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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
Political Notes.

If Mr.. Blaine is candidate he will
get the Pennsylvania delegation. But
Mr.. Blaine will not be candidate to
defeat the presidents aspirations for a
denomination. 1t is probable that the
nomination will be made on the first
ballot, which will mean that the senti-
ment of the party will have set strongly
in one direction. President Harrison
may be nominated, Mr.. Blaine may be
nominated, some one less prominently
mentioned may be nominated, but in
no event will there be a scramble
Philadelphia Inquirer.
SEVERAL questions have yet to be
determined before President Harrison
can be put formally and finally out of the
race. Mr.. Blaine's health and political
intentions have not yet been definitely
revealed. He undoubtedly is the first
choice of the masses of the party, as
well as of the party leaders. If it be
found that he can stand the physical
strain of a campaign and will accept
the nomination, he will get it on the first
ballot. Then there is Ma or McKin-
ley to be considered. He will be the
second choice of the party if he be
elected to the governorship. A repub-
lican plurality of $4,000 or $1,000 in
Ohio this year would make Mckinley
the favorite of the national convention
if Blaine stays out of the contest. The
matter of the nomination next year,
therefore, can not be considered def
nitely settled for few months vet
The coming November will tell the
story as to McKinley's availability, and
by that time, perhaps the country will
be officially informed as to Blaine's
condition and intentions. If both these
men are off the track, the race is ex-
tremely likely to be a walk-over for
President Harrison.-St Louis Globe
Democrat.
THERE is nothing stronger nor bet.
ter to be said of President Harrison
than what his brilliant record speaks
for him. To the great body of the
American people to-day President Har-
rison more completely fills all the essen
tial requisites of high moral character,
of quick and sound mental capacity, of
true craftsmanship and genuine repub-
licauism, than any man in public life
The safe, sagacious and conservativelv
progressive spirit and course of Presi-
dent Harrison's administration have
been watched every day and every hour
during the past three years with out
spoken admiration by his friends, and
unconcealed respect by his political
opponents. With indomitable industry
and unfailing devotion the presi-
dent has unostentatiously discharged
the important and often delicate and
difficult duties of the chief magistracy of
the foremost nation of the world, and has
in every way deported himself as be-
comes dignified, self-respecting and
conscientious citizen called to the high
est office within the gift of the Ameri-
can people. 1t is, therefore, perfectly
safe to say that the popular opinion is
that, with the ability already manifested
and the rich and varied experience ac-
quired, there is no man in the United
States better qualified to furnish the
nation with a safe, sound and states
manike administration from 1898 to 1897
than Benjamin Harrson.-Ne,U York
Mail and Express.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

67848. Losses examined and allowed. 413
in number, amount to S133 g87.64: for ex-
pense of settling losses, for commissions
(S11 ,O2l .62), Attachments, repairs, ETC., the
expenditure has been S23 932,37 for inciden-
tai expenses, including salaries, assistants
taxes, printing, etc, S1S,4S11O; aggregate
expenditures, SIG, 401.11, leaving balance
in treasury August 1, S7,277 81. The com
pany began issuing policies March 81. 1898
and August /, 1891, had issued 2g2. 1877, OF
whlch 0,oo3 were issued during the last
year. 260266 policies have been cancelled
leaving in force 1881, covering risks
amounting to $40, 1892 ,207; the amount of
premium notes now in force as a fund for
payment of losses is 81, 1878, OGO.95. The re-
port says; "The past year has been one of
unusually heavy fire losses throughout the
country, and those of your company have
been so great as to require an assessment of
i've per cent to cover all losses, expenses,
and to provide for every Indebtedness of
the company" The Mutual is doing
thorough work. making wel-directed efforts
TO reduce losses to the minimum, to ferret
out and punish fraud and criminal burning
of buildings. Its affairs were never in a
Sounder or more prosperous condition, and
it never stood higher in popular estimation
and confidence.
The annual school meeting was held in
Capital Hall last Wednesday evening. I.
j. Deavitt was elected moderator. Hiram
Carleton clerk, A. j. Sbley treasurer and
f. NJ. Irish collector NJ E. Smile and u.
NJ. Guernsey were reelected members of
the prudential committee. The prudential
committees report shows an aggregate ex
penditure of 81 ,0697S, the items of which
are: Salaries of teachers and iantor, S.
47719; fuel, S5l760; insurance and water
rent S22905; school supplies and miscel-
laneous, S4O6S2 repairs, work on grounds,
and concrete S54S16 expenses on new
building, including change in system of
warming, ventilating, etc, S13,S9096. The
committee submit ed estimates as follows
for the ensuing year: Indebtedness, ST.
303S5; salaries, S6,27j; fuel S575; lights
library, repairs, etc, S1,315; total, S15,-
4GSS5. The assets are S4,45O, leaving
S11,0lSS5 to be provided for. The grand
list of the district is S33, 1920. The COM
mittee says 60 tax to provide sufficient
funds for the ordinary expenses of the dis
trict, and also to pay the Indebtedness,
would be larger than was anticipated two
years ago, when the erection of the add.
ton was authorized, as more expenditures
have been made than could then be fore
seen. These expenditures, the committee
feel, were all necessary, and have been
judiciously made, and the building, appur-
tenances, and the entire premises are in
frst-class condition" A tax of twenty-five
cents was suggested, which was voted, and
made payable to the treasurer on or before
November /, and the treasurer was author
lied to borrow sum not exceeding $40, 900.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

THE Resources and Attractions of
Vermont" work the Board of Agri-
culture has for some time had in prep
aration, is now Published in newspaper
and in a few days will be issued in
pamphlet form. We present it this
week in full to the WATCHNIAN readers
in the form of supplement. 1t is a
very full and comprehensive statement
of what is indicated in its title. The
members of the board have labored
with zeal and intelligence to advance
by this means the best interests of the
state, and good results should flow from
their labors. All the articles are well
written, by practical men, and they bear
in every line the impress of business
and patriotic devotion to the highest
welfare of the state. We commend the
Boards work to the careful considera-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
Gaattbman 4 Journal.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1891.
The Day We Celebrate.

Vermont is saluted to-day by the
patriotic of all states of the Union.
The Bennington fight of one hundred
fourteen years ago was more than a
local event. Troops from New Hamp-
shire and Massachusetts stood side by
side with the Green Mountain boys,
and together they struck blow, which,
although but skirmsh in point of
numbers as compared with the great
battles of history, was so timely and
effectively delivered that its service to
freedom is beyond estimate. Because
the blow was delivered from Vermont
soil, and because this state contributed
so largely to the happy issue, the presi-
dent of the United States, the gov
ernors of several of our most venerable
commonwealth and scores of the best
citizens of the country cross our bor-
ders to-day to do honor TO the state,
while the thoughts of millions all over
the country are turned back to the days
of 1777 and the great questions then
being settled by the force of arms.
Let us accept this honor and these
tributes of respect in manner be-
coming to the dignity of people that
for fourteen years stood free and indie
pendent among the nations of the
world.
1t is natural that on this occasion the
brilliant record of the state, civil as
well as military, should be recalled
with pride. Nor is it improper that it
should be so. A state which has done
so much in two wars for the whole
country and has contributed such able
statesmen to the national councils does
well to remember that it has a proud
bration at Bennington will be missed
if the event is thought of mainly as one
of dreamy "Reminiscences. If those who
go to Bennington and those who read
of the exercises catch the spirit of the
men who fought in 1777 and those who
have done honorable service since that
time, and apply it to their own time,
the best use of the celebration will have
been secured.
There is need enough in Vermont
to-day of some of the sturdy, aggressive
spirit which was rampant in the Revo-
lutionary days. Vermont is unique in
character, as it always has been, and
that fact calls for originality and self
reliance, just as those qualities were
called for in the infancy of the state.
More distnctively than any other state
1t is agricultural, and its people are, as
a rule, owners of small farms. This
condition, which the geographical posi-
ton of the state imposes on the people,
is the foundation on which the people
themselves should build their material,
intellectual and moral prosperity.
There is opportunity for future wor-
thy of the past, if the spirit of the past
is put into legislation, industrial arts
and educational methods.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

IN respect to the disposition to be
made of the direct tax refunded, we
believe it is true that the best judgment,
and the majority judgment, is on the
side of leaving the final disposition of
the money to legislature elected with
that as one of the issues. The present
legislature will do its full duty in the
matter in passing the act of acceptance
congress has required. If there is any
objection to merging the money with
the general funds of the state, let it be
put into the hands of the governor,
acknowledgements and treasurer, to be
invested and held in trust pending final
legislative action.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
What Shall be Done With 1t!

TO the Editor Of the Vermont Wotchman =
What shall the state of Vermont do with
the direct tax fund? What has been her
policy with other requests? The Hunting
ton fund was bequeathed to the common
schools OF Vermont The legislature of
1884 decided that the best use for that fund
was to devote it to the payment of current
expenses and outstanding claims, thus re-
lieving the burden of taxation for that year.
They also said that the people of the state
should pay six per cent annually upon the
amount of that fund, for the privilege of
drawing it out of the treasury again for the
use OF the common schools. II the legisla-
ture of 1884 had provided a state tax to pay
its own appropriations, and invested the
Huntington fund in good securities, we
could all see some benefit derived from it,
Again, the United States deposit fund, by
some of the towns of the state, has been
used in the same manner. That is, the
towns have used the fund to pay debts or
current expenses, and left for those who
follow to pay annually the interest upon
the amount for the benefit of their common
schools. And not only this, but the towns
that have fallen behind in population in the
last decade are called upon TO refund a por-
ton of the principal Can any town tell
how it is now any better that these funds
ever existed? Could we not pay our school
expenses just as easily without them?
a certain rich man left a legacy of S10,-
coo to his son, provided the son would,
with the $4,000, pay certain debts the rich
man had contracted, and which amounted
to the $4,000; and further provided that he
should annually devote the income of S10-
600 to the support of an institution to which
the rich man had bequeathed large pro-
portion OF his estate, Is this nice legacy
for the son? Now, then, the direct tax fund:
1t is my mind that it be kept as a perma-
nent fund, and that the income only be
used, whatever the purpose. Then there
will be something that will benefit the tax
payer to the amount of that income, and
we know of no more noble or glorious pur-
pose than for the benefit of the common
schools r.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

Band-gave a fine concert. A religious
service was held in camp in the afternoon
at three o'clock, when Rev. Howard f.
Hill, chaplain of the regiment, preached
upon "The Triple Value of a Man" by
which was meant his value to himself. TO
gational church in the morning Rev. G. r..
Seymour preached an historical sermon.
and at the old First church in Bennington
Center, in the afternoon, Rev. NJ. l.. Sew
erance also preached an historical sermon.
Governor Page and staff attended both
services. AT the First church, the sword
captured from Colonel Baum was placed in
view in front of the pulpit. About the
pulpit also were the Continental flag and
the first flag of Vermont. On Monday the
principal event in camp was the shooting
match for the centennial trophy and the
Webb medals The trophy was won by
Company + of Mortified, which made a
score of ninety-eight out of a possible 1866
Company NJ of Richford stood second, with
score of ninety-six. Lieuteant w. b.
Locklin, Company NJ won the first Webb
medal by score of twenty-five out of a
possible twenty-five. Private w. p. Ringer,
Company f, won the second medal, with a
score of twenty-one, and Private II. H.
Whitman, Company NJ, won the third
medal with the same score. In the even
ing there was another band concert, and
Company / of Brattleboro gave display
VI hlcNol MO- y pledSduI event Vi JHe even
ing was the presentation of gold star badges
of the Grand Army of the Republic to Gen
erals Greenleaf and Peck by Company r
of Mortified.
Preparations for to-day's great parade
and the other exercises have been going
forward rapidly, and yesterday there was
large influx of members OF organizations
which are to be present to-day. The ar
rivals from New Hampshire were espec-
tally numerous Many of the distinguished
invited guests also have arrived Thurs
day will be governors day" with the
Vermont National Guard, and Governor
Page will review the troops
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

THE ST. Adams Messenger has way
of "going for" those it doesn't like
when they are where they can't hit
back. So our esteemed ex-contem-
porary, the versatile Earle, is the VIC
tim of some wry faces from the ST..
Adams censor on the score of his
quality as journalist. Nevertheless,
it is quite likely true that more people
have been amused--and edited, too
by Earle's eccentricities than by Uncle
Warren's ponderous platitudes. Had
Editor Grout given Earle one more
week of editorial existence, the mon
key-and-parrot event might have suf-
fered eclipse. The air between New
port and st. Adams would have been
full of fun, fur and feathers. The
clown" would have been "the
biggest man" in that circus.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

CONGRESS at its last session appro-
priated $4,000 for the carrying out of
a rain-making scheme. The process is
the explosion, at a considerable alti-
tude, of large balloons filled with a
mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases.
The experiment, under the supervision
of General r. G. Dyrenforth, veteran
artillery officer, was tried last week at
Midland, Texas, region of country
where rain seldom falls. The necessary
apparatus was conveyed to a ranch at
that place, and several test-bombs were
fired into the air. The country was
suffering from a protracted drought,
but in ten hours after the firing of the
bombs, clouds began to gather, and
soon the region roundabout was en-
joying the heaviest rainfall for years.
Whether this remarkable result was
owing to the bursting of the bombs, or
was purely accidental, will be deter
mined by experiments soon to be con-
Quoted in other places.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

WE are pleased to learn from Secre-
tary Howe, of the Vermont State
Grange, that the organization is in a
growing and prosperous condition. Mr..
Howe says: "The State Grange of
Vermont was never in a more prosper
GUS condition than it is to-day. New
members are being added to nearly
every subordinate grange in the state.
Quite number have more than doubled
their membership. The farmers of
Vermont are beginning to see that or
ganization is necessary for their best
good, and that in the grange is the place
for them to fit themselves for work
and prepare themselves to take part
in every good movement of the day.
The farmer has stood behind the cur
tain and allowed some one else TO do
this long enough. Remember that ed
ucation is the motto of the grange, and
that the grange is doing more for the
farmer to-day than all other organiza-
tons combined. DO not stand and
complain, brother farmer, but put your
shoulder to the wheel" The grange
is non-partisan and non-political. 1t
labors directly and actively to advance
the interests of education, temperance
and every other good thing. Its efforts
in this direction are not limited to pre-
cept and exhortation, but its officers
and members are diligent in devising
and executing means for promoting re-
forms. 1t is a patriotic, intelligent
body of men and women, and we are
glad to hear so good report of the con-
dition of the organization.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

AT the recent Grand Army encamp-
ment in Detroit, Colonel w. G. Yea
zey (the commanders -chief) recon-
mended that separate posts be organ
lied in Louisiana and Mississippi for
white and black comrades; but the sug-
gestion did not receive the endorse
ment of the encampment The Ma
tional Tribune is authority for the state
ment that the recommendation was
made upon representations that the ne
groes desired a separate department,
and that the commander-in-chi had
on file memorial from the eight negro
posts in Louisiana asking for such de-
partment. The petitioners afterwards
changed their minds, and opposed the
separation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

ANOTHER of the early landmarks of
American journalism was removed last
week. George Jones, proprietor of the
New York Times, died at Poland
Springs, Maine, August u, in his
seventy-ninth year. Mr.. Jones was
born in Poultney, in this state; and
there was formed a friendship with
Horace Greeley that endured for half a
century. In 1851, Mr.. Jones, Henry
j. Raymond and Edward B. Wesley be-
came associated in founding and pub
fishing the New York Times. Mr..
Jones' exposure of the corruption of
Boss Tweed and his associates of the
old Tammany ring" was master
stroke of journalism. In vain did
Tweed attempt to bride the Times. Five
millions of dollars was the princely price
of silence which Mr.. Jones spurned.
The exposures were continued by the
Times, the Tammany ring was over
thrown and Tweed and some of his asso-
ciates were brought to justice. The
credit for this great and good work was
largely due to Mr.. Jones' fearlessness
and incorruptible integrity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

ton of every reading, intelligent citi-
zen. A synopsis of the subjects treated,
or review of the work as a whole or
in detail, is rendered unnecessary by
the fact that we lay it before our read
ers in its entirety. The honor of the
work is shared by the whole Board, but
its management has been chiefly in the
hands of Hon. Victor 1. Spear of Brain
tree. He will find no more willing and
appreciative eulogists for the part he
has borne in the work than among his
brother members of the agricultural
board.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
NermOnt's Centennial.
BY DIR. W. L. PAINE, THETFoRD, VT.

Vermont the first admitted state,
Doth her centennial celebrate;
While honored guests their offerings bring,
And crowds with cheering echoes ring.
With speech and song and grand parade
They hail that star, which cannot fade
The first within the azure space
That with the thirteen found place
In looking back to that far time,
When our young nation heard the chime
That ushered in her first-born state,
The flood of years seems vastly great.
But at their country's need,
Vermont's brave sons have marched with speed
And, Spartan-Ille. on many field
Have chosen death upon the shield.
They marched to Pittsburgh, long ago.
And helped repulse a foreign foe.
They fought to save the nations life
On Gettysburg's great field of strife,
And now, while peace peryades the land,
Vermont doth high in councils stand
While honored sons of great renown
Her hundred years of statehood crown,
From old Vermont, the pioneer
Went forth the mighty West to rear;
And, rising with his chosen state,
Climbed up to wealth and honors great;
But never from his bosom fade
The old Green Mountain lights and shades;
And still his heart with longing swells
To seek once more those charming dels.
o, might such lOnglngs bring them home
No more from her green hills to roam
The mother state her sons reclaim
With all their wealth and all their fame;
No prouder state to-day would stand
In all our broad and glorious land.
o, may these soon flow, full and free.
A refulgent wave, Vermont, to thee
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

EDISON is of the opinion that ulti-
mately the house will be both lighted
and heated for sixty cents year.
EACH year of Chief Justice Fuller's
residence in Washington has Witnessed
the debut of one of his seven charm
ing daughters. This year Miss Mary
returns from her long stay in Berlin to
enter society at the capital.
ACCORDING to Professor Rogers of
Washington, single pound of good
steam coal has within it dynamic power
equivalent to the work of one man for
one day. Three tons of the same coal
represents mans labor for a period of
twenty years, and one square mile of a
seam of coal, having a depth of four
feet only, represents as much work as
one million men can perform in twenty
years.
A PEACHY face" says The Boston
Transcript, L" a sweet girlish expression
lass in her earliest twenties, and not
looking out of her teens-this is what
her portrait shows Miss Jeans to be
She is the English girl who is first to
win the Golden Club prize of eco, of
fered in rotation at Oxford, Cambridge
and the Victoria University. Her name
is Victorine; the subject set by the
Golden Club was 'The Industrial and
Commercial Effects, Actual and Pros.
pective, of English Factory Act Legis.
lation.' This tremendous little econo.
mist is president Of factory girls club
She says, modestly, that she learned as
much from the girls as from books
This is the true way for women, too, tc
get hold of big questions on their sym,
pathetic as well as on their stern side. u
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

THE explanation of a systematic course of
thieving, that has for some months past been
successfully carried on at Jericho, has been
furnished by search made of the premises
owned by Theodore and Warren Tubb, and
situated ON the road between Jericho and
Jericho Center Suits of clothes, flour, meal
and other things in the grocery line, lap
robes, whips, etc, were among the results of
the pilfering done by the Tubbs brothers.
The thieves had escaped before the officer
with his warrant appeared,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

born nearly seventy-two years ago.
Probably his most effective service to
the country, if not his most brilliant
contribution to elegant literature, was
the "Biglow Papers" Possibly his
fame as the author of these keen
edged satires may survive all his other
notable achievements.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

EDITOR THEoPHILUs CIRCUIT takes
up, this week, the quill shed by ex-
Editor Earle. He doesn't essay any
high-hying, but makes a modest flight
to a convenient perch for obse rvation
and reflection. He has cordial well
come to the ranks of the scribes, in
which the WAToHMAN heartily joins.