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The Washington times., 1902-08-21

Earned runs-Athletics. 1. Three
base hits-Murphy, Hastings. Sacrifice
hits-McCormick, Hastings. Stolen
base-Hartscl. Struck out-By Hust
ings, q by Powell. !. Left on bases
Athletics. >: ST. Louis. I. First base on
balls-Off Hastings. g.; off Powell /.
Time hour and IS minutes. Umpire
Sheridan. Attendance-6,9s6.
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Yerkes Outpitched in
First Game by the Bos-
ton TWirler.
REDS DOWN BRIDEGROOMS
Doubling Up of Dates at Cincinnati Un-
fortunate for Brooklyn-Phillies Out
play Remnants to Rains Spoils
Pittsburg Came

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 20.-Boston and st.
Louis broke even on two games this
afternoon. In the first Yerkes and Pit
finger were 'he opposing twirlers. and
the Boston man had the advantage.
Currie and Willis opposed each other
in the second game, and Currie had the
best CT the argument. Attendance, $500.
The score:
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Sacrifice hit-Tenney. Double plays
Currie and Hartman; Kruger. Fsrrell.
and Brashear; Kittridge and Dexter. Hit
by pitcher-By Gurrie, 2. Wild pitch
Willis. Bases on balIs-Off Currie, 2;
off Willis. 2. Struck out-By Currie. 1;
by Willis, 2 Left oG bases-St. Louis,
s; Boston. 6. Umpire-Emslie. Time
of game-1 hoGT and IS minutes
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NEARING THE PENNANT.
Athletics Down the Browns HandiIy-
MuTphy's Great Stop.
(Special Ia Tho W1shingtUn limo

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Aug. 2O.-The
Athletics got enc step nearer the
championship today by winning from
St. Louis in handy fashion. Murphy's
great stop of Anderscn's hard drive n
the eighth was the feature. VI. Cross
also played a great game. Score
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GAME SAVED BY LAJO!E.
Timely Work in Third and Fifth Nets
Four of Six Runs Made.
lsnecial 10 The Washinqton Times.

Special to Tho Washington Times)
BOSTON, Mass. Aug 2O.-Lajoie's
timely work in the third and fifth in
nings in todays game scored four of the
six Cleveland runs. The locals played
loose fielding game. and could not do
much with Moores pitching. Score:
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NO GAME AT PITTSBURG.

Especial to The Washington Times.)
PITTsBURG. Aug. 20.-Rain prevented
the National League game scheduled to
be played here today.
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Three base hits-Dolen, Corcoran.
Stolen bases-Kelley, Breckley. sey-
mour, Sheckard. Double play-Keller
and Donovan. First base on balls-Off
Newton. s. Hit by pitched ball-By
Newton, l. Struck out-By Phillips. 1;
by Newton, l. Time OF game hours.
Umpires-Brown and Irwin.
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Earned runs-Baltimore. 3: Detroit.
4. Twobase hits-Selbach. Williams.
1hree-bas hit-McAllister Home run
Holmes. Sacrifice hlt-ATnd:. Stolen
bases-Smith. Elberfeld, Harley Dou-
bic play-Elberfeld and Beck. Bases on
talls-On Wiltse. .. off Yeager =
Struck out-3y Wiltse. /; by Yeager. 2
Left on bases-Baltimore. I; Detroit. g.
Time of game hour and % minutes
Umpire-CcnnOlly. Attendarce-1.2 200
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NOTES OF THE GAME.

Green's hit in the first inning was a
little bunt, which Carrick went after
and got his hands on. but he was un-
able to get it in time to head the
runner off at first.
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After Star Pitcher.

"Oh. yes, | expect to strengthen the
team some next season | am after 4
star pitcher in the National League.
and l have in view two other young
twirlers, who are now doing good work
in one of the minor organizations The
team does not need much strengthening
outside of the pitchers boz. but nat
urally am always on the lookout for
anybody who may add to the strength
OF the club ! snail go out pretty socn
and endeavor to get the pitcher whom
| have my eyes on. and | thinh | shall
land him
The Washington team? 1t has lot
of good players on its list. and | be
ileve If the club hat is playing now had
been working together all season, the
Senator's would have been farther up
the list. Wolvertcn was a great handI-
cap to the club Cougbln can play
all around him. l. hnow of two or three
games that the team lost to us through
Wolverton's poor work. The WASH
iagton team was very fortunate TO get
rid of him
Mark my word. we won't have to
get back home to take the lead in the
pennant race. Wen get it before we
go back"
dispatch from Chicago last night
stated that President Hart. of the Chi
cago Nationals. had signed Pitcher Pat
tCrson. When asked about the matter
last night, Griffith said that Patterson
signed a contract two weeks ago to play
with the White Sex, and that there was
no danger of his breaking it..
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BEANEATERS AND
BROWNS BREAK EVEN
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results of Yesterdays Games.

Chicago, 2; Philadelphia, 4.
st. Louis. o: Boston, l..
St. Louis, 3; Boston. = (second
game).
Cincinnati, 10; Brooklyn, =.
Cincinnati. Is; Brooklyn, !
(second game).
Pittsburg-New York-rain.
Where They Play Today.
Philadelphia al Chicago.
New York at Pittsburg.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
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EBBBTHS HAS Been
CALLED BACK home
Brooklyn Scout Fails in His
Hunt for Players
Given the Score Card Privilege as Com.
pensation-Could Not Get One
Player to Jump Contract.

The officials of the Brooklyn Baseball
Club have recalled their scout, Charles
H. E5betts. having become disgusted
with his efforts to land American
League players. Eobetts has been out
nearly all season long doing alleged
missionary work for the Brooklyn team
and incidentally the National League,
but has failed to secure single con-
tract
lie was in Washington last Saturday
and tried to do business with several of
the Cleveland players. but failed. He
was warned that it would do no good
to approach the Washington players.
In Philadelphia he tried to induce
Catcher Sullivan, Of the White Sox. to
sign a Brooklyn contract. but Sullivan
merely listened to his siren notes.
smiled, and declined
Decline of Great Man.
1t looks as if Ebbetts has about run
the length Of his rope in the baseball
world. Not great many years ago he
promised TO cut some figure, but he
has steadily drifted away from the
circle Of greatness, and. it is said, that
as balm for his failing usefulness the
Brooklyn club has offered him the score
card privilege at the games in the City
OF Churches. This is somewhat OF
drop for the once promising official.
HE is playing in great luck TO Sc
cure even that small crumb," said an
official of the American League yester-
day. "Ebbetts is the limit as base
ball man. There is not player in the
country who would talk to him or listen
to him five minutes. He doesn't know
how TO rub them, and he queers his
game before he has couversed with
man Eve minutes -
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Coughlin made great try for Green's
foul fly in the second inning. He
reached the ball IN time, but it twisted
out of his hands. The next time Green
swung lie landed on the ball for a
safety
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W HERE THEY PLAY TODAY,

Chicago a Washington.
Cleveland Boston.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
Detroit Baltimore.
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Ely used 4 very short bat yesterday,
the same he has used for the past sew
eral games. He didn't do quite so well
as he did on Tuesday, but he lined out
one hit when II was needed.
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The aggressiveness Of the Chicago
players was shown in the ninth inning.
They were five runs 10 the good. and. Of
course, 1t looked as II they would win
without trouble. but Griffith was still
fighting for every run. Davis hit hot
one to Coughlin, which he could not
handle. He threw badly to first. and the
ball went over toward the bleachers.
A spectator got the ball and threw it 10
Doyle. and Griffith Immediately claimed
that Davis was entitled TO cross the
home plate. Carruthers didn't see II
that way.
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heisreT and Jones got mixed up at
first in the seventh inning. Jones had
hit a srounder to Doyle, and Keis;er
had also gone after It. He was right
back of irst when Jones reached the
bag, and the two collided. Keister's
spike skinned the Chicagoan's leg a
trifie
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WHITE SOX TAKE FIRST GAME
FROM SENATORS VERY EASILY
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
RESULTS OF YESTERDAYS GAMES

Washington G; Chicago, 10.
Philadelphia, /; st. Louis, !.
Baltimore, I; Detroit. g.
Boston, 3; Cleveland, g.
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The Senators relapscd into their old
ways yesterday and lost another game.
this time to ;he champion White Sox
team. Somebody said before the game,
when tney saw the Washington men al
practice. that they needed strong
team to wake them up. and that there
fore they might be expected TO put up n
slashing good game and exhibit some of
their old-time ability at the bat and
agility in the field. For a time it did
look like it. and the crowd mustered
Up considerable enthusiasm. 1t was
short lived. however. for the Griffith
men soon settled all doubts as 10 who
would win.
The victory of the visitors was due in
of that little Napoleon of baseball.
Manager Captain Clarke Griffith. He
knew when his pitcher. Callahan. had
enough. and he wisely suggested TO him
that he would look better or the bench
than in the pitchers box. The Sen
ators, be it said. had landed on Gala
hans curves for FIVE hits, netting them
an equal number of runs and tying the
score. It looked then as if the game
would be a regular slugGing soiree. for
the White Sox had found CarTick very
easy in the first two innings. But just
there is where Griffith fooled everybody.
Callahan adopted Grif's suggestion and
ensconced himself in long robe. while
Roy Patterson, the Chicago's mainstay.
doffed his sweater and hied himself to
tho uitcber's box
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Griffith Shuts Off Only
Chance to Win by TAX
ing Callahan Out.
LOCALS WERE HITTING HARD
Patterson Has No Trouble in
Saving Game for the
Visitors.
CARRlCK'S CURVES HARD HIT

Chicago Batters Pound Poker Bills"
Twisters for Keeps - Both Teams
Play Coed Game in the Field Notes
Of the Game.
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The Senators Quit.


Nobody knows whether Patterson
hypnotized the local batting orbs, or
whether the men just knew they
couldn't hit Roy and concluded Eot to
try. II looked very much as II the
latter might be the case. At any rate.
they didn't hit him. and the best they
could do was to get five scattering hits
of lis curves in the seven remaining
innings.
There used TO be a race horse called
Fair Rebel, that ran a number of times
on the Benning track. She had a world Of
speed and usually would get out in front
and show a great performance for a
short distance; then she would shut up
so fast that the strongest pair Of binoc-
ulars couldn't distinguish how far back
OF the field she was. That was just the
way with the Senators yesterday. In the
second inning they went out and what
they did TO the ball was quite sufficient
TO drive Callahan to the bench. When
Patterson game IN, however. they closed
up faster than ever Fair Rebel did in
her most lightning like shutups They
simply quit and said: What's the use?
Griffith needs the games to regain the
lead and he might as well have them
At any rate, that's what an unkind
critic in the stand said Somebody else
suggested that If Carrick had been
taken out OF the game after thu first
inning the home team might have had a
chance to win. The bleachers clamored
for this, but Carrick made his reap-
pearance in the box al the beginning OF
every inning as regularly as the proven
al 40 4
ularly did the heavy hitting White Sox
knock his curves about the lot. Not
only was Carrick very easy for the visit
ing batters, but he also contributed 10
their score total by sending three men
10 bases on halls. TWO o: whom crnssed
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Has Been HANDICAPPED.

we have been Handicapped to some
extent because both Callahan and my
self have been unable TO do our best
work. l have been sick for some time
with stomach trouble. but l think l am
all right now In Philadelphia pitched
a good game. and believe l can keep
up the work from now on. Callahan,
too, has been under the weather, but
he is coming along all right. and look
for him to do better work FOR the rest
of the season.
"Of course. the National League peo-
pie have approached few of my men.
They tried to get Sullivan. and they had
their net out for Jones. but both men
have contracts that they wculd not
break. There is no danger of any of the
White Sox jumping to the National
Nearly all of the men have already
signed contracts for next season, and
the others will sign before the season
is over. so l am not worrying On that
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double scored two runs for Baltimor,
and won the game. The score:
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Play Well in Field.

The Senator'S played a good game in
the field, Coughlin being the only man
charged with a mispiay. That was Z bad
throw TO first. The runner. however, did
not score so the locals -eally made no
serious sins of commission in the field.
Indeed. a few OF their plays were very
good. Lee, who can generally be count
ed upon to do something startling in
every game. pulled down his usual hard
fly 10 right. There was nothing on the
part of the locals, however, 10 go into
ccstasies over.
For the visitors, Mertes out In left
made a brillian; catch or Lees ny in
the seventh inning that may have shut
of 4 run. for Delehanty, the next man
up. lined out a nice single. Mertes also
made two great efforts to get under foui
flies, and in the second be leaned into
the air and endcayored TO get Cough
Inns nit that struck the left field fence.
He knocked the bali down, but il would
not stick and Coughlin got credit for
two-baEger. Old man Daily at second
and Davis at short both played n good
game, as did Strang at third. The latter.
however, was the only one OF the White
SoX TO make an error. In the first in
4A-''a - "a fN Jimmy AAe al al me ny LTDD-
ping his high fly. Aside from this his
work was first class.
The visitors started off Ike a regu.
lar Arabian whirlwind They were as
sisted somewhat by Poker Bill CarricK,
who insisted on giving the first two men
at the bat the privileges OF the first
bag on passes. Green would not accept
the same courtesy. and sent single To
left. Davis then lifted the leather wa,
out in right field near the clubhouse,
and the three men on bases came home.
Davis tailed a moment later on Mertes.
single to left. Again in the second the
White SoK scored a run on Strangs hi.
10 left. Jones out and Green's drive to
center.
T-s Senator's got back the runs in
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GRIFFITH SURE OF
WINNING PBNNANq
Says White SoX Will Lead
tefore They 30 West.
Not Afraid of Athletics-St. Louis and
Boston Ones He Has
to Beat.

Manager Captain Clarke Griffith is
confident that the White Sox will win
the pennant. despite the recent slump.
Il an not af.'aid of Philadelphia. he
said yesterday afternoon. I'm my opin-
ion Macks team will not finish better
than fourth place. | think the fight is
between Chicago, St. Louis and Boston,
and | honestly believe we will win the
bunting again. / don't think we shall
have to wait till we get back home.
either. in order to regain the lead We
are now only two games behind, and
feel sure that from now on we shall go
right up the line. We ought to take
two out of three games from Washing
ton and all three in Baltimore. Our de-
feats in Boston and Philadelphia were
due more to luck than anything else.
We have been playing good ball all
along. Two of the games in Boston were
lost by one run each. and the othe- by
q score of 3 to /, so you see we were
not beaten badly.
AT least two of the games there
were won by the Boston club through
marvellous catches in the outfield. Chick
Stahl made great one-handed catch
in one game that saved them from de-
feat a thing that would not happen
again in a long time. In Philadelphia,
too, we lost two games by a narrow
margin, the same old score OF TO !,
and won the other one. This indicates
that we have not been playing bad ball.
and | look for the club TO go right up
the ladder from now on. l don't think
there Is any doubt about our winning
the pennant. AS / said. our only dan
gerous rivals, in my opinion. are the st.
Louis Browns and the Boston club.
Philadelphia is playing good ball, but
do not think il sizes up to the other
two teams or 10 the White Sox.
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Philadelphia. o 0 o 0 0 "a
Chicago III 0 0 0 0 0 e.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-11-08
CONDENSED STORIES.
General Fitz-Hugh Lees Last Cent
That Was Presented to Mrs. Gibbon.

Major General John Gibbon thus
describes his meeting with General
Fitz-Hugh Lee at the Mclean
house, Appomattox county, Va, in
April, 1865, at the time of the Con-
federate surrender: "Going to the
door, | found General Fitz Lee
seated on his horse and looking, as
l thought, somewhat uneasy. He
had been a cadet under me at West
Point, and l had not seen him for
years. As ] looked at him vision
of the past came up before me, and
could think only Of a little rollick=
ing fellow dressed in cadet gray,
whose jolly songs and gay spirits
were the life of his class. My salu-
tation of Hello, Fitz! Get off and
come in seemed to put him at his
ease at once and brought him to his
feet. He came into tho house and
told me his story. Before leaving,
with a grim humor, he took from
his pocket five dollar Confederate
note, and, writing across it's face,
For Mrs. Gibbon, with the compli-
ments of Fitz Lee he said, Send
that to your wife and tell her it's
the last cent l have in the world. "
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-11-08
HARTLAND FOUR CORNERS

H. F. Mott of White River juno
ton was in town Saturday to make
repairs on machinery at the cream
cry.
Evlyn Darling, who spent a few
DAYS with her parents, returned to
johnson Monday.
Mrs. Finley is critically i'll. DR..
Smith of Hanover was called last
week to see her.
Oscar Hemenway is failing.
Marion B. Gallup died Oct. 29,
aged II years, at her home on Hart
land Hill. The funeral was held
the Friday following, Rev. Fl. l..
Garfield of Woodstock officiating.
Frank Dickinson, John Mason,
Elmer Colby and league Dunbar
were the bearers. She is survived
by two sisters, Mrs. Hannah Had
ley and Clara Gallup.
Mrs. Jerusha Cady of Norwich Is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Alice
Chase.
Mrs. NJ. H. Miller returned from
West Windsor Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z. Davis
started for Whalenburg, n. Y, to
visit relatives few weeks, driving
their own team.
Mrs. S. A. Williams has resumed
her work at the canning factory al
Windsor.
Mrs. Marion Ellison is keeping
house for James Leonard.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-11-08
SHERBURNE.

Mr.. and Mrs. a. G. Lewis were
at F. G. Spaulding's last Monday.
:. F. w. Spaulding is having new
chimneys laid in his house here,
James West of Bridgewater doing
the work.
Miss Flora Calkins Of Chittenden
was in town Tuesday.
J. N. Madden was in town Tues
day to see about the water wheel in
FIG. Spaulding's mill.
H. B.'Miner visited his mother in
Plymouth few days last week.
kuther Wilson is doing some
stone work on F. 6. Spaulding' S
mill.
Miss Nav Doubleday of Mendon
was with her parents here over Sum
day. ...
r. u. Taylor was home from
Montpelier Saturday night, return
ing Monday.
Mrs. A. Boutwell, is seriously i'll
at this writing.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-11-08
MARYLAND.

Mrs. Addie Markham Wood of
Cornish spent last Thursday with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. b.
Markham.
F. A. Durphy shot deer OH the
way home from Ludlow last week
Tuesday.
Miss Eva F. Rogers recently Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Sherwin
in Cornish.
Mrs. J. H. Snow, Mrs. F. +.
Daniels, Miss Minnie Harris, Miss
Jennie M. Paige, Sylvester Rogers,
Willie White, Guy Paige and Riley
Jordan, Geo. Hough, Abbie and
Julia Hadley, Ada Hough and Mrs.
7. b. Miller visited the Legislature
in Montpelier last week Wednesday.
They were present at the unvellins
of Admiral Clark's portrait.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Ainswortl
have moved from the center OF the
town to the Steele house in the vii
lage.
| Mr.. and Mrs. F. l.. Dickinson
have moved to their farm recent,
purchased Of E. S. Ainsworth.
Mrs. D. F. Pollard and Marion o.
Bellows Falls are with her parents
Mr., and Mrs. E. 5. Ainsworth.
Miss Dora T. Penniman is at home
after four months stay in Cam
bridge.
i Miss Ellen Graham went tt
| W aterbury, Conn, Monday for
few months visit with her sister.
Mrs. Anna Brown of LUDLOW
was a recent guest of her uncle, Z
B. Markham.
Miss Mary Clark of Oxford, N. II.
is with her grandmother, Mrs
Nancy Hamilton Richardson.
Mrs. Eta Streeter Of Hinsdale
a visitor at KeSt cottage.
Miss Lulu Lull of Claremont wa
guest of her grandmother, Mrs. II
T. Fletcher, Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs, Ida Metz Reed and Mario
returned to Proctor Monday.
J. w. Reed is quite sick at thl
writing.
Mrs. Mary Blakeley of Waterbur,
: Conn, spent the past week in tow
y with her sisters, Mrs. G. M. Jenn
and Mrs. F. e. ellison and brother
G. E. Graham.
Fred and Wynne Barbour are c!
joying a ten days hunting trip
: Maine,
S The pupils of Miss Jennie N
t Paige's school will present the Pla.,
u, "a Pleasant Surprise" in the Ce'
e ter schoolhouse Thursday evening
!, Nov. u.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-11-08
A Referendum Unconstitutional.

The regular Republican ticket got
. good many votes on the strength
of the referendum plank of the state
platform, but President John Young
Of the State Bar association now de-
clares that such a referendum clause
wSuld make void any local option
law to which it was attached. The
ablest Democratic speakers and
writers in the state have been saying
the same thing for months. They
were supported BY ex-Senators Ed
muuds and Ross, and now eminent
legal advice from within the Repub.
licsn circle is to the same effect.
.'But the interesting fact" observes
the Brattleboro Reformer, sis that
the Republican stump speakers,
who did not ignore or dodge, one
and all stood up last summer and
selemnly declared that it was all a
democratic lie and that such a ref
erendum would be all right"
"A referendum bill won't do, after
all, and it is now the business of the
legislature to pass straight license
measure, and strict one. The
Democratic bill answers the re-
quirements.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-11-08
THE LEGISLATURE.

A bill was introduced in the house
Tuesday by Bundy of ST. Johnsbnry
which reduces state expenses fuliN
$500 900. Among its provisions are
these: Provides for the consol'da-
ton of the existing boards of penal
lunacy, and charitable institutions
into one board of three members, to
be elected for two, four and six
year terms, respe ctively, and gives
them SIS per day and reasonable
expense allowance. 1t abolishes the
normal school board and turns its
duties over to the superintendent OF
education. 1t provides for the sup
port of the insane at Waterbury and
Brattleboro by towns instead of by
the state, 1t abolishes the cattle
commission and puts its duties en-
the state board of agriculture. 1t
makes the state treasulers salary
$1,000. secretary of state, $500,
auditor, $4,000, with no clerk hire,
commissioner Of taxes, $1,000 with
no clerk hire, superintendent OF ed
ucation, $4,000 with no clerk hle,
adjutant and Inspector general,
$1,000 with no clerk hire.
NO MORE FREE RIDES?
By Downer ofWindsor. To pro.
hibit the giving and acceptance OF
passes, free transportation, or Other
gratulties by railroad corporations
to state officers, members of the leg
islature, judges, justices and states
attorney, and torbidding their &C
ceptance'
; Mr.. Gushing Of Bethel has intro
: duced bill authorizing the Whit
comb high school of that town t'
S bond it for $500 to defray the cx
penses of building school house
S and furnish the same.
The most interesting bill Tuesday
afternoon was that to move the state
capitol to Burlington provided tina
the city shall furnish 100000 TO
that purpose.
Mr.. Flnney of Bridgewater, whe
told recently of the plenitude OF dee
= in that section, submitted bill
Tuesday paving farmers for damage
t TO their crops by deer.