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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28

ill., 10, l,,on,,ol A. c,,L;, ,,;,b
III na5 uio."onou 'ne supJet Win
Newell who does not claim any spirit
rnver. and he thinks he possessps a
- y ,,,.;l;I;. - -. -
iuTthei suscep'ibiiity "HicI las OBEY
begun to develop IN Newell: That OF
being able TO discern the animal mao
.: 1;.;, F., ii, t IT.
"otisu' Iduia'ihs i'otii wv human poi.
and by Its variation In density and
coIor determining whether any porti ion
s ct I'll. !, @ Ho.tol - i;o.ao
u eh@. pois 10 anoc'Iu " uise"se'
This, he says. he ls able to do. re-
CARELESS of the clDthinp of the sub iect
-. H. ,.;, IL 80 49,. =;
"a! &c WA NE. LIZ c',eu taoo IL
which ne had established this to the
thorough satisfaction of the subject.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28

The annual meeting Of the stockhold
ers of the Deerfied Valley Creamery
association was held Tuesday, Feb. "a.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Directors. Henry
Adams, +. Nj. HAYNES, G. NJ. Ware o.
W. Boyd and o. l.. Corse auditors. j..
ii. kidder and Geo X. Faulkner. Dur
ing the past year there were 80, 772 lbs.
of butter made which was $3.50 lbs.
more than has been made IN any one
year before. The auditors report the
treasurer's account M To Jan. |. 1896
TO he $685. o. in favor NJ the associa-
ton. The amount of gain on the last
years work WAS 5. o.. 81.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28

About 10 couples attended the dance
at the hotel last week. The next one is
to be March 9th.
Prof. Tenney of Grafton closed his
singing school here last Tuesday
evening.
There is a subscription paper in
circulation here to help the family of
Ed GIazier of Athens who we're burned
out of everything last week
David Stevens and Miss Alice Per.
ham are sick with the grippe. David
Gushing, Jr.. has returned home to
Boston.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
BIRTHS,

In Bra,tleboro, Feb "a, u daughter TO Mr. and
Mrs. w. b. Vintun and grapd,Iiurht 10 ~ II
Ntnion and MIR. and Mrs. S. ID. brown
Bondviilp, Jan. ~ a son I, Dr. and Mrs Theo.
dore Flaudreau.
Frank Perry "
In south Wardsboro, Feb. l5,a daughter TO Mr..
aud Mrs. John Scranton
In SaNton River, Feb. g. a daughter IN Mr.
and Mrs. Charles +. Harris
=, In Wallole, \. H., Feb. 10. son to Mr.. and
~ ,tih,dale, \. u. Feb. II, a daughter TO Mr..
and Mrs. Wallace j. Bailey
- IN Winchester, y. H.. Feb. 5, n son to L. +.
hihsner. Feb. 8. twin sons to John Maroney.
In Jamaica, Feb. 81, u daughter, Rachael N /.
dre', to MIR ana Mrs. W. l.. Phelps,
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
m ARRlA(sES.

In Westminster, Feb Is. by Rev. C. ". Thomp.
son; Frank H. FAIR and Miss Ida May WOODBURY.
Both of Putney.
In Westminster, Feb -, by Rev. C. W, Tbomp.
SON, Edward \. Willard and sarah E. wilkins
both of Westminster
In jamaica, Feb. II, by Rev. Mr. hobbs. John
Chanln ami Miss Sarah Harris.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28

best of him. Very often the reverse
was the case. BY work of this kind
he appealed TO the only vulnerable
par. of his mother. and every year
she intrusts more and more to. his
discretion and management.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
BELLOWS FALLS.
AnOth her sad Phase 10 the Drowning al
the bellows Falls CanOeists.


The public interest in the SAD
drowning Of canoeists Ned Alexander
and James Fitzgerald, in the Connec-
ticut river, during the flood last April,
has been revived by suit just brought
in Boston by the attorneys of AleSan-
ler's mother, as administrator. against
the Masonic, Equitable Accident In
surance company of Boston. for the
payment of policy for $4,000. Alex
ander was insured in three other com
panies--the National Life of Mont,
pelier, for 81. 600. the Northwestern OF
Milwaukee for So. 600, and st. Louis
accident company for si00 These
companies promptly paid, but the Bos-
ton company refuses payment claiming
that canoeing was an unnecessary
hazard, and therefore it is not liable.
Fitzgeralu's life was also insured,
but the policies were paid. No trace
Of the bodies has ever been found.
Every two weeks, until the river froze
over. Alexander's mother has made
trims down the river, inquiring of the
farmers if the body had been recover
ed. At times she has hunted for it
herself.
Local Thought and Movement.
The case of Martin Page of West
minister and Chas. Perham of Cam.
bridge who used the Boston dairy Co.
to recover for milk furnished defend
ants. we're heard before Justice Barry
Wednesday The judgment was for the
plaintiffs.
A suit for the 5000 insurance on
the life offs. n. Alexander DR.. who
was drowned in the Connecticut last
April has been brought against the
Masonic Equitable accident associa-
tiOn of Boston.
Sidney Campbell, Sc one of West
minister's oldest citizen, died Wednes-
day morning after weeks illness OF
pneumonia. He was an uncle of Rev.
Daniel Campbell of Saxtons River and !
at one time lived in Chesterfield, n. |
II.
Death From SCUffie.
A friendly scutlle and wrestling be
tween Theodore Webber young Ger
man aged 26 and Perley Watkins, two
farm hands, which occurred Saturday
resulted IN a broken neck and instant
death to the former at the farm of
lyman Chickering in the south part
of Walpole Before tea Weber said
to Watkins, Come on, Perley, let's
have friendly bout and threw his
arms around Perley's neck. They
wrestled moment and then fell to the
floor. Weber underneath. On strik
ing the floor his neck was broken. No
blame is attached to Watkins.
Personal.
Frank Written of Lynn, Mass, spent SUNDAY
with his mother here Ernest Wood OF Milbury,
Mass II employed as stenOgrapner in the Office
of the VT Farm Machine to.-Gco Gnrmah of
Barre, was in town over sunday FtM Wilson
has be.niin Montague, Mass, this week-Geo
W kimball Jr, of Worcester, Mass, visited her
parents over sunday James II Williams went
to Boston Monday morning on a business trip
Harold Hatch from White River junction spent
Sunday AT his home at Cold River.-franksChip-
man OF Rochester is IN town visiting his parents
-Miune Northrop has been obliged to leave
school on account of III h eth
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
WEST BKATTLEBoRO LOCALS.

William Bigelow, who has been SO
long and so painfully i'll. is doing as
well as could be expected. His in
jured limb is in bad shape but he is
improving slowly.
+. A. Read and wife of Mortified,
Mass, are staying for awhile at the
home of Edward Hyler. Walter Alex.
ander is out after weeks conflict
with neuralgia. Mrs. William Gould
remains very low, and owing TO her
advanced age, recovery is doubtful. --
Mrs. James Eastwood is passing the
winter at the home of her brother,
Joseph Cutting, in Guilford
Academy Notes.
Examinations occur next Monday
and Tuesday
The Eclectic society has nearly
completed its preparation for the pub.
lie meeting of next Tuesday evening.
The divisions in elocution conclude
their work this week-The music class
es have been obliged to suspend their
work this week in the absence OF their
teacher Miss Clark. Robert Clark. LIE.
on Smith and Carrie Crosier are still
confined to the house with illness.
The Young ladies cleared s43 90 for the
Academy library fund by the chicken
pie supper.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28

Mrs. Clark Lake, of Saxions River,
fell IN the wood shed i;-st Wednesday
and troke one leg.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
FOR SALE.

tlehoro. Buildings good, everything in fine
shape Lot of wood and timber; fine running
water at house and barn. viii winter eight COWS
ana Two horses If sold 10y April first, sIS5O
"A. ". MAY.
5lws Real Estate agent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
A GEORGIA ELECTION STORY.

One election story is that an itinerant
Georgia preacherJ who had one horse and
a large family. was so confident of Bry-
ans election that he said to one of the
members of his congregations:
Il don't bet an I amt a-goin' ter bet:
but if anybody would jest make-believe
that they wagered a boss agin that air
crectur O. mine that Bryan won't be
elected. an then keep their counsel about
it. it would be all right with me- an ia
jest consider-between me and him-that
my boss wuz stakes "a gin his"
All right. brother" said the member.
wei jest look at it in that light. an if
Mckinley is elected III have two hosses
an YOU none
1t was "A GO but the following Sunday
the congregation was amazed to see the
preacher tramping to town. where he ar
rived, way-worn and mud-bespattereG.
and mounting the platform. s-cRightway
began preaching against the evils Of bet
ting.
Yes. he said. there are men in this
here congregation so lost ter right an
jestice that they would bet agin the one
boss of q poor man. take it from him. an
make him walk ter glory fer the balance
Of his days. If such "a man is i'm the hear
in O. my voice to-day. let him tremble.
He can't take that election boss ter
heaven with him. If he could ride it plum
into the pearly gates the angel Gabriel
would holler Whoa" an while the trem-
bin wretch dismounted, he would hear
these words like the knell o. doom: Whar
,7iJ Won oct that hoes9
After the sermon and the benediction
some one took the parson by the arm,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16

Congress has made available $4,000
for the purpose of enabling the post
office department to conduct expert
ments in daily free mail delivery in
rural districts. The experiments are
now being conducted in various States,
and on the results of these special
report is to be submitted to Congress
early in December.
According to the advices of the Chi
cago Record, much confidence is felt
that the experiments will be success
full and the hope is expressed rural free
delivery may become an established
part of the postoffice policy in the near
future. There are few things within
the province of government TO supply
that would do more to make farr life
pleasant. A daily mail delivery in
country districts, with the closer touch
and intercourse with the outside world
which that implies, would mean So
cial transformation of considerable i'm
portance. The farmer would no longer
be the isolated individual that he is.
Thus one of the chief objections to
country life, the feeling of being cut
off from the world, would be overcome.
The farm life would be rendered more
pleasant, with the results that the sons
and daughters would be less tempted
to desert it for the city. More than
that, many persons would find it more
agreeable and feasible to follow their
inclinations and leave the crowded cen
ters of population for rural homes.
The establishment of a system of rural
free delivery would have the effect of
raising the value of farm land.
The reform is one which the postal
department and Congress should insti-
tute at an early day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
IT'S ONLY BEGUN.


We haven't seen or heard of anybody
being disheartened by the alleged de-
feat of bimetallism. Bryan virtually
gained a tremendous victory consider
ing the fact that he fought his battle
virtually alone and against all the
wealth of the country and all that that
means in an election. The silver men
know this and they have not lost, but,
rather, have gained heart Owing to
the fact that the Democrats were hand
icapped for lack of funds and the gold
bugs had more than they knew what
to DO with, they were not unprepared
for the defeat in the campaign just
ended.
But the fight has just begun and the
silver men are vastly encouraged by
the virtual victory of their splendid
champion. For instance, two such
strong representative bodies as the
Farmers National Congress and the
General Assembly of the Knights of
Labor are demanding Congressional
action in the line of free coinage. And
others will soon be heard from.
Oh, the fight has just begun.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16

Notwithstanding the depressing eff
feet of vicious Republican financial
legislation for the past few years. there
has been steady, increase since 1890
in the volume of our exports.
One of the most gratifying features
of this increase is i'm the number Of
manufactured articles exported during
the same period Twenty-Five years
ago cur exports consisted almost en-
tirey ol agricultural products and min
eral oils. From a small fractional part
Of our yearly exports. amounting TO
somerhiug like 8 per cent. the export
alton of manufactured articles within
the past few years has steadily climb
ed tine scale until it now measures at
least 2S per cent.
The following table shows the man
ner i'm which our exports have increas-
~ since 1890.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
THE CASE OF CUBA.
CANNOT GO on.

CANNOT GO ON.
Philadelphia Press.
American rights have been hagrantly at
tackled and American interests wantonly
injured by Spain in Cuba. Making all fair
allowance for the exaggeraton of rumor
and the needs of civil war. it is clear that
Spain has failed in her duty and that
Spanish authorities have acted in an un-
friendly spirit.
our vessels have been fined on frivolous
pretexts. They have been boarded and
fired on. harassed and delayed. American
plantations have been ravaged. American
citizens have been shot. Some have been
and are imprisoned for an indefinite term
without trial. our correspondents have
been expelled. The business of our citi-
zens, their trade. their plantations and
their property have been needlessly injur-
ed.
This cannot 20 on.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16

Tt is generally supposed that the
farmers ambition viii be satisfied with
dollar wheat Well the goldbugs
are making a great blow over the fact
that wheat sold above so cents in the
speculative market and even in the
seauo.rd markets the other day. 1t is
not impossible for wheat to so TO a
dollar The countries abroad are fam
ine-stricEen and their necessities
might easily add the necessary Ten or
fifteen cents q bushel to make dollar
wheat" AS it is. however, the Amer
lean farmer can be said to be, at best
but uiue-tenths happy. And that is
happier than most people are under
the gold standard
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
ABOUT THE TRUSTS.
WANT THEIR SHARE.

Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Now the soft coal producers have caught
the disease and also formed trust. A
dispatch says: The officials of the Ohio
soft-coal producing and carrying compa-
MES. including the Philadelphia, Hook
ing Valley, Wheeling and Lake Erie, Balti-
more and Ohio Columbus Sandusky and
Hooking. Cleveland. Lorain and Wheel
ing. and the Toledo and Ohio Central rail-
roads. met again yesterday at No 145
Liberty street. 1t was announced, at add
iournment, that it had been agreed to
form an association for three years to raise
prices and transportation charges. De-
tails will be arranged at future meetings
They will hold another meeting at CO.
lumbus, Ohio. to put on the screws. the
ease with which the anthracite coal barons
have carried their nefarious schemes have
excited the cupidity of the soft-coal pa
triOts.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
POST ELECTION POLITICS.

PERSISTENCY IN THE HUMBUG.
New York Journal
Evidently the campaign cant of the sue
cessful party is to be kept up indefinitely.
Every citizen who believes in the restora-
ton of silver to its former place in the
currency is still to be classified as repu-
diator AMI enemy of the national honor;
every citizen who ventures to hold lis
approving opinion of a decision of the
Supreme Court is to continue an Anarch-
list: every citizen who thinks that govern
ment by injunction is an innovation dam
gerous to liberty, it TO remain an advo-
cate of free riot.
What insufferable humbug all this is.
The men who utter it don't believe it, but
they expect TO make others less intelligent
than themselves do so, and hereafter get
their votes through false pretence for the
conservation Of abuses and the protection
of the privileges of the predatory rich.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
This cannot 20 on.
AT A CRISIS.

Boston Herald.
Matters have come to a pass where de-
feat stares Spain in the face unless she
can win some notable military success.
This is not that she has not men enough.
for it would no doubt be possible for her
to send from $4,000 to 100000 more soldiers
TO Cuba without seriously affecting her
available strength i'm population; but war,
as Spain is carrying it on, demands large
expenditures of money, and money is
something which inconsequence of her
shaken credit, Spain is no longer in a
position to obtain unless on terms which
are practically prohibtive.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
SEEKING a QUARREL.

Now York Sun.
What, then. will happen if Weylor is
beaten? We can guess at what will hap
pen in Cuba but what will happen in
Spain? May not the people vent their
rage on the government and overturn the
monarchy itself? And may not the gov
eminent, therefore, plan betimes to save
itself by directing that fury against the
United States?
This is the question that gives a certain
weight to the suspicion apparently enter
tanned by some of our government officers.
that Spain is becoming peristently and
purposely unfriendly; tlat she is casting
about to find "a pretext for quarrel
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16

The foIIowiDg commentary upon the
solution of our difficulty with Great
Britain over the Venezuelan boundary.
is from the London Globe and is quite
refreshing
"rre a-reeueu. is to he welcomed be-
clu~. lr releases IhD Amri.Iu government
from a false and DANGEROUS position"
That is to say. the London Globe ex-
periences am eTecuonate relief ON find
ug that the United States government
has escaped from the peril involved in
Lord Salisbury S possible refusal of our
ultimaum. We are sure of this. be
cause the Globe goes ON To say:
"uaf tra comm i~sion reported adverse
ly lo 6...r Brain DO wouIi have forced
President Cleveland to attempt The coo
er..ou ul ir..t Britain or eat the hume
best nf 1uuh.. u.- NO one iu this conn
t-y wishes ro -.o the development OF the
United $ .t.~ -.uraeu Tor ha.f GENE
t-gl. .S Il would necessarily have done II
the government Hr Washington had seen
tr to enter. OH SU trivial % prereNt unon
$50 unequal CO. contest The decision of the
commission ro withhold irS port is an
obvious nuL effective way out OF an aWk-
Wari situation.
This is one British view Of this mat
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16

est standard. Let these be made; but
let it be borne in mind also that only
monarchial governments require large
standing armies to maintain them. In
a government by the people and for
the people, the people themselves are
sufficient for its perpetuation and de-
tense.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
nav AOVERTlSEMENTS-
REDEMPTION OF BONDS.


WHEELING. Oc. O, l>6
The following Ohio County a.. H.r con,
5-30 bonds have this day been drawn .
lot. according 10 ordinance. ana VlH ,
redeemed on and after tho first l.s A
December. 1896. at the German Bank .
Wheeling. Interest on same cease ,a4
day.
rs. lot 1g5. -. 60 TO- l25. "a. 80. GS. Is. IT,
$50. l55. 80. los ~. li7. l02, 50. rs. l39 > o.,
$50. 49, of five hundred dollars each
J.. l.. DOBBlNS
President Board of Commissions.
nOl6M VT
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
DIED.

JOHNSON-On Sunday. November -
1896. at o'clock a. m, at the family resi-
Mary Ann Johnson, wife of VIM. John
son. aged 81 years.
Interment this (Monday) afternoon az
3 o'clock at the Peninsula cemetery.
TOFAUTE-Sunday. November 18th.
and Mary Tofaute, aged y days.
Funeral from the residence of parents.
2S13 Chapline street, this Monday after
noon at o'clock.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16

ter and a rather odd one considering
the d clarations of both Lord Kimberly
and Lord Salisbury in the earlier stages
of the controversy that they would
never submit to arbitration in the
questions specified in Mr. Olneys note,
and included in the Presidents special
message to Congress. it smacks at
the same time of a large amount of
beefy British cheek
And we never knew iii now how
near we were to eating humble lie and
having orr civilization set lack half
"a century by engaging in an unequal
contest. It. must he stated however,
that it mas taken Lord Salisbury long
time TO work his mercy department up
to the point of thus falling unHn !ooc
Uncle Sam as the gentle dew. And all
the time We never knew navec even
suspected. in what suspense and danger
we were, We'll, we've escaped the
worst, evidently.
We are clad to observe. however.
that all the London newspapers are not
uaudlin arl silly in their estimates of
the suua-iou The Westminster Ga
zette, for example. saws:
THE locus standi Of the United States,
which the Marquis of Salisbury at first
denied. is now undiSputed. and rs accept
Of al Hffr ONT AtaF1ta-
zuela. We would much rather settle with
the United States. but We naturally look
20 the United States TO 20 bail for -Nene-
zuela I'm return. To this assertion OF me
Monroe doctrine the most satisfactory
point OF AN is appended general arbi-
trdtiou agreement
And the st. James Gazette:
eff Great Britain does not submit this
issue TO arbitration il will he difficult to
disprOye the American claim that the
agreement is square backdown upon the
part of Great Britain.
There is a marked difference in the
views here presented. We won't 1e-
tort in kind to the comment of a Ger
tain asinine portion OF the British
press. We won't taunt the poor old
British lion. We will simply state the
fact that is known of all men, namely,
that if it had come to a question of
breakdown the backing-down would
not have taken place on this side Of
the water. and we haven't heard of any
one here who was at all afraid that the
development of the country would be
retarded half a century by war with
England. And had it come to a ques-
ton of fight the struggle would not
have proven so unequal as the London
Globe imagines.
The truth of the matter is that John
Bull has finally come to his senses.
He has found out that his policy of
bluff and buster won't brighten Amer
leans as he is forced to realize that
Uncle Sam cannot be bullied. The
United States is not seeking a fight
with any nation and is always ready to
DO its whole share toward preserving
an honorable peace; but wnen our nat
ional honor and dignity are attacked ev-
cry American in the land is ready and
anxious to fight to preserve them.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
4 SSIGNMENT NOTICE.

To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given taa. John g.
White has made an assignment o. -
lery. leather and shoe nudU- business
and assets TO the undersigned l0r f.. H.u-
eft of his creditors. All persons having
claims against him Will pleas. pres
them 10 me for filing as soon a~ convenient
that they may not be overlooked i l.-f-
button Of whatever proceeds mty ~
from sale Of property. All persons OWNS
the said John 4. White VIII pleas, .
without delay and make settlement vita
the undersigned.
l.. 5. JORDAN. Assignee.
nolGera No. l5lJ ChIuilul SI..t
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16

and led him out into the grove. and hand
ed him a bride (and there was horse
connected with it,. and said:
Here's yer darned old boss! Pray fer
me on yer way home.
FRANK L. STANTON.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-16
AS TO MERE MONEY MAKING.

Boston Globe.
Mr.. Bryan has been offered $4,000 for
fifty lectures and has received numerous
other offers equally generous. II looks
as if he might be able. if ne so desires. TO
make more money than Mr.. Mckinley
during the next four years.