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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-31
THE CITY TAX BUDG ET
BOARD OF STREET AND WATER COMMISSIONERS.
BOARD or ALDERMEN.

Relief Of outdoor poor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Fourth Regiment Armory ..........,......
District Court salaries including supplies.
Horse of Building Inspector ................
Printing stationery and supplies .........
Decoration Day........ Observation-Disclosures.
Elections .s....................
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13
Washington County Court.

Ira II. Fiske V. Estate of William G.
Lewis, j. w. Brock, admir-, apt. An APP
peal from commissioners involving the valid
ity of note. The jury in this case disagreed
and were discharged.
George j. Towne, apt, v. Emmett Hill.
General assumpsit The jury returned a
verdict in favor of plaintiff. The verdict
for plaintiff las been entered on the docket
at $2S3.96.
The jurors were excused on Thursday
morning until the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der.
Hannah Edgerly V. Horace e. Edgerly.
Divorce. Heard Saturday morning. Peti-
toner resides in Middlesex Marriage and
residence proved and bill granted for wilful
desertion. j. G. Wing for petitioner. No
appearance of defendant.
Marian G. Farnsworth v. Fernando Farms
worth Divorce Heard Saturday forenoon.
The residence OF petitioner is at Marshtield
and defendant at Waterbury. The cause
alleged was intolerable severity for which
bill was granted. The custody of the mi
nor child Ida was decreed to petitioner. j.
G. Wing for petitioner.
State x. A. e. Ellis, three cases for selling,
keeping and nuisance. Bail in the two
former were fixed Tuesday afternoon at
$500 each, and in the nuisance case at $500.
Recognizance was made in all the cases by
j. III. Senter. Respondent is said to keep
the American House at Waterbury.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13
East COrinth.

Rev. Mr.. Hatch is ILL., - Hundreds of
people attended the tent meetings at the
-Four Corners. The singing and the preach
ing have had moving effect. Evangelist
Shaw spoke to an attentive audience in the
Union church on Thursday evening and re-
turned to his home in Montpelier on Friday.
8, Mr.. and Mrs. b. T. Holland made a short
visit to Canada last week. - A. Lincoln
Kirk gave an entertainment in the church
on Wednesday evening to rather small
sized audience. - The Loyal Temper
ance Legion will hold sociable in the
church on Friday evening, October TO- All
are cordially invited to attend. Miss
Carrie Higinbotham, who has been visiting
at Mrs. e. s. Rowland's, returned to Wind
sor last week.
West Corinth.
Some of the many needed repairs have
been made on the gristmill and the noise
of grinding is once more heard in this place.
- There are several new cases Of
measles. The first victims of them are all
on the gain except Lee Still, who tried to
get over them too quickly and has had to
take his bed. - The school.house is un-
dergoing repairs which have long been
needed and when completed will be nearly
as good as new one. - Mrs. Bertha
Young from Hardwick and Mrs Julia
Dickey from Lowell, Mass, made few
calls among friends here last week. -
Alden True from Vera, Kan, who came on
here six weeks ago for the benefit of his
health and has since boarded at II. III. Will
liams, started on his return home on Mon
day. = Mrs. Harriet Sanborn from the
South Meadow is taking care of Mrs. Still
man Virgins. She is an excellent nurse.
- Rev. Mr.. Merrill from New Hamp.
shire will give a temperance lecture in the
church this evening. - Mrs. John Fits
has been stopping at the Meadow with her
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Oomstock, the past
week.
Cure that cough with Shiloh's Cure, The
best cough cure. Relieves Group promptly.
One million bottles sold last year. 40 doses
for 20 cts. Sold by w. Il. Terrill & Co.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13
Concerning the HazeltOn Riot.

A pronounced view of sanity occa-
sionally distinguishes Harpsrs Weekly
from the mugwump and sentimental
contemporaries. At the time of the
Hazelton riot it defended the officers of
the law in their attack upon the mob of
miners. In its last issue the Weekly
returns to the subject 1t says:
There is probably no method by which
the English newspaper mind can be accur-
ately Informed ON American affairs. The
Saturday Reutew of September IS, for ex-
ample speaks Of Sheriff Martins conduct at
Lattimer as terrible crime" 1t announ-
ces that the strike was great one, extend
ing over number of States-confusing Of
course this local strike in the anthracite
region with the general strike Of the miners
in the bituminous regions. 1t says that the
miners did not understand the riot act when
it was read to them by the sheriff, Through
ignorance of the language" and that the
sheriff, assuming that the strikers were de-
termined to go on and that he was in danger
If he prevented them, ordered his deputies
to fire at close range" All this is attribut-
ed to the tendency in the States to use
'shooting-irons' on the slightest provoca-
ton" The Spectator of the same date also
regards the shooting as murderous, and
while it has more accurate information than
the Saturday Reuie,o, also looks kindly on
the miners, and regards the event as an
illustration of the rough way and needless
barbarty with which American sheriffs and
their deputies administer the law. 1t also
tells US what the trained policeman OF Eng
land do under like conditions.
The mob which Sheriff Martin faced at
Lattimer had got beyond the bounds within
which trained police force might have
kept it. 1t was not mere peaceable pro-
cession Of miners, as our English critics
think. 1t was an ugly, murderous crowd
that had been in existence for many days,
and that had already violated the law and
threatened murder. Sheriff Martin believed
that the work of the mob must be stopped
at all hazards, and he undertook to do his
duty. In this effort his orders were dis
obeyed and he was assaulted. Then follow.
ed the shooting. 1t was not at flying work
men that the deputies fred but at advanc-
ing and threatening hostiles. whose success
on that afternoon would have left property
and the lives of many persons at the mercy
OF men who had shown readiness to des-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13
The Situation In Cuba,

If reports from Madrid in the daily
press are correct the new Spanish min
istry has already been very sharply
criticised. With one or two exceptions
Premier Sagasta has not surrounded
himself with men who have had much
experience in public affairs. Only three
OF his eight ministers were in his for
mer cabinet and no one of these three
ever enjoyed any particular amount of
distinction. Sagasta is confident, how
ever, that he will be able to carry his
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13
Calais.

Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Kent of Montpelier
was in town last Saturday.
There is to be a social dance at Memorial
Hall, North Calais, next Friday evening.
Rev. 8. c. Hayford will speak next Sun
day at the W est church at two o'clock P. NJ
Rev. s. G. Hayford is to have service at
the old church next Sunday, the 18th, at 2
Pm. Subject, practical Christianity"
The Mosler safe for the town has arrived
in good order. Harry Wheeler hauled 1t
from Montpelier. Il. 4. Lampher is agent
for the Mosler safe in this vicinity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13

party with him in the radical departures |
in governmental policy that are con-
templated.
If Sagasta can satisfy Spanish pride
by securing the acknowledgment OF
sovereignty in Cuba and at the same
insurgents that will be regarded as salts
factory, he will have performed task
which few believe to be possible.
There are no indications that the
Cubans are willing to give up the
struggle, in view of all they have suffer
ed, and the insurgent leaders declare
that they will not lay down their arms
until the Cuban Republic has been
officially recognized by Spain. If
General Weyler is succeeded by man
that does not believe in policy of
murder and devastation as means OF
restoring peace, and who has the capa-
city of successfully conducting negotia'
tons in the interests of peace, the news
from Cuba cannot fail to be more en-
couraging than it has been during the
past few months.
But, Notwithstanding the pacific tone
of the dispatches that have been sent
out from Madrid, the people of this
country may as we'll conclude that any
thing like settlement of the Cuban
situation is still long way off. While
Sagasts is willing that autonomy shall
be granted, he is apparently unwilling
to silence the Spanish guns, and de-
clares that the campaign must be con-
tinued as long as necessary, leaving the
impression that the talk of peaceful
negotiations is more or less of farce.
1t is a well known fact that the
United States government, through
General Woodford, has expressed a
wish to know when Cuba will be paci.
fed, and has requested Spain to reply
before October 30. 1t is, however, ex-
tremely unfair to the present admins
tration to suppose that the time limit
was fixed with the idea OF influencing
the fall elections in this country. The
request was made in order that Presi-
dent Mckinley might be able, if posi-
BILE, to incorporate SPANS reply in his
message to Congress. That he will
have chance to do so is by no means
certain, for the policy of the Spanish
cabinet has been in the past, and is
likely to be under the new administra-
ton, waiting one.
The limited character of the autonomy
offered to Cuba is sufficient guarantee
that it will not be acceptable to the in
sergent element, nor to their sympa-
thizers in this country. The truth is
that the island will never be pacified
until the way is paved to restoration
of commercial and industrial prosperity
and that can never be accomplished
under Spanish rule. The Spanish policy
in Cuba from time immemorial has been
one of robbery. 1t has sent to that
island the pets of the Spanish court
under instructions that they should
use their official position to pillage and
plumber the people right and left This
has been carried on until Cuba can not
pay its debts and its trade is dead.
After all this foul injustice no scheme
of compromise will be accepted which
does not offer the amplest guarantee of
practical and benefcient reform. The
inhabitants of the unhappy island can
hardly be blamed for announcing that
they will never give up the struggle
until the independence of the island is
acknowledged by Spain.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13

troy both. AT a time when officers of the
law in many States of the Union are afraid
even to arrest the many lyncheis who are
disgracing the country, one cannot listen
patiently to uniformed and hasty criticism
of this officer, who, with his deputies, up
held the law. In the mean time the coroner s
jury has disagreed as to the responsibility
of the sheriff.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13

MR.. BRYAN has been engaged to de-
liver q series of lectures on the silver
question in the State of Kentucky.
Possibly he will select localities where
the south wind will carry his voice
across the river into Ohio, as this seems
to be the only way that he can take part
in the campaign in that State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13

THE Democratic leaders of this coun-
try are seriously considering the adop-
ton of the Government by Injunc-
ton" cry as the chief feature of their
campaign of 1898 and 1900. The free
coinage proposition has been rejected
by the people of this country and some
new slogan the Democrats must and
are bound to have.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13
Obituary..

WELLs.-In Mddlesex, October 5, An
nette l., wife of L. r. Wells, aged thirty
nine years, one month and twenty-six days.
Our dearest treasures, oh how soon
From US they pass away,
Like fairest flowers we have on EARTH
They bloom but for day.
Yet as we lay our treasures down
To rest from every care,
This precious hope is given
In heaven we'll meet them there
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.

MARYLAND, Ohio and New York
and every other State, whether they
hold elections this fall or not, where
the Democrats think they have any
chance of success, will keep the bars
up against Bryan, Towne and other
free silver orators.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13

IN one of his addresses in the early
part of the campaign of 1896, Mr.. Nc
Kinley said that it was better to open
the mills of the United States 10 home
labor than to open the minis of this
country to the silver of the world.
Thousands of people who did not agree
with him at that time have since
reached the same conclusion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13

low their party in the mad proposition
for cheap money.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13

THE shooting of colored office holders
n the South has been suspended until
after the Ohio election, because it
might interfere with the Democratic
party in attempting to capture colored
votes in that State at the approaching
election. There was no need of this,
however, as the colored men of Ohio
will never vote for party led by John
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13

ONE of the latest reports of indus
trial activity comes from Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia Press has thoroughly
canvassed that State inquiring as to
business conditions, number of factor
les, hands employed, wages paid, and
the amount of work done. The reports
show large and steady growth all
along the lines. Every section of the
State is receiving increased orders and
business and labor is in great demand.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
French NJ She Is Spoke.

The Emerald Isle is net the only hab-
itat of bulls, and the connection be-
tween the Gallo and Celtic races must
be close indeed, if the following gems,
given upon no less an authority than
that of the Journal DIES Tribunaux as
emanations of the judicial mind in
France are to be considered genuine:
''Justice is not clandestine cavern
where people axe strangled behind their
backs.
II esteem my honorable colleague too
highly to admit for moment that he
can believe in the truth Of what he al
leges.
THAT house of business was but
forest of bandits
1.-THE defunct took his place at the Ia
BILE, meanwhile manifesting keen dis
pleasure at not having been invited"
"You are to blame for building sump-
tuous palaces that throw dust into peo-
pies eyes. New York Commercial
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
Their Conversation.

Said Eehsrt's father TO him: "My
son, listen 10 the successful men. Learn
wisdom from them. Re silent while they
speak, but keep your ears busy. Treas
IRE their words and 20 and do like
wise -
Egbert answered, Eyes, father"
IN corner Of the hotel two men
talked long and earnestly. Egbert
watched them from across the room.
They were well dressed and substantial
Egbeit said, "lf | could listen to their
conversation, | surely could gather
pointers by the basketful, for they must
be arranging the details OF some large
business deal.
The evening wore away. The clock
struck the warning hours and other men
moved outside, where the air was purer
and the weather more tolerable. Elk
cited groups talked politics and in quiet
corners men told fish stories, but these
men talked without needing or looking
up. And Egbert watched them.
Carelessly and stealthily Egbert
walked toward the corner where the
men talked. SO absorbed were they that
they observed him not. He sat down
and listened.
Just think, though, my boy is only
years and months, and he talks like
an old man.
Wonderful, wonderful broke in
the other. "My little girl, just coming
10 months, can distinguish colors
and"-
Strange enough, resumed the first.
"When my boy
Zone day my girl'- The second
edged in breathlessly, only to be cut off
with, "And my boy
Egbert fed into the night. Chicago
Record
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
Sir Henry ,-ylnr,s mnrnanimitu.

The changes o. fortune place people
sometimes i'll peculiar and embarrassing
positions. A good story is told of Sir
henry irving, the famous actor. When
young man, earning his lauTels and
comparatively unknown, Shakespeare s
play Much Ado About Nothing was
about 10 be presented to the public by IL.
certain manager Of prominence. Irving
had part assigned 10 him, which he
diligently studied. Letter perfect in his
lines, he felt assured Of ultimate sue
cess, but unfortunately the manager
disliked his acting of il and took occa-
sion 10 censure him before the company,
much TO his modification Furthermore,
the manager took the part away and
gave him another, less prominent, but
more difficult.
Years went by, and Irving steadily
climbed to "a fame that brought him
knighthood, while the critical manager
gradually lost ground. One day, shortly
after Irving announced his intention of
producing Much Ado About Nothing,
the old manager presented himself and
asked that a part be assigned to him.
Irving granted the request and gave
him the very part he had forced him to
play years before During rehearsal
Irving narrowly watched the managers
acting and at the conclusion went up to,
him and shook his hand after gravely
complimenting him upon his rendering
of the part. Then he promoted him TO
the part from which he had been re-
duced. 81 never knew what GOALS of
fire. meant till then" was the remark
which the old actor and manager was
overheard to make when Irving retired.
-Harper's Round Table.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
Sviftuess of Things.

Below will be found list showing
how far certain things animate and in
animate, will travel i'll n second of time:
The snail, one-half inch; man walk
ing, 4 feet; fast runner, % feet; fly,
pa feet; fast skater, 36 feet; ocean
waves, 20 feet; carrier pigeon, 81
feet; swallows, 900 feet; the worst cy-
clone known, $50 feet; the Krakatoa
wave Cat the volcanic catastrophe Of
Aug. 81, 1898, in the Sunda islands),
$40 feet; sound in the air, 1905 feet;
the surface of the globe at sea level on
the equator, / 1900 feet; the moon, 3, 900
feet; the sun, 51a miles; the earth, is
miles; Holley's comet in the perihelion,
$50 miles; electric current on telegraph
wires, 1000 miles; induction current,
IL, GAO miles; electric current in copper
wire armatures, $1,000 miles; light
$50, 900 miles; discharge of Leyden
bottle through copper wire of one-six-
teenth inch in diameter, 27S, 100 miles.
This last is the greatest rapidity so far
mpaSured
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
tIVIL SERVICE AMENDMENTS.
Portant Order Promulgated by Presi-
dent Mckinley.

Washington, July 29.-President Nc
ley has promulgated the following
)prtant amendments In the civil serv-
|rule No. 2: No removal shall be
r. from any position subject to COM
Hive examination except for just
Be and upon written charges filed
D the head of the department, or
kr appointing officer and of which
accused shall have full notice and
to make defense.
Re has also amended rule No. so as
include within the classified service
|employes of all custom house offices
bout regard to the number of en-
Yes. Hitherto the classification en-
Ped customs offices wnere the num-
/ of employees was five or more. This
Pr brings into the classified service
|g-five hitherto unclasslfied customs
Vs. The president has also
ded rule No. 6, making exceptions
Examinations, so as to read as fol-
pstoms house service.-One cashierin
customs district, one chief or prin-
a deputy or assistant collector in
customs district, and one principal
pity collector at each SUPPORT or sta
(ternal revenue service-One employe
each internal revenue district, who
act as cashier or chief deputy or
|stant collector, as may be deter
FED by the treasury department.; one
PITY collector in each internal revenue
fict where the number of employees
fhe office of the collector exceeds
4; one deputy collector in each stamp
branch) office.
Ppointments to the positions named
his rule in the customs house service
In the internal revenue service shall
}ubJect to an examination to be pre-
ped by the secretary Of the treasury,
+ approved by the commission. equal
Pc examination held by the commits
for positions of like grade. Such
hinations shall be conducted by the
omission in accordance with its regu-
Dns.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
The Beshi BazOuks.

The bashi bazouks are to the Turk
ish army what the Cossacks are to the
Russian. The Cossacks are, however,
UNNECESSARILY their superiors in all that
goes to make the soldier. Bashi bazouks
are almost without discipline. Their
courage is that of the wild beast seek
ing its prey, and once on the warpath
they are merciless. it was the bashi
bazouks who by their monstrous cruel
ties gave such point to the pen and
tongue of Mr.. Gladstone at the time of
the Bulgarian atrocities. Bashi ba-
zouk means 'hot Drained" Their mot
to is kill, kill" to which they freely
add land rob. " Their weapons are the
long lance. such as is used by the Cos
sack, the saber, two or three pistols and
as many murderous looking daggers -
San Francisco Argonaut.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-29
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
The United states League in Session nj
Detroit.

Detroit, July 29.-The United States
League OF Local Building and Loan as
sociatlons opened its fifth annual meet
ing Wednesday in the city council
chamber with fair attendance. repre-
sentlng all the states, about twenty I'm
NUMBER, which have state leagues of
local building associations. President
Michael j. Brown of PHILADELPHIA called
the delegates to order and introduced
mayor Maybury, who welcomed the
league To the city and acclaimed De-
trolt as city Of beautiful homes, more
or which, he said, were owned by their
occupants than in any other city in the
country. "A mans home indicates his
character" said he, whether il be a
palace or hut. Men are led into hab-
It's OF thrift and influence to build and
own their homes by the system which
your league represents"
President Brown appointed a commit
tee on credentials, with Irving b. Rich
or Michigan, chairman, and a commit
tee on resolutions, with Judge Seymour
Dexter Of New York, chairman. Pres
ident Brown then delivered his annual
address.
The committee on credentials reported
ffty-siX delegates to participate in the
convention. Ohio, Illinois, and Penn
sylvania are the states most heavily
represented. The report Of the treasur-
er, George II. Eddy of Fall River, Mass,
was largely a repetition Of Secretary
Colliriu's financial report. 1t showed
small balance on hand and nothing ow-
ing. Addison b. Burk Of Philadelphia
read brief address on security found In
local building societies. The delegates
then listened to a few remarks from
United States Senator Foraker of Ohio,
who was escorted into the hall and in
troduced as an able friend Of building
and loan interests in the senate, where
he succeeded in having building associ-
atoms exempted from the proposition for
a stamp tax upon stock Of corporations.
Senator Foraker spoke Of building as
sociations as prominent factors in bring
ing about the prosperity that everybody
is expecting. They come closer to the
people, he said, than any other factor in
their effort 10 save. He closed with a
prediction OF a speedy return Of pros
perity under the operation of the new
tariff bill. Senator Foraker was heart
lily applauded. An address on THE
Moral Effort Upon the Community of
Systematic SAVING prepared by j.
Warren Bailey Of Somerville, Mass,
was read by w. G.. Hayes Of Massachu-
sets.