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The following communication explains

itself:
To the Editor of the Caledonian:
The complimentary mention which you made
of me last week in connection with the Lieuten-
ant.Governorship, and the fact that it has been
copied with approval elsewhere, suggest to me
the duty of informing my friends that circum-
stances might make it inconvenient for me TO ao
cept the nomination, should it be tendered there.
fore do not wish to be considered candidate.
With many thanks for your good opinion and
political favor, and for the numerous offers of
support which have come from friends in all
parts Of the State, all of which value highly, 1
remain Yours truly,
Rutland, May 12 1888. ALBERT CLARKE.
The above is from the Caledonian of
the 18th. The matter of the second
place on the Republican State ticket now
SINNERS down, practically, to one can
didate, and that is Colonel Woodbury.
of Burlington.
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GENTLEMEN glad write you my opinion of Ivory
SOAR and have long intended doing
1t has become household necessity with
If there unusually obstinate spot the clothing the wood
work. ink daub my desk polish required for the door
plate surgical instruments cleansing and harmless preparation for
the teeth and superior toilet needed Ivory
We buy by the box the wrappers and allow the soap
thoroughly rpen
Now had saved fifteen wrappers would ask to send my
little girl drawing book accordance with your offer the YOUTHS
Combanon but is all feel under obligation you for
featuring Ivory SOAP for
We do hesitate recommend unquaedy to all friends
the few articles that will do what advertised do
A WORD OF WARNING.
There many white each represented be ut good the Ivory
they ARE NOT but like all coun lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of
the genuine Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it.
by Proctor &
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things be allowed to continue as has ex.
isted in the South for the last 10 years,
Democratic supremacy has been nothing
more than a reign of terror. 1t was
gained by force and has been maintain
by fraud and it is the one thing which
now seriously threatens the perpetuity
OF this goyernment,--(Rutland Tele-
gram. - yz0S So
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THE METHODIST BISHOPS

The Methodist General Conference on
Tuesday extended the terms for which a
minister can serve a charge, and chose
two of the five bishops to be elected. In
the beginning of Methodsm preacher
could not serve in one church more than
a year. After while he was permitted
to be appointed for second year If the
people of the charge urgently desired
his return. After another interval the
time limit was extended to three years.
The five year terms are about the aver
age period of service of ministers who
are called by congregations, The Meth
odist ministers who are now serving
their first year in good charges will not
mourn over the change. Those whose
lines are not cast in pleasant places do
not regard the extension of the time
limit in the same light.
Five bishops are to be elected, three
of whom had been chosen up to today,
as follows: DR.. ]. II. Vincent, DR.. j. N.
Fitzgerald and Rev. j. W. Joyce.
DIR. Vincent was born at Tuscaloosa,
Ala, November 30, 1889, In 1888 he
moved to Pennsylvania. He was edu-
Gated at the Milton and Lewisburg sem.
lndEle5 anu ln6 NeWdTh wesleyan III
stitute. He was a licensed exhorter in
1S49 and in 1850 local preacher in the
Baltimore Conference. From 1859 to
1857 he had charges in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. He established, in ILL
nois, in 1865, the Northwestern Sunday
School Quarterly. In 1868 he was elect
ed secretary of the Sunday School
Union, position he still occupies. In
1874, with Lewis Miller, he established
the Chautauqua Circle. He was at one
time the pastor of General Grant.
Rev. J. w, Fitzgerald is 80 years of
age and was born at Newark, N, j. He
studied at the New York Academy and
then at Princeton College. On leaving
college he studied law with Chancellor
Runyon and Secretary Frelinghuysen
and was admitted to the bar. He was
admitted to the church twenty three
years ago. He was presiding elder of
the New York Conference until seven
years ago, when he was elected record
ing secretary of the Missionary Society.
DIR. Joyce is pastor of st. Paul's
Church, Cincinnati,
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CORRESPONDENCE.
"BIockhouse orFort Dearborne."


CHICAGO, May Is, 1883,
To the Editor of the Bdnner:-DEAR
SIR-The caption to this communication
are words that semi-encircles a faithful
representation in carved Vermont
marble, of the Block House of Fort
Dearborn, The handsome white mar
BILE tablet upon which it rests and also
forms n conspicuous part, is twelve feet
high and six feet wide. 1t is embedded
in the north outer wall Of the mammoth
wholesale grocery store of the w. NJ,
Hoyt company. established IN 1857, No.
1911 Michigan avenue, The store eX-
tends west to River street, is situated
eighty feet south of the chicago river,
which empties into Lake Michigan from
this point east about one hundred rods,
Mr. Hoyt is native of New Haven,
Vermont and is lineal descendent of a
soldier in Bennington, and is a contrib
utor to the monument now being erect
ed to commemorate that event.
The interesting description of Fort
Dearborn is in the following words on
the tablet: G. w. r.
This building occupies the site of old
Fort Dearborn, which extended 4 little
across Michigan avenue and somewhat
into the river, as it now is. The Fort
was built in 1904, forming our outer
most defence. By order Of Gen. Hall it
was evacuated August Is, 1912, after its
stores and provisions had been distrib-
uted among the Indians, Very soon after,
the Indians attacked and mastered
about fifty Of the troops and number
of citizens, including women and chill
dren and next day burned the Fort. In
1916 it was rebuilt, but after the Black
Hawk War, it went into gradual disuse
and in May 1887 was abandoned by the
army, but was occupied by various gov
eminent officers till 1857 when it was
torn down, excepting a single building,
which stood upon the site till the great
fire of Oct. 8, 1871.
At the suggestion of the Chicago
Historical Society,"" this tablet was
erected by W. NJ. Hoyt, November,
1880,
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A correspondent of the Boston Globe
cables that Mr.. Blaine adheres to his
Florence letter announcing his with
drawal from the Presidential race, and
does not withdraw word. Those about
HIM have no doubt of the sincerity of
his Withdrawal. Mr.. Blaine denies that
he had an audience with the Pope, but
says that he has received courtesies from
both Vatican and Quirinal. His health
is excellent. The New York World
correspondent was not very successful
in interviewing Mr.. Blaine. He asked
Mr.. Blaine the point blank question
whether he would accept the nomina.
ton, and Mr.. Blaine was silent. Mr..
Blaine then intimated that his plans had
not changed since he wrote the Florence
letter. He goes coaching with Mr.. Car
negie in Scotland, and will be in Scot
land when the convention is in session.
His health is reported by the World cor
respondent as excellent.
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SKIN and SCALP
Gle nSed, Purified and Beautilied
by The CutiCura Remedies.

For cleansing the skin and scalp Of dis6gurinl
humors. for allaying itching, burning and nfam
nation, for curing the first symptoms of eczema
psoriasis, milk crust, scaly head, scrofua and
other inherited skin and blood diseases ,Cuticura
the great skin cure, and Cuticura Soap, the great
skin beautifier, externally, and Cuticura ReSolv
emit, the new blood purifier, externally, are infAl
lible
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DRUGGISTS ENDORSE THEM.

Have sold quantity Of your Cuticura RENE
dies. One Of my customers, Mrs Henry KNIT
who had teter on her hands to such an extent as
she suffered greatly, was completely cured by
the use Of your medicines.
N. NYE, Druggist, Canton, Ohio.
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The following is Mr.. Gladstone's pub
lished repl, to Mr.. Balfour's latest &C
cusation: II have censuted and will
continue to censure the practice in Ire
land of charging criminal sentences
upon appeal and infiicting cumulative
punishments in such a way as to defeat
the evident intention of Parliament that
no one should receive more than a
months imprisonment under the So
called crimes act without the power Of
appeal. When the subject was debated
in Parliament the government, who
ought to have informed themselves,
gave US no intimation that there were
precedents for the shameful practice,
which is contrary to the spirit of GRIM
inal jurisprudence; is adjudged to be
within the words of the statute; is ex-
cluded. believe, from the powers of
the higher and most competent courts,
and is in direct opposition, 80 far as has
appeared, to universal practice in Eng
land. We now, however, are informed
that the same thing was done in former
years when the Liberals were in power.
IL was without our knowledge; and 1t
is with knowledge in matters not direct
ly of executive action that responsible
ity begins. rejoice that the discovery
has been made. We do not now, as in
the days described by Lord CORVALLIS,
employ torture and murder as instru-
ments of Irish government, but prac.
tices seem to survive which disgrace the
name of justice and which would not
for a moment be tolerated on this side
of the channel. hope Mr.. Balfour will
continue his researches and drag into
daylight every evil usage which, un
known to us, has disgraced Irish judica
ture or administration. He will thus
apply new proofs of the necessity and
advantage of investing the Irish people
with power over affairs and property Of
Their own, and providing that they shall
be governed as we are, in a national,
and not in an unnatural, spirit.
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was troubled with salt rheum for a number OF
years so that the skin entirely came off one Of my
hands from the finger tips to the wrist. | tried
remedies and doctors prescriptions to no purpose
until commenced taking Cuticura Remedies, and
now l am entirely cured.
Z. T. PACKER, $40 Northampton ST., Boston.
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A COMPLETE CURE,

have suffered all my life with skin diseases Of
different kinds and never found permanent relief
valuable Ct.:icura Remedies. gave them a thor
ough trial, using six bottles of the Cuticura Re-
solvent two boxes OF Cuticura and seven cakes
OF Cuticura Soap, and the result was just what
was told IL would be-a complete cure.
BELLE WADE, Richmond, Va.
Reference g. W, LatiHer, Druggist, Richmond,
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leaning toward free trade, and wisely
refrain from making the attempt. l
incline to the belief that the lnter-Ocean
view of its erratic contemporary mo-
tive is the right one.
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Beware of ScroMLq

scrofula is probably more general than any
other disease. 1t is insidlous in character,
and manifests itself in running sores, pustular
eruptions, bolls, swelllngs, enlarged joints,
assesses, sore eyes, etc. Hoods Sarsaparilla
expels all trace Of scrofula from the blood,
leaving 1t pure, enriched, and healthy.
81 was severely afflicted with scrofula, and
over a year had two running sores on my neck.
Took five bottles Hoods sarsaparilla, and am
cured" G. E. LovEJoY, Lowell, Mass.
@. A. Arnold, Arnold, Me-, had scrofulous
sores for seven years, spring and fall. Hoods
Sarsanarilla cured him
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HORSEMEN TAX. AOT|sEI

By request, have opened an office at ID West
Main St, where | will be on Tuesdays OF each
week, to consult those who desire my service.
Mr.. Herbert W. Burgess of the Ontario Veter'
mary College will be in attendance at all times.
treat animals Of all kinds. as well as horses.
J.F. PAGE, Veterinary Surgeon. 1sm4
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THERE is great saving of time, OF labor o
! soap, OF fuel and Of the fabric where DObbins
Electric Soap is used according to directions.
0ne trial will demonstrate its great merit, 1t
~will pay you to make that trial.
I ike all the best things, it is extensively imita-
Ated and counterfeted
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For SALE !

In the Village OF North Bennington, VI, one
Store Dwelling House and Livery Stable, with
an acre Of land near Depot. Further informa
tion in relation to above, by mail or otherwise
can be had by communicating with
NJ. G. HEALY. Hotel Fltchburg,
l4tf Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
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NO MEDICINE LIKE IHEM.

We have sold your Cutcula Remedies for the
last six years and no medicines on our shelves
give better satisfaction.
CT. ATIIERTON, Druggist, Albany, NY.
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KIDNEY PAINS.

"KIDNEY PAINS" and that weary
~ sensation ever present with those OF
III painful kidneys, weak backs, overwork
SNIled or worn out by standing, walking or
9Sthe sewing machine, cured by Cuticura
fu1 Anti Pain Plaster, a new, original. Gle
giant and speedy antidote to pain and Inflammation,
AT druggists 25c; five ~ 500; or Potter
Drug and CHEMICAL 20 ,oosAsn,
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CLEVELAND MUST BE oBEYED

What Mr.. Cleveland wants is servants
active and submissive. He will tolerate
no independence" in professional DEM
ocrats. His political creed seems to be
published in the Mills tariff bill, and
this is being made the test of party
fidelity. 1t is related that Congressman
Snowden, a Pennsylvania Democrat,
introduced bill in which he was much
interested, providing for a public build
ing at his home in Allentown, at an ex-
pense of 100000, and had worked it
through both houses. A couple of
weeks ago, anticipating the passage OF
the bill, Mr.. Snowden went to the Pres.
ident, laid before him its merits and Sc
cured the promise that it should be ap
proved as soon as it was finally passed
by Congress. 1t is stated that the Hon.
William l.. Scott of Pennsylvania, who
represents the administration on the
floor of the floor of the House, went to
the President and called his attention
to the fact that Mr.. Snowden was fight
ing the tariff bill, and the necessity of
not only weakening him in his present
work, but of defeating him for re cleo
ton. This could only be done by veto.
ing the Allentown building bill, This
was sufficient argument. 1t closed
the case and the President Immediately
wrote the veto. His veto, apparently,
10 based upon the ground that it IS not
good economy to build house for
100000 when passable accommodations
may be had at a rental of 81 300 year
yet he has already signed bill appro
priating 100000 for a new building at
Birmingham, Ala, where the postoffice
rent is but 1915; another for $4,000
building at Springfield, Mo-, where the
rent is $3S3.33; another for 800 900 at
Texarkana, on the Texas and Kansas
line, where the postofiice pays no rent
and the receipts of the Office are only
one-third as much as at Allentown, and
one for Lowell, Mass, to cost $3.50 900,
where the annual rent is only $4,000
Mr.. Cleveland is not occupying the ex-
ecutiye chair for the public good, but to
build up a political party which shall
continue him in office. He looks upon
the public revenues, no, doubt, as col
lected for his own benefit, and to be ap-
piled as he thinks best, and he thinks
best to punish such legislators as Mr..
st. Adams Messenger.
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MAR RIED.

NORTON-BOYER.-I Walla Walla, w. T..
May Sth, by Rev. E. W. Potwine, Nj. Harrison l.
Norton Of Bennington, to Miss Anna Isabel Boyer
of Walla Walla,
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DOR SALE
GHERIFF'S SALE.

A small, handy safe as good as new viii be
sold cheap. Inquire of CIlAS. COOPER, at the
Machine Shop Buildining. II
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nDIIUO Pimples, skin blemishes and baby
unUDoJ humOrs cured by Cutcurasoap.
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and take no other. Nearly every grocer from
Maine to Mexico keeps it in stock II yours has
MT it, he will order from his nearest wholesale
grocer,
ID cad carefully the inside wrapper around each
ICbar, and be careful to follow directions on out.
side wrapper. You cannot afford to wait longer
before trying for yourself this old, reliable and
ruly wonderful
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BEWARE OF LIMITATIONS.


I insist upon Dobbins Electric. Don't take Mag
lnetic Electro Magic. Philadelphia Electric. or
any other fraud, simply because it is cheap They
will ruin clothes and are dear at any price. Ask
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Salt Rheum

SQlS nIlVNIiI
Isone Of the most dlsagreeabled diseases caused
byimpure blood. 1t Is readily cured by Hoods
sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier.
William Spies, Elyria, o., suffered greatly
from eryslpelas and salt rheum, caused by
handling tobacco. At timeC his hands would
crack open and bleed. He tried various prep
aratlons without aid; finally took Hoods sar-
saparilla, and now SAYS: " I am entirely we'll"
"My son had salt rheum on his hands and
on the calves Of his lego. He took Hoods
sarsaparllla and is entirely cured" ]. B.
Stanton, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Hoods SarsapariIla
Sold by all druggists. 81; SIX for IS. Made only
bye. I. HOOD & CO., ApOthecsries, Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
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DIED.

POTTER.-In Florida, May Sth, Mrs. Finette
r. Potter, mother of Rev. T. G. Potter of Haine's
City, aged 81 years,
RICHARDSON--In North Bennington, May
10Th, Mrs. Nancy Richardson, aged no years.
woOD.-In Bennington May 2lst Mrs. Eliza
beth, wife of Eugene A. Wood, aged "a years.
BARBER.-In Pownal, May 18th. Mrs. Jos. A.
Barber, aged II years. (Corrected)
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W.R. WORTHINCTON \ SON

We have taken special pains to select very
nice, clean stock this spring, and We feel conf
dent that our goods and prices will please the
most fastidiOus We haue just opened an i'm
mense line of Mems, Boys and Children's
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-05-05

1t is strange, by the way, how easily
the sympathies Of tho majority of man
kind can be excited In certain directions,
while in others they are absolutely ire
sponsive. People are 80 hard, so unsym-
pathetic, with those who are brought into
daily contact with them-so full of pity
for those of whom they know nothing; so
mean, so cruel often, to their own fami-
lies, their servants and their work people
so ready to lavish mischievous charity
upon strangers Of whom they have heard
some tale of woel In one Of tho last
numbers of Tho Charity Organization Re
Wow tho story was told Of London bust
ness man who turned away two Of his
clerks because times were so hard and i'm.
mediately sent $50 to the fund for the
unemployed, to whose ranks he had con-
tributed those two.--Atlanta Constitution.
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lwould not pay woman's fare in a
street car. WhyH Because wouldn't,
that's all, And If you insist on an ex.
PLANTATION ! have nothing to offer except
this; that 1t is an unwritten but inexora-
Bile law Of the maids and matrops Of this
land that every female who rides must
open her own sachel, take out her own
pocketbook, close her sachel, open her
pocketbook. put her nickel In her mouth,
open her sachel. close her pocketbook, put
pocketbook in sachel, close sachel, and
then. taking her nickel from between her
cleaning celluloid teeth, give 1t to the
conductor, and thus pay her fare. don't
know where the law came from or how
the Sex got hold of 1t. but It's the law all
the same, and we live up to it.-"Maud-
Ia Globe Democrat.
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while the boat Is going At full speed, Q
great improvement on the firing from the
bow, by which the speed Of the boat was
suddenly checked, greatly increasing tho
liability to be hit by the encmy's guns.
A small Nordenfeldt gun is also mounted.
30 that the craft can be made, TO that ex-
tent. quick firing gunboat II the ncccs-
sity arise. The admiralty are so pleased
with the new design that they will super.
sede with II all the old torpedo boats; and,
Of course, other nations must follow suit.
And by the time we get well supplied all
around swith torpedoes. torpedo boats.
dynamiters, and other gunboats. we may
reasonably expect that some genius will
invent something that will render all
these useless. and then we shall all begin
again at the beginning. But tho great
point TO the United States is that these
new gunboats can range the ocean and de-
stroy merchant ships 30 easily that any
commercial nation will think long before
going to.war with the great Republic.
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4 papcr CoIInr That Cast &Iph

Cones wants are ones needs" has been
said, but paper collars at $l25 each are
not now regarded as necessities. Still
that amount has been paid for one of these
almost obsolete articles of male attire,
and Maj. ID. w. Sanders enjoys the repu.
tation g having broken the record by his
purchase. 1t was during the war, and
Maj. Sanders, then nn officer In the Con.
federate army, was in Tennessee. He re
ceiyed months pay, $50, in Confoder
ate bills, and then discovered that he
needed clean collar. He found a man
who had spare collar and began negotla-
tisns, but the happy possessor of the ar
ticle did not want to part with it. After
some trouble, however, be persuaded tho
owner to sell, but only when $l25 had
been offered. 1t is difficult, however, to
estimate what the cost of clean shirt
would have been about that time, even
when the quotations of paper collars are
given.--Courier- Journal
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NEW BRITISH TORPEDO BOAT.
tain can communicate with the engineers
and men at the guns and control the whole
thing in battle. The Yorktown carries
400 tons Of coal, enough to sail from 1900
TO 10 600 miles. according to the rate Of
rpeed desired. as 1t is principle of steam
making for speed above eight knots per
hour. each added knot requires more coal
than any preceding.
"a
While the United States navy is employ.
ing It's constructive talents on destructive
gunboats. Great Britain Is deyoting her
naval energies just at present to the per-
fecting Of torpedoes and torpedo boats.
There are fifty such boats in the British
navy; but the admiralty a year ago pro-
nounced them unsafe uncomfortable and
Of little or no use In a rough sea, and in.
yited proposals for new class free from
the existing defects. The result has been
boat of novel designs constructed by
Messrs. Yarrow & Co. Their first boat
was lately exhibited In tho Thames, and
Is officially declared success. 1t Is GO
feet long. . feet and @ inches In beam,
and can make seventeen knots an hour
with its full load. The rapidity and ease
with which the boat Is turned, its capacity
for the toughest sea and the ease with
which II Is steered, fill the admiralty's
want
The machinery consists Of locomotive
Doher and triple expansion engines-all
protected. as is the steering apparatus.
Areyolving torpedo gun Is fixed aft, from
which atoTpedo can be oiscted at an anglo