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

changed. From saying nothing and keeping
moderately quiet she became yery talkatiye
and excited. She answered him quicker than
he could ask questions and all her answers
were irrelevant and foolish as when asked
| her name she replied "Nineteen SKINS She
Immediately became excited and voluble and
thrashed about, screamed and by every means
| tried to prevent the examination. 1t was too
quick change, too quick rush from one
extreme to the other.
Mrs. Halliday's maiden name was McNally
| She was born in the county Antrim, Ireland,
30 years ago and came to this country with
her parents in 1867.
| Fifteen years ago she married Chas. Hop
kins. Upon the death of Hopkins about two
years after her marriage she married ARENAS
Brewer a veteran and pensioner who died
within year. Her next venture was Hiram
Parkinson who deserted her within year.
She then married parkinson being still alive)
Geo. Smith veteran and comrade of her sec
Ond husband. Brewer. In a few months she
tried to kill Smith by giving him cup of poi
soned tea. Failing in her design she fled to
Bellows Falls. vt.
Here she fell in with and married Charles
Playstell, the only one of her husbands who
could be called young. She was next heard of
in Philadelphia, in the winter of 1888. She
started little shop which, after having in
sured it, she burned. together with the houses
of her two neighbors. For this crime she
served TWO years Ill tne Eastern Ienltentlary.
Her next appearance was in Newburg,
where she met and married Paul Halliday. a
farmer living at Birmingham, Sullivan county
about 20 miles from Newburg. She soon
elOped with neighbor. In Newblrg her
companion deserted her and she was arrested.
Her counsel entered a plea of insanity and
she was sent to an asylum. She soon induced
her husband to secure her release.
Shortly after her return from the asylum
the Halliday house was burned, and an idiotic
son of Halliday persisted. In August. 1898,
Paul Halliday disappeared. The woman said
he had gone away; but the neighbors one day
when she was away from home made search
of the premises.
They did not then find Halliday, but i'm the
barn, covered up with hay, were the bodies of
two women, which were afterward found to
he those of Margaret ard Sarah McQuillan, the
wife and daughter of Thomas Mc(luillan, of
Newburg. A few days afterward the body of
Paul Halliday was discovered under the floor
of the house.
Mrs. Halliday was placed in the county jail |
For long time after her arrival she refused
to eat. and it became necessary for the jai |
physician to force liquid food through her !
nostrils.
In November she tried to strangle the sher- |
ifs wife. A few DAYS later she tried to set 4
fire to her bed clothes. In December she tried |
to hang herself with the binding torn from
the bottom of her dress. On December IL she |
came near finishing herself by gashing her
throat and arms in a terrible manner with
glass broken from her cell window. For the
last three months il was necessary TO keep her
chained 10 the floor.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29

Money may be tight, but it is nothing tC
SPALDING's GLUE. That's the tightest thing
out.-adv.
"And do you mean to say" said the man
who likes ornamental phrases, "that his sena-
tOrial prospects lie wrecked among the break
ers?' mo, not among the breakers, among
the brokers."- Washington Star.
First passenger.-"Wh is that man drink
ing from that rusty mug chained to the water
cooler?" Second passenger-"That is Profess
sor De Science, author of '.Disease in the
Communion Cup."-[New York Weekly.
Mother Ito suitor) mo, / can never give
you ad my daughter. .r have quite made up my
pointed. Vowed that would have lovely
wife and young-looking mother-in-law. y
Mother-"Well, er-you may call again. I
may change my mind."-[ Filegende Blaetter.
Miss Penelope Budleigh-Blake with much
pride) ibid you say 'Old family? Well,
should say SO! Why, do you know, we can
trace our ancestry back almost 800 years, to
the time when Coverly was hanged for witch
craft%" Miss Lakeshore-"Wel, our family
goes back an awful lot of years, too. My
grandfather was lynched for horse stealing
thirty years ago. Isn't it awfully terrible
how they used to persecute people in olden
times !"- Brooklyn Life.
Sergeant Davy was once accused of having
disgraced the bar by taking silver from client
the etiquette of the profession in London at
that time requiring that his fee should be in
gold. 81 took silver" he replied, "because
could not get gold; but took every farth-
ing the fellow had in the world, and hope
you do not call that disgracing the profess
siOn.'-[ New York Ledger.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
HERE AND HEREAFTER.

"WhosOeyer will may come" and it Is jus
as true "Whosoever won't may stay away.
Do but your duty and do not trouble your
self whether it is in the cold or by good fire
Keep your hearts warm by feeling for 9th
ers and your powers active by work done il
earnest.
One of the first covenants that every young
man ought to make with himself Is never t.
run into debt.
1t is so hard to got innocence to understand
that the devil can be devil and still look lik'
an angel of light.
One reason why some people find it so hare
to lead Christian life Is because they devote
so little time it,
a benefactor We gain the strength of the
temptation we resist.
The devil reaches the masses because he
never stops to figure up the cost before he put
his hand in his pocket
Every man deems that he has precisely the
trials and temptations which are the hardest
of all for him to bear; but they are the very
ones he needs.
The evil woodland oh! remember this
is step, Il long step, beyond the evil thought +;
and it is a step toward the precipice's edge
Frederic W. Farrar, ID. d.
Opportunities fly in straight line, touch
us DuU OuCC, itiit HcNCl ICbulH Dub uHC NIOHSs
we do others fly in circle; they come back
to the place from which they started.-[T.
Dewitt Talmage, d. D.
1t is great deal better to live holy than to
talk about it. We are told to let our light
shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell
anybody that it does. The light will be its
own witness. Lighthouses don't ring bells
and fire cannon to call attention to them they
just shine.
L. oe,,I
Christian crOss-bearing is matter OF carry
ing our own cross-that is, our own particu-
lar burdens. Christian cross-bearing is car
rying others burdens. Christ could have died
without signing orr groan If He had been
dying only for himself and had been crucified
only upon His own cross. Many martyrs have
sung their life away triumphantly amid fire
and smoke, because they were dying only
their own death and enduring only their own
pain and burning only in their own flames.
Redemption is wrought by vicarious cross.
No telescope has ever penetrated or can PEN
citrate that mysterious, undeveloped future.
No telegraph message can reach us from its
electric spark traverse the depths
of its unnavigable sea- No vessel ever yet set
sail to that impenetrable silent land. and from
amid its fogs and darkness brought back an
authenticated message. The morrow! 1t |
often ushers in events with the suddenness of
a shock-like the instantaneous upheaval of |
the earthquake. Life flows on, from day to
day, placid river. We get accustomed to
and famliarzed with its easy, untroubled
not wrinkle obscures or ruffles its
no premonition of cataract at
land But in a moment with one furious
bound, down it swept in foam and thunder to
he rocky caldrons beneath. All! the sollo-
luy is often rudely broken: Tomorrow shall
'e as today, and much more abundant" To-
morrow comes, but it comes with chairs emp
led and windows darkened. Today-rings
ONE jubiant chime; tomorrow-the bells are
nuffled. the eye is dimmed, and ''man goeth
o the long !'-[J. X. Macduff, ID. d.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
THE TONGUE.

"The homeless tongne, so small and weak
Can crush and kill" declared the. Greek.
"The tongue destroys greater horde
The Turk asserts, .than does the sword
The Persian proverb wisely saith,
"a lengthy tongue, an early death"
Or sometimes takes this form instead,
Don't let your tongue cut off your head"
"The tongue can speak word whose speed
Say the Chinese, "outstrips the steed.'
While Arab FACES this mpart,
''The tongues great storehouse of the heart"
From Hebrew wit the maxim sprung,
Though feet should slip. ne'er let the tongue
The sacred writer crowns the whole.
"who keeps the tongue doth keep his soul"
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
(From the New York SUM-

Santo belongs to an organized gang of mis-.
creants whose vicious instincts and criminal
designs skulk behind screen of satanic philo-
sophy. and who have invented formula with
which to justify lust, robbery, and butchery
current generation. They proclaim themsel-
YES enemies of society, as if there were some
new touch of dignity in title with which
thieves and cutthroats have long been brand
ed. They pretend that their aim is to de-
molish the entire fabric of the existing social
order. so far rs this is founded on the princi-
pie of indivijualism: and as. with the rest of
the fabric. prisons and guillotines would dis
appear, one can easily see that the apostles of
plumber and homicide are deeply interested in
the triumph of their so-called cause.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
A VETERANS VERDICT.
The War is Over. A Well.known Sol.
der, Correspondent and journal
list Makes a Disclosure,

INDIANA contributed her thousands Of brave
fidiers to the war, and no state bears q bet
4 Rr record in that respect than it does In
I teMture 1t is rapidly acquiring an
Dv1abe place. In war and literature
4 9Qiomon Yewell well known as q writer as
dsol," has won an honorable position. Dur
IN N. Y. Cavalry and Of the 18th Indiana In n.
mntry Volunteers. Regarding an important
Ficums.ance he writes as follows:
aSoveral of us old veterans here are using
Miles Restorative, Nervine: Heart Cure
Nerve and Liver Pills. all of them giving
endid satisfaction. In fact, we have never
Used remedies that compare with them. OF
Che l,ils we must say they are the best COM
bination of the qualities required in q prep
aralion of their nature we have ever known.
We have mono but words of praise for them.
They are the outgrowth of u new principle in
Enesdioine, and tone up the system wonder,
fully. We say to all try these remedies"
Solomon Ycwcll, Marion, Ind, Dec 5, 1892.
These remedies arc sold by all druggists on
q positive guarantee, or sent dire t by the
Dr. Mil Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. on re"
,eipt OF price, 81 per bottle six bolt les S. G.
press prepaid. They positively contain neiJheI
opllteS nor dangerous drugs.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
What is

CastOra is DR.. Samuel Pitchers prescription Infants
and Children. 1t contains neither Opium, Morphine
other Narcotic substance. 1t is harmless substitute
for Paregoric Drops Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL
1t is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years. by
Millions of Mothers. Castora destroys Worms and aays
feverishness. Castora prevents vomiting Sour Curd
Darrhoea and Wind Collie Castora relieves
teething troubles, constipation and fatulcncy.
Castora assmilates the food regulates the stomach
bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Gas.
tOria is the Childrens Panacea-the Mothers Friend.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
GLINIPSES OF LIFE.

Gland sakes, Josiah, don't wonder Flor
ence complains about poor servants in thu
city," "Wasn't her cook good%' "Lord
why she didn't know enough to get the mea
all at once, but kept bringin' in one thing at ,
time all through dinner"
| A little fellow had been seriously lectured
by his mother, and finally sent into the garden
to find a switch with which he was to be pun
ished. He returned soon, and said, II couldn't
can throw at me-"
Halls Hair Remover is pronounced the
best preparation made for thickening the
growth of the hair and restoring that which
is gray to its original color.-adv.
Teacher-"Now, Johnnie, you may tell us
this: Suppose your mother told you to come
home at five o'clock, and you did not go what
would you be doing" Johnny-"I don't
know whether it would be ptchin' pennies or
playin' BASEBALL
Tommy Cat the beach, -"What be the wild
waves saying, mamma" Mamma -"Fm sure
do not know, my boy" Tommy-"Bet l
do. They are sayin' they whist 'at little
Tommy Jinks would come in Il swimmin'.'
The great popularity of Ayers Cherry Pee
tOral as cough-cure is easily explained. 1t
is soothing, healing, agreeable to the taste,
does not interfere with digestion, and is the
most economical of all similar preparations.
1t is prompt to act and sure to cure.-adv.
A Scotch mason and an Irish laborer often
met in the early morning, going opposite
ways to their work. Pat was always the first
to hail his fellow-workman with, ''The top
ov the morning to you, me bhoy!" leaving
Sandy a very lame reply or mod. Thinking
to be upsides with Pat, Sandy one morning
took the first word, and shouted out, "The
top of the morning to you. Pat!" "Och, sure"
said Pat, .'the rest of the day to yourself, me
bhOy "-[Christ World.
Travers-'Look here, those shoes you made
for me squeak" misunderstanding always
squeak at the end of thirty days, sir, if the bill
isn't paid."-[ New York Herald
Money is Tight.
And when was it ever otherwise? Uhe old
est man cannot remember. People are grum-
blers-all grumble-ministers and laymen
complain. Well, then, ''times are dull, and
money is tight" but haven't you got enough
% buy a bottle of SOZODONT, to keep your
eeth clean, and mouth sweet, and help you
,njOy life?
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
sudden Death Of a Well known Benz
uiugton Man.

Albert HARDWOOD. a leading citizen of Ben
nington was found dead i'm his bed SUNDAY
morning. by his wife when she went T.
awake him sunday morning. He was a. wei
a. usual when he retired about 10 O'Clock Sat
urday night. He was a son of Gen Perez
HARDWOOD. one of the most prominent men in
early days Of Bennington county. He was III
years old. had been deacon in the old First
church at the Center 30 years and had taught !,
Bible class in the same school nearly ~ years.
The physician, who was called a soon n
possible, thought he had been dead about an
hour. He leaves widow and three child
ren.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
ALONE.

Alone when the day is dawning,
A lone when the night dews fall;
Under the veil at the bridal,
Under the gloom of the pail,
Behind impenetrable barriers
To work out its life of dole,
From Its first faint cry till the hour to die
Is the doom of each mortal soul.
First tender thought of the mother
Who brings us forth In pain,
As she looks in the eyes of her offspring,
Some clew to its soul to gain,
cor what is my baby thinking,
With that gaze intent and wise?"
But ever remains the mystery,
And never Il voice replies
Alone is the child in his sorrow
Over the broken toy;
Alone is the stricken lover,
Mourning a vanished joy;
Alone is the bride at the altar,
Alone the bridegroom stands,
With his hidden life between them,
That-and their plighted hands.
Alone lies the wife, with the canker
OF blighted hope in her heart;
Alone is the husband dreaming,
or baked ambitions smart;
And SO from the birth to the burial,
From the first to the latest breath;
In crowded streets, on lonely sleeps,
The soul goes alone till DEATH
Frances II. Haswin.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
All Free,

Those who have used DR.. Kings New Dis
covery know its value, and those who have
not, now have the opportunity to try it Free.
Call on the advertised Druggist and get a
dress to H. Z. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and
get sample box of DR.. Kings New Life
Pills Free, as well as copy of Guide to
Health and Household Instructor, Free. All
of which is guaranteed to do you good and
cost you nothing. f. ii. Holden & Co.'s
Drup Store
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
SONS OF VERMONT.

| 1t is proposed to form in this city "The
| Buffalo Society of Vermonters. Persons are
| eligible who are native-born Vermonters.
| There are many of Buffalo's residents from
the Green Mountain state, and it is observed
that every one, who halls from that part OF
| the world is proud of the fact. 1t is such a
snug little corner of the earth that all Ver-
| monters have strong neighborly feeling. 1t
is held at any rate that all Vermonters i'm
Buffalo and vicnity-for the smaller Erie
county towns round about here are included
should become acquainted, and they are ac-
cordingly urged to send their names in full
| and postoffice address to Andrews e. Hill, No
29S Main street. A constitution and bylaws
will be submitted as soon as a representation
| can be assembled and permanent organiza-
ton elected Buffalon On. W Courier.
Chief Engineer John Farrell of the tug-boat
James ID Nicoll which foundered off Sandy
Hook on Sunday afternoon, is brother-in-
law of William III Haverly, chief engineer
and electrician at the Rutland Electric light
station.
Prof Herbert Tuttle of Cornell university
died on Thursday last week. He was the son
of the late Hymen futile of Bennington and
was born in that historic town, November 30,
1946. He graduated from the University of
Vermont in 1869 and later was u student in
Paris. lie followed journalism until 1880,
being for some time engaged on the Burling-
ton Free Press and Rutland Herald and for a
time was Berlin correspondent for London
and New York newspapers. He had been
professor of history, politics and nternation-
al law at Cornell since 1881. While in Ger
many he gathered material for a history of
Prussia, three volumes of which have been
Leaders in 1876 and a history of Prussia to
the accession of Friedrich the Great in 1884.
He ranks among the few great scholars Ver-
mont has produced.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
See the Worlds Fair for Fifteen Cents

Upon receipt of your address and fifteen
cents in postage stamps, we will mail you pre-
paid our SOUVENIR PORTFOLIO OF THE
WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, the reg
ular price is Fifty cents, but as we want YOU
to have one, we make the price nominal You
won will find it work of art and thing to
be priced. 1t contains full page views of the
great buildings, with descriptions of same,
and is executed in highest style of art If not
satisfied with it, after you get it, we will re-
fund the stamps and let you keep the book.
Address
II Il RIrCKIEN & 90 Chi ,a,.o Ill
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
The Lesson of Independence Day.

Our nations natal day should ever be held
sacred in the memories and the patriotic les
sons it teaches treasured in the hearts of all
our people. Its observance should be kept
alive, and to that end the blessings of liberty
and the advantages of free government
should be continually installed into the minds
of alllcitizens both by BIRTH and adoption, and
especially impressed upon the youth of the
land, who are soon to take their part in eXer-
cising the elective franchise.-[ Exchange.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
Truth Strongly Stated.
(From the Hardwick Gazette.

VI foHH tIV IIHTuW ICh 0HAette'J
The internal villainy of the prohibitory law
is that it is a respectOr of persons, tool of
brainess officials armed with a little brief
authority and the most complete legaliZed
system Of combined robbery and prosecution
that the world ever SAW.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
New Trial Asked for Young.

Charles c. Rufus Young, convicted at Man.
chester of horse stealing have filed bill of
exceptions and called for a new trial. The
application was accepted and the same will
be argued before the Supreme court at its
session to be held in October. In the mean
time Young will be confined in the county
Jail at Manchester.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
Castoria.

"Castoria is so we'll adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-"
H. A. ARCHER, M. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y
"Our physicians in the children's depart
ment have spoken highly of their expert
ence in their outside practice with Casto,ia.
and although we only have among ":-
medical supplies what is known as regul...-
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it."
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DIsPENsARY,
Boston, Mass
ALLEN G. SMITH, Pres,
fray Street, New York City.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
II. Z. BUCKLEN & CO., Chicago, Ill.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for Cuts
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively
cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t is guarall-
teed to give perfect satisfaction or money re-
funded. Price % cents per box. For sale by
+. III. Holden Il Co.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
COmmemdable NIOdesty.
(From the Rutland Bulge

(FrOm the Rutland Budget.)
The Brattleboro Reformer is greatly i'm
proved in appearance in the past two weeks
We haven't seen any reasons assigned, and
will say that their modesty is to be commend
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
Castoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
Dir. G. G. OsGooD,
Lowell, Mass.
"Castoria is the best remedy for children of
which am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest Of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DIR. j. F. KrNCHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29

The Centaur Company, Murray City.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-07-30
MUD FLATS.

Serious Condition OF Farmers Aiosg
Fraser River.
VANCOUVER, B. e., July 29.-The serious
nature Of tho losses to the up river farm.
ers by the recent disastrous floods 10 now
becoming moro evident. In many places
all the farmer has left 10 q mud fiat on
which cattle and horses havo to find sus.
tenance, and it will be, in many cases, q
month yot before any grass makes ITS APP
pearance, II it does at ell this season.
Much has been done for these farmers
but many would not accept aid and they
are the ones who are suffering. The con.
dition Of many Of them II deplorable.