The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-14
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NOTING:S.

S NOTINGs.
! The state board of library commits
Q sioncrs has issued circular whic
states that at the March town meet
) ing in 1899 more than 10 towns, re
, presenting every county in the state
made the appropriation necessary t
get free public libraries under the az
passed in 1894, and that nearly al
have received through the commits
| sioncrs the books provided by thu
: Estate. The board reports that thu
operation of the law has been emf
nently successful. 1t suggests tina
articles be inserted in the arrcuts fo
all town meetings to see If free libra
ries shall be established.
There has been at least "a temporary
cessation in the Armenian massacres
and there are some indications of {
disposition in Constantinople to stay
tho hands Of the brutal governors and
commanders Of Turkish troops and thC
Kurdish chieftain. and the porte
shows an indifference which practical
| ly amounts to permission to distribute
the aid to the suffering and starving
victims of the terrible outrages of the
| last few months, which is coming
from this country and Europe
Another evidence Of the progress Of
fright financial opinion is shown by the
| Virginia House which refused last
week by vote Of ~ to 81 to ask Nir
ginia' S representatives. in Congress to
vote for the senate frcc.coinage substi
! tutc.
There is serious talk Of using the
lstorage battery system. instead of the
trolley. on the Shelburnr Falls and
Colerain electric road, which is to be
built in the spring,
The Irish Nationalist members Of
the British house of Commons unani-
mously chose Thomas Sexton leader
Saturday in place of Justin Mccarthy
resigned. Both the Parnelite and
Elealy factions united in his support
But Mr. Sexton declines to serve.
Andrew Carnegie hits il exactly
when he says, in an article in the
North American Review. that no
government can live in Britain which
dares squarely 10 persist in rejecting
arbitration in boundary dispute up
on the American continent. - This is
JhSl NlG' liz ibfl'Il iiitl ~dlti o1l lut
first appearance &C the Venezuelan
message. Salisbury and the Tories
to back down.
Even Dunraven. he OF the Yachting
racket, is making political speeches
in Scotland taking theAmerican side in
the Venezuelan matter
There is another mess in Hawaii,
due to the refusal of our minister Mr.
Willis. in common with those to Eng
land, France Japan and Portugal to take
part in the celebration Of the anniyer
sary of the establishment of the rcpub
lie, on the grounds that il is provis !
lonal government not yet recognized
by any of these powers President
Dole aud his ministers are very indig ,
nant and have held several cabinet /
meetings over the matter declaring /
Willis action gross insult" 1t is |
that he has asked to be re.
,alled
The hunt for Il Democratic presidcn-
ia candidate is not going to be as hard
~ any means as has been thought.
Besides Cows, Russell, Pattison and
Matthews, Secretary Olney and Col.
Morrison. the latest To- be named il
hudson Harmon. the present attorney
general
Quit Il pretty quarrel was launched
inside OF Tammany Saturday night at
banquet given, at $40 plate. in
Ionor Of Richard Croker. It deycl.
ped in an attack led by cx-Register
Ohm Reilly. on John {. Sheehan,
pon whom Croker had placed his
lantle of leadership Croker tried in
ain to allay tn" storm. and the result
5 that he IS TO delay his return to
England and resume the leadership
imself.
The Johannesburg Times of January
prints the full text of the letter sent
y the Uitlanders To- DR.. Jameson,
'hich induced him to invade the
ransyaal To assist an uprising planned
here. The letter. which gives details
+ all the plans, was found on the bat,
e field where Jameson apparently
ropped II. Among the sieners of the !,
tier is John Hays Hammond, the .
merican mining engineer.
The 18th annual assembly of the
ague of American Wheelmen was
cid at Baltimore this week, II dele
ates and proxies representing 10000
gained wheelmen in the country.
lie membership list including l47O
omen or nearly twice AS many az last
nar. Elliot was reelected president
fter hard fight and Louisville was I
elected as the place for the next
ltional meet. 1t was decided not to |
i've up control of racing as has been {
} strongly urged. and IL engage in 5
systematic agitation for better roads. !,
The Archbishop of Toronto sensibly {,
iyises the Catholics of the Dominion +,
give up their struggle against the a
adjustment of non sectarian public b
hools in Manitoba. Representing the $
thought of his church the a
recognizes that the day for v
e union in any way of church and a
ate is rapidly passing.
At last a female Jack the Kisser has u
rned up. Her home is in Concord. q
H., and her mania is to lie in wait
r respectable middle aged men, catch
EN- around the neck and kiss them "
II she is shaken off. The woman is :,
'scribed as a good looking widow. +
irty years old. Yet there are some :.
her victims who pretend they don't ~
re it.
And still the Republican aspirants 4,
r the presidency appear Gov. W. o. :,
radlcy of Kentucky is one and he =
inks that his remarkable feat oe con
rting the state to Repuhlicanism
ID being the first Republican govern
ever elected there makes him of