News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-03-14
NOT ES.

The gold standard will soon be in
legal eff ct. The Senate has adopted
the conference report, which assures
the speedy passage of the bill, and
the President stands waiting to sign
it. And then the country will have
nothing to fear from N9braska's
windiest orator.
England's new war loan is receiv-
ing many subscriptions in the United
States. The time when London was
"the whole thing in a financial way
has gone by. And it is to be noted
that the English loan commands q
less favorable rate than United States
bonds. Uncle Sans credit is the
best in the world.
There is one Kansas woman who
can properly claim to be worth her
weight I'M gold. A horse bit a piece of
| flesh out of her arm the other day,
and the court decided that the owner
of the animal must pay $4S. 1t was
a very small piece of flesh. and prob
ably did not weigh even as much as
$49 worth of gold at the market
price.
Marshfeld, Mass, once the home
of Daniel Webster, believes in high
license. At Mondays election in
that town the citizens voted in favor
of license for the first time in history,
but as they afterwards voted to fix
the price of each license at 81, 900.
900 it hardly seems likely that
whiskey and other things will be sold
over the bar there this year.
Philadelphia will continue to be
known as the Quaker City, notwith-
standing the tact that the recently
completed religious census down
there shows that the number OF
Friends among the Philadelphians is
comparatively small. A nickname
sticks to a town as we'll MS to man,
and it is next to impossible to dodge
it even when it becomes inappro-
pirate.
The disaster in the West Virginia
coal mining district proves that the
| HUN IA piAJ' InF, WllICli
has put so many lives IN the recOri
OF calamity, Is not yet past. MtuiOg
the seams of the earth Is gloomy
| enough business ut the best, and tn
mangled bodies and weep,ug widows
and children IN the I'll dressed Virgin
ian mountain village tO-dHy show
what it is at the worst.
One Of the surviving war governors
is the venerable Frederic HolbrG Ok
of BrattlehOro, VT, who has lust cple.
brated his eighty -siXth birthday. The
occasion was remembered by many
of his neighbours aud friends, who
called or wrote TO express congrat.
ulations. The venerable tx governor
retains his physical strength to a ~
markable degree, while his mputa
conditions is apparently unimpaired
Fighting Joe" v heeler is back
from the Philippines, and again be
diIaptoints the "antiimperiallsts.
He says the war in the islands i,
about over, that the situation thar,
is very satisfactory and that under
American rule ''an era of great pros
perity will bless the people of the
archipelago" General Wheeler is 4
staunch Democrat, but his decl IRA
tions will not form part of the Bryan
campaign text books this year.
The speech of the Hon. Chauncey
M. Depew upon the Philippines, show
that the debating powers of the Sen
ate have been greatly strengthened
by the addition of the group of new
Senators OF which Mr.. Depew is one
1t is interesting to note That the Re
publicans who have newly undertake
en- to let the country know that they
were members Of the United States
Senate, namely Ross of Vermont
Beverage of Indiana, and Depew o
New York, have chosen American ex
pansion to the Philippines as tn,
theme Of their oratory ~ T. Sun.
Yaara If an 1arino ra1;ayo1 L., , .,1.k1 4.