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The record-union., 1893-05-02

HIO LET-4l5 X STREET-A FINE, LARGE
| store; the front will be changed to suit
any business il may be needed tor. Inquire
OF n, X. ALSIP q CO., Fourth street, or 2. :.
LAWSON, on premises, 40 X street.
THO LET, UNFURNISHED-A PARLOR
| suite and kitchen. Inquire at 9161. Sew
enIh street, between l and j.
TVO RENT-ONE LARGE, FURNISHED
/ room at 32S Tenth street
The record-union., 1893-05-02

EOR SALE-64o ACRES OF THE FA-
l. nous Platt Grant, in Butte County; posi-.
lively bargain for either fruit or grain; three
miles from railroad; all level. Write 10 WI.
COSTAR, Chico, Cal, for particulars.
The record-union., 1893-05-02

WIHLIdM H. ULII, JIM
A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, SUFFER- BUILD
N ing, southwest corner of Fifth and ].
Telephone No $50.
The record-union., 1893-05-02
Attpr9teBs-nt-Jo41

A. L. HART
A TTORNEY-AT-LAN.- SOUTH
n west corner Fifth and J streets, Rooms
IL. Is and IA. Sutter building.
The record-union., 1893-05-02

PARIS, May IA cloudburst swept the
slope of the mountains yesterday and car
rled away thirty-five miles of the San
Francisco Railroad track. The north
bound passenger train which left Satur-
day was unable to get beyond Mountain
burg, and returned. The southbound
train stopped at Greenland. The
Arkansas River is eight miles wide, and
much damage has been done along the
course. Five farmhouses a few miles
this side of Fort Smith were demolished
by whirlwind.
The record-union., 1893-05-02

SPRINGFIELD (OD. May 1.-At mid
night 100 acres in the northeastern part
OF the city, containing 200 houses, are
flooded, and water rising foot an hour.
Scores of families are in danger, and the
police and patrol force, together with
citizens, are rescuing people, boats and
horses being used. The electric street
car traffic of the entire city has been
StopDad
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16

SIT has now reached the highest point
Of Its flight, and at almost the same In
slant the ear Is saluted by q rafting,
crashing sound, as II all the boiler facto-
ries In the country had concentrated the
pandemonium of weeks into the supreme
effort of a second. 1t is the sound of the
discharge, which travels nearly twice as
fast as the projectile, and which In the
clear spring air OF Port Royal Is heard
quite as distinctly mile away In the
line Of fire as on the vessel itself.
"The flying torpedo has now for
seconds SEEM, d almos at stationary, poised
like some great bird high In the air. 1t
seems sure TO fall short; 1t Is too low to
carry far at that apparently slow fight.
Still, 1t does not fall perct ptibly, and
soon the fact dawns upon us that this
black obj ct Is coming onward at a ire
mendous rate. 1t grows larger, and on
the downward branch of the trajectory
again elongates into cylinder, the rear
end Of which seems to wOtble or revolve
in small circle around the line OF flight
Now Kissing sound Is heard. The pro-
jectile seems to hasten-it is descending
rapidly-straight towards you. There
Is no doubt now as to its carrying far
enough. In fact, it seems impossible to
avoid that. We realize that here is
terrible engine, free from all restraint,
beyond control. 1t has destiny of its
own. We don't care who sighted the
gun, or for what range the valve was
set. We only hope that we shall have
luck that the black thing has not ac-
quired intelligence and decided to hurt
US, with malicious purpose. But now
glance along the cylinders side is re-
assuring; it will pass on one side; it
seems to turn away more and more, un-
til, with musketlike report, it enters
the water, throwing up lofty column
Of spray. A second later and the black
oval head pierces the water thirty yards
further on {; the torpedo leaps high into
the air, and turning, porpoiselike, with
graceful precision dives head first into
the water again. There, after last
mighty struggle, its onward rush is
checked, aud 1t sinks to the bottom. The
length of time of flight has been just ten
and three-quarter seconds. 1t has come
six times as fast as the fastest rail-
road train; fourteen times as fast and
five times as far as the fastest automobile
torpedo; fourteen times as fast as the
fastest torpedo-bcat; twelve times as fast
as the fastest running horse. Moreover,
it carries an amount of high explosive
power equivalent in rending eff CT to two
of the largest Whitehead torpedoes."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
Objections to an American Westminster.

Mr.. Henry B. Fuller, writing in the
March Century of Canon Farrar's pro-
posal for an American Westminster, con-
cludes his opposition to the idea in these
words: But there are other objections,
nevertheless, and they are numerous and
cogent. One alone is apparently insur-
mounta ble-the necessity of a political
basis and the inevitability of a political
bias. The voter swarms; the practical
p ,litician is abroad. II the guiding and
restraining sense of high dignitaries,
supposedly sensitive to the continuity of
history and to the force of hallowed
tradition, has not always proved suffi-
cient for the prevention of jarring faux
pas, what might be expected from a raw
ly extemporized board or committee
working on the yea-and-nay plaza
body certain to have the qualities of its
active creators and perpetrators and to
be provided at the start with very large
space to fill? Our English well-wisher,
in his suggestions for National Ameri-
can pantheon, provides for our early ex-
plorers and cOlOnizers, our poets and
theologians and historians; but he does
not lay equal stress upon our statesmen
as we are fond of calling them. Now,
when we consider that the one character
to evoke the vivid, spontaneous, un-
bounded enthusiasm and sympathy of
the American people is the political ora
tor, that this same people is in the habi
OF prompt and definite action in mat
ter which really moves and concerns it,
and that in no other land is ante-mortem
abuse more subject to the corrective of
post-mortem praise, we may imagine the
makeup and aspect of our pantheon
after hot political campaign that hap
psned to be TO lowed by season OF Sc
we're mortality. 1t might, at first, give
us considerable competency; shortly it
would displease US, presently it would
disgust US; and in the future we should
be well enough satisfied to bury our IL
lustrious dead near their own families
and amid the scenes with which they
were associated during life."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16

Of Sl6 600 and six f1ersons employed
Randolph, a new e. cen mill, SIS 900 in.
vested and 80 persois employed; Barton,
factory for ladies' muslin underwear,
$25, 200 invested and 100 persons en-
ployed. Bethel has increased both the
capital and working force of its shoe
factory, and Brattleboro, of its jelly
mandatory. Enosburgh Is just under
taking the quarrying Of slate. Glover
has an overall factory. Bennington has
increased the capacity of its hosiery and
Jersey mills, Pittsford has opened new
marble quarry. Clarendon has increas, d
it's marble production Enosburgh, it's
evaporation works; Richford, its foundry
plant. The summer hotels at Woodstock
and Lake Dunmore were completed last
season and involved an Investment of
capital largely In excess of last years
estimates. Several new enterprises are
thought to be assured for 1898, among
which may be mentioned creameries al
Peacham and Waitsfield, and large can
niug establishment at Burlington, and a.
Canaan furniture factory to employ 100
persons and calling for an investment OF
$7b,O 600. Brighton feels practical,
sure" Of shirt factory with a capacity
to employ 500 persons. Other towns re-
port an interest In new enterprises but
do not say just what is expected. An in
spection of tie foregoing figures shows
that with an increase of invested capital
over 1891, only about half as much help
Is employed in operating it. This is due
largely to the fact that the Investments
OF the past year have been on somewhat
different lines, where large capital en-
plOys the service of only limited mum
Der of persons-like the electric lighr,
for an example. The investments for
1892 have also been of more permanent
character. putting up good buildings and
introducing modern machinery; and in
many cases it is expected that the num-
Der of employees will largely increase
1t Is, perhaps, but fair to say tina; the
granite industry was very much retarded
by the labor troubles of 1892; and sew
eral localities that expected to undertake
work on granite were prevented by these
troubles from so doing,
AS a whole, it appears that for 1892
more farms were sold, more enterprises
undertaken, and more capital invested in
them than during the year previous.
This certainly indicates healthy condi-
ton of both our agricultural and manu-
featuring interests and goes to show that
those who have fOreseen an improved
condition of our industrial affairs have
been correct in their judgment. Capital
is seeking investment in local enterprises.
Agriculture is moving forward slowly
but surely, and improved, certain and
economical methods are taking the place
of guesswork and wasteful and WORKOUT
practices. So far as my acquaintance
goes, there is hopeful feeling prevail.
ing in the sta e, and there seems to be
good reason to believe that the upward
course is but fairly begun and that there
lies before US an era Of prosperity, the
extent of which is to be measured large
ly by the effort of each individual citizen
V. L. SPEAR.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
The Flying Torpedo.

Some test experiments in the throwing
of projrctiles from the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius were recently made off Port
Royal, South Carolina, with very utter
esting results. The projectiles used were
eight feet long, ten inches in diameter.
and when loaded weighed SIS pounds.
The body of the dummy projectile was a
spirally welded cylinder, into which the
base and head were screwed, and these
were also connected by an iron bar in
the axis of the cylinder. The base was
of cast iron, and carried a brass band on
which were number Of wings curved so
as to rotate the projectile as it passed
through the air. The sabot, or 'gas-
check" which occupied the centre OF the
ten-inch shell in the fifteen-inch gun,
was also attached to the base, but in
such manner as to fall off, as rule, as
soon as the projectie left the gun. Tn,
head was alsoAf cast iron, aud carried
as s'wing pieces''a humber of blocks of
wood carefully fitted about it, and CEN
tring the forward end of the projectile in
the axis of the bore. These blocks flew
off. helter-skelter, as soon as the projec-
tile left the gun. Ia the live pr jectilc
the cy Under is drawn-steel tube, aud
the head and base pieces are of brass,
and are not connected by bar as in the
case of the dummy. The head con-
tains the fuse and primer Of dry gun
cotton, and also has number of plung-
ers fixed about it SO as to explode the
primer by impact.
The flight of the projectiles, as it ap-
peared to an observer stationed near the
target, is thus described by an eye-wit
ness, Lieutenant A A. Alderman, of the
U. s. s. Philadelphia:
1--WE are anchored few yards from
the line of fire, mile away from The low
lying dynamite cruiser. A signal has
been hoisted at her yard-arm, warning
the observers to stand by. They havt
acknowledged it by displaying their wig
wag flags. The cruisers signal is then
hauled down, after which those of the
observers are also doused as they sever
ally announce their readiness. All is
ready. Suddenly we perceive a white
cloud about the bow of the Vesuvius,
and then from this bursts forth a rouno
black Obi CT, which, as it rises out of the
mist, shapes itself into a Ling thin cyiiG-
der. Higher and higher it mounts, until,
nearing the zenith of its fl ignt, the cylin
der becomes ball apparently moving SO
slowly that one almost fears It's momei,-
tum will be expended, and it will at any
moment plunge headlong downward.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
Excitement in a Dutch Village,
From the Century,

One night in October we were startled
by the ringing of the alarm-bells. We
expected to find fire, but the peasants,
as they tumbled out Of their doors, shout
ed, "rhe cows! The cows!'-which
brings US back to curious bit of local
history and custom. AS is well known,
the Zuyder Zee is kept back from these
villages by great dixie that connects
,and-dune with sand-dune. During the
low water of summer the sea retires for
a long distance, and the uncovered shore
uecomes fine paslurage, giving the far
me chance to convert their own
meager grass-patches into hay for the
winter. Unfortunately, this provision
Of nature cannot be enjoyed by all. 1t is
a bequest to these will ,ges from a coun-
tess who died in the year 1912; to speak
exactly, each descendant of resident of
the villages of Laren, Blaricum, and
Huizen, of that date, has inherited the
right to pasture seven COWS. This privi-
iege cannot be bought or sold; it can be
acquired only from an ancestor of the
village of that date. When the spring
comes, the cattle are driven to the pas
lures, where they remain for the sum-
mer. Their owners commonly live miles
away, and it necessitates two daily milk
ing-trips, on which they jog over in
cart with the cans and pals at midday
aud midnight. The pastures are hun
dreds of acres in extent, and for long
time it puzzled us how an owner could
ind his cows Oh dark night; but we
discovered that they have trained their
animals to come to a certain place at the
same hour each day and night by always
carrying to them some dainty in the
shape OF salt and potatoes. During the
summer these pastures are used witnout
danger, but in the autumn the succession
of northerly gales, in conjunction with a
nigh tide, will put the land many feet
under water. Sometimes the inundatiOn
is SO sudden that the cattle are caught
by the rising waters, and drowned. So,
at the beginning of September, watch
men are always stationed on the dixie to
keep sharp lookout upon the sea. The
church towers of the villages are all in
sight Of one another, and the HuiZen
tower is in close communication with the
dixie. With rise of the sea, the man
ON the dixie hangs up a lantern; if the
sea rises more he hangs up two, which
is dsnger-signal; but if it rises fasr,
three, which says, "Great danger; come
quickly" Similar lights are flashed
IRON tower to tower by watchers in the
b :lfries, and at three lights the alarm
bells are rung. This was the alarm we
heard, and in ten minutes the roads
thronged with people on foot and on
horseback, rushing to the rescue of the
nerds. This year none were drowned !;
but it was perilous work, and the peas
ants heaved long signs of relief as they
told US the details, and announced that
the cows were safe in the stables for the
next six months.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
veRMoNT's PRooR IS.
Review of It's Industrial Record for the
Past Year.

Vermont's record as here presented Is
complied entirely from reports from the
town clerks of the several towns. or
the total number, 234 towns are here re-
ported. or the towns failing to report,
all except one were small towns from
which there was likely to be little or
nothing to report. And though COM
plete report would, doubtless, have In
creased some of the figures found, they
may be considered, think, fairly COM
plete and accurate. Thanks are due the
town clerks who have so cheerfully as
sisted, and wish to say that nearly all
the reports received gave good evidence
Of care in their preparation.
The total number Of farms sold 10
1892 is 1914. OF this number, 1872
were previously unoccupied. As com-
pared With 1891, there has been an In
crease of $50 farm sales. The following
able shows the number of sales In each
county, and for the purpose OF COMPARE
son, the sales In 1891 are also given:
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
A NEW STORY OF THE SPOONS.
How He Settled Cape Cod Joker and
Eu<Joa A--o-o-oo
From New York Press.l


l heard new spoon story concerning
Butler last night. His enemies never
tired of INVITING him on the infamous
SANDER which was charged against him
in New Orleans, and during his cam
raigns in Massachusetts there were al
ways illusions to "spoons." One night
he was speaking in little town on Cape
Cod. The meeting was held in the town
hall, ricketv old building, with wood
en- ceiling. Butler was the only orator
Of the occasion, and it was supposed that
he owned the town. He was standing
on the platform denouncing the stealings
IF the opposing candidates when large
tablespoon, attached to thread SO fine
that it could not be seen, slowly descend
ed through crack in the ceiling until it
stopped and quivered in the air almost
touching the fuzz on Buffers bald crown.
The audience roared with laughter.
Butler looked up and saw the spoon, and
the joke was such good one that he
laughed himself. He tried to speak, and
finally got the ear Of the house. He
said:
II see there is some opposition here.
But if it is cong aled-if it stands alone
ike I'll u SDOOQ--lC Will uOu uoUbAO liz
much .
The crowd roared andButler carried
the town by a large maj erity.
This spoon talk, however, went on for
some time until Butler finally got tired
If it. One night while he was address
ing big manufacturing town in Mass
achusetts some one in the audience
howled out "Spoons!" Butler stopped
md q skpo the snaa knr tO come forth IT..
waited moment and no one rose. He
tlen said:
81 would like to see any respectable
citizen ia her such charge against
me. l have heard this matter TESTED
about and have seen it printed in public
press, but heretofore | have considered
it beneath my dignity to notice it. l am
getting tired of it now and l would like
to end it by making some man pay me
heavy damages for libel"
This settled it. Buffers speech was
reported and he heard nothing more from
spoons during the campaign.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
Persons

AS will be noted, the distribution of
these enterprises through the state is
quite general, and the nature of them
is quite varied. Creameries have been
started at Vergennes, Danville, Shell
hurne, Lunenburgh, Corinlh, Fairlee,
Chelsea, Topsham, Mount Tabor, New
fame, two at Westford and two at New
bury. In this business $33, 900 were In
vested and 81 persons are employed.
Cheese factories have been starI q at
Bridport, Guildhall and Jamaica, $S5OO
being invested and six persons employed.
Electric light plants at Bristol and Hart.
ford have called for an investment OF
$35 900 and eight persons are employed.
In new granite works at Manchester
Hardwick, Waterbury, Newport, East
M ,ntpelier, WilliamsJown and Danville,
$l24, 900 have been invested and lSO per-
sons employed. Five thousand dollare
have been invested in new marble quar-
rving at Brandon and Manchester, ano
nine persons are employed. At Norwich
and Westminster, $13, 900 have been in
vested in corn canning factories, which
enploy about 81 persons in their season
Saw-mills and mills for the manufacture
of the various lumber products have
called for an investment Of S54 ,50O and
the employment of 1919 persons. These
mills are located at Wheelock, Fayston,
Stratton, Windham, Norwich, Marsh
field, Manchester, Pittsford. Montgom-
cry, Victory, Canaan and Moretown.
Machine suops at Troy, Stanton and st.
John ,bury, in which S29, 900 are invest
ed, employ 81 persons. In the paper
manufactory at Bellows Falls, 5000
are invested and 20 men are employed.
At Westmore, the Willoughby Lake I'm
provement company has been formed,
with 100000 capital, for the purpos,
of establishing a summer resort. Sixty
thousand dollars have been invested in
wooden mandatory at Ludlow wher,
60 persons are employed. Burlington
and Montpelier have invested $l3, 900.
and employ 30 persons in working brass.
Burlipg on has, also, match factory, IN
which sis 900 are invested and 80 per-
sons employed, and a new lumber COM
p.ny, with s25, 900 capital that employs
20 persons. Milton has plant for the
manufacture of excelsior, with q capital
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16

1t will be noted that sales have In
creased in nine counties, diminished in
four and remained the same in one. The
sales of unoccupied farms have been as
follows in the several counties: Addi-
son, 2; Bennington, g.; Caledonia, 81;
Essex, 4 Lamoille, 9; Orange, 80; Or
leans, IL; Rutland, 8; Washington, %;
Windham, Al; Windsor, %. The total
number of farms reported as without
tenants is 376. OF this number, Addison
county has 10; Bennington, 26; Gale
donia, 4s; Essex, Z; Lamoille, z; Orange,
81; Orleans, q; Rutland, IS; Washing
ton, 20; Windham, "a; Windsor, 3d.
Chittenden, Grand Isle, and Franklin
counties report no unoccupied farms.
Many of the farms reported as without
tenants are so from the fact that ten
ant has recently moved away and no one
has been found to fill the place. Quite
a number of farms are tenantless because
of the settlement of an estate. OF 200
farms of which descriptions have been
recently received, As have been unoccu-
pied year or less. This goes to show
that there are likely to be certain times
when farms will be temporarily without
tenants and yet these farms may not
properly belong to what is generally
known as the class of unOccupied farms.
Our inquiries in connection with this
class of property have not been extended
to tracts of land where farm buildings
have once been, but which passed out of
the list of farming lands years ago and
are now returning to their original and
proper use, the growing of forest trees.
1t is believed that the figures here given
of the number of unoccupied farms at
the present time, which are suitable for
farming purposes, very nearly represent
What there are in the State, and would
not SEE m to be sufficient to occasion any
considerable anxiety or to give rise to the
fear that the farming land of the state
is to be abandoned. The reports show
that $S13, 500 have been invested In new
industries aud in charging plants al
ready In operation. Several large addi-
tions are reported as having been made,
of which the cost was unknown and
torr, not included In the figures
given The new Industries reported are
giving employment to HOO persons. As
compared with the report for 1892, It
appears that $7250O more capital has
been invested, also that the additional
help employed is HOO persons, against
2197 persons for 1S9l-a less number by
1897. The distribution of these new in
dustries by countries is as follows:
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16
These Prices are for 80 days, or till the lines
advertised are closed out.


for
Black
kernel.
Rolled lbs
Chow Chow Mixed and Plain Pickles put up In Malt vnga imported goods
Csc Choice Bright Florida Oranges and neither
lot has touched by
The Roller St Louis Flour the market Patent e
Rockingham
Nice
Oil Co.'S $50 White gallon 12c
Tidal Wave Talk
kind a w
Ten To- bags Fine Salt 20 h. 12c Sc h. bags Butter Salt @ Genuine
Turks Island Salt and Rock Salt
Buffalo Calf Fur Coat s27
Skin The
One SIS Jacket for 81 90 ady
all Of them suitable for Spring and all
Wolf
w. B. CLYNN,
PROPRIETOR, SAxTONS RIVER, VT.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-16

USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, IT'S
1.-THE KIND THAT CURES.n