The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27
NOTINGS.

turned from his large larm ut Lax
Park, Mimi. says that the farmers ar,
selling wheat at 40 cents bushel, a
which price they cannot possibly make
both ends meet. He predicts rise il
price very soon now. Australia's croJ
was very light last year, and good por
ton of the Pacific coast crop is being
sent there. There is also likely to be d
demand from the Argentine Republic,
which would draw on the supply in
this country and cause an advance in
the price. We would not be surprised
to see high prices for wheat products
before the new crop is harvested.
Within fortnight several men have
been arrested in England Tor passing
Confederate money as recognized
| American currency.
Scratch an A. p \, man and you
generally find he's for Mckinley. ---
Boston Herald.
Senator Lodge is to deliver the
memorial address on the late Gov.
Grcenhalge in Boston on Patriot g
day.
Harper's Weekly, whose editor is
Henry l.. Nelson, formerly private see
rotary of Mr.. Carlisle and once news
paper man at Greenfield, is authority
for the announcement that Secretary
Carlisle is candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination to the presidency on
Il gold standard platform.
Gov. Morton of New York failed to
stand up against Platt, as had been
hoped, and he signed the Raines
liquor bill Monday. with memoran-
dun unfolding its constitutionality
and suggesting no supplemental legis.
lation. 1t is measure to take away
all local control of the liquor traffic,
place it all in the hands of a state eX-
else commissioner and force of
deputies. require a license to be issued
TO anybody who applies, provided he
has not been convicted OF crime, at
prices varying from 800 to $500 year
according to the size of the city, and
to turn over one third of the. proceeds
to the state treasury. Obviously, it is
scheme of infinite corruption for the
benefit of Platt's machine. The chief
argument for it has been that it would
take the saloon out of politics.
which simply means ont OF any politics
opposed to Platt There are provisions
for local option il small towns. but not
cities.
Ballington Booth and wife have twice
changed the name Of their organization
since first announced and now call i'll
" American Vol lnteers. y
The Mckinley men feel so sure of
their man that they are
already talking Of Senator Sherman for
secretary of the treasury. The latter
has this week said he endorsed the
Mckinley money plank as adopted by
the Ohio convention last week.
Father Endeavor' Clark, like so
many other eminent men. has become
an auxiliary member Of the Salvation
Army,
Thomas Hughes, author of Tom
Browns School Days, y the best book |
Of school life over written, Christian |
socialist with Maurice and Kinsley, a |
sturdy and honest lover of his kind, |
lied at Brighton, Eng. Sunday even |
ing in his I'D year. lie was IN par |
lament nine years from 1863 to 1874 |
and was one of the most constant of
liberals, supporting the bills for dis
establishing the church in Ireland, |
the universities and ad-
hitting dissenters to fellowships in
Oxford an Cambridge. The latest ex
pertinent of his life in the way of i'm
proving social conditions, was the
of Rugby college in Tonnes
zee, which has not been success
The London Standard sums up the
Bayard case very fairly when it says
hat while there is some reason for the
complaint against Mr.. Bayard, his
opponents have made themselves ride
llous in cxaggerating the grievance
They have taken an ungenerous adj
Tantagc. The Standard is of the opin-
on that strong motive to induce MI
3ayard TO ignore the vote of censure
md to remain at his post is found IN
he fact that the friendly tone which
succeeded the initial bitterness of the
question was largely due
o his personal eXertions.
"McKinley's character OF honesty
md sincerity mixed with lack OF
backbone is the way the Springfield
sums him UP.
There has been curious tempest
eapot over the Perc Marquette statue.
The animus OF the A.P \. in the mat
err was pretty clearly demonstrated in
he sanction of an Illinois branch of
{ which protested in convention at
'eoria against placing the ethgy OF
esuit priest in the same hall with the
tatue "of the immortal Lincoln,
tricllen down by the hand of the
-esuits.'' The immortal Lincoln had
mind of considerable breadth, and
here is no difficulty at all in imagining
low driveling bigotry of that sort
you'd have impressed him. 49, life.
The final tests on LOO tons of
steel for Russian war
hips are being made at the Indian
lead proving station: 10000 tons of
steel rails are being ,
for the Japanese govern 1
lent, and Il London cablegram an
ounces heavy purchases of Alabama |
ig iron for the English market. These {
vents occur under tariff which re |
uced the Mckinley rate on pig-iron
0 per cent. and on steel rails ZIG per 1
ent. They show conclusively that ,
he Wilson bill rate of 20 per cent, s
gainst which tho manufacturers made !
uch stubborn fight in the senate,
as great deal more protection than
hey really had occasion for.
That Goddard Seminary student evil
emily desired to make noise in the
'orld out he ought not TO have begun
18th dynamite. Has Goddard no class y
ellis? Boston journal. 7
The so-called Uruan incident has
cen divorced from the Venezuelan {
oundary dispute and practically J
,rminated, it is understood, through a
nc good offices of the United Stats 4
ithout the representative of Great d
ritain and the South American re- !
ublic coming into direct relations Y
,rar,linp tho affair.