He had only rid
den two or three miles when night be-
gan to Overtake him, and he was sud
denly aroused from u reverie by a
shrill scream d short distance behind
him knowing that his only hope
was to fight he dismounted, and arm
ing himself with heavy club awaited
the onslaught. He did not have long
to wait, and found that instead of one
he had two full-grown catamounts to
encounter. The animals both sprang
for him, one of them fastening its
teeth in his shoulders. He finally sue
ceeded in dispatching them both, but
not until he was badly bitten ana
scra tched and had his clothes torn al
most to shreds. He made his way TO
the nearest dwelling with the kittens
still in his possession. he was serious
~ hurt, and it is not at all likely that
he will ever attempt TO capture any
more Young catamounts.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-11-30
Senator Faulkner on the Result.

Senator Faulkner was interviewed
i'm Washington last week OH the sub
iect of the recent election Ill this
State. He said:
In INV own county the Republican
committee brought back more than
300 voters, 119 of them negroes, who
had gone away from the State TO live,
but who had not up TO election day
forfeited their technical right OF SUI.
frage at their old homes. Some OF
these had strayed as far away as Nan
sas and Nebraska, but they all re-
turned in time TO do their utmost Tor
their party on the eventful 9th OF No
yember. The sinews of political war
fare were not absent. There was a
good deal OF sinew and it eXerted itself
nightly. Had it been put i'll active
operation a few days earlier, 1t would
have carried the electoral, State ana
Congressional ticket for the party OF
high tariff. The distribution did not
commence until the Saturday before
the election and nothing could be
done with it, save in the counties
along the railroads. Had the Repub-
licans had time to reach the back
counties, we would have been beaten
out of our boots. Comparatively we
had no funds.
The result of this financial policy
was apparent when the returns came
in. The back counties, beyond the
reach of the Doodle, gave their old
fashioned Democratic maJorltles,
while the counties along the railroads
showed such an extraordinary con
version TO Republicanism that it was
not hard TO doubt the sincerity of the
converts. The Republicans spent fully
800. 600 in the State. Matt Quay sent
$50, 900 from the national committee,
but he did not do so until Republicans
in the State had raised $4,000 to add
to it. Then there was not less than
$50, 900 more spent i'll local fights.
How much money did the Demo
Gratis put in?'
"As much as we could spare, was
the reply. But we didn't have any
thing like as much as our opponents.
If we had, you'd have heard the
returns from West Virginia long
enough ago"
What effect did the tariff haveT'
"a very encouraging one for us. In
the town of Wheeling, where the
manufacturing interests of the State
are all centered and represented, we
increased our majority, although five
prominent Democratic manufacturers
had deserted us. Organized labor
was with us all the time. The tariff
question had been discussed III the
unions and assemblies, and the work
ingmen voted intelligently. The old
farmers jumped on us, though. They
couldn't stand reduction on wool,
and we couldn't pound it into their
| heads that the reduction, by the
cheapening Of the manufactured arti-
J cles. would inure to their benefit.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-11-30
STILL FIGURING ON THE RESULT.

There is nothing new to report on
the political situation in West Virgin
ia, unless plenty of fresh evidence of
the most abominable fraud is regarded
as news. A recount is in progress in
most of the counties in the western
part of the State, and the errors dis
covered give first one candidate the
majority and then the other. On
Monday a recount in Wetzel county
showed errors that will give a ma ority
in the total vote to Pendleton, Demo
crat, for Congress, provided some
thing does not later turn up in favor
of Atkinson, Republican. In Kanawha
and other counties of the third dis
trict the frauds and ''errors" discov-
cred on the recount are simply unri-
vailed, but the question is whether or
not they will be corrected. The Dem
ocrats are confident that the fairly
counted returns will give a majority
for their Congressman and for the
Governor. Both parties have ell
ployed counsel, and will made bitter
fight over the matter. Lawyer ST.
Clair has appeared before the Supreme
Court now in session at Charleston,
and will invoke the aid of the law for
a fair count. a sample of the way
the voting was done is shown by one
of the Elk River precincts, where,
though it is fact that there are less
residents now than in 1894, the vote
shows an increase of 200; and this is
very thinly populated little district.
The fight is an interesting one, but
it is not calculated to reflect much
credit on our State.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-11-30
DIED..

Near Leetown, November 7, 1888,
after an illness of one year, NELLIE
WALKER, aged year, s months and
days, daughter of H. G. and Anna
Belle Evans.
November 0, 1888, in Martinsburg,
MARY SHEPHERD WILLIAMS, daugh-
ter of Frank G. and Jennie Williams,
aged Z months and days.
November II, 1888, near Stokes
School House, Berkeley county, Mrs.
SARAH LEEsE, wife of Mr.. G. Leese.
aged As years and months.
Died at the residence of her grand,
daughter, Mrs. Alice Clohan, in Mar.
tinsburg, on Thursday, November 10
1888, Mrs. OLIVE TUBES, aged SO years
months and 12 days.
November II, 1888, in Washington
DAVID GRAY, born in Charlestown
w. Va, in 1919.