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Fletcher-and why,

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has no barrel to be turned out to Sc
cure his nomination. He has no
heelers in his employ trayersiug the
state and pulling wires for him. He
has made no bargains with any man
or set of men. His candidacy, If 1t
can be so called, is not forced by him
but comes spontaneously from the
people-an uprising Of the masses,
who recognizing his sterling qualities
and his common sense abilities, have
brought him to the front, and will
keep him there until he is nominated
on the 22d of June-a triumph of 'lle
people over the self-seeker and his
money.
I'd. He is representative of the
people, and in full sympathy with the
laboring classes, being one among
them in that he is practical, every
day farmer, not one of the kind that
owns farm for convenience and puts
in few days at haying, but an all
the-year-round farmer who earns his
living by his farm labor-and he does
it in good shape as anyone can see
by visiting his home in Cavendish
and looking over his farm and stock.
Thus has he practical knowledge Of
the needs of that class, of which he
is one, that SO largely predominant
in Vermont-the tillers of the soil.
Sd. He is veteran of the late
war, having left his farm, like Gin
cinnatus Of old, to take up arms in
defense of his country, and for gal
liant and meritorious conduct was pro-
NOTED. He barred his breast to the
enemies of his country and was in the
glorious Vermont division that re-
ceived and repuIsed the famous charge
of Pickett and his rebel horde-the
turning point in favor of the Union
at Gettysburg.
4th. He is not man Of mediocre
abilities, but splendidly equipped for
the chief executive of a patriotic state.
He is not given to sophomore spur
ges, but is at all times cool and level
headed, inheriting the sterling quail
ties of his father, Ex-Gov. Ryland
Fletcher. His extensive legislative
experience, and his thorough and in
telligent knowledge of the affairs of
state will make him at home in the
executive chair and cause him to fill
it to the honor of the whole people.
Finally he is man of unbounded
personal popularity wherever known
(and his acquaintance extends
throughout the state), and he would
draw out a fuller September vote
than any man who has been named
for the position. Around Henry A.
Fletcher of Cavendish the veteran,
the farmer and the laboring man, who
constitute the voting strength of the
state, could rally as around no other
man, and their voice would be so po-
tent in September as to carry JOY and
gladness to every republican heart
throughout the length and breadth of
our country. Therefore it will be
doing simply matter of justice to
the party itself-to advance its own
best interests-to nominate Henry A.
Fletcher of Cavendish.
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Hi ! Here comes the Boston Her
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The Rutland Herald is doing the
best newspaper work that has been done
in the State for years, in thoroughly
showing up the true character of that
unmitigated sham, Levi X. Fuller,
who is trying to secure his nomination
for governor by the free use Of money
and other questionable means. The
Herald of Tuesday quotes from some
of his speeches, first from the one made
at Burlington at the League meeting,
no longer ago than last February,
when he made this prophecy:
"The republican party, gentlemen,
will next fall engulf this country! |
tell you, gentleman, that the republi-
can party will 60 to the polls and sweep
this country as John c. Fremont swept
it in 1856"
"Engulf' the country, Jerusalem!
Sweep it as Fremont swept it. Free
mont was badly beaten by james
Buchanan. What historical knowl-
edge!
The Herald then quotes his speech
before his Sunday school, just after his
return from his first visit to Europe:
"A great many great men have been
to Europe, dear children, and never
come back. They have died there
But, dear children, l have been to
Europe and come back alive"
1t then relates what Col. Hooker said
at a soldiers meeting at Brattleboro, a
few years ago, after Levi had tired
him and everybody else out with an
interminable harangue. 1t was Hook
er's turn to speak next, and when he
got the opportunity, which he thought
would never come, he arose and said
"Well, | hope to God that when l get
through | shall know enough to STOP"
The SITTER begs to add few gems
in this line: In 1886 as the return
train from the State Convention which
nominated Levi for Lieut.. governor,
bearing his excellency and a number of
delegates, slowed into Brattleboro the
boys had Fuller's battery out and were
firing salute in honor of their gal
liant Colonel, who then and there re-
marked in the hearing of a London
derry delegate, in reference to the guns,
"Those are beautiful pieces"
On the same evening, June 16,
1886, a crowd of his heelers, and others
led by curiosity, assem- bled at his resi-
dence. Levi came out and made the
following eloquent( (?)speech, in answer
to Col. Hooker, as reported by the
Brattleboro Reformer the next day:
"Col. Fuller in reply, thanking the
people for the kindly greeting, they had
and always extended to him, said:
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BIRTHS,

In Londonderry, April 22, son to Mr..
and Mrs John Wiley.
In Weston, April %, son to Mr.. and
Mrs. W. X. Waite
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then all invited in

then all invited in"
A few years ago he came to So.
Londonderry to attend camp fire and,
of course was introduced as speaker.
In his commencement he wandered all
over the lots and said flat things enough
to fill column. He told how dearly
he loved his country and how he felt
when he got out among the COMRADES,
in fact patriotism oozed out of him
from every pore until he looked like a
huge electric belt advertisement. He
then launched into description of the
battle of Gettysburg (this was always a
favorite subject with HIM and talked
long and eloquently, cribbing the whole
thing bodily from Doubleday's "From
Charlottesville to Gettysburg" :"
Capt. Lincoln, commercial traveller
well known in this state, a veteran
soldier, and as brave a one as ever
drew sword, was present and heard the
harangue. He told the SITTER two
weeks ago that he recognized Lewis
eloquent descriptive speech as being
Doubleday's and upon going home ver-
flied it from his library.
And such man as this for govern
or No wonder his organs have but
little to say
What can be said?
Well, he's got money.
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Hi Here comes the Boston Her
aid with Col. Fuller's "Battle of
Keyes' Farm" Verify Levi should
remember the SITTER in his will for
spreading his fame as poet. Why,
that little gem is going to "engulf'
the whole country.
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Copies Of this pope, coa be obfoiaed
ot CNrpeaie,'s NetcS Rooms III Brat
Ue6OrO.
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ss-Entered at the Post-oflce at So. London
as second class matter.
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MARRIED..

In Weston, April 20, by Rev. Moses
Adams, Charles F. Howard and Miss
Lila Drury, both of Chester.
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STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, /
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STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, | %
LUCAS COUNTY
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he i>
The senior partner of the firm of F. j.
Cheney & Co., doing bu-incs in the
Ciy of Toledo, County and Safe afore-
said, aud .haf aid firm viii pay The sum
Of ONE HUNDRED DALl.ARS Tor each
and every case OF Catarh that cannot he
cured by he use of Hairs Catarrh cure.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me aud subscribed in
INV presence. this 9th day of December,
A. D. 1856.
A. W. GLEASON.
SEAL Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taxed internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Send for testi-
monials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
&S@Sold by Druggists, 75c,
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Sitter John. .EdjtOr.

FRIDAY MORNING, April 30, 1892
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attention !!
New
SeasOnable
Goods!
1 desire to call your attention to my
New Stock of Spring Goods
just received
Latest Styles in Dress Goods
and Dress Trimmings. Prices
Lower than Ever.
PRINTS.
1900 yards Good Quality and fast col
ors at only 4 cents per yard.
One lot Best Quality Gnghams at 5
cents per yard.
all Papers.
A Large Stock of Very good quality
and handsome patterns at cents single
or 8 cents double rolls.
Heavy Gilt Papers at correspondingly y
low prices
A lot of Lace Curtains.
worth 81. per pair, price to
close them out one dollar.
Mems outing cloth over
shirts only 25 cents each.
Boots and Shoes and fur
nlshlng goods.
A Large Assortment OF
Window Curtains and Shades
from Sc. a piece and upwards,
Curtain poles and fixtures
only Is cents.
Groceries and Provisions.
PilIsbury's best and St
Louis flour always at the low
est prices.
Pork, Lard, Hams &c.
Terms Cash down.
}. Henry Couture.
Manchester Depot, Vt.
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@ 0 @ @ @
0 0 | believe it was said
in the convention today that | was a
man whom the state ought to delight
to honor. / | 1
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orderly. ! noted crowd about a chapel and
went in. / found it to be of the size of the
average country church, but it looked far diff
ferent Its walls were Of the most delicate
blue and one side Of it biaZed with the gold
icons which YOU find in every Russian place
of worship. If you will wall the front of
church back Of the lpit with gold and paint
ing you might get some idea of this cemetery
chapel; but you must fill your church with the
most reverent crowd of men, women and child
ren. yon can imagine, all crossing themselves
and bowling, and you will come near the scene
as ] saw it. You must fill the church with
lines OF collins placed on biers, and some of
these collins must be small, for they contain dead
children, and others must be those of women.
and others those of men. There were at least
SO collins containing dead in this chapel, and
these collins were, suppose. being prayed over.
They were of ali colors, and the childrens cof
fins were painted in red, in pink, in blue, and
i'll gold.
On each coffin candles were burning, and the
mourners were burning candles and Offering
them to the Lord by putting them in the
dlestc ks, which always kept in front
Of the sacred icons. AS / watched. long
haired priest dressed in u blue-and- silver gown
began to pray. while the choir Of men chanted
the responses.
Little hoys dressed in gorgeous gowns swung
incense lamps, and the praying and crossing
OF the people became more vigorous than ever
1t was strange sight, and, like human grief in
every form, it formed most impressive scene.
As left the church | saw an officer and his
family standing about new-made grave and
priest prayed for them and with them. !
could not understand bis words, but like all
others of the people, took off my hat and
held it in my hand as passed by.
The Russians have j find, very good idea
of the eternal fitness of things. They are nat
uraily polite, good -natured, and revcrent and
as far as matters of etiquet are concerned
they are in advance of US. When this funeral
passed me in the street noted that every man
present took off his hat and this is so in the
busiest parts Of the Neyski Prospect. Think
of everyone on Pennsylvania Avenue in Wash
ington taking off his hat whenever funeral
procession passes by and you will get some idea
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of how they do such things here. Every good
Russian Christian takes of his hat when he
passes a church or q chapel, and most Russians
cross themselves and pray as they do so. When
you remember that there is a shrine in nearly
every block, you see that this form of exercise
must be very common.
The Russians invariably lift their hats as they
meet their friends, and they tip them again on
leaving In coming into room they usually
shake hands all around, and after dinner the
guests shake hands with the hostess You
never enter business house or store without
taking off your hat, and the members of the
family all shake hands upon retiring at night,
and again upon meeting in the morning.
People of rank and Office always recognize
and reply to the salutes of the most ordinary
mortals, and General will lift his hat in re-
spouse to the salute of peasant as cordially as
to one of his own brother Generals. You do
not see the pushing and crowdng here among
the masses that you see in any public place in
America or England, and the people seem on
the whole to be naturally good-tempered and
civil.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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and he squats down in the bed of it with his
family, or sprawls out over the load.
The peasant women i see driving are as
careless about their position as the men, and l
saw out in the country to-day woman driving
a wagon without bed on it into town. She
sat astride on the pole that joins the two axles
together and her mems boots, which her red
skirts nearly touched, showing only about an
inch of the bare knee, hung down almost to the
ground. There plenty of two and three
horse wagons in Russia, but so far l have not
seen wagon tongue, except to the fine car
rages which are made after the American pat
tern. The second and third horses are hitched
to the side of the body of the wagon, and they
pull about as well as with tongue All
kinds of harness used are much lighter in
weight than ours, but the loads carried are
much smaller.
The street cars of Russia are all run by horses.
l have not heard of an electric railway yet,
and there are none in either st. Petersburg or
Moscow, each of which has population
approaching million. The cars are double
deckers with seats on the top and it costs just
about half as much to ride Inside as inside.
/ jumped on the top of one of these cars yes
terday and took ride to the end of the line.
had no idea whore / would pull up, but /
decided to get the full worth of my two cents,
which was about the cost of the trip. Well.
through about four miles of suburbs and landed
me in the biggest cemetary of this Russian
Capital. As we reached the end of the trip
Russian funeral procession came up.
1t was curious sight. The hearse was a
bier covered with black and resting on wheels,
drawn by four black horses, who were covered
with black blankets. and whose heads were
draped in black. out of holes in which peeped
their bright eyes. They walked, led by men,
and beside the hearse there were updertakers
in black livery carrying lamps, and back of
these walked the mourners. All people walk
in Russia to the funerals, and even the En-
peror goes on foot to such bnrials as he attends.
This cemetery was made up of little lots
walled with granite and fenced off with fences
of iron. The walls seemed to hold the earth
containing the bodies, and it may be that from
the moist, swampy nature of this region, that
the bodies are buried, as it were, above ground.
Inside nearly every fence there was monu
ment, and these were usually in the form of
crosses and out of marble. On the poor graves
i saw crowns of wood and on a few crosses OF
granite, but everything was simple in the ex-
treme and there was not that lavish waste, ey
travagapce and bad taste which you find in
every American graveyard
There were, perhaps, a thousand people in the
cemetery. These were of all classes from Gen.
erals to peasants, and everything was quiet and
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were starving to lay aside grain for seed, and
when the peasants were ready to SOW their
crops this year they had to rely on outside
help for this.
The result is that not nearly so large an area
has been planted, and if the crop of this year
is more than half that of former years it will
be surprising. This means that there is sure
to be, even if the crops which are now in turn
out abundantly, a considerable famine for the
next Winter aud if drouth should occur a
repetition of the present condition may be ex-
pected.
In the meantime the Government is making
n thorough study of its agricultural condition,
and the prospects are that the famine will, in
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reports il is found that the condition of the
people is rapidly improving The green food
which has come with the Summer is iessenipe
the disease and helping the famine, and in a
short time the crops viii be ready TO harvest.
These crops will fall far short this year. The
half-starved people, who farm poorly while
well, have not been able TO put in as good work
owing 20 their lack OF strength, and they have
not had half help in the way of cattle and
horses. During the Winter the stock was deci-
mated again and again by famine. There was
food for the cows and horses, and they
died by the tens OF thousands.
The Iowa corn saved many of them, but vast
numbers were sold by the starving peasants.
and speeulators came in from Germany and
other countries, and bought the stock at their
own prices.
Good horses were sold for one and two dollars
apiece and cattle at correspondingly low prices.
In some provinces il is estimated that from
half million 10 million horses died Of starv-
alton, and the cattle and sheep we're killed for
food ] he peasants tried TO keep their stock
alive by feeding them on the thatched roofs of
their honses, and the suffering experienced
from the cold and the lack of shelter cannot be
described. Ii was impossible for people who
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the end be of great value TO the country, in
that it will bring about better farming and
better social regulations. Elevators for the
storage Of grain are being put up. and crop
reports will from now Oh be received from
every part of the Russian Empire and meas
ures Will be taken to prevent such a state in
the future These crop reports are modelled
on our system of agricultural reports, and the
information concerning them was furnished to
Russia by the United States
Russian farming is to-day in very low
state and its peasants have many curious Gus
toms aud their social constitution is like that
of no other people in the world | expect TO
leave St. Petersburg tonight for Moscow, and
will from there strike out over the country,
and will probably travel thousands of miles
through the famine districts and among the
country people of the Land of the Gar.
As to ST. Petersburg, | am told it is more
like Europe than any other part OF Russia,
and the Russians call it foreign city. Peter
the Great built it largely with the hope of in
PRODUCING European civilization into Russia,
aud when he was asked why he built city In
the swamps OF the Baltic, he replied that he
wanted a window where he could look out
upon Europe.
The result is st. Petersburg is one of the
most cosmopolitan cities of the world. On the
streets here YOU meet all classes from all over
stop has Pcrsians. Caucasians, and Tartars, as
well as French, Germans and Russians. There
are Circassians with high astrakan caps of
black and daggers at their waists, and long
coated Russian Generals whose swords clank as
they march through the halls sturdy Firms
from the regions along the Baltic. and long.
gowned priests who are as fond of their
vodka as the Russian common people. The
crowds on the streets wear cloaks OF all colors
and materials, and its men and women are of
all compexions and races. The carriages and
horses are of their own kind and the droschky
and the great neck. yokes of the Russian horses
are like nothing else of the kind in Asia, Eu
rope, or America.
The Russian Droschky has been greatly ma
ligned by travellers. IL is one Of the most COM
Portable of carriages, and st. Petersburg has AS
fine turnouts as you will find in the world.
The droschky drivers as picturesque as any
coachmeu on the earth, and they drive like
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THE RUSSIAN FAMINE,
What the Condition is in the Stricken
Districts, and Something about the
: Crops.

what the Famine Has Cost Bussia-How IL
is Being Relieved-The Crown Prince ana
His Work-The Russian Drosohly and Rus
sian Horse-fesh-A Nation OF Johns-A
Russian Cemetery,
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LoGAN's CROSSROADS, KY.

Jan. disbursement between United States
forces under the command of Brig. Gen George
III. Thomas and Confederate States forces under
the command of Maj.-Gen. George B. Critten-
den.
The Union forces consisted of the 1st and Cd
Tenn, 4th and 18th KY, 9th Ohio, 10th Ind.
I'd Mimi. Batteries b and c, 1st Ohio and 9th
Ohio Ind pit Art and lst KY. Cav. Confederate,
10Th Ala, 18th, 10Th, Goth, 25th 23th, Goth,
Tenn, 18th Miss, Sanderss and Bledsoe's cav
airy companies, Branner's and McClellan's cav
airy battaions, and Meetings. and Rutledge's
batteries.
Union casualties: 80 killed and POT wounded ::
Confederate. I25 killed, 3O9 wounded. and 80
missing Brig Gen. F. K. Zollicoffer, c. s.
Army, was among the killed. This affair is
also called Fishing Creek and Mill Springs,
KY.
The schooner Lizzie Weston, ofApalachicola,
Fla cargo 293 bales of cotton, was captured by
the o. s. S. Itasca in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jan. 20.-A detachment of the 1st Mo. Cav,
under the command of Capt. Irving w. Fuller,
was sent to Atchison, Kan, with directions to
cooperate with and aid the authorities in ar
resting bands Of jayhawkers, reported as COM
uniting depredations in that vicinity. The
command remained until oath.
The British Andracita, formerly the schooner
]. w. Wilder, was captured by the U. S. S. z. &.
Cuyer ID miles east of Mobile Bar under
sharp fire from troops on shore. Four men
wounded on the Cuyler, two seriously.
Flag Officer d. G. Farragut, U. S. N, ordered
to proceed to the Gulf of Mexico and assume
command of the Western Gulf Blockading
Squadron, and when the force under his COM
mand was ready to proceed up the Mississippi
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HE terrors OF the Rus
sian Famine are not 10
be seen in st. Peters
burg. There are but
few beggars on the
streets, the people look
fat and prosperous, and
business and life goes
Oh to all appearances
as though the country
was rolling in wealth.
The Russian is natur-
ally extravagant, and
he has to keep the pace.
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