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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

es it is quite impossible for them to pay
either interest or taxes. In consequence
of these repeated crop failures, large num-
bers of the settlers have been obliged to "a
bandon their farms ,and many more are on
the eve of going, because the past season
their lands have not produced enough to
sustain life during the coming winter. To
such an extent have removals taken place
that in some counties fully three -fourths
of the population is gone. Under these CIR
cumstances return of either interest or
principal to the lender is not promising.
Vermont's bleak hill farms present
no such discouraging spectacle as this,
and while life on them is not a downy
bed of ease, they can at least be relied
on for something.
Mr.. Wilson advises investors 'to be
exceedingly careful in "aking loans in
the West and TO pay more attention to
location and amounts loaned than has
ever been done in the past, advice
which harmonizes excellently with that
iterated and reiterated by Vt. inspect
ors of finance. 70 be safe, according
to him, investments in farm mortgages
should be confined within the rain belt
feast of the s9th meridian) where ''the
country has passed beyond the realm OF
experiment and uncertainty" but here
the rate of interest is only six per cent
and if eastern seekers after sudden
wealth are limited 10 six per cent the
attractions Of western investments will
have passed like the bloom Of youth
from the cheek Of age.-St. Johnsbury
GaInIon.a,,
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

Apparently Vt. has no monopoly in
the abandoned farms business. The
Dakoias appear to be ia the competi-
ton. \ significant circular has been
issued 10 investors in Dakota mortgag-
e. by Mr.. IL c. Wilson Of Boston,
who. after twenty years experience
with an investment firm in st. Louis.
travelling over the states OF Missouri,
Iowa. Kansas. Nebraska and Dakota.
now offers his services to holders OF de-
fanlted mortgages. The circular in
question relates to two business trips
made hy him through the Dakoias dur
ing last summer aud autumn. Mr..
Wilson saws plainly that the Dakotas
s.are passing through period Of de-
preston which cannot be overcome un-
les there l. a change in climatic condi-
tions. or irrigation by means Of artesiau
wells Is adopted Continuing Mr..
Wilson makes this remarkable state
meni
Severe droughts which have prevailed
wiki varying severity for the past ive yrs.
have not only rendered large portion OF
the lands of both states practically value
less except for grazing, but have bankrupt
ed the owners.so that in majority Of cas-
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

Read our offer OF this paper with the
Burlington Weekly Free Press IN an
other columns. This is the best offer
we ever made. If You want the Jo'F'-
mall Tribune, or Mirror and Farmer IN
addition to this offer they will cost you
i0s. each
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

Coy. Page has made the following
appointments, all of which were con-
iiImed:
Trustees Of Vermont Insane Asylum
$. ID. Hobson, Brighton. for a term
OF six years from Dec. /. 1880.
Directors state prison and house Of
correction, ". II II. bingham ot
Stowe for two years and J. {. Parker
Of Hartford tor four years.
Superintendent state prison, +. W.
Oakes of Windsor for two years.
Superintendent house OF correction,
6. y. Eayrcs of Rutland for two years.
Board of railroad commissioners. ).
+. Pingree of Hartford. Amory Davis
on Of Cratisbury, Leon 6. Bagley of
Rutland, all for two years.
Special prosecutors Of criminal Of
fences during the gubernatorial term,
+. VI. Fuller, Of Fairhaven and j. B.
Moore of Rutland.
State board OF agriculture-W. W.
Cooke. II. W. Vail. William Chaplin,
Rolliu c. Smith, Victor |. Spear, J.
@. sanford.
Tax commissioner. =. n. Gleed.
Inspector OF Finance, l.. @. Greene.
Municipal court Judges. Burlington.
n. :. Peck Bennington. {. II. Dar-
ling.
..All gone TO the devil No agricul-
tural college. no rum. no democratic
Judge. such j. the comment Of Taylor
of Cornwall. saws the Montpelier jour
nal. The first statement Is undoubted-
iy uoi Ear wrong.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04
ANermont Invcstment.

A certain lot of land in Brandon village
was bought three years ago for $500. lt
has since been sold for building lots for
different sums amounting to 5000. Why
20 west with your capital for investment,
when such advance may be secured at
home?- Brandon Union.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

We have ordered the Journal, Trib-
une and Mirror and Farmer for all
,lub subscribers received before Nov.
2stb VINO paid Tor either, We shall
order again Dec. 20th.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04
ls,,Inr Corrcsnondents.

All news matter or correspouaence
intended for the HERALD must be re-
reiyed at this office no later than Tues
day ninht of each week, in order TO en-
sure its insertion in the current number
of the paper. Oniy matter of srEcIAL
IMPORTANCE should be sent later than
the time named, and between that and
early Wednesday morning Cores
pondents will please bear this Jn mind.
The final summing up Of the census
shows that Vermont has made gain
in population during the last years. IN
1880 she had $50, ,2S6 she isnow cred
tied with a population Of S92, l22' a
gain of 1856. When we consider that
Vermont is small State, andis drawn
upon to swell the census returns OF al
most every State in the lnion' and 70
fiji IN almost anywhere where clear
brain is needed, these figures show
that we ave NOT been as idle rp here
as some might suppose.
The Free Press is uncertain 10 It's
utterances about the legislature IN
view Of what it really did for the Uni-
yersity it has not the face to say any
thing had about Il, and yet its praises
are faint-hearted. 1t concludes taat II
anybody has any FAULT to Sad with 1t
he must first damn himself for having
had hand in elecaing it. 1t did not
do everything that everybody waited
il to do. and when we get a Legislature
that will we shall want to enligrate.
Congress assembled on Monday at
ternoon for the wiuteS session lne
democrats who are looking Coward 70
the control at the House at she neAt
session are already laying the'r plans
to tear the tariff IL piece. There Is I"
disposition among them 10 yiela 20 the
granger element 81 the country N tue
direction of free list, lnIt they Will
lind some hard pills 10 swallow ssiore
they ge, things adjusted If they under
take anr sweeping changes in the 1lc-
Kinlsy bin. Speaker Reed has no ea-
" task, but is equal to it. beyond a
donbt
The St. Johnsbury Republican does
not speak ia very complimentary way
Of Conant's history OF Vt. II iuti-
mates that there is too much Of the work
Of blacksmith about it. 1t took an
exceedingly shrcwd critic to make such
discovery. We did not suppose that
the work was intended TO delight like
tale Of fiction. Il was not intended
to give history Of Vermont from the
beginning Of the world. but to cover
the most important period Of our civil
life. II lisa study and made to study,
aud when the editor Of the Republican
gathers al the facts i records into has
rapacious brain. we viii guarantee he
win be fully qualified to teach Vermont
history in any ot our common schools.
Who i this other fellow, whom he re-
fers to A. writinga history Of the state /;
lie must be some fact thai Prof. Con-
ant overlooked.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

We shall issue an Extra containing
tbe Laws made by the late Legislature
a. soon as the state printers get them
ready. probably next week.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

The Presidents Message is long
and interesting document. We shall
Give a comprehensive synopsis OF it
next week.
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If your subscription expires, Jan. !,
1891. you will do us special favor by
renewing at once.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The latest intelligence points to a
,;o Indian war in the Dakotas.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-04

Col. Hooker Is not one Of the trus-
ters of the new Agricultural College.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18
HOW SITTING BULL DIED.
Red Tomahawk Fired the Fatal
Charge.

The willy Chiefs Tactics for Delay
..Failcd--The Danger nj Pine Ridge Has
Pnssed--First Authentic Story of the
Engagement.
Asscriatrd Press Disaatch by Special Wires.
STANpING Rock AGENcY VIA coUR-
TER no BISMARCK, Dee 1.-THE fol
lowing are the actual details of the
fight in which Sitting Bull was killed:
The police under Bull Head, lieu
tenant Of police, and Shave Head, first
sergeant, went into camp near Sitting
Bulls village on the night Of the l4th
aud the next morning went TO Bulls
camp and made the arrest. Sitting Bull
expressed his willingness to go with
them but wanted to make some prepara-
tions for the ride and ordered his horse
tn be gotten ready.
While Bull Head and Shave Head
were in the shack where the old chief
was getting ready, two bucks envelnped
in blankets entered the shack, and,
throwing off their blankets, opened fire
on the police.
Sitting Bulls wife had gone out and
set mp howl which seems to have
been the signal for the assault. In ~,
fight which followed, Red Tomah wiz
killed Sitting Bull. Ten or more Of
Sitting Bulls followers were Kill, 4
Seven police were killed and Bull IIe,u.
and Shave Head We're desperately
wounded
The police We're now surrounded bun
NJ this iuncture Capt. Fechct with his
Calling gun and Hotchliss reached
llc Gene and attacked the Indians who
after and hour and half Of hot slxirm-
ishing took tnl1ightand disappeared into
the timber. Tho camp with the dead
and wounded was taken at once. Oc-
casional shots were exchanged between
| the troops and ambushed hostiles during
the day.
The officers and men under the gall
| liant Fechct, who is man Of experience
and unquestioned bravery, acted with
courage and good Judgment. The hos
| tiles have gone up the Grand river and
will undoubtedly make their way to the
camps at Pine Ridge.
II is considered that the trouble is
now ended so far as Standing Rock
Agency is concerned and that there's no
cause for fear that settlers will be dis,
tured in this section.
Bull Head was MORALLY wounded and
Shave Head badly wounded.
There was no casualties among Cap,
tain Fechet's men.
LATER.-Colonel w. F. Drum, accom-
panied by Captain Craigie, with two
companies of infantry, has gone TO re
inforce Captain Fechet. Nothing ha,
been heard Of One Bull, about the only
leader of Sitting Bulls band. If he i.
alive and among the hostiles, the chance.
are that he will pull th0scattered brave!
together and make stand, with the idet
of revenging his dead chief and friend.
by killing few soldiers.
STILL LATER-Bull Head and Shaw
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18

Quay, with Ill his faults, possesses the
negative merit Of being opposed to the
Force bill, not, as we understand him,
That he is influenced by any considera-
tions Of common Justice and popular
rights, but because he sees that tie en-
actment Of such measure would be
very bad politics and would lead to an
even more emphatic reputation Of the
Republican party by the nation in 1899
than he has himself received at the
hands Of Pennsylvania. In this posi-
ton Quay is backed up by his colleague,
senator Cameron, who, in an interview
with II Boston Transcript correspondent,
is reported rs saying
/ viii vote against tho election bill what
! ever form il may assume. ! am opposed
i To it III principle and in its details The
/ sOuth Il now resumlng quiet condition.
| Northern capital has been flowing into the
4 south IN great quantities; manufacturing
establishments have been created and are
1 now in full operation, and community
4 of commercial interests Is fast uhliteratinp
4 sectional lines and will finally result, III
| the not far distant future, in forming une
4 homogeneous mass If people whether
| hcing in the north, south, east or west
The election law would disturb this desir.
I able condition and produce ill feeling be
tween the north and south am, there
fore, opposed to the bill, and shall assert
4 my independence as n senator and cast my
vote against the measure.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18

The preliminary hearing of Attorney
general Pope of South Carolina, charged
with violating the state constitution in dis,
charging an engrossing clerk because hi
voted for Haskell for governor, took plac,
Yesterday before Justice Youmans ir
Columbia. The justice dismissed the case
on the ground that the section did no,
apply to state officers. The attorney-gen'
eral did not appear in court.
The Illinois Democratic state centra
committee has decided to take steps to I'M
seat Representatives-clect Hamilton of the
Sixteenth, and McCrone of the Thirty-iifth
districts, both Republicans. a new cleo
ton has been ordered in the Twenty-lirst
district on the ground that Representative
elect Collins has not resided the required
length of time in the state. However, a
Republican will be certain to succeed him.
If Democrats are returned IN the case OF
Hamilton and McCrone this will make a
Democratic majority of three on joint
ballot and will make it easily possible to
elect General Palmer to succeed Senator
Farwell.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18

In view of these two very interesting
conflicts for supremacy of leadership-one
in the old world and one in the new world
it is in order again TO quote the Irish
poet, whose verse, given in these columns
yesterday, was inadvertently shortened one
Inca line that is entirely pertinent at
this time. The verse should read:
There were once two cats in Kilkenny
And each cat thought there wes one cat too
many;
And they scratched and they bit,
-Mnning Ns,ps.
Admirable as is our esteemed neigh
boris revised version of this great his
torical contest, we feel constrained by
the importance of the subject to note
that it is still lacking in one or two es-
sential details which are not only vital
to a complete understanding of the
ferceness of the fight, but are also in
dispensable as inherent evidence of the
carefulness of the historian and his un-
compromising respect for the strict and
narrow line of the exact truth. AS a
matter Of fact the battle, savage as il
was, was not protraeted to the absolute
humiliation of the cats, though so little
was left of them that a narrator less
careful or less conscientious might
have felt warranted in disregarding the
fragmentary remains. 1t is in this
scrupulous fidelity to exactitude of de-
scription that this particular historian
comes out strong. Our neighbor is
dobtless familiar with the name of
Michael Pheiim O'Shaughnessey, and
can hardly fail to have admired the
felicity of his application of those dear
old household Words Leigh damsa
agriobhadh abhran cinith," &C.; we
trust the remainder of the quotation to
our neighbours recollection. Manifestly
nothing could be more pertinent, and
| the reader feels that Mr.. O'Shaugh-
Messy is amply justified in asking
"Creud is ciall ma bh-focal sou" I'M
questionahly; it is obvious that the
premises admit of no other conclusion.
| But, to make assurance doubly sure
and to clinch his position beyond the
possibility of controversy, it is only
necessary TO picture the eloquent Irish
historian dropping into the vernacular
that is so fast superseding the more
classic Celtic, and declaring, with as
much directness and simplicity as pathos
and poetry:
There wanst war two cats In Kilkenny,
Aich thought there war wan cat TOO many,
So they gouged and they bit,
And tn scratched and theytit,
Till, ixciptin their nails
| And the tips of their tails,
| 1n5tid of two cats, there warnt any.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18

Head were carried into Fort Yates and
Shave Head has brcathed his last. 1t is
thought Bull Head will recover.
IN CONFERENCE WITH THE FRIENDLIEs
OMAHA, NEB., Dec. ia Bee special
from Pine Ridge Agency, S. d., says
the Indians are communicative ON
the subject Of the death of Sitting Bull.
They show no excitement, but they are
closely watched and no one is permitted
ID talk to them on the subject. A coun-
Gil of leading chiefs among the friendlies,
including Red Cloud, is being held as to
the best action to take in regard 10 the
Indians still in the Bad Lands. Gen.
Brooke received orders fran Cen Miles
to defer the march TO the Bad Lands
for the present.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18

1t now turns out that we have all
been mistaken. There has been we'll
founded suspicion that the Mckinley
bill, the Force bill, and the Reed rules
had something to do with the recent
defeat of the Republican party, and
most Of the American people jumped
to the conclusion that the popular YER
dict at the polls was rendered in con
domination of these evils. 1t remained
for the New York Tribune to correct
this wide spread error. The Tribune
appeals to have known all along that
what the voters wished to rcbuke was,
not the tariff nor the force and fraud
legislation referred to, but the failure Of
the Senate to expedite such legislation
and more of it. There are few mysteries
of the kind which an administration
organ cannot clear up, if you give it
time, but we shudder to think how mar
rowly we escaped not having this mat
ter set right, for it was only unbearable
anxiety over the fate of the Force bill
that has at last persuaded the Tribune
to break silence and to tell its readers
what it knows. This it does in to-day's
issue, as follows;
The Republican party owes the worst
defeat in its history to the conduct of those
senators who prolonged this same attitude
during the last session. But for them the
Tariff bill would have passed so long before
the election that people would not have
been easily befaoled about its effect, But
for them the Election bill would not have
been LETT to the short session of Congress,
to conflict with the Apportionment the
ueedfIl financial legislation, and the regu-
| lar Appropriation bills. That thousands
Of voters were indignant at party whose
| leaders showed no more courage nor prac.
tical sense is not strange; the wonder is
| that the dissatisfaction expressed by the
| absence Of earnest Republicans from the
/ polls was not more general.
Wen, now, this is news indeed And
Just TO think of the 1Hbuno's self-con
troll in Withholding this valuable infor
nation for over month, when il haC
such a big beat on its contemporaries
right in its own hands Verify, tn,
ways Of an administration organ arr
past finding out.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18

That aluminium air ship turns up
again in Chicago Tribune interview
with one Il. j. Pennington, who afiirms
that "we are now building" the first one
sat our pulley works at Mount Carmel"
This pioneer machine is to have a
"buoyancy chamber" 40 feet long and
2S feet in diameter and 100-horse power
gas engine, and the whole machine is to
weigh 1850 pounds and to have lifting
power, when filled with hydrogen gas,
of $500 pounds. The hydrogen gas
cylinder, which is supposedly identical
with the buoyancy chamber, though
the interview fails to make this clear, is
to be constructed of aluminium, of
which, Mr.. Pennington airly says, tive
will make our own at price not
exceeding 10 cents a pound" 1t
will be observed that Mr.. Pen
nington has big thing in the
manufacture of aluminium, even should
he slip up on aeronautics. The ma
chimes are to cost about $500 apiece
certainly cheap enough for luxury
to carry 80 persons, and, "unless every
known formula of computing the re-
sistance of the air is utterly wrong" to
be capable Of a speed Of 200 miles per
hour. By some other mathematical
process, more remarkable than intelligi-
BILE, the Mount Carmel man demon
strates that the hydrogen cylinder will
counterbalance the weight of the rest of
the apparatus, so that the whole ma
chine ready for use practically weighs
nothing" and all that is necessary is to
lift it up in the air by its vertical pro-
pellers, land then the propeller in front
starts up and away it goes. In about
three weeks the first machine is to be
finished, and then, says Mr.. Pennington,
1--WE will make trip to st. Louis and
thence to New York"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18

'Fhe University Of Pennsylvania, re-
ports the Philadelphia Ledger, has OBJ
tanned a small supply Of the Koch
lymph and is admirably equipped to
make scientific tests thereof. The medi-
cal staff includes practitioners Of high
culture and large experience; its hospi-
tai is well arranged for special work Of
this kind, and it, pathological labora-
tory is in charge of experts who can
make thorough study of the effects of
the remedy upon secrctions. "Wc may
expect from the University" says the
Ledger, Ga thorough scientific test Of
tic remedy, made without prejudice for
or against it, and with the utmost care
as to its application and the reports upon
its effects"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18

Washington has an electric railway
sriyen by underground conductors,
which was severely tested by the recent
snow storm and came out triumphant,
The snow came after the line had shut
down for It'd night, but the first car "a
start out in the morning is reported 70
have mudet run without difficulty Pr
delay. The Metropolitan Company oi
that city Is ahant 70 make a practical
trial on largo scaleof that ideal motor
for electric railways, the storage baticry
system.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18


The Philadelphia Ledger prefaces its
'political drift" column with the fol-
lowing statement of the situation !:
"The contest in the Senate of the
United States about the Force bill has
continued through the week, and its
prolongation has resulted in exhibitions
Of impotence among some of the West
ern Senators, who, though not of
Senator Germans party, agree with
him in his proposition that Congress
should at least propose legislation of
some sort for the relief Of the business
interests of the country. Senator
Plumb has, indeed, formally proposed
that the Force bill shall be laid aside
for the present at least, in order
that measures for afrording financial re-
lief may be considered. There are
many indications that the Republicans
in and out of Congress are not of one
mind upon the subject of the Elections
bill, and Senator Hoar, who has it in
charge, is evidently experiencing good
deal of trouble in keeping majority OF
the Senate in hand. The fact is, should
the debate be much further prolonged
there will be enough Republicans grow.
ing FESTIVE, or kicking over the traces
even, to lay ii on the shelf. That some
of the Republican senators are dissatis-
fed with the extraordinary efforts
which others are making to push the
measure through at almost any sacrifice
of parliamentary law and custom is
not at all to be wondered at
when it is considered that there
appears to be no popular demand fol
its passage; that when public
opinion expresses itself 1t is expressed
adversely TO the Force bill, the repre-
sentatives of the great business inter
ests of the country seeming to fear thai
its execution, as law, would have dis
astrous results The argument of the
business community is that there is ne
real necessity for the law; that it is un
republican and un-democratic in tha
it takes from the people the direct super
vision and control of Federal elections
and transfers all supervision and con
troll to the National Government; that l
will be most costly in its execution; tina
it will intensity race prejudices in thu
South, and probably so disturb existing
social conditions as to seriously inter
rupt or impair Southern business &C
tivity, and that it will revive sectiona
animosity and distrust."