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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

afternoon. Plaintiff sought to recover on a
promissory note in his favor dated May Ia,
1894, OF $500 less a $40 Endorsement, pur-
porting to be signed by W. G. Lewis. The
consideration and the signature of the note
were in issue in the case. Plaintiff intro
duced DR.. Bugby who testified as to the
counting of the money by DIR. Fiske him
self and Mr.. Lewis, after which writing was
done. On the other hand the niece OF Mr..
Lewis gave testimony tending to cast doubt
upon the genuineness OF the signature Of
Mr. Lewis. The jury came in Tuesday af-
ternoon, disagreed, and asked for the read
ing Of some Of the testimony. H. W. Kemp
and j. ii. Senter for plaintiff; II. A. Huse
and G. W. Wing for defendant.
II. d. Vail v. Elijah Whitney. General
assumpsit, Discontinued.
George j. Towne apt, v. Emmett Hill.
General assumpsit now on trial. Plaintiffs
residence is in Barre and defendants in
Concord. Defendant obtained a judgment
in the city court OF Barre from which an APP
peal was taken. Plaintiff seeks to recover
on note Of S315.50, dated April ID, 1893
and signed by Emmett Hill. This note was
payable to III. s. Colby and is endorsed over
on the back OF note to G.. j. Town and there
is one endorsement Iof $75. j. W. Gordon
and A. g. Fay for plaintiff; g. O. Shurtlef
and It. l.. Laird for defendant.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

to help along prosperity in every pos
sible way, instead of doing anything
that would be likely to retard it. His
enemies thought be had fallen into
their trap when it was cabled from
Europe that an ultimatum had been
submitted to Spain, but they were
badly mistaken. The proposition SUBJ
mitted to Spain was a peaceable one,
intended to help along prosperity in
the United States, by bringing about
peace in Cuba and restoration of the
commerce Of $1OO,OOO,OOO a year we
had with the island before the present
revolution began, as will be seen when
the instructions to Minister Woodford
are made public. President Mckinley
has no ambition to add any new laurels
to his military record, but he aspires to
have his administration linked in the
minds of the people with good times
for everybody, believing with most
sensible persons that the triumphs of
commerce and industry are much better
and greater than the triumphs of war.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06
MarshheId.

Clarence Glidden's two boys killed a
crane last week that measured five feet
eleven inches across the wings and was
over four feet tall - Rev. j. A. Dixon
preached very interesting sermon last
Sunday from the text, am the door " af-
ter which he administered the sacrament to
a large number. Mrs. j. @. A. Packer was
able to be present the first time in a long
while. She and Mrs. Parker Spofford were
the two oldest present. - e. A. Rose
brooks colt had the horse distemper instead
of fit as was reported last week. :
Archie w. Cole came home from Massa-
chusetts last Friday where he has been
working through the season. - The La
dies Aid meets with Mrs. Joseph Smith next
Friday afternoon and evening. - The
ditch for our water pipe is dug nearly to the
village and soon a large gang will be put ON
to push the work more rapidly to compile
ton. - Superintendent of schools Pike
will hold teachers meeting in the village
next Friday, holding an all days session. 1t
Is expected the Plainheld teachers will be
present and the school officers are especially
invited. s. DR.. Carver is putting an adj
dition on to his house enlarging his office
and other rooms. - A woodshed Is be-
ing put ON the back Of the Methodist church
with door leading to 1t from the vestry.
The Ladies' Union will meet this after.
noon with Mrs. Hannah Edison. A full at
tendance is desired. - Mr.. and Mrs.
O. E. Shepard are on visit at Groton and
Rockville, Conn. 60 Rev. A. j. Dixon of
Sunday. Presiding Elder Hamilton preach
ed In the evening. - Mrs. A. f. Davis
and daughter returned home last Thursday.
- Mrs. George Drew and son Harvey
OF North Monroe, N. H., were here on
visit last week.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06
Catholicism and Patriotism.

The timid people who apprehend
that the Roman Catholic Church has
designs of dangerous character on the
United States, and who think that de-
votion to the Pope is incompatible with
genuine patriotism, ought to read the
address delivered last week at st. Cloud,
Mimi, by Archbishop Ireland. In this
address the Archbishop eloquently re-
affirmed the loyalty of the Catholic
church in this country to American in
stitutions and American ideals. Speak
ing on this point he said: "This morn
ing there are here no Englishmen, no
Irishmen; there are here no French
men, there are here no Germans; we
are all Americans by every fibre of the
heart and by every thought of the
mind" Such language does not ex-
press narrow and bigoted utterance
such as some people insist that Roman
Catholic clergymen are wont to indulge
in; rather, it is the ring we might ex-
pect in Fourth of July Grafton from
some one whose ancestors came over in
the Mayaower.
In the course of his remarks this emil
nent clergyman pointed TO the fact that
the United States does not bar the use
of foreign languages. We are all of us
glad to know that an immigrant has
learned the English language, be-
cause that is the national tongue, in
practical as well as in sentimental
sense. He referred to the fact that
these immigrants are quite as anxious to
to learn the language as we are to have
them, but that we should not desire
them to abandon their foreign tongue
entirely. They are attached to it by a
host of old associations. 1t calls back
to them some of the most intimate rec
objections of their early life. If the
continued use of it has its dangers, it
has also certain value.
Archbishop Ireland called attention
to the fact that the tendency among
immigrants is to become assimilated in
an overwhelming population rather
than to assimilate it. Small bodies of
aliens who speak foreign language
are almost certain in the course of time
to give up in measure their own
speech and become better acquainted
with the tongue of those about them.
1t is, he said, indeed unfortunate that
whole communities, as is the case in
some portion of the Middle States and
the West, are composed of people who
speak habitually another language than
the English language, but unless we
are foolishly lax in our restrictions of
emigration in the future, no such far
reaching harm such as the alarmists are
won't to predict will ensue from these
conditions.
In closing, Archbishop Ireland said !;
"There are no enemies of our common
progress more dangerous than may be
found among those who have never
been outside the limits of the United
States. We ought to recall these
things before we indulge in wholesale
denunciation of immigrants who cling to
their old religion and their old lam
guage. We are all one. l proclaim it
before the altar, one in faith, one in ma
tionality."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

The resolution unanimously adopted
on Monday evening by the City Coun-
Gil of Barre, which may be found in full
in the Barre column, indicates that the
electric cars will not be running at
present between the sister cities. This
electric railroad, for which there has
never been demand, has had a rocky
road to travel since it's inception, and
the end is evidently not yet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

cowardly to endanger anything, even
themselves, but with their bowls for
arms and for the overthrow of the
courts and their plutocracy might, in
times of excitement, nerve some of
their followers who have more courage
and less cunning, to do something
which will get them into trouble. This
is the only way in which Debs has ever
been q menace.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06
ARTHUR ROPES. General EDITOR.

1T is reported that President McKin-
ley in his coming message to Congress
will recommend substantial increase
of the navy. Should he do this it will
be evident that he agrees with Secre-
tary Long that strong navy is guar
ATTY of peace and pleasant relations
with the.world.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

ABOUT one-half Of the potato crop of
Ireland is reported as worthless for
food, and it is estimated that by the first
of December one million of people in
that country will be without food. 1t is
easy to see from this that there will be
lively times in parliament, and it is
also easy to predict the source from
which large portion of the food for
the starving people of that island will
come. America and Australia can
safely be counted on to do their part
toward relieving the suffering.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

UNLESS Chairman Jones and Sena-
tor German can induce Congress to
pass law restricting defeated presi-
dental candidates from using the
United States mails they will be foiled
in their efforts to suppress Mr.. Bryan.
They have squeezed him out of New
York and have frozen him out of Mary
land and Ohio, but he is now firing at
those targets at long range through the
mails, and by some mysterious process
manages to get his letters into print
and his name before the public, despite
the efforts of the leaders of his party to
chain and cage him,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

SECRETARY WILSON'S plan of hav-
ing all the seeds distributed by the De-
partment of Agriculture sent in bulk to
Washington and tested before being
sent out cannot be carried out, owing
to the construction of the act appro-
priating the money to purchase the
seeds. A decision of Comptroller
Tracewell of the treasury rendered at
the request of Secretary Wilson, says
the seeds can only be purchased already
put up in packages and labeled for dis
tribution. In his annual report Sec
rotary Wilson will probably recommend
change in the wording of the seed
clause of the next appropriation bill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

THE iron and steel industry is uni
versally counted as faithful barometer
of trade, and the present activity along
those lines tells the story of present
business conditions. Rolling mills,
steel plants and furnaces generally are
rushed with orders and the enormous
demand is perfectly legitimate, without
the slightest tinge of speculation.
Railroads, manufacturers and builders
are all busy, and when they have plen-
ty of work there is demand for iron
and steel.
WHILE General Woodford was tell
ing Spain how we'll the United States
has been obeying the neutrality laws in
Cuban affairs, he might truthfuly have
added that it was the vigilance of the
United States which has kept Spain's
flag flying over that part of Cuba which
it still controls. A few filibustering
expeditions have escaped the vigilance
of the United States authorities, but
they are only small proportion of the
number which attempted to leave this
country, or which would have left had
the American government been lax in
its duties as neutral.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

THE lingo policy on the Cuban ques-
ton which was urged upon President
Mckinley as soon as he was inaugural
ed is now seen to have been unwise
and unsafe and the wisdom of the
Presidents course of action is meeting
with popular approval. 1t is now ap-
parent from the developments since
Minister Woodford's arrival in Spain,
that the attitude of the administration
will be such as to bring about termi-
nation of the troubles in Cuba, and in
a way which will avoid the criticism
which would surely have followed the
precipitate action urged by many peo-
pie Immediately after the nomination
of President Mckinley. Those who
were thus inclined to criticise what
they considered the slow progress of
the administration, now see that the
course was wise.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

IT seems probable that the Demo-
cratic party in Ohio will have half
dozen wings and factions before the
campaign in that State this fall is over.
A large and very intelligent element of
the party refused to indorse the silver
platform and candidate, and has made
its own platform and nomination. The
Populists who co-operated with the
Democrats last year have also made
their own platform and nominations,
and now it appears that the element of
the Democratic party which adopted
the free silver plank of the Chicago
platform is again divided. The latest
reports from that State indicate that
Jonn r. Mclean, who entered the
senatorial fight as silver man, has adj
vised the abandonment of the silver is
sue and that this is causing about an
equal division of that section of the
democracy which originally supported
the free silver platform adopted at Co.
umbus in July. From this it would
appear that the once solid democracy
of Ohio is now rent into at least four
different fragments, and there is no
telling how many more explosions will
occur before election.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

THE recent mild denunciation by
Debs of the 'torch" and "bloody
shrieks" of some of the leaders of his
social democracy, creates much amuse-
ment for the newspapers. OF course
the vaporings of these individuals were
merely an echo of Debs' speeches in
ST. Louis few weeks ago. Debs,
Sovereign, O'Neill and others who
threaten to Isubvert the government
and pull down the pillars of society, are
personally harmless. They are too
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY does not
have to obtain the confidence of the
conservative people-an overwhelming
majority-of this country; he has had
it for years-earned it by his record in
Congress and as Governor of Ohio.
No man knows better than he that his
enemies and the enemies of the Re-
publican party have been hoping ever
since the day he was inaugurated that
he would commit this government to
some radical policy, either domestic or
foreign, that would result in checking
the prosperity now 80 generally spread
over the country, by creating scare.
But from the day he was nominated,
Mr.. Mckinley has firmly believed that
his administration was destined to
start the people of the country upon an
era of great prosperity, and has been
fully determined that it was his duty, q
duty in harmony with his inclinations,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

THE faction of Tammany hall Demo-
Gratis in the city of New York that as
sumes to be Irregular" has nominated
for Mayor of the Greater New York
Robert Van Wyck, chief justice of the
city court. The convention sought
to dodge the issue of Organism by
making no reference to the prin-
ciples embodied in the platform of
the national democracy, adopted at
Chicago in 1896. For this reason the
title of regularity is denied to this
faction. On the other hand the allied
forces of Organism and socialism, en-
dorsing the Chicago platform have
nominated for Mayor Henry George of
the borough of Brooklyn. They un-
qualifiedly accept the Chicago platform,
and as that instrument is the latest
declaration of its principles by the ma
tional democracy, their title to regular
ity is unimpeachable. In point of mum.
bers and honesty of purpose, although
the purpose is an evil one, the wing of
the democracy that Mr.. George will
head is entitled to recognition as the
regular Democratic organization of the
city. At the present time there APP.
pears to be no prospect that General
Tracy, the Republican nominee, or
that the Independent, Mr.. Low, will
withdraw from the canvass. The Pro-
hibitionists some time ago nominated a
candidate for Mayor, and we believe
there is still another candidate. At the
present moment there seems to be "six
Richmonds in the field" and until
election day in November the fight
will wax as hot as the contest that was
waged on BosW orth's historic fed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06

SENATOR FORAKER, who passed
through Washington last week on his
way from New York, where he was
called on important business, to re-
sumo his work in the Ohio campaigns,
said the statement that he had left
Ohio because of a row with Chairman
Dick was a Democratic misstatement,
wilfully made. He gave his impression
of the situation in Ohio thusly: cit is
foregone conclusion that the Repub-
licans will gain sweeping victory. l
have made several speeches in the
State, and from what l have seen and
heard, / do not think the Democrats
have even a chance to win. The re-
turn to prosperity has effectively killed
the Democratic issue. No argument
can be made against one dollar wheat
and higher prices for all farm products.
The ammunition of the calamity howl.
er is gone and he has nothing left on
which he can be kept going. Senator
Hanna will be returned and Gov. Bush
nell will be reelected by large ma
jority." Senator Foraker will resume
the stump in Ohio this week, but of
course that lie about his having quar-
relied with Chairman Dick and Senator
Hanna will continue to occupy promi-
~
cratic newspapers of certain class.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-06


School closed here on Thursday on ac-
count of the measles. There are over twenty
cases in this vicinity All are school chill
dren except Charles Avery, who is very
sick with them at Mrs. Newman's and Mer-
ton Hill, who is at A. 9. Kenyon's, -
Mrs. Stillman Virgins bears up bravely
with her broken limb and other serious diff
fcultes bat has within the past few days
had occasional sinking spells. 60 Mrs.
Merton Hill is not as we'll and Dr. Corwin
of Chelsea was again called to see her on
Saturday. - Carl White and wife have
moved into George Maguire's house and
George boards with them. - Gilbert
Blake met with a severe accident on Satur-
day. While attempting to remove his hay
rack one corner OF the rack hit him in the
face cutting his lip apart and severe cash
in his face. Dr. Locke dressed the wounds.
Small precautions often prevent great
mischiefs. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are
very small pills in size, bnt are most effec-
tive in preventing the most serious forms of
liver and stomach troubles. They cure con.
stipation and headache, and regulate the
bowels. W. e. Terrll & Co.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-16
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

NJ. Basuger, who cooked for George
sand and Alfred de Musset when they
were living together at Venice, died re-
Gently in the Tarascom workhouse, aged so
years He left no memoirs.
Senator Hoar is one of the best read men
In the senate. His prodigious memory al
lows nm to quote at an instants notice
'ne verse or passage Of prose which he re :
CARDS as fitting the occasion.
An English periodical paper recently
printed sketch of Chauncey D'Epew of
New York City and laid especial emphasis
on the fact that his Gallo wit was in
Keeping with his Gallo name
Mrs Manson. who accompanies her hus-
band to London. is said to be a harder
person to interview than the pope himself.
AS TO both her husbands polar work and
ms personality, she processes complete ig-
norance.
:, Aamlral Canevaro. in command OF the
lieets oil the powers off the coast of Crete
is an American by birth, having been
porn In Peru Of a Genoese father His
brother is Peruvian minister to Italy and
France. anu
Miss Winter. the English governess who
mas llved at the Dutch court for many
years and undertaken the education Of
tne young queen. has just returned home
' .auen win presents and happy in the
=, a third Kipling will soon be in the
I,elo, "A Pinchbeck Goddess is the IT,
tle OF novel by Miss Alice Kiplng, sister
OF hudyard, announced for speedy publjca
tloh by Heinemann. in London Angle
lnu'an life at Simla furnishes the setting
president Tucker OF Dartmouth College
mas Just returned to Hanover. N. H. hav-
ing completed his trip around among the
various dartmouth alumni associations He
reports that the proposed alumni hall will
sooh De quit. as the alumni have taken
very kindly to the project and have nj.
100000. oeess"iy
VI osires OF Paris. who recently bought
the castle OF Malmaison. is having everv
room , IN 1t carefully restored. Among the
pes, PEST known rooms are Napoleon's Study
room where the Empress .Josenbine diod
Ia la rette Malmaison. where Josephine had
her greenhouses. has already been restored
Naples. VI 'ne Ains OF
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-16
SOME POSTSCRIPTS,

Hermetically sealed wine TASKS have
been found In pompeii
In Paris there are 5000 women who are
heads OF mercantile houses.
The new waiting room in the New York
Central depot will be the largest in the
world.
The depth OF water has considerable
influence on the speed of steamers. which
are found to move more slowly In shallow
water.
The chaplains OF the Oklahoma legisla
ture receive si50 per day, or Just half
the sum set apart for the men who clean
the spittoons
Jordan am hard road to 'rabble" is
no longer true. a steamboat having recent
~ been placed on the river which makes
the trip from Jericho to TiberIas in five
hours.
on Grand Riviere, In Brost Harbor. a
frisato $50 feet long, peirced by many
cannon balls. was recently found by drcd-
gers. The vessel is believed to have been
sunk by the British 800 years ago.
Queen Victoria's team OF eight cream
colorod horses which are to draw her
stage carriage at the celebration mex,
June, are now being exercised in the street q
so as TO accustom them to the traffic
In Great Britain 2iS6 magazines are pub-
lished. OF which 537 are OF a religion,
character There are 1896 newspapers
printed. 2ls OF them being dailies. Fifty
years ago there were only fourteen dailies
published
The North Carolina house OF representa-
tives has passed bill requiring all teach
ers In the public schools to read aloud
to their pupils at least twice each year
the Constitution OF the United States and
that OF the State.
II is said that some two or three years
hence, on the completion Of the great Rus
sian enterprise, the Trans Siberian rail.
way. travellers will be made to reach Japan
In sixteen days and China in seventeen
davs-frcm London.
In large Goldfish recently caught on tn,
Scottish coast was founda corked lemon
ade bottle. made In Elgin, containing a
piece OF paper on which was written