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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17
Marble and the Tariff.

During the canvass of this state we
presented some facts and figures, fur
nished by practical granite cutter, to
show that free-trade in granite would
crush out that branch of industry in
this country. 1t was clearly proved,
by the facts of trade itself, that, owing
to the wide difference between the
wages of granite cutters in this cOun-
try and in Scotland, the rough granite
could be shipped to Scotland from the
American quarries, cut and reshipped
to these shores, at a cost much lower
than similar monument could be
produced in this country. We were
much interested by an almost parallel
statement of facts in recent issue of
the Detroit Tribune, respecting the
difference between the labor cost of
marble cutting in the United States and
in Italy.
Under the existing tariff, the duty on
rough marble is sixty-fve cents per
CuDlC loOb, Ol ihuuuldCbulCu ihdlulC,
fifty per cent ad-valorem. AS reported,
the Mills bill put marble on the free
list and reduced to thirty per cent the
duty on wrought marble. The marble
schedule was subsequently modified,
not out of regard to the interests of the
North, as represented by Governor
Proctor and others, but, forsooth, be-
cause marble quarry had been dis
covered in Georgia, Southern state
But the lower duty, even as finally re.
tanned in the Mills bill, would in
juriously affect the marble-workers OF
this country, and by the facts of re-
cent transaction in the city of its pub
LEGATION, the Tribune shows what would
be the effect of free-trade in marble
upon the price of American labor EN-
ployed in that branch of business
A dealer who had risen from the ranks
of common workmen to the proprietor
ship of prosperous business ordered
from Italy monument of exactly thu
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17
Women in Politics.

The Vermont Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has met in solemn
conclave and adopted the following
resolutions:
No local union shall be bound by any prin-
ciple espoused or plan devised by the state
Woman's Christian Temperance Union ex-
cept that all union auxilares must sub
scribe to the total abstinence pledge and to
the constitution of the state union. Any
resolution referring to our attitude toward
political parties shall be decided by vote
without debate and received with silent
prayer.
The above action was the result of
demand on the part of some of the
branches of the state organization that
the Union have no hand in politics.
AS concession to the non-partisan
element of the Union, it is about as
satisfactory as Artemus Wards as
surance to those desiring free admit
lance to his show, that, while none could
go in without paying, as many as
pleased could pay without going in;
and as piece of literature, it is fully
as playful in its mood as the stanza
which celebrates the exploits of the
noble Duke of York who had ten thou
sand men,
He marched them up the hill and he marched them
down again;
wi WI II n
And when they were down, they down;
And when they only half way up,
They were neither up ror Down.
1t lacks, however, in some degree,
the element of absolute truthfulness
which inspires the poem, for it is ex-
cruciatingly difficult to discover how
the platform of the state organization
shall in no wise affect the local chap
tiers whose offspring it is. This is a
method of doctoring platforms which
the liveliest greenbacker in the most
agile days of that antic party did not
contemplate. Now the example is once
set, we may expect the next democratic
convention to adopt planks in favor of
prohibition and protection, or the re-
publicans to declare for free-trade and
polygamy, explaining in foot-note
that no person shall be bound by any
principle espoused or plan devised in
their conventions.
1t is mentioned in an account of the
proceedings of the convention that a
paper on kindergarten Work 4" was
read, as we'll as poem entitled Take
Care of the Babies" While regretting
that the instruction on kindergarten
work was not inculcated before the
above resolutions were considered, it is
not strenuously denied that there was
an element of fitness in following their
adoption with the poem. The Unions
method of silencing debate puts the
"previous question" to the blush.
Mrs Bardell's attorney, at his best, could
not have devised a more ludicrous
document.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17

THE Christian Union, in the follow
ing editorial paragraph, points moral
to which temperance workers in this
country need to give special and con-
tinuous attention. Dropping ballot
in ballot-boX for a law, or even an
officer to enforce it, will not close the
saloon. The vested interests fighting
for protection and for very existence,
banded together, supported by greed,
by appetite, and by all the forces of
political corruption, can not be fillipped
out of the field by ballot on election
morning. We need in this country,
doubtless, better laws; but we need
still more better enforcement of the
laws we have. The united, persistent,
continuous and vigorous endeavors of
temperance men, sufficiently in earnest
to give time and thought as well as
money to the cause, are always more
than match for the saloon" These
remarks were called out by statement
of the successful means employed in
Cambridge, Mass, to redeem the city
from the clutches of the liquor power.
The people of Cambridge put force
into their campaign, and united in a
common action of their forces. What
the people of that community have
done others can do if they will act
upon the same principles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17
Republican Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
BENJAMIN Harrison of Indiana.
FOR vIoE-PREsIDENT,
Levi p. Morton of New York.

THURMAN's letter accepting the
nomination of the democrats to the
vice-presidency is remarkable only for
the date of its appearance. OF it even
the Springfield Republican is con-
strained to remark: " Judge Thurman's
letter of acceptance does not add any
thing to the sum of human knowledge,
and it is evident enough that the peo-
pie care very little about such perfume
tory documents"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17

THURSDAY was a great day for the
republicans of Indiana. Mr.. Blaine
was in Indianapolis and the town was
packed with crowds of visitors, 10000
entering the town by the fifteen con-
verging railways. Mr.. Harrison and
Mr.. Blaine reviewed a marching col
umn of 10000, among whom were the
Carrie Harrison guards, composed of
forty handsomely uniformed young
ladies of indianapolis, and the Harrison
daughters from Connersville, fifty girls
in uniform. On the exhibition grounds
Mr.. Blaine addressed 10000 people.
Evidently Indiana is "all right"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17

WHATEVER may be the issue of
the trouble between Hill and Cleve-
land" observes The Independent,
" there is no question that a revolt of
large dimensions from the democratic
national ticket and platform is quietly
proceeding throughout the state. There
are thousands of voters who are going
to reject both Cleveland and Hill and
the policies they represent, and vote
for candidates against whom no man
can allege anything. Harrison and
Morton and Miller are men of whom the
country may be proud, and they repre-
sent policies which the pure and pat
riotic delight to approve"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17
An Injurious Policy.
A correspondent who has been an in
fluential member of both branches of
the legislature writes:

A correspondent who has been an in
fluential member of both branches of
the legislature writes:
am sorry to see the direction in which
we are going in the matter of our state ex-
penses. In 1878, under the wise leadership
of Governor Proctor, many salaries and
fees, that had been raised during the war
period, were reduced and many measures
of retrenchment were enacted. In 1880 and
1882 a similar policy was followed to quite
an extent, but in 1884 a booming process
was started which has been followed since
that time with an increasing momentum.
i consider the corporation tax law of 1882
one of the most wise and useful measures
upon our statute book. but the raising of so
much of our revenue by other means than
direct taxation has, fear, caused care
lessness about our expenditures. The
cheerfulness with which the last two legis-
latures granted appropriations has caused
a readiness to ask for the same, which Is but
natural.
There is need of the seasonable words
of caution our friend has spoken. We
believe in liberal appropriations, judi
ciously expended, for opening up and
deepening the fountains of the states
prosperity, but we believe that the
lavish and exclusive expenditures, for
several years past, for the benefit of
certain institutions and purely local in
terests, and for the increase of certain
official salaries to the neglect of the
states productive industries and her
institutions for public instruction, is a
policy that is essentially bad and may
reasonably excite in others the solicitude
cur correspondent expresses.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17

ton that will not be entirely expert
mental. Time is an important factor
now, and this expansion of the powers
of a commission should advance some
two years the very desirable object of
this bill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17

There were thirty-two days work on
the monument, for which the American
laborer gets S66.47, or an average of
S2.0S day, while the Italian workman,
with no allowance for his employers
profit, gets S13.33, or less than forty
two cents day.
The marble industry is one of YER
mont's chief sources of income. In
different sections of the country there
are great marble quarries, and there
is scarcely city, village or hamlet in
the land which has not at least one
marble shop or yard. Under free-trade
the workmen in these establishments
would either have no work to do, or
they would have to compete with Italian
labor at less than forty-two cents day.
Protection or observation-disclosures we be-
tween these two, workingmen of Yer
mont and America.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17

design and finish furnished by several
American manufacturers. The con-
tract price was S1O5. The dealer paid
the freight and duty, which amounted
to $4S, and RENTED the balance, S57,
to the agent of the foreign maker.
The agents commission was S2l, and
the cost of the marble at the quarry in
Italy, S2267. What was left to the
Italian workmen who cut the monu-
ment appears from the following state
ment:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17
New England and the Tariff.

In a speech at Lansing, Michigan,
Mr.. Blaine paid his special attention to
the statement attributed to Postmaster
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-17

Out of this Sl3.33 the Italian maker
must pay his workmen and get his
profit.
From Rutland the Tribune obtains
the following statement of the amount
actually paid for work on monuments
of tho eomp nnttprn.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-08
Police Notes.

In the Police Court yesterday, James
BuckneI, a negro, charged with creating
a disturbance in the bar-room of John
Holcomb was heard, and the case con-
tinued until to-day.
James jenkins, the negro bar-keeper
on Eighth street, who shot John Titmus
on the shoulder blade while aiming at his
companion, W H. Hall, who was beating
him with stick, was sent on to the grand
iurv and bailed. Hall was charged with
beating jenkins with the stick. He was
discharged for this offense, and required
to give security in the sum of $500 for
his appearance before the grand jury o.
the Hastings Court as a witness against
jenkins.
Minerva Patterson, the drunken ne
gress who created a row at a funeral
service at the Eighteenth-street colored
Baptist church, was sent on to the grand
jury.
j. j. Byle was fined $40 for fast driving
on the public streets.
G.. W Higgins and Daniel Wack were
charged with stealing $40 from George
Higgins The case was continued until
tomorrow
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-08
Capitol Notes

Judge Marshall of Craig county, an old
and popular member OF the House, was
on the floor Of the House at yesterdays
afternoon sessions.
When the House adjourned yesterday
evening the last name called on the roll
for the privilege of calling up bill was
Mr.. Hobson of Powhatan. He called up
the bill providing for a new registration
of the voters in Manchester, Chesterfield,
and Powhatan. 1t was ordered to its
engrossment
All the House bills passed by the House
at yesterdays afternoon session were
passed under a suspension of the rules
without being actually engrossed. Clerk
Bigger and his assistants were engaged
until 3 o'clock this morning writing up
the journal and engrossing these bills for
communication to the Senate this morn
ing
Last Friday member OF the House
and two other gentlemen from the Capt.
tol made a visit 10 Albemarle county.
They rode from the railway station to
their destination in buggy. On the
wav they bOlted to obtain needed re-
freshments. Later the buggy turned
over, landing the aforesaid gentlemen in
the mud. 1t was claimed that the horse
was high.spirited one, but several Abe
marie citizens yesterday remarked that
il was difficult 10 decide who were tho
most spirited, the occupants of The buggy
or the horse
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-08
Hastings Court.

William Redford Page (colored), who
was charged with bigamy, pleaded guilty
and the jury sent him to the Penitentiary
for three years.
James Sweet (colored), charged with
malicious assault upon Thomas Jackson
was tried aud convicted, and sent TO the
Penitentiary for two years.
William Jackson (colored), charged
with feloniously assaulting William Pal.
mer, pleaded guilty and was sent to Jail
for three months and fined one cent.
Edward Tracy, housebreaking. Plead
ed guilty and was sent to Jail for four
months and fined one cent.
John Robinson, alias Woody, charged
with resisting the police, was sent TO jail
for thirty days.
William Fitzhugh Johnson (colored),
feloniously assaultng Henry Washing
ton. He was convicted, sent to Jail for
twelve months and fined one cent.
The verdict was set aside and his case
was continued till the next term of the
court.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-08
THE LEGISLATURE.
tg>JyRBIy' SPHOCEEDINGS or 7'HE
DrNERAL ASSEMBLY.

3D., senate Engaged all DAY Ia the Con
alteration OF Local BilIs Two Sessions
.i the House--A Snmber OF Bills Dis
,u..ed. and Many Passed.
The senate was called TO order at II m.
ly iioutcnaui-GOvernor Massey and after
f.c usual routine business of the morn
m- hour. q rule was adopted that the roll
la called and that each Senator be per
uirei fO call mp two local bills Under
fHfs rule number were ordered 10 en-
.ra-.mcnt and third reading, and the fol-
nf.nr were passed
House bill 10 allow H. r. Garland, late
Treasurer of Richmond county, one year
2. collect any uncolccted tax tickets for
tlcycars 1854 3 for which he has ac-
counted to The Auditor.
senate bin 20 amend an act TO legalize
certain subscriptions Of the town of
G..d-0n. Virginia, 10 the South Atlantic
and Ohio Railroad Company, upon GER
Tain conditions.
senate bin 10 incorporate the Black
Moan ain Coal and Iron Company.
House bin for working and repairing
the public roads in NotiOwly county.
IHr NIHGIEI- AND NORTH CAROLINA
RAILROAD.
The hin for extending the charter Of
Ii- railroad which was passed by the
senate 81 tow days ago, but rcconsidered,
Was again taken up. Senator Ellyson
offered q number of amendments which
were agreed 10, and the bill was ordered
t1 its cEgrOssmcnt
At 2.20 adjourned
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-08
a Jealous Husbands Decd.

PITTsBuIG, February IA laborer
named ONeill, residing at Tbirtieth and
Smallman streets, quarreled with his
wife this morning. He pulled out IA re-
volver and shot and killed her instantly.
He then shot himself through the head.
The wound il considered fatal. The
cause of the tragedy was jealousy.
O'Neill was a puddler and wellto-do.
He owned house in the east end and
made good wages, but q few months ago
his insane jealousy drove him TO drink.
Since then he has been frequently in
toxicated and several times assaulted his
wife. This morning he came into their
house on Smallman street under the in
fiuence Of liquor, and, after accusing his
wife of infidelity, shot her dead. He then
placed the weapon to his right temple and
fired, the bullet passing through the
brain. ONeill is still alive, but his death
is expected at any moment. He was
40 years of age and his wife was few
years his junior. The couple had six
children. They are all living the eldest,
q boy, being about eighteen years old
As far as known, O'Neill had no cause
for Jealousy.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-08
THE NORFOLK DIAMOND ROBBERY
Arrest of the Supposed Thieves In this
CITY

| SHk.
Mention was made in the Monday
mornings TINES that on last Sunday il
had been discovered that the jewelry
store of Messrs. Chapman & Gates OF
Norfolk had been robbed Of S25, 600
worth OF diamonds, rings, watches,
spoons, etc, and that it was suspected
that Murray and Ward, the two sus.
picious characters arrested In this city,
Friday, January Goth, for prowling
around the rear of the iewelry store OF
Messrs. John II. Tyler & Co. were the
burglars.
Yesterday morning these identical two
men came over on a Manchester street
car, and getting out the rear entrance,
proceeded down Ninth street towards
| Cary. This was about / 1 o'clock. Officer
Shields, who having information that the
supposed Norfolk burglars had reached
Petersburg, and were in Chesterfield
county, was watching the street car, and
saw the two rough looking men get of
| at the same time they saw him. and
turned the corner OF Tenth and Cary.
Officer Shields started after them. He
ran through the alley, and at Tenth
Eleventh. Reaching Main they went to
Twelfth with Officer Shields behind them
The alarm had in the meantime been
given, and other officers joined in the
race, which was quite exciting AT
Twelfth street the two men ran down to
Adams alley, and thence to Thirteenth
Before reaching Thirteenth street Officer
Otey took one in charge and Officer
| Shields followed the other through LOm-
bard alley to Fourteenth street, where he
was captured at the corner of Fourteenth
and Cary streets, and both were taken TO
the Second police station, followed by a
large crowd Of curious people.
There they gave the same names as
when before the Police Court, but adj
mitted nothing else They were searched,
and on one was found $3l and on the
other S1050. A gold watch was also
found, the same they had with them on
January Goth There were no weapons
or tools found on their persons.
The run through the streets hed rather
exhausted them, though they looked as If
they had passed through considerable ex
pOsure. Their dress cOrresponded with
their face-rough- looking. They were
first locked up together, but then sepa-
rated, and in the cell they were first
placed in was found map of the Nor
folk and Western railroad torn in several
pieces.
The parties boarded the car on Main
street, corner Semmes and Seventh, Just
beyond the free bridge. Their case will
be heard before Justice Richardson this
morning All sorts of theories are ad
vanced regarding them-such as that
Murray and Ward are decoYs for the
police, so that the principals could safely
escape, and TINT they are the principals
and have buried the 1000 worth OF
jewerly.
The authorizes of Norfolk have been
notified and officers from that city will
be here this morning to see the men, and
endeavor to find. if possible, some clue
TO their having been concerned with the
recent robbery in that city.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-08
Delightful Entertainment.

A delightful private german was given
at Bevidere Hall Monday night by mem
bers of the Richmond German Club
Twelve couples were present, and some
idea OF the elegance of the occasion can
be formed from the following menu
Oysters en- coquilles, consomme, Made
ria boiled salmon, sauce brabant, pom.
mes parisiennes, Chablls croquettes de
volatile, petits pois, Chateau La Rose
diamond-back terrapin stew, Premiere
Serre; flet de boeuf aux champignons,
potato croquettes, Premiere Serre
punch la cardinal canvas-back
duck, celery, Chsmbertin salade, glace,
Roquefort cheese, fruits, cafe noir, and
liqueurs.
The following gentlemen were present
Messrs. W. H. Corbett, George Kennon,
Dudley Mcdonald, r. G. Hutchinson, A.
). Watkins, {. Z. Boiling, Samuel Boil
ling, Charles Workman, Jr., Randolph
Boiling, and William L. Royal.
The dinner was furnished by Mr.. Will
liam Rueger, with George W. Clarke as
caterer.
The floral decorations were exceeding
" handsome. In word, no more truly
elegant and pleasant entertainment has
been given in Richmond this season.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-08

To incorporate the Big Stone Gap I'm.
provement Company.
TO incorporate the Montrose Land and
improvement Company.
TO repair and work the roads and
bridges in Page county.
Extending the time for the collection
OF certain taxes and leives 10 j. X. Raw
lings, late Treasurer of Brunswick
county.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To incorporate the Savings Bank Of
the Grand fountain of True Reformers.
To incorporate the Midlothian Coal
Company.
To provide for a new registration in
the town Of North Danville.
To incorporate the Augusta Telephone
Company.
To incorporate the Virginia Building
and Loan Company.
For the relief of B. s. English Deputy
Treasurer of Westmoreland connty.
To amend the charter of the town of
WaynsborO in the county OF Augusta.
To authorize the Governor to hire
convicts to the Abingdon Coal and Min
ing Company.
TO incorporate Brambleton Lodge of
Knights Of Pythas of Norfolk city.
To incorporate the Greenspring Tram
way Company.
10 allow the qualified voters OF War
wick county TO vote on the question Of
the removal of the courthouse.
To amend the law protecting oysters in
the waters of the Commonwealth.
To incorporate the Richmond and Ell
than Railroad and Navigation Company.
To authorize the surviving trustees Of
Union Academy of Appomattox county
10 fill vacancies.
To incorporate the South View Orphan
Home.
To constitute the town of Salem q
separate school district.
To incorporate the Gordonsvillc and
Springville Telephone Company
To incorporate the Young Mems
Christian Association OF Portsmouth.
Repeating an act for the protection Of
rabbits or old bares in the county Of
Chesterfield.
At Clio the House adjourned.