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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
Field. Against Louthan.

sTANARDsvILLE. GREENE COUN-
Ty VA. August 3.-lSpecial )-There was
great outpouring OF the farmers to-day
% hear a ioint discussion between Gene
rol lanes G. Fields and Hon. Carter
ioutban Republican). General Fields
made one OF the most logical <xpositions
~ The silver question which has ever
Haen heard I'm this county. he completely
routed the Republican elector. -.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14

Postpone the Primary. Wait for
better wcnther; Nnit for the return
OF absent voters. Surround the bnI-
lot with the protection OF the pri-
mnry-clcction law. Reconsider! Re-
cOnsideri! RecOnsidcr!I
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
THE OLD BURG
Death from Parniysis-The Heated
Spell Broken.

Spell Broken.
FREDERICKSBURG, VA, August lS-
(Special. Mrs. Mary j. Wallace WHO
was brought to her old home in King
George county, a week ago, suffering
from a stroke Of paralysis. died yester-
dav and was buried this afternoon. Mrs.
wallace had a large family connection
throughout the State. ,,
The heated spell was broken here TINS
afternoon at 8 o'clock. when the mercury
fell 10 degrees in less than thirty minutes
Bryan's speech is the one absorbing
tonic OF talk here to-day and an agree
nat It is an unanswerable argument
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14

postpope the Primary. Wait for
bettcr weather, wait for the return
Of absent voters. surround the bni-
lot with the protection of the pri-
mary-eIection law. Heconsider' he-
copsideru Reconsider!.!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
For over Fifty Years

Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup has been
used for children teething. 1t soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays all
pain, cures wind-colic. and Is the best
remedy for Dlarrhoeai % cents bot
tIa
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
Dangerously III.

ONANCOCK. August 1S.-(Special)-
Judge John w. Gillett, who recently re-
signed the position Of Judge Of Accomac
county, is lying dangerously I'll at his
home at Accomac Courthouse, and his
physicians have despaired Of his recovery.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
Gold Renerre. s1oe.24a.7s7.

WASHINGTON, August 13.-The Trea-
sury gold reserve at the close Of business
today stood al sl062i6.l0l. The day 5
Withdrawals were S3l9.S0O.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
Grand Dali Mt White Sulphur
snrInus AuRust nth.

the most recherche affair Of the season,
for which occasion the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway will. on August 18th
and nth. sell round-trip tickets 10 Whits
Sulphur at one fare from Richmonds
$3.50; good 10 return until August 3d.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
Write for Cut-Rate Prices

at the Rawley Springs for September.
Hotel open until 10th OF October. Address
j. WATKINS LEE.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
The Weather.

Old papers for sale at 25c. hundred ss
nfsDatch Office
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
Refrlgerntors at Cost,

this week. A few choice ones left.
SYDNOR e. HUNDLEY.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14

- WAsHrNoroS, August l2.-Fors-
Icrnou cast for Virginia Local thunder-
''0"" storms. followed by fair weather;
variable Winds not so warm III
southeast portion.
North Carolina: Partly cloudy wea-
ther; local thunder-storms; warmer In
western portion; westerly winds.
The barometer has fallen slowly ex-
cept on the Middle-Atlantic and New Eng
land coasts, and over the ST. Lawrence
Valley.
Local thunder-storms are reported from
the Southern States. The weather Is
cloudy tonight over the Middle-Atlantic
states and Southern New England, and
the interior OF the South-Atlantic States.
Thunder-storms are likely to prevail I'm
the Mlddle-Atlantlc States and Southern
Nev England. the East-Guif States. Ten
rassee. and the northern portions OF ths
South Atlantic States.
Tgr WEATHER IN RICHMOND rEsrgRpsx
vos clear and hot IN the forenoon, fol-
lowed by thunderstorm, light showers.
and lower temperature in the afternoon
and at night.
State OF Thermometer:
A. M....,.............''' '''-'''''''''-ov
A. M...........-..s'.s. '.s.....''.'-'....oI
| ~ M............-..... ..''s''.'ssso
p M................-. 81 ..-.....-.W
| 6P. NJ. .....-........'......
| II Night. .......'-.'-...'..'.'o
Mean Temperature........ ..s6H
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14

was not accorded the privilege Of address,
ing the convention.
After the twenty-siXth ballot, a recess
was taken until o'clock
The convention met again promptly at
2 =. NJ, and a telegram was read. as fol-
lows
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-14
To baltimore via York-River Line.

Managers
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
CONSTITUTED FROM FIRST pAer.l


case Judge Ross announced that the Su-
preme Court at its recent session had
adopted rule that hereafter, in trials, the
exa mining attorney must stand while no is
examining witness.
THE first meeting Of the newly-elected
City Council was held last Wednesday
evening. The appointment of superin-
tendent of streets was postponed until it is
decided whe her the CITY purchase the teams
of 9, -. Roberts. Joel Foster was appointed
superintendent Of water works; w A.
Lord, city attorney; DIR. g. e. Chandler,
health officer; o. ID. Clark. chief engineer OF
fire Department.; John w. Peck, first as
sistant; W E. Laird, second assistant; K.
l.. Putney, pound-keeper; Albert Johon-
mott, inspector of leather; Denison Taft,
city weigher, Inspector Of wood, lumber and
shingles and sealer of weights and meas
ures; j. o. Livingstone, N g. Tabor and
W. g. Walker, fence viewers; Albert Jo-
honnott, Fred e. Smith and Thomas Mar
win, trustees OF public money. The salary
of the superintendent of water works was
fixed at $3.50 for the current year. The
bond OF the city treas lrer was fixed at $780,
600, and of the city clerk at 81, 200. The
bonds Of the first and second constables
were fixed at $1,000 each, the city sheriff at
$4,000 and the overseer OF the poor at $1,000
The following appointments OF Mayor STRAIT
ton were confirmed by the Council: John
l.. futile, chief of police; @. K. Demeritt
and Lewis Wood, regular police officers; G.
S. Whittier, Thomas Burke aud John W.
Hill, special police officers. Bills were or
dered paid az follows: Charles Def. Ban
croft, for re vsing checklist and preparing
Capital Hall for city election, S50 q. b
Putnam, services as ballot clerk, 81 The
petition of Roswell X. Peck to build store
house at the rear of his house on Elm street
was granted. The invitation to be extended
to the We mont Dairy mems Association to
meet at Montpelier next January was left
with Mayor Stratton. Aldermen Boutwell,,
Smith and Whelan were appointed a com
mitiee to confer with 9, b, Roberts, super
intendent of streets in regard to the pur-
chase Of his teams by the city. The super
intendent OF water works was instructed to
ascertain where there has been any waste
of Berlin water, and the cause OF the waste,
and to report the same to the Coun Ill. The
Montpelier Hardware Company was granted
permission to put in Berlin water in the
building they propose to erect on Berlin
side, but not to use it to run an elevator.
Aldermen Boutwell,, Weston and Peck were
appointed committee to see what is neces-
sary to be done about advertising Capital
Hall for sale, and to make arrangements for
storing elsewhere the city property now
there after the hall is sold. This committee
was also instructed to see what the cost will
be of purchasing the Golden Fleece build
ing for city hall. The petition of George
K. Ehle to put large sign over the side
walk in front of his store was refused.
Mayor Stratton was authorized to draw
warrants for the payment of the rent of the
city clerks Office and for the expense of the
street department. Adjourned.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

tanned distinction" as a lawyer, when
there is not only no ground for the
laudatory statement, but when the pre-
tense. in view of the circumstances,
would be altogether unreasonable
in the case of man even more gifted
than the Major? To have "attained
distinction" in any profession, in the
brief intervals snatched from his other
duties and occupations, could have been
possible only in the imagination o
panegyrist in a pressing exigency.
That Major Grout attained success
financially" during these years, in bust
ness and occupation of federal offices,
there is more reason to believe. The
CLINT of gold is the thing most clearly
discernible in the Free Press eulogy,
Major CIRCUITS photographers in the
legislative directories describe him as a
farmer. That he has ever practiced
law is not mentioned. 1t is not at
all TO Major CIRCUITS discredit, under the
circumstances, that his name does not
appear more frequently, or in connec-
ton with important litigation, in the
Vermont or Illinois reports. That he
attained distinction" in the profession
that he only wooed with fckleness and
finally abandoned, is simply an unrea-
sonable and an unwarrantable assump-
ton. Either as lawyer or farmer
the Free Press and the Monitors can
didate for governor can never stand
any higher than as a devil of a lawyer
among the farmers and devil of a
farmer among the lawyers. The Major
has been successful, apparently, in &C.
cumulating this worlds goods, and this
is to his credit, if he has obtained them
properly, as we suppose he has; but
why try to pose him before the people
Of Vermont for something he is notp
An adaptation of Tom Browns fa-
miliar epigram satirizing DR.. Fell seems
to hit the case of the Free Press and
Monitor par mobile fratrumW-in
the emergency that confronts them:
A mighty man is Major Grout;
In what respect we can't point out,
But this we know beyond doubt,
A mighty man is Major Grout.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

THE gubernatorial campaign, as con-
Quoted thus far by the partisaus of the
leading candidate. is Opera Bouffe.
Anybody with easil excited liabilities
viii laugh. The average man feels
mildly bored by all the CUFF and
flApdoodle in circulation. Articles in
tended to be serious are ridiculous by
their evident insincerity aud half
hear edness. There is no life or spon-
taneity about the campaign. 1t seems
more like a Falstaffian raid on the peo-
Pile. 1t is utterly without dignity
II is, throughout, droll and a.
most interesting mixture of Hamlet,
Sam Weller, Bon Quixote, Ben Butter,
Bombastes Furioso, Dan Rice and Lit
tie Buttercup. Grasp the tin sword
closer, and on with the dance Harris
Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
Legislation in 1856.

Editor of Waterman There were those
in the legislature of 1886 who favored the
creation of railroad commission, on the
broad groundI of the general good of Yer
mont AT that time, many state papers had
editorially and by commune atoms so sec
onded the public interest that a general de-
mand existed for some kind OF effective
railroad legislation. There were those in
the legislature of 1886 who had made
prepared to assist in the work that would
naturally come before the committee on
railroads. AS a rule, he who has studied
subject is the better prepared to judge its
merits; and this is ordinarily acted upon in
the makeup of legislative committees. 1t
is well known that the real work is done in
the committee room, and it is a rare thing
to bring about effective legislation that does
not receive the official sanction Of a commit
tee report.
If am not mistaken, the house commit
tee on railroads, in the legislature OF 1886,
was formed with manifest disregard of the
popular demand. The suggestion of certain
names for place on that committee OPP
Grated like red flag to mad bull. Put a
man on the railroad committee who had
pronounced ideas as to railroad legislation?
Put man on the railroad committee who
had studied the subject from the peoples
standpoint? Put man on the committee
on railroads who had independent ideas of
the right and wrong Of things? Put man
on the railroad committee who would not
consent to let matter of such importance
to the state dilly-dally along until the very
last day OF the session, when you must
take this law or none"?
Who had the making of the house COM
mittees in 1886? Josiah Grout of Derby,
candidate for next governor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

"rig up these arrangements" it will
accurately convey the WATCHMAN's
sentiment which " Middlesex" charac-
terized as nobly right" The ar
rang ements are already sufficiently
" rugged up" without the Intervention
Of the freemen Of Vermont. That is
one ground of the WATCHMAN's ar
raignment of Major CIRCUITS candidacy.
For some ten years he has been dealing
in political futures. He has appointed
this year for liquidation, peradventure
he may find himself possessed of sufli-
Gent assets to invest in the governor
ship. His supporters declare this.
Here is one great and fatal difference
between Major CIRCUITS candidature
and that of Speaker Stickney. The
Majors was planted by himself. For
a third of generation he has been try
ing to persuade it to take root and ex-
tend its branches. 1t has been bienni-
ally digged about, watered and dunged,
and the crop has been hypothecated.
On the other hand the Speakers candi-
dacy is like Aaron's rod. In obedience
to the voice of the people, which is the
voice of God, it has in day brought
forth buds, and boomed blossoms, and,
in due time, will yield almonds. There
is world wide distinction between the
two candidates., distinction clear as
the sunlight, and which renders any
further traversing of the Messengers
effort to draw parallel between two
things that are sharply divergent a
work of supererogation. In justice to
our esteemed contemporary-and we
use the phrase in no conventional
sense-the WATCHMAN must say that
if Major CIRCUITS other newspaper ad-
vocates were displaying the sense and
good judgment the Messenger has en-
ployed, the opposition to Major Grout
might not disappear entirely, and the
majority might not be convinced that it
is the right and wise thing to do to
nominate him to the governorship, but
the advocacy of his cause would be
free from infelicities that have exposed
his canvass to CRITICS and ridicule.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
Why Should Farmers Support Farmer
GrOut2

Editor of Waterman Some of the papers
OF the state are urging us very persistently
to support Farmer (?) Josiah Grout for gov
ernor, and are asking why we cannot.
Now fairer question would be. Why and
how can we support man who has so con-
tinually and persistently opposed the recog-
milton of any farmer on the state ticket
since 1888? Did he not oppose that patriot
statesman, Farmer Fletcher, in 1890 and
1892? Is he not opposing him now7 Did he
not oppose that bright young farmer, Victor
1. Spear, in 1892? Did he not oppose the mod
est candidate Of the people, Farmer Vail, in
1894? Answer these questions, ye 'Grouty
men, if you can and then we have few
harder ones for you.
Now, Mr.. Editor, If anybody is 30 unfair
as to lay this squib to you, let me write it
again, more at length, and sign a name not
altogether unknown to the farmers of YER
mont. REPUBLICAN FARMER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

TAKEN in time, Hoods Ssrsaparilla has
achieved great success in warding off sick.
ness which, II allowed to progress, would
have undermined the whole system and
given disease strong foothold to cause
much suffering and even threaten death.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has done, all this and
even more 1t has been taken in thou
sands of cases which were thought to be in
durable, and after fair trial has effected
wonderful cures, bringing health, strength
and Joy to the afflicted. Another important
point about Hoods Sarsaparilla is that its
cures are permanent because they start
from the solid foundation of purified, vital
ized and enriched blood But IL is not what
we say, but what Hoods Sarsaparilla does,
that tells the story.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
@attbman 4 Journal.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH IL, 1896.
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.

THE subscription price of the WATcHMAN
Is $500 year. For cash, strictly in aduance,
a reduction of fifty cents is made. Subscrp-
lions are reckoned by the month. To be en-
titled to the $3.50 rate, arrears must be paid
at the rate of $500 a year to end of month in
phich settlement is made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

THE WATCHMAN is grateful to the
Messenger for giving, by republication,
the benefit of its circulation to "Mid-
dlesex's" endorsement of recent edi-
torial article in this paper, and, incident
ally, to the article itself. If the contem-
porary will correct its proof so that the
quotation it makes shall read, at is the
business of the freemen of Vermont to
rip up these arrangements" instead of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

IF some unquiet editorial spirits
would devote their energies to the
pending state canvass, and leave that
of 1898 until the time arrives for max
ing it, they would show better sense
and better serve the cause of good poll
tics. There will be ample time in 1898,
or in 1900, or in any subsequent year,
to arrange for the passage of any
bridges that may be reached in the
course of the campaigns for those years.
Meantime who is the Neaos and Citizen
of Worthwhile and Hyde Park for, for
governor, in this present year of grace?
1t was clear enough in 1890 whose can
didacy it was favoring. Why, in 1896,
is it shying at things of the I" living
present." but worrying about the fu-
ture, or quaking before the promotion
spook, whose corporal existence is as
extinct as great Cmsar's? The ignoble
satisfaction of being able, in some fu-
ture contingency, to say, II told you
So" is poor compensation for Sinking
present responsibilities.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

A MAss-MEETNa was held at st. Johns
bury, last Sunday evening, to protest
against the Armenian outrages. The meet
Walter p. Smith, W. p. Stafford, 8. f.
Brown and others.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

THE printing of the tax inventories
for the cities and larger towns was de-
ferred this year till after town meet
ing, in order to give those commune
ties better service by printing in the
names of assessors, or listers, and other
wise adapting them to local conven-
fence. For the cities special heading
is required, in the printing of which
the names of the assessors can be in
Guided. This arrangement saves need
less waste, as in some instances blanks
sent to cities, printed after the forms
for towns, have heretofore been thrown
away. The practice of distributing the
blanks at town meeting has also proved
wasteful. Many taxpayers are not
present, and by the time the listers
reach the taxable citizen, the blank
taken by him at town meeting has in
many cases been lost or soiled and rem
dered unuseable. The foregoing ex-
plains to the st. Adams itemizer of the
Free Press, why the inventories were
not in that town on the third of March.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

THE action of the government of the
United States in the Venezuelan mat
ter has spurred the British government
on to make an exhibit of its case, which
has recently been published. Very
considerably, England shows up the
Venezuelan side, just as she is occupy
ing Venezuelan territory, and makes it
clear that there is but one side, the
British. Nevertheless, the findings of
so distinguished a lawyer as Sir Fred
erick Pollock, who prepared the British
case, will hardly carry with them the
force of an impartial and disinterested
board of arbitration Americans will
reserve judgment till the United States
commission brings in its report.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

THE conference committee on the
Cuban resolutions has agreed to the
house expression of the American
sentiment, and the members on the
part of the senate have recommended
to that body the substitution of the
house resolutions for those it had pre-
viously adopted. The two sets are
substantially the same thing, but the
houses statement was considered the
stronger one. Each branch of congress
acted with practical unanimity. Grave
men, like Hit and Dingley in the house,
and Sherman and Hoar in the senate,
were for the resolutions by voice
or vote, or both. And yet some indi-
viduals and some newspapers are de-
claiming against congress for it's mad,
hasty and inconsiderate action in
stretching out hand to struggling
Cuba. The statement of Chairman
Hit OF the house committee on foreign
relations, the speech of Representative
Cummings of New York, and other in
teresting matter on page three, shed
light on this subject. The case of Cuba
will find warm sympathizers among the
descendants of Ethan Allen.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11

IN the Cuban, as in the Venezuelan
matter, grave senators and representa-
tives in congress, who have espoused
the cause of those countries, have been
"playing to the galleries." in the view
of the mugwump press. But the mug
wump is ever against everything that
is American. The tory of the Revolu-
ton and the copperhead of the Rebel
lion are rolled into one, in all their
viperish malignity, to make the mug
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-10-23
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. %, 1896.
PREMATURE INTERMENlT
Simple Scientific Test Which Is
Certain to Prevent It
DR.. Carl L. Barnes. of New York, Writes
That tho Rays Solve . Dread
Problem - An Account of
His Experiments.

DR.. Carl Barnes, an eminent author
ity in the medical profession, has dis
covered method which will certainly
prevent burials alive. He holds that
when the hand of a person supposed to
be dead is exposed to the X ray the
failure of the light to penetrate it will
show positively that death has actually
occurred. This is very important in
these days when so many well authenti-
Gated resuscitations from supposed
death have been recorded. This is what
he has written to the New York Jour
nal
"My experiments are based on the
discovery Of the fact that dead hand,
held in such a position that an ray
may penetrate it, will not transmit the
ray. This is the more to be wondered
. at when it is understood that the X ray
will pass through the hand of the liv-
ing.
MY experiment. showing the great
est practical result to the unscientific
mind was the making of a sciagraph of
a living and dead hand ON the same
plate. Placing my hand and the arm OF
q dead man that had been anlputated at
the elbow on a sensitized piece Of glass
in plate holder, focused the powerful
ray on the two objects. This plate, after
having been exposed for Is minutes, was
developed to show q startling result.
While the bones of both my arm and
that of the dead were plainly visible,
The feshy part of the dead arm was
much darker.
"There is a reason for this marked
difference which has its seat in the
fact of the change that takes place in
the blood after death. The red corpus
cles of the blood are bconcave discs,
which have highly refractory power in
life, which makes it possible for the
light to penetrate the structure. After
death the corpuscles are almost Opaque.
This change in the condition of the
blood, however, is gradual. When the
sciagraph is taken within a few hours
after death, the hands of the dead and
the living will be alike, but after few
more hours when the change in the It's