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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
The appointments for session made by Ser
pennt- ut-lrms, r. q, phinney are rs follows:

The appointments Tor session niaue ~ ocr-
geant-at-arms, 4. q. Phinney are rs follows
Doorkeepcr OF the house, George Il StebDlns
South sheldon; assistant, + II skinner, BARI u
Landing; pages, Edwin ID Field, Rutland MAN
Wilson, johnson, and Sanford IL Lane, COM
wall doorkecpcr of the senate, John Il Seayer'
Proctorsvllc; assistant, Nv Briggs. br non,
pages, Downer II Newell, st Johnsbury, Erhest
A Reed, Vernon clerk at sergeant-at-arms, OF.
flee, J Ell Goodenough, Montpelier; messengers
Alfred + Weston, Newfane, Robert l. rnlmney'
Edward Woodbury., Burlington.
The matter of removing the shire OF Orange
county from Chelsea will again be agitated,
1t Is proposed to have two county seats, one
at Bradford and one ut West Randolph.
Rutland and Hyde Park, and probably some
other towns, must have their grand lists legal,
lied by the legislature because the listers alo
not make their returns within the time speci-
fed by law.
Morrisville will ask for some amendments
to its charter, made necessary by the growth
of the town.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
this year.

A MOVEMENT, which ought to succeed, mas
been inaugurated among the Chittenden
county members of the legislature, for the
erection OF Il suitable monument over the
crave at Williston of Nermonts first COVER
nor, Thomas Chttenden, the washington OF
the state" as ne has been well called, and one
of the best balanced statesmen she has ever
had. 1t is not at all to our credit that the
matter has so long been neglected.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
A Noteworthy Mans Words.

REV. G. H. CLARK, Chaplain
of the Vermont State Senate, resi-
dence ST. ALBANS, testifes to
the great merits of DANA'S.
We are proud to have written by
such a man the following words
about our medicine.
"YOURS is CERTAINLY A
PRICELESS REMEDY for suf-
fering humanity"
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05

SENATOR Hill in his speech on the tarlll
hill last June deliberately made the prophecy
that the imposition of the income tax would
drive New York, New Jersey and Connecti-
cut into the Republican party, thcrc TO re-
main permanently He will find that he
w as right so far as his own state is concerned
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
Continued on eth Page

Investigation blazes the way for human
progress. Rule 10, which prevented the adms-
sion of patent medicines at the Worlds Fair,
caused an investigation of all the blood-puri-
tiers presented for exhibition purposes. The
result of this examination by scientific men,
proved that Ayers Sarsaparilla was the only
remedy of the kind entitled to the confidence
of the committee, and worthy of their indorse-
ment.-adv.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05

TIE New York Times charges that tons
of Up. A. literature are being sent out by
the Republican congressional committee con-
rressional franks being used for the purpose
The Times says they are trying to do it secret
" Int claims to have conclusive proof that
they are doing it.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05

Ir may be that Vermont will have her
fourth city by another year. There Is Il project
for the annexation of Berlin village adjoining
to that of Montpelier, and in that case the two
would be voted under a city charter. Barre
is also ambitious to get II city charter.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05

THE PERFORMER would like to enter in II
prophecy race in this season OF 1alrs' IL
prophecies that David B. Hill Will be de-
fe ated by at least 100000 for governor IN New
York this fall,
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
For &2.1j.

The New York World has been changed
from weekly to semi-weekly. Wewill furnish
REFORMER and semi-weekly World-equiva-
lent to three weekes-for S2.15 This is the
best news paper offer yet. As a general news.
paper the World easily stands at the head.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05

GOV. FULLER does not know quite so much
law as he thought he did when he talks about
appeals not being allowed on ''confession OF
Judgment in liquor cases
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
Your Cake will not Fall
r. made with the New HOTsfOrd' >

Baking Powder. This powder is superior in
strength, purity and healthfulness to any kind
heretofore made, and is one of the greatest in
ventons of the age. Try it and note the re-
Sult
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
TINE REFORMER.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1894.

THEprice of silver has gone down so that
the silver dollar is now intrinsically worm
only 40 cents.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
Rheumatism Since a Boy.

Rheumatism Since Boy.
JONATHAN HAYES, of MID
DLETOWN, VT, had suffered
fearful pain from this disease near
iy all his life. DANA'S was what
he wanted, what he took at last,
and what CURED him.
MR.. E. d. COBB, of TIN
MOUTH, VT, was also afflicted
with Rheumatism in most severe
form. In his pitiful plight he tried
DANA'S. Result: he was abso-
lutely CURED.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
PREMIUM LIST.
Horses.

BROOD MARES list, ID l. Sprague; I'd, Oh
Ward.
STATIONS list, j Il Clark, IIolyoke; ID,
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05

INCONTESTABILITY,
PAID-UP POLICIES,
CASH SURRENDER VALUES,
AND EXTENSION INSURANCE
are all features of the "NationaI'sv contract
which are endorsed on the policy and guaran-
teed. The guarantees are larger than those
of any other company, while the record of the
"Nationul' for fair dealing is uneXcelled.
This company recognizes that "a satisfied
policy holder is the best advertisement that
company can have" therefore we intend to
satisfy you.
If you intend increasing your insurance.
you can best serve your own interests by TAX
ing it in the ''National." A Vermont institu-
ton with over S10,00O,0 900 in assets and over
81 ,l32 900 in surplus; it is IA company that
Vermonters ought to patronize. In dealing
with agents of rival companies, if comparison
in any one point is made with our policy in
sist on the comparison as a whole for each of
the advantages named above, and if more in
formation is desired, write to us and we will
cheertully respond to your request. The Ma
tional loans on all of its policies of insurance
and grants SEVEN MONTHS GRACE.
GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Address,
ii. L. TAYLOR d son. Gen. Agt'S.
BRATTLEBORO, VT.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
NEWS FLASHES.
Two Murders and a suicide

The inquest at Kingston, \, into the anegeu
poisoning cases of Watson Peck anu NJ w " y
sons. Charles and George seems TO estapls,i t IN,
fact that the two former We're poisoheu "
George who then committed suicide IN the sahe
way. The report of Prof Wood OF HarNa,u
states that he found "a grains of arsenic IN tne
organs of Watson. When the autopsy was h s,
cd the body of George Peek, the last son 70 uIc;
DIR Bolton, made the report that he han iouha
the same state of things, and gave the opinion o.
arsenical poisoning The theory, based ON eNi-
dence 80 far secsred, Is that George, VINO VIZ
regarded as IRRESPONSIBLE mentally, auhihs =.
ed poison to his father on two OCCASIONS. lMo
weeks later he Is believed to have maue SUI SUI
cessful attempt TO take the life of Charles, me- ~
year-old brother, who died ON Aug y Inside OF
two weeks his mother was taken with the saulS
symptoms. Prompt medical attendance saNeu
her life. About two weeks afterwaru SeoI ~
succumbed to the same symptoms, ana uleu III
the same manner his father ana youneSi
brother George is known to have had arsenic III
his possession for use in taNidermy-
Swept by Fierce Cyclone
4 terrible cyclone swept over the business
part of Little Rock. Ark, Tuesday night WRECK
ing the principal business part 81 the CITY, ~
well a the insane asylum and penitentlaIs ~"
doing damage 20 property of az least sl,wv,,s 800,
was visited W Wednesday of people. IL VIII taAs
a month 60 clear the streets Of the wrechaSesanu
repair the damage 90 demolished buildings me
Isl Of killed numbers six. the fatally nluredtwo
more aud the injured some - while some N
mates Of the asylum are doubtless buried IN the
ruins
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
FEATHER PILLOWS.

We can sell you all FEATHER PHI
LOWS as low as $l.50 per pair, but
would call your special attention to our
$500 per pair Pillows, as we claim for
them that you cannot tell them from the
best Live Geese Feathers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

till release you ofyour oath. " 81 swear, ;"
gasped Van Pelter.
"kneel down." the hollow voice re-
peated, and the young man knelt.
Laying upon his head a hand so
cold II seemed TO freeled into Van Pei.
ter's brain, the unreal voice poured
into his ear a tale of such mysterious
horror that his listener shivered while he
heard.
go home and remember your oath !"
the last tones, faint and far away, sighed
out, and Van Pelter did go home, but the
result Of this nocturnal meeting was an
attack Of nervous fever which Frustrated
him many weeks, and though frank and
genial by nature, he remained profoundly
reticent on the subject Of the ghost.
Then for a while ghostly discretion
seemed TO be In the ascendant; no appa-
ritions were seen, mental tranquility
ruled the hour and dwellers on Pine
creek visited their friends on the river
and returned after nigntfall with i'm
punity.
This state Of things continued until
Farmer Ball, having driven to Pine
creek, was delayed on his return and
found himself crossing the ridge road af-
ter dark. He drove carefully and had be-
gun the descent toward the river when
his horses swerved violently aud snorted
with fright.
Farmer Ball looked 10 the reins, for his
horses had plunged forward with acoel-
Grated speed. He glanced TO the right
and to the left but nothing was 10 be
seen; behind him two men were follow
ing him, apparently on horseback, though
no horses were visible But q blush
spectral light enveloped the riders, 50
that their forms and movements could be
plainly seen.
MAD CHASE.
The taller man held something in his
hand which his companion made desperate
efforts 10 obtain He clutched at It.,
caught at the hands Of the tall rider and
almost threw himself from the saddle In
his frantic eagerness, but the other
evaded him with singular dexterity
Leaning forward, backward, sideways,
changing his burden from his right hand
10 his left, then elevating 10 high above
his head, he managed 10 keep the prize In
his possession.
Appalled, by the strange spectacle the
farmers mind at first refused 10 take in
details, but, after staring for some mo-
ments with a horrible fascination, he per-
ceived that the short man was headless,
and the object he so greatly coveted was
human head-his own, doubtless
which, however obtained, mis- road com
panion seemed in no wise inclined TO give
up. On they came, but the distance be-
tween the ghostly horsemen and the
/ wagon kept about the same. Farmer
Balls horses were running at almost
breakneck speed, and their owner, while
he tuRged at the reins, could not keep his
eyes from the strange struggle he was
witnessing.
on and on ratified the wagon down the
rocky road on came the spectral riders,
their bodies luminous in the darkness,
their unseen horses galloping on noiseless
hoofs.
The short man seemed TO make one
supreme effort 70 regain his head. He
dropped the reins, rose in his stirrups
and threw himself against his opponent.
The tall man held aloft the CHASTITY
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

the Paradise Duck, its name taken from
the fact that its richness of color sug-
gests the Edenic-and birds with all
wealth of feather, and curiosity Of
beak and eccentricity of habit. and de
Tense of claw, and audacity of flight, and
bearing all colOrs-the white running into
crimson, like snow melting into the fire,
the blue as if in some higher flight it had
brushed against the heavens, or yellow as
if it had nestled amongst cowslips and
buttercups, or spotted and frnged and
ribboned and ahame until there are no
more fountains of radiance into which
they can possibly dip their wings. Oh
for some scientific gunner to do for New
Zealand what Audubon did for America
But what never knew before, the native
birds are dying out before the foreign
birds that have been introduced, and the
native
FLOWERS ARE DYING OUT
before the foreign flowers Although now
New Zealand is so abundant n all STYLES
of quadruped, it had not, when discov-
cred, a single quadruped, except the rat,
and foreign rat having been introduced,
the aboriginal rat has nearly disappeared.
The English grass brought here has killed
the native grass. The birds Of America,
Europe and Asia, imported here have
killed the birds of New Zealand All the
earth has been ransacked and all the
botanical and archaeological and ornitho-
logical and geological worlds have been
called upon to make up the present and
the future of New zealand.
Yea. come to this Wonderland, =" all
who want 10 see enterprise and advance
ment. Daily newspapers with scholarly
men in editorial chairs, and reporters cap
able Of pumping interviews from the most
reticent and cautious and make Sphinx
speak. Two thousand miles Of railroad
Over sixteen hundred schools with com
pulsory education, building up intelligence
for the present and atfording no opportu-
nifty for ignorance in the next century.
Baths, thermal and chemical. miles long,
aud capable of putting an end to rheuma-
tisms and sciaticas and invalidisms that
have dehed the mineral hydro
pathics of the continents Lake
Taupo, so deep that no plummet has
ever touched bottom, and occupying tho
hollow Of an extinct volcano, as a bright
child might fall to sleep in the bed pre-
viously occupied by a grim giant. Yea
come 20 New Zealand the naturalists
the artists and the students Of men and
things, and come quickly for nothing re-
mains here as IL originally was, except
the mountains and even the mountains,
as on the night Of June 8, 1886 when the
walls of THE Terraces" fell down at the
blowing Of the trumpets of terror, proved
themselves no longer TO be the "everlast-
ing hills" T. DEWITT TALMAGE.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

trophy with a laugh of demoniac derision.
There was a collision. crash, and
Farmer Ball found himself with a broken
wagon, broken harness and well nigh a
broken neck at the foot of the hill, and
his pursuers had vanished.
THE STUBBORN SENATOR.
Despite such weighty evidence, there
were those not few who professed utter
disbelief in the Rhostly character Of these
"disturbers OF the peace" holding rather
that some unknown party was playing
mischieyous or malicious pranks on peace
full citizens.
One Of the most stubborn unbelievers
In the ghosts was Senator S., and in
spite of the laughing warnings from
friends the dusk Of a summer eve beheld
him serenely preparing TO traverse the
haunted road alone.
The starlit night was oppressively
warm, the gentle gait of his horse en-
couraged drowsiness and the senator was
half asleep as he rode down the steep in-
cline which led TO the river. The
foot of the hill was almost reached
when the horse-as other horses had
done on that same road-showed sudden
and violent terror. He snorted, plunged,
made mad dash forward, but was re-
strained by the strong hand and soothing
words OF his master, who meanwhile
looked sharply round for the cause of the
disturbance. The moon did not shine at
that hour, the stars gave little light, and
IL was some moments before he saw the
object which had so frightened his horse.
From the outer edge Of the road the hill
slanted sharply 10 the river. Some boul-
ders were scattered on the beach, and on
one Of these was "a shape which shape
had nome" describing such a ghostly
pantomime as Senator S. mad never be-
fore witnessed.
In regulation white it lowered aloft,
then doubled, gesticulated, wrlthed as II
in agony and, as the sage law-maker de-
clared afterward, came as near filling
the bill Of what ghost should be like as
anything he had ever imagined"
A closer scrutiny revealed the fact that
while the ghost seemed endowed with q
a double number Of arms and legs no head
was visible.
For one brief second the doughty sena-
tor thought OF the headless horseman, tho
next with a siX-shooter In hand he thun-
dered out:
"Who are you and what are you doiugl
Speak quick or III shOOtl"
Don't shootW gasped a terrified voice.
Don't shoot I'm Ike Simmons and I'm
goin' in swimmin' If / can ever get this
id shirt offW
And a plunge in the water told that he
hau succeeded.
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trophy with laugh of demoniac derision.
There was a collision. a crash, and
Farmer Ball found himself with broken
wagon, broken harness and well nigh a
broken neck at the foot of the hill, and
his pursuers had vanished.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16
A SENATOR AND A GHOST.
Queer Story, the Truth Of Which
May Be Relied Upon.
Tale of Haunted RidRe-The States
mans Horse SHED Just Like other
Animals - Vision That Confronted
Him
From the Pittshurp Post.


Him.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Around huntsville, w. Va, is a law
abiding and respectable, though some
what sparsely settled, neighborhood
which has been for years the proud pos
SCISSOR Of a ghost A ghost which APP
pears in human form, which can speak
when occasion requires and which can
repeat himself-that is, it sometimes hap
pens there are two ghosts. At first only
vague and unsatisfactory rumors at
tested the appearance Of his ghostship,
but grown holder with long residence
his visitations assumed more palpable
form.
A country road, which shunted slowly
from the river and crossed a heavily tim
bered ridge, began to be marked as the
scene Of ghostly encounters. This road,
just before leaving the river lay in a
long level line, almost free from shade,
and when the moon was at or near it's
full was flooded with light Always at
such time, though at irregular inter
walls, belated travellers began TO meet or
pass in the road a stranger who thirty
five wears ago, would have been modishiy
dressed, and, though his face was always
turned toward the moon, so that
the gold watch chain he wore gilt
tered in its light, his features were
always in shadow-no one ever saw
them distinctly II was observed also
that he neither gave nor returned salu-
tations and was never visible save on this
moonlit road People who lived farther
down the road never entertained such q
wayfarer, and the jewellers on Pine creek,
across the timbered bridge, saw no such
stranger journeylng past their doors
But on the lonely ridge-road with IT'S
| thick standing trees the ghost became
more aggressive. The horses OF team
sters who drove after night recoiled in
! horror from some object their drivers
could not see And one, compelled 70
| leave the wagon and lead his horses for
ward, declared that he wrenched the
| bride from a muscular grasp. and that
! ice cold fingers touched his own in the
| dark. BE that as il may, he has never
been known 10 cross the ridge-road since
by night
VAN PETERS EXPERIENCE.
But young Van Pelter did not escape
so easily. Driving over that road
on moonless night, his horse suddenly
SHE'D and refused 70 proceed. He strove
! to.encourage when a hollow voice spoke
| az his side. "Dismount, must speak TO
| you!" Van Pelter avowed that II was
no human voice, but that he seemed 20
| have no will Of his own and he dis
| mounted swear said the ghost,
"that YOU will never divulge my secret
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16
Journalists, Farmers and Promoters.

A journalist is a man who talks about
being on newspaper, but is not A news
paper man is one who Is on newspaper
and makes no fuss about it, A farmer is
a man who works the soil and an agricul-
turist is man who works the farmer;
while promoter is a man who works
everybody.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

The Numbers and Social Condition of
the Women of the Colony-A Coun-
try for Artists and Scientists-The
Wonderful Stone Terraces Birds
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

General-Great heavens! What have
you been doing 10 the plumes Of my hatl
Servant-~Excuse me, general, but I've
been using them 70 dust the furniture
with.-Fliegende Blaetter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

do you think your sister cares much
for mei" Little Tommy-Yes; she didn't
think 10 kiss Fido but once after you left.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

81 little thought said Ardup, eating
pigs feet at the free lunch counter, that
] should ever be reduced TO such extremi-
ties as this. Chicago Tribune
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16

The crown worn BY the King Of Roumania
Is made Of metal from the cannon that we're
captured from the Turks by the Roumanians
at Plevna In 1871
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-03-14
KILLED BY BRUTALITY.
Negro Boy In Fauquier Said to Have Been
Subjected tn Inhuman Treatment

WORTHWHILE. VA, March 1c-The
negroes in this vicinity are excited over
the death Of a colored boy named Bernard
Gibson, and the subsequent Developments
OF an inquest. Young Gibson died on
Monday, February 18th. lie was wen
on the previous Saturday. After his
death, stories OF brutality practiced upon
him by Charles Coles and his wife led
Justice J. h. Mclaughlin. acting as
coroner. 10 make an investigation. He
summoned jury and had the boys
body exhumcd and examined by a ply
sician. The examination showed that the
child had been subjected to shocking
brutality. He had been beaten so often
that the skin on his back was hardened
His body was "a mass or bruises. and his
neck had been dislocated by a blow. Ills
body showed that he had been starved.
IL was In evidence that Coles and his
wife had habitually illtreated the boy
aud verdict vas rendered that the
boys death was due 10 the brutal treat
ment OF Coles. Coles was sent TO War
renton jail TO await trial.
His arrest probably saved him from
lynching. as the colored people in the
neighborhood had made up their minds
TO take the law into their own hands. when
they were forestalled by the action Of
Justice Mclaughlin.
Gibson was a grandson OF Coles for
mer wife. and had been taken into Coles
family during his grandmother's life
time. After the latter's death the brutal
ity began.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-03-14
JAMES CITY COURT.
BulI-Rebinson Csse-Litsrary Societies OF
WiIlian, and Mary College.

WILLIAMSBURG. VA. March 13.-
Special.-Our County Court is in ses-
sion, Judge Sydney Smith presiding.
The famous case OF w. w. Bull VS.. l..
i. Robinson, in regard TO misunder-
standing as TO a contract in regard TO
railroad ties. which has been on the
docket for some time, was tried yester-
day and resulted In a hung jury.
Mr.. Parke Jones, master OF the Mason
ic lodge here and district lecturer for
that order. returned last night from an
official visit TO the various lodges in his
district.
The literary societies of the College of
William and Mary have elected their
representatives TO conduct The College
Magazine for the remaining half year.
as follows Editor in Chief. q. NJ. Smith
Proffett. and +. +. Jones Philomothean);
Proffett. and i. +. Jones U'hiiomathean);
Ernest Sheen and G. l.. Hepburn Phoe-
nix; Business manager, III. L. Larrick
Philomothean)
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion OF William and Mary Is now in
very fiourishng condition. and ranks
fourth Gth) In point of size OF all in
the State.
The series of meetings carried on last
week at the Baptist church by Rev. Mr.
Warren, assisted by Rev. Mr.. Hiden, of
Richmond. are continuing this week with
no abatement OF interest and no diminu-
ton OF attendance