The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-12-06

NOTINGS.

| NoElSsS.
Here is the way Congressman Joe
Cannon sums up the probable pro
gramme Of the congressional session
"Thcre'll be lot of fiddlin' and talk
in and rcsolutin' an, investigatin
am making faces, an playing bun
combe an firm the popular heart, but
when we get through wo'll find VIC
have not done blamed thing but pass
the appropriation bills. An the
quicker we do that an go home the
better il will be for the Republican
party.
Apropos of the fact that the late
| Alexander Dumas was an Legitimate
son, the Boston Transcript prints an in
teresting list of famous people who bore
the bar sinister ON their escutcheon
The list includes William the Con
queror, Pizarro, General John Smith
son (the founder of the Smithsonian
Instituitonl, Alexander Hamilton
Jean lie Rond d'Acmbert, Boccaccio,
Erasmuss, Amandinc Lucille Aurore
Dupin Dudcyant t"Gcorc Sand'1,
William Franklin, son of Benjamin
Franklin, and last royal Governor of
New Jersey, Charles Pinckney Sum
ner Gather of Charles Sumner), Nancy
tIIanks) Lincoln (mother of Abraham
Lincoln). Jared Sparks, Henry NJ.
Stanley and William Pitt Fessenden.
Senator Hill has given up his lecture
trip because it proved financial fail
ure. Ex- Congressman Bland of
Missouri who started out on similar
venture, talking also about the silver
question, has also had to give it up.
At Savannah, Ga, not Il single ticket
was sold. Hill had an audience of
only 100 at Milwaukee and not much
better anywhere They find that there
a good deal of difference in their draw
ing power whether admission is free
or paid.
The plan now favored by Mrs Cook,
the clergymen and others who have
been taking part in the controversy
over the Bible in the public schools of
Chicago, is the proposition to make
up selections from the Bible and have
these published in book form for the
use of schools. Protestants, Catholics
and Jews are agreed upon this plan
and the Board of Education now
has it under consideration.
Solicitor Harry of Merrimack county,
\. H., has notified the sheriifs of that
county to make dlligent search for,
place under arrest and hold for the
grand jury all persons found tramping
in violation of law. This is the sort
of policy that will mako prompt end
of the tramp civil.
4 statue of Washington and Lafay
cite. presented to the city of Paris by
Joseph Pulitzer of the New lorl.
World and designed by Bartholdi, the
creator Of the great statue of Liberty
IN Nrw York harbor, was unveiled
Sunday with impressive International
ceremonies. The idea Of the donor was
10 express. in the words Of the inscrip-
ton written by him, Homage to
France in gratitude for her generous
60 operation in the struggle of the
people of the United States for Liberty
and Independence. " Washington is
revercd in republican France today
more than any other foreigner and the
admiration of Americans for the
character of Lafayette and their graft
tude for his chivalric assistance in
our struggle for independence rendered
the linking of their names and their
statues in the French capital an
appropriate and 4 graceful act.
France has formally declared NADIA
gascar to be a French possession. The
protectorate to which alone she was
bound by her treaty with England,
was short lived one. But England
viii not be likely to offer very siren
uaus opposition, for she wants to do
the same thing herself too often.
The Burlington Independent says
that Editor Geo. II. Blake of the Bar
ton Monitor has aspirations for the
goyernorship or Lieut. Governorship.
The Independent accuses him. while
shouting for prohibition, of being a
large stakeholder in hotel that sells
rum. and so thinks his candidacy
would be highly consistent with tn"
Vermont way.
There was no little agitation con
corning a prayer test few years ago,
but nothing ir that way was then
proposed quite so discouraging as the
task SIT for themselves by the Chris
tian Endeayorers of Cleveland. They
devoted their day Sunday to con
ccrted praying for the conversion Of
Colonel lngcrsoi. They could hardly
have proposed anything more entirely
hopeless.
The papers have been served for an
action brought by the attorney general
of New York against the sugar trust
charging it with unlawfully conSpiring
to monopolize the manufacture and sale
to-