The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-09
NOTINGs.

audacity of the Cuban insurgents; theiI
recent exploit, In capturing Il small
steamer at a beach Just Outsi,c OF Hl.
vana. was a pleasantly which Gen
Weyler should appreciate.
The treasury department hns begun
the payment of the long delayed sugar
bOunties.
According to present prospects the
oat crop In the United States this year
will be by far the largest ever known,
The demand for oats has suffered II re-
markable decline since the substitution
of electricity for horses on so many
street railways. hut there is still Il ray OF
hope for the farmers. The consumption
of oatmeal and similar prepared food is
rapidly increasing. and it is possible that
because of this the growers of oats will
eventually have their market restored to
them.
According 70 the Montreal Star, the
first act of the Canadian Liberal Minis
try, headed by Mr.. Wilfrid Laurier, will
be to send a commission to Washington
for the purpose of negotiating a treaty
of reciprocity. 1t will also petition, we
are told. the home government for per-
mission to station permanently Il Can
adian agent at Washington.
Gen. A. X. Lawton. of Georgia, who
was on the Vermont stump briefly in the
1850 campaign, died last week nc Savan-
nah. aged IS. He was a South Caro-
linian by birth, had a West Point educa-
ton, but resigned from the army and
became distinguished as a lawyer before
the war. He was a b~rigadier 10 Stone
wall JacksOn's division, but being badly
wounded at Antietam was incapacitated
from active service and became quarter
master general of the Confederacy.
Henry Norman, the ~well-known Lon
don newspaper correspondent, who has
been studying the Cuban situation, says
the end of spanish dominion is at hand.
And, he adds, ''it is a truism to say that
Spain has only herself 10 thank. She is
totally unable to govern a colony by de-
cent and civilized Methods
That reformed Chicago city council
has gone the way of all the others. A.
street railway franchise so valuable that
the pr0mpters were willing to pay ST.
DOC. 900 to abutting real estate owners
has been granted by the new council by
a twO-thirds vote. without exacting "A
penny of compensation for the use of
the streets. Ten of those voting for it
were men who had been endorsed by the
civic federation at the last city election.
President Roberts of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad repeats his opinion that
the tariff has nothing to do with the
present depression. 1t is doubt about
the standard of value which is making
the trouble. and he believes that a
settlement of this question in the
right way will bring on a period of
great prosperity without an upward
change in the tariff.
The Chicago correspondent of the
New York Times %telegraphs that paper
Bradley = Smalley of Vermont has
been reelected National Committee
man from his State. lie did magnifi
cent work in 1892, both in the cam
palgn preliminary to the nomination
of Mr.. Cleveland. and as chairman of
the committee on speakers in the en-
suing canvass "No one can tell how
this campaign is going to result"
said Mr.. Smalley today. In 1872 it
looked sixty days after the convention
though Greedy would have a walk
over, but IN election day he was not
heard Of
The Greek Patriarch at Constantine
pie, Anthimrs VII, and his bishops
have issued a letter in reply TO Pope
Leo's Encyclical for church unity,
1t parallels the Pope's ground and
asserts that the only possibility for
union is by a return to the orthodoxy |
of the first nine centuries OF the cburch
and of the first seven Ecumenical
Councils to the point. that is, where
the Eastern and Western churches
separated.
Candidate. Hobart received his official
notification of his nomination for the vice
presidency at his Patterson, n. D.. home
Tuesday, and in his speech in response
he put the money question first, where
it belongs and where the people are
putting it. and his remarks on this ques-
ton are straightforward. intelligent.
emphatic and weighty. He declared
that there can be no financial security.
no business stability, no real prosperity,
the policy of the government as
TO that question is in doubt. and added
An honest dollar worth 100 cents everywhere
cannot be coinad out ofSS cents worth OF silver
plus a legislative fiat. Such a debasement II
1ur currency would inevitably produce meal
,ulable loss, appalling disaster and national
iishonor.
For the first time the flag of the
United States was thrown to the breeze
last Saturday with forty-tiye stars
IN its blue field. indicating the admis-
sion of Utah TO the sisterhood of states.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures (