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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-21
Death of a Horticulturist.

GREEN BAY, Feb. 20.-John M. Smith.
horticuturist of national fame, died to-day
aged S3 years.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-21

Instantly relieved by a Cuti-
cura Plaster, because it vi
taliZes the nerve forces and
hence cures nervous pains,
weakness and numbness.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-21

racial Blemishes, falling hair and sim
PIE oaoy rashes prevented by Cuticura Aoap.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
MINOR NOTES.

Massachusetts, having taken the bull by
the horns and abolished Fast day, the New
York sun remarks that 'some other for
NAL means of proclaiming the base ball
season must now be found
Congressman Grout is at his home in
East st. JOhnsbury for few days. Orders
for his pension speech are coming in rap
idly. 1t is expected that at least half a
million copies will be distributed during
the fall campaign.
Great excitement prevails in Denver,
Colo, growing out of the political acts of
Gov. Waite and the opposition to him.
The governors life was threatened by mob
violence, and he has called out the entire
militia force of the state.
Rev. A. A. Berle of Brighton, Mass, in
recent after-dinner speech, "aroused
hearty laughter by referring to the decreas-
ing Democratic majority in New York,
and the increasing Democratic plurality in
Sing Sing"
There are rumors that a new weekly pa
per will soon be established at st. Albans
There is no call for another paper there.
The Messenger, in both daily and weekly
editions, is giving the people of Franklin
county a better paper than its location
warrants, and it handles all public ques
Eions in fair, able and dignie 0anner.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
National Republican League Conven
tfOn.


The official call for the annual conven-
tion of the National Republican league
was issued from the national headquarters
in Chicago Monday. The convention will
be held at Denver, June 26, and will con-
tinue several days. The date had been
originally set for May, but the Denver
people wished it postponed until the latter
part of June in order that it might con-
clude its session about the Fourth of July
to allow the delegates to join in a monster
celebration of the nations birthday.
Among other things the official call de-
clares:
"The halucinations of 1892 are over.
Facts have upset theories and the people,
weary of this 'tariff-tinkering, bond-issu-
ing, debt-increasng, treasury-depleting,
business-paralyzing, wage-reducing, queen
restoring and un-American administration,
now turn instinctively to the party that
saved the nation in her previous hour of
peril and demonstrated mastery ability in
giving the United States 30 years of pros
perity unparalleled in the history of the
nations. Again it becomes the mission
and duty of the grand old party to meet a
national emergency with the greatest pa
trotism. The party deplores the necessity,
but rises to the occasion. The struggle for
liberty, progress, fair wages, and all that
America promises did not end with the
defeat of 1892. The fight must and will
60 on
To this end, all who are in sympathy
with the policies and aspirations of the
Republican party are cordially invited to
join the local league clubs, and through
such clubs and the state leagues participate
in the election of delegates to the National
league convention.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
A Remarkable Showing.

The Mutual Life Insurance company of New
York celebrated the fftieth year of its existence
in 1898, and the year win be- memorable as one Of
the most successful in a business point Of view
that the company has ever experienced The re.
port for 1898 demonstrates he increasing streng tn
and popularity of the Mutual Life. The assets
now amount in the aggrega ate TO S1s6, ,707 8SO.14,
and the liabilities 10 Sl6S 755071.23 The surplus
fund for the payment of dividends, and to insure
the policy holder against every possible future
emergency, amounts to Sl7,952 ,60S91, and is
sum which If added TO the enormous amount
paid out in dividends TO policy holders in past
years would largely exceed the surplus accumu-
lations of any similar institution in the world.
During 1898 the policy holders in the Mutual
Life received SEQ ss5 47240, against $9Ss6, ,5s2 40
in 1892 The Mutual Life has now policies in
force, insuring SsO3, ,2S 1886. AS compared with
1892 the statement for 1898 shows-Incre ase in
payments TO policy holders, S1,49S,93 In"
crease in receipts, $l,714, 1874; increase in
plus, ST. 36L97; increase in assets, 1,623,5@
43, This may be considered wonderful result,
for it was accomplished during period Of wide
financial disaster and general business depression.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

TO Samuel Clark and Admatha Dunklee
Feb. Is, 1871. Extensive repairs were
made on the store at thaf time. Mr.
Dunklee associated with him stanford r.
| Clark, father Of DIR. Charles 5. Clark, I'M
der the name Of Dunkee 4 Clark, but they
dissolved i'm the spring Of lSl4, and Mr.
Dunklee continued the business and pur~
chased of Samuel Clark his interest in the
store May 10, 1sif
Roswell Harris was pos master from
lS49 to 1857. Admatha Dunkee was mis-
assistant, and the office was kept mos OF
the time at this store Mr.. Dunklee sue
ceeded Mr.. Harris as postmaster and held
the Office till 1867, when Presson +. Perry
was appointed postmaster and tho office
was moved to the upper store. Admatha
Dunklee conveyed the property TO Presson
f. Perry and Samuel Clark, brother of DR..
Charles $. Clark, May 6, 1865, and retired
from business
Mr.. Perry being postmaster, the office
was again moved TO this store and kept by
him and his successor, MI Eaton, till
Oct. 2S, 1885, when Mr.. Stockwell his sue
cessor, was appointed and the Office moved
to its present location. samuel Clark con.
veyed his interest TO Mr.. Perry April 10,
1865. Mr.. Perry continued the business
Mr.. Clark, Masa Willis and William f.
Howe. In the fall of 1879 Mr.. Perry re-
tired and sold his stock in trade to Eaton
& Newell. They continued in trade till
the spring of 1888, when they sold to
Stockwell d Mather, who were succeeded
by w. ID. IL J. l.. Stockwell, the last oc-
cupants of the old store, and who are now
doing business in the new store.
The following are copies Of Mr.. Hale's
advertisements found in the Reporter of
Nov. p, 1907, and Jan. Q, sos:
FRESH GOODS
just received at my store in Brattleboro
and Townshend, and now opening for sale
by the subscriber.
A large and general assortment of Eu-
ropean, East II West India Goods, of the
newest fashions, selected from the latest
Imports which | am determined to sell
low for ready pay only. Almost all kinds
of produce received in payment, and gen
erous price given.
JONATHAN Il. HALE.
BrattleborO, Nov. 20, 1907.
;4OLLON
Revolutions and Embargoes compel the
subscriber to inf rm all of those indebted
W ulll' clIHel oll Nptt Ut ACCOull, JudI
the following week is the only day of
grace, and all debts must be collected by
an attorney, if not settled previous to the
18th inst.
JONATHAN r. HALE.
BrattleborO, Jal. s, lS0S.
We learn from the history of Chester
field by Mr. Randall that Mr.. Hale died in
that town March ), lS0s.
The old meeting-house on the common
given to the town for that purpose by John
Houghton extended southwest farther than
the front part of the present meeting
house. When the meeting house was
moved it was changed from where the road
now is to where the road then was. The
northwest corner of the old common was
where the jog is at the corner of the
Dunklee lot.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
OUR FINANCIAL LETTER.
The Slowly Mending Business
Situation.
what Economy Has Done for the Rail-
road Earnings---the Favorable Wheat
Ou:lOOk---Lcisurely Pace of the Tariff

"A BROAD STREET,
New YORK. March IL. 1894,


Beyond doubt general business has been
on the mend thus far in 1894, and although
the upbuilding of the shattered confidence
may be slow, the business situation can
hardly go backward to the depressed con-
dition of six months ago. The panic has
come and gone, liquidation is well over and
a good financial, commercial and industrial
basis is being formed, upon which will be
the foundation for future business activity
and general prosperity. This recuperation
is largely brought about by economy.
In this prosperous connection it is to be
noted that some of our leading railroad
systems have been able to make very
fair showing for 1898, owing to the terri
BILE slashing of the economical knife.
For instance, the annual report of the
Pennsylvania railroad system shows
mileage of $500 miles, and an aggregate
capital in stock and bonds of SS1j. 900, 900.
For 1898 this large system shows a loss
approximating $1,000, 900 in gloss earn
ings, and of only 81 100000 in net earn
lngs. For January, 1894, the same system
shows a gain of STA, 900 in net earnings,
while the gross earnings show a decrease
of S7G3, 900. In like manner many of the
western roads are showing only small
decreases in their net earnings. Better
STILL it would seem that all of the large
systems are keeping within the proper
expense ratio, viz. 6S to - per cent, with
the exception of the Pennsylvania, which
eXpends from 50 to s. per cent of its earn
ings for maintenance and operation.
There seems to be a favorable wheat
outlook the world over, and Chicago wheat
is now selling under 60 cents per bushel.
The whole wheat country in the past ten
days has been basking in the sunshine,
and we are certainly having an early
spring. Should We have a slight freeze
wheat would score a sharp rise in price.
The seignorage measure will no doubt
be voted by the President, if it does not
get sidetracked before, and is therefore
causing no special alarm.
1t begins to look as if the Vermont
farmers would be cutting their hay. and
killing potato bugs before any tariff bill
will be placed before the President to
sign. \ few more notifications and
amendments TO the proposed tariff bill
will give some industries more protection
than the "ruinous' Mckinley bill does. 1t
has been easy for many TO recommend the
food of free trade for their neighbors,
but this same food seems rather indigesti-
BILE for their own table. 1t is poor doc
or who won't take his own medicine,
w. =. EAGER,
Banker and Broker
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
JONATHAN X. HALE,
Brattleboro, Jan. s. 1S0s.

Sixty Jews in Boston have been poisoned
by partaking of a wedding feast which was
prepared in new copper boilers
Sloan Flint had one arm drawn into a
planer in the Bass mill at West Randolph,
smashing it completely, so that it was am
putated just below the shoulder.
Mrs. Pattie Miller Stocking daughter of
the late Justice Miller, was probably fatal
ly burned by the upsetting of a lamp at
her home in Washington Monday night.
j. S. CoXey of Massillon, Ohio, who
was going to march 'peace army --f
100000 men to Washington, has modified
his ideas and says now that the march
won't come off till May l, and that he will
take only 10000 men with him.
A society of the sons and daughters of
Vermont was formed in Springfield, Mass,
Tuesday evening, when q company of 250
met at the board of trade rooms. b. C.
Harvey was chosen president and B. II.
Allbee secretary.
Major C. f. Nelson, Inspector of rifle
practice, of Derby Line, will soon move to
Montgomery. A party Of Is citizens of
Derby Line, Rock Island and Stanstead
Plain recently presented him with gold
watch in token of their regret at his de-
parture.
Buffalo, n. Y, has an epidemic of ty-
phoid fever. About POO cases have been
reported this week and Is deaths have oc-
Cured. The water department in filling
the new reservoir three weeks ago took wa
ter from the inlet near which the city sew
age is dumped, and this contaminated wa
ter caused the outbreak.
The will of the late r. S. Frost of Chel-
sea, Mass, of the Hinsdale firm of Halle,
Frost d Co., bequeathes S33, 900 for edu-
cational and benevolent purposes, the
largest sums being 5000 to his native
town, Marlboro, n. H., for the public
library which Mr.. Frost established; $1,000
to the First Congregational society of Marl-
boro and 5000 for a free bed in the r. S,
Frost general hospital al Chelsea.
The Russian government, TO protect the
posr from eXtortionate DOCTORS bills, has
published a regulation dividing cities into
three classes, composed, first, of capital
lists, proprietors, manufacturers, etc. Sec
ond, members of the liberal professions,
and third, the rest of the population, with
a very small fee for the last, and increasing
ly larger fees for patients in the other two
| classes. The inference is that the Russian
doctors have been bleeding their patients
| too freely.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
The Brazilian War Ended.

The rebellion of the Brazilian navy,
which began last September, came to a sud-
den and inglorious end Tuesday. Admir-
al da Cana, who had taken refuge on a
Portuguese man-of- war, tried to make
terms of surrender with President Peixoto,
but the president answered that no condi-
tion would be accepted, and after few
hours cannonading from the government
batteries the insurgents were glad to haul
down the flag on their fort in Rio harbor,
while thousands of Rio citizens, watching
the contest from the hill tops around,
cheered long and long.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
1, would surprise DanieI webster.

= T0TI TT' h0NIVU IVUTHHI
Daniel Webster contended that one OF
the chief, if not the chief, purposes for
which the Revolutionary war was fought
and our independence won was to make
it possible to protect American industry
against the crushing competition of Brit
sh manufacturers. Il is the irony of fate
that hundred years afterward it should
be deliberately proposed by men who
call themselves Americans to take for
egn commercial yoke again upon our
necks, after century of protection has
raised the United States to the place of
foremost manufacturing nation on the
planet. These foreigners who envy and
hate us for our prosperity must be as
much astounded as they are gratified by
the imbecility of our national administra-
tiOn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
The New PremIer,s Policy.

The English parliament reassembled
Monday. The occasion was made notable
by the declaration of Lord Roseberry, the
new premier, at a meeting of the Liberal
leaders, held in the morning, that the
powers of the House of Lords ought to be
curtailed, and that there would be no aban-
donment of Mr.. Gladstone's policy of Irish
home rule, to which the honor of England
was pledged. One sentence in his opening
speech in the Commons sadly disturbs the
Parnellites, however. This is his an
nouncement that home rule cannot sue
ceed until majority of Englishmen es-
pouse it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
Thc Tin Pinto Indnstry.

In answer to the enquiries of CORE
spondent the Boston journal summarizes
some very interesting facts about the tim
plate industry, as il has prospered in the
United States under the Mckinley law.
For the quarter from July to September,
1891, the total production of tin and terne
plates was only little over 500, 600 pounds.
In the quarter from October to December,
1891, after the law had got fairly into op-
Grafton, the production had increased to
100000 pounds. From April to June,
1892, it was over 100000 pounds. From
October to December of the same year it
was nearly 2000O,000 0pounds. From Jan
uary to March, 1893, it was over 10000
600 pounds, and from April to June it was
over 81, 100000. The total production for
the first year, lS9l-92, was little less than
100000 pounds. For the second year it
was about 100000, 900 pounds, the increase
under the Mckinley law being 631 per
cent. Forty or 80 concerns are successful
ly engaged in the tin-plate manufacture
and j., ,0O0,0O0 has been invested in build
ings and plant 1t is probable that no
American industry has ever grown as has
the tin-plate industry under two or
three years of Mckinley protection. In
order to protect the people against eX-
tortonate prices a provision was put into
the Mckinley law that unless in some one
of the six years prior to. 1897 American
manufacturers produce at least one-third
the amount imported during any fiscal
year after the passage of the law tin-plates
shall be admitted free of duty after Octo-
Der /, 1897. The American manufacturers
have already fulfilled this condition, the
product of the fiscal year lS02-93 equaling
one-third of the net imports for the year
1892. The Wilson bill proposes to sacri-
flee this splendid industry, which gives en-
ployment to thousands of American work
men, by reducing the protective duty from
2-l0 cents per pound to l 10 cents per
pound
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

There was a time when certain Demo
cratic and independent papers were talk
ing freely about "nepotism," but they have
little to say concerning the appointment of
sons of Vice President Stevenson and
Chairman Wilson of the House ways and
means committee as assistant paymasters
in the army. These are life positions and
there were 1000 applicants for the nine of
fees. The appointees are both from civil
life and neither has had military nor naval
experience.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

The Bland seignorage bill came to final
vote in the Senate yesterday and was
passed A to 81. Mr.. Cleveland will now
have his coveted opportunity to veto the
dangerous measure. The tariff bill still
remains in the hands of the Senate finance
committee, with an entirely uncertain
prospect as to the time when it will come
before the Senate, and a still more doubt
full prospect as to its final form and fate.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

Winslow Warren, the new collector of
the port of Boston, announces that he
contemplates no removals at the custom
house, except for the good of the service,
and adds that he regards the custom house
as business office, to be conducted on
business methods. This sounds very well,
and may Mr.. Warren prove himself diff
ferent type of reformer from the Hon.
Josiah Quincy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

= 1"''' VIV ''V'' T 0'' 'V7''I
According to the cuckoo organs the sweep
ing Republican triumphs in every north
ern state are due to the dissatisfaction of
the masses with the Democratic party
because it has failed to pass the Wilson
bill. In other words, the sorely perpleXed
cuckoos assert that the people have voted
for the Republican party and the McKiln-
ley law because they want the Wilson bill
The discovery that citizens vote for pro-
lection because they demand free trade is
one of the striking achievements of Cleve-
landism.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

When Gen. o. o. Howard, now in COM
mand of the department of the East, re-
tires from the army next fall by virtue of
his having reached the age limit, it is un-
derstood that he will go to live at Burling-
ton, where his son, Capt. Guy Howard, is
in charge of the construction of Fort
Ethan Allen. Another account has it that
Gen. Howard wants to 60 to Congress, and
that he will enter the field from his home
district, the third Maine, now represent
ed by S. l.. Milliken.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

Rev. b. Fay Mills is to fill Rev. DR.. Tai
mage's pulpit at Brooklyn during the lat
ter's absence from June l to October 81.
Perhaps Mr. Mills will be able to convert
the Tabernacle people to the righteousness
of paying church debts. - Springfield
Union.
Their first conversion ought to be
against the unrighteousness, born of world
ly lust and rivalry, of piling up an enor-
nous church debt which there is small
hope that they can ever pay. And MI.
Mills's ministrations needn't stop with
the Brooklyn Tabernacle, either.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
For vermont Farmers to Consider
Extract from an address of II. NJ. Arms a
Fairfax Farmers Institute

Extract from an address Of H. NJ Arms at
Fairfax Farmers Institute.
As farmers and dairymen of this state it
behOoves us to consider a rev facts in con-
nection with our business. Small in area
as Vermont is, We are now selling outside
our borders about 81, ZOO, 900 worth of dairy
products annually This is encouraging
but it would be vastly more a cause for
congratulatiOn were it not for the fact that
we are buying outside our borders and
bringing in about the same amount of
grain and feed, the purchases being largely
of corn which we can raise for much less
than it costs to buy it, Our purchases of
commercial fertilizers amount to about one
fourth of million dollars annually.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

The people of Troy, N, Y, are tremen-
dously aroused over the murder of young
Robert Ross at the polls last week. A
mass meeting held in the Second Presby-
teran church, the largest audience room
in the city, overAOwed into another church,
and still there were hundreds who could
not gain admission. The speeches, which
voiced the public sentiment of the city,
carried the responsibility beyond the thugs
and repeaters who did the shooting, to the
thug methods of the Democratic city ma
chine and Senator Murphy, its boss. A
committee of 100 was appointed to see the
offenders brought to justice and the trials
fairly conducted in behalf of the state.
The funeral of the murdered man was the
occasion of another impressive demonstra-
tion. Ross was only 26, upright, fearless,
his only offence that of being a Republi-
can with the courage of his convictions
and daring to make a fight for hoY'ri
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

Those who comforted their souls by kiss
ing, at 10 cents apiece, the alleged "Blar-
ney stone," in the walls of the reproduc-
ton of Blarney Castle, in the Midway
Plaisance, will be delighted to learn from
an official report of Deputy Customs Col
lector j. F. Ralph that the object of their
osculations was limestone paving block,
dug out of the streets of Chicago on a
dark night and palmed off on the customs
officers and public as a genuine stone from
Blarney, county Cork, Ireland. The case
in which the stone was supposed to have
come over was really imported from Ire
land, but the stone was smuggled into it
after its arrival. Mr.. Ralph says that ''to
some one connected with the Irish village
should be credited one of the greatest
Jokes ever perpetrated on the customs
force, if not on the public" He also says
that the public spent $7,OO0,00O in seeing
the attractions of the Midway.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

The "A counties in New York in which
elections for supervisors have been held this
year the Republicans have elected 704 and
the Democrats 241, a Republican gain of
l9S. In all these local elections tariff and
the hard times brought about by the free
trade agitation have been the main ISSUE
1t is year when the people seem anxious
to get to the polls.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16
Gbe Dermunt 9B@mi1.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1894.

1t appears that ex-senator Edward d.
White of Louisiana, now Justice White of
the United States supreme court, is a sugar
grower, and in 1929 received $31, 1916 in
government bounty, while up to March
of the current year he received SIS, 1856.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-16

Congress having appropriated $1,000
to raise and save the Kearsarge, which
now lies on Roncador reef, the contract
has been awarded to the Boston Towboat
company, which despatched wrecking ap-
paratus to the spot early this week. The
British ship Elliot, which passed the
Kearsarge on her way north last week,
says the vessel has been clean swept of ev-
erything above her deck, and nothing re-
mains but her hull. 1t is not the waves
alone which have done the work, but Brit
ish and Columbia schooners have looted
the old ship of everything movable.