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The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04

When Railroad Magnate Hunt ington goes to fooling with Ken lucky court he reminds one of a monkey toying with buzz-saw. Some days ago MT. Huntington undertook to water the stock of a railroad in that state and the court summoned him into its presence to justify the obvious fraud. h. stead. Of obeying the mandate, Mir. Huntington evaded the offici- als and skipped off to another state. The court didn't follow him, because it hadn't the power to bring him back, but it declared the road insolvent and appointed a receiver to manage it. MT. Hun tington is now trying to negotiate terms of compromise at long range. After all there is some- thing in Kentucky besides whisky and handsome women.-Albuquer- que Democrat.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04
There was a business transac-

There was a business transac- ion up Gratiot avenue the other day requiring the service of a lawyer. The owner of a grocery sold out his interest and good will for a certain sum, but there was dispute as to the good will. There didn't seem to be any, and law yer was called in to see about 1t. What do you call the good will2" asked the lawyer of the seller "Vhell, der policemans on dat beat finds der door unlocked sometime, und he sends me word. He vhas very kind" What else?" "Vhell, no sun comes in der front win dows in summer" What else?" "lf procession goes by it vhas a splendid place to look at him." "What else?" "All der snow in winter goes around der corner by der saloon, und I doan' half to clean off der walk one single time" Anything else?" "Some- thing else!" Do you want eafry- tings on earth? If all dis doan' make some good will worth S200 l take der place right back again before night und make feefty dol lar clear profit"
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04

A little four-year-oId boy said to his father:
 Pa, can God do everything?" Yes. my son."
 Could he make tWo-year-old colt in two minutes?"
 "He would not wish to do that, my son."
 But if he did wish to do 1t, could he?"
 "Yes, Tn two minutes"
 "Well, then the colt wouldn't be two years old, would he?"
 The father was kind O floored, and he carried the youngster to bed and made him say his pray ers.-W eekly Courant.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04
EN THE sTEAEERs' TRACK.
An Act of NerOism Performed by
 Some New York Pilots.

Its got to be done, boys. She's plumb in the steamer-track, and we must get light aboard that bark if we lose every man on the Carll."
 You're right, Captain Beeb," rejoined half a dozen pilots in a breath. 1t must be done, and shall"
 There was a fearful tention in the air when these seven men said it must be done" They were men who lounged and laughed. They would laugh at show of sentiment, but they would never leave that wreck a hidden danger in the steamers track. When they said together it must and shall be done," it meant heroic duty. The price of prize meant nothing. Think what it meant for a steamship with 1,500 souls on board to crash into that loaded hull.
 "Heaye Ter outm howled the officer. Into the boat sprang young Norwegian. The yawl was at the rail-now out of slght-she struck against the boat-water splashed up between-up again gone-up. Another man sprang in.
 Take another manw shouted Bob. The pilot-boat rolled and touched her rail to the yawl- rolled again and was fathoms from her-rolled again and a young man sprang into the small boat and was lost in the spray. The yawl dropped astern and rose and fell, dry and safe-was seen-was gone.
 As the bark rolled to leeward, the yawrs lantern shot forward like star, burned steadily, and then darted back. In that instant the young Norwegian sprang upon the ships side at the forechains, and made his way to the deck. He carried a lighted lantern. He mounted the house. Now he is standing on tip-toe. reaching high up on the stay. Minutes seem hours. Will he never lash that light! In this perilous position he swept back and forth, now lean ing well over, with the water almost below him, now as far the other way. Thank God, he's fin ished! Clear and bright burns the ships light, night, high up on the stay rope. All honor to the brave fellow! The steamers track is safe at last!-H illiam Perry Northup, in Scribner's Magazine for May.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04

J. c. Flood, the San Francisco millionaire, may safely be said to have the most dazzling country palace in America. The estate is at Menlo Park, California, and covers 1000 acres, and under the constant care of landscape gard ener and 120 assistants. The drives, which are several miles in length, are made of white gravel, the house, wnite, with gold trim mings both inside and out, and gold and white are the decora- tions of the stables and all the buildings on the plaee.-Ex.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04

Miss de Crashville (speaking of her poodle)-He isn't an Adonis, but you know he saved papa's life once, and we think the world of him.
 Mir. de Topp-Why, yes, you must. What were the circum- stances?
 Miss de Crashville-Well, you see, one of our neighbors threat ened to shoot papa if he didn't keep Clawed out of his yard.
 Mr.de Topp Gnterestedly) Yes!
 Miss de Crashville-Yes, and papa tied him up after that.-Tid Bits.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04

"How is it, my dear," said a husband to his wife, ''tbat while you and your sister Ellen are so much alike in most respects you are married and she prefers to re- main single? Surely she has had offers enough" "Yes, love, but Ellen was always more difficult to please than I."-N. Y. Sun.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04

Epoch: T could gaze at the moon for hours, MT. Sampson," she said, in voice full of sweet ness. Il never tire of It."
 "Ah," he responded, would that I were the man in itr'
 "Yes," she assented, softly.
 And why, Miss Clara?" he asked, getting ready to take her hand.
 Because, Mir Sampson" she said, shyly yelling her eyes with their long lashes, you would be 100000 miles away"
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04
Clifton ssostomce.

Regular heurs from 7:So a. u- to ESD D. m. Ra-istration from 9:S0 a- m- to : h. n- Money Order hOurs. 9:30 a. n- to D. m. Snndsys. office open from II :. m; to l2 m. Mail departs for SolomOnvillc Tuesdays, Mail for Norenci closes 1t 6:Sl q. m. So foreign or mutil.te1 money will be received for stamps. box rent or post q ordsrs. Parties calling for mail matter other than th.t which ia addressed to themselves must present an order for delivery.
 A. c. REARDoS, P. NJ.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04

Children between five and twel 'e years of ago half fare. each full fare, and D pounds -ith each half farS ticket --.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04

Exceptions to every rule |: Young man." he said solemnly, "do you know we are liable to be called at any time?" Yes, sir" responded the young man, i've are liable to, of course; but I made three men lay down on pair of duces last night" New York Sun
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04
Arizona & New Mexico R. R. Time
 Table.
GOING SOUTH.
GOING NORTH.
:nn d1ilr. Snninys exceptel.
PASSENGER RATES.

Passenger and freight rates on the Arizona & New Mexico Railway from April lst 1887.
The Clifton clarion., 1888-07-04
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Territorial.

Territorial. tiovernor-C. Meyer Zulick. Prescott. Secretary-Jas. A. Bayard. Prescott. Treasurer-C- R. Foster. Prescott. Suporintendent of Public Instruction-C. M. Strauss, tucson.
 Auditor-H. '. An lrews, Prescott. Commissioner of Immigration - C. II. King. Phoenix.
 Supreme COurt-J. II. Wright, Chief Justice, Prescott; W. w. Porter Asso- ciate Justice-- PheEix; Vim. II. Barnes. Associate Justice. Tucson.
 U. s. District Attorney-owen T. Rouse, Tucson
 U. :. Marshal-W. K. Meade. Tucson. Surveyor General-J- Hise. Tucson. U. $. Internal Revenue COllector-J. J. Devine. Tucson.
 Delegate to Congress-MarS A. Smith, Tombstone.
 Judge of First Judicial District-Wm. IT.. Barnes.
 Judge of Second Judicial District W. W. Porter. Phenix.
 Judge of Third Judicial District J. II. Wright, Prescott.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

The above from our highly esteem
ed friend, and one who is sincere in
all he believes,is gladly received. We
would not say word in answer, and
would only call the attention of such
as had interest in the matter to the
little shot the MONITOR gave last
week, if the writer had not invited an
answer by propounding a series of
questions.
The writer would be one of those
who would force prohibition into pol
itics. Well, we would Whenever
and wherever an opportunity pre-
sents itself to do anything that
promises good in the line of law,
moral reform, restraint, the punish
ment of the wicked dram seller, the
destruction of beer brewing or whis-
key stilling, we would favor it in pol
itics and out of politics. We would
90 farther and labor for the utter
humiliation of all distilled or fer
mented liquors and the destruction
of every worm, distillery, brewery,
machine or other thing that helps in
any way to make the accursed stuff
If all the knowledge in relation tC
the processes of liquor making were
written in one book, and it were pos
sible to bury the book in the darkest
oblivion, we would be one to gladly
help in the sculpture. We disagree
with our brother prohibitionist. if a
all, in the method of forcing the
question into politics. His is the
separate party method, ours is labo
in the old parties. The brother does
not see the necessity of having ma
jority party in order to make salooi
and anti-saloon the issue in American
politics. He will feel the necessit,
before laws are enacted and consti
tutional amendments are adopted
We do not see his point about tn
plumed knight of Maine. 1t is prob
ably something in the left-hande'
compliment line. The brother doe
not see constitutional difficulties i
some directions of reform and ma
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20
Some Talk From the Prohibition
Friends

Editor Orleans County MonitOr,-
1t is refreshing to read a republican
editor who is willing to address party
prohibitionists as friends, and talk
with them in such excellent spirit as
was manifested in the editorial COL
umns of the MONITOR of August IS.
There are many republican editors
of this kind, and may the number
never be less. The editor desired to
talk ''aUih" his prohibition friends.
Does the use of that proposition in
dictate a willingness that they also
talk? If so, suffer few words from
a friend who would be both right and
reasonable:
There are many party prohibition
lists whose principal aim and greatest
hope is to force the prohibition issue
into politics, and thus make it una
voidable for the American people to
meet it squarely, and settle it on its
own merits. Undoubtedly it is to
this class that the MONITOR appeals.
We would be as willing to have the
triumph of prohibition come by the
republican party or by the democrat
ic party as by a third party. We
care very little which party shall die
as sacrifice to this issue. We do
not regard it as absolutely necessary
for the prohibition party to become
a majority party in order to make
saloon or anti-saloon the issue in
American politics. Cannot the ca
gle-eyed republican party see another
way? Is not the plumed knight from
prohibition Maine able to point out
that way?
A few words concerning the con-
stitutional rights of state and nation
al government. Vast territories are
soon to be admitted as states. The
same constitutional right which could
once say, ''no slavery for a new
state" might now say, no saloon
for any new state. Moreover, ma
tional legislation and national judi
cial decision might remedy the evils of
interstate traffic which are now sore
" felt IN the border towns of every
prohibition state. And as constitu-
tional amendments to remove the
curse of slavery came at last, so con-
stitutional amendments to crush the
saloon might come in due time.
But it is urged that even then law
would not be enforced. 1t would be
an imposition upon editorial courtesy
to ask space to argue this point, but
pardon an offset to the reason i'm
piled in the editorial revelation of {
secret to US. 1t is charged that IN
less we 'swould do better in grea
prohibition than 1--WE do) in small
| prohibition-the work would go SLOW
under government supervision" Th'
writer had some experience in at
: tempting to secure the enforcement
: of law against liquor selling in Mont
{ pelier in 1886 and 1887. In tina
) town, which cast not more than fiji
: teen votes for ST. John, but number
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

1t is certain that the arguments
which president Cleveland uses are
those which Golden used to employ
forty-five years ago and which any
English free traders would employ
now. Such propositions as that tax
alton ought to be strictly limited by
the needs of the country; that it Is
unjust to tax the whole community
for the benefit of special classes
that import duties stihe production
and limit the area of a country's
markets, are purely free trade argu-
ments AS such we are very glad
to see president Cleveland using
them, though we are sorry for the
popular infatuation which makes il
dangerous to give them their right
name. From The London Times,
.July 6.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20
Mr.. Blaine Speaks in New York
City.

At the great reception given to Mr..
Blaine in New York last week, he
spoke very clearly on the main issue
in the pending election as follows:
Now, gentlemen, / know that in
discussing the question of protective
tariff we are always pointing out
what England is doing. l have late
ly been in England for some months,
and | found in English public opinion
very great difference of opinion
upon almost all questions. They are
about divided upon what you call the
Irish question they are about divid-
ed on the forcible policy of Gladstone
and Salisbury; they are divided even
upon the continuance of the House
of Lords, and they are not absolute
ly unanimous in support of the mon
archy. But from one end of the
imous chorus on the part of tories
and wings, of liberals and conserva-
tives and of radicals, and that is that
the Hon. Grover Cleveland, Presi-
dent of the United States, embodies
in his person the regular form of rev.
enue and free trade for the United
States which they like.
Now / have no objection to their
right of opinion, and if I had it would
amount to nothing. Nor do | intend
to speak disrespectfully of the Eng
lish, for l have received at their
hands very graceful and very cordial
hospitality which / would be churl
not to acknowledge before an Ameri-
can audience; but that does not af-
feet the pending conditions, that the
American people find their interests
in one policy and that the English
. want to change that policy so as bet.
ter to conform to their interests, ano
that, gentlemen, is the prime ques
, ton before you in next November's
election. / am glad that this meet
ing is called in the name of the la
boring people, because this question
: is from first to last question of la
' Dor.
If you will agree to live in as poo
f a house and eat as poor feed and re
: ceive as low wages as the people 0
: England receive, we can produce a
n cheap goods as a democratic admins
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

Constables and other officers who
may preside over the ballot boxes
at the state election in September,
will bear in mind that the state and
congress ballots all 60 in one box
this year-the vote for congressman
being on the same ballot as the state
and county ticket. This reduces the
number of ballot boxes and some
times may save confusion between
the town and congress representa-
tive boxes. Those who have charge
of printing ballots or distributing
them should also act accordingly,
and not detach the congress vote
from the state ticket as formerly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

"My friends, you will never have
any genuine reform in the civil SER
vice until you adopt the one term
principle in reference TO the presi-
dency. So long as the incumbent
can hope for a second term he will
use the immense patronage of the
government to procure his re-nomi-
nation and secure his reelection. -
From a speech By the Hon. Allen q.
Thurman Columbus, Ohio, 1872.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

tration wants to see. But if YOU
want to better your condition YOU
want the industrial system of pro-
tected interests to be maintained
The entire savings that the wage
workers of England, Scotland and
1 Ireland are drawing upon now are
not near as great as those that lie in
savings bank of Massachusetts, to the
credit of the wage-workers of that
small state, and if you turn the adj
ministration of this republic to-day
into free trade channels, you may
not expect those great savings, for
you will put our laboring men
throughout the country into competi-
ton with the laboring men of Great
Britain, and in the course of five or
ten years you will make them as poor
upon this side of the water as they
are upon the other. / will not in
this campaign stop to argue the
question upon any other basis. |
have no personality to indulge in. /
have no old sores to heal. l would
rather have your cordial and heart
felt and sympathetic welcome than
any office you care to bestow upon
me. But in this canvass, in which
[ shall take greater or less part, |
shall hold this question from begin
ming to end as question that inter
ests every man, woman and child in
this country that depends upon daily
labor for bread. There is no need
to make any laws to protect capital /;
capital always takes care of itself
and gets a full share, but there are
laws that can elevate the condition
of the laboring man and there are
laws that can degrade him. The re-
publican party has stood for twenty
five years, and it will stand, | be-
lieve, with the blessings of God and
the will of the American people,
twenty-five years more, upholdlng
and maintaining the laboring man,
for the government which takes care
of the men who created the wealth in
the country, and who are therefore
entitled to the patronage and protec-
ton of the government.
Now, gentlemen, you represent a
critical state; you represent the state
of New York. Your votes are to
tell in that issue. Your votes can
be decisive upon that one issue. Do
not be diverted from that one ques-
ton by side issues. Do not be mis-
led by petty squabbles upon this or
that small issue or upon personal
questions of abuse on the one hand
or the other, but give your votes as
independent laboring men and give
them for the interest of your own
homes, or your own firesides, and
thereby for the great interests of the
great republic. [ never, Mr.. Chair
man, thought of that republic as do
tonight. / have devoted many of
the last fourteen months to seeing
the condition of labor and laboring
men in the other hemisphere, and l
say without fear of contradiction that
in no country of Europe, in no part
of Europe or part of any country,
is the labor comparable to that which
it holds in the United States. Are
you willing to give up that position,
or are you willing to maintain it?
You can maintain it by strong pull
and long pull and pull altogether
for Harrison and Morton. Loud
and enthusiastic cheers and waving
of hats.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

Let every freeman of Vermont
make his arrangements now to be
at home on election day-the first
Tuesday in September. Remember
also that now you can only vote in
the town of your home, and you
must see and know that your name
is on the check list.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

Now THE MmLIoENAIREs AND JUDoEs TAKE or,
Our Massachusetts MOxic il rapidly creeping
into the esteem of high circles. Col. Bennett, the
PHILADELPHIA eight millionaire says IL saved him.
and he intends 10 build a monument 20 Il Ia Fair
mount Park. Judge Brewster, OF the supreme
Courc, talks large on IL, too. First class actresses
consider IL part of their outfit and rich inrn pat 4
their sideboards. On the street, hNe MoAics
sold by the glass 90 one Of anything else IL
wonderful but only common "a Massachusetts
production. Massachusetts was the father Of the
Revolution, and the means OF abolishing slavery.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

FOR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM p. DILLINGHAM;,
OF WATERBURY.
FOR LIEUT.. GOVERNOR,
L. A. WOODBURY., of Burlington.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
CHAS. w. PORTER, of Montpelier.
FOR TREASURER,
VIM. I'll. DUBOIS, of Randolph.
FOR AUDITOR,
f. HENRY POWELL, Of Richford.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM w. CIRCUIT, of Barton.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

ORLEANS COUNTY REPUBLICAN TICKET
.,,'( CHARLES z. STEVENS, of Troy.
''e''N''s JOHN E. CHAMBERLIN, of Albany.
States Attorney, FRANK E. ALFRED, Newport
Assistant CLARENCE P. OWEN of Glover.
Judges, SAMUEL r. DAVIS, of Troy.
Judge Of Probate, ORLO II. AUSTIN, of Barton.
Sheriff, LORENZO D. MILES, of Newport
High Bailif, ORLANDO H. JOSLYN, of Barton
County Commissioner, A. P. BUTTON, Craftsbury
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20
United States District Court.

Judge Wheeler has ordered special
session of the United States District
Court, to be holden for the purpose
of naturalization, at the following
named places At Brattleboro, Tues
day, Aug. %, at 3 p. III. at lower
Town Hall. At st. Johnsbury, We'd
nesday, Aug. 20, at 3 p. M, and
Thursday, Both, from 9 a. m. to II
o'clock noon, at Court House. At
Montpelier, Thursday, Aug. 30, at
p. M, and Friday, 31st, from to
10 a. m. at Court House. At Bur-
lington, Friday, Aug. 81, at l p. m.
at Court House.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20
For Presidential EIectors at Large.

11INNt'IIS LII
HENDERSON c. WILSON, of North Troy.
HENRY r. START, of Bakersfield.
LIST District-HENRY c. MCDUFFEE, Bradford.
2d District-DARIUS j. Stafford, Morristown
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20

''When we consider the patronage
of this great office, the allurements
of power, the temptation to retain
public place once gained, and, more
than all, the availability a party
finds in an incumbent whom a horde
of office holders, with a zeal born of
benefits received and fostered by the
hope of favors yet to come, and
stand ready to aid with money
and trained political service we rec
ognize in the eligibility of the pres
ident for reelection a most serious
danger to that calm, deliberate and
intelligent action which must char
acterize government by the people. -
From President CLeUeland's letter Of
acceptance dag. IS, 1884.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-20


In a speech to his neighbors the
other day at Middlebury congress-
man Stewart said few words about
the partnership between the govern
ment and the whiskey trust which it
is worth while to ponder. He SAID:
81 am opposed to the internal
taxes chiefly because they make pos
sible the existence of the whiskey
trust. This is monstrous organic
alton that always has as its com
mand at least $500, 900, 900. 1t is
the most powerful foe of good morals
in the country; and is solid demo
cratic. Whiskey costs fifteen cents
4 gallon to make. The tax is ninety
cents gallon. But this tax is not
payable till the end of three years
Meantime the whiskey is carefully
taken care of by the government il
its bonded warehouses. AT the enc
of that time the barrel of whiskey
which cost the owner $3.50. has
come to be worth S43 after paymen
of the tax; so that the practica
working of the law is to make tn
government the banker for this con
Germ, for all this time the govern
ment has had over forty dollars 9th
unpaid tax invested in the barrel O
whiskey, while the owner has ha
but $3.50 This is the system whic
the whiskey trust wants kept up an
which it strives in every way to mair
tain by work in the courts and eve
in congress-"