The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-06-05
NOTINGs.
Our Washington correspondent saw,

70 A determined attempt wah made TO get up q
1t organizer reception TO welcome Mr.. Harrist
ID pagk 10 Washington from HI. long tree "Trip, b,
y was dismal failure. Nobody would In,
ANYTHING 70 do with II except half dozen Of h
- personal friends; not even the members or III
nau,puplcah state association, all OF which al
j. pncc holders would take hold of II, so Il had
l. pe abandoned, and then the statement was III
!. plushlngly made that Mr.. Harrison did not wis
}. 10 TO- ne met by crowd, LIDO not wish to lmpl
. because he isn't. The people are simply indi
= aerent tos ords him, and believe that feeli ~
= more marked among members OF his own part
Q IMAM with Democrats.
Hiram S. Maxim, the inventor, makes
, claim OF q wonderful invention. In form tn
machine, his Invention, Is q huge kite of silk
20 winch VIII he hung a platform carryin!
Inc engines and the screw propelers, wbicl
!ney are to move and which are to force tn,
. KITE through the air. He believes that he ha.
mastered the secret ~ initiating birds In tn,
am, ana, unlike most men who have inter
ested themselves In the study, he Is an emil
nently practical, hardheaded Yankee, In thi.
world 10 DO something and to get money 10,
u. lie expects bis machine to make 100 miles
an hour or better, and to carry great loads OF
Whatever you please. passengers or freight In
peaceful times, or dynamite with which ia
pepper the habitatlOns and works of an enc.
my In time OF war.
Ex-senator Tabor Of California processes
TO know that President Harrison will sign a
free coinage bill II one Is passed by congress.
The public debt statement for Nav shows
an increase In the debt of about $4,000 It
Is the story of decreasing revenue and In
creasing expenses.
Ex-senator Reagan of Texas says II Mr..
CLEVELAND Is nominated for president, che
VIII get the electoral vote Of Texas and of
Arkansas, but these are the only two states
west OF the Mississippi that he can carry"
| IipIlfanant Poo rus ovnsdltlo,, >.
Greenland Will start about the first of June.
steam whaler will convey the party to the
whale Sound. There house will be built.
provisions stored. sedges made, and a supply
depot established at Humboldt Glacier. If
practicable. This will occupy till next
spring, when several of the party will 60 out
and equip stations along the proposed route
to what Is supposed to be the northern ter.
minus of Greenland, In 81 degrees north lati.
tcde and about l 200 miles northeast of Whale
sound. After a sufficient number of these
stations have been established, the lieutenant
and picked party will start upon their per.
ilous journey which, 1t Is estimated. will take
between two and three months. If su .cess-
full, the fresh contribution to Arctic geogra-
ply Will be exceedingly valuable, and posi-
bly, the discovery of the most practicable and
direct route to the Pole will re ward the ex.
plorers. The expedition will be under the
auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences
OF Philadelphia.
The Louisiana planters are making rush
for licenses under the sugar bounty act. 1t
VIII lake SlO.O0OO0O to pay them the first
year-far more than was figured when the
Mckinley act was passed.
Lieut.. Dodge. after practical trial with 30
of them, warmly cOmmends Secretary Proc.
tors plan of enllsting In1ians as soldiers.
He thinks they are natural born soldiers and
that the results are sure to be good If they are
properly handled at the start.
The Massachusetts house Tuesday rejected
by decisive majority the bill offered bv Mr..
Day OF Boston as substitute for the Dono.
van public bar bill. 1t was really the origi.
nal Day bill passed by the house on March
"a last, with the provision added that the II.
censee should not serve spirituous or intoXi.
eating liquors at table or tables in any
room In which meals are not served.
"Ben Abou" declares In the New York
Press that the stories about eX-Gov r, b.
Hayes loss OF memory and mind are pure
fakes. just as the same kind of stories told
last week about Secretary Blaine were fakes. |
Il saw eXPresident Hayes while he wasin
New York." he says, and talked with him |
about matters which occurred years ago in |
Ohio, and which would have tested his mem.
DRY II it was faulty. There was not a sign
of any such thing. Manager Villas of the |
Fifth Avenue hotel and the employees in the |
hotel who came In contact with Mr. Hayes |
while he was here all ridicule the idea that |
his mind Is falling In even tine slightest par.
tcular.
Sir Antoine Aime Doron' once premier of
old Canada, and formerly chief justice of the |
court of queens bench at Quebec, is dead at
the age of %. |
Secretary Blaine has gone to Bar Harbor
this week, with the purpose of remaining Un- |
til October. The president mas given
his consent. There Is no doubt that the |
plumed knight is very feeble. so badly off
that even his admirers allowed him quiet
while he was In Boston.
German military force has ordered
body of Russian Jewish immigrants to.
cave Germany and 60 back across the from
Ter. In London a newspaper Is quoted as
lttering a warning that II the importing of
Russian Jews continues something may hap.
zen great deal worse than the New Orleans
Representative McCreary of Kentucky de-
lies In an interview published that the Ken
ucky state convention sighted Cleveland.
lie declares that two thirds OF them were
cleveland men.
DR.. Fordyce Barker, the eminent physi.
ian OF New York city. professor of obstet. {
les at Bowdoin and New York medical col
ges, author of standard work on "Puer. I
eral Diseases" and a man of cosmopolitan I
stes and friendships died at New York Sat.
ruay at the age of p. He was native of
1ilton. n. III.
A Pennsvlvania politician, Rutan by name, 4
as been telling Quay's opinions ana plans
II the next campaign. Quay, 1t seems, is
opposed to Harrison and In favor of Blaine.
he cannot get Raine he will take Alger In
nch. But his present purpose Is TO give
Re PENNSYLVANIA delegation to Mr. Blatae.
MIR. Blaine should be sick or reluctant or
" the convention would nominate him and
journ without giving MIN an opportunity
decline. Harrison, Mr.. Quay remarked
Is an "icicle,' makes clerks of
5 cabinet and allows them to have no opin. N
ms.
Washington gossip has 1t strongly that Sec -,
tary Noble will soon resign and accept -
plomstic mission. |.
Manuel Dublau, minister of finance in Mex ii
}. and who has had a large part In the -
oe ressive measures Of the past few years.
dead.
Edwards HI. Goff native Of Richford and
wears celebrated for his clOudlke specu-
i've schemes, died at New York Friday at
age of 4S. His first real venture In busi-
So for himself was as an agent for large
wing machine company for the little town
,ere he had been clerk In the country
re. Two years at this avecation found
n appointed agent of the Home Fire In
rance Co., of New Haven, Ct, for the same =
zee. Very soon he was made Its genera
,nt for the province of Quebec. Afterward
OTghn1Ztu Tue OhHdud ARTICuItuidi luSui-
,e Co., and the ghost of this enterprise
united him for years. Ii failed In the cor
a of fires which visited the Dominion ia
9 rs, and he then turned bis attention TO
lroadng. He built the Montreal. Port.
d & Boston R.R., nowia part of the South
tern railway. He then appeared In Bos-
and went deep into mining and electric
1t schemes. For while he ran the New
rk Graphic. His latest creation was the
lerIcan Export and Trading Co, In con.
tion with which be published trade