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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
Refer II to the People.

Col. a. b. Valentine of Bennington
in very sensible letter to Harris
Weekly of st. Johnsbury proposes a
way of ending the present agitation of
the prohibitory law that ought to com
mend itself to fair-minded men OF
all opinions. 1t is:
Pass stringent high license local
option law, and let it be submitted
| to thc.vote of the people. At nearly
fifty years of trial with at least very
unsatisfactory results. let the people
by popular vote say whether we will
continue as we are, orr make a new
departure, following the lead of some
of the states most noted for intelligence
and observance of law On the other
hand, should the people decide to keep
on the lines of absolute prohibition,
quite likely the education and excite
ment incident to the canvass, would
make sentiment behind the law that
would not brook its defiance. Our
present prohibitory statute, first called
the Name law, was better enforced for
the first five Years of It's existence,
than at any time since. am inclined
to think that the law was never more
Intellectual for the suppression of in
temperance, than at present. | am
inclined to think that our public pro.
secutors show more moral demoraiza
ton in the discharge of their duties
under the law, than at any previous
period. TO my mind we 90 from bad
to worse IN this matter, but in this !
may be mistaken. hope so. and per.
haps experiences are not alike in all
parts of the state.
Col. Valentine states the wea ness
of the present system very well when
he says:
Any law that calls for special effort
outside of the offers of the law, that
entail continual expenses for its friends
in efforts for its enforcement. cannot
be satisfactorily enforced. After few
weeks, or at the most months of such
labor, efforts cease and violators of
the law go unwhipped of Justice, and
worse than that, it is not unusual for
the prosecuting officers to reduce the
whole matter to practical license, by
fines as heavy as the seller can bear.
and yet live to sell another day, to
say nothing of their being unable to
resist the temptations that are Incl
lent to their position.
At least the Valentine plan would
prevent any chance for further dispute
is to what the people want. Whenever a
est is made in the Legislature prohi-
,ition comes out over whelmingly vic
orious; but no one really claims that
he votes fairly present the opinion ,
# the state. Because the law has so .
ong stood on the statute books, many
legislators vote for it without believing ,
n it themselves with the idea that it +,
$ popular, and this kind of aw-mak- >
ng, which is pretty large element in +
'ermont, as we'll as elsewhere, ,
ill continue unit there is a n
by votes that n
ne idea is wrong. The legislative 4
ote runs usually about five or six to
ne in favor prohibition. 1t may be h
lat popular vote would show a r.
ajority the same way, but it would -
ot be anywhere near in that proper. y
on. -,
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

'" b. johnson is now completing
ms house on Cherry street. Fred
Fred Bohemian has succeeded IN
getting back on TO its foundations
aha Strengthened up his barn which
was nio Fn clear off the wall and on 10
It's side by the high wind three weeks
ago. W ii. Welcome is making sever
al repairs and improvements on the So.
MAN street place recently purchased
OF MISS Aggie Gale. Emerson & Son
nave put IN new 5000 ID safe of Mac.
Neaie n Cohen manufacture.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

The Brattleboro Reformer is dead
set against third term, though
neither that paper, excellent as it is
barring it's tendencies to bogeyism.
nor any other, has ever given a valid
reason why good man shouldn't oc-
cupy the White House more than
twice. ( Woodstock Age.
Thomas Jefferson the father Of the
Democratic party, in refusing to be a
candidate for third term, as the
Vermont legislature urged him to do,
gave some reasons which were not only
valid" then. but have increased in
weight with every decade of the
country's growth since, why 70 man,
however "good''. should occupy the
White House more than twice. >
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

Postmaster General Wilson says in an
interview that it is the settled purpose
Of his department 10 gradually organize
the fourth class offices into stations
connected with some central Office,
after the plan announced several weeks
ago, and so extend the classified SER
vice over them. He believes it to be
entirely practicable. He says:
If single postmaster can handle
the territory within radius OF 10 or
20 miles. why not within one of %
miles, There are about GO free dc
livery offices in the country, and the
scheme applies to all of them. Ii
they should average 20 stations to the
office, that would make 1900 offices
which would become stations to the
office, that and Withdraw from the
spoils system 1900 postmastcrs.
expect to push the matter to con
clusion as rapidly as possible. This
plan is in the line of an economical
and business like administration of
postal affairs. 1t is the application of
purely business principles to the post
Office system. At present the depart
nent has about 10000 postoficcs to
handle. with all their accounts and
their routine business The entire |
time of large number of clerks is
taken up with the matter and the
of their accounts. By attach
ing these offices to large offices great |
deal of the work will be rendered I'm
necessary.
He says the experiment has been
applied at Baltimore where
several small outlying ocffies have been
attached as stations to the main office,
md the result has been saving of 33
Ger cent. in the expenses Of these
mail offices and an increase in their
eceipts.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

Judge Brewer, as president of thu
Venezuela boundary commission, ad
dressed letter to Secretary Olney las
week, asking that the governments u
both Great Britain and Venezuela bt
| invited to aid tine commission in it,
work by submitting all the evidence,
documentary or otherwise. in theii
possession bearing upon their rights
to the disputed territory, land also sug
costing that if either should deem it
appropriate to designate an agent OF
attorney whose duty it would be to sec
that no such proofs were omitted or
overlooked, the commission would be
grateful. Mr.. Olney has forwarded
the request to both governments and
the general belief is that both will
comply. for it can be done, as Judge
Brewer suggests. with an express
reservation that it shall not be deemed
to be an abandonment or impairment to
any position heretofore expressed. or
course it is important that all the evi
dence available from all sides be sub
mitted in order that the commission
reach Il Just conclusion as to what is
the true divisional line England,
after this courteous offer, will have
only herself to blame if there be any
error that leads to complications in
the future. The Tory disposition,
which took the original form of Sails
burv's insolent refusal to arbitrate, is
of course to deny this monstrous
claim to determine the territory of a
British colony within its jurisdiction
as the London Globe expresses it.
But the sensible English opinion is
voiced by the London News when it
says: Justice Brewer displayed gen
line craftsmanship in drafting the
etter The request furnishes Lord
an opportunity that ought
lot to be lost. The prime minister
would act with wisdom and dignity if |
lie complied with the request =
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

The government wins in its case
against +. K. Chapman. the New York
stock broker who refused to answer
questions before the sugar trust in
vestigating committee. 1t was sought
to prove by him that certain senators
were specializing in sugar trust stocks
at the time the question of sugar duty
was before congress, and he refused
to answer on the ground that such
transactions between principal and
agent were not privileged. The supreme
court of the District of Columbia de
MES this claim and finds Chapman
guilty of contempt of the authority ,of
congress. The case, on whose result
several others will hinge, will go up to
the supreme court, of course and it is
to be hoped in behalf of honor and
decency in legislation that the verdict
will be upheld.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

the guest Of Miss Mary Farrell b.
Sunday. David Carey. Jr., wa W." %
to Bellows Falls last week TbnrsSJ,
attend the play, Bob. the Ne% Y5'!
given that evening by the Foro ~,o..
which }. j. Fen ton took nr yvm''
part. II. j. Doolin Of South Fp ram:
ham, Mass, was here this wool Ds ~
his mother. who has bren ani,o w : Z
with bronchitis. J. +. Brosnsb,~a.
Bellows Falls was in town yostsr| 'a
Postal Clerk Beach has been attain sa
the bicycle show at New York "
week. "A. W. Chids was \, Hos w
Tunnel Saturday and Sunday f'
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

1t is time for the United States to
recognize the hcligerent rights OF the
Cuban patriots. Now that Spain her
self admits the failure of her ablest
general after 10 months of lighting to
conquer them, now that the rebels
have overrun practically the whole
island. and are threatening Havana
itself, what more is requisite to Justify
recognition that war exists: Any
further delay will be simply an over
courtesy to Spain, which FASTENED i'm
mediateiy after Bull Run to recognize
the southern confederacy. Cleveland
should issue a proclamation without
further delay.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

Senator Wolcott who; is just back
from an extended trip to Europe re-
ports Il strong movement there in favor
of bimetalism. but not with an imme-
diatc prospect of success. He says:
We have no idea in this country of
the unseltish and important efforts
throughout England and the continent
in favor of the recognition of silver.
There is hardly an intelligent land
owner in Europe who is not a bimetal.
isl. There were two important results
of the meeting in Paris. The first,
which was plan for an identical
resolution of the Importance OF inter
national agreement, to be introduced
simultaneously i'll the English paria.
ment. the French Assembly and the
German Reichstag, was agreed upon
ana another important result was the
establishment of cordial and closer
between the binetalist asso
citations of the different countries of
Europe, notably between France and
Germany. And the reception accorded
the committee by the president of the
Frech republic was, from a foreign
point of view, important and signiti-
cant The statesmen of France and
the manager Of the bank of Farnce are
and public opinion favors
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

A few of our esteemed contempora
ries are amusing themselves by talking
of Judge l.. M. Read of Bellows Falls
for governor. But Judge Read is too
brainy "a man for the Republican party
of this day and generation to nomin-
ate. and too shrewd one to try for the
nomination.. only four years after Il
Windham county man has had it. But
his friends will present his name for
secretary of state, and position he is
finely qualitiid to fill.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
Fittings.

- Geo. Davis Of Bellows Falls was !,
town last week. W. C. Willard tool, a
business trip to Northamnton tb;s
,week.-George ". Turner. who has
been at the Brooks House for a week
left Monday for Greenfield. Col. q
D Dowlccy was in New York this weak
Miss W. Maud Hunter spent SUNDAY in
winchester. n. III. Mrs. NJ. 4. Doc.
llttie spent Sunday with her husband
at Green River Eugene Gill of Hins.
dale was here Sunday returning Mon.
gay accompanied by Mrs. Gill, Mr.
Mooney of Springfield. Mass. called
on on friends in town Tuesday. H. p
Hunter visited briefly at c. z. Gil.
son at West Chesterfield. this week
John Thompson spent the mast wcai,
az his home in Winchester. \. H
MISS Mary Flavin of Bellows Falls was
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

+. Eagan. who has been ulas,n;.
on the new town hall, will nova NJ.
his family to Vergennes tomoro W.
Miss Emma Brown has moved m,
81 Frost street to 81 Ellio, st,e.,
L. NJ. Coats from IA Canal 10 II II /
Browns house 50 Elliot street 3
W. Sanders from Guilford street n i. !
Dunklee house around by S. T. Dars,
ports house in CentrevilIe
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
RuckIen,s Arnica SnIxe.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum.
Fever Sores. letter. Chappcd Hands,
Chilblains, Corns. and all Skin Erup-
tons, and positively cures Piles. or no
pay required. II = guaranteed 10 give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price ~ cents per box. For sale by r.
III. Holden & Co.-adv.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

England demands that Brazil shall
arbitrate the matter of the ownership
of this land of Trinidad, and an
nounces that ii consent to that plan is
not given before February IL the island
will be considered us belonging to
Great Britain. Only British check
would be equal to such "a demand right
by the side of the Venezuela case.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

Europe is excited this morning over
a report that Russia has outwitted the
other powers by forming an alliance
with Turkey. which makes the latter
substantially vassal of the Gar. 1t
is revival of the agreement OF 1888,
which the other powers vetoed, giving
Russia the right TO the use OF the
Dardcnclles and the power to close
them against all other nations.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
SPECIAL CLUBBING oEEEE

TIE REFoRMEE has made arrangements
whereby it is able to offer The Vermonter IN
connection with this paper for s2.35 for both
Publications for year. This offer is open 10
siew subscribers of THE REfoRMER ana also to
,-id ones paying year In advance. The Yer |
ationter is monthly illustrated state magazine.
devoted TO the material, educational anG general
interests of Vermont. Sample c.'nir NAV he
zen at THE REF0RXER Office. " -'n;r'ipr /
for TIE WEEKLY REroENEE, suh crit ,ut the /
thermometer. l2ff
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

Venezuela is reported to fight shy of
the English effort through Chill to
resume diplomatic relations with her
with view of settlement OF the
boundary dispute. Chill has long been
inimical to Venezuela. as she also Is
to the United States, while exceed
ingly friendly with England.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
Miss CIara Barton of tho Rcd Gross

Miss Clara Barton of the Red Cross
sailed for Turkey Tuesday and Secre
tary Olney has telegraphed inguiring
if the report last week of the Car
brutal order forbidding humane assis-
lance is true, Meanwhile the reports
from Armenia are that nearly 200 vii
lagos near Harport have been burned
with 1000 dwellings. Queen Victoria
has written the Sultan appealing in
the name of humanity for an end of the
and he replies again denying
their existence.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

Arrangements have been perfected whereby
we arc able TO offer the Mirror and Farmer with
the Eeformer for sl.sn year. The Mirror and
Farmer has no equal among farming papers in
rlr'ulaiion and attractive characteristics. Here
totutc the -lu,,lin. rate lla- l,cen - is,f
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

II. II. Green, son of Hotty, and for
merlv of Bellows Falls, who is now in
Texas, is reported to be a strong Reed
man and to promise to fix up things
for the sneaker down in that state.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

John Hays Hammond, an American,
who was in the employ Of Cecil Rhodes
and the British South Africa Co., at a
salary Of $50, 600 a year as a mining
expert, is among the Ga "Uitlanders"
under arrest in the Transvaal for par
ticipation in the conspiracy for an
uprising to assist the Jameson cXpedi-
ton. There are said to be about 900
Americans in the Transvaal, prin-
cipally in Johannesburg, but Ham
mond is the only one arrested
Among the prisoners is also brother
of Col. Rhodes and the whole lot are
lying in different prisons awaiting
trial. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain
of the British cabinet promises Presi'
dent Kruger that a searching inquiry
shall be made into the recent raid
and no more shall be allowed to occur.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

The senate passed u bill last Friday
appropriating SI0,0 for rebuilding
The custom house building and post
'itfice at st. Alhans. which was burned
last NAV.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
the REFORMER.
FRIDAY, JANUARY -, 1896.

The London News sums up the whole
Venezuelan situation when it says:
"The sooner Lord Salisbury discovers
a method of arbitration the better
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
SpOrtsInen.s Fact and Fan,

+. A. Starkey and Archie Street.,
captured eight rabbits and one M,
Monday. Frank Hildreth caught In,
rabbits and George Barker three Ri
bits.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
The Hotel Keeper.

The committee of the newly formed
Hotel Keepers Association. Geo. K.
Richards of this place. W. j. johnson
of Essex Junction and n. W. Morse OF
White River Junction met Tuesday at
the latter place, and drafted the by
laws for the association and perfected
the arrangements for the organization.
The by laws and the plans of the
organization do not provide anywhere
for any fight against the prohihitory
law, and the committee and the leaders
protest against the prevalent idea that
such is their purpose as an organiza.
ton. They say that not over one fifth
of them would take any part in such
Their idea is the same as
that Of the National Association and
those OF other states, AN organization
for social purposes and for protection
against hotel beats
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

The notifications of San Francisco
have recently been strengthened
through the acceptance by the govern
mept of three OF the most powerful
pneumatic guns yet tested. each of
which threw 800 pounds of high ex-
plosivc upward OF 1000 yards with
precision and terrific effect upon the
water where they struck. Columns
of water were thrown rs high in the
air as the Washington monument, and
the aim was SO true that there would
have been no difficulty in hitting any
ship whore they might have been
aimed at. Other guns will bc placed
at Boston and the important coast
wise cities.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
STATE or ONO, CITY or TOLEDO.
TyrAC EnIfNrN hNt

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he j. the
senior partner of the firm of + -. CHENEY A. Co,
doing business In the City of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm will nay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot he cured
by The use of HALLS CATARRH CURE
FRANK J. CHENEY
sworn 10 before me and subscribed in my
presence, the 18th day at December. 4. d., ls.6.
SEAL 4. W. GLEASON.
I Nof0fy Public
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally and ac,-
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Send for testimonials free
FL CHENEY & co, Toledo @
Ia Sold by Druggists, s5c.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

Secretary Gresham before his death
had made an exhaustive study Of the
Venezuelan question and submitted
its results TO the president. His con
clusion was that the Monroe doctrine
was clearly applicable and that this
government should inhcyibly insist on
it, but first cxhaustng every effort TO
reach an adjustment through a friend
~ arbitration. He also took steps to
sound the governments of continental
Europe as to the degree of support
which this application of the Monroe
doctrine would receive from them and
his views have heen known at the
foreign offices in Paris, Berlin and st.
Petersburg for more than a year and
the result of the correspondence was
that Germany, France and Russia had
all given it to bc understood that that
would sustain our view of the Monroe
doctrine and would unite for the linn
itation of the British aggressions upon
minor occasions all over the world. (
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24
CARPETS.

No matter what Others may oheg, We
always can match price. quality fN
quality, and as warning will say 81
Cerpets will advance in price Feb. /
therefore if you want a new carpet ths
spring. BUY NOW.
The Forrest City times., 1896-02-21
NJ arrted.

Earl Davis. a Forrest City boy. was
married at Columbia Tenn. Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock tn Miss Sallle
Hickey. NEST estimable yotIng lady of
that place. The bridal ruple repaired
AT once to- Memphis, their future home.
Earl Davis was reared in Forrest
City. ami all who know him will join
TIE TINES in best wishes for "A long
life of prosperity and happiness for the
young couple. The groom is n gentle
man of splendid business attainmrnts,
while We are assured the bride is Il
young lady of great accomplishments
and rare sweetness Of disposition.
whose smiability and intelligence have
won for her wide circle of warm
friends. May all the brightest. sweet
est. richest blessings life can hold be
theirs throughout the coming years.
The Forrest City times., 1896-02-21

SOME OF our good friends are sorry
S'a are opposing Clarke" Why? Is
IL Vt Senator Jones all right and better
sitted, in every way than Governor
Clarke? "Oh, well. yes. honestly be-
tween you and me ] think he is. but
- All the Clarke bows have
butts" Capacity for strong personal
friendship Is au admirable character
bStlc IN any man. but patriotism is
4'ie'ef ti'an friendship. You may not
sllii'k s." That is because Won are
ioiindfd by sellishness. Is 1t right to
sacrifice your country's interests and
pht the fair name of your state in leo
3"tdf hy retiring distinguished sena-
TOR ana eleyating an unrepentant pis-
i"i-toter' who cannot and probably
Goes not wish tn control his temperp
The Forrest City times., 1896-02-21
Commissioners Sale of Real Estate
Notice is hereby given 'that nnder and by

Notcc is hereby given that nnder and by
~ virtue of a decretal order OF the st. Fran
els Circuit Court in Chaneery sitting. rem
dered at the September term. 1894. thereof i'm
y certain cause therein pending. wherein W.
J.. Evans. ei. ais. are plaintiffs. and vs.. u.
Thomas. at. ais. are defendants. which order
oi sale was renewed on March Eth, 1895, and
again renewed on September l0th. ls.6. and
the undersigned appointed special Com
missioner. to execute said decree. | will us
the special Commissioners of said Court. GU
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2orH. 1896.
AT the door of the Court House. in Forrest
city, st. Francis County. State of Arkansas,
within the hours prescribed by law for Judi.
claf sales. offer for sale at public outcry 10
the highest bidder Il cradt of three
months from date Of snie, the following de
scrihed real estate. to-wit:
The south part OF the Southeast quarter of
Sect 81. I ; y. X f. containing 81 acres in
81. Francis County. Arkansas.
Note with approved security will be re-
CURED of the purchaser and "a lien will be re-.
tanned on the land TO secure the payment
thereof TC NERwlY
jan. end. 1885, Special Commissio Toner
JNO. GATLING. Solicitor.