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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-26
Castoria.

"Castorza isso well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, ii. D.,
III So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-26

The use of Castoria is SO universal and
its merits so well known that it seems q work
OF supererogation to endorse il. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy REACH
CARLOS MARTIN, D. D.,
Eew York City,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-26
Blood and Skin Diseases Treated

Treated by our new home treatment. thereby
saving the patient the annoyance and embar-
rassment of local treatment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-26

'For several years 1 have recommended
your 'Castoria,' and shall alwa.-s continue tc
do SO as it has invariably produced benefcia-
results. -
EDWIN T. PARDEE, NJ. D.,
18th Street and 9TH Ave, NeyY York City
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-06-26

One day, returning every four weeks for
one year. Consultation, Examination
and Opinion in Every Case Given
FREE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

who stormed the positions occupied by the
rebels, lost seventeen killed and fifty. three
wounded.
LATE dispatches from Havana state that
after having for some time successfully
avoided an engagement with two columns
OF Spanish troops, made up Of 300 men of
the Canarias Battalion and 800 other Span
ish soldiers Maxine Gomez, with force Of
5000 insurgents, was finally obliged to give
battle to the government troops. The
fight took place at Nal TEMPO, and re-
suited in the defeat of the rebels, many of
whom were killed or wounded. The gov
ernmen5 troops lost seventy killed or
wounded.
The British steamer Indiana" from
Liverpool, collided last week Sunday with
the fruit-laden steamer "Zamora," which
was lying at anchor at Liverpool. The
" Indiana" sank two or three feet in the
half hour that was occupied by the pas
sengers in landing. There was no panic
among the passengers. An attempt was
made to plug the hole in her aide, but it
failed. The steamer was hastily to wed
across the river, as she gave every evidence
OF laundering. Indeed it was thought she
would sink in mid stream, aud the engines
| OF the tug were worked TO their fullest ca
pacity TO prevent such a disaster The
" Zamora'5" stern was smashed in and her
| fore compartment flied with water.
ALL efforts to form a correct estimate of
the numbers of people killed in Armenia,
! and the number who are now homeless in
the face of the approach of wintry weather,
| have proved frutless, although it is be-
| lieved that the governments of the powers
are in possession by this time of practically
accurate information OF the subject, gathered
| by their consular representatives in differ
ent parts of Asiatic Turkey Rough esti-
mates say that there are about 800, 900
persons homeless, that about 10000 or
| $4,000 have been killed, and that property of
the amount of about $50 900 600 has been
pillaged or destroyed. At Arablzr, out of
$500 Armenian houses, 1900 were destroyed
and 2,8l7 Armenians, including seventeen
! Catholics, persisted. In the village of Am
barga sixty houses were burned and at
Shenik 100 dwellings. In both cases all the
! inhabitants were killed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25
Domestic.

CAPTAIN ISAAC BAssETT, the veteran as.
sistant door-keeper of the United States
senate, died last week in Washington OF
cancer OF the stomach.
FORTY THREE men were killed by an ex-
plosion of gas in the Comnock coal mine,
near Raleigh, N. c., last Thursday. Sew
eral attempts were made to rescue the i'm
prisoned men, but the rescuing parties
were driven back by fire damp, even when
some of the victims were in sight.
PASSENGER TRAIN on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton railroad ran into a
local train at Milton, Ohio, last Wednesday
evening, seriously injuring twelve persons
The accident was due to a misplaced
switch. The engine on the express train
plowed through the caboose and dozen or
more of the freight cars.
FIFTEEN men on their way to work in
the coal mine at Shamokin, Pa, were badly
injured last Wednesday morning. The
coupling pin of the locomotive broke when
the train was on steep grade. The car
attached to the locomotive, with thirty men
on board, ran back with terrific speed and
jumped the track two miles from where the
break occurred. The car was completely
wrecked and score OF men were crushed
in the debris.
The steamer La Champaguer," from
Havre for New York, struck a tidal wave
week, that swept every thing movable be-
fore it. Three large life boats were hurled
against the steel deck-house with such
force az 20 badly strain them. Settees and
ventilators were wrenched from their fast
ings and swept away. All the skylights
and companion doors were broken in and
water poured into the saloon and state
rooms. To add to the terror of tue mo-
ment, all the electric lights were extn-
guished, leaving the ship in total darkness
until candles and lamps could be procured
The saloon passengers were all in their
berths when the smashing of the ventila-
tors and the promenade deck let food of
waters down upon them. All baggage and
personal effect were baked.
ONE MINUTE COUGH CURE is rightly
named. 1t affords instant relief from suf-
fering when afflicted with a severe cough or
cold. II acts on the throat, bronchial tubes
and lungs and never fails to give immediate
relief W. e. Terrill & Co., Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

is being perpetrated against the Ameri
can public by reprinter of one of the
English competitors Of the Funk 81
Wagnalls Slauda Dictionary. AS is
well known, in all unabridged diction-
aries it is necessary to give the detini.
tons of certain indicate words.
Eighteen OF these words (selected out
of a vocabulary Of over 100000 terms in
the Standard) have been colated and
printed with their definitions by the
reprinter of this English dictionary,
and circulars containing them are being
distributed among teachers, school
trustees and parents all through this
country, stirring up filthy agitation
that will end, unless frowned down by
the public press and other leaders Of
public opinion, ia setting people OF
prurient minds and children every
where to ransacking dictionaries for
this class Of words. This is certainly
carrying competition to an extreme
that is piratical in its character. The
Century, Webster's international, every
dictionary that contains without abridgD-
ment the words that make up language,
contains these Objectionable terms. II
is not the dictionary makers function TO
include or exclude words in accordance
with his personal likes or dislikes. The
Objectionable terms are in the Bible, in
Shakespeare, and no rational person
will condemn the Standard for includ-
ing them. The Standard is work of
unrivaled excellence every way, and the
WATCHMAN takes this opportunity TO
renew and confirm after year of
acquaintance with that dictionary, the
favorable opinion it expressed in its
review of the work. The criticism of
the reprinters of the English work will
prove to be a boomerang.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

airy questiOn to arbitration. This propo-
sition the British government declines,
upon grounds which to Americans are
unsatisfactory. The president con
cludes:
"The course to be pursued by this
government, in view of the present
condition, does not appear to admit of
serious doubt Having labored faith
fully for many years to induce Great
Britain to submit this dispute to i'm
partial arbitration, and having been
now finally apprised of her refusal to
do so, nothing remains but to accept
the situation, TO recognize its plain re.
quirements and deal with it accord
ingly. Assuming that the at
titude Of Venezuela will remain I'M
changed, the dispute has reached such
stage as to make it now incumbent
upon the United States to take meas
ures to determine with sufficient GER
tainty for its justification what is the
true divisional line between the repub-
lie of Venezuela and British Guiana"
The president recommends the max.
ing of an adequate appropriation to pay
the expense of commission to make
The necessary investigation and report.
In his opinion:
When such report is made and ac-
cepted it will ne the duty of the United
States to resist, by every means in its
power, as a wilful aggression upon its
rights and interests, the appropriation by
Great Britain of any lands or the exer-
else Of governmental jurisdiction over
any territory which, after investigation,
we have determined of right belong to
Venezuela. In making these recon-
mendations am fully alive to the re-
sponsibility incurred, and keenly real
ize all the consequences that may fol-
low. l am, nevertheless, firm in my
conviction that while it is a grievous
thing to contemplate the two great
English-speaking people of the world
as being otherwise than friendly COM
petitors in the onward march of civil
ization and strenuous and worthy rivals
in all the arts of peace, there is no ca =
lamity which great nation can invite
which equals that which follows su-
pine submission to wrong and injustice,
and the consequent loss of national
self-respect and honor beneath which
is shielded and defended a peoples
safety and greatness"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25
The Blind Chaplain OF the House.

Rev. l.. F. Fortney of Plainfeld
writes as follows: REV. II. N. Conden,
the newly elected chaplain of the house
of representatives at Washington, is
my personal friend and was a former
schoolmate in the theological depart
ment of st. Lawrence University. l
heartily endorse the sentiments of the
resolution recently adopted by my
Massachusetts brethren, at their minis
ters' meeting in Boston, condemning
the Boston Herald for its sneering
reference to Chaplain Conden. Henry
N. Conden, as a volunteer soldier from
Ohio, was as brave defender of his
country's flag as ever faced the bat
teries OF an entrenched enemy until
a rebel bullet destroyed both of his
eyes. His subsequent record as divin-
ity student, Christian minister and
patriotic citizen has been highly
worthy one. 1t is not strange, however,
that paper so blind in its devotion to
but one idol in the nation as to sheer at
nearly every sentiment and policy
strictly American, and even at the
American flag rs mere textile fabric,
can so brazenly slur so honest Chris.
tan gentleman and noble American
patriot as the Rev. II. N. Conden."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25
Foreign.

THE police OF Havana have arrested
eight workmen, employed in the military
department., who are charged with selling
cartridges to the enemy at S15 per thousand.
The insurgents in Havana blew up rail-
road bridge at Flora, twelve miles from
Cienfugos, while a train was passing over
it. The engine WAS thrown into the river
and five passengers, railroad officials, were
killed.
ALTHOUGH the epidemic of yellow fever in
Cuba which has been so fatal in the Span
ish army during the past six months is sub
siding, new and even more terrible scourge
has appeared in the form of variola nigra, or
black smallpox, imported from Africa on
the government troop.ships lately arriving
with reinforrements. About ninety per
cent of the cases so far reported have proved
fatal
THE columns of Spanish troops in Cuba
commanded by Canella aud Baquero, / 100
strong, have defeated Jose Maceo, Bonnie
and Perquito Perez, whose forces numbered
5000 men, in an engagement at Palmarito.
The fight lasted seven hours. The rebels
fled leaving forty.six dead on the field and
carrying off many wounded. The Spaniards,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25
large, indicating more than three per cent

large, indicating more than three per cent
death-rate.
The executive committee OF the Vermont
Association of Road and Trottng Horse
Breeders met at Brandon, last Thursday,
and elected Colonel K. d. Thayer of
Brandon president; II. T Cults of Orwell,
first vice president; G. w. Hendee of Nor.
risville, second vice. president; d. G. Brown
of Brandon secretary; c. A. Chapman OF
Ferrisburg, treasurer; e. f. Brownell of
Burlington, general superintendent. 1t was
voted to offer $1,000 in purses in addition
to the stallion produce aud futurity stakes.
This makes total of over $1,000 The
regular stakes are tolbe open to the world.
The time limit is to be left to the committee
on stakes and purses. 1t was also voted to
make special feature of high. grade har.
ness horses at the next exhibition, the last
week in August next, and to offer special
premiums not exceeding $500
IF suffering with piles, it will interest you
to know that De Wits Witch Hazel Salve
will cure them This medicine is a specific
for all complaints of this character, and if
instructions (Which are simple) are carried
out, cure will result We have tested this
in numerous cases, and always with like
results. 1t never fails w. E. Terrill g.
Co., Montpelier, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25
The Venezuelan Boundary.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND'S FIRM AND
PATRIOTIC MESSAGE.

The sensation of the week is Presi-
dent Cleveland's special message to
congress on the boundary dispute be-
tween Venezuela and Great Britain.
For the first time in all his official ca
reer the president has struck note
that brings hearty and approving re-
spouse from all the American people,
without distinction of party-excepting
always the gentle cuckoos and those
emasculated patriots, the mugwumps.
Republican congressman, republican
newspapers, and republican citizens
are the heartiest and most outspoken
supporters of the message. The hand
of Secretary Olney, the old stalwart
Bay State spirit that burned in the
veins OF John Adams, is credited with
this sunburst of patriotism. The
happy thing about the episode is that
the sturdy old American spirit is there
again, in message of the president of
the United States. For this the Amer
can people thank God and take cour-
age.
The president recites the action the
administration had taken to induce
Great Britain to submit this Venezue-
Ian controversy to arbitration. He
maintains that the Monroe doctrine ap-
plies in this case aud it's application
nnnht 10 ha ipuabaI To
" II European power, by an extern
sion OF its boundaries, takes pos
session of the territory of one of our
nelghboring republics against its will
and in derogation of its rights, it is diff.
hcult to see why, TO that extent, such
European power does not thereby at
tempt to extend its system of govern
ment to that portion of this continent
which is thus taken. This is the pre-
else action which President Monroe
declared to be dangerous to our peace
and safety and IL can make no differ
ence whether the European system is
extended by an advance of frontier or
otherwise"
The president maintains that the Mon
roe doctrine is something we may justly
claim has its place in the code of inter
national law, although it may not have
been admitted to the code in so many
words, and that when the United
States is a sutton before the tribunal
that administers international law the
question to be determined is whether
our claims are just and valid. With a
view to ascertaining Great Britain's
real representation she sought, I'M
der claim of boundary, TO extend
her possessions, or sought the posses
sion of territory fairly within the lines
OF her ownership-the president pro-
posed to her that she submit the bound,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

Mr.. HAINER (republican) of Ne
braska has introduced a bill in the
House suggesting something new in
the way of pension legislation. The
measure proposes to provide for those
soldiers and sailors who were confined
in confederate prisons by granting
them pension OF 50 for each day
confined in such prisons, and in
addition pension of $12 month
for the remainder of their lives. The
monthly pensions are to date from the
passage OF the act. A preamble to the
bill says that many officers, soldiers and
sailors, and marines of the federal
army and navy were confined in con-
federate prisons for great length of
time, suffering unusual hardships and
contracting diseases and disabilities
difficult to prove under existing pen
sion laws. This legislation is therefore
proposed for the purpose of doing JUS
tice to specially deserving class of
surviving veterans of the war.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

The democratic party isn't going to
wait until the holding of its national
convention to split into gold and silver
factions. The split has already come.
Within a stones throw of the United
States Capitol the headquarters of t, ,
silver faction, which is being led by
Senator Harris of Tennessee, has been
established, and flag bearing the
motto No quarter to gold democrats -
flung to the breeze. One of the silver
democrats, speaking of the split, said:
The democrats have no possible
chance to elect president next year,
but we are determined to settle for
good and all whether it is to be gold
party or a 'ilver party; whether Grover
Cleveland is to make its platform, or q
majority of the delegates elected to its
national convention. The fight will be
10 the death, and the survivors can
then proceed to build new demo-
cratic party on what is left, which may
get into fair fighting condition for the
campaign of 1900"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

SENATOR SHERMAN proposes max.
ing set speech at an early day to show
how ridiculous that portion of the
presidents message which treats of
finance really is. Speaking on the sub
ject, Senator Sherman said: " From
January l, 1879, when we resumed
specie payments, until Mr.. Cleveland
assumed the Office of president, there
was no difficulty in maintaining the
gold reserve. During that period it
never cost one dollar to get all the gold
necessary for the reserve fund. Gold
naturally came into the treasury in ex-
change for United States notes or other
forms of money. AT one period, when
l was secretary of the treasury, |
bought sixty millions of gold for sixty
millions of silver certificates. No diff
ficulty could have arisen at this time
except for the fact that by the Wilson
German tariff bill duties were so re-
duced as to be insufficient to pay the
current expenses of the government"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

MARVELLOUS RESULTS From let
ter written by Rev. j, Gunderman of
Dimondale, Mich, we are permitted to
make this extract: II have no hesita-
ton in recommending Dr. Kings New
Discovery, as the results were almost
marvellous in the case of my wife.
While was pastor of the Baptist church
at Rives Junction she was brought
down with pneumonia succeeding la
grippe. Terrible paroxysms of cough
ing would last hours with little inter-
ruption, and it seemed as if she could
not survive them. A friend recon-
mended DR.. Kings New Discovery; it
was quick in its work and highly salts
factory in its results" Trial bottles free
at G, Blakely's drug store. Regular
size fifty cents and 81.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

TIN is one of the oldest-known met
ale. The Chinese used it in the fab
rication OF their brasses and bronzes
from time immemorial. In the book
of Numbers it is among the list of met
ais in which, among other things,
Moses and the Israelites spoiled the
people of indian. The ancient Ro-
mans used it for coating the inside of
copper and brass vessels.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

WE speak of seasoning wood by ex-
posing it to the air and drying out the
wafer. But we never think OF season.
ing stone, and yet this it as necessary
almost as seasoning wood, Every good
architect in making his calculations
tax this into consideration.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25
The Standard Dictionary.

|. X. Funk, president of the Funk 81
Wagnalls Company, is calling public
attention to very grave wrong which
tsEE FOURTH COLUMN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

WE have used Hoods Sarsaparilla
in our family and think it has no
equal. Mrs. B. e. Churchill, Barre,
Vermont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills,
Biliousness, Indigestion, IL cad ache.
A pleasant laxative. All Druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

If you cannot help thing, why
worry about it? II YOU can help il, why
worry about it? Herein is III secret of
happiness.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

The above rates are subject to change
without notice.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

RUBBER STAMPS made to order by the
Watchman Publishing Company.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25

l.. III, GREENE, Sole Agent
MONTPELIER, w
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-06
Bank Bookkeeper Gone Wrong.

WEsTFIELD, Mass, Sept. 6,-Louis A.
Lee bookkeeper in the Hampden Ma
tional bank, was arrested last evening,
charged with being short in his accounts.
President Norton of tho bank declined
20 state the amount of the shortage, but
said that the matter had gone too far TO
be settled outside of the courts. Lee
admits that he has been living beyond his
means, and gives that rs n reason for his
misdoing, He is only about % years of
age; has been employed in the bank for
about five years, and rs bookkeeper for
two Ypnrs