The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
NOTINGs.

NOTINGs.
EX-Tammany Boss Croker announced Sal
9 urday that he should sail for home yesterda
! reaching New York about July 4. His Sigh
. indisposition Is said to have been cured by hi
sea voyage. Evidently he discovered this fac
just after II had been settled that the LeXOv
Investigating committee would adjourn owe
July and August.
! Julian Hawthorne, who went with his wifi
3 and seven children to Jamaica some months
: ago, writes back that he has concluded to pas
1 the rest of his life there.
I Mulhall, the English statistican, gives som,
figures regarding the finances of Europe tha
may well explain the demand for disarmament
there. He finds that the annual revenue o.
the 10 continental states for nine years past
has been $2,0S0, 900 900 while the average ex
penditures have been $4,000, $1,000, so that
the annual deficit hat been 1888 ,000, 900, and
. the debts of these counties have piled up in
this time $4,000, 100000. About go per cent
of the new debt is accounted for by the strte
purchase or building of railways and Other
: reproductive public works; but the remain.
der or over billion dollars, is due to military
establishments where every dollar has been
sunk beyond all recall with nothing of value
: to show for it. OF the present gross debts OF
the continental states of over S20,O0O, 900, 0O0
} Mr.. Mulhal estimates that little less than
, $15,0O0,0O0,0OO Tor over seven times the
amount of our public debt ut the highest
point, and over 20 times what 1t is today has
been used to carry on wars and maintain the
existing ornaments.
The treasury department has just issued a
preliminary statement of our foreign trade
for the past II months which shows that our
exports have increased from S7S2,21S,625 to
1884, 764 100 and our imports have decreased
from 1896, 706,37S to 1908, 150,S3l. In other
words there has been as Il result of the hard
times net change of over $246 600, 200, by all
odds the greatest change on record. And it
cannot fail to have important results in Sc
curing "a sound basis for the prosperity that is
soon to return
A cordage factory at bingham, is to start
up July LIST, after 10 years of inactivity. Is it
Il fruit of tariff reduction?
Mrs. French-Sheldon is making arrange
ments to found colony in Eastern Africa,
only two degrees below the equator and along
the Juba river. She claims it is entirely prac-
ticable on the high and dry ground there for
white men to live and prosper; that rice,
sugar, tobacco and rubber are natural pro-
ducts and that iron and gold will be found to
abound in the mountains.
Sgnor Crispi has resumed office in Italy
with reconstructed cabinet. AS Sonnino Is
not in 1t, the meaning is apparently that the
Premier hopes to carry out a financial scheme
which he regards as a solution of Italy's diff
ficulties, but which SignOr SonninO refused to
sanction. The project is this to reduce the
interest on that part of Italy's national bonds
which are held at home from five to three and
half per cent. The saving would be $780,
OOO, 900 year-a sum sufficient to avert a de-
fcit and even to assure surplus, without cut
ting down the national armament. OF course,
this conversion of securities will be resisted
with the utmost vehemence by the represent
tatives Of the bondholders in the Chamber of
Deputies, and the resistance may be rendered
effective through the support of the friends of
the deputies implicated in the banking frauds.
The Maine Democratic state convention
Tuesday nominated Chas + johnson of Water
vile for governor and to endorse the Chicago
platform.
The gold exports last week reached nearly
$S,O0O,00O. Still there is a little improvement
an abundant grain harvest. Bank charings
showedaD increase and nearly II per cent
less than last year over the week previous
and the failures decided decrease, 30 less |
than the week before and 100 less than the |
same week last year, but 30 more than in
1892.
The CoXeyites may be depended on to keep
off the grass when offered work at haying.-
Nashua Telegraph.
The trial of w. S. Streeter formerly of st. [
JOhnsbury and vice presipent of the North
western Guaranty Co. on a charge of embez-
element is in progress at Minneapolis. Sever
al have testified that they never signed any of
the notes bearing their names and offered for
sale by the Northwestern Guaranty Loan COM
pany and disposed of to guardians in the east,
many of them in Vermont. Other testimony
showed the unbusiness like methods Of that
company. One 5000 check was found, which
Mr.. Moulton of the Farmers and Mechanics
savings bank testified had been given him in
payment for mortgage which Menage owed
This was the first direct evidence
that check had been given to iquidate per-
sOnal debt of Menage. 1t looks now as if there
was a fair chance that Streeter would go to
prison and certainly that his victims will learn
| notice that good many manufacturers
with republican tendencies have cut down
he wages of their employees. Now, this is
lot necessary, as the Wilson bill, take it as it
passed the House or in its present form be-
ore the Senate, provides amply for the differ
ence in wages between here and foreign coun-
ries, and leaves good margin for profit for
he manufacturer himself. This is merely an
lttempt on the part of the republican manu-
acturers to bulldoZe democratic workingmen
nto voting the Republican ticket Congress
nan ONeil.