The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-27
NOTINl.S.

q tnlneSS inspector Sclart, who. /
+ will be remembered, furnished thu
New York World with the fake stor,
about Collector Smalley. Inspector p
{. Dodge and others being implicated
in a scheme to smuggle Cinnamon a.
cross the Vermont border from Canada.
, has been unceremoniously bounced by
, the Treasury Department for making
: an intolerable nuisance of himself.
Prof. Laughlin of the Chicago uni
versity returns from Europe with the
(. report that no nation over there wants
a monetary conference except France.
which is loaded up with deprecated
silver.
Says one of the local delegates of the
Louisville convention
You ought to have heard Henry Wattcrson's
speech TO the veterans; II was really the finest
thing ever heard and, he continued with
emotion, when he and Gen. Warner turned To
each other and clasped hands before that great
audience OF veterans, the scene was never
to be forgotten everybody stood up ami cheered
till they were hoarsc, while there was scarcely
a dry eye TO be seen. II left an impression on
! our minds that willno be forgotten.
One of the impressive incidents in
the ceremonies not down in the bills at
the dedication of the Chattanooga and
Chickamauga Military Park was when
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| holding aloft his hand. said:
! | have here button drenched with blood
! taken from the coat of the poet soldier, George
Lyle, author of the well known lines beginning,
| 81 am dying, Egypt dying" who fell ON this
immortal field. it was cut from his coat By Il
! { Lindsay, color-bearer of the 10th Mississippi
| regiment who authorizes me to present il to any
friend of that hero who will accept and cherish
| It, and hand 1t down to posterity.
| Then the nephew of George Lytle
I,l nj l,n,
relic from Gen. Gordon's hands.
Senator Morrill, says: ''ln my ex-
perience, many manufacturers have
asked too much of congress. | remem-
Der when James \. Garfield was first a
member of our committee in the
house, he said TO me: | thought you
were an extreme protectionist, but |
find that in the hearing before the
committee you are fighting against too
much protection continually.
The Senator adds as regards his pre-
sent positions
81 favor that just and stable protection, which
Will keep all American water wheels and steam
engines in motion, and restore more agricultural
products 10 a home market but have not IA
vored, and do not favor, excessive and unnccess.
airy protection, sometimes asked for which !
matches and starts many unskillfu enterprises
and provokes constant criticism
This is, in the iargon OF the monop- |
oils and trusts free trade talk.
Commissioner in Chief Walker of |
the G.. \. R., has declared his pur-
pose IL bring action in the courts to |
prevent pensions being stopped or sus-
pended on the ground that when once |
granted they became a vested right. |
Commissioner Lochrcn calls his atten- |
ton to the fact that the federal SUI
preme court has already decided three |
times that they are not vested right. |
The West Randolph Herald a News in
view of the recent advance of rates, |
thinks it would be bad thing if the
next legislation should respond by
passing a valued policy law. The
Herald II News asks pertinently:
viii these companies that are complaining 60
bitterly over their losses within the past two
or three years be so kind as to make Il statement
of their profits during previous years: DO
they claim that on the whole their business has
twenty-fiye years. Because they have been
unlucky for a year or two is it right for them
to conclude that future business Is certain to be
equally unfortunate for them when the average
shows the exact contary to be true? When
losses fail off, as they are sure to, will these
co mpanies be as prompt in lowering rates as
they are now in raising them!
4 good story is told of the famous
Count D'Orsay. When he was in
England for the first time very
Young, very handsome and not abashed) ,
he was placed at some dinner party '
next the late Lady Holland. That sing J
ular woman, who adroitly succeeded in
ruling and retaining distinguished
circle longer than either fascination or
tyrany might singly have accomplished, 8,
.hanced that day to be in one of her
mperious humors. She dropped her ,
napkin: the count picked it up gal s
antly: then her fan, then her fork, /
hen her glass; and as often her neigh S
,or stopped and restored the lost arti
lie. At last, however, the patience of i
ne youth gave way, and on her drop |
,ing her napkin again he turned and
allied one of the foot men behind him. t
: Put my plate on the floor said he. Y
i will finish my dinner there: it will c
,e so much more convenient To my Lady a
Holland. t
Postmaster General Maxwell has t
made his report for the fiscal year end I
ng June 80. and it shows 1900 new a
of new fourth class post :
masters.
The Cuban fiibusterers arrested II
ew weeks ago were discharged at :
Wilmington, Del, Monday amid cheers :
n the court room. Judge Wales of y
he district court charged in their
ayor. holding that the law prohib- :
is the preparing or setting on foot in :
his country of military expeditions
gainst countries with which we are
/ peace, but it does not prohibit
he shipping of arms or ammunition
r military equipments to foreign
ountrv. nor does it even forbid one or
,ore individuals singly or in unavow
! association from leaving the United
tates for the purpose of joining ia
,ilitary operations which are being
arried on between other countries. or
etween different parties in the same
,untry. In such case; the shipper I
nd the volunteer would run the risk,
1e one of the capture of the property.
nj the other of the capture of the
arson.'' The distinction is rather an
ttenuated one but under it the Jury
romptlv found the arrested men guilty. D