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COUNTY COURT.
The Insurance Case Hangs On May Not
be Disposed of This Week.


Trial Of the case of Matthew Bingham 8
executors against the Phenix Insurance
company was resumed in the County Court
Wednesday. j. j. Enright was first recalled
for cross-examnation, Frank Riley was
called by the plaintiffs to testify as to the
amount of personal property in the house
during the time he worked for Bingham
He left the latter's employ May 16, 1891,
and the fire occurred on July 1S following.
Samuel Millham was recalled for the same
purpose. The balance Of the day was de-
voted to the direct examination of Etfe
Whaen.
The cross-examination Of Ef'ie Whalen by
Lawyer w. H. Bliss occupied the entire day
in County Court Thursday furnishing en-
tertainment for large audience,
In County Court Friday the case Of
Bingham's executors, vs. the Phenix Insu-
rance Company was continued. Mrs
Whalen's examination was not completed
until nearly noon. after which e. K. Taft,
Gen. r. s. Peck and J. j. Enright were re
called and further examined.
The May term of the Supreme Court
opens at Montpelier the Sth inst and it
will be necessary for County Court to take
a recess this week until Supreme Court ad-
iourns. Accordingly the jurors, excepting
those in the case now on trial, have been
excused until the first Monday in June at
O'Clock unless otherwise notified by
County Clerk Ray.
A little progress was made Saturday in
the trial of the insurance case. County
Court was in session three hours and the ex-
animation of G.. X, Taft, who has been re-
called to the witness stand several times and
questioned with great detail was completed
Charles Brownell, new witness, called in
behalf of the defendant, was giving his testi
mony when court took recess over Sun
day.
The case is likely to last the greater pa art
of this week Mr.. BrovnelI is the third
witness called by the defence. Mr. Ballard
is occupying considerable time in the cross
examination and it would not be
surprising if the case is not disposed
of before next week. There are some
40 other jury cases standing for trial at
this term. Court has now been sitting four
weeks and this is only the third case taken
up. At this rate this term of court will last
until next fall
On re-assembling Monday afternoon
County Court resumed the trial of the in
surance case. Charles Brownell, who was
ON the stand at the time Of adjournment
Saturday, finished his testimony. Julia A.
Richards next testified, She is the twice
divorced wife Of the late Bingham.
She was married to him in 1872.
Three years aftsrward she left him and OBJ
tanned divorce. In 1882 they were mar
ried again, living together until June 10,
1880, when she again left him did began
proceedings for divorce, which she secured
Mrs. Richards testimony pertains to the
furniture and other household effects she
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TO QUEEN CITY PARK.
The Electric street Railroad to BE Ex
tended for the summer Season.


DR.. f. A. Smith Of Brandon, William
Gardner of Troy, n. Y, B. F. Rugg of st.
Albans, Lucius Webb of East Granville,
Judge Crossett of Waterbury and John
Eastwood of Winooski, the committee of
the Queen City Park association appointed
to negotiate with the Electric Street Rail
road company concerning the extension of
the road to Queen City park, met some Of
the officials of the road in this city Fri
day and gave the railroad company the
right to carry passengers to the park for
the next five years The COM
pany has accordingly decided to ex-
tend its line to the park as soon
as the right of way can be secured. The
track will be laid directly south from Park
avenue, starting at the terminus of Pine
street and running through the west end Of
the property belonging to the Home for
Destitute Children to Red Parks avenue and
thence west to Queen City Park 1t is ex-
pected that the line will be in operation by
the middle of June and from that time to
the middle of September cars will run to
the park at least once an hour. The
grounds will be lighted by electricity.
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BISHOP MlCHAUD'S APPOINTMENTS.
Time of His Nisitations to the Various
Catholic Parishes of This Diocese.

Time of His Nisitations to the Various
Catholic Parishes of This Diocese.
Rt Rev. John S. Michaud of the Catho-
lie diocese of Burlington, comprising Yer
mont, has made the following appointments
for the making of his annual visitations to
the churches of the diocese May 3, Yer
gennes; i, Charlotte; u, North Bennington;
&, Bennington, Canadian church; I and s,
Arlington; 9, East Dorset and Dandy; 10,
Wallingford and Mount Holly; l3, cathedral
Burlington 13, ST. Stephens, Winoosii; l3,
Essex Junction; 10, Richmond; II, Middlebu-
ry; %, Sacred Heart, Rutland, Sacred Heart,
West Rutland and St Bridget's, West Rut-
land; p, st. Francis de Sales, Bennington:
2S, Brandon; 30, Bristol; June 3, st. Peters,
Rutland; 3, st. Mary's. st. Albans; ), Fair
field and Bakersfield; 6, Hyde Park
10, st, Johnsbury; 10, Iyndonville;
r., Barton and Albany; 13 Newport;
Il, Island Pond and Bloomfield; Is, Norton
Mills, II, Holy Angels, st. Albans "a st,
jo-eph's, Burlington; July |, Montpelier;
4, Sacred Heart, Rutland :, St Bridget 5
West Rutland; August IS, I'nderhill; 49,,
Richford and Enosburgh Falls 90 Mont
gomery Centre; %, Lowell; 26, Albany
Keeler's Bay; September ,, Winooski, st.
Francis; 8, Swanton; g. Highgate and
Franklin; rs, Brattleboro; II, Bellows Falls; !;
Is, Windsor, 23, Northfed; "a Moretown
and Waterbury; 80, Ludlow and Spring
field; October 7, Barre; IA, Pownal and
Readsboro; 2l, st. Mary's and St Louis g,
Fair Haven; 23, Poultney and Castleton;
%, Orwell and Shoreham.
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Goddard Defeals V. VI. S.

BARRF. April 3O--The Vermont High
School Base Ball league opened the season
here to dav when Goddard Seminary de-.
feated the Vermont Methodist seminary, 10
to A. Batteries, Ralph and Sias; Standish
and Standish.
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Two Pisoatorialiy Inclined Senators.

RUTLAND, April 30. Senators Proctor of
Vermont and Dubois of Idaho are at Proc
tor for the opening OF the trout fishing sea-
son to morrow.
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Vermont Pensioners.

WAsHINaToN. May The following
pensions have been granted 10 Nermonters
Original, Charles w. Mason, New Haven,
Gilbert l.. Gof, Richford.
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COMFY { : LLARED.
MARSHAL brow AND ChRlSTO-
PHER CoLUMES JONES IN JAIL.

Washington Polic- Ike the Common
wealers in Hand at the Climax of Their
Historic March on the Capitol The Pro-
testing Co1ey Arrested and Hustled
Away From the Scene of His Much
Wanted Triumph.
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League Standing.

Frank Hatton, editor OF the Washington
Post, died at t3y p. M. Monday
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STANNARD POST.
18TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS BIRTH
CELEBRATED FRIDAY EVENING.

Remarks by Commander Holton, Cons
rades Woodbury., Hutchins, Peck, Ohm
stead, Greenleaf and SharpIey, Capt,
Tutherly and Mayor Van Patten.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-05-03

United States Senator Stuckbridge of
Michigan died in Chicago Monday night.
His death was caused 10y angina pectoris. 8
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MONTPELIER, April ga team COM
posed in the best players in tho
village, assisted by f. W. Sane.
tuary, the V. NJ S. coacher, played
the v NJ. $. team to-day. Standish pitched
a good game and was well supported.
Score by innings
lea { 6 :
Montpeiier. Mt Gii,,;'...... ........ o Q 0 ; 8
Base hits, V. NJ 5. IL; Montpelier To- Errors
v NJ. 5. 4; Montpelier T. Batteries, NJ, STAN
dish and r. Standish, Sanctuary, Putnam and
Deavitt.
At Barre--Goddard Seminary s, Barre
Academy 6,
I7nit.d States SeustOr Stnckhri1ya of
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Machine gun inventors are not ready to
accommodate the navy department with
weapons for a test Mem bers of the
Boston aseball club believe they should
have share in the seasons prosperity
New York business men are to call for a
settlement of the tariff question immedi-
ately y-There was SlG00O0 fire
in Ashland, Wis -Explorer William
Astor Chanler arrived at Cairo
The New Haven rolling mill was shut
down for an indefinite period. The mill
employs about l50 men in ordinary times
---Antoni Raychel WAS struck by milk
train at Thorndike, Mass. He was picked
up unconscious and taken to Palmer
where he died-During a ball game at
Portland, Conn, a bat slipped from the
hands of Angus Graham and struck
John Csntwell, aged lo years crushing
his frontal bone. Cantwell will probably
die--A new case of smallpox was dis
covered at Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. John
Sheridan, aged 40 years living with her
husband aud six children, is the victim
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-06-29

Champollion, on the broken monuments
of ancient grandeur, and discerned amid
the rubbish of some ruined city of the
past deep lessons of the future; you may
have reasoned with acuteness, and ar
rived at just conclusions; may have
viewed things with philosophc eye, or
given way to spontaneous admiration,
still with the same or various results.
There may be scenes on earth which all
would laud, for they are sweet, delight
full, yea, exceedingly, But after all in the
dim twilight hours, there is not one Of
us but has, ere now, acknowledged to
himself, mwittingly that there was one
loved homestead dearer than all, Then
fades away the admiration of the present.
and you are lost in memories of the past
-"pleasant yet mournful to the soul! y
and who win not then accord to us, "Tis
pleasant to remember" "'Twero waste
az time, dear reader, both of yours and
mine, to longerdwell upon this theme.
If you have patiently perused our arti-
Gle thus far, palpable deducible pre-
sumption is, you are convinced that these
things must be so, One sentence more
and we are done. II seemeth unto us
most clear, that sad and gloomy would
this life be had we not the power of gen.
tie retrospection, and callous all our bet
ter feelings, should we deem the present
worthy of paramount consideration.
The past, the future-Erebus and Aurora,
how few seem willing to observe the ties
which bind the two together, dead joys
and sorrows falling in one scale to weigh
the other up towards Heaven! Bear we
but this connection in our minds, and Of
! ten while well-doing in the present, from
the teachings of the past, our hearts Will
gushingly acknowledge, that memory,
| although at times it brings to us things
we would feign forget, is comfort,
s6laSe and joy. Some one has said, save
lost man his memory, and no greater
punishment will he need even to the most
hardened criminal, there must be scenes
and joys of the past that can but bring
comfort and oft times prove his redemp
ton. Then give us one and all, while
life lasts the ability to remember.
| C.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-06-29
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 20. 1904

One thousand and sixty persons were
killed in coal mines in Great Britain
during last year and Go persons in met
alliferous mines. both numbers being
above the yearly average
A beggar, who for many years
subsisted on charity died a few ;
ago in Auxerrc, France. In trui.l he
left bonds to the value of 1000, goo
francs, Gnd in his cellar We're foun,
bottles Of wine Of the vintage of l7eo
Vienna has 1891, 0oo population e"'
3,74l police; arrests last year, n, -y
Tho linguistic knowledge of the Vienna
police force comprises English, Ere,
Italian, Spanish, Bohemian, Poll \
Russian, Croatian, Servian, Hungari,~
Roumania and Hebrew
The Spanish government reserved to
the mother country the exclusive right
of trade with all Spanish colonists
The interests of the natives and Of the
colonists were all sacrificed to those of
Spain and the Spanish people, and Span.
ish colonies never flourished as did those
of some other countries.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-06-29
of President CarnOt of
France.

PARIS, June 25.-Sadi-Carno pres
ident of the French republic, was stab
bed MORALLY at 9:15 o'clock last eve
ming in Lyons by Cezare Giovanni San
to, an Italian anarchist, q years old.
President Carnot went to Lyons to
visit the exhibition of arts, sciences and
industries. He left the Chamber of
Commerce banquet given in his honor,
shortly after 8 o'clock and walked to
his carriage, which was waiting in the
Place De La Bourse.
He had hardly taken his seat when
Santo, a newspaper in his hand, pressed
through the crowd and sprang upon
the carriage step. President Carnot
started slightly.
Santo snatched a dagger from the
newspaper and plunged it into the
presidents abdomen near the liver,
The president sank back unconscious.
He was taken at once tie the prefecture
and the most skillful surgeons in the
city were summoned.
Meantime Santo was arrested.
The president had repeated hem.
orrhages after he was removed to the
prefecture. He sank gradually bu
steadily until 12:45 o'clock this morn
ing, when he died.
The anti-option bill passed the low
er house last Friday, $50 to 81.
Mrs. Halliday, the murderess, ha
been found guilty and sentenced t.
be electrocuted during the week com
mencing August G..
A tug carrying excurstonists fror
New York sank on Sunday near tn
| Atlantic highlands and it is believe
twenty or more were drowned.
Another European mine explosio
causes the death of Psi persons.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-06-29
A Patriotic Rule.

There is new rule in the navy depart
ment that is as picturesque as it is pa
triotic. Whenever government vessel
on its way up or down the dirty Poto-
mac passes by Mount Vernon the bell on
the vessel tolls, and the sailors and Off
GERS form in line and doff their caps and
salute the home of Washington. No
matter what the crew are doing, all
work is stopped while the ceremony is
gone through. Sailors will stop in their
labor of sweeping off the deck, drop
their brooms and rush to get into line.
There has always been a lipd of desul-
tory practice of this kind, AID the home of
the Father Of His Country has generally
been honored in an informal way by gov
eminent vessels in passing, but now this
tribute of respect is compulsory, and the
vessels vie with each other n the prompt
ness with which this salute is performed.
Boston Advertiser.
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STATE NEWS.

Mary, aged seven years, the young
est child of Thomas Carroll, was
drowned in the Connecticut river at
White River junction Friday.
Eugene Martin, aged %, of Walling-
ford, charged with feloniously assault
ing his 14-year-old sister there on June
I, was arrested in Greenfield, Mass,
Sunday. He is Frenchman with In
dian blood. He denies any knowledge
of the crime, and says his name is
Charles Hobart. His uncle here adj
mits he is the man wanted.
A lady in Hartford while checker
berying Sunday found the headless
body ola man propped up against the
trunk Of a pine tree. The head was
on the ground few feet from the body.
From an over-reaching limb Of the tree
dangled rope with moose. Miss
Stetson naturally did not wait to inves-
tigate more closely, but fled, and pres
emily men from the town came and re-
moved the remains of the suicide
Suicide it must have been, and the
stranger evidently had climbed the tree,
adjusted the rope and dropped with IA
tai deliberation. 1t is believed that
several weeks have elapsed since the
commission of the crime, for the body
was badly 'decomposed.
In the pockets Of the clothing were
found naturalization papers granted in
Michigan March %, 1898, to Johan
Svenson, which is assumed to have
been the dead mans name, silver
watch and an empty wallet. The mans
apparent age was 80 years. The body
was buried by the town.
In the Orange county court, which
adjourdea Saturday, William Cor
ham was sentenced to state prison fol
five years for burning buildings near
Randolph Center last Fall; Mary
Demery to one year in state pris1u
for bigamy, and Harry Emery was
fined $50 for assault.
Albert Harwood, a leading citizen
of Bennington, was found dead in
his bed Sunday morning by his wife,
when she went f. aw axe him. He
was as well as usual when he retired
about 10 o'clock Saturday night
lie was sou of Gen. Perez Har-
wood, one of the most prominent meI
in early days of Bennington comfy
lie was &c years old, had been deacai
in old First church at Center 81
years, and had Taught Bible class il
the same school nearly 40 years Tin
physician, who was called - nn rs
possible, thought he had been deaf
about an hour. He leaves a widow
and three children.
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The assassination of President Carnot
will be received with horror by all
good people throughout the world. 1t
will also set many to thinking, and the
question will arise whether or no civil
lied governments, as constituted today.
are strong enough tocope with the vast,
Ignorant hordes of the world that are
crowding themselves into all quarters
OF civilization? In the recent coal min
er's strike the most Outrageous, and bar
barous acts were committed, and by
this same unwashed legion that for
years have been crowding, like cattle,
to our shores, and governments, state
and national. seemed powerless. And
now comes, right upon the heels of the
assassination of the French President
an outrage upon Gen. Tarnsey of the
Colorado National Guard that makes a
native born American blush for shame
Colorado should find the perpetrators
of this deed and hang them, instanter
if it cost fifty millions. What we need
in common with the better governments
Of Europe, is more strength-power tt
seize upon the brutal, ignorant anarch
lists and others of the same stripe anc
crush the life out of them quicker thar
one could say, Jack Robinson.
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Outrageous Treatment of Gen. Tarnsey
OfCOlOradO.

outrageous Treatment of Gen. Tarnsey
of Colorado.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, June "a.
-Adjutant General Tarsney of the
Colorado National Guard, who has had
charge of the troops sent here to quell
the disturbances by rioting strikers, was
early yesterday morning called from
his room in the Adams house and in
formed that some one in Cripple Creek
wanted to speak with him over the tel
ephone.
When Gen. Tarnsey came to the
clerks desk he was suddenly confronted
by masked man, armed with two re-
volvers, who requested the general to
accompany him.
The hotel clerk in the meantime had
been placed under the guard of one of
the kidnappers. Gen. Tarnsey immed-
lately called for help, but was quickly
dubbed into submission with revolvers.
Several men of the gang instantly APP
peared and. carried him to the sidewalk,
where two closed carriages we're wait
ing under guard.
They drove to Austin bluffs on the
eastern limits of the city, where Gen.
Tarnsey was taken from the carriage,
stripped nude, and coat of tar and
feathers quickly administered.
He was then warned by the mob not
to return to the Springs. A policeman,
who heard the struggle at the Adams
hotel, tried to render aid, but was stop
red by one Of the gang and compelled
at the point of a revolver to halt until
Gen. Tarsney had been secured.
Three mounted policemen started of
in pursuit of the kidnappers, and one
of the former, who struck the right
trail, came up with them, but was con.
fronted with loaded gun at his head
and ordered to surrender. This he did
and was an involuntary witness of a
dastardly outrage.
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Memory.

memory.
The poet has truly said, u'Tis pleasant
to remember And no one can doubt it,
at least none within whose heart fingers
aught Of purity and freshness. Weak it
is not, to revert to those times when
springs of joy were swelling up unceas-
ingly within our breasts. Although per-
haps oft times unreal might have been
such pleasures, yet not less dear or val
liable are the after thoughts of them.
Some ruthless vandal of writer-in the
barbarous age it must have been,-prom-
ulgated such a thought as this: 'sOh for
goblet of the Lethean lake, that might
quaff and every sorrow drown" Now, un-
less it can be shown that the miseries of
lifetime overbalance its delights, there
is no sense or reason in such rhyming.
True sorrow is our inheritance, and woe
the wages of all sin; without these we
live not, and yet cling eagerly to life.
Man in the hour of pain contemplates
with ardency, past joys, and at the ap-
proach of the 'fearful monarch" of the
mystic future, from which no traveller re-
turns, how often does he look back with
renewed longing for the fair world he
must soon leave. oh then is it not sweet,
when time will soon be merged into cter-
nifty, to contemplate again the faces of
the lost and loved, and deem the hour of
meeting with their spirits is near at hand.
Nor at such an hour can deny 's'Tis pleas
ant to remember" Your worthy friend
may have traversed this earth both far
and wide, yon may have pondered, like
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Theoretical Ideas.


Contemplating future life is pleas
ant to enthusiasts and dreamers who
anticipate an eternity OF unalloyed bliss
in 'the great beyond" A doubt, and
an honest doubt, however, arises in the
minds Of many people regarding anoth-
er so-called existence. 1t lisa fact, too
that it is just as much of a mystery to
day as it was thousands of years ago
when poor old Job, afflicted with more
than his share Of boils, occasioned by
an impure condition OF the blood, pro-
pounded the conundrum-'Ifa man
die, shall he live again."
Speaking Of the ministrations of de-
parted spirits, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe expresses herself as follows:
at is a beautiful belief,
That ever round our head
Are lowering, on vienless wings,
Ht NBll lts VI tht uNdhf
Granted. But belief is not evidence.
Because person believes so and so, or
desires this thing or that, and has an
Unsuitable longing to live on forever and
ever, proves nothing one way or the
other Statesmen, warriors and poets
may ''fnd comfort" in such belief, as
correspondent &C" remarks, but it is
difficult to conceive why, with their
limited knowledge ola putative heaven,
their belief should be a criterion for
others to go BY,
Prot. Swing, of Chicago, contends
that heaven is land of eternal spring
time, and unfading flowers, with mar
BILE palaces, whose occupants are angels
dressed in spotless robes, and so forth
1t is such theoretical pyrotechnical dis
plays of rhetoric that are made use OF
TO promote false conceptions of the un-
movable; and to person whose cred
ulity exceeds his reason, and whose i'm
agination runs riot, the description is in
perfect accord with his ideas.
Shakespeare has well said:
"And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the
poets pen
Turns them to shape, and gives TO airy
netting
A local habtation, and name
Glendower exclaims, lean call spirit.
from the vastly deep!' to which Hotspul
ironically replies, "Why, so can l, O
50 can any man, but will they com,
when you do call for them?" Aye, tina
is the question-will they? All, but a
Fox so aptly says, ga single fact
worth a thousand arguments" AM
Hume very appropriately observes that
"A wise man proportions his belief
the evidence Certain il is that til
babe in its cradle knows as much, an
, no more, concerning another world a
the most learned man that ever livec
But man, always seeking additions
joys, regardless of the degree of happ
ness enjoyed by him, and never fndin
during life his satisfactory goal or stag
of happiness, cheerfully clasps the do'
tline of Immortality to his heart, ii
more readily as it comes Transmitted
, him through parental authority.
Lenore.