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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15

Housekeepers, get your lace curtains
laundried at MarshalPs Home Laundry,
Nos. 10 and 10 west High street.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15

The Forum (Forum Publishing Co., 253
Fifth avenue, New York, IS q year, is an
invaluable monthly review. The June is
sue has valuable article on Revolution
izing the Revenue SYSTEM" by the Hon.
VIM. d. Kelley, the leader of the protec-
tionists in the house Of representatives. Mr..
Kelley reviews our tariff legislation for the
last hundred years to show how disastrous
the Mills bill would be IL 1t should become
law; also an excellent article by the Rev.
Dr. Howard Crosby, Of New York, on ''The
Haste to be Rich," that shows how the
money craze destroys the even development
OF Americans, and undermines domestic
life. This issue has several other articles
Of great interest.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15

Colgate's Cashmere Bouquet
Toilet soap is better appreciated the more 1t
is used, and disappOints no one.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15

When q newspaper becomes an organ 1t
ls likely to have great many stops.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15
busBEY..coccEsHAlL.

Marriage Of Miss rrocky Coggeshali 60 q
CLARK County Gentieman.
The following invitations have been re-
ceived by the friends of the parties in this
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15

At noon today, at the city clerks ofice,
the following bids were opened: Armstrong
Bros, crossing plates, s1.74 per pound;
culvert covers. s1.H per pound. Blakeney
4 Co., crossing plates, s1.70 per pound;
culvert covers, S1.70 per pound; Springfield
Manufacturing Co., crossing plates, 81. so
per pound; culvert covers, %. 50 per pound;
other castings, 50. so Der pound.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15

THE RED BANDANA.
Wipei Wipei Wipe!
0 democrat. wipe your nosei
. wipe IL well before you yell
Hurrah for the Cleveland rose
Wipei Wipel Wipel
o with diligence wipe your nose!
And get II you can a real cotton banana,
For nothing but that now goes.
Columbus Dispatch.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-15
per's Blood and Liver Syrup,
CASPER'S Drug Store,
LOCAL eREvITIES.

Main st.. Fishers Building, Springfield.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

tribute paid to their native state by the
leading democratic sheet of New Eng
land.
A wELL-KNowN republican stepped
into the post-ofiice on Saturday and
reaching into his pockets pulled out
several letters to mail. On the back of
one of them was a seal bearing the in
inscription: " Prohibition ticket. For
president, Clinton B. Fisk; for vice
president, John A. Brooks. Another
bore the words, "The Methodist
bishops say of the liquor traffic, 1t
never can be legalized without sin. ,"
The republican surveyed them a mo-
ment and then remarked: Here / am
trying my best to elect Harrison and
Morton and my wife is filing the mails
with such as these" and puzzled ex-
preston ovcrspread his face as he held
the missive up to the gaze of friend.
THE Massachusetts department of
state has written to Senator Hoar call
ing attention to the following discrep-
ancy in the electoral college law: The
United States statutes provide that the
messengers from electoral colleges in
the various states shall deliver their
| copies VI llG NOltS vi llltlI COlle3CS W
the president of the senate before the
first WEDNESDAY in January. The col
leges have met heretofore on the first
Monday in December, but law passed
by congress in 1887 changed the time
of meeting to the second Monday in
January, when the provision regarding
the delivery of the votes was left un-
changed. The question will have to
be settled by the authorities at Wash
ington.
"THE temperance men of Vermont
went back to their republican idols, but
| the prohibitionsts of Maine are of
sterner stuff and will stick. The re-
publican party's ideas about free
whiskey are just little too strong for
Neal Dow and his followers. "--BoSton
Globe. Indeed. If the republican
party's ideas on this subject are too
strong for the prohibitionists, what
about the position of their party on the
same question? The positions taken
by the two parties in their platforms in
regard to the internal revenue tax are
almost identical, the utterances of the
prohibition party being, if anything. the
stronger of the two. For prohibition
list to kick at this clause in the republi-
can platform would be like straiDing at
political gnat and swallowing politi-
cal camel
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Politics of the Methodist Bishops.

The fact that Bishops Hurst and
Fitzgerald have recently published let
tiers in support of the prohibition party
has been used by the prohibitionists as
an argument to induce Methodist voters
to follow in their lead and give in their
allegiance to the third party. But how
about the remaining fourteen bishops?
The fact that two of the bishops are
prohibitionists may seem very signif-
cant, if nothing more is said; but when
we learn that, of the remainder, twelve
are strong republicans and the politics
of the other two unknown, the previ-
Gus statement loses its importance.
The sentiment of the bishops in regard
to the third party may be seen from re-
cent utterances of Bishops Joyce and
Newman. Bishop Joyce says: I" am
a republican in politics, and shall vote
for Harrison and Morton. l am a
thorough non-partisan prohibitionist.
The Methodist discipline on temper
ance is non-partlsan prohibition utter
ance.' Bishop Newman, in letter to
General Cyrus Bussey, says: " In these
supreme times, when so much is at
stake in our national welfare, no repub-
lican can afford to desert that party
made memorable by the noblest mission,
by the most heroic achievements on the
field, and by the most beneficial results
in legislation to personal liberty, to pri-
vate and public morals and to temper
ance, of which you especially write.
The final triumph of temperance prin-
ciples is with the republicans, who have
done 80 much for temperance legis-
laton in all parts of the country"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
republican Nominations.
The Daily Journal.

Read announcement on first page.
We have special reporter of legisla-
tive proceedings and all that is going
on at or around the State House. No
other paper gives, or can afford to
give, so full and complete reports as
the DAILY JOURNAL. All who wish
to be fully and accurately informed of
all legislative doings should have the
DAILY JOURNAL. Send in your sub
scription.
THE wATCHMAN
will give the proceedings in a more
condensed form. Those who do not
care for the DAILY JOURNAL should
have the WATCHMAN. Price to Janu-
airy 1-only fifty cents, or till end of
session, forty cents.
JOURNAL OR wATCHMAN FREE.
To any one who will send us five
subscribers to DAILY Journal we
will send that paper free during ses-
sion, or WATCHMAN for nine months.
To any one who will send us five sub
scribers to WATCHMAN to January |,
or for session, we will send the
WATCHMAN for six months; for ten
subscribers to WATCHMAN, as above,
we will send WATCHMAN free for one
year. Here is a fine opportunity.
Time is short, but it is ample. Begin
canvassing at once. The offer is to
ony person, subscriber or not.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

A RECENT utterance by Chief Justice
Turney of Tennessee would seem to
indicate that there are yet some of our
Southern brethren who have not wholly
abandoned their allegiance to the prin-
ciples, so-called, for which they fought
quarter of century ago. The just
ice says: "The right and principle of
secession still survive" This is on a
par with General Jackson's speech of
welcome to Jeff Davis, delivered last
year at Macon, Ga. Cleveland's min
lister to Mexico declared that the doc
trine of secession would finally triumph,
and that in that day jeff Davis and
not Abraham Lincoln would rank as
the rightful president of the United
States. Nice talk, isn't it? Seems to
be some occasion for the waving of the
bloody shirt on the part of the North,
however much our democratic friends
may deprecate such proceeding.
Another instance of southern disloyalty
occurred at the democratic congress
sional convention at Lynchburg, Va,
when General Early objected to the
passage of a resolution of sympathy
with Mrs. Sheridan on the death of her
husband, and said he would gladly at
tend the funeral of the last one of them.
But General Early has peculiar reasons
for waving very bloody shirt above
Phil Sheridan's grave. Such senti-
ments, uttered by Union soldier or
Northern republican, would raise a
storm of democratic and confederate
wrath
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

funds outside the state, if they prefer.
There is a great outcry against the ex-
tent to which, it is alleged, the banks
give the foreign borrower the prefer
ence over the home borrower, and
stringent measures to compel these in
stitutions to loan their money at home
are advocated. Persuasion, not COM
pulsion, is the means to be employed to
so desirable an end as the investment
here at home of the bulk of the enor-
nous sum that is now sent west to help
in the work of developing western ag-
riculture to compete with and cripple
Vermont agriculture. Here is great
field for the practice of craftsmanship.
The legislator who will devise some
natural and effective way to keep Yer
mont capital at home, to be employed
in the much-needed work of rebuilding
and maintaining the material prosperity
of the state, will earn commentator
as its greatest benefactor. When such
a measure of practical statecraft is con-
ceived and put into operation, the
danger feared by the inspector will be
averted, and the evil deplored by many
patriotic citizens will work its own
reformation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
The Legislative Offices.

There seems to be no active contest
over any of the chief officers of the gen.
eral assembly. For the Office of pres
ident pro tenn of the senate the names
of Senators Bates of Caledonia and
Taft of Chittenden have been fire.
quently mentioned. Essex's one-armed
soldier senator, the gallant and compe-
tent Mansur, has also found favor
among the candidates for this office.
The president of the senate, Lieuten-
ant-Governor Woodbury. elect, is also a
one-armed veteran. With Colonel Man
sur's help, he should be able to main
tain order in the senatorial Warsaw
In point of ability to preside efficiently
and keep the legislative ball rolling,
no senator surpasses Washington's sem
Tor member, Colonel Fred e Smith.
But Colonel Smiths only ambition is
to discharge creditably, in the ranks,
his duties to his constituents and to the
people of the state at large. And so,
by act or motion of his own, he will not
appear in the lists as an aspirant for
the official honors of the senate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

For the speakership, no candidate is
likely to be named who will be able to
defeat, or seriously menace, the re-
election of Major Josiah Grout of
Derby. The names of a number of
representatives have been mentioned
as possible contestants for the honors
of the speakers chair, but if there is
really any serious opposition to Major
Grout, the lack of its unanimity, the
absence of candidate having a strong
active personality and possessing we'll
known qualities or demonstrated fit
ness for the office, or who will supply
the deficiencies his critics have OBJ
served in Mr.. CIRCUITS former admins
tration of the speakership, will greatly
contribute to a quite unanimous re-
election of the gentleman from Derby.
For the chaplaincy of the senate, Rev.
Mr.. White of Northfield, Clark of st.
Adams, Farnsworth of Marshheld,
Pierce of West Randolph, and perhaps
others, are mentioned" Indeed,
signs of pernicious activity" in the
contests for the various legislative Of
fees, strangely enough, centralize
chiefly around the peaceful Office of
chaplain. For the sacred post of
"gude, philosopher and friend" to
the representatives, the names of Rev.
j. O. Sherburne and S. G. Hayford of
Montpelier, and Germont Graves of
Burlington have appeared in the public
prints. The most active candidate,
however, appears to be Rev. Elihu
Snow of Swanton, and among many of
the members-elect there is discover
able desire to choose for this office
the Rev. w. S. Hazen of Mortified.
We are not aware that the reverend
gentleman is personally solicitous in
this matter. Indeed, we understand
that he is at this time in Western city
attending the meeting of the American
Board, and that the mention of his
name in connection with the chaplaincy
is the work of some who know and APP
preciate his worth and his singularly
devoted and consistent Christian char
acter. 1t has always seemed to us to
be not in keeping with the sacred char
acter of the office of chaplain that it
should be made the object of strife or
should be sought by the methods en-
ployed-and which may be justiiable-
in contentious for the secular offices.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Republican or Prohibitionist.-.w Which!

Editor of the Wdtchmon you
have kindly allowed one woman to say
word on politics in your paper, will
you please give another one chance?
/ am getting to be about as badly rolled
as was i. b. b., and that Rejoinder"
from One of the Fools " has not set
tied me at all. He says, "Of course the
democratic or republican can lick the
prohibition boy nor, but ten years more
of present growth and they'll be of
equal size, ,Chdt hen?" We all know
that the democratic party is the whiskey
party. We all know that all the prohi-
bitionists themselves can now do is to
help to defeat, or carry into power, the
republican party. We all believe that
prohibition is surely coming. Now
what ] want to ask is, will not that
prohibition boy" be brought up UNI
der better influence with republican
administration than with democratic
one? or does he think to keep the
democrats in power for the next ten
years in order to compel the republicans
to vote with the prohibtionists?
a. c. W.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

Editor Of the Wdtchman: I was
very much interested in l.. b. BIS let
ter in a recent issue of your excellent
paper. A prohibitionist, who is not a
third party prohibitionist," is per-
son after my own heart. Contrast the
spirit shown in this letter with the
" Rejoinder" in the last WATCnMAN.
In the former is evidenced desire for
true temperance reform and depreca-
ton of the action of the third party in
standing up to be counted where the
saloons most desire they should be
counted. In the latter is a spirit of de-
fance. If you can whip the "pro-
hibition boy" now, how will it be with
his present growth ten years from now?
We have no desire to whip the "pro-
hibition boy" 1t is the party which is
the "open political ally A" of the liquor
traffic which we wish to defeat. Con-
sidering the end sought, it is lamentable
that so many temperance people should
switch off from the only party which
has enacted and enforced laws against
the dominance of the saloon in poll
tics, and oppose the party which de-
clares for personal liberty " and mo
sumptuary laws" The attitude of the
prohibitionists is one of refusal to vote
for staunch temperance men, knowing
all the while that their action will have
the tendency to defeta or delay the
very cause they profess to love. As
L. B. B. says, the prohibition heaven
will not soon be reached through their
present course, and spirit. For them
to say prohibition is the demand of
the hour" and then by their action try
to defeat the only party which would in
any degree help their cause, is not
voting as they pray" They also ig
more the fact that, even if it were pos
sibe for them to succeed in electing
their ticket, it would need GO favoring
congress " to enact their laws. Why
will not all friends of temperance rally
to the support of the party from which
they can alone look for reforms in the
future as they have in the past?
NJ, J, C,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Increased Longevity.

The fact that life insurance COM
panies refuse, in many cases, to take
any risks in the Gulf states, where the
men are VIGOROUSLY inclined to drink
hard and when drunk to fight with
deadly weapons, is more eloquent ap-
peal on behalf of right living than is
contained in many temperance lectures.
The additional fact that the figures of
these companies show nearly double an
expectancy or probable duration of life
among abstainers than among even
moderate drinkers is another potent
argument in the same direction.
The facts being thus, it is encourag-
ing to all who are disheartened at the
slow progress of general reform to
know that men generally live longer
now than they did in former centuries
or even two generations ago. 1t is
delusion that our grandfathers and
grandmothers were healthier and longer
lived than their sons and daughters.
All who have reached middle age re-
membe few very old men and women,
but they never saw the vast multitude
who had passed away. Statistics show
there are many more centenarians than
formerly The English annuity tables
constructed on the reverse principle
from those of the life insurance COM
panies, since it is hoped that annuitants
will not live too long, were constructed
about the year 1890. Within a few
years the companies discovered that
they were losing money, for their pat
rons were not dying off at the rate for
which the tables provided. Hence a
re isal was needed.
The enhanced longevity is owing in
part to a more general distribution of
the comforts of life, but more largely
to better understanding and practice
of the laws of hygiene in all respects.
AS drainage has improved, infectious
fevers, save in tropical regions, and
even there in many communities,
have diminished in frequency and
severity. AS men have grown more
temperate in both eating and drinking,
and as wars are of increasingly rare oc-
currence, death-bearing influences have
have become less numerous. The only
increase of mortality has been among
those classes who fall victims to the
hurry and excitement of the times; the
slaves of machinery and the reckless
spectators whose entire life is a
fever. These fall victims to brain,
heart and kidney diseases and are as
much their own destroyers as are the
glutton or the inebriate.
The length of life has been increas-
ing for three centuries past, but we
have only room for a comparison be-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Report of the Inspector of Finance.

Inspector Pages report shows that
the savings banks and trust companies
held SIG ,602 ,067 in deposits on the 30th
day of June, an increase of S2,34s, 104
in the past two years. Of this sum the
resident depositors hold S13 1888, 1856;
non-residents, S2,713,SS1. What part
of this sum is held by the class which
may be called the strictly savings de-
positors, and what part by class of
depositors who are using the banks for
the avoidance of local taxation, is not
stated. Unquestionably, the facts would
show that the bulk of this sixteen mil
lions is to the credit of persons whose
chief object in putting their money into
the savings bank is to dodge the tax
gatherer. 1t would be interesting to
know how much of these deposits is in
sums of $3.50 or less, and how much is
held by persons whose individual de-
posts reach 81 ,500,-the limit of ex-
emption from local taxation. The
Legislature may wish TO nave these sta
tistics when it comes to consider the
subject of taxation.
The inspectors report is full of in
formation of lively interest to students
of the financial affairs of the state. He
commends the banks as models of finan-
cial management, but expresses his
" well-settled conviction that trustees,
in their anxiety to pay their depositors
liberal dividends, are in too many in
stances allowing the quality of their
assets to fall below the high standard
which should be maintain ed" To
show the tendency to invest funds in
western mortgages, he calls attention
to the facts respecting such investments,
as shown by the savings banks reports
for the last ten years. They are as
follows:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Political Notes.

FRED DOUGLASS and other leading
colored men have issued an address to
coored citizens of this country urging
the importance of supporting the re-
publican ticket.
Now appears Grover Cleveland and
deposes and says that he is not free
trader. Every free-trader, however, in
the United States is in favor of his re-
lection.-BOSton Traveller.
The democratic members of the ma
tional house of representatives, in ODE
dience to the presidents commands,
have decided that there shall be no adj
iournment until the senate shall have
opportunity to act upon the tariff and
retaliation bills.
Hon. A. w. BEARD was nominated
for congress by the republicans of the
third Massachusetts district, at Sec
ond convention, and on the twenty
fourth ballot after III. l.. Pierce had
withdrawn. Ex-senator II. j. Board
man, Mr.. Boards chief competitor, re-
ceived the nomination for elector.
COLONEL Il. w. HIGGINsoN has
been nominated by the democrats of
the fifth congressional district of Massa-
chusetts to run against General Banks.
The Boston Herald says this makes the
election of the republican nominee GER
tain beyond doubt, on account of
Colonel Higginson's being such pro-
nounced mugwump.
THERE is a serious revolt among the
the farmers composing the Missouri
"Wheel" against the democratic candi-
date for governor, Mayor Francis of st.
Louis, because of his grain specializing
operations. A determined effort is
being made to keep the "wheel " in
line, for the bolt now threatens to en-
danger democratic supremacy in the
state.
THE democratic state committees run
against snag once in while in their
assessment of the pOst-offices to raise
campaign funds. Postmaster Whitney
of Cawker, Kansas, refused to comply
with the kind invitation to contribute
bar of democratic soap, as he had no
desire for democratic success. He said
that he was appointed by republican
administration and that the democrats
could remove him if they chose.
"VERMoNT is, industrially consid-
cred, the most backward of all the New
England states. 1t has few large towns,
and few newspapers. Under these cir
cumstances it is natural that the state
should be excessively conservatives
dead weight rather than a help to
progress and reform. "-Boston Globe.
The democracy of Vermont no doubt
feel highly honored by this delicate