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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

HONOR and fame from no condition
rise" When Captain Murrell of the
" Missouri " left port on his last voyage
TO America he little thought that fame
and honor lay in his track. He en-
countered the disabled "Danmark
with over seven hundred souls on board.
Obeying the impulse of common hui
manity, he threw his cargo into the deep
and made room for the wrecked and
imperiled voyagers, all of whom he
took safely to land. The act was
sufficiently heroic to point one of the
most significant paragraphs in Presi-
dent Harrison's centennial speech:
Self-seeking has no public observance
or anniversary. The captain who gives
to the sea his cargo of rags, that he may
give safety and deliverance to his i'm
periled fellow-men, has fame; he who
lands his cargo has only wages" Cap
tain Murrell has just arrived in Eng
land, and besides other festivities in his
honor is received in princely fashion at
the Mansion House, London. Enter
ing the hall, in company with the
lord mayor, the band struck up "See,
the Conquering Hero Comes" and
the great audience rose to its feet
and cheered till the civic walls
rang again. The speeches and dem
onstrations were of the most sig
nificant character-a glad, hearty, spon-
taneous tribute to modest sailor, who
stood blushing and bowling amid the
honors heaped upon him, conscious
himself of having made only due distnc-
ton between merchandise and human
life. The Danish minister expressed the
gratitude of his countrymen from the
cottage to the palace, from the peasant
to the king, to the brave captain and
his crew; the American Consul-general
New told of American appreciation of
an act of gallant humanity, and letter
was read from the chancellor of the
German empire eulogizing Captain
Murrell and the crew of the Mis-
souri, The officers of the steamer
were present and shared in the honors
to their chief. Presents of money,
watches and other articles of value are
lavished on captain, officers and crew,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

GOVERNOR LUCE, Michigan's granger
executive, has vetoed the bill, passed
by both houses of the Legislature, re-
pealing the law that provided for the
taxation of mortgages as well as the
property mortgaged; and the Illinois
house of representatives. has declined
to pass bill providing that the bor-
rover of money on mortgage security
may pay all the taxes on the mort
gagged estate, but can deduct such pay
ments from the mortgaged indebted
ness. A similar measure comes up BIZ
ennially in the Vermont legislature,
but the prospect of its passage has never
been very encouraging, although certain
newspapers in the state have advo-
Gated the measure with more fervor
than reason.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

MISUNDERSTANDING WANAMAKER
is looking into the question of Sunday
workin the post-otfices, and is proceeding
Systematically and cautiously. He evil
IDENTITY intends to be sure that he is right
before going ahead. So complicated
are the relations of different branches
of the mail service that changes which
may benefit the community may prove
very burdensome to post-office en-
ployes. Thus, for example, the recent
shortening of the railroad timetables
from Chicago to San Francisco by
twenty-four hours had for its first
effect the compelling the workers in
the Chicago post-oflice to spend the
whole Sunday at their tasks instead of
few hours, as previously. This and
other points will doubtless be carefully
investigated by the postmaster-general
His circular, addressed to all the chief
city postmasters, asks for the amount
of postage stamps, ETC., sold on each
Sunday in the coming June; second
for the number of callers for mail OF
each of these days ; third, for the mum
Der of mails received and dispatched
and their size; fourth, for the number
of letter-carriers' collections and tn,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

STRANGE as it may appear, great
deal of human nature is found, even in
professional civil service reformers, as
the following from the NeW York Herald
shows: 1.-THE civil service reformers
are Just now raising an cutlery because
the president has appointed some of
his relations to office. 'Nepotism has
always been odious, but we are not
sure that it is quite decent for some
civil service reformers to denounce it.
How many of the members of the
league have got brothers or cousins or
other family lame ducks pensioned on
the public to use the common phrase?
We do not know, but we remember
seeing, several years ago, a list of the
Burt family, with the offices they held,
which showed that that very eminent
civil service reformer, Mr.. Slas Burt,
was not among those who turn cold
shoulder to the family affections"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29
The Situation in Europe.

European war scares have not ma
terialized this summer with the same
ease and frequency as in former years,
but there may be all the more reason
for genuine apprehension. Heretofore
it has been to the interest of certain
European statesmen to fill the air with
rumors of pressing perils, that they
might control parliament and accom-
plsh a bit of domestic legislation to
which the people were not partial, and
it has been shrewdly suspected that
most of the panics were originated and
engineered by these willy public func-
tionaries with no more serious designs;
but now the situation is altered. Bis
marck himself lays the greatest stress
on the pacific intentions of Germany,
and assures the world, with an energy
that makes the wish appear to be father
to the thought, that there is no dangerof
complications for several years to come
anyhow. No doubt Bismarck is, and
has been, potent factor in the preser-
walton of peace, but there is always
present to the mind his dogmatic asser-
ton that the triple alliance, composed
of Germany, Austria Hungary and It.
ally, is the staple guarantee of the status
qlO-a fair inference at the time it was
made, but not so self-evident to-day.
The Russians have been working like
beavers since then to evolve some sort
of system out of the chaos in which
their military machine was floundering,
with the result that they have concen-
trated an army of 100000 men on the
German and Austrian frontiers, and
have provided themselves with sup
ply of money for any contingency that
may arise. But this is not all accom-
plished by the Russians since the triple
alliance was formed. The ROumanian
government, which can put in the field
$50, 900 troops, has veered completely
round, and, from being the strongest
of Austria's allies, is now in thorough
sympathy with the ear. Servia has
compelled her king to abdicate, as much
on account of his Austrian leanings as
for any other reason, and there is a
possibility that the dormant Russian
sympathies of the Bulgarians may be
aroused and Ferdinand forced to pro-
nounce for the car or leave the coun-
try. A union of the Balkan provinces
against Turkey and Austria means
serious work. A splendid army could
be quickly modified on the Hungarian
frontier, which would release the main
body of the Russians to operate against
Germany, while France could divide
her forces, holding the Italians in
check with one detachment and max
ing vigorous campaign against En-
peror William with the other. Bis
marck, if he were to express his real
sentiments now, would probably say that
the maintenance of peace or war rests
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
at last succeeded in settling the differ
ences between the striking Westphalia
miners and their employers. After a
formal interview between the emperor
and delegation of miners the latter
held conference with the mine-own-
ers which resulted in an agreement,
by the terms of which the working day
is to be fixed at eight hours of actual
work; compulsory overtime is to be
abolished, except in cases of extreme
necessity, and wages are to be increased
in accordance with local circumstanc
in some cases from twenty to thirty
per cent. This prompt action by EN-
peror William has put an end to a
dangerous strike. The miners were
undoubtedly right in their demands,
and the successful termination of the
strike is IA triumph for justice and fair
dealing. 1t can not be expected that a
large body of men, representing numer-
ically the largest interest involved in a
great industrial department, will re-
main satisfied with the long hours and
low pay of very moderate prosperity
when all other interests involved have
been greatly enhanced by increase OF
values.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

MAYOR GRANT of New York IS wroth.
His rapid transit bill failed 20 emerge
from the legislative catacombs at AL
bany and the mayor takes the matter
very ungraciously. He says that he
has good reason to believe that it was
killed by the use of money, and though
declining to make specific charges, in
Inmates that it was Jay Gould's money.
He denies in the most emphatic way
that there have been any deals between
him and Tom Plat, and says that here
after he shall choose a Tammany man
in every case in appointing to office.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

THE Inman line steamer "City of
Paris " added last week to her recent
triumph in breaking the western ocean
record by lowering the best eastern
record by eighteen minutes. She has
thus demonstrated that her previous
performance was not due to favorable
conditions of wind and weather, but
solely to her unequaled speed. Hap
PLY these ocean racers are built with
such regard to safety that there is no
danger of accident when they are put
on their mettle, unless rushing through
fog bank.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

THE democrats have fighting chance
of carrying the new state of Montana.
The result of the recent elections for
the constitutional convention was favor
able to them, but no definite predictions
can be based on this fact, since only
forty per cent of the full vote was
polled. In the other states now in
process of incubation the republicans
calling and election is sure. Says the
Boston Herald: "Those democrats
who are talking about their getting
possession of Washington are not fa-
miliar with the state of affairs in that
territory. Nothing but an accident or
some combination in politics, which
the republicans should be sufficiently
wise to avert, can prevent Washington,
as well as both the Dakotas, from vot-
ing republican. The democrats of
Washington have freely admitted this
whenever consulted. The sanguine
men of the party live at distance, and
if they do not desire heavy disappoint-
ment they will do well to abandon any
fond anticipations upon the subject"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

THE last night of the late session of
the New York assembly, if reports
are true, was fitting climax to the
disgraceful career of that syndicate Of
mercenaries. 1t is said that fifteen or
twenty members were on the floor in
toxicated and pitched battle with bill
files occupied the time. In the senate
the clerk announced the passage of a
bill in the interest of the Brooklyn ele-
waited roads, but number of senators
whose names were in the aye list de-
clared they had not voted and had not
even heard the title read. 1t was re-
considered
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

ONE Colonel Hamilton, who endeav-
ored TO filter through the New York
legislature scheme to utilize Niagara
Falls for mechanical purposes, denies
that he attempted to bride the proprie-
tor of the Albany Journal On the
contrary, seeing that the Journal didn't
really understand his enterprise, the
urbane colonel told the proprietor that
he knew it would cause considerable
trouble and expense to investigate, that
he didn't want any man to work for
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

THE recent extensive sales of Ameri-
can breweries to English capitalists
has naturally caused much comment in
prohibition circles. Frances E. Willard
believes that the prospects of prohi-
bition are helped rather than hindered
by this large transfer of capital. She
thinks that American brewers see signs
of an approaching storm, and that they
show much shrewdness in thus casting
an anchor to the windward.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

THE young mems democratic club
of New York city banqueted Mr.. Cleve-
land Monday evening, and the ex-presi-
dent made a speech vigorously reatfirm-
ing democratic principles as exempli-
fed by his administration. Mr.. Cleve-
land seems to have become the guide,
philosopher and friend of his party, and
may be grooming for the candidacy of
the party again in 1892.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

ABOUT one hundred sixty thousand
acres of the best land in South Dakota
will probably be opened to settlers
within month, on the completion of
negotiations by the government with the
Sioux Indians of the Yankton agency.
The late experience of the festive
boomer in the Oklahoma deserts
should teach him to come late this time
and avoid the rush.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw visited Yale
College recently, and when he appeared
on the campus received a rousing well
come from the students. In a short
speech Chauncey remarked that what
made the class of '53 so famous was
that half its members went into Jour-
nalism and praised the other half.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

MURAT HALsTEAD has gone to Ger
many to recuperate after his recent Sc
we're illness. The senate decided that
Murat could not go as United States
minister, but he gets there just the
same. His privileges as private citi-
zen are beyond senatorial jurisdiction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

THE supreme court of the United
States, which adjourned recently, left
on its docket more cases than can be
disposed of in the next three years.
This long delay in the administration
of justice is inexcusable, and congress
should take measures for its correction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

him for nothing, and that if he would
look into the matter, and if he became
satisfied that it was all right, he would
give him two hundred shares of stock,
valued at $4,000. This, it seems, the
colonel does not regard as bribe-far
from il.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

hours at which they are made; fifth, for
the number of employees on duty on
each Sunday and the hours of service
of each. He also asks for suggestions
as to the mode of reducing Sunday
postal work. We shall hear more from
these inquiries before long.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29
Lessons from Laura Bridgman.

Laura Bridgman died on Friday of
last week at the Asylum for the Blind +,
in Boston, in her sixtieth year, of an
attack of erysipelas. She was born at
Hanover, n. H., December 81, 1929.
Fifty years ago her sad fate and her re-
markable developments rendered her
an object of general interest. OF late
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29

CONNECTICUT has joined the double
quartette of states that have adopted
ballot reform laws. The measure was
passed in the house of representatives
last week with only nine dissenting
votes. The Ne,O York Herald senten-
tiously refers this result to Governor
Hill without comment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-29
@attbman 4 aournal.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1899.

WHITELAw REID, United States min
lister to France, has rented one of the
most elegant mansions in Paris at $780,
600 per annum. AS his salary is only
$17, 900 it can hardly be claimed that
his appointment is of the " fat plum I"
variety.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-09-21
For First Place.

A greet amount ofpoliticai engineers
ing'will be done by friends. Of canti-
dates to secure for their man the first
place on the ticket, and tho best man
Will probably secure the coveted place.
Then, if endorsed by ths majority oi
the people, the election il assured,
Electric Bitters hxs been put to the
front, its merits passed upon. has been
endorsed and. unanimously given the
first place among remedies peculiarly
adapted to the relief and cure of MI
diseases of Kidneys, Liver and Stom.
ach. Electric .Bittsrs, being guaran.
teed, 10 y safe investment. Price, sec,
and q per bottle It Thibodaux Drua
Store.
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Bearing False Witness.

The Bourtons SAY that there asa
normal Democratic majority from
5000 to 5000 in the Third Louisiana
Congressional District, but the pains
which they take tn prevent the hold
: ing Of Republican meetings in the dis
trict. and the efforts which they are
making to intimidate Republicans and
Keep them away from the polls on
election day, prove that the BourbOps
know this pretcnse to be false.-GIObe
democrat. tf.Es4 fA+ -
Our st. Louis contemporary cannot
apparently get over its bad habit OF
giving untruthful Testimony against
til" respectable people of Louisiana.
1t is the former Republicans Of the
! Third District, repelled and dis
heartened by their party's sectional
and discriminating tariff bill, that
'~'prevent" the holding Of Republican
meetings by refusing to respond to
the calls. And is it not entirely natur-
nj and proper that they should de-
cline to ratify, wen indirectly a party
whose declared and ~irrevocable policy
is to cut down the protection Oh their
industrial support (sugar) one-half,
put mOlasses OH the free list and prac-'
tically destroy the duty on rice 7
Does the CD. expect the planters
and labOrers III the sugar aud rice
fields to acquicsce by rheirNotes in "a
policy that threatens them with such
dire consequences: Such u position
would be devoid of common OF
probability.
As for the alleged intimidation Of
negroes to "keep them asay from the
polls on election day. the very re-
verse is the case. They will be, IN
the contrary, escorted to the polls
with banners flying and bands play
ing, and freely cast thei. ballots for
"Price and Protection th.-t Protects J"
As for the individual case Of bull
dozing-that Of Armstrong of Assump-
tiOn-the tame story Of the deserved
punishment meted out to the fellow
by his cOlOred brethren is told else
where in this issue. City Item.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-09-21

You cannot afford to waste time in
experimenting when your lungs are 10
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ut first, only Z cold. do not permit
any dealer to impose upon you with
some cheap imitation Of Dr.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, but be sure you ret
the genuine. Because he can make
moro profit he may tell you he has
something just as good, or just the
same. Don't be deceived, but insist
npon getting Dr.. Kings New Discov-
cry. which is guaranteed to give relief
IN all Throat, Lungand Chest affections.
Trial bottles free at Thibodaux Dug
Store. Largo Bottles q
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-09-21

1 Speaking of the late hOrrid crime
in tho parish Of Lafayette tho New
iberia Eaferpvise says:
"The good people. of Lafayette owe
it MS a duty to themselves to see that
the PARTIES guilty of this midnight
atrocity be convicted and punished
and let there be rs little delay about
it as possible." {ta }T&s -.
The Crowley Signal says:
"I.et the good people Of the parish
leave no stone .unturned in their ef-
forts to bring the inhuman. monsters
to speedy account for their barbarous
crime" ~
The Vidalia Sentinel says:
"Tlle Lafayette troubles are q dis
grace to the State Of Louisiana, and
deserve the Reproduction of every good
citizen of what 9 party. The strong
arm of the law is needed to be exercia-
ell there. aud it is hoped that all who
were engaged in the lawless transac-
tons may have Justice of the sevcrest
kind meted out to them. l..
The Daily States of New Orleans 10
hauling Over the Goals the
District Attorney Luxembourg and
Judge Evans, counsel for the
band Of hOOdlums that killed Mrs.
Glade, some months ago in a little
frolic, for not bringing the accused to
trial.
The States deserve credit and we
hope that that pape will continue to
pour red hot shot at them.
This thing of trying murderers and
bowling h0odlums when it suits them
to be tried, without any regard to the
rights Of the people who want t" e
such men punished promptly, is being
carried too far.
Speedy trial, above all things, should
be granted to a murderer, and when
such a bare and bloody crime as'the
murder of that poor wife who was try.
ing to protect her husband, has been
committed, district attorneys should
see that a speedy trial be had, and
not be found delaying and dallying as
this n. o. officer has been doing.
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Now that Tanner the Pension fiend
has been relcgated to private life, the
wsil Of the bummers, bounty jumpers,
and skulks, that followed the Federal
army is loud and shrill.
We believe that every soldier that
was disabled in the Federal service,
every invalid who was = soldier in
that army, and every man, sixty years
II age, in poor circumstances, and who
was . soldier should draw q pension
from the Government, and We believe
that every hummer, bounty jumper,
deserter and skulk should be bounced
higher than Tanner whenever heap
peOaches the Pension Office.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-09-21

The New Orleans Piceyune has ~
duced tho yearly subscription price. e
IL. Weekly from 3 50 70 q . yeAr. II u.
aaplendid 1e-page papeT alled With The
~bestreading matter. Sample copy. seut
1ree to any address !,
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-09-21

Late news from Washington, states
that Mr.. Minor has decided not to
contest the election of MIR. Price.
Perhaps that vas the cause of the
cold wave that has arrived here.
L Mr. Minor should have come to that
-conclusion the day before the dark
convention met in Franklin.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-09-21
The Third Louisiana District.

New ORLEANS, Sept 4.-Official re-
turns are in from the Third Congress
District. They show the following
majority for Price, democrat, to. he
$3.50.
!. The Republican, headquarters are
closed and Minor has left town, and
it is Impossible, therefore, 10 deter
mine what He will do 1t is under
stood that the Republicans have. de-
cided to contest. They explain their
defeat b, saying that tfey did not get
the support from. sugar planters which
they were led to expect, and by the
detection Of some Of the local Repub-
lican politiciapsinsthe parishes. Con-
gtessnan Peters, Republican, Of kaa-
sas, who watched the election in La
folrfchc, says it was Us fair and us
free All election as he ever saw, the
negroes voting fdlere; if lsrgespnmbsrs
without let or hindrance. Mr.. Mi
o started in to make i white mans
candidacy 10 kid gloves before Il me-
gro constituency, while MI, Price took
off his. kid gloves aud threw tlem
away, shook hands with the negroes,
and invited then, into the DenFeerhtic
camp. -; 4-