The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-11
NOTINt;S.

have in press over two hundred ncv
novels which arc likely to be iss!let
between now and the holidays. IN
statement is easily credible. In lS9'
they issued |. 11S novels. in 1891. |. 100
in 1892, 1.11O2. and 1898, |, l32
The sugar planters have as YET
taken no steps to appeal to the courts
from the decision of Controller Bowler
NOT TO nav over the bounty. nor have
they appeared by counsel before Sccre
tary Carlisle to argue against the re,
ference of their claims to the court OF
claims. as Bowler proposed. 1t Is evl-
dent that the planters have little con
fidence that the decision of the courts
would be in their favor.
The largest black diamond ever seen
was shown the other day to the acad-
envy of sciences in Paris IT was
found last July in diamond field OF
Bahia. Brazil. 1t weighs '',Ol'' carats
the largest carbon of the kind hereto
fore known weighing 100 carets it
is big as large pear and without flaw.
Lieutenant Peary. who has just
reached Halifax on his return from
the polar regions, says the women OF
civilization might learn much from
the Eskimo women in the way of ami
ability Scolding' he said they
have not yet acquired. They were the
pioneers in bloomer wearing the
| lieutenant continued 'They wear
trousers down to their knees and "A
pair of skin boots. This will be sad
news to many new woman, who
fondIy imagined that in wearing
boomers or knickerbockers she was
following the fashion originated by
the Parisians. The fact that bloom
ers originated in the frozen north and
not on the boulevards Of Paris will
doubtless knock the bloom off the
style
''Ouida" the famous novelist fur
nishes some facts and figures which
show the condition of Italian life in a
striking way. She says official stats
tics state that in Italy there are LOCO,
600 persons dying of pellagra Il skin
disease with severe constitutional and
nervous symptoms 5000, 600 living on
malarous land, /. 100 communcs where
corn is rare. LOO communes with
scanty and foul water supplies, GOO
communes which have no doctor with
in reach. and over 300 communcs
which have no burial place. Every
week steamships laden with emigrants
sail out Of the ports Borazl and the
Argentine. From Calabria some 20
per cent more emigrants have gone
tins wear than last. Every month
farms are abandoned and no one can
be found TO take them.
A part of the edition of the Vermont |
statues of 1894 are ont and are being /
distributed among the supreme court |
judges, county clerks and other state I
officers. The futile company, who are I
the publishers. will have the full .
edition out this week, The book .
contains |, 32G pages, 100 pages more
than the revised laws of 1850 con
tanned. The volume is neatly bound
in full law sheep. y new feature Of
the edition is the double column index.
The war against the New Orleans
Tammany, in whose prosecution +. :.
Stoddard, a son of Dummerston. has
been one Of the leaders. has Some in Il
-crcsting developments The district
attorney. who has been conducting the
is found to have been
guilty of taking fees which were ex-
oressly forbidden by law. and the at
orncy general of the state has been ;
obliged to take charge of his office
Zen harrison law ptac'lce Is saiG
o De hlshIH commentaries lfltn"
'stiliatlnS ~ ~ sii''e ne eit th'
'resi"ehe! al Ho''V .N'
The South Carolina constitutional d..
not only DISTINGUISHES the :
legroes in a left handed way out it :
continues the prohibition of marriages '
'etween white and colored people while
efusing to erect any more safeguards
'hatever against illicit connections j
'etween the races. 1t also remains the e
ne state which forbids divorce for !
ny cause whatever. There was an i
tempt to get the convention To con "
ent to recognize divorces granted in +
Their states but it was not done.
William Wetmore Story, the eminent .
.mcrican sculptor. who was also n r.
IAN of letters. musician. and poet. "
nd for almost 10 wears the head of h
merican society in Rome. died at c
alambrosa. italy. This week al tho h
as ,,, educated &c, for the law and devoted i