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Water Valley progress., 1897-05-01
WATER VALLEY.
A Briet Sketch OF the city's Pro-
= grcss During the Past Eighteen
1enths. a Few Of the
Bu1Idiilrs

since tue last special edition Of
The PROGRESS, dated October 26,
1898, and which contained an
elaborate amt thorough writc-up
OF the c.ty, many important
changes have taken place. The
Improvement and growth Of the
city has not been so marked
along industrial liues since the
date of that edition up to this, as
IN the two years preceding the
iOrmer but along lines Of moral,
Intellectual and material advance.
ment the past eighteen mouths
must take rank as the crOwnii,g
epoch Of the city's history. No
9islonary schemes of great manu-.
etories have been indulged. no
roads have been projected; no
lttiful fabric of words or mass
fse paper structures have reared
their noble walls for a day. to
come crashing about their san.
gnine projectors the next. But
the capacity of the electric light
plant, and the city water plant
and sewerage system have been
doubled, miles of we'll paved and
well graded streets has been added
10 the city's system of thorough
fares. The Illinois Central Rail
road company, the greatest and
weaithiest corporation doing bust.
ness In the South, has built y
mammoth switch-yard in the
northern portion of the city,
thereby removing the objection.
able switching from the populous
business section to a region com.
paratively remote; in addition to
the switch yardAshe company has
made many inspsS,sef fssnt s-~s.x
additions to its alfeSiE valuable
plant---ar new car shop, new paint
shop, new boiler Sisssp, new dry,
house, new car sheds and new
dispatcher's office being among
the most prominent.
Hamilton College, one of the
hands0mest and most elegantly
equipped boarding schools for
young ladies in the South, has
been built and is now in the mid
die ofa successful first session.
The Main Street Methodist
church and parsonage have been
erected, and and the handsome
little church is already reck0ned
on Of the fiourishing institutions
of the city.
The Presbyterians are building
church at the corner. of Main
and Church streets, to take the
place Of their house Of worship
which was burned in December,
80, at q cost of $4,000, and
which would be q credit and 0rna-
ment to q much larger city than
Water Valley.
The Baptists are also rearing y
noble structure on the site Of their
former building. The walls of the
new church are we'll under way
and give promise Of y handsome
and cOmm0diOus structure.
Our c0lored citizens have alsO
built new churches and are now
remodeliug and improving their
old.
The city schools, under the Wig
0r0us and efficient administration
of prnf r r praatOn late atatn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

GLADSTONE celebrated his eighty seventh
birthday at Hawarden, last Wednesday,
surrou nded by his family. There was the
usual demonstration by the villagers in
honor Of the occasion, consisting OF the ring
ing OF church bells and assignments Of depu-
tations to proceed to the castle and con-
graduate the venerable statesman. Through
out the day there was an enormous flow of
congratulatory kilograms into the castle
from all parts Of the United Kingdom
United States, and the continent
A FRENCHMAN named Fabianis, residing
at Berne, Switzerland, recently lodged a
claim for forty.six million francs against
Venezuela on account of a denial OF Justice
by the Venezuelan courts. The matter was
eventually submitted to the arbitration of
the President of the Swiss Republic, who,
1t is now announced, has awarded Fabienis
the sum of 100000 $780, OO).
The annual report of the finances of the
Turkish empire shows that there has been
an average yearly deficit of one million
pounds Turkish since 1890, but it is urged
that there is nothing to prevent the restor-
ing of balance If the problem is honestly
grappled with. Sir Edward Vincent, gov
ernor of the Imperial Ottoman bank, recon-
mends reduction in the military expendi-
lures and suggests other reforms.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

THE engine house of the Bristol railroad,
at Bristol was burned last Thursday even
ing. The loss is covered by insurance.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Original, Daniel
Holmes of Whiting; increase Silas Chad.
wick of Randolph.
THE Busby Bell and Tool Company at
Fair Haven has been attached by Nahum
j. Busby of Boston, for the sum of $4,000
The claim is breach Of contract.
= THE body of David Blakely, member of
Sousa's Band, buried at Bradford last No
vember, has been disinterred and taken to
New York for examination. This was done
at the request OF several life insurance COM
paniea.
The residence of Judge Stephen j. Hast
ings, at Waterford, was burned last Friday.
The fire caught in the girls room in some
bed clothes near the chimney. Most of the
furniture was saved Loss, So, 800; well in
sured.
WARNER GARRETT, an escaped prisoner
from the Windham county jail at Newfane,
attempted suicide at Brattleboro, where he
was captured, last Thursday. He slashed
his throat with razor, but his wounds are
not dangerous. He was arrested by Special
Detective Maloney month ago for stealing
from the South Vernon freight office and
was committed.
The village of Bradford was thrown into
great excitement last week by the report
that the wife of the proprietor of Hotel
Low was i'll with small pox. The hotel was
quarantined and DR.. George Cook, medical
inspector for the New Hampshire board of
health, was summoned. He made a thor
ough examination of the case, declared that
the diagnosis of the local physician was err
| roneous, and that no varioloid or small pox
could be found. The quarantine was raised
and the community breathe d easier.
unmarked grave, Richard Fairbrother, a
| soldier of the Revolution, is to have a
monument over his grave in Westminster.
| A granddaughter is to pay for the tablet OF
stone. Fairbrother died at the advanced
! age OF eighty-four years. He was wounded
| by being shot through the body, the bullet
| coming out near the spinal column, and il
is said hat the surgeon in dressing the
! wound, drew a silk handkerchief entirely
through his body in tracing the course OF
the bullet. 1t was certainly a remarkable
circumstance that man should be able to
live after being 80 wounded.
FOLLOWING is the list of presidential post.
! offices in Vermont, with the salaries paid
the postmasters: Barre, 50 300; Barton
! S1,400 Bellows Falls, $500; Bennington
$1,000; Bethel, $1,000; Bradford, $1,000
Brandon. $1,000; Brattleboro, $500; Bris
tol, 300; Burlington, So, 300; Derby Line
$780, Enosburg Falls, 81 ,1O0 Fairhaven
$780, Island Pond. 81 900; Ludlow, 81 400
Lyndonville, $1,000; Middlebury, $1,7OO
Montpelier, $500; Morrisville, 81 400
Newport, .$1,700i North Bennington. 81, 900
Northfield, $1,4O0; Poultney, 81, 500; Proc.
tor, $1,000; Randolph, $1,000; Richford
LOO; Rutland, S2,7O0; st. Adams, 81, 400
st. Johnsbury, S2,40O; Saxtons River
81, 400; Springfield, $1,000; Swanton, 81 400
Yergennes, $1,000; Waterbury, $1,000
West Rutland, $1,000; White River juno
ton, Sl700; Windsor, $1,000; Winooskl
$500; Woodstock, 81 900.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Foreign.

THE Impartial of Madrid publishes re-
port of an interview with Senior Canovas,
prime minister, in which he declares that
the government will not accept any inter-
vention on the part of the United States in
Cuba. The Premier also says that the
home government will not institute any re-
forms in Cuban provinces, hut reforms will
be undertaken in the island of Porto Rico
very shortly.
Hon. j. T. TARTTE, minister of public
works in the Dominion OF Canada declared
last Thursday in Montreal that the Do
minion government would stand by its
Manitoba school settlement. even though it
was condemned by the church, as it was
the best which could be made Another
attempt to ooerce Manitoba, he said, might
break up the confederation and lead TO a
civil war.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Domestic.

JOSEPH B. MCCULLOUGH of st. Louis, edi-
tor of the Globe Democrat, was killed last
Wednesday night, by falling from the third
story window of his residence. Mr.. Nc
Cullough had been confined to his room for
the past two months with asthmatic trouble
and Bright's disease 1t is not yet known
whether his death was the result of pre-
meditation or not. He was about fifty nine
years Of age and unmarried.
Two boilers in the state asylum for the
insane at Medical Lake, Wash, exploded
last Wednesday night. terrorizing the in.
mates, and partially wrecking the building
Three hundred patients made efforts to leap
from the upper windows and were only
prevented from doing 80 by the iron bars
which restrained them. Many were in
jured by flying glass and fighting to escape
Fritz ThielmaD, fireman, was found in the
ruins unconscious. He will die. The build
ing was damaged to the extent of $25, 900.
OUT OF thirteen banks that were doing
business one year ago at Superior, Wis.
only four are running at the present time.
In view of this fact, the officials of these
banks are said to be interested in plan to
reorganize and consolidate into one large
institution with capital stock of 81 SOC, 000
which will be able TO command the business
of the flour mills and elevators, which now
60 TO Duluth. The banks interested in this
plan are the Bank of Superior, the Bank of
West Superior, the American Exchange
and the Bank of Commerce. The city of
Superior, during the last fifteen months, has
lost upwards of 100000 in the failures of
the city banks.
SENATOR JOHN NJ THURsToN addressed
the Cha tauqua Circle at Omaha, Neb., one
night lasG week on the prospect of war with
Cuba He created considerable enthusiasm
In beginning he announced his intention
to vote for the recognition OF Cuban indie
pendence. He declared he did not want
war, but there were worse things AS he
had said, "war is Gods thunder in storm
which clears the atmosphere" All through
history war had been the most powerful fac
tor in bringing about progress. A war that
had for its purpose liberty and justice was
Gods war and worked out Gods purpose in
the destinies of mankind. Senator Thurs
ton said he would cast his vote for the
recognition OF Cuban independence with
the full knowledge that such action was
fraught with grave danger to our national
peace. He seriously apprehended that when
this country places itself ON record for
Cuban recognition, the Spanish Ministry
would declare war on the United States re-
gardless of consequences.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

POPE LEO gave an audience last Wednes-
day to body representing the old Ponti-
hcal army. The Pope made an address to
the representatives in which, after speak
ing OF the services rendered by the army,
he declared that the papacy would finally
triumph. He added that he had received
offers from Canada, Ireland and elsewhere
from people who were ready to hasten to
the defence OF the papacy. He hoped the
moment would soon come when he would
see himself surrounded anew by sons as
faithful and as well beloved as those who
mad comprised the pontihcal army. The
speech has produced deep impression in
all circles at Rome.
The rumors that Maceo is still alive are
rapidly gaining ground in Cuba Informa-
ton recently received at Havana gives pre-
else details. 1t is said that when he fell
from his horse his followers thought him
dead but found that he was still living and
spread the news that he was dead in order
to carry him to place of safety. Under a
strong escort they carried him to the Sig
uanea Hospital, where, under the skillful
treat of Drs. Fermin, Valdes, Dominguez
and Panchen Dominguez, the chief is now
slowly recuperating. The acute period has
now passed. 1t seems that the only wound
which is dangerous is in the stomach. For
tunately the bullet did not touch the intes-
tines. 1t was feared that peritonitis might
set in but he escaped this. The other wounds
In the Jaw and back are only slight No
bones were fractured.
The danger following the landslide near
Baltimore, Ireland, is increasing. That
part of the disturbed earth comprising the
bog is still sliding toward the Lakes of
Killarney. Peasants living some distance
from the scene of the landslide are fleeing
from their houses and taking refuge in
localities that give promise of safety, leaving
all of their belongings behind them. Debris
of houses and trunks of trees destroyed by
the avalanche of earth, together with the
carcasses Of cows, sheep, pigs and other
animals which were caught in the slide and
plunged into the River Flesk, are now
being swept into the lakes. The river is
choked with earth, rocks, trees, ETC., and
the water has spread over large area.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
For Sale at a Bargain!

On Northhed street; House and small Buding
Lot. First-clsss investment. A. j. HOWE,
Real Estate Agent
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
SELECTED POETRY.
When the Little Girl Went Away.

When the little girl went away from home
In the midnight gloom wept;
And it seemed that still
For all Gods will
On her mothers breast she slept.
For it did not seem she could go away
From the kiss of her mothers lips that dayl
That day
That day
That lonesome day
When the little girl went away
When the little girl went away from home
Where the roses seemed so sweet
We said that day
"She hath gone the way
We must tread with veal feet"
o, it did not seem she could leave US So
For her kiss too sweet for the kiss of the snow
That day
That dayl
That lonesome day
When the little girl went awayl
When the little girl went away from home
We knelt meath the bending skies;
But they only seemed
CAS- we prayed and dreamed)
mem'ry of her blue eyes!
For we could not think, as we knelt to pray
She would leave her mothers arms that day,
That day
That day
That lonesome day
When the little girl went away
When the little girl went away from homei
All, mel for the weary years.
For the lonely signs,
For the weeping eyes,
And life but vale of tearsl
For in darkness and silence the mother weeps,
Still-sti DER the turf where her little one sleeps
In life's evening gray
AS on that sad day
When the little girl went away
Frank L. Stanton
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

MORE than one hundred prisoners,
members of the Christian Endeavor
Society in the Indiana State prison,
have been baptized by the chaplain.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

ANYONE who suffers from that terrible
plague, Itching Piles, will appreciate the
immediate relief and permanent cure that
comes through the use OF Doan's Ointment
II never fails.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

THE British National Council has in
vited the International Convention of
1900 TO meet in the city of London.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-15

he does not preface or end it with
PRAYER. The familiar announcement
''Let us pray is never heard from his
pulpit He does not believe in public
prayer and has said so ON several occa-
sions DIR. Roberts was asked to give up
one church because of his views on this
subject, and he cheerfully did so rather
than admit that prayer in public was
proper.
DR.. Roberts is a man Of about As and
was born at Fredonia, Q. His father
was a Baptist minister, and when John
Emerson was old enough he, too, was
trained for the ministry. He was grad
uated from the theological department
of Shurtleff college with the degree of
doctor of divinity and was ordained a
Baptist minister in Carrolton, Ills. For
six years he preached total immersion
and the rest of the creed, and then he
decided that the teaching of orthodoxy
was not in his line He withdrew from
the Baptist denomination and in 1885
founded a liberal church at Grand Rap
ids. He remained there for two years
and then went to Kansas City, where
he had occupied Baptist pulpit, to &C
cept a call from the All Souls Unitarian
church.
It was in this latter church that DIR.
Roberts introduced the innovation of
dispensing with public prayer. pray
ing in public, - he said, ''has become
purely perfunctOry performance and had
better be abandoned. - This view Of a
time honOred custom proved to be too
broad for even the liberal Unitarians, and
DR.. Roberts was asked to resign. He did
so, but as he still had quite following in
the All Souls congregation he founded
what he calls the Church of the World.
Services are held every Sunday evening
in the opera house and an orchestra of
16 pieces furnishes music, but there are
no prayers made from the pulpit. 81
fear, - says a prominent western Uni
tartan minister, that DR.. Roberts is
seeking notoriety."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-15

The Railway and Engineering Review
says, in speaking of the meal service of
railroads: If railroads catered less to the
wealthy classes and underworld to furnish
better accommodations to people of moder-
ate means at reasonable prices, there might
be more of disposition on the part of the
public to regard such corporations in
spirit of fairness than is at present appar
ent. Matters of this kind, although of
rather minor importance, might go long
way toward softening some of the I'M
pleasant relations existing between citizen
and corporation and the averting of a vast
amount of useless agitation over supposed
errieVancpS -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-15

Emperor William of Germany brought
back with him after having been absent
for cruise on his royal yacht. 1t is
said tha1i Lieutenant Won Habnlze, who
is alleged to have struck the blow, com
mitted suicide.
Numerous versions of the story are
current. One has it that the kaiser
spoke insultingly of the mother and sis
ter of the young officer in the latter 8
presence and that the lieutenant fioored
the young war lord with a prompt and
vigorous punch on the imperial eye, i'm
mediately escaping and blowing his
brains out with revolver.
Another version is that the kaiser
reprimanded the lieutenant for riding a
bicycle around the deck of the royal
yacht and followed this up with a tor
rent of abusive language, all in the
presence of a knot of officers Won
Hahnke is said to have retaliated with
a blow before his brother officers could
hustle him away and induce the emper-
or, who was crying wildly for his as
sailant's blood, to go to his cabin This
story ends with the release of Won
Hahnke from the yacht after he had
promised to kill himself. 1t tells how
he lay hidden for ten days in a peasant
cottage and finally jumped into a lake,
from which his body was recovered.
OF course there have been official de-
mails in plenty. The kaiser's black eye
was caused, it was given out, by a
swinging block or boom, and the lieuten-
ant was said to have fallen from his BIZ
cycle while riding along the top of
cliff
At any rate, the kaiser had a black
tenant was a member of an old and in
fluential family, his father being Gen
era1 Won Hahnke, chief of the kaiser
military cabinet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-15
PROPOSALS.

Sealed proposals will De received at the
office of the Secretary of State of the
State of Kansas at Topeka, Kansas I'M
til Y O'Clock noon. November g. 1899, for
the finishing of certain portions of the
interior of the dome of the State Capitol
building. in Topeka. Kansas. The metal
the plastering and cornicing of the ro-
tunda. All to be in accordance with
plans and specifications prepared by T.
H. Iescher. State House Architect, and
on file in said office.
This work is authorized by the Execu-
tive Council under the provisions of chap
ter A. laws of 1895. Copies of plans and
specifications viii be on file in the office
of the State House Architect from and
after October 10Th. 1897.
Parties bidding on the work will be re-
quired to accompany their bid with a
certified check or cash in the sum of five
per cent @ per cent?. to be forfeited to
the state in case the successful bidder
fails to enter in contract and give bond
for the faithful performance of same
within days after the said contract is
awarded.
The attention of all bidders is called to
chapter ia of the session laws of 1891 in
relation to the eight hour law CONSTITUTE
ing 4 days labor.
The right is reserved to reject any or
all bids. Blanks for bidding will be fur
nished by the State House architect.
J. w. LEEDY.
Governor and President of Executive
Council
w. z. BUSH
Secretary OF Stare and Executive Council.