The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-07
NOTINGS.

0 nresent session of congress? I'm
J question was put to half dozen ser
> ators the other day, and the reply
I on, will answer for all Nothing
We are going to drift along, that's al
, The senate is drifting, the admlnistra
, tion is drifting, the house is drifting
the Democratic party is drifting, IN
, Republican party is drifting, the Popu
lists are drifting. Everybody an
everything is drifting, and yci IN
country is not going to the dogs
The coal kings have entered into al
agreement to restrict the production q
anthracite this year to G,'OO,ooo AM
to advance prices % cents per ton
at is really curious, observes IN
Waterbury. Ct, Amrricun. "how "a
everybody has finally come round to IN
position OF the president mcssiSe
that England ought TO arbitratr m
Venezuelan question, and that I'M
message was practically right IN IN
sisting upon this.
It rrallg looks rs ii the business o
the country were on an upward move
again. Wheat has risen 10 to II cents
a bushcl, and though exports have dc
creased in quantity they have made /;
handsome increase in value Inc
increase is due. in some measure al
least. to a great reduction in the re-
serves of winter wheat and not very
promising outlook for the present crop.
| Corn is coming forward more freely on
the advance in price of that grain.
New York city has shut off on fur
nishing free lodgings at her police sta
| ,In 10 hat trut n
and dissipated people get The main
benefit.
The Burlington Free Press announ-
ces that ex Gov. W. p. Dillingham;
who has been prominently mention
cd" for one of the delegates at large to
the Republican national convention,
does not desire the honor.
| The ST. Adams Messenger appeared
Saturday in an enlarged form, evidenc-
| ing the prosperity which so clean,
courteous and ably conducted journal
deserves.
Senator Cullom Of Illinois occupies
unique position among the American
peonle. With all of his experience in
public life. he yet feels want Of con
fdence in Sin my own fitness and
United States.
The Milwaukee journal. which has
Just made a canvass of the presiden
tial preferences of the editors of re-
publican papers in Wisconsin, finds
that fully three fourths of them are for
Mckinley and think that their con
stituents have the same feeling on the
question.
Gen. \. c Dracut of Chicago,
brave soldier Of the civil war, is dead.
He came from ireland in 1919. at the
age of 1G, with some education but
without friends or relatives in the Uni
ted States On the outbreak Of the
war he raised a company Of engineers.
sappers and miners which the govern
ment would not except because
thought to he not needed. WhereGpon
Dracut enlisted az private and rose
rapidly in the service during the cam
paigns in kentucky and Tennessee. /
He became Rosecrans' chief uf-statf I
and inspector general. and performed +
heroic services at Chickamauga. At |
ter the war he was made commander |
Of the Illinois national guard with the |
rank of major general. Gen Dracut |
before and after the war followed the I
insurance business.
\ meeting of the Irish parliament |
AIRY party is to be held in London Sat
lIrday to choose chairman or leader |
Of the party to succeed Justin McCar
ty who refuses reelection, pleading
his literary work us an excuse rather
than party dssensions The two can
iidates for his place are Thomas Sex
Ton and John Dillon. Mr.. Mccarthy
favors Sexton.
Mexico's census reveals a population /,
IF Il. 5i2. 0o7. which compares with
bout 10, 400, GOO in 1882. This repre-
'ents fair rate of growth. considering
hat the Indians arc rapidly decreas-
ng in number.
Chairman Harrity Of the national
committee has been IN
jhicago selecting hall for the use of
he convention. He tells reporter
hat he expects a few weeks more will
ring out candidates who are anxious
0 secure the Democratic nomination. /.
ither with the hope of election or the
esire to secure the honor of leading
he party in the campaign. Rather ,
queer way for committeeman to
ak. but really it is all the facts will
uStl1E Just now.
News IS expected every day of big
attic in Abyssinia where an Italian :
1rce of ., COO men with GO cannon.
Onfronts native army of 80, COO to
}, 900 and many of them armed with
eapons of the latest pattern. 1
Congressman c. A. Russell of Con
acticut has been engaged as speaker
the meeting of the Young Mems Re .
nblican club at Montpelier next week.
Cecil Rhodes, who was the Premier
Cape Colony at the time of Jameson s
nd into the Transvaal arrived in
ondon Tuesday and received great
opular ovation. The Queen who has
'esently favored both him and DR.. !,
imeson, wants to make him a peer.
II of which throws on instructive 81
de light on the claim that the British =.
'vernment was not responsible for %
lmcson's raiu into the Transvaal.
William II. English, Democratic
ndidate for vice president in 1880. a.
seriously i'll at his home in Indian
oils, Ind. and il is feared that he Il
iy not recover. MIR. English is n
ars old. but is well preserved and
IS been active and vigorous until this ~
ness.
In Vienna calcarcous deposits in the
adder, liver and kidneys of a patient a
We been revealed and recorded hv the y
w koentgen Photographic discovery. -