The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-02-13
N)TINGs.

The Kansas legislature has before 1t sum-
mary way of collecting personal properly
taxes. 1t Is proposed that all tax assessors
be provided with stamp by when an notes,
bonds and mortgages assessed for taxation
can be marked and all that are not SO marked
will not be collectible In the courts.
The Maine legislature is at work on tax
law to include the sworn inventory metnod
of Vermont and New Hampshire.
Buffalo Bills solution Of the Indian difhcui,
ty ia: Make the Indian citizen. ne VIII
make a good citizen, says Mr.. COdy. lie Also
says that the friendly Indians. VINO were
faithful to the government in all these troub.
les, and who have had their homes ravaged
and DIES pOlled, ought to be Immediately rec
ompense1 by congress.
Bishop Hare, so well known for his SER
vices to the red men, has been transferred
from the diocese In the Northwest 10 the
missionary jurisdiction In Japan.
The Indiana Senate has passed the most
sweeping measure yet against trusts, forfeit
ing the charters of all corporations that join
them, Furnishing the combinations as conspir.
acies to defraud the people WIN nne o. st -
600 to So 900 and imprisonment from two 10
five years. This provision Is made to apply
to any stockholders or any person In any way
interested In it.
Some of the admirers of Senator German.
enthusiastic over his able fight against the
elections bill, are talking OF him as a presi-
dental candidate.
Aletter has lust been Published which it Is
said Henry Watterson.t the brilliant Kentucky
editor wrote, to Gov. Hill: urging him NOT to
contest for the presidency, telling him that
the Cleveland sentiment Is wei nigh unani.
nous In the rank and file of the party. that
even a solid New York delegation for Hill
could make no Roadway against this senti-
ment, and that there are Democrats In every
part of the country that believe Hill knitted
the ticket in 1888. II know that to be false.
| know exactly what happened. and have
steadily defended you In public and private.
But 1t will cling TO you as long as you i've,
even as the bargain, intrigue and corruption
story chung 10 Clay, and Will meet you IN
every national convention if 1t be not dissi-
pated by some act on your part great enough
to blot it out. In default of this, II you have
any hope of the presidency, 1t Will defeat
that" Therefore, the letter argues, the thing
forEIill isllo head aCleveland delegation TO the
convention and himself put Cleveland In
nomination. Gov. Hill saws he never re-
ceived the letter and he does not believe
Watterson ever addressed so "insultlng' anu
"lmpertinent" communication to him.
The Republican club Of MASSACHUSETTS,.
having gathered membership OF ooO, pun
lIshed its address Saturday. 1t Is consluer
ably less mugwumpian In tone than the IN
itial utterance.
An organized movement Is afoot among
the Republicans to defeat President Hsrri-
son for denomination. Quay, Clsrkson, Dad
lev and Fessenden, who feel that they nave
not been sappreciated"by tn, administration;
a no II, leaders. Quay has already declared
for blaine as his candidate. One OF their
projects il to establish an anti.adntnistration
Republican paper at New York.
On the recommendation Of the minister OF
aortculture. the Canadian government mas
decided to make grant of money Tor the es-
of dairy schools throughout tne
dominion.
The Boston Courant, organ Of the negro |
race In that city. wants the president TO APP |
noint n man of that blood TO succeed Mr..
Window, and names Blanche Il. Bruce. John
NJ Iangston, John r. Lynch, Frederick
Doug lass aid James NJ. Townshend as men
fit for the position. 'Was not the Hon. ben. |
iamin Harrison elected solely by black men!
II asks. A cabinet pc sition Is not at all too
large n gift for President Harrison TO bestow |
upon the faithful colJred Republicans.
the lstest move In the Boston post-office |
f;yht Is the proposition to draft ex-Mayor |
Hart as the best WY of beating Gen. Corse.
The opposition Is getting ugly ana desperate
The Massachusetts supreme court holds
that the payment of the poll tax IS prelimi. |
nary TO the right TO vote in this state may be
made for citizens by political committee.
without violation of law. As IT Is method
Of bribery for Legitimate use Of money, the
again demonstrates the need OF aooE |
Ishng the requirement.
The Young Mems Democratic club Of
rs the organization viii here
sfter be called held their second meeting
Wed nesday and adopted = constitution. The
following officers were elected: President.
Joel Lnsley; vice-presidenis, Wsri l. J. II.
ward l. NJ. ID. McMshou;
ward 3, Joseph De Narennes; ward. Z. Z.
Dodge. The constitution provides that the
ward from which the president Is elected
hail not be entitled to vice-president snd
Is Mr.. Linsley is 3 president Of thst ward 1t
i not represented. Secretary, j. W. Single 4
ION; treasurer, f. r. Henderson.
Gov. Northern Of Georgia. q member Of
he Farmer Alliance. showed one good re-
suit Of the movement 10 refusing to meet |
Jaw Gould at abe banquet nj Atlanta. He |
does not regard Gould's career aud methods /
Is Of the Kind that MERIT official endorse