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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-10-25
SOMETHING NEW FOR
EDENION.

J. w. Spruell has just opened
a first class Feed Store on the
corner of Broad and Water Sts.,
where the public can be suppried
with Hay, Corn, Meal, Oats, Ship
stuff, Bran, Cotton seed meal &c,
at the very lowest market prices.
Also keeps OH hand Lime, Bricks,
Shingles, Posts, Sealing, Floor
ing, &c. Wood will be furnish
ed at low prices.
have also built a good lot OF
stables for the convenience of the
public, where their horses can
taken care of at a small cost, and
be safe and protected from the
bad weather.
Lumbe ell will find it to
their interest to call and get my
prices. roods delivered free to
any steamer, train or anywhere
in town.
I have also a chicken depart
ment where a nice lot of fat
chickens are daily kept at market
prices.
Give me a cal when in need of
my goods and accommodations.
r eSDactfI11Iy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18
strong in favor of still more liberal

strong in favor of still more liberal
measures to the veterans.
And here is another point on which
Senator Tillman promises to be savage
~ explicit. He has a formidable lot of
figures to prove that of the 81, 900, O00,-
900 or Whereabouts paid out in pensions
the south has paid at least 5000, 600, 600,
which is more than the amount of
northern capital invested in southern
mines and manufactures. He fatty de-
clares that the south hasn't received
per cent of the pension money, in which
he is very badly mistaken, but just the
same he will probably make great row
about it. So far as I have talked with
the new men, they are all in favor of
being very liberal toward the veterans,
and Representative Stone of Pennsylva-
MIA has very complicated proposition
for issuing bonds on a system somewhat
like that of life insurance to make the
veteran perfectly safe for the rest of his
life and put the matter beyond all con-
tingencies of future legislation. At
least that is what the advocates of his
scheme say it will do. Incidentally it
may be added that Mr.. Stone is in favor
of expanding 500, 900, 900 per year on
internal improvements, and that the
canal advocates generally are quite en-
Unused over President Cleveland e recent
appointment of commission to study
and report on the subject.
am little surprised at tho number
of the new men who are quite familiar
with Washington. Several of them have
been here as government clerks, and at
least two were educated at Georgetown
university. OF the former clerks none
has had a more diversified career than
Hon. A. M. Hardy of the Second Indi-
ana His first dash after coming out of
school was with the noble army of re-
constructors who fancied they could
build up stable republican governments
on the ruins of the Confederacy in the
gulf states. He was barely old enough
to take an active part in Mississippi
when the fighting campaign of 1875
came on, and he literally ''saw sights. :"
He fed after the SO called "Kemper
country massacre obtained place in
the pension Office here as a martyr, was
sent to Paducah, KY, on business, fell
in love with an Indiana lady, married
her, located there and now returns to
congress j. h. BEADLE-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

The presidents message on the Vene-
zuelan matter, indicates determination
on his part at least to maintain the posi-
ton already assumed il the matter, even
if it leads to a passage at arms with
Great Britain. 1t is not improbable that
large majority of she people endorse
the presidents position, and without
giving any consideration to the motives
which actuate him. While there is no
ground on which to base a doubt of Mr..
Cieveland's patriotism in the matter, it
cannot be denied that collision with a
foreign power in which there would be
some fighting, would be a fortunate
thing for him personally, since it would
serve to distract the attention of the peo-
pie for time from the grave bIunders
of his administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18
THEIR WAR PAINT ON.
And the Opposing Forces in Congress
Ready For Battle.
ELOQUENCE WILL SOON Be LET LOOSE

Disappointed Republicans and B ell
1icOse DemOcrats-SenatO TiIIman
rs Completely Prfmed s'FOr BAR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-It makes the
nnskillful laugh, and it does not make
the judicious grieve, to consider how
many fine schemes which were meant to
be exploited in this very new congress
have already been knocked into everlast-
ing smash. How many buncombe reso-
buttons slurring the president, how
many fine strategems for putting the
Democrats in a hole, how many horri-
bly, patriotic ultimatums to England,
how many floods of torrential eloquence
about the new state constitutions dis
franchising the negro in the south, and
how very many famboyant harangues
about the increase in the bonded debt
have been suggested by the young and
frowned down by the oldl Besides all
this there are at least the average
amount of disappointment about chair
manships and committee appointments
and quite an army of young fellows
who followed the new congressman here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

ALL great issues end at last in com
promise, says John ]. Ingalls, in his letter
to the Republican silver league, But do
they end? The silver question has been
settled by compromise a number of
times but it does not remain settled and
st never will until it is settled right.
There can be nc compromise between
right and wrong. The country and the
United States treasury are suffering to-
day from the effects of compromises.
The trouble with any compromise on the
silver question is that it results in fol.
lowing circle and coming right back to
the same starting point every time. But
while the round is being made the circu-
lar pathway is each time strewn with the
wrecks of individual fortunes and com
mercial enterprises. The country will
be better of without any compromise.
The slavery question was compromised a
number Of times. but it had to be settled
right at last and then 1t remained settled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

IT is not often that Grover Cleveland
alters determination once reached, but
it seems that he has lowered the limit on
the gold reserve. A short time ago it was
announced that an issue of bonds would
be made when the reserve reached $75,-
100000. 1t has fallen below that figure
and no bonds have been sold but it is
now stated that they will be put out when
the reserve reaches $50, 100000 While
this probably will make a difference of
but few days it will save something in
interest and the government just now
has no money to throw at the birds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

Il the abrogation of all old contracts
by the new Santa Fe management shall
include those in which special freight
rates have been granted to certain in
terssts in Kansas and the west such
action will tend to allay much of the agi-
tstion in favor of a maximum rate law
and government ownership of railroads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18
Daily Average 9. 534.

This is the greatest showing the STATE jour
NAL has ever been able to make for period 81
any six months In its history.
This is a greater figure than was reached Dy
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1898
The American Newspaper Directory. issued In
June, 1885. and covering the year 1894. gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1894, as only STA. These
figures were furnished by the publishers OF she
Capital, to the Directory, and are guaranteed to
be correct By forfeit Of 800. which will Do
paid to any one disproving their correctness.
The following figures, substantiated by sworn
statements in detail. giving every issue for the
FIRST six months in 1898 1894 and 1895. shows the
Topeka STATE JOURNALS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

IN this year 1895. President Harri-
son finds himself in much the same pre-
dicament as the man who was governor
OF Kansas last year. He is hoping the
cup will pass from him. Mr.. Harrison
is quoted. in fact, as being much ave=se
to nomination for president and it is
altogether likely that the people will
respect his wishes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

QUAY's position as chairman of the
senate committee on public buildings
may enable him to trade favors in that
line for the control of delegates to the
national convention. The Pennsylvan-
ian can be relied upon to never miss an
opportunity for q good stroke of bust
mesa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

The boast Of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than all other Topeka dailies
combined, only proves the meagerness of its
local circulation as compared with that of the
STATK JouRNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation Is fsI
and away ahead of the combined circulation OF
all the other Topeka dailies.
The circulation of the Topeka Daily sTATS
JOURNAL in the towns near by and tributary %
Topeka is very large. as the evening trains In
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL
giving Its readers the first and latest Associsted
Press and state news Of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

IT is not often that Philadelphia gets
Into the newspaper, but she is likely to
attract some notice to herself now in
consequence of her street car strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

Curtains and Albums, Lamps, Dinner,
Tea and Toilet sets, Clocks, 6ilverware
and Standard Sewing Machines, and Car
pets In buying presents buy something
good and useful as well as ornamental
and long be remembered. Cheap John
goods are dear at any price. Come and
let me sell you a first class article on
easy payments at 3 very low price.
E. W. HUGHES,
107 East Fifth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

IN case of war with England, it is safe
TO predict that Mr.. Cleveland will send
= substitute as he did before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

What an excellent mark the president
would make for a red coated sharp.
shooter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18
AM the Leadiur Erocers

Have now for sale Wheat Germ Meal,
the popular breakfast food, mRnufac-
tursd By Shellabarger s. GriswoId, and
highly recommended by physicians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18
Trv wheat Germ gGeaI.

We aim please our trade-Peerlesl
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia West Sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

Weather Indications.
CHICAGO. Dec. 18.-For Kansas
Rain or snow tonight or Thursday
northerly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18
Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

By its sworn detailed statement Of circulation
for the first half of the year 1895, it is shown 70
have circulation. during the first six months
as stated. of q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

Mineral w ater.

The finest in the west. Come and try it
]. ". PHILLIPS. 612 W. Eighth ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

Manufactured at Shawnee Mills. For
al 9 By the principal grocers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

Give as a trial-Pesrless Steam Laun-
dry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

Music Cabinets, just opened,
in Curly Birch and Oak.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

to get places and are left. The anomaly
of it, however, is that the old fellows
were also pretty full of schemes, and
several Democrats arrived with blood in
their eyes and announced determination
to make relentless war on President
Cleveland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14

guilty knowledge of the acts of his en-
ployes as charged by the Herald? A
hotel keeper, with the best intentions
and the most resolute purpose to man.
age his establishment in obedience to
law, moral as well as statutory, is sub
ject to infinite impositions. This is
particularly true in 80 large hotel as
the Van Ness. 1t is not necessary
to illustrate. Governor Woodbury.
does not live in his hotel. Its business
is directly conducted by a manager.
Until recently, Governor Woodbury. had
been for many years the manager of
firm dealing extensively in lumber.
Its affairs have necessarily engrossed
his attention. 1t is not, however, sup
possible that he has neglected or been
unmindful of his individual, private
interests. He is not that kind of
man, as his success in worldly affairs
attests. He will not plead the baby act
in his defense. The Herald charges
that Governor Woodbury. had guilty
knowledge of the acts of his employees,
and that, whether he did or did not, he
is personally responsible for those acts
under the law. To all this, Governor
Woodbury. makes general denial,
maintaining that if customers of the
Van Ness have persuaded his servants
to procure liquor for them, the servants
have acted as the agents of the custom
ers, on their individual responsibility
and at their own peril.
1t is assumed that Governor Wood
bury will ask of court or people only
fair field and no fsvors. Vermont
people are not wont to regard with I'M
concern attacks upon their public men
or eminent citizens. They do not
withdraw their confidence and support
on the strength of any idle tale or I'M
substantisted charge, nor do they up
hold such men when it has been shown
that they have forfeited their right and
title to respect and confidence. They
are no respecters of persons. They
believe in obedience to law, without
evasion or subterfuge, by all ranks and
conditions of men, and, so believing and
so regarding all men, they will stand
by Governor Woodbury. and await with
confidence the issue of the contest he is
making for the vindication Of his word
and honor, and the honor and dignity of
the state whose chief magistrate he is.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14

% M mn w hsREdSh JeS ss%'
MT SeSIgs Z: Tsplin. and MI l. Bart Cross, 70 have
g City Of S s
Of Washington, in the State Of Vermont, under the
Mems Christian Association. in the said City o.
Montpelier shall continue to provide quarters, free
for this collection Of pictures, paintings, etchnss
ETC. second that the stocEh odefs Of the said Mont
All its usual sppurtenances and means Of mainte.
Yoan chpan the OF building Gd the
Of Montpelier; third that no tax or impost Of any
and collected By the said City Of Montpeer iS upoa
6s p sSe d ces q s"d
support Of the Monpesr Public Library PrS'e"'
said City of Montpelier, should cease to provide
SS sns for this se Collection ssa
tTTss ps55ng etehing ETC. Or If the
draw their Library from the rooms or building Of
oy T % Mss e sS y Of ss
should undertake TO levy and collect any tax
inss, etc.. or i the said City Of Montpelier
@ s to %stf y, Spoa the aG
Public Library then. and in either case, authorize
Tso% ss Wood JOIN Burgess. BsSee
Joseph A. Ds Beer George p Tspi IA and Il Bar.
erty In ana control over all OF the said pictures,
paintings, etchings etc. to the Trustees of the Park
the State OF Vermont, to be held and administered
by tho said Trustees of the said Park Gallery of
Fine Arts for the benefit of the University of Yer
mont, situated In the said City Of Burlington. And;
Ill do hereby constitute the said James r.
Langdon, James o. Houghton, Thomas W. Wood,
John W. Burgess, A. b. Bisbee, Joseph A. DeBoer,
George Z. TapDn and L. Bart Gross, a Board of
Trustees. to hold possess and control the said pic
ali 6 s soS S lie
Board and to increase the number of members Of the
Board, and to elect members to fll such seats
and further authorize them to act by majority
vote Of those voting. quorum that Is, one more
And;
ILL., hereby direct the said Trustees, appointed
and constituted In this deed entitle the said pio
lures paintings etchings. ETC. conveyed to them by
this deed, The Thomas W. Wood Collection in the
Gallery Of Fine Arts In the City Of Montpelier. And
Iv.-f. upon the failure Of any Of the conditions
mentioned In the frat article Of this instrument the
said Trustees appointed and constituted in this deed
should transfer the said pictures, paintings, etch
lery Of Fine Arts in the said City Of Burlington.
hereby direct the said Trustees of the said Park
Gallery to keep the said pictures, paintings, etch
iugs etc. separate from other works of art. and To
entite them The Thomas W. Wood Collection.
y.-Finally, / acknowledge, as a consideration oil
this gift. my deep attachment to the place Of M
birth, and desire to aid its people in the develop
the ways Of honor and Of loyalty to principle.
THOMAS w. WOOD.
Signed and acknowledged in the presence OF
| Homer W. Heston, master in chancery. and OF
| Charles H. Heaton, witness.
August 8, 1895.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14
Throws Down the Gauntlet.

With promptness and decision born
of consciousness of his integrity, Gov.
Woodbury. has thrown down the gaunt-
let to his accuser, the Rutland Herald,
and the latter must needs pick it up.
The events leading up to this appeal to
the courts, briefly summarized, are
these:
In an article headed "Gov. Woodbury.
as Rumseller," and inspired by the
recent conviction of B. G. Howe, a
hotel owner and keeper of St. Johns
bury, of violations of the liquor laws of
the state, the Rutland Herald declared
that Gov. Woodbury., who had denied
petition for the pardon of Howe, was
himself rum-seller and law-breaker, in
that he owned building, and was pro-
prietor of hotel, the Van Ness House
of Burlington, in which liquor was, and
had been for years, illegally sold. The
Free Press of Burlington stigmatized
the Herald's assertion as a false and
outrageous libel" Among other build
ings in Burlington, the Free Press said,
Gov. Woodbury. owns hotel, but it
has no bar, liquor is not sold within it's
doors, and never has been during Mr..
Woodbury's ownership. To the Free
Press emphatic denial, the Herald re.
joined, on Wednesday of last week, by
publishing the statements of three in
dividuals to the effect that they had al
different times, in the first week of the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14
A CrOss.Eyed Parallel.

Martyrdom, or pseudo. martyrdom, it
matters little whether it is the real
or a sham article, greatly exalts its vic
tim. Until his conviction of score or
more of offenses against law Of the
state, whose prohibitions he we'll knew
and understood, B. G. Howe of st.
Johnsbury was an ordinary citizen of
this state, pursuing the acquisition of
wealth after somewhat sordid fashion,
not always overscrupulous as to the
means employed, or whether the means
brought veal or woe to his neighbor or
his community. He owned and kept
hotel in which for some twenty years,
more or less, he bought and sold
liquor in violation of law, and con-
tributed in some large degree to the
sum of human misery which accrues
from the sale and use OF liquor as a
beverage. He waxed rich, as wealth
is estimated in country community,
and became the owner of much prop
erty. Twenty years in the liquor traf-
fic undoubtedly added much to his
riches. He was not particularly dis
tinguished for public spirit, or gener-
osity, or contributions to good works
and enterprises. He made money and
kept what he made. He was finally
brought to book for his trespasses upon
the laws, and punished very much as
the persons who had broken the law
under the influence of the liquor he
had sold them had. been punished for
some twenty years. He was man of
very common clay, with the knack
which many coarse natures have of
making money. Now it suits the
humor of the enemies of temperance
or of the states laws for controlling
the sale of liquor, to apotheosize this
man Howe. He suddenly becomes
"one of the most respected citizens of
St. Johnsbury," and is endowed with
every virtue in the catalogue of social,
private and public virtues and graces.
The Rutland Herald weeps bitter tears
over the discrimination made between
the rumseller Howe" and the "rum-
seller Woodbury." the former humil-
lated and in prison, the latter made
governor of the state. The one has,
by his own confession, bought and sold
liquor in his hotel for some twenty
years, and has made small fortune out
of the traffic. The other has never in
his life engaged, directly or indirectly,
in the traffic, aud when, some fourteen
years ago, he became proprietor of a
hotel, removed the bar therefrom, and
it has never been restored, relinquish-
ing by this act of self-abnegation the
little fortune this traffic alone would
have yielded him. So runs the current
testimony, and so it must stand until
Governor Woodbury. is convicted OF
the charge of evasion and subterfuge
the Herald has brought against him.
In the Herald's obliquity of vision, these
two cases, like two lines intersecting
at right angles, are exactly parallel.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14
HAD the Rutland Herald published

HAD the Rutland Herald published
a column or two of eulogy upon Yer
mont, telling only the good things that
may be truthfully spoken of the state,
probably not an editor beyond its bor-
ders would have given the article the
compliment of notice or perusal.
When, however, the Herald published
two columns Of lies, and followed the
eruption with other similar explosives,
the whole carrion crow brigade of
journals, Springfield Republican, Wash
ington Post, etc., ETC., pounced down
upon the putrid mass and set up wild
and most ecstatic cawing.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ID, 1896.
ARTHUR ROPES, General EDITOR.

THE subscription price of the wAToHMAN
is $500 year. For cash, strictly in advance,
a reduction of fifty cents is made subscrip-
tons are reckoned by the month. To be en-
titled to the $1.50 rate, arrears must be paid
at the rate of $500 a year to end Of month in
phtch settlement is made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14

GOLD, to the extent of many millions,
has been going abroad during the past
week. The secretary of the treasury
and his chief, the president, are serene,
but their serenity is not born of conf
dence in their own financial ability but
in the power of the bond syndicate to
protect the gold reserve. The presi-
dent hired substitute during the civil
war to do his fighting. Now he hires
syndicate of bankers to do his financier-
ing, and the government he was elected
and is paid to administer foots the bill
to the tune of some $10,000,000. The
military substitute was probably nine
months man, and that is about the pc
riod of service of his financial substi-
tute which will be discharged October
l. A republican congress will convene
some two months later, and new plan
of supplying the administration with
financial brains and the treasury with
money will be instituted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14

THE Iowa democrats are as proficient
in the art of straddling as their Ken
lucky brethren. They varied their
tactics little, however, in their con-
vention, by nominating free-silver
man for lieutenant-governor on an anti
silver rm.-The State, New York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-14

I'm order to introduce Chamberlain's
bottles on strict guarantee, and have found
every bottle did good service. We have
used 1t ourselves and think it superior to
any other" Wv. 1. Mowrey, Jarvisville,
West Va. For sale by @. Blakely, druggist,
Montpelier, Vt.