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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-02
THE TIMES.
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1896.
Vermont Local Notes.
HOUGHTONVILLE.

Miss Abbie ODER isat home for visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Crandall spent Sunday
at home.
n. o. Zuill had the misfortune to lose his
sorrel mare last week.
Eugene Ober of Nashua, n, H., visited his
mother last week.
Scion Cummings and Lauren Williams are
the latest victims of the measles.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Allbec and Mrs. ii.
Nj. Allbee and child visited in Houghtonvillc
one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis of Acworth, N. H.,
Miss Nellie Fuller, Miss Ada Lowell and Ar
thur Lowell of Bartonsville and l.. w. Jen-
nngs of Chester spent Sunday ut L. f. Jack
sons.
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PROCTORSNILLE.

Ida Young has gone to Burlington where
she has secured employment.
Pollard's new block is receiving a fresh
coat of paint which adds much to its appear
ance.
John Mack and family started out last
Tuesday in his former vocation of street ven
der and hawker.
Mrs. Emma Wiley, who has been spending
Il few days with her father, DIR. ID. X. Story,
has returned to Boston.
Our road commissioner is having very
busy time with the washouts and other bust
ness that he has on hand.
Road Commissioner Blood went to Brattle-
boro Monday and purchased Il team of work
horses for the seasons work.
The village schools began last Monday with
Mrs. George Grant teacher in the grammar
school and Miss Della Haskins in the primary
school.
N. H.
The weavers in the factory of Taft, Bur-
an indefinite time.
Ben Shaw and son have completed the tin
ming at the Odd Fellows home, and are now
timing at the residence of Mr.. Kimball.
Miss Lena Stoddard gave five O'Clock tea
to nearly 40 of her friends last Thu sday,
April %. Ice cream and cake were served.
Miss Lena Stoddard has gone to Bellows
Falls to be table girl in Hotel Rockingham.
Ezra Young has gone to be bell boy in the
same house.
II. A. Fletcher, who was one of the dele
gates from this town to the convention at
Montpelier, has returned. d. r. Story and
M. S. Buck, the other delegates, did not go.
While Fred Battey was splitting wood Fri
thn o 10 str;Ie ON hi hi nt,;mn
| two-thirds the length of his nose down the
middle, peeling the flesh off one side. He
had a narrow escape from serious wound.
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PERKINSNLLE.

Rev. H. A. Spencer of Springfield preached
at the NJ. f. church Sunday last at 81. NJ.
Rev. Mr.. Hopkins of Felchville exchanged
pulpits with Rev. Mr.. Hopkinson on Sunday
Mrs. A. Kendall of Burlington is visiting
her sisters, Mrs. Cushman and Mrs. Wood
bury.
Dea. Henry York returned Monday from
his visit to Brookline to see his brother-in-
law. Harvey Eddy, who is lying at the point
OF death.
Mrs. Jennie c. Walker had an auction of
personal property on Saturday last. Her
mother, Mrs. Mary q. Davis, has bought a
house in Ludlow on High street near the site
of the old Congregational Westinghouse and
they will soon move there.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat as quoted
in the n. Y. Tribune, claims that the oldest
postmaster in the United States in continuous
service is Elijah Watson, F. NJ, Of Rushville,
Buchanan Co., Missouri, who was appointed
June 10, 1858, under the administration of
Franklin Pierce. But there is at least one
older postmaster in continuous service in the
United States than Mr.. Watson. Miss Louisa
G. Danforth was appointed postmaster at
Weathersfeld, Windsor county, VT, May Z,
1852, during the administration of Willard
Fillmore, Nathan X. Hall being postmaster
general, and she has held the office ever since.
During 10 or more years past Weatherstield
postoffice, familiarly known us ''the Bow" it
being near bend in the Connecticut river,
has had but three postmasters Bailey Bart
lett and Hollis Howard being Miss Danforth' S
immediate predecessors.
T.. ]. Call of Elmira. n. y, was in town
recently.
Minnie Gould is visiting friends in Mass;,-
chusetts.
John Green, Fred Robinson and John
Hicks riding new wheels.
Edward Bonny of Goulds Mills has moved
into E. !. Calls house and is working at the
quarry.
Mrs. +. q. Blossom and family h:,, c
returned from Lebanon, n. H., where they
have been spending the winter.
Mrs. Emily J. Call, who has been spending
the winter with her sons i'll Elmra, n. y,
has returned home for the summer.
}. ii. Hicks has the agency for the Victor.
Sterling, lvcr johnson. and Fitchburg cycles,
Old wheels taken in exchange for new ones
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weighed 1873 pounds year ago. l am now
a mere skeleton. From your little book l
think my trouble is profuse menstruation.
My symptoms are etc.
Our doctor (my uncle) tells father that am
in consumption, and wants to take me to
Florida. Please help me! Tell me what to do,
and tell me quickly am engaged to be mar
ried in Septembe Shall l live to see the
das? LUCY f. W.
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HER HAPPY DAY.
A Charming Story of Medicine
and Marriage.

Two Open Letters From a Chicago Girl
How Happiness Came to Her. -.
Among the tens of thousands of
women who apply to Mrs. Pinkham for
advice and are cured. are many who
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ASSETS.
United States State, municipal and other
bonds and war; ants market value)
s4,4ss,93 20
Loans on bonds and mortgages
(irst lien) 4,62244a A
Real Estate 763,603.57
Loans and liens on policies of
Nat. Life InS. Co., 1887 ,97I.
Interest due and accrued, :;3l 0SG. So
I'm eported and deferred PIE
miums met 365,eO'.75
Cash in banks, 237, 1885
sI2.li7,7ss.21
LIABILITIES.
Computed reserve (Actuaries'
per cent? SO. 255, 1924
Extra reserve on Life Rate
Endowment Policies, 259,550. SO
Losses, endOwmentS, surrender
values and dividends in pro-
cess OF payment, S9,695Ii
Surplus "a per cent basis 1,442, 80
sI2.I47,753 81
Paid policy holders since
organization. s12,1Oa,O9i 80
32742 Policies in force insuring 6972S,6i3O0
1873 Policies issued and revived
in 1895, insuring 1873 s,O5sOO
CHARLES DEWEY, Pres,
GEORGE w. REED, Sec.
STATE OF VERMONT,
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
The undersigned, Insurance Commission
ers, hereby certify that pursuant to law, they
have this day made the customary annual
examination of the affairs of the National
Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Yer
mont, and have verified its schedule of as
sets, by the production and comparison
herewith. of the securities represented
therein ard find them to agree with the re-
spective items of the Company's annual
statement, for the year ending December 81,
1885,.
Dated at Montpelier. this It'll day of jan
uary 1SsS.
(Signed) CHAUNCET W. BRowNELL,
Sec. of State
HENRY T. FIELD, State Treasurer
Insurance Commissioners of Vermont
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Chicago, June 10Th, 'es.

NV dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
This is a happy day. l am well and gaining
weight daily, but shall continue the treatment
and Vegetable Compound during the summer,
as you suggest. Uncle knows nothing about
what you have done for me, because it would
make things very unpleasant in the family. l
would like to give you a testimonial to publish,
but father would not allow it. l
stall be married in September, and as we go
to Boston, will call upon you How can I
prove my gratitude 70
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-05-02

Just such cases as the above leak out
in women's circles, and that is why the
confidence of the women of America is
bestowed upon Mrs. Pinkham.
Why are not physicians more candid
with women when suffering from such
ailments?
Women want the truth. and if they
cannot get it from their doctor, will
seek it elsewhere.
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Continued next Saturday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-07
Foreign News.

LONDON, Jan. Westminster Ga
zette says the Queen has written a
letter to the Emperor of Germany re.
buking him for his attitude in regard 10
the Transvaal especially in the matter
of the oongratulatory message which he
sent to President Kruger.
Anti. German feeling is growing rap
idly in the east end of London. The
windows of number of shops in
Whitechapel kept by Germans and
Jews have been broken, the German
clubs, fearing an attack, have been
closed, and there have been several
disturbances between Eoglish and Ger.
man and Dutch sailors at the docks.
AT a public dinner of farmers and
tradesmen given at Chard, last evening,
the Mayor of the town proposed
to drink the health of all the
Queens family except one grandson
(referring to Emperor William of Ger
many. The toast was received with
enthusiastic cheers, which were follow
ed by groans and Kisses for Emperor
William.
LONDON, Jan. Sir Julian Goldsmd,
member of Parliament and one of the
wealthiest most charitable and best known
Hebrews in England, died at Brighton to-
day
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A fiue ice bridge formed below Mag
ara Falls last night and to-day many
visitors are crossing on the ice.
John W. Coleman, founder of the
San Francisco stock and exchange
board, died this morning, aged 69years'
The new Kentucky General Assem-
bly was organized at noon to-day by
the election of the caucus nominees as
officers.
In the western portion of the State
af Kansas large prairie fires are raging,
and the people are being panic
stricken.
Governor-elect Lowndes, escorted by
a committee of the young mems repub-
lican club of Baltimore, left Cumber-
land this morning for Annapolis, where
to. morrow he will beinaugurated Gov
ernor of Maryland. He was given a
splendid ''send off"
A sensation was caused in Little
Rock, Ark, yesterday when it was
learned that A. II. Mallory, agent of
the Southern Building and Loan Asso-
citation of Huntsville, Ala, had alb
seconded Friday night, and is now
charged with embezzlement and
forgery.
Yesterday Chester W. McCorkle, fif-
teen years old, and Ruben Fisher, a
thirteen-year-old boy, while playing at
Dorseyyille, Pa, found can of blast.
ing powder and accidentally exploded
it. McCorkle died several hours later
and there is no hope of Fishers re-
covery.
A freight train on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, when entering the
bridge at Rigolets, 80 miles south of
New Orleans, went through an open
draw. Four cars and two spans of the
bridge went into the lake. The fire.
man is missing and the head brakeman
was seriously injured. Several tramps
who were stealing ride are thought
to have been drowned.
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COMMUNICATED.

The attention of the proper author
tiles is called to the dangerous condi-
ton of many of our sidewalks, caused
by the formation of ice from running
hydrants. This is sometimes beyond
the control of the persons living in the
houses, but more frequently is it caus-
cd by persons turning on the water, and
allowing it to run all night to prevent
the pipes from freezing. This practice
should be stopped and it there is no
law the City Council should pass one.
Sunday morning while on her way
to church an elderly lady fell on one OF
those places on Prince street and mar
rowly escaped serious accident. That
she was not severely injured was more
good luck on her part than the care OF
the person who let the ice stay on the
pavement. We are compelled by law
TO remove srow from our pavements.
Surely it is more incumbent on us to
remove the ice. It is the duty of the
officers of the water company to see
that the water is not wasted,
and it Is also the duty OF
the police to see that no citizen is al
lowed to maintain q nuisance on or
about his premises. Between the two
sets of officials it should not be difficult
to abate this nuisance. There is not q
street iH the city that has not num-
Der of these overlooked and frozen gut
ters and during q long spell Of freezing
weather the ice extends from day to
day till it soon covers the pavement
from house to curb and then along the
pavement for considerable distance,
making it dangerous for pedestrians,
especially for those who are getting
along in years and are not quite so
agile as they haye been. 1t is hoped
that the proper authorities will look
into this matter before some serious
accident occurs. Some one (either the
city or the property holder) would be
liable for damages in case of an acct
dent of this kind and San ounce of pre-
veution is worth pound of cure.
CITIZEN.
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The Transvaa1Crisis.

LONDON, Jan. 7.-Governor Robin
son, of the Cape Colony, has wired tina
an order has been issued in the name
of the Queen directing the officers O.
the British South Africa company II
charge of the ordnance and ammuni.
ton to hand the same over to an I'm
perial officer. The excitement will bt
alleyed when it is known that DIR
Jameson and his comrades have beer
released.
The st. James Gazette says 1--WE
would rather face rupture with Ger
many than to renounce the stipulation
of the convention of 1884, that any in
ternational arrangement made by the
South African republic requires the
consent and ratification of Great
Britain"
The Westminster Gazette has dis
patch from Capetown which says: "A
general feeling of nauseating contempt
for the Uitlanders of johannesburg
exists here. This feeling is based up
on their cowardice in Turing DIR. Jane
son into his blunder and offering him
no assistance whatever"
NEW YORK, Jan. IA cable dis
patch from London says: "Get ready
is the cry which is ringing through
England and the country has suddenly
been seized with the idea that war is at
its very doors. Should the report that
Emperor William has assured the rep.
resentative of the Transvaal govern
ment that Germany will support the
Boer republic and will support and will
send a minister resident to Pretoria
prove true. the first step taken by the
German Emperor would be followed
by declaration of war by Great Brit
ain. There is little resentment mani.
tested against the Beers. 1t is all di-
rected against Germany and it is fast
assuming the proportions of popular
clamor for war.
LONDON, Jan. Lord Salisbury
visited the foreign Office this afternoon
and Immediately after his arrival re-
ceived Mr.. Chamberlain and later re.
ceived Count Won Hatzfeldt, the Ger
man ambassador.
LONDON, Jan. IA dispatch from
johannesburg says DR.. Jameson in an
interview said he crossed the frontier
because of the urgent appeals made by
the inhabitants of Johannesburg and
because he believed the lives of num-
bers of his countrymen were in peril.
He further says he could have beaten
the Beers if the people of johannesburg
had shown any disposition to help
themselves.
BERLIN, Jan. The Emperor and Prince
Hohenlohe are in harmony as regards the
policy of Germany toward the Transvael co.
eminent and there is no truth in the story
that the chancellor had offered his resigna-
ton to the kaiser.
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xrepation, but they will be outvoted by
fha navy members who have Joined

xrepation, but they will be outvoted by
the new members who have joined
since the Doctor was called here.
In response to inquiries, the City Ma
tional Bank of Norfolk says it will take
$4,000 of the new bonds, the Peoples
Bank of Charlottesville $4,000, the
First National of Newport's News
SIS, 600, Merchants of Richmond $780,
600, the Petersburg Savings Bank
500 900, the Peoples of Leesburg to
the extent of all its gold, and the Ma
tional of Roanoke all it can buy. The
First National of Alexandria is unde-
cided, and the Front Royal Bank SAYS
it cannot invest now, but hopes to do
so later. :,
1t is said at the Capitol to-day that
the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court
Yesterday in the New York case tends
to confirm Comptroller Bowlers' de-
cision refusing to pay the sugar bounty.
Congressman Walker, of Virginia,
who is a member of that one of the
elections committe to which all the Vir-
ginia contests have been referred, says
he understands there is probability
that those cases may be considered at
an early date, as there is further evil
dence to be taken in some of those that
came before them on the list. Judge
Cornett, who is contesting Mr.. Swan
sons seat, has arrived here and will ar
que his own case. 1t is understood he
bases his claim solely on the unconsti-
nationality of the Walton law. as do all
the other contestants except Mes5rs.
Yost and Thorp.
A distinguished Southern man, prom
inent in national as we'll as in his States
affairs, said to-day he hoped there would
be no war with England, for if there
should be, the governmentlwould enlist
hundred thousand negroes, who were
hardly bearable now, and when dis
banded would be entirely so.
It is now generally believed, here as
stated in this correspondence yester'
day, that the new loan will be by nc
means popular one, and that it will
be given to syndicate. Congressman
McMillin, when asked if he had any
spare money would he invest it in the
bonds, said no, he would use it in tax
ing up notes on which he was paying
eight per cent.
In the House to-day Mr.. Otey, of the
Lynchburg district, introduced q bill TO pen
sion Irene Redman, of Bedford county, "
wears old, and the daughter of the widow OF
| Revolutionary soldier.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From Richmond.

RICHMOND, Jan. THE bill to en-
able the Board of Supervisors OF Alex
andria county to allow the county
clerk compensation for extra clerical
work and other labor required where
no compensation has been filed was
defeated in the House to-day: MT MT
Nav made fight for it, and Mr.. FL
cher opposed the bill. Mr.. May otter.
ed bill to abolish the excise board III
Alexandria county. ,,,
Mr.. MAY this evening offered the foi,
lowing bills in the House: To amend
the act to require the Board OF super,
yisors of Alexandris county TO tax the
sale of ardent spirits and malt liquors.
The amendment makes the tax not less
than $500 nor more than $500. To le'
galize the sale of the Washington, ar,
iington and Falls Church Railroad, and
to grant certain powers to the Washing
ton, Arlington and Falls Church Kali.
way Company. The act authorizes the
extension of the lines westward from
Washington for such distance within
the limits of this State as the board OF
directors may from time to time deem
advisable. The right is given TO &C.
uuire other lines.
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The New Loan.

NEW YORK, Jan. There were no
new developments in regard to the pro-
posed 500, 900, 900 government popular
loan this morning. The Morgan syndi-
cate is still intact and will in all proba-
bility make bid for the bonds at the
proper time.
BANKS have nearly thirty days to pre-.
pare for action, and pending the expirs-
ton of the time set in the call Of Secre-
tary Carlisle they propose to move eau
tiously. There is q good deal of talk
about stringent money in case the sub
scrptions to bond loan should reach
large proportions and in some quarters
fancy rates are predicted.
Another feature which attracted
much attention this morning was the
engagement of s., 0OO, 900 for shipment
to Europe tomorrow. 1t was said that
as much more will probably 90 on Sat-
urday. These shipments will make q
serious inroad on the Treasury reserve
which is now already low enough.
Fears are entertained that the further
Withdrawals for foreign account might
start up demand from possible bid
ders for the new loan. There is no
way to prevent this.
The Belmont-Morgan syndicate stip-
ulated that the gold for the bonds
should not come from the Treasury.
There were the usual rumors OF an
issue of clearing house loan certificates.
Members of the bond syndicate were free
lenders of money on call to-day, This was
considered az additioal evidence that tho avn.
dictate did not intend to subscribe 10 the new
bond issue at present.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

The tobacco manufacturers of Dan.
vile had g meeting yesterday and put
on foot q movement to organize q
Southern Tobacco Manufacturers As
ISOLATION.
Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Keane
and Bishop Van de Vyver are expect,
ed to attend the dedication of st.
Josephs Catholic Church in Petersburg
next Sunday.
At meeting of oystermen at Cape
Charles yesterday a resolution was
adopted recommending that the Legis.
lature appoint a board of commission
ers to consider the oyster industry.
Ex.Goy. VIM. E. Cameron, who has
been spending some weeks with his
family in Petersburg, left last night for
New York. On the 10Th instant he
will deliver an address in Atlanta,
Georgia.
Mrs. Tom. Smith, of Charlottesville,
while making fire on Sunday, tainted
and fell into the open CRATE, and was
badly burned about the face and neck.
She may possibly lose her eyesight. She
was the only support of her invalid
husband.
Fire on Sunday night last destroyed
four of the large frame buildings on the
farm of T. ]. Hodgues, in Fairfax
county, not far from Falls Church.
The loss is about $4,000, with only $500
ofinsurance. How the fire started is
not known.
The case of the Commonwealth vs..
Deputy Treasurer E. F. Whitehouse, OF
King George county, who was charged
with being defaulter, was called up
in the county court of that county last
week, but it appeared when the case
was called that Mr.. Whitehouse had
paid every dollar of the shortage, and
the affair was dismissed from the court.
1t was never denied that the deputy
treasurer Was short in his accounts, but
it was known from the county treas
urer's testimony before the grand jury
that neither the treasurer, the county,
nor the State would lose dollar by
that shortage. The shortage which
caused the sensation and unjust COM
ment and criticisms grew out of the
general depression in business in that
county last year, which crippled Mr..
Warehouses; business enterprises, and
cramped him when the time came for
bis final settlement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-07

A CHILD FATALLY BURNED.-Eva.
line, the 4-year-old daughter of Col. l.
G. Wade, formerly editor of the Enter.
prise, of Broadway, Rockingham coun-
ty, was burned to death at that place
on Sunday. She was left with 2
year-old sister playing in room while
other members OF the family were at
tending household duties in an adjoin-
ing apartment. The little one think
ing that the stove was becoming too
hot, attempted to open the door, and
ignited her clothing. Her face aud
hands were burned beyond recognition,
She suffered terrible agony until death
relieved her Sunday. Mrs. Berry,
grand mother of the child, burned her
hands severely while extinguishing the
flames