The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-03
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NOTINt:S.

The Montpelier Watchman Blooms
Col. Robert j. Kimball Of Randolph,
Cassius Peck of Brooktield and DIR. II.
ID. Hoton of Brattleboro for delegates
to ST. Louis.
The great John l.. Sullivan has TAX
en- up his residence at Chicago, TO the
| grief of classic Boston.
The Boston Journal has passed back
into the control of Stephen O'Mcara
| who before his retirement had built
1t up to such success and who is one
of the best equipped lournaliasts in
America. He is Reed man and thus
GOV. Mckinley loses his one newspa-
per friend in Boston.
! Medical Davitt. the high hearted
Irish leader on his way home from a
| tour of Australia. sand at New York.
Saturday when interviewed on the Ven
ezuelan controversy. that he did not
think there was the slightest possibi-
ity of war. Lord Salisbury, . he said.
sis known in Great Britain and Ireland
as Il bully whose policy when he has
been at the head of the government
has been to try TO irtimidate little ma
tions and powers throughout the world.
punity heretofore, but now finds that
behind little Venezuela stands Amer
lea and he will discover that he will
not be allowed to carry on the same
policy toward this small state in
South America that be and other Eng
lish statesmen have carried out to
ments in other parts of the world
t'r,n oil 1 H. I
am glad that such a stand has been
taken by the United States. II was
about time and the upshot of it will
be that the reasonable demand made
by the president to have the whole
trouble submitted to arbitration will
be accepted by England. "
The Waterbury Record names u bran
new candidate for governor Fred |
f. Smith Of Montpelier.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell., about !
whom comparatively little has been !
heard since his retirement from office. |
is devoting his time and attention to |
the conversion of the Shiloh battlefield |
into national park. 4. SN . ...-. ....-,
\ Green mountain boy has taken
the trouble to learn that of the more
than 80 towns in Vermont only eight
bear names taken from the bible,
viz: Goshen, Jericho, Canaan, Eden.
Corinth, Athens. Bethel and Sharon.
A very great majority of these names
are derived from old English sources,
either after some English town, like
Rochester, Rutland and Manchester,
or after some English family. like
Dorset, Shrewsbury. Essex. st. Al
oans and others.
Another convert TO the Norwegian
system of liquor selling worthy of
note is Gov. Morrill, of Kansas. He
lays he is unalterably opposed to the
,pen saloon, but he thinks the pres
mt prohibition laws in Kansas are !
arce, and should be changed 10 allow Il
he introduction of the new system.
The Boston correspondent of the
springfield Republican thinks the
president has killed iingoism 10y the
'rocess of inocculation.
The supreme court of the United
states has decided that silver coins
re legal tender for their face value no
natter how much dcfaced or abradcd. !
0 long as they can be recognized as
oins. 4 man was put off a Jersey City
trcet car because he offered badly
BRAIDED 10-cent piece TO pay his fare,
'hich the conductor refused. The
assenger sued for damages and the
tate courts gave him s315. The com
any took the case to the United States
upreme court and that court has now
ffirmed the verdict of the state
ourts.
The North Troy Palladium. always
n excellent local paper, joins the pro-
nssion of improvement 10y donning
he SPACE form.
This is an era of phenomenal muir
erers. Recently a convict in the Ohio
set out to Guido the
Iolmes, Dorrant and Hayward horrors
y confessing that for robbery ard
ther purposes he had murdered no
IS than - persons. Subsequent in
,stigations confirmed the correctness
his STORY The fact that many of
les. hunters Hciu committed with
1t any apparent danger of detection.
III, in reality, were not known until
,cjr perpetrators confessed shows