Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-03-08
NOTE AND COMM ENT.

SSsCic.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
The amount of net gold in the treasury
is now slO7, ,2O5, $40. ..
Massachusetts, legislators are trying to
abolish Fast Gay, but how they can
abolish anything that does not exist is
not quite clear.
The agricultural experiment station
at Burlington has issued very instruc-
tive bulletin with a photograph showing
the effect of the Bordeaux mixture for
preventing blight on potato vines. Sub
scribers to THE TIMES can obtain copy
free by addressing F. Il. Jones, botsnist
at the station.
The Louisiana lottery octopus still
maintains its grip on the United States
by establishing an agency in Florida.
The late judicial force in that state in
connection with the Sullivan Mitchell
fight affords little hope of any adverse
action by the state authorities but Uncle
Sam may be depended upon to find q
way to disable it.
The expected resignation and retire.
rent OF Premier Gladstone is an accom-
1ssheH fact, and the grand old man re-
iinguishes to others the working out of
the vexed problem of the emancipation
of Ireland. The mantle of succession
has fallen upon Earl Roseberry, late sec
retary of state for foreign affairs, and
the promptness and vigor with which he
has entered upon his new duties promise
we'll for the cause.
With silver dollars worth less than so
cents, counterfeiters are doing thriving
business. They can put in the same
amount of bullion as the government
does and still make big profit. Besides,
the money which they coin is counterfeit
only in its origin. Their "dollar's worth
of silver is as honest as the govern
ment's. They have the same fineness
and weight as the genuine article, and
ring as true. The most skillful expert
would have difficulty in detecting the
bogus from the genuine coin.
Our village has attained considerable
unpleasant notoriety during the past
week through the exaggerated and
sensational reports in the public prints
concerning the death of we'll known
resident from diphtheria. The circum-
stances, as related in our local columns,
| are lamentable enough without aDplifi-
cation, and If providentially we escape
an epidemic of the disease, we trust our
enterprising contemporaries will be as
ready to note the fact AS they were to
| to spread the news of the threatened
evil.
The Bland bill for the coinage CT the
| silver seigniorage reached the senate
Monday and by skillful engineering on
The part of its friends it has displaced
the tariff bill and will hereafter be en-
| titled to precedence in the daily proceed
| ings. This mear an indefint postpone
ment Of the settlement of the tariff ques-
tion and makes the confusion surrour d :
ing natural legislation for the past six
| months still worse conf, ,unded. All the
silver fanatics are on deck with Seni-
tor Stewart at the head, and As hour
speeches all PIN d AMI loaded. When
the end will be no man dare predict.
! The disaffection of the Democratic
press seems to keep pice with that OF
the voters. The Philadelphia Times,
which has been one of the strongesG
CT, veland papers in the country, feels
moved TO remalk:
| The only one cons picuous result of the pres.
ent congress thus far is an impressive lesson
given to the AmeI lean people that the Democr attic
party is unfit e. govern The republic. 1t has pol
iici ms large and small, but mostly SMALL while
craftsmanship seems to have b, come a lost ~rt
in the couucils of that organic alton. 1t is now
more than Fix months since congress met and
the single thing that II has accomplished to meet
the business p,ces>iiies of the country was the
the repeal of the silver biz, and that would not
have been accoml lished without Republican
votes.
he I mes must have heard something
drop down that wa ia,eiy.