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Congressional Proceedings.

FLOR Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays
proceedings see seventh page.]
SATURDAY, February %. - Washington's
birthday was generally observed at the ma
tional capital. Neither houses of congress
were in session.
MoNDAY.-The senate passed a bill grant
ing a pension of 800 per IN )nth TO the
widow OF the late Secretary OF State Walter
@. Gresham. Mr.. Morgan Of Alabama re-
sumed his speech on the subject calling at
tention to the terrible atrocities inflicted by
Spain on the Cubans during the recent
struggles. He said that in the battles
fought in the patriotic wars for inderend-
euce in Cuba the blood of the patriots had
been shed in vain. That the American
people had witnessed those struggles for SO
many years was enough to prove their faith
full adhesion to national duty. They could
go no further in their forbearsnce without a
stain on the national honor and without do
ing injustice to the government and people
OF the United States. Before adjournment
the vice-president announced that he had
signed the urgency deficiency bill. -
Mr.. Brewster Of New York introduced q bill
in the house to protect the silver mining
industry Of the country by taking it from
the free list of the tariff bill, making silver
bullion coin aud ore dutiable at fifty per
cent ad valorum. The house committee on
banks ia favorably disposed toward the bill
providing for the establishment Of an inter.
national bank in this country, but the ques
ton has been raised whether such meas
ure would be constitutional.
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Society Of Colonial Wars.

The second annual meeting and banquet
Of the Society of Colonial Wars of the state
OF Vermont was held last Saturday after
noon at the Van Ness House, Burlington.
This day COMMUNICATED the 164th birthday
of George Washington and the 172d ami YER
sary Of the settlement OF Fort drummer At
the business meeting the following offic srs
we're elected: Governor, Colonel Villa n
Seward Webb, Shelburne; deputy governor,
Governor Urban Adrian Woodbury., Bur-
lington; lieutenantgovernor, Colonel Ed
ward Curtis Smith, ST. Adams; secretary,
John Grant Norton, Esq, st. Albans; dep
Kimball, West Randolph; treasurer, Colonel
Charles Spooner Forbes, St. Adams;
chaplain, Robert Noble, Esq, St. Adams !;
historian, Colonel George Granville Bene-
dict, Burlington; registrar, Hon. Hiram Au-
gustus Huse, Montpelier; chancellor, ex-
Governor William Paul Dillingham;, Water
bury; gentlemen Of the council, Colonel
George Grenville Benedict of Burlington,
Captain Austin Weld Fuller Of st. Albans
Captain Horace Edward Dyer of Rutland,
Hon. Charles Dewey of Montpelier, Hon.
Edward Wei 8 of Burlington. General Julius
Jacob Estey of Brattleboro; committee on
membership, Hon. Heman Allen Waterman
of Johnson, Albert E. Richardson, Esq, of
Burlington, Charles K. Miner, Esq, Of Bur-
lington, James Clay Houghton OF Mont
pelier, Worthington Smith Telford, Esq,
OF St. Adams.
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Political Notes.

AMBASSADOR BAYARD is reported to
be pleased with the queens speech,
and yet there is not disparaging word
in it about his native laEd.-Globe-
Democrat.
THE farmers of the United States
were just beginning to find an enlarged
foreign market for their products under
the reciprocity policy when demo-
catic congress came along and smashed
it. OF course that great wrong will be
rectifed as soon as republican rule is
restored.-St. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
THE opinion held in some quarters
that the republican bosses are going to
dictate who will be the candidate need
not cause any uneasiness in the party.
There is no certainty at all that the
bosses will unite upon anybody. Even
il they do unite, it is far from certain
that their voice will prevail. Nearly
all the bosses were against Harrison at
Minneapolis, but they accomplished
nothing. A national convention is too
big gathering to be managed by a
cabal of local magnates, even If these
be as astute and resourceful as Quay
and Plat, the greatest of the present
bosses. The preferences of the people
whatever those preferences may be
are going to be the dominant influence
in the selection of the nominees.-St
Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Prominent Writers.
NEW ENGLAND LEADERS TO CONTRIBUTE TO
THE BOSTON JOURNAL.

Next Sunday there will begin in the Bos-
ton Journal series OF remarkably interest
ing signed articles by prominent New Eng
land statesmen. These articles were writ
ten expressly for the Boston Journal and
will appear regularly in the Sunday issue.
They are exclusive articles for the Boston
Journal, and can be found in no other paper
In the country. They are written by Sem
ator Henry Cabot Lodge OF Massachusetts,
Senator William X. Chandler OF New
Hampshire. Hon. Joseph III. Manley OF
Maine, Congressman Dingley OF Maine, and
others, and they will treat of the present
presidential situation in vigorous, striking
and intensely interesting style. The arti-
cles will begin in The next Sunday Journal.
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Rip Them UpI

Editor of Watchnaan Hearty thanks
for your editorial on the Somewhat
Previous" ways of nominating a gov
ernor for Vermont. That sentiment,
I" 1t is the business of the freemen of
Vermont to rip up these arrangements,
scatter them to the ,oinds, and maintain
their sovereignty" is nobly right. The
will of the people is the essence of all
true republication, of all pure de.
mocracy. The effort to stampede the
state for any man for governor, or even
president, is fundamentally wrong.
Let the people be heard from in con-
vention, then there will be no trouble
at the polls. The governorship of Yer
mont has been taken by force long
enough. Give us rest, and modest
man for governor, and we shall not
need to cry, "God Save the Common
wealth." 1t will take care of itself.
MIDDLEsEX.
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roorr,rurp FROM FIRST rAer.l

and the opening and closing by Ainambra
Encampment OF Waterbury. DAVID San-
wiii enemnlify the I'M written work Of each
degree. and criticisms will be given by Levi
VGreen OF Rutland, grand patriarch, and
r. Glidden Of Barre, district deputy
grand patriarch. Remarks on the Sovereign
GRAND Lodge will be made by Colonel Harry
Parker of Bradford, grand repres %i "a We
Hail Of Burlington, past grand master; on
tbe Grand Enoampment Of Vermont by
Louis v. Green of Rutland, grand patria rch
on Patriarch Militant by Colonel l.. O.
Grant; on the state OF the order by j. W
Goodell, grand represe sentative. A banquet
will be served at ten o'clock In Grand Army
Hall by the members of Ivy Lodge, Daugh
ters of Rebekah. All pstriarchs in the dis
trict are cordially invited to be present.
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LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. TYLER of the
United States navy died last week in the
marine hospital at Washington. Lieuten,
ant Tyler was a son OF the late Dr. Thomas
P. Tyler Of BrAttleboro, and was graduated
from Annapolis. Since graduation he had
travelled extensively throughout the world,
having been to the Mediterranean, China,
South America, Mare Island and Vallejo,
Cal. He was in charge OF the United States
ship Mohican," which sailed from San
Francisco by order Of President Cleveland
about three years ago for the Samoan
islands on account of the Samoan troubles.
He was forty-eight years old at the time OF
his death, and leaves wife and one child.
The burial was at Brattleboro last Friday
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is seen in the utterances OF individuals
and the Grout press. Stripped Of their
eupbemisms, the declarations OF the
Free Press, Monitor, and other papers,
as to the certainty of CIRCUITS nomina-
ton are as brutally and unblushingly
bold and nude as the one republished
above. The republicans of Vermont
are not going into the approaching can
vass under the cloud of such an indict-
ment.
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THE report OF the Bennington town liquor
agent shows that he has sold during the
past year S4,70O worth of liquors, ostensibly
for medical, mechanical or chemical pur-
poses. This is equal to seventy-three cents
for every man, woman and child in the
town and $1.10 for every resident of the
village. The law provides that all the profit
from the liquor agencies over ten per cent
shall be paid into the state treasury. AL
though there was S4,700 worth sold in Ben
nington the share that went to the state was
only $50
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tends only to the officials elected by the
votes Of the city. In the case Of Mr.. Bus
we'll there Ia no such question. But in both
cases the objection made to auditing the
accounts is on purely technical grounds,
not because OF any moral wrong The
charges are for work that has been done or
service rendered, and they are approved by
the auditors az correct except In the one
respect specifed-that they are In violation
OF Section 30 Of the Charter. Mayor Wing
takes the responsibility and declares that
he, and not the officials named, should be
iudged-if any one-for this violation Of the
strict letter OF the law. The incident is i'm
portant chiefly as directing the attention OF
officials to the wisdom OF following both the
letter and the spirit Of the law.
THE WARNING.
The following articles in the warning are
OF special public Interest:
Twill the city vote to appropriate money
for the support OF the Montpeli ,r Public
Library? For the Kellogg. Hubbard LII
brsry? For the Montpelier Military Band9
For Memorial Day2
"Will the city vote to exempt from tax
alton the property Of the Capital Creamery
The granite manufacturing firms OF A. j.
Young & Co., Burley & Calder, and Cotton
& More?
"Will the city authorize the City Council
to sell the Capital Hall property, and to pur-
chase other property in lieu thereof
"Will the city fix I'D pay compensation
to the city officers authorized by law to re.
ceive compensation upon a vote OF the city
directing the same?"
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THE little daughter of Mr.. Fred Weber,
Holland, Mass, had very bad cold and
cough, which he had not been able to cure
with any thing. gave him twenty Ave-
cent bottle of Chamberlin' q Cough Remedy,
says W. p, Holden, merchant and post
master at West Brimfeld, and the next
time saw him he said 1t worked like a
charm. This remedy is intended espe'
cially for acute throat and lung diseases
such as colds, Group and whooping cough;
and 1t is famous for its cures There is no
danger in giving It TO children, for 1t con.
tains nothing Injurious. For sale by q.
Blakely, Montpelier, Vt.
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A DECREE OF divorce. approved by Pope
Leo, has been granted to John Keefe OF
Halifax, N s., ON the ground Of the infidel-
ity of his wife. This was the first divorce
of the kind ever granted in Nova Scotia or
Canada. Much interest is excited by the
concession from Rome, as never before has
a divorce been recognized in this country
by a Roman Catholic authority. The decree
granted Keefe is not only one OF separation,
but 1t permits remarriage. A legal disso-
luton OF the marriage case has also been OBJ
tanned from the supreme court.
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TIE CITY REPORT.

The first annual report OF the city OF Mont
pelier will be somewhat voluminous docu-
ment, filling about 100 printed pages, pam
phlet size. 1t will probably be ready for
distribution toward the last of the week
1t is not yet 10 shape for detailed review
hut we are able to present the subjoined re.
capitulation of the ex expenditures for the year
and the items of greatest public interest in
the treasurer's report;
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ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.

MIDDLEsEx's communication has
the right ring. 1t is one of many graft
flying indications of a rising tide OF
protest against the wicked attempt to
forestall the will of the people in the
matter of the governorship.
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during the year of SO, 500 rs.
THE WATER WORKS.
The gross inco ne from the water works
for the year is $13, 1873 SO. The extension Of
the service during the past year has been
greater than in any year since the pipes
were laid, excepting 1888, when the new
main was laid. The extensions amount to
some 7 900 feet, and have cost 81, BOLTS The
new dam at the outlet of Berlin Pond has
cost 81, 463.37. These two items constitute
the bulk OF the total expense account OF
So, 665 81, leaving net revenue of S75l778
AUDITORS REPORT.
The auditors make the subjoined report:
To the City Of Montpelier The undersigned,
auditors of the city, respectfully report that
they have examined and adjusted as re-
quired by the city charter, the accounts OF
the city treasurer, overseer Of the poor,
school commissioners, trustees OF Green
Mount Cemetery, superintendent OF water
works and the liquor agency account for The
year 1855, as appears by the detailed state
ment of the same hereto appended. Also,
that they have examined the accounts OF
the street commissioner and common oOun-
Gil that in the street commissioners &C
count there are charges aggregating the sum
OF So, $50 for the use and service of the street
commissioners own teams, employed in
violation OF the provisions OF Section 30 OF
the City Charter; and to that amount and
| for that reason the auditors decline to Ap-
prove or allow the account The account
In other resp scts Is approved. With respect
| to the account OF the common council, the
auditors have examined the same. AS ap-
pears by the statement, warrants have be on
drawn and paid for the sum of 81, $50 OF the
street commissioners account, disallowe cd
by the auditors, and also for the sum OF
8225. 35 to @. #. Boswell for materials fur
nished to and printing done for the city, in
violation Of law, and the auditors decline tc
approve those items Of the account of the
council. In other respects the account 1.
approved. These accounts are appended IL
detail. Respectfully submitted, Albert w
Ferrin, Melville E, Smile. Levi II, Bixby
Auditors"
In respect of this matter 1t Is proper /,
state that Section 80 OF the City Charter pro
vides that no city official shall be directl!
or indirectly interested in any contract witt
the city, connected with the department. t,
which his Office belongs" The Office o
:" street commissioner does not seem Il
exist under that title, but the Charter doe
provide for superintendent OF streets, VIII
ia appointed by the City Council and ma
be removed at the pleasure OF that body
IL Is mooted question whether the sup
iptendent OF streets Is city official With
the meaning OF Section 30 of the Charter
or whether the prohibition there made 81
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TRKAsURKR's ACCOUNT.

The treasurer's account shows that the
aggregate receipts for the year are $780,
1929 "A. OF this aggregate $3.50 was for
money borrowed temporarily; $49,2O196 on
city tax list of 1895; school taxes. list Of
1895, S6,632.71; sales OF liquor $6,189 81 |;
water works, $13, 433 SO; D. p. Clarke, $500;
sidewalk and sewer assessments, S740.14.
The remainder from miscellaneous sources.
Besides the items OF expenditure en-
braced in the recapitulation OF the expenses
for the year. the sum Of $4,000 has been
water debt, So, 600; interest on funded debt
and temporary loans, $4,9O4.2; liquors,
S6,463 10; state highw state school,
county and state taxes, S7,052 3S; water de-
partment, So, 965 81; temporary loan, ST..
0OO. There are numerous smaller sums for
specific purposes, and for miscellaneous
purposes :" the lump SUN Of 81, $40 As. The
balance to the credit Of the sinking fund is
Qh77 %
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THE WATER WORKS.

Showing q reduction OF the indebtedness
during the year of $8,505 rs.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT,

BY the act of incorporation of the city Of
Montpelier, the city assumed the liabilities
and obligations of the town and village Of
Montpelier, and the Montpelier Union
School District. These were, March o, 1895:
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Bradford.
A musical convention Is be held in Viii
lage Hall, commencing about March 8.
Musical talent Is expected from adjoining
towns.
The dramatic play, "Rebecca's Triumph"
at Village Hall, last week Friday night,
was we'll attended and about $50 realized.
The parts ;were all taken we'll and all
did credit to themselves.
L. w. Dickey was again in town last
week. He thinks as soon as he gets the
customers to know that he will be around
once in about six weeks that he will have q
good trade established.
Last week Tuesday evening there was
special meeting of Mount Lebanon Chapter.
Messrs. Libbey, Bailey and Murphy Of
Ryegate and Groton were the candidates
for the Most Excellent and Royal Arch de-
grees. District Deputy Grand High Priest
K. w. Bisbee OF Barre was present After
the work the chapter invited all present to
the dining hall at Hotel Low where ban
quet was served.
M, @. johnson, with Houghton & button
of Boston, is at home for a few days vaca-
ton. - Mrs. ID. b. Carlton has 80 far
recovered as to be able to be about the
house. &C. K. Clark and o. II. Baker
were at West Topsham last Monday after
noon. - Della Shaw will return to Bos-
ton the last of the week. She will stop at
Llconia to visit Mrs. Carrie Libbey. -
Lutte Carlton was not able TO attend
school last week, aud returned to her home
at West Newbury. g. Eliza A. George
was at home from Montpelier last Friday
evening, TO take her part in the dramatic
play, returning Saturday morning. - j.
M. Taylor is soon to commence keeping
house in the tenement owned by M. q. Elan
ders, opposite the residence of j. M. War
den. - Mrs Phoebe Bailey has closed her
house at Haverhill, N. III and il boarding
at Hotel Low. w. E. Poole of Mont
pelier, former drug clerk at A. t. Clark's,
! accompanied by his WIFE, was at Hotel
Low last week. going TO West Topsham on
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-13
SKATES And WHEELS.
Odd Admixture Of Outdoor
Pleasures on a Braeing
Sunday.

The upper part of Hudson County
was clean daft on skating yesterday.
Every little pond from Newark avenue
70 the Bergen County line was more or
less occupied. Everyone was clanking
q pair of skates, no matter where they
were met. One little boy coming out Of
sunday school looked once over his
shoulder in the direction of his teacher
and hnding her back turned pulled a
bright new pair of skates from under
ms coal and made a dash for liberty and
ice.
The various arms and branches of the
Hackensack and even a little of the big
river itself was occupied by a merry
throng all day. The big pond adjacent
to the Hackensack Water Company,s re-
seryoir at West Hoboken was packed to
such an extent that there was very lit
tie real pleasure to those who wished to
glide. But they were a jolly crowd and
good naturally elbowed one another and
laughed heartily at someone's efforts to
crack the ice.
Inc unused portion of the new reser-
yoir at Central, Summit and Manhattan
avenues, was black with skaters until
away into the night. The Street and
water Board have erected three arc
lamps IN such a manner as. to light the
light Is better than a half a dozen blue
goats and does more to prevent disorder
than a platoon of them. The ice was
sort Yesterday owing to the mild wealth
81, puL as evening wore on and the tiny
particles, of frost commenced to fail the
surface became frmer, and there was a
new ring to the steel which made the
forts f.. e gst ali the fun they could ouiif out ai
tJp in Greenyi1le the Ia rpa nopd ~ fro,+
Of the bookbindery was Crowded all day
long and 2 part of the night. OF course
there are lots of people in that section
Who would not think of desecrating the
sabbath 3 by skating on that good day.
and avoid becoming dull boys and girls
by such innocent relaxation on the sew
enth We're out in force. however. The
ponds at Claremont were as well patrons
zee during the early hours of the day.
On these ponds the surface of the ice
was in rather poor condition. but the
many skaters made the best of it. The
skating Of the last few days had cut it
pleasant.
This lack of wind brought out num-
n n OF cyclers. No greater contract
the spring-like calmness of yesterday.
The absence of that chilling northwestern
prougnt ouf many open carriages, too,
and the Boulevard was well peopled. To
fare more complete the long string of
electric lights frightened the roadway
almost like day, and made q charming
vista Of miles in length on the Bayonne
and North Hudson stretches. Several
bicycles and e~quippages took advantage
VI lIle lllSilM ldSC nl0nf.
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SONGS, SOLOS AND soRAPPING.

The Young Mems Independent Social
Club held their much talked of stag at
Gantzhorn's Hall on Beacon avenue,
Saturday evening, The club is a very
prosperous one and largely composed of
young men from the old Fourth district.
The stag surpassed anything the club
had ever undertaken in point of man
m and talent provided. The hall
was deliberately decorated with flags,
bunting and -evergreenS. A temporary
stage had been erected in the front
part for the talent. Michael Shannon,
the stage manager, had charge of the
programme, n could not have selected
and the Anchor Athletic Clubs, all Of this
city, attended. The programme began
with a recitation by Mr.. J. Stokes and
Charles Duval showed his ability at
swinging clubs. The John Murray
danced, a vocal solo by Mr.. Andrew Hass
came next, and Edward Wesp followed
with a baritone solo. George Norton,
humorist, delighted his audience, and
Charles ]. Frank and J.. Bothner played
Then the wonderful Oriental Trio sang.
The Columbian Quartette, which is we'll
known in this city, sang well, as they
always do. Mr.. Kelly of New York fol
lowed with a vocal solo, which was well
rendered. The International Quartette
followed and sang e~xceIlently. Then Mr..
Barnes recited and did it well.
The events of the evening We're two
boxing bouts. The first was hotly con-
Wilson and Peck Barry of the Lenox
Club. Then the bout between Harry
Stiles (colored) of New York and D.
Moore took place and was much enjoyed.
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AN ELBE SURVIVORS, KNIFE.
BAD Feeling Between steamship Fire
m To 0xn. Sarfous A frrn

men Causes 2SerlOue Aurny.
Wilhelm Nagel, t~wenty-three years old,
a fireman on the S. s. Paris of the
American Line, and Gustave Winning,
twenty-six years old;a sailor on the 8. S.
"saaleo of the Bremen Line, met in Gahtz-
berg's Music Hall, No. 1H Washington
street. Hoboken, Saturday night, and as
soon as they saw each other began a
war of words, the majority of which are
not found IN the Sunday School papers.
The cause of the trouble was the bitter
feeling betWeen the men of the respec-
tive lines. The American ii sailors
claim that the Bremen Line men work
for cut rates.
Nagel and Winning had not exchanged
a. dozen words when they came to blows.
newed the ight on the street. Nagel
was getting the best of the ARRAY when
Winning drew a clasp knife n stabbed
him In the right wrist and left arm, in
dicting two severe cuts. The injured
mar gave a cry of pain at the same
time calling out that he had been tabled.
Winning tried to escape but was caught
by several men who had witnessed the
the. Eight. n held until a policeman
arrived. He was taken to Police Head
quarteTs and locked up.
pital in the police patrol. he was very
weak from loss Of blood, Winning was
held yesterday morning by the Recorder
TO await the action Of the Grand jury.
He is d OF the eleven people Who were
saved from the steamship Elbe, which
was wrecked n the North Sea about d