The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-15


the lands acquired from the Ncz Perez
Indians, amounting to 5lG, 600 acres.
The Reformcr appears to have been
in error in its statement last week
that Gov. Woodbury. was Il lessee OF
the rest of the American house block
except the part occupied by the Nc
Carthy saloon. This was so once but
the Burlington Free Press says that
for several years past he has had no
interest in it whatever.
Candidate Campbell explains the
OHIO result by the increase of $4,000
in the Populist vote. He thinks all
this was subtracted from the Demo
cratic vote.
And now somebody is trying to
prove that Sir Walter Scott did not
write the Waverley novels, but that
his brothers. wife, Mrs. Thomas
Scott, was the author. assisted by her
husband or vice versa, the books being
revised by the baronet Several old
letters are published in support of the
theory.
The Republican majority for govern
or in Ohio figures up at about ll0,OOO
But the majority against Brice in the
legislative vote reaches 200. 600.
One of the first official acts of Gen.
Miles has been to revive the project of
the general scheme of coast defenses.
Briefly stated, this scheme contem-
plates an expenditure of 1925, 600, 600,
distributed over an interval of from
twelve TO twenty five years.
The French government is reported
to have offered to Internationally re-
lease ex- Consul Waller, as an express
sion of good feeling toward the United
States. But his wife says she has re-
ceived letters that he is dying of con
in prison and the end is
likely to come before release can
reach him. Moreover. he rsfuscs to ac
cept a release except rs a matter of
rights. [
The Washington county court has
just had an unusual case in the prose !
cution Of an Italian. Antonio Rossi. for /
Jail at Barre. He was ac-
quilted on the ground that il was a |
lookup instead of a jail from which |
he broke. 4
Miss Frances i. Willard is perfect I
ing plans to establish a social settle
ment in Chicago under the auspices of
the W. G. L. u, to make the white
ribbon work more effective. The plan
is like that which has been adopted in
England under the leadership of Lady
Henry Somerset
Another "Tichborne claimant APP
)ears or rather is produced in Aus
ralia where evidence is being gathered
o support the claim which Arthur
)rton made SO famous 20 years ago by
What he has confessed since he got out
# prison to have been a fraud. The
lew story is that man who has been
,nown as VIM. Creswell. now in an
australian lunatic asylum. is the real
sir Roger Tichborne. over whose
Mysterious disappearance two con
inents for years have marvelled. and
o entitled to one of the greatest
'aronetcies in England. that the vessel
n which he sailed from Rio Janeiro in
SD while making trip around the
iorld, and which was never heard of
gain and was supposed to have been ,
Dst at sea. was captured by her crew.
nth the assistance of Sir Roger and I
fter tour of piracy, was run to the
australian shore, repalnted, rerigged
nd renamed. that the crew and the
Dung man abandoned her to 90 to the (
old fields and that afterwards he lost :,
is mind, and Orion who had been an
Intimate of his improved the oppor-
unity and the information gained
ON the acquaintance to personate I
I'M. The lawyers for the new claim
'sert that they will be able to prove
us story by several men yet living
no belonged to the piratical crew Of 1
he missing ship and that they will be
ole to identify the present lunatic as II
lie missing baronet. by large num- :,
'r OF marks, natural and acquired by q
'cldent in youth and tattooing later
well as by other physical resem- 4
ances. Altogether il makes one of the
ost remarkable tales of the age.
A committee OF the Pennsylvania
nate has begun sort of Lexow in
stigation in Philadelphia. The :