The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
NOTINGs.
President Cleveland was Sc years old Satur

PRESIDENT Cleveland was 5G years old Satul
day.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has give
a decision respecting the Hyattsville exper
ment with the Henry George single tax the
DRY which had been hopefully inaugura.ed O
that place. The majority of the people o
| Hvattsvile had become converts to the Gecrg
doctrine and secured from the legislature al
act empowering their tax assessors to asses
land. the improvements on land and persona
! property independent of one another, ant
then to make deductions from their assess
ments apparently to the limit of their ud2
, ment, for the purpose of getting down as neal
to the George Idea as possible. The cour
holds that under the state constitution tbt
legislature had no right 10 grant any such
powers.
The Behrlng Sea arbitrator met at Parl.
yesterday.
The Nebraska legislative committee inves
tigating The frauds of state off ,ials In public
lands and buildings, In the late Capital Ma
lional bank collapse, and In the prison man
| agement. with Its cruelties to inmates, resul!.
| ing In murder In one case, and In the job.
berry Of the lessee. all connected with the
bank. where 100000 of the states money was
swallowed up. reports an astounding lot of
rascallty. Steps have been taken for the i'm.
parchment of lot of the officials.
The United States Supreme court has de-
cided st. Louis case upholding the right of a
city to impose charges upon corporations or
others for the use of its streets, against any
powers given sucn corporations by an act of
congress. and the decision 10 an important one
towards the solution of one of the problems
Of the time. The st Louis ordinance imposed
a franchise tax of S5 on each pole put Ip in
the streets of the city by the Western Union
telegraph COMPANY. The claim of the COM
pany, sustained by the lower court, was that
the power given the telegraph company to
condemn right of way over post roads COW
cred the case In question.
The New York World gives this as the lat
est recipe for political sef-preservation :
When thine .enemy runs thee into corner
call him "mugwump
Rev. DR.. Henry j. Van Dyke, the popular
and cultivated Presbyterian divine of New
York city has been selected to take DR.. Tuck
er's place In the department of pastoral
theology at Ando7er.
Ex-senator Ell Salisbury of Delaware died
Wednesday at the age Of 10. He was for IS
years one of DeIaware's senators and mem.
Der of one of tne'two familIes,the Saisburys
and Bayards that for generations ruled Della
ware, but not member of either of which
Is now In public life. He was first chosen to
the senate In 1870. and under circumstances
without parallel In the history OF popular
His two brothers, Cove and the
brilliant Willard were the rival candidates.
Willard held the office and Cove was gov
ernor and went In to Gust his brother. with
whom there was some dissatisfaction. The
legislature was deadlocked for while and
then Ell was taken as a compromise. No
other name but that of Salisbury was even
mentioned. He was defeated for reelection
bv Anthony Higgins and the Republicans
four years ago.
A Mothers Woe.
Seldom II ever has most extraordinary scene
been witnessed In court OF justice than that be-
lore Recorder Smyth of New York Monday.
CARLYLE w Harris was brought In to have a time
fixed for the execution after the court of ap.
pea S sd denied his exceptions and q new trial
mad been refused. When asked II he had any.
thing to say why the sentence should not he i'm
posed. Harris made an address that will be re-
nembered In the annals of crime as one of the
most remarkable pleas for life ever uttered bv a
nan standing under the shadow Of an ignomin- |
ous death. II was rambling,at times incoherent |
Ind Illogical, but there is no enying Its dramatic
force and terrible earnestness. He made q |
lengthy analysis of the evidence. He com. |
planned that he had not been allowed to cross |
examine the atlantis upon whose testimony |
rev trial had been denied him. tie had not even |
lad chance 70 crticise those affidayits. Such |
is he had been allowed to controvert he had |
" one OF the jurors that had the evidence EN-
,odied in the aflidavits been submitted upon the
rial, he would never have voted for the convic.
Ion of Harris. Harris concluded as follow: "f
m before my judge, as YOU viii some day come
ace TO face with your jidge, Recorder Smyth.
tripped OF all these early 1igniii IS" He turned
nth q trembling voice to Mr. Howe and thanked
i'm for his services and then drew an envelope
rom his pocket and handed II to Mr. Howe with
hcse words: take II, Mr. Howe; IL was Helen's
vet gift TO me; take Il gith her love" He held
imseif vel IN handy and although his voice
allied him many timeAv he never lost his mar
elous se.f-control. lie was sentenced IN be *
cuted during the week beginning May sth. The
My hope for him now is In executive clemency.
lie friends claim to have got q great mass of
violence contributed since the modon for new
-ial has been denied. The popular feeling Is
-ith him and he was loudly cheered bv the {
rowds on the way back TO the rombs after the I
,ene- Whatever the prevailing opinion regard.
X Harris, there can be nothing but profound ,
lmpathy for his noblest and most devoted
,mpioR the mother whe mas stool by him I,
ON the iirst and worked with heroic energy TO !
'tabish his Innocence AMI TO secure bis free !
I'm. who spends her summer at Mortified {
al VINO was In Brattleboro within q few DAYS t
his arrest woman of culture and refine. a
ent, of marked Intellectual capacity and of 1T
ar, cell Dritv. she has for monihs been under
Ding crucial test Of love and forti'une. She
Is mad 70 face the ignolniny AMI disgEace con.
oBtng her son. She has sacrificed fortune. q
nhir N pridc-eyerythiDg that MAKES life c
ixht and blessed.
rOsn mothers tender care, :
Cease toward the child she bsre"