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C0 The Clipper Circulates in the City and in All the Towns Commercially Tributary to Burlington. VOLUME XXIII. BURLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1896. NUMBER 12 THE RAflBLER. SDlin HotTies and spnrrnlv ivrl ant: tn REMOVAL BURLINGTON CLIPPER Published every Thursday Afternoon by THE CLIPPER PUBLISHING CO.

TERMS: $1.00 per year inaflyaice, If not so paid, $1.25 will be charged. Trial Subscription for Three Months, 25c. the CurrKR on Mr. Prouty's mode of conducting his cross-examination is a fair sample of the animus of the Argus in controversy. We pass by the "toady" fling with the silent contempt it deserves, but would call the attention of our contemporary to the fact that it was not to jhe treatment of the plaintiff as an ordinary witness that objection was made but to the descending to tin tricks of a pettifogger in so forming his questions as to make them insulting slurs.

GLOVES Will Be Worn By ladies and gentlemen this season. Merchants who are prepared to offer reliable and stylish, handwear will please both themselves and their customers. NECKWEAR Will Be Worn By ladies and gentlemen this season. Some kinds are right, and ome are wrong. The correct and most desirable shapes and colorings are what you want.

I make the GLOVE and NECKWEAR business a thorough study, and have now ready for delivery the largest assortment I have ever shown. A. N. JOHNS WHOLESALE. EAST OF VAN NESS HOUSE, MAIN STREET his back, but he was bouud to be a doc tor, ana to this end must go to Burlington Medical college.

On arriving there he boarded himsel on crackers and milk in a room in the American hotel block, since made famous by the esteemed Rutland Herald, and nnid hiwt.nit.mn hv rinlntr such jobs as he cold secure, ringing the ueu anu acting as janitor, xnis morning I read of a great speech made by this boy Weclnesdav evening before soma nf the illustrious statesmen of the country at the meeting of the New York Republican club in that city. All that boy had was sana, out ne maae wuat rat would call an uieganr use ot it. DEflOCRATIC CAUCUSES. The Democrats met in caucus to choose delegates to the State and District con vention, at City Hall, Saturday evening at clock. The btate caucus was called to order by W.

H. Collison, chairman of the Democratic City Committee. J. E. Burke was chosen chairman, James Meagher secretary.

A committee of five, one from each ward was appointed to se- lect delegates Ward A. E. Lewis Ward II, Shortsleevea Ward III, J. J. Shea; Ward IV, W.

H. Collison; Ward J.W. Daley. The committee reported the following as delegates to the State Convention and they were duly elected: Delegates Seneca Haselton, J. H.

Hol- ton, E. C. Mower, C. A. Hibbard, H.

R. Wing, J. J. Shea, F. O.

Sinclair, James A. Brown, John W. Daley, J.B. Henderson, N. E.

Chamberlin, Oliver De Varen-nes, James W. Madigan, Geo. B. Rand, Arthur G. Crane, James S.

Denning. Alternates B. B. Smalley, Ereeman Saltus, P. C.

Dodge, James Kelley, V. A. Bullard, E. M. Sutton, Geo.

S. Sinclair, r. L. Mcbweeney, Richard Daley, W. E.

Hall, J. E. Miles, Joseph De Varennes. Richard J. Madigan, P.

H. Corley, Howard Crane, J. J. Mulqueen. DISTRICT CAUCUS.

The caucus was called to order bv the chairman of the Democratic City Committee and P. C. Dodge was elected chairman, A. F. Lewis, secretary.

A. E. Lewis, Ward one, N. B. Shortsleeves.

Ward two, James Meagher, Ward three, W. H. Collison, Ward four, J. B. Henderson, Ward five, were chosen a committee to present the names of delegates to the district convention.

The committee re ported the following who were duly elected Delegates John J. Euright, Charles L. Dolan, James J. Childs, Geo. L.

La- vountain. Thomas H. Murphy, Geo. M. Delaney, John R.

E. Burke, Walter Colli vn, Charles C. Miller, H.N. Drury, D. Wl C.

Clapp, W. L. Stone, Napoleon B. Shortsleeves, Wm. J.

Casey, J.J. Flynu. Alternates James R. McMahon. Wil liam Fitzgerald, Edward B.

Corley, Jas. E. Russell, Wm. E. Morse, Jas.

Meagher, Jas. Riley, Patrick Hogan, Geo, Babcock, Edward Henderson, P. H. Moran, Orlo Dodds, Michael Murphy, Charles Stein- kampt, Garett Cosgrove, frank Thie- bault. General Orders for Memorial Day.

Commander in Chief Walker of the G. A. R. has issued the following ireneral or ders which have been sent to the various posts: The time is again at hand when incliua tion and duty call the Graud Army of the Republic to prepare for the solemu service of Memorial day. In accordance with ouM rules and regulations, theiJOih day of May is set apart for its reverent observance.

This day is consecrated to the memory of our dead. It is the nation's festival of remembrance, when a liberty loving and happy people, enjoying the blessings of peace and prosperity, cease from their labors and with grateful hearts pay loving tribute to the memory of brave men who having finished their course with honor and crossed the star-lit line, now rest in peace under the shade of the trees on eternal camp grounds. Sweet be their sleep, unfading their glory, imperishable their fame. Cover the mounds above them with springtime's richest ollerings. Raise above them the flag they loved.

Let sil vered age standing by their tombs feel that, with the dust of such men sleeping iu their soli, the republic will stand with its glorv undimned and its power unbrok en. Let trusting childhood weave garlands for them and at their graves receive inspiration that will keep them earnest in loyalty, pure in citizenship and faithful to duty. Army of the Potomac. The 27th Annual Reunion of the Army of the Potomac will be held at Burlington, Vermont, on the 10th and 17th of September. The change from June is due to the multiplicity of conventions, commencements etc.in that month which have seriously interfered with the attendance.

The orator will be Gen. Orland Smith. of the 12th Corps, and the poet, Capt. Jack Crawford. The death of Maj.

Gen. Gibbon devolves upon Maj. Gen. Jour-dan, Senior Vice President, the office of President. The other ofllcers of the so ciety are General Horatio C.

King, re cording secretary, Brooklyn, N. General George II. Sharpe, correspqnding secretary and Colonel Samuel Truesdell, treasurer. This will be the second meeting of the society in Burlington. Colonel Woodbury, Governor of the State, was mainly instrumental in getting the society here and the whole State will join in the welcome.

It Is not generally known that any officer or private who served east of the Alleghany mountains or any web foot who served In a flotilla which co-operated with the Army of the Potomac Is eligible for membership. The Initiation fee of $1.00 and annual dues of $2.00 arc the only tax upon the members. Gives His Experience in Different Parts of the State. In wandering up and own the State, one occasionally sees queer things. I am temporarily stopping at a hotel which does not run a bar or keep any kind of spirituous or malt liquor in any form whatever for gift, sale, distribution or mince pies.

You won't believe it, but it is a seven-by-nine fact. One reason for this unparalleled condition of things is that the house is just opened and the car penters haven't had time to finish off the bar yet, and the other is that the stuff ordered hasn't arrived yet. I almost forgot to state that there isn't a bell boy on the premises. Last night I passed from St. Johnsbury the holy city through the exceedingly suburban town of Danville, over the summit of the Walden Alps, through "The Bend" and Hardwick and and now in one of those havens of rest a secluded nook in the Lamoille valley.

But I am ahead of my story, uanville is dead in winter, dead as a mackerel. Six months in the year the wind will blow the lettering off a grave stone two months in the year the snow is fast coming or going, and four months in the summer the place is one of the fairest spots on earth. It is then given over botlily to the summer boarder and is gorgeous with blazers, tennis, bicycle skirts and shirt waits, the retreat of the summer girl. The peo ple make enough out of and off the sum mer visitors to go into their holes in the late tall and listen to the howling blasts overhead, Walden would be a pleasant residence locally if the people didn't have to drag around on bare ground at least six months in the year. The town is chiefly known to fame as being the home of railroad commissions, Bell, who is also proprietor of the Grangers of the State.

Greensboro Bend is a knob on the railroad up in Orleans county. When the road was built it wanted to go as straight as possible from Walden to Hardwick, but the grade was such that the surveyors had to let themselves down with ropes and the road had to bear off to the right and straggle off up into the domain of the next governor. By the way decidedly so did you know that Caspian Lake was in Greensboro? Its chief distinction and a sufficient one is that it affords the best trout of any public body of water Vermont. This morning I saw a trout that had just been caught there that weighed six pounds and seven ounces Chew on that, ye grubbers after 6 inch vagrants? Caspian lake is the sportman's paradise; good scenery, good roads, good country board, good bathing and the best of boating and fishing. Its shores are being japidly built up with the cottages of summer residents, and it is bound to be a noted summer resort in the near future.

It is reached by an easy drive from Hardwick or by stage from the Bend station. One of the plaiuly prosperous and rapidly growing towns in the State is Hardwick. At a distance of from two to seven miles from the village are inexhaustible granite deposits and a branch railroad now nearly completed into the heart of the quarry section will cause a a tremendous business boom in the place. The Fletcher company of St. Albans are the heaviest operators there as yet, and will move here and conUerably extend their already very extensive business.

Building is lively, and the place evidently has a most prosperous future before it. I don't waut you to give any enterprise a lot of free advertising but it is eminently proper to say a word of praise for the excellent hotels at Morrisville and Hyde Park. The Randall, at the home of possible Senator Powers, is a most excellently conducted andappoiuted house, and would be a dedided credit to a much larger place. The same can also well be said of The Phoenix at the county seat. Landloid Keeler is known the country over as the embodied perfection of a host, and his friends are legion.

But I have passed from these places, and the hotel alluded to at the beginning is not one of these. As stated before, State's Attorney Hulburd is certainly booked for the county senatorship, although murmurings are heard from the classic town of Johnson. That seat of culture is rent with discussions over the Normal school scandal, which has created factions and entered into polities' with amazing agility. Haven't yon heard of the Normal school disturbance? It would make a very interesting story if thoroughly written up, but that is not what the Sex expects of me. Suffice to say that there is a pretty woman in the case, a serious case all around.

It is even hinted that it will have a direct bearing on the election of State superintendent of education this fall. Well so runs the world away. I see that Mayor Peck is going to orate at Wolcott Memorial day. This section is the old stamping ground of His Honor, where he instructed the juvenile idea in the humble guise of a county schoolmaster and roamed o'er the hills a barefoot boy. Imagine him doing it now Mayor Peck married a fair daughter of Hardwick, and also a daughter of the late Hon.

D. W. Aiken, and has many business and social interests here. He is a coadministrator, with Congressman Powers, of the great estate of the late A. E.

Judevine of Hardwick, who was in his day the great man of that section. Wolcott has a claim to fame as being the country residence of ex-Alderman EH B. Johnson of your city. In the adjoining town of Elmore was the boyhood home of His Excellency Gov. Woodbury, and the home farm on the shores of Elmore pond is a sight for tourists, who stand and gaze, slowly filling with wonder and admiration at the possibilities of the low liest American urchin.

Gov. Woodbury once told me of his first trip from these wilds to the distant city of Burlington, i The voyage was made on a "bob sled," in these later days used as a means of transporting lumber in the back districts. The luture gov ernor had very few friends, scanty home- T. S. Peck's Insurance Agency.

WILL REMOVE TO 152 College Street ONE DOOR EAST OF THE BURLINGTON SAVINGS BANK. ON MAY 20th, 1896. J. B. Scully Co.

YOUR MOM'S WORTH, Or, Your money back is a fund amenta I principle of honest business methods. To expect honest treatment you must trade with honest dealers. Don't be fooled by fake interviews of fake price cutters and fake bargain sales. Black Goods, Colored Dress Goods, Domestics, New "Wrappers, Ladies' Dress Skirts, Wash Goods, Linings and In the heart of the shopping district. J.

B. SCULLY CO. go Church Warner Block. Buy A Piano Not a box that looks like a piano. The day of cheap pianos is fast going by.

People have not money enough to throw away on such trash. This accounts largely for the increased sales of the Chiekering piano. The factory is run to its utmost capacity and they are unable to fill the orders from foreign houses. They believe in supplying the United States first. The people want the best, they are buying the best, and we are selling the best, the Chiekering Piano.

Cal1 and see them at our warerooms, or we will send catalogues. McKANNON THE HUSTLERS, 45 Church Burlington 16 OS We have on hand a large stock of Ladies1 and Misses' Russet goods and will close them at prices as follows 200 pairs Ladies Tan Bluchers at $1.00, 100 pairs Misses' Tan Bluchers at 65c. 100 pairs Ladies' Tan Oxfords at 75c. 150 pairs Misses' Tan Oxfords at 48c. 300 pairs Ladies' Kid Button Patent Leather Tipped Button Shoes, all solid at 85c.

You can buy more for $1.00 at Huntley Moore's, 57 Church Street than any other shoe store in the State. Give us a call. Huntley Moore Successors to H. W. Drake, 57 Church St.

8 'Mil BARGAINS AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM For reaching the people of this section of the State the Clipper has no superior among the weekly journals. OFFICE, 128 College BURLINGTON, VT. Evident Progress. The fight against the spoils system has been a bitter and a long one. For thirty years the better elements in both of the great political parties have grappled with the problem, but the doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils was so thoroughly entrench in the popular conception of a party victory from the days of President Jackson, that progress has been extremely slow.

Under the pioneer work of such men as Thomas A. Jackson, Dorman B. Eaton and George William Curtis the evils of the spoils system were exposed until President Grant was led to appoint the Civil Service commission. President Hayes continued the workstarted in the previous administration and since, gradually but steadily the cause has gained headway. Under Arthur 15,773 classified places were put under the competitive system.

President Cleveland during his first term added 11,757. Harrison increased the nnmber to 43,128. The last order is the most sweeping of any, bringing 29,399 under the rules. It may well be regarded as the deathblow to the pernicious system of appointments to office, that has given so much trouble to every incoming administration, made the inauguration of every new President the signal for the most unseemly scramble for office by a host of party workers and was the immediate cause of the murder of Garfield. It too much to expect that the professional politici ins will make no effort to prevent the completion of the reform by its further extension to the 775 unclassified places and minor postoflices still left to be distributed as political favors.

The reform has made so much progress that public opinion is not now likely to sustaiuauy party in taking steps backward. The spoils system has had its day. Navigating the Air. Prof. Bell, the inventor of the Bell telephone, assures us that the practica bility of mechanical flight has been dem onstrated.

His statement of the experiments he witnessed, coming from a scientific man, seems to show that the great problem of aerial flight is solved at last. Here is his description of the ex periments conducted in his presence Last Wednesday, May I witnessed a very remarkable experiment with Prof Langley's aerodrome on the Potomac river. Indeed, it seemed to metjatthe experiment was of such histortcal importance that it should be made public. I should not feel at liberty to give an account of all the details, but the main facts I have Prof. Langley's consent for giving you, and they are as follows The aerodrome or "flying machine' In question, was of steel, driven bv a steam engine.

It resembled an enormous bird, soaring in the air with extreme regularity in large curves, sweeping steadily upward in a spiral path with a diameter of perhaps 100 yards, until it reached a hight of about 100 feet in the air, at the end of a course of about half a mile, when the steam gave out, the propellers which had moved it stopped, and then, to my further surprise, the whole, instead of tumbling down, settled as slowly and gracefully as it is possible for any bird to do, touched the water without any damage and was immediately picked ont and was ready to be tried again. A second trial was like the first, except that the machine went in a different direction, moving in one continuous gentle ascent as it swung around in circles like a great soaring bird. At one time it seemed to be in danger as its course carried it over a neighboring wooded promontory, but apprehension was immediately allayed as it passed 25 or 30 feet above the tops of the highest trees there and ascending still further; its steam finally gave out again, and it settled into the waters of the river not quite a quarter of a mile from the point at which it arose. No one could have witnessed these experiments without being convinced that the practicability of mechanical flight had been demonstrated. The Clipper, with the spirit of a toady, criticises C.

A. Trouty, one of the counsel for the defence in the suit of Gov Woodbury against the Rutland Herald, because he treated the plaintiff, when he was on the stand, as an ordinary witness would have been treated. We are glad that Mr. Prouty was not awed by the fact that the governor of the State was the witness he was examining, and proceeded as he would in any case. There are altogether too many tin gods In Vermont, and there is altogether too much of a spirit of toadyism, The above reference to the criticism of Having failed in all other devices to divert the popular current from William McKinley, his opponents have started a new crusade.

They propose now to catechize him on the silver question and on his A. P. A. attitude. They are unwilling that he should stand on his record, but insist on a public statement of his views before the convention meets.

If he remains silent, he is to be branded as astraddler. Mr. McKinley is not likely to fall into the trap. It will be time enough when he is nominated and a platform is adopted for him to say if he can stand on it. The attempt to get an expression from him at this time is a good deal like the case of the lover who began proposing to his girl by asking whether she would accept him if he were to propose to her.

Mr. McKinley is not called upon to make a platform. The conven. tion will do that and there is no doubt. that it will be an honest money platform.

Louis, the Greek peasant, who won the foot race between Marathon and Athens, held in commemoration of the runner who brought the news of the Persain victory, is the hero of the Olympic games. He has been honored and feted ever since. Crowds follow him whenever he walks the streets of Athens. He has been es-j corted in a carriage by a detachment of troops. The King of Greece has invited him to the palace.

Large sums of mouey have been given him and tradesmen, grocers and wine merchants have offered to supply him with all he wants in their lines free of cost, and to cap the climax a noted barber offers to shave him and cut his hair free for the rest of his life time. In short, Louis is as famous as a crack base ball pitcher on this side of the water. i The last number of the Critic cites this laughable instance of typographical error A writer quoted Ben Jonson's pretty verses to "Celia" beginning "Drink to me only with thine eyes." Such a request was evidently beyond the comprehension of the typo and the line appeared in print thus: "Wink to me only with thine eyes." Chance for Investment. The Beckwith Marl Co. of offer to sell 1500 shares of treasury stock at par value of $10 per share.

This is a Vermont investment that can seldom be equalled as the stock will probably not pay less than 10 per cent per annum. The company speciality is to manu facture liquitleJ gas from marl of which they have an inexhaustible supply. They have a well equipped building, all paid for, containing proper machinery to manufacture their specialty and the only reason for their selling more stock which has become quite valuable is. that that they wish to buy more tubes in which to ship the gas. Experts say that cas manufactured from this marl is very much superior to that manufactured by any other concern.

Druggists and bottlers who are not already using this gas should write at once for circulars and particulars as they will find it much more economical and satisfactory to use than any other similar preparation. Any druggist or bottler who desires to take 10 shares or more will be supplied with gas at a reduced rate. Parties who desire to inquire or in vestigate about this stock should write for prospectus and circulars to H. A. Blake president, Sutton, Vt.

PROBATE COURT. Business for the week ending May 21, 1896. Dennis Noonan's estate, Shelburne, appointment of John W. Noonan, administrator, with the will annexed, and E. H.

Palmer and Wm. Whiteside, appraisers, all of Shelburne. Decree of estate under the will to residuary legatees. Catharine Kelley's estate, Burlington, hearing on proof of will, will proved, letters testamentary granted to Rev. Thomas Lynch and appointment of J.

B. Scully and P. II. Corley, commissioners and appraisers, all of Burlington. David Miller's estate, Burlington, license to sell real estate.

Ellen Miller's estate, Burlington, license to sell real estate. Alexander Ferguson's estate, South Burlington, settlement of administrator's account and decree. Elizabeth Allen's estate, Charlotte, appointment of Elizabeth J. Eno Charlotte, administrator. Edward A.

Saltus, et als, Burlington, appointment of Freeman Saltus, Burlington, guardian. Bedding Plants. Now is the time t6 FILL THE FLOWER GARDEN Write us for prices on what you need. We have a full line. Remember, we have the celebrated GOULD'S SPRAY PUMP Lion Brand Bordeaux fixture and Paris Green.

GOYE, NOTT TAYLOR, "THE VERMONT SEEDSMEN" SO CHURCH STREET, Burlington, Vermont We Have the Largest and Finest Collection of DESIGNS. We have Pneumatic Tools for Cutting and Machines for Polish, it. MONUMENTS. 1 Our work is made here injthe city at 357 Pine Burlington. Vt, J.

W. GOODELL, REI1EA1BER THE CLARK STREET STUDIO, BURLINGTON, Cabinets for $3 and $1 per dozen J. E. GAUVIN. It is Not What We Say That makes our stoie a good place to-bay groceries, it is what you find there.

The choicest goods sold at fair prices, give us a call and you have succeeded 1b combining business and pleasure. C. A. BARBER, Successor to Barber Tobey, 112 Church Street. I C.

F. BROWN, I 1UNDERT AKERl 157 BANK STREET. NEVER CLOSED. Kesiaence over siure This Space is Small. We cannot possibly enumerate our stock.

Lamps, Fine China and Christmas novelties The best way is to come and see them. Osgood Reynolds, 104 Church Street Burlington, Vt TRUCKING We do all kinds transferring and hauling. Especially prepared to more safes and all kinds of machinery. We par freight on local or car lots, and transfer ft to any part of the city at reasonable rate Experience in boxing and moving enables us to move pianos and household, furniture without the least Injury. M.

COLLINS Leave orders at Parker's Drug Store.