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THE VERMONT P11CENIX, BRATTLE 13QRO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 188' She Ocrmont thirnu NRATTLF.ltOltOi FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1887. Olid thing Mil tie set down ns wrfectly sure tn nelmnpe. The new judge of the supreme court will not ride on anybody's free puss. Only SHOO enplo gathered In Union square nt New York last Saturday night for the "monster iiiass meeting'' thnt was to open the George campaign. This Is in striking contrast with the crowds thnt used togntle er ft year ago when Mr.

George w-as run ning for the mayoralty. The novelty of the movement has worn ofTt ami the social ists are fighting Mr. George Utterly. Only so no 50 or fiO delegates attemlcil the convention of the now "American party, which niu hehl at Philadelphia last week. The leading feature in the platform adopted is a demand for the restriction of immigration and the establishment of a department of immigration hose head shall he inemlier of the President's cahinet.

A continuous residence of 14 years is named as an indispensable requisite for citizenship and the exclusion of all communists, social ists, nihilists, anarchists, criminals and pan pers from naturalization as American eiti reus is demanded. A trial race to decide which yacht shall defend the America's cup against tho Scotch yacht Thistle was sailed off the Jersey coast last Friday. Only the Mayflower and Gen 1'aine's new Isiat, the Volunteer, competed The Volunteer was easily the victor, sur prising even her friends hv her splendid per formance at the close of the race the yacht club committee decided that the Volunteer should defend the cup. Tho Thistle sailed over the course at the same time, develop' ing aliout the same speed as the Mayflower, hut of course it could not lie told whether she was held hack or was sailed for all she was worth. Thistle stock has fallen some what in the lietting market since the trial The three races between tho Volunteer and tho Thistle are set to take placo on Sept, 27 nnd and Oct.

1. The centennial celebration in honor of the adoption of the constitution, which was held at Philadelphia last week, was mag niflcent success, planned on a scale worthy of the occasion and admirably carried out in every way. The feature of Thursday the first day, was a grand civic and indus trial parade illustrating the diversified in dustries of the country. There wero HOO floats, 12,000 men, .1000 horses and 150 hands in the procession. The President and Mrs.

Cleveland and suite arrived Thursday evening, and Friday was a day of military parade and of receptions by and to the President. Hilly 10,000 people shook hands with him in the Academy of Music on Fri day evening. Saturday's proceedings ere the most impressive of all, taking on as they did a memorial character. The event of the day was the memorial meeting in In dependence square, where 10,000 people were gathered. President Cleveland made a ten-ininiite speech, marked by dignity and gooil taste.

Justice Miller memorial ora tion follow ed, nnd then came the singing of Oliver Wendell Holmes's odo, to the air of "Hail, Columbia," by tho great gathering, led by a chorus of 2000 voices. Cardinal Giblwns was led forward in his priestly vestments anil offered prayer, closing with the lrd prayer. Tho meeting closed with tho singing of the "Star Spangled Banner, and the lienediction. The Ilnilronil Ilrrislon. The grangers may have failed to "materialize" at the Kutland hearing before the Interstate Commerce commission, ns the railroad and ring newspapers jubilantly an nouueed, but they got there nil the same, Elsewhere we publish the decision of the commission in full, and we hope no readers of llie Pheintx will fail to study it with care.

It fully sustains the lmsition taken by the grangers nnd their counsel in behalf of nil tho people of the state, except the few ho pile up portly fortunes in runuing our railroads by misusing the great powers ami privilege given to them by the state, For the first time in the railroad history of this state our great railroad magnates have encountered power mightier than they, whoso behests they must heed. Skillful manipulation, tho seductive influence of free passes, ami political tiossism nvail them nothing. It is an auspicious day for the people of ermont, nnd the forerunner, we hope, of purer silitical methods and of restored material prosperity. This decis ion secures to tho people of Vermont the beginning of fair and equitable treatment nud service from the railroads they have created, in place of the irritating and ruin ous adverse discrimination from hieh thev have so long suffered. We now hope speed ily to see tho day when all inequalities, dis criminations and fnvoritisins in the use and service of our railroads will disappear, and all citizens of all callings and conditions will be treated precisely alike when, in short, each person ithout exception who has the services of railroads shall ay for them precisely what all other persons are required to pay for similar service hen there shall be no free trnnsiortatioii and no free passes for personal favorites and jiolit- ical retainers.

With these reforms secured, and the abolition of the wheels withi wheels that have rongfully absorlied the legitimate earnings of the roads like tho kiting car company floated apjiarently al most entirely on watered stock, uisin which regular dividends have been exacted the investors in the railroads themselves, as ell as the people, may reasonably look for- word to better tunes. This is the lwgin ning of a great and auspicious reform hose tienelits ill reach every citizen of the state Tho national commission is doing a good work, but the state must liear its part in the leform to make it perfect nnd perpetual. A lieginniiig, ami only a beginning, of needed legislation was made last year. which must be added to and perfected as exjierience may suggest. The people and tho farmers esjiecially should see to it that tins reform takes no steps backward.

Mr, KiliHimiU'a Argument. We print in this issue verbatim report from the stenographer's notes, of the armi ment made by Senator Edmunds before the interstate Commerce Commission at the re cent hearing in Kutland. The subject mat ter oi me argument is of such intimate in terest to tho people of Vermont Hint need not ask for it a careful reading. At mo outset Mr. Edmunds dissKes in a fev pungent sentences of the claim of the rail rood people that the farming interest wm a "mythical," "non-existent" element ii this case.

Ho then goes on to show how the interstate law was designed for the relief and protection of tho people of the country, and wiiy for this reason it should bo given "the most liberal and lienign construction." Passing to the actual facte in the case in review, Mr. Edmunds shows with a few rapid touches the utter groundlessness of the claim of the railroads thnt the agreement for carrying through freights under the iiamo of the National Despatch lino is not a joint "arrangement" within the clear meaning of tho law. It is such an arrangement, and the Central Vermont road and its connecting linos not only do-fraud tho people, but they violate the law, when they charge fifty per cent more for a short haul than for a lung haul. Mr. Edmunds's argument liooonics fairly caustic in its tone hen ho proceeds to show the fallacy of the claim that the railroads may charge more for a short distance than for a long distance liecause of "excusing" or "dissimilar" circumstances.

The idea, ho hays, that severe climate, snow or heavy grodos have anything to do with this question is prssterous. Beside this, there are two sides to the ease nnd clear equities to lie considered. Vermont sunns are no deeper and Vermont weather is no colder for the railroads than for tho farmers. Then, too, the fact that a railroad is heavily encuuiliered with debt docs not justify it in exorbitant charges for local business, any more than a miller is justified in charging ten cents for grinding a bushel of grain lie- onus he happens to have a morlrage on bis mill. The whole question, Mr.

Edmunds shows, is one of justice ami fair play. Tho same rule npplies to railroads as to every other corporation or person thnt of imv ment according to the actual value of the services performed, nnd not according to the particular circumstances of the coro- ration or person who performs the service In his closing remarks Mr. Edmunds show how grossly unjust is tho holo sys tem of charging more for a short haul than for a long one. Every sentence of the ar gument counts, and taken ns wliolo it is such a cogent, telling and unanswerable presentation of tho case of the people ngainst nn extortion under which they have long suffered as has not before lieen made, it is a service which the farmers of Vermont ill Appreciate. Judge J.

.11. Tyler. The llrattletioro community as pleasant ly surprised last Friday evening with tho announcement that Gov. Ormsbeo had tendered to Hon. J.

M. Tyler tho apimintment as judge of tho supreme court to succeed Judge Walker of Ludlow, who wns forced by ill health to resign. Mr. Tyler accepted the npKiintinent, and left on Monday to hold his first term of court in the Chittenden county session at llurlington. The Free Press of that city had this handsome nnd well-deserved mention of the new judge in its issue of last Saturday "This will bo conceded by nil to bo first-rate appointment.

Tyler is man of very high personal nnd professional standing. He was liorn in Wilmington in nnd is now in his fifty-third year. He graduated at the Albany law school, wns admitted to the bar of Windham county in 1800. nnd soon took high rank in his profession. Ho represented Wilmington in the legislatures of 180,1 and 'fit, and wns state's attorney in 18G0 and '07.

In 1878 ho wns elected to represent the second Vermont district, nnd was reelected in 1880. His service in the national legislature was highly creditable to him, and he retired upon the reapportionment of 1881, under which our state lost one of its representatives, with tho respect nnd cordial approval of his col leagues and constituents. He has since devoted himself to the practice of his profession, nnd ranks in ability nnd standing among tho ablest members of the Vermont bar. He is a gentleman of scholarly tastes, of irreproachnble personal character, of courteous bearing and dignified presence. Ho will be nn upright and able judge, and we doubt not that the legislature will indue time add its endorsement to the excellent choice male by the governor.

The main facts in regard to Mr. Tyler's life and public career are correctly stated in this paragraph, except that it is not strictly correct to say that he retired from Congress on nccount of the reapportionment of 1881. Hr was generally mentioned as candidate for election from tho new socond district in 1882, and retired to private life because he made it know to his friends and tho public that'he did not wish to bo returned to Congress. Mr. Tyler is a man of nn eminently judicial turn of mind, and is admirably fitted, both by nature and by his attainments as lawyer, for tho honorable iiosition which has now come to him unsought.

Judge Tyler opened court nt llurlington on Tuesday, and, after charging the grand jury, announced that Judge Venzey would hear the first case, which is the ituiKirtant will case of Noyes is. liurton, and letiirned to Brattlelioro to transact some important business Inch he had not had time to complete. He will return to llurlington in time to take up the next case. The Df-niocrnu. Tho committee of Massachusetts Democrats appointed to nscertnin the number of partisan and offensive Republicans holding federal offices in that state under the present Democratic administration, and the rea sons for their retention, have made their report, nnd it furnishes very entertaining reading.

The grand total of federal officeholders in Massachusetts they find to be 4014, of whom are classed as Republicans. The report sneers at a civil-service-reform jsjlicy which retains in olh'ce "the enemy" and allows tho faithful to cisil their heels outside Undo Sam's door. On Tuesday the Democratic state convention was held at Worcester. Ex-Congress man Henry II. Lovering was nominated for governor, and Walter E.

Cutting of Pitts-field for lieutenant-governor. Four elele-gates-at-Iarge to next year's national convention were chosen. The convention seems to have been one of the genuine old-fash ionej I)t inocrntie sort. In the corridors of the hotels and about the lmll of the convention the old-fashioned, real Democrat was himself again. He was happy; he denounced civil service reform he reviled those Democrats who talked of the "better element," and he sneered nt the Democratic President ho kept Republicans in office.

The Springfield Republican bit terly bewails the way the party has gone back to "wallow in Butlerism" i So the Massachusetts Democracy, in their platform, glorified the doctrine that the sKils lielong to the victors, condemned the best federal office-holders in tho state for refusing to knuckle to this crowd, nom-iuated for governor a demagogue who is a conspicuous advocate of the sjKiils practices and of a service pension, and sent to Chicago a delegation hostile to Cleveland's iiolicy, including Josiah G. Abbott, a vio lent critic and opjsjneiit of tho administration, The only good thing about the day's work is that all its results nre consistent they all merit one condemnation, and are likely to get it." This action of the Hay State Democrats is tho moro significant liecause Massachusetts forms the one exception to tho rule of a clean sweep of tho offices by tho Democratic administration. The Democrats ant the offices, "and that's what's the matter." MINOlt NOTES. Tho pleasant announcement comes from St. Albans that Mr.

J. W. Holiart has so far recovered his health as to lie able to resume his duties as general manager of the Central Vermont railroad. The conduct of the Chicago liondlers has saddled Cook county with a debt of while tho resources fisit up only $121 -880. The Comto do Paris, who claims a legal right to the French throne ns well as tho "divino right" which is arrogated by every monarch, has posted throughout Franco a "manifesto" telling what ho would do if ho were king.

Tho fact that this justing was simultaneously done in overv one of the Ml departments of France shows an extensive and thorough organization of tho royalist party. Gen. Black, the iiension commissioner. who visited the veterans' reunion at Weirs N. a short time ago and mado a speech, is the subject of a good deal of indignation because he charged tho old soldiers $25 and his expenses for going there.

Comments on this piece of business nro not very complimentary to Gen. Black, who gets $0200 a year salary from tho government, and ho win not tie invited again, so the veterans say. Henry George was called as a iuror in Part Tlireo of the City Court. New Vork. last week.

He failed to answer when called, and the Judge fined him $100. On of this week he pleaded hard to have tho fine remitted, notwithstanding he easily worm and is making inon- rapidly. Iho court turned a deaf ear to his plea. ItruuUn of the I'lgbth Yrrtnout. The sixteenth annual reunion of Eighth Vermont regiment as held at White River Junction last week Thursday with an attendance of about fiO memliers and also representatives of tho Fourteenth Now Hampshire and Twenty-sixth Massachusetts regiment of the some brigade.

At the business meeting the nrineinol ofiiccra nf the association wore reflected. In the shooting match at 200 and 500 yards tho score stood Fourteenth Now Hampshire, 284; Eighth Vermont. 220; Twenty-sixth Massachusetts, 74. A lunuuet and camn lire ere held in the evening. Hen.

Stenheii Thomas, president since the association wns organizes), presid-ed, ami t'nl. Fred E. Smith acted as toast- master. Chapter of the unwritten history the regiment wero read hv (ills. I'm'l E.

Smith and Geo. N. L'arnenter. A lanm number of comrades responded. Among the prominent )ieron present were ex-Goveruor Barstow, Ueutenont-Oovernor Fuller, Ouarteriuabter-Geueral Gilmnrenml Captain Buffuni.

run statj: an a nun irxv Its 4'nsp llrfere Ihr Inlrr-slntc Cam mission. tH CKKTHAI, VSllMONT OlttlKltKD TO AIIAN- llON 1TH IIXEOAt, nTBH. The lutes-state Commerce Commission on Wednesday rendered their decision in tho case brought against tho Central Vermont railroad company by tho Vermont State Grange and the Boston nnd Albany railroad The commission declares illegal the action of the Central in charging a less rnto, In similar services, for a long than short haul over their lines betw ocn Boston and Detroit. Milwaukee nnd Chicago. In deciding the case the commission holds that the Central Vermont nnd the other roads over which the National Despatch line oiierates are re sensible for the rates made by that line, wnicn in law is their agent Tor the puriose of making them.

It further holds that tho Boston and Albany has on its own behalf no ground of complaint ngainst the defendants. Its grievance, if any, is that tho defendant ronns innKo lower charges on long haul traffic than it makes. But this they haven light to do. In the high local rates the Boston nnd Albany has noconcern. Hwas said in the argument that it was Interested in tho question, because it the Central Ver niont could lawfully make the higher charge on mo sooner nam, ine tsoston nnd Albany desired to know, thnt it mirht do the same But this was no reason for instituting theso proceedings, for nnv case must standon its ow facts, and it would not follow that what would bo lawful to tho Central Ver mont would be lawful for the Boston nnd Albnny.

the circumstances and conditions of hose traffic might lie altogether differ ent, ine ntnte wrnnge, however, rcprc senting persons presumably interested in the local rates, hail a right to complain of them, nnd cm its complaint this case wns disiioseel of on the merits. Tho icision proceeds ns follows The main reliance of tho defense wns Usm the show ingof Ilia competition Inch the defendants must meet in their long haul trallic. It was shown thnt for trallic between Boston nnd the West thcro wns actual or possible competition by steamers to Portland, and thence over tho Grand Trunk hv steamers to llalirax nnd thence over the Intercolonial by the Southeastern railroad tocoiinoctwith the I'liimda Pacific by the several trunk lines, nnd by combinations of carriers, requiring no special mention. The evidence, however, is entirely conclusive that the which is troublesome to defendants is thnt or the trunk lines. It has differentials, and it is liecnusc they are possessed of the shorter lines that the differentials liecomo neces wiry.

The defendants do not fear the com petition of route by Halifax, or of any of the other circuitous routes that can be organized, and such lines do not constitute circumstances and conditions havinir nnv perceptible bearing on tho present controversy. The circumstances and conditions thnt must justify the greater charge for the shorter haul over the Central Vermont line, must bo such ns spring from trunk lino competition. In tho matter of tho Iiuis-ville nnd Nashville railroad company, we vmuiini iiiui mere iiugciL oe cases in hich the competition lietw ih.ii rail roads, even when thoy wero all subject to me jurisiiii'iinu 01 ine commission, would present such dissimilarity of circumstances nnd conditions between long and short haul traffic as to justify the greater charge for the shorter haul on the same line in the same direction. But our published opinion shows we thought these cases must lie rare and exceptional. The trunk lines nre nil subject to our jurisdiction.

What then are the lieculinr circumstances and conditions which constitute tin. ence between the case before us and cases ot railroad competition general I The principal difference must tie found in the fac that the trunk lines have interior or shorter lilies compared with the line of the defendants and the latter nro coninolled. theiofore, to make very low rates on their uimugii trallic. 1 his is a necessity of tho situation, tint it is a necessity which exists whenever long nnd short lines compete. The long line must accept the rates made by the short line nnd.

perilous, make con- cessions from them. In this respect there is nothing cculiar in tho jsjsition of these defendants. There nre roads in every part of the country which can make the same claim they do, and with the same justice It is a claim thnt could lw advanced whenever route, however circuitous, could be found for long haul traffic. A liue from Boston to Detroit, for example, might Is' formed by the way of the Chesaieuke and Ohio railway, nud one from Chicago to St boi.is by way of St. Paul.

The Din departure from ijirect line the greater wouici cnimuoniy no the necessity for low-rates on through traffic, and the irrentcr tin. liability to have the charges or the lcieul trallic increased to make the carriage of mrougn ironic jcossitiie. Hut without enlarging on this branch of the case, we content ourselves with savincr Hint siicb imi liar facts are not found to exist in this ease as will justify the greater charge on the shorter line. There remains only the duty to make and issue tho order which the fnrts found quire. The Central Vermont and the other iiolenciants concerned with it in inter state traffic lietween Boston and St.

Albans and Boston and Ogdensburg, respectively, including those sints, must holly cease and desist from charging or receiving in respect to nny part of such traffic greater com iiensaticui for transportation of like lin.l of property for shorter than for a longer instance over the same line in the same di rection, the shorter licing Included within tho longer clistance. In ierformiiig this duty neither do, nor itli propriety can, express nny opinion ujsm the intrinsic reasonableness or justice of the rates heretofore imposed, except to this extent That we do not think it was show by the evidence that when the local tariffs are made to conform to tho letter of the law ns nlmve directed they will lie unreasonable. TIIK XKWS IN HUIKK. Several persons were killed Tuesday by collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee it St Paul road near Canton, Dak. Th express enr of a train on the Texas Pacific roail as robbed of a large sum by two robliers Monday night near Fort Worth, Tex.

Two masked men mounted the engine ns it left a small station, and conqiellcsl the engineer to pull out little way on to high trestle, where two other masked men joined them, and tho fourrob-lied the express car of $110,000. Tho passengers were not molested. The same train was robbed on tho same trestle last June. The grocery store of Dominick M. Messina of New Orleans, was burned from the effect of a siwder explosion last Friday illuming, nnd the Messina family, consisting of fattier, mother and four children, wero burned to death.

A Connecticut item says that Cunt. Robert W. Andrews, the i)7-years-old pedestrian, arrived nt Hartford Thursday with his fuithful dog Fido. He has walked miles during the past four years, has seen all the presidents, except Garfield and has good health. Tho Chicago jwlice Sunday night arrested 91 Chinese on Clark street, where they were playing "bungaloo," Tho Celestials were all bailed out to await trial.

Another victim of the Cliatsworth, railroad disaster hos just died, making the number of deaths to date 80. Five persons wero killed Monday morning by a collision on the Milwaukee nnd St. Paul road near Dubuque, and five were killed near Sheffield, on the PitUhurg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Road. Frost was experienced last Saturday morning nrross ermont. nnd New Hamp shire, and oven in the environs of Boston.

The Nevada Bank looses over six millions by tho collapse of California wheut dent. A train on tho Midland railroad in England filled with excursionists eu routo for Doncuster to witness tho races, collided with unother train last Friday and wus wrecked. Twentv-four persons were kill ed and 70 were injured, many of whom cannot recover. The Midland train was standing on a crossing a mile from Doncns-ter while the tickets were being collected, when the Liverpool express dashed into it. Tho guard lsix was smashed to atoms and the first carriage of the Liverpool train wus leiescopeii ny tne next succeeding carriage and broken to splinters.

It was a long time before the injured nnd dying ho ere edged in the ruins could be rescued. The disaster was caused by defective signaling. A Trnitrdr of the Arctic. A year ago last spring, the old holer Amethyst, built away back in 1822, sailed out of the port of San Francisco for a whaling voyngo in tho Arctic. That fall, when tho rest of the fleet camo back through Hi-bring Strait, the Amethyst was seen shut up ill the ice with her crew of 88 men on lsvtrd and, it was men bom she had rescued from the liuler Rainlsiw.

Decemlier, when tho Amethyst did not safely make her way to the home jKirt, revenue cutter wus sent up for her, butenmo Iwck without any tidings. Now comes the new that the wreck of the Amethyst has lieen discovered, with everything in confusion in the cabin, but no men on Isiard. They hod evidently left the ship, but where they have gone, or what their fate is, islievond present knowl edge. SENATOR EDMUNDS' ARGUMENT llrferr tbe Interstate Cetnmrrre Com mlsslen nl Itnllnnd, Mrptrmbe r.II. 1 shall, if it please your honors, occupy only a very few moments of your time in discussing this matter.

First and principally, liccanso I do not believe it necpssnrv to you, or to the just diosition of this case secondly, because I do believe it necessary that my honorable opjionents nnd I should get the train and go homo this oven- ing. TUB OnANOKllS, First, then, as to tho grangers, my clients in respect to whom mv Brother Filleld nm tho gentlemen on tho other side have, from Acne to time, made observations altogether uncomplimentary, as to their beinir "invt h- ical." "non existent Persons." and an foi-tlf. All I have to say in reply to thnt, is, that mo lamiers neeu no ueience lrom mo. They are good deal more numerous than any other part of tho people of the United States. I happened to see In a newspaper this morning an account of a meeting of 45,000 of them in Pennsylvania, tho other day.

Thoro are a good many of them everywhere, though they do not all belong to organized granges, for tho grangers' associations do not embrace all the farmers of the country, any more than the law associn tious embrace all tho lawyers. There are a great many persons ho have been admitted to the bar who do not belong to any law association still wo are supposed to lm im. titled to the snmo rights nnd privileges as those ho aro members of a law association. And the farmers of this country, and of mis succo, mereiore, unvo me same rights, whether members of tho grange or not. They have tho right to associate and clef end their interests, the same as the railroads, the clergymen, tho manufacturers, the Knights of I jilscr, or any other memliers of the community, so that I need not take up nnv mice in vindicating mem as standing oeioro you nun asking justice nt your hnnds under the law for the classes of industry thnt they represent.

Yuu aro here as public tribunal of investigators, tiefore nom any citizen, or set of citizens, having a we'd founded ground nt complaint, may come and state their trrievances. Tbev nre entitled to be heard, nnd if a wrong is being done to them, you nro liound to see that justice is done. So much for tliat, which I will again say was quite unnecessa ry lor my clients, M-Ol'K OF Till: INTEIMTATK COMMKIICE AIT, Ix't us seo where we nre. This act in its lirst and second sections seems to lie couch eel in language that is very plain to the un sophisticated mind. It npjiears to be intended to regulate ami control, according to gocsl methcsls, and consistent with justice, the operations of iiitiTstnto by railways and water communications connected with them.

So far us it was IKissible for Congress, within its constitutional pnw er, to reach every agency engages! in tlioso transactions, it wus to bo exerted. The object was beneficent, nnd tho nature of the law was Intended to reach, and, so far as language can go, I think dews reac every operation of interstate commerce that is carried on by no matter how manv agents or connecting local lines, so that iney are engaged a continuous transmis siou of men or things by any "arrange ment," as the law says, between them in re caiioii inerelo. there can no escape cuiu me pi isiunic en ine law py any rail road in the United States, unless it is re stricted by its charter and (uierntieuis to pureiy cocai siate pusiness. Kvery road that provides facilities for the business of connecting roads and engages in the tick ingof gcsslsoutof its own state on to i railroad in unother state, by any sort of coiiiiiiuiiicmioii or arrangement, or oomlii nation, or understanding, by whatever con trivnin or form it is reached, conies with in the scope of tho operation of Unlaw. When the states have utidwrtnkii t.

interfere with tho abuses and wrongs that have been committed all through the coun try, tlie supreme court, much against its wishes and will. I Iwlieve. wiw ol.i;....l c. decide that it was within the purview of nine i insist me can guage of this act shall lie giveu the most noerai aud benign construction, in order work the gessi effects it was intended to complish, It is not to lw construed like criminal statute, but every interpretation and construction that can aid and reach the great object Congress had ill view should be given to it. Enough for that, liecause 1 am confident your honors will all agree with me.

1 do not peed to resort to any strained interpretation to apply it to this case. 1 only make these observations to state ui) tens oi its general purpose and effect. T1IK PEKEMIAST IIOAIIS WITHIN THE VOW AMI I'ltOVIsIIIXH OK THE ACT. In this case we find certain facts su-orn to by Mr Porteous, although he seems to Know a good deal less when he is on the witness stand than he does when he is off from itas cartful men sometimes do and his superior officer, Gov. Smith, seems to ne aitected with the some malady, unlike Mr.

Mellen, who sjsike fully and' frankly, as did Mr. Mills and these other centli-mn As 1 have said, we have the facts sworn to nj Jir. orteous, as you will eo when you i. iiuu-s, mui en re spect to the transmission of business be. tw eeu the places on the liue of tho Boston Lowell road (aud by that I will include on irom iniston to into River Junction, without naming the concerns that coniie it), whether from Boston or any place lie-t.

I mr.i JUVCT UUCDOll, Oil business going illtO the stAte of Vermont that the two roads have arranged ami agreed uiKin a basis upon which thnt busi ness shall be done and tho prices whic shall ne pain inr an arrangement and under standing was arrived at and coliKtimintitM.1 lietween the agent of tCe corporation of the Central Vermont railroad comiaiiy, on the one hand, and the agent of the corporation me jhisuiii iv iw-en railroad isiuipauy, on the other, and nerhaos some of the ntb er roads in the route, but mainly lietween the two I have named. That arrangement was made in advance as to what rates should lie charged for that joint business, and the division that was to lw made from the collection of those rates, as shown by the division lit put in evidence. If this is not a joint arrangement (which is more than the law requires) if it is not an "sr. rangement," to use tho very language of tho law, for the carriage of gocxts from one smie into unother over a common line, then there is no language thut can lie taken out ot our fc.ngli.li tongue that will accomplish it. And I will leave that.

This is ull I wish to say about that. THE NATIONAL IlESPATCH LINK. Now, as to this National Desjiatch line. i onus jeisi me same, only it is done ilia different form. have learned from the evidence in this case what this National DespuU line is.

As some of the ituessei. stated, it is only a name, or a trade mark But the public have Hover known what it really is. A well known man in this town who is a large shipper said to me that ho hud sent millions of dollars of freight out of this town by tho National Despatch lino, supisising it to lw a regularly organized roriKiratioii, having liody and capital and officers, and somelssly to look to if there was any loss or damage to tie made gcssl. Ho was much amused to find that the S'n- tional Despatch line was in reality a gcssl deal better ami stronger than ho supKn.el i.t was in that respect, for it had turned out to be composed of the Boston Low ell railroad company, with all its goods, assets and effects, the Central Vermont, with all Us goods, assets and effects, the Grand Trunk railway and all its belongings, nnd a gcssl deal lietter. But we find that this National Despatch lino is simply a namo by which theso three oieiating railroads transact turougn LUsiness together; by which thev convey freight fiom Uostou to tho West.

and to Montreal and east from th ise places to iiosion aim eastern points, hat brings theso roads within tlie act, I assume. Tho question, then, is simply whether, in order to bring any one of them or all of them within tho fourth section of this net, it is necessary that they should all combine in the charging of a greater rate for a shorter distance than for tho longer one. If it is necessary that they should all combine, then it is clear to my mind, as my learned friend Strout says, that the Grand Trunk railway comjiany has not bad anything to do in resiwct of the charges that ore to mode between Boston and West Lebanon, or White River Junction, or between Ikis-ton and White River Junction, Montpelier, St. Allans, nnd tlie reason it clid not combine was that it had no interest in that matter. If you take the proposition ill the reverse, the Jlostou Lowell would have no interest whatever and could have nothing to do and would have nothing to do ill.

the question of rates on freight from Toronto or Detroit to Montpelier, although that would havo come from a foreign country to the United States. The onlv way. on that theory of the law, that you could have the fourth section ojiernte at all, would lw lietween two roads in adjoining states who made an interchange, each agreeing that it would chargo as a common carrier, so much into tho other state, and would collect the carriage money and pay it over. This would bring them ithiu the ojierutioii I oi me iaw, i mini; you win tw satished, as I certainly am. Tate the Boston Lowell, here Mr.

Mellen swear they get once and a half or twice as much for carrying a carload of chairs from Boston to White River Juuction, for use there, as they would if the chair were going to Montreal or beyond. They are hauling the name good over the same liue in the name direction, and the same distance in one case, for less than half wtiat tney get the other. Putting such a construction upon the business as is urged here, there Is notn single road in the world, not oven between two states, tliat would' be under the provision of section 4, and could not be. But thnt is the Iiosition they take. It is tho philosophy and dialectics of sophistry that people who feel the hand of the taw and are conscious of doing injustice, resort to as is fair for counsel if they can persuade anybody to believo it to escape from plain responsibility.

The sumo Is true ill the reverse order. The Central Vermont will not lie liable under that claim, because they have nothing to do with what tho Iiwell road gets the moment you cross into New Hampshire, and the Iiwell nothing to do with what tho Central Vermont gets the moment the lino of Vermont is crossed the other way. Neither is rosjionsible. It is only necessary to state such a proposition to seo the fallacy of it, and make nn etui of it. Congress has not any iower over interstate commerce if thnt projswition bo correct.

But, if there lieing any arrangement to do that thing brings them within the jurisdiction nnd isiwer of Congress, then the doing of it must bo within its reniedlal (lower of prohibition. And they do it. I will cnll your nttentinn to the rase where the Boston fc Law ell, within its own state and its own corporate iHiundary, makes tho rales you have heard in evidence. It does not charge any more for carrying gcssls to Manchester than it does to carry them to White River Junction, If it is going to stop there. Mr, Mellen tells you with entire frankness I get twice as 'much for doing that thing to White River Junction as I do if it is going to Montpelier.

But if it is going to lie a purely local, intrn-stnte traffic, then I do not charge nny more for carrying thing to Manchester than to White River Junction but if it is going to lw interstate traffic, then Ily directly in the face of the law. Although it does not appear on my tables, jet as a mutter of fact I make an arrangement by which I get twice as much for my short distance as I clo for the longer distance of which I form component and "arranging" part. KXCfHl.Vll CIIU'UUHTANC EH AMI CONDITIONS. Now, then, we coino to the only question in this, case, that is under section as to whether it is made out that the circumstances and conditions nre such that you are liound to find, or ought to find fairly and justly, that these companies ought to lie relieved fiom this chit) I will say something later uesin the question under the other part of the statute. The first reason they urgu as an excusing circumstance is tlie length of their line I reiK'ctfully submit thnt tho length of lino over the snmo line over which the freight goes nny short distance and long distance, is no ditfeielit as to those roads than it can be on nny other lino in the country.

So thut length of line only enters as one element in the matter of competition nt some distant (siint of the system, and in no cither resjiect whatever. Then you come to the difficult) of weather and climate. Is that un clement that makes a sjwcial circumstunec nnd condition over the same line If I live in the tropics, here there is no snow nt all, is it lw said that because it is hotter at one place on the line than it is at unother (sunt on the snmo line, there is reason for making a litter elice in the rates to those rcsiective jNiihts Of course nut If I live in the Arctics, as we do here in the winter, does it cost a rail road any more to haul short distance through the snow and get its cars out of the snouliniiks than it cbies to haul it a longer distance over tlie moutitatiiis in tlie winter It must cost lss, under the circumstances, for the shorter distance The idea, therefore, that the snow or the grades clnini has anything to do with this question of charging more for shoit distance than for a longer one over tin- same line, is presnter his, with ull rcsiect to the honored gentle men on the other side TH'il SIPEs Til Til gt'KSTICIN. nre two slib's to the subject niol Tb. making and profits, it might lw added.

These railroads npimul to you to allow them to make a fair profit, as much as the) fairly und reasouabl) can. That is pnier enough. But they owe the snipe duty to their cus tomers. ami you owe the same duty to their customers. The weather is no wider for the railroads in Veri it than it is for the fanner.

It is no udder in Vermont in the winter for the railroad than it is for the manufacturer, or the ntsseiiger, ornnylssly else. They are all under precisely the same conditii ins on the same line, as of course they nnit Therefore, all those considerations fail, entering fur what they are worth inkt the consideration of com (H-tiliou at disLmt sunt. Now. then. I submit with great ressc-t, and I think it will turn out to lw so in the next ten years, not iisui nny supssl e-on-stnictiim of this law that you may make, or uisin any too extended a construc tion of it, but us a fart 111 the sis ial economics of this country, resting Uui justice which gives to every en his due nnd fair play to all.

that every service that a railroad or nny Isslv else. does for aunt her under public regulations, and of which he is not the master (as ewry man has a right to receive profit from his lulsir Inc be can sell at any price hcclusMcs to Uke, or not, I will lw regulated according to the value of the services iwrformed und not iii'i-oreling to the particular circumstances of the wrson or the cor-iKiratioii ho has toiierform it What right has a miller, for illustration, to charge me ten cents a bushel for grin. ling wheat Iw-cause there is mortgnge on his mill I hat right has a railroad company, like one out iu Ohio, managed by Ives, to put its rates up double Iwi'uuse double the amount of its stock has Ueu fraudulently issued, into innocent hands I will assume; and, therefore, to pay a profit the rates must lie raisesl. ami the public made to pay it What right has a ruilroud to put up iu rules ubove fair Milue for the service n-rforuied, tw-cuuse the 111 uiagemeiit bus Iweu extravagant or unfortunate, and got itself into debt I 1 leny the prisiUoil Anil I say that in less than ten years, utile the iwopleof the United States bale list their reason, this iuuttr will lw ilealt with by congress, as far tu they have the sier, und you will not lie troubles! ith any question nlsiut consideration as to competition. Vou will only lw troubled with the question of what is reasonable according to the vulue of the service ierformisl, Iwcuusetlmt stands, and an ouli stand upon principles tliut are lw yond the reach nf any contrivances that men may make But we will take it it is.

I sav cm the construction nf this law itself, fa'irly ami justly on the sscial circumstances aud con ditions, that the fact that there i coniiwti tion, although it is the strongest that there is, is )et the very smallest of elements that should enter intei the consideration of this question. The object and punnise of con gross in making use of that phrase as to guard against soino extreme und possible circumstances thut could not lw foreseen. It wns intended that those secial circumstances and conditions rolateil to the work and tlie service to lw done nnd the relations of the parties Iwtwecu whom nnd by whom it was to be done, and not the relations either of the shippers to the business, or the railroud to its competitors, its enemies or its friend. But we will upiKo it is not so. We will kiipsise that comiwtitiou is an clement to lw considered.

Where would )ou find yourselves, then, ujioii any such competition as exists hero Hero is this Hue, and here are the other lilies in New England coniieting for this trallic the lines from Boston to the West crossing the state of New York, or from Baltimore to the West, from Savannah to tho West and East und North and South. Every road can say the sumo thing and be excusesl from compliance with the requirements of tho law. As an illustration of my idea take the I'assumjisic line, if that lw an indeiiendent one. It ill form a goes! tsisis for example bex'ause it is a parallel line to the Contra! Vermont in this some north country, and competitor with tlie Central Vermont. I a charge ere brought against the Pusumpi.c, that road would say, 1 am in coiuiwtitiou.

You must not touch me. 1 iuut charge more for the shorter thau for tlie longer distance, because there is such strung couiiietition to contend against. The lWon Albany could say, we are In coinjwtitioii with the Fitch-burg. Or the Kilo could say, wo are in competition with the New York Central. And so every one of these corjiorations could let the other one out by the shuffling of the cards.

It woulel be souiew hat after the i.l.m adopted some tilne ugo by the banks In this state, by which the swcio used to lw circulated lieu the bank examiner cume arouuel. One bank would present its tjwcie to the examiner, who woulel couut it aud certify that it as all right, and the specie ould at once lw hurried off to the next bank to lw pre sentee to the examiner as its specie, and so on until it had gone all the rounds. Every railroad compete ith each other, and if the fact of comiwtitiou is to lw an element that is to control this question there is not railroad in the United States which reaches out of its own state (that is nrobn. lily too strong a statement) but there aro not ten road in the country that reach out of their own state. So that they could get ocn, one uiier uuomer, aim all make great price for short distances and small prices for longer distances at the exwuse of the shippers of freight, and the public.

This honorable Isslv will see the force of tlmt and you ure not going to let those Melioration, whom you were created to bring to some sense of justice and fairness among men in this country, manage to evoele this law by playing off against each other and getting lw)ond the control of this act in that way. It is not a siwciul and peculiar circumstance and condition it is a universal circumstance and condition in all these long haul case, and therefore it is not one of the idea that could have been in the minds of the law-makers when they said that In peculiar and special circumstances and conditions you might be compelled to relieve a railway for a limited or unlimited time from the operation of tho -Ith section. LONU HAUL ItATEH FOH fUTOIlT DISTANCES anOKRLY UNJUST. One word more and I am done. Upon the ovldence as it stanils in this case, even If those short haul rates wore put down to the long haul figures, then tlie short haul rates woulel still tie grossly unreasonable In fact.

I say it is proved to be so by the testimony. All tho facts that are put in evidence hero as to how theso operations are carried on and what they get for tlie work they do, tend to establish the force of the statement. Governor Smith told vou the cost of carrying freight per ton per mile is, on an average, four milts iier ton per milo over the lino complained of, taking the fast and stow trains togother. Ho has told you atsjut tho car service, what that is and how profitable it Is to tho company owning the cars, The stock of the company whose cars carry this very freight, ami have carried It for fifteen years' pay dividends from ton dow to four per cent and on a watered capital at that. Governor Smith also tells you that they make money In this long haul business, and I presume ho has told, as every-tssly should, nil thut will lw of benefit to his enso, although ho has not told you how much they in fact make out of the business.

If there is profit In carrying a carload of com from Detroit, or a carload of hoy or any other commodity from the Canada lino to the line of New Hampshire or to Boston, or rice rrr, at a rate of less than U0 cents per 100 pounds, or whatever it may lw, 1 do not pretend to get the fractions, but nil enormously less rate than is charged for tlie short distance, then tho profits for doing that same kind of work, over the same line at tho same time of year, at once and a half or double the charge, must lw enormously nnd unreasonably profitable. This is demonstrable when you look nt these statements made hero as to the rates and take the elements of tho cost and tho profit on the car service. When you find the same kind of work lieing done over tlie same line under the same circum stances, nt half tho rate nud paying them a profit, 1 insist usm it, it is made out as fully as it ever can lw made out in such cases as this nt any time. When it is demonstrated that there Is a profit in the lower rate the through rate-it is demeinstrntoil that the greater rate for the lesser clistance is grossly unjust And even if tho short haul rate should be brought down to the longer haul rate it would still lw grossly unjust iu proortion to the cxiienso of doing the business. It is not to lw wondered nt that the profits of the farmer in Vermont, Ohio.

Illinois, or anywhere else arc small. It is not to be wondered nt that they make no profits at ull their profit ale apparently somewhere else. So 1 say that tho short haul rates should nt least lw brought down to tho basis of chargo for tho longer haul. That is what 1 insisted uisui last night, nnd I should have been willing, as I stated at that time, in the hcaw of finishing this matter up for the time Iwing, to have hud this mutter stand uiwii the rates Iwing brought dow to that basis and let tho matter stop there, with lilwrty. after a reasonable trial, to apply la tho commission for relief.

But we could not make any arrangement almut it, and therefore having to go through the whole case, I insist thut on tlie evidence in this case what I have said and claimed as to the iutrinsie unreasonableness of these rate is true, and that they would still lw unreasonable, even if brought down to the long haul minimum. THE I-KOIS IMTION. 1 think that is all it is desirable to say for tho merits of this eue. I only ish to sa) in closing that we thank you, as the other gentlemen have done, fur your patience in Iwaring with our somewhat desultory management of the e-ase, and with what I and my colleague hae said I say as we have no oflie-ial relations with the distinguished gentleman who represents the Boston Albany railroud comjiany In bringing this application we are not actuated by any spirit of hostility to these roads or any others yuite the reverse. Tlie railway service of the United States is just as important to its welfare and proswrity as any other one of its social enterprises and institutions.

But tlie fact that it is a very necessary element of our prosperit) ami ought to lw encourged, furnishes no ground for its Iwing granted unlimited and unjust license to oppress anybody else That is the Ilrriiiirtlsln( Mnm. At the Republican caucus last Tuesday evening L. 11. (iould and Henry L. Crow-ell were elected delegates to the state convention at Boston, Wednesday, Sept.

28. A town committee of L. H. ('iould, C. Hills and H.

A. Slate were chosen, with W. A. Nichols as secretary. The funeral of Mrs.

Livona Warner, an elderly lady aud lifetune resident of this town, Umk place yesterday. The delegates to the Democratic state convention last Wednesday were John Banks and Gardiner Oakos. Dr. II. Pierre has returned from his vacation nnd is now in attendance usm his professional duties S.

Hulburt is building an addition to his house and making other rejutirs and improvements. Ijcwver Wilde nud family have closed their house for the year and returned home to Brooklyn. The funeral services of Mrs. Baxter Burrows were held at tier lute home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Barrows was much esU-eineel by neigblslrs aud friends and ill lw greatly missed.

Evangelist Mcssly's home was the scene of a wedding early last Saturday morning. Russell ly.ng und Sarah Andrews, who has been iu Mr. Mcssly's family for some time, were the jmrties, und Rev. Dr Pierson tieel the knot. The north-end boys are turning up the tin pans for early use.

The Plummer pickle factory, which has received cucumlwrs from Gill nnd nearer farm through the season, has now in tanks, or ready to ship, 81, (UK) gallon of pickles. The Webster conning factory, in its ten days' run, packed 110,000 ennsof sweet corn the largest quantity of any year except last, and of line quality. The creamery mode iu August 7011 pounds of butter that is wanted iu much larger quantity than cau be sujiplicd The Mead family have left tho Hall cottage. Miss Knte Mead entered Smith college last week. The giils' seminary opens with 282 pupils and teachers, 100 of them new attendants.

Thei (Juzetto ccrressiudent says that the "sea seriwnt," which was roortcd to have appeared iu the Connecticut river alsive the Northlleld bridge and to buve been hit on the head witli an oar by a young son of Evungelist Mocsly, wus ulso roiwrteel to have "proved an alligator of Florijan proportions but that proved mere allegation und the mysterious monster is still a monstrous mystery." CSrrrudelil. 7ln. A C1SE OK SUSPECTED UURDEIt. On Thursday night of last week Margaret Murray, ife of John Murray, was founel lying ut the ba.e of the high railroad wall, helpless, nearly unconscious, und withnliad cut on her head. She as carried to her home in a tenement house just south of the Fitchburg freight deiset nud died soon after.

Both she and her husliand were iriven to drink they had Iwen on a drunk that night and tho house showed that they had bad a "scrimmage." The husband was in with his clothes and Iswts on when hi wife was brought home, and wus drunk or nre. tended tu lie. It was suspected to be a case ui niuriier, aim juurray and John nutting, ho as also druuk that night, were nr. rested. Nuttiug wo held for drunkenness and allowed to go after laying the usual one.

iiurray is complained of for manslaughter, and the case has lieen continued today. The Gazette doubts if it was a case of murder, and says tho autopsy showed there wus no fracture of the skull. Betides the scalp wound there were no marks oi injury on tho Oman's person. Examination, however, showed a dislncntinn nf the neck, and four or five Inches further down the backbone was again broken, It is the theory of the doctors that the woman fell from ihe top of the wall, striking ujion her head. It is probable that the husband locked her out of door, and that wandering around in the darkness she fell from the level of the railroad track to the road bo-low.

C. O. Morse. Imi.m tuti.lM...,. tlan Messenger, ha accepted a lucrative tsisitiou as teacher iu Clark university, Atlanta.

Ga. Mr Mnra Wnei year in the railway mail service, and one of the first to bo removed for alleged offensive partisaiisldp. est Randolph system of water-work has beeu completed, unci the gauge show 105 uiuU of pressure at the lowest level. The first of the water used wus in the liap-tistry of the Baptist church Sunday evening. Rev.

A. I. Button ho reslgucd the pastorate of the Cougregutioual church at Roy-ulton to become t.uperiutendeut of the home for aged and infirm minister at the Chautauqua ground iu Framingham. Charles Emerson has Iwen appointed loat-master at East Thetford. John Pollock of Fairfax committed suicide Sunday by hanging.

nom news. Itrrerel. Wkx Kkiumci TucRsnAT KvENWei, Hzrr. I8K7, AsmeunftmcNM. Mrs.

M. Cliatnelil has Inst Pate A- of New Vork, a portfolio of fine' etch ings and engravings, borers of line pictures nre iii.ie.sj uj ran sou look at them. Miss Barber will be St VI Kept lii'tli, to make arrangements with any who Mf lessons on ine guitar. ne sure lo msi Edviniils A IJllis's new night oucii rum-, siik uiiilircliaA, cnne-s. etc.

W. II. Klsher offers his house nnd lot at the est lllage for sale at a low price; $Hco cap un iiiorcgaKe. Horse clothing ami lap robes at Kdsards A Mills's A large and well selectesl line. lionet nny until cm have ses'n them.

One Hup Press for sale. Itiejulre of (J II Sails, bury Helling as fast as ever, the ladles' Queen Cuff iie.ioi-r, a great onntelileliee. IjlJIes, you can nol afford to bo Ithout them, for sale by Jew eler llulilsird. Kelvinrelsuiid Mills nre ngenta for the Monarch ureas shirts and Crown collars and cuffs. I'lm-RK r'Rjmsa nre cheap at Clapp Jones's.

Artists' materials, full stock IledueesJ prices since April 1st ut Clapp A Jone-s's. Autistic llcrcicl Fiuvixa at Clapp A Jones's. Picture hi variety at A Wilder', Aisootsuieiny hoard. Hhnp u-n eienlngs 7to8. Huy llrture Pramc of Oesldls.

Hratllrbera. The Connecticut Valley Medical associa tion held its Septemlter meeting nt the urooks House on Tuesday. Twenty-eight members were present, four now memliers being added to the society. Vice president iimse eu niie, II rendu most interesting ndelress, and other iwtsers of unusual interest were read. At half past twelve the society adjourned for dinner, and nfter iiiniicr nn nour ami a half was devoted by the memliers to visit to tho asylum, and thence tho pnrty were taken to the summer retreat, and returnee! to the Brcsiks House nt o'clock.

Tho ofterii(n session con-tinueil till .1 o'clock, und adjourned to meet nt Bellows Fulls In February next. Tho Ruthians havo fixed the dato of their corn festival Thursday evening, Sent. 2il, in the vestry of the Baptist church. "There ill lw appropriate decorations, and a pleasing program is in prejiaration. No iain will I spared to make it a pleasant tune for all.

As the young ladies have pleases! their patrons in the past, it is hrqwd to see a gcssl numlier out on this occasion. On Thursday evening of next week, the ladies of the Lniversalist Church will givo their annual harvest festival Fruits and arious seasonable articles will Im for sale and supjwr will served in the excellent style for which the I'niversalist Indies are noted. Fifteen cents pays for supper. A cordial invitation is extended to all to lie present. Rev Dr.

Geo I. Walker will preach nt the Center church next Sunday morning I'eople who enjoy seeiuggessl bull playing should ueit fml the game on the mead ow tomorrow afterncsm lietween the lis-nl team and tho Salems Frank Turner, formerly pitcher for tho BrattlelsircM. will occupy the Ik.x for the Salems. The Brat-tlelKiro nine will be the same that ployed the Bellows Falls, with the exception thut Donald will play third, and Ilorrigan centre held. The work of putting iu the heating apparatus ut the town hall was lieguu eter-day, and teslay the carieiiters are to' begin laying the new tli.ir.

Col. Hooker delivered the address at the Springfield tow fair on Wednesday. Henry Clark's crop of ensilage corn, covering aliout (ike acres of land, was un usually heavy, yielding by estimate or 'M tons to the acre. Henry Devens and O. A.

Marshall have come to terms iu regard to Devens' building lot on North street, an.l Marshall takes it at iUHJQ. Mr Gilson will arrive next Tuesday at his West Chesterfield mart with a carload of 20 horses. (). J. l'ratt lias haul set this week in front of liis store a six-ton flagstoue from Mr.

Lyon's granite quarries. It is 8 by I) feet iu size. IS inches thick, and makes' a solid and haudsome bit of jutvement The children of the Ixind a Hand club ere entertained last Suturduy iu a very delightful manner by Mrs. Doriiinii II. Elton ot the Eaton farm.

The elay was a charming one for an out-dcsir urty and the children, with a few of their older friends, enjoyed the occasion to the utmost. A friend with a turn for statistics thinks the late Bresson F. Perry must have been the olilest man in town except the editor of the Reformer that veracious authority having announced last week that Mr Perry remove.1 to West Brattleboro In "12C2 or il." The same friend is auxiou to know alout the jioktisined annual meeting of tlie "Woman's Indian and what sort of proceedings the "fund" is likely to hold on the occasion. A reirt of the state convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union held at WcHsistoek last week is printed on cur first page today. Mr and Mrs.

J. I). Roes reached home last Friday from their visit to Germany They found their stay abroad a delightful one in every way the home voyage was a goou one, and best of all, Mr Itooss returns with his health very much improved. Thirty-seven member of the woman's relief corps went to Hinsdale by team yes terelay afternoon by invitation to take sup per with tho ladies of the Hinsdale relief corps. Richard Sandy and Peter Thompson ere arrested by Officer Reed Sunday evening for drunkenness.

Monday raoniiug when brought before Justice Newton, lioth denied having lieen drunk, though they admitted having imhilied several close of Hos-tetter's bitter and hop compound. The court, however, chose to believe the officer's story, and fined lth men JS nnd cost. The local ieach crop is lietter than for several years jiast. Those enterprising hatters, Messrs. Edwards Lillis, make some iniortant announcements in tcsluy'a issue, which ill not be overlooked.

The Maplewood trotting jiark association of Hinsdale have their annual exhibition on Friday, Oct. 7. The Valley Mill coin any have completed their new elevator, which greatly enlarges their storage capacity, and enables them to handle bushels of com ier hour, or to unload a car of corn in 20 minutes. An arrangement has also been added by means of which meal, feed, etc iu tho Iwg are transported from the mill to the car fast enough to load a car in an hour's time. Mr.

J. Harvey Edward, father of S. and May Edwards of this town, who removed from Guilford last Dcx-cmlier to Utica, elieel there on the lHth inst at tlie age of fill. He leave a wife and five children. People visiting Boston from this section will lie interested iu tho announcement elsewhere published of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic) association's exhibition which opens in that city on the 27th inst.

Cyrus Reed has sold his house to George Half, recently from Westniorehuid, N. H. Mrs. G. P.

Kirby of Newfane has taken a lease of Mr. Mendon's houso on Walnut street, taking possession Oct. Set. Brattlelsiro as well represented ot the county lair ui jsewfane, as will lie seeu by our reiort elsewhere given. Frosts have occurred on several mornings duriug the jiust week, but the fogs have prevented seriou damage to grain- aud other vine.

Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Drown dedicated their new Behr Bros, piano, Tuesday evening, when a purty of 13 or 15 of our liest musicians assembled at their residence and enjoyed a musical soiree and sociable.

Miss Belle Clark presided at the piauo, Mr. Shearer accompanying on tho violin aud cornet; Mr. Wood of Chicojiee gave some harmonica solos, and vocal solos, quartets, were given by Mr. und Mrs. Drown, Miss Gregg, Mrs.

Rlackinor, Mr. Willis and Mr. Leonard, the nroceeiliiiL-M tho serving of refreshment. The removal of Mr. Steers to the temporary susjiension of manufacture bv the Brattlelioro Tool company, of which Mr.

Steers was superintendent, have given rise to a general impression that the Jiany and its business ere practically dead. I'his la not the case, however, and the ooin-any' goods are now in lively demand. An order from Chicago for nlini uaa mi ed yesterday, requiring seven large cases, and iu all 20,000 plane have been put upon the market. Mesr. Billing Spencer I eter.

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"ccTTlWHira 3Q.81 6i 4i llTlis- I N' SI j)-!" S7 70 I IB B. "sT liiisl of Hartford, who now have the rwi-traet for making the planes, having lately been damaged by fire, are nt present unable to keep up with the orders, but will lie all right again by Oct. 1st. The lilts ns made by them are faultless In construction and finish, and are undoubtedly the bust extension bits on the market. Work in the shop here will lie resumed as soon as the present large stock of planes is exhausted.

"The l'heenlx spjieared In a hew dress of tyt' last week and slightly enlarged. It Is hardly so easy readmit, lioseter. as it was hcrore tne change, when It had a deserved reputation as one nr ine most neauy unnwsi pn'rs in mik-Unci." We are glad to so far as truth will allow, the Reformer kind nllu slim as nlsove at the time of our enlarge ment nnd appearance in now type Inst No vember. Our neighbor put on new dress li I 1 OI vyiee last sets no ic, nrinuuiie-cei itnii on the whole the patter was not more difli cult to rend than it lias been heretofore. A party consisting of Mrs.

Shea, Misses ary ami Alice Shea, Miss May Meiidnn, Miss Cuslimnn of New York, Miss Edna Hall. Miss O'Connor. Miss Mabel Brcsiks, C. A. Miles, Dr.

O'Connor nnd Randolph Faber of hew lork, Howard Mendon and O. A. Marshall twk a rurringo drive to Winchester, N. Wednesdny ufternism, returning in tlie evening after supier had been served. "Jim the Penman" wns played to good-sized house lost Friday evening, nitel was in every respect one of tho most satisfactory presentatlems ever given here.

Like every other company which Mr. Palmer has sent over this circuit, this company is strong in Its tending parts, and tho supjiort Is excellent. Messrs. (). L.

Miner nnd C. E. Allen, who have been npjiointed to take chnrge of the fruit one) vegetable department nt the coming town fair, express the hosi that the farmers will nil make nn effort to have a large and interesting display of form produce in view of the liliernl premiums offered, for vegetables, for fruits, $18 fur dairy products, and 0 for grain. A secia! train from Windsor last Sunday morning carried large delegation of Ver-liieiut memiicr of the craft tolteiston to attend the big mass-meeting of the Brother-IicksI of Ijocomotive Engineers which was held in the Boston theatre on that day. A party of alsiut 15, including engineers and their wives, went from Brattleboro.

Meetings were held morning ami the proceedings were of great interest, including un earnest, wholesome nnd inspiring address by Chief Engineer Arthur. The special train made a quick run both ways, reaching Brnttlelsiro on its return ulsiut 11:30 I. M. THE BICYCLE RACES. A hUCCKHSrl'I.

UEIT. HUtW TIMK ON AC- OK A ISlOIl TIIACK. Pill IS) IIV'H WCIMlKllFl't, WOIIK. FLXb ALISJtNT OK A IX TIIK HACEH. The Vermont Wheel club's fourth an-uunl tournament came otf last Tuesday afternoon according to the program previous ly announced.

The races were well ar ranged uud ere a success iu every wnv but one, the only drawlaack being the issjr coudition of the track. The fair committee had promised to have the track and grounds in good order, aud their failure to do this was a great disapiointiiieiit to the nicycle Isiys. rust time wus out or the question uud it is a wonder that no serious accidents occurred. Tlie onlv place decent for riding was ou the extreme inside course, and this resolvee each race into procession. Ihe ruler who drew the pole had a great advantage over his ol'lsjuents, as it was next tei luqurisible to spurt in an ineu or two oi sou sand, ihe tune inaeie was exceedingly goes! under the circumstances.

The ridiug of Chas. Crosby was tho feature of the elay. Ho won every event iu which he started, taking three gold meeluls aud French clock Roland Andrew of also did remarkably well, winning the live mile stau championship nnd the three mile lap race ine Hiieniianee was estimated ut lietween 400 and .100. Music was furuishcsl by the Esteyville band. Following were the oiti- cials of the elay Iteferee, L.

P. Tha) er of West Randolph judges, (I. A. Marshall and Geo. E.

Fox tinier, F. A. Ilubluird. The first race as the one-half mile L. A.

W. state championship with four start ers, in this order: Crosby, Andrew, Reid ond Taft. Crosby Uwk the lead with the others trailing close behind. On the u-jier turn Andrews tried for the lead, but as he wheeled out Reid shot by on the inside and took second place. 1km the home stretch Crosby set a rattling pace and crossed the tape first, half a Iuncth nhe.ul of Iteiel, with Andrews and Taft close be- hinel.

Crosby's tune was 1.82. Ht-id's 1.S2J. Reid, Crosby and Atlierton were the onlv comjietitors feir the three mile club championship. Held got the liest of the start, Crosby son puse.l him, but ot the mile Atlierton spurted in line shutie uud took up the thankless duty of pace-making. The order changed several tunes after this, the lj)s evidently trying to make tlie race interesting to the s.iectutors.

Croby finally on from lien! by a magnificent sjiurt, im -nucleoli iciru. nine ii.ivy. Out of the IU riders entered onlv fle come to time in the two mile handicap. oniou oi npringneiu, was scratch man, W. Haven of Northampton being at oi fso.

Amherst at 1.10 yards, Fred Gule of this nl Reed of South Vernon having the inn. erou allowance of one-fourth mile. Gale lost nis chance of winning by taking Header ut the start and Haven by a side fall on the third half. Smith made a game eiKio mr unci place, out 1. ltM.ri.

dicop wos too great to overcome and ht only secured second place, Reed lieing first and Sanderson third. Smith's tune was o.oy. Hackett of Hinsdale won the 100 professional fiit race as he pleased, Alex under of second. 1 he live mile A. W.

stnt linno.i,.., ship brought out Andrews of Springfield. Hubbard aud Oressoy. This was the mosi uninteresting race of ull, a Andrews had everything his ow way. Cressey dropia-d out on tlie third lap. Andrew' time was in.oot, iiubiuinl IS.

Ihe one mile cuien was by fur the oretti. est contest of the afternoon. Crosby again u.y. mo mie, lonuweu oy smith, Haven unci iiui. jiavon uropped out at the half.

ine iasi mp was a not one lwtween Crosby and Smith. Dow the home stretch they spurted, wheel aud wheel, and it looked as ii me result would lie a hen! l.nt Crosby held his sition and finished half a lellgui (Ulead in Andrew secured the gol I watch liyr.A. Hubbard to the winner of the mree mile lap race, taking every lap and scoring 21 oint, Smith being second with i. ponies una iiuooard last with six, Th, race wo a procession from start to finish and was devoid of interest. Time, 12.02.

Crosby went to the rout for the successive lime in the one mile loenl chain. piouship in U.2. Taf as a good second uim miey uiirei. item anil Atlierton dixM: ped out Isjfore tho finish. Kre.1 Cressey had a walk -over iu the one in no cousoiaiion.

Jill er tie 111- second Ath. erton third and Gale lost. During the races Cunt. F. T.

lt. i.l eiim-j i-io exuiuitloll. In the evening a large number of 'cy elers gathered at tho rooms nf the wheel club, when the distribution uf prizes took place, followed by a pleasant social time. It is expected that next el.e I. club will build a quarter utile track nearer ine Milage, the grouuds also lieing ued for Ull playing.

The island would lie convenient location. Croby' riding wus a wonderful im provement over his last year's work. Ho un me traits of a promising racer and with projier training would make things lively for the fastest amateurs. u. ennui unci i.

jteiu wero in (Ksir 6 nno imruiy uiel llieillselves jus- tie VETERANS' REUNION AT PUTNEY. Thanks to the old soldier and other citizens of ltitney, there is to be a meeting of Wiudhoui county veteran this fall after all, and it is to be held iu that place next Friday afternoon and evening. (lieen. W'uodpostbi busy with the preparations, anil ha secured tlie loan of a Issith, tho tiroiierty of Brattlelioro jwrties, which will Ik) spread near the town hall 500 wocsleu plates have lawn ordered from New York tinman Oough is filling an order for 100 tin cups, and an East Putney farmer tiroi-oses to furnish three bushels of baked li-ans for the occasion. Patriotic speakers aro ex-liected, good musio will be provided, and a general invitation to old soldier, just and relief corps is extended.

Sedgwick post and relief corps, ith Tyler camp S. of the first Regiment baud and invited guests from thi town, to the number of aliout 100 Jiersou, will attend, leaving here at 1:30 r. u. and returning about D. The occasion no doubt ill be an enjoyable one.

A tele-pam lias been received from Gov. Omnia accepting an invitation to tw present. All the former inemlier of Co. 4th are reejuested to meet at the tow hall I utney. ou the day of the reunion Immediately after the parade, to form a coiuiiaiiy reunion.

Accident And bovv to deal with them, and other laluaula uicMloul Inforniatlcm, will hi found ta liV Sir inann's great i'r. aul- Huston, fur a oopy "raws OBITUARY. .11 r. Ilnrilit llaoelliur llolurnntc. Tlie niiimmieemetit of lb" desth i Harriet Gesslhue Holbrook, wife Governor Frederick Holbrcsik, onme eoinmutilly with startling sii.l,.nr,.-.

Wednesday morning. Tin-fai of ness was srari-ely known outside the of her immediate friends, and to th. caused no serious fenr of fatal result i primary cause of her death wns in the nction of the heart, nggrnvnt. I I severe pnin caused undoubted!) mil Intussusception. Her illness was of In tie more than SI hours' duration, and Ii, death took place at 0 o'clejck mi 4 morning, the end coming quietly nml pi fully.

Mrs. Holbrook was tlie second of children of the late Col. Joseph and Sarah Gisslhue, and had passed Inr birthday within a few days, huMiig lioniln 1NI7. Her birthplace was in building now known ns the Amen, House, but her girlb'ssl was ssnt ut t. Goodhue farm, in the house, one of est In town, which stocsl on the site of Asylum farmhouse.

It was in this h.n,.. that her marriage took place on Joinnu III, lHHo, the golden wedding nnim. i lM of ex-Gov. nnd Mrs. Holbrcsik having curred two years ago last Jnnunrv children were Isirn to them -l'i mk-iin now resident of Ikiston.

Win (' York, one! John of IViiMMilvrinia While her life bus been in the sense uu uneventful one, Mrs II A' wnsn woman of strong jiersoiinhH nl uunl executive ability, and of n. ergy and force in the jinn i-' i at ill those nfTuirs which came under her hut I fnithful, pninslnking wife und neiiiei und nn active nnd mcinh. the community. She reeem-d a g. cation in the select school of Mr Sunboi in Biattlelsiro, where she was nry with the lute Gen.

Phelps. Ariel Hunt nnd either well known e-rsons. suppleue ed by a course in the seminar) at (in field, and throughout her life she maintain ed nn active, intelligent interest in all pm, lie and community alfnirs. Her strong ir iise and sturdy, New Englahel tho fitness of things lent an dig uity to her conduct nnd enrringe n- wife of the Chief Executive of the stub nt critical and exciting time in the nut history. She wns one of the oldest living memo, i -of the Congregational church, on the vices of which she hud lieen a life long i unfailing attendant.

In the church an I -ciety she was a working memls'r in the era! sense, und only yieldi-sl the lab.iin.' oar when she believed the good of the i ety required that the younger in. i-sbould mine to the front. She was a loyal, devoted mother to children, all of whom, with Ihcir bi.nui und venerable father, now rise up btiu.i her memory blessed, (if her father'- fnm ily of children only two now remain lr-Wiii. 1'. Cuiie, nml Col Frain Gllni, The funeral sortie- will is held ui 'I ('ongregntiouul church tomorrow after noon at two o'clock.

Iter. os 1 iu. Rev. Josiah Marvin, well known minis ter of the Cniversalist denomination. at the residence of his sister in Meud N.

on Moiidu) afternesin, Sept ll'tli in the )enr of his age. lie was lioni in Alstead, and wns one of twelve children only two of whom, a brother ami sist. r. survive him in addition li a i.m.in.n school education he hail the benefit a course of instruction nt the L'tuU i II academy when Rev. A.

A Minr, now Boston, was priti'-ipnl of the ilistit iti and nt the Norwich (Vt I l'inversit 11. studied theology under Rev. i bouse ut estlllorelnnd, when in 1M1, he also lieguti Ills imnistr) lb settled successively at Stohchum Fitchbtirg, Springfield ill Springfield. St. Paul.

Minn un I Nashua, N. II. His last preaching was ut St. Paul again, but he was pot regnluih settled there. He also served for ash et lerioil us state missionary for Ins cb'tiomiu atiiui iu Michigan.

His was a quic a. tive mind, a genial, earnest dissKitinu and consecrated sjurit. He was a speaker of loer, ond his pastorates, which, except the first three, were all in prominent places, were uniformly successful He was great ly interested in tlie order of Odd Fellows, of which he was a prominent mcmlier. While in Minnesota he was Grand Master of the order in that state and frequently lectured in exisnition of its principle- and advs-ac of its claims His presence anil voice were not utikiiowu to the Odd Fellows of this town, and O.lsis Attended hn fnm.r.,1 in a body. in ioi.i he was married to Mary Ann Harris, daughter of Erastus Harris of Chesterfield.

N. and sister of Mr Fred Harris of this town. She died two ears ago, since which time Mr. Marvin's health has steadily failed Funeral services were helel at the residence of Mr. Fred Harris ou Oak street on Thursday morning.

Re-v T. Illiuan officiating. "His remains were interred in the same lot with those of Mrs Marvin and their two children in Prospect Hill cemetery. SAD DEATH OP A. WARE.

The circumstances attendim- the death r.f Loami A. Ware, last Monday, make it a sad case. It apicnra that Mr. Ware, who was an employe of the Estey Organ company und kept house with his mother in the up-ler iort of J. A.

Church's house, wentt. Gil-on's in West Chesterfield on Sundu. company with Charles Ilrownell and Mike Mack like him men of drinking habits and iu the evening all three started for home together considerably the worse for liquor. Wurewasso neurh helpless that on reaching Willium this side of Farr's ferry, Mr. French wus induced to get out Ins team and bring the party one.

On reaching the village, nlwut tl I Brownell and Mack jumss out and ni. scoiided, leaving Mr. French to take are of the nearly helpless Ware without assist-uiiee On reaching his place of residence on Green street Mr. Ware wus helped nnd made his way into the house, going up the liuck stairs. The sound of a heavy fall soon brought Mr.

am! Mrs. Church t'i the foot of the stairs, where they found Mr Ware iu a bruised and unconscious condition. Dr. Conlnnd was at once summoned by telephone and in a few minutes arrived, but Ware continue.1 uin-onscious iu spite of all efforts Ui bring him to, nnd eliod Monday alwut noon. A jiost mortem examination was held the next day by Dr.

Holton and Conlainl, assisted by Dr. Rice of liming ton, and it was found that death ha 1 re suited from the rupture of a blcssl vessel ou tho brain. There was a se-ar ou the neck where tho deceased wus injured in falling dow stairs, but his skull was in.t fractured. Tho fact thut when Dr I 'on land first arrived no odor of strong dnnk wus perceptible, together with the deser tion of are by his companions, und other circumstances, have given rise t.i suspi cions that there was some foul plav ulsiut the affair, but thus fur no tangible evidenc of this has come to light. Mr.

Ware wasalmt4S years of age, and was the oldest of three sons of the late Corydeu Ware of Wilmington. One of his brothers died in the urmy during tlie war, and the other, Horatio died here vear ago last May, having been an employe of the Household office. The elcccaseei served ill the war us memlicr of the Vermont cavalry regiment, and afterward enlisted iu the regular army am! served several years on the western frontier. He hud a wife and child in Oregon, but thev hod left him, and on the death of bis brother Horn tio he came on here to live ith his mother. He is said lo have lieen good workman and well man when sober, but strong drink was his bane, and ins i sir mother is now left at the age of 78 itlmut a child to lean ukiii.

The remains of tlie dweusoel wero taken to Wilmington on ednesihiy for burial. Mr. uud Mrs Azor Marshall have goncui a visit to Mr. Marshall' old home in Bever ly, Mass. Cashier ().

A. Marshall will go next week to join his wife in New Voik for a few days' vacation. Prof B. I'lalk goes to Baltimore next Mon.bn- duties of his professorship in Johns Hop. jiisi iiiaucne I'arpeuter, uccomjuinled by her mother, Mrs V.

Carpenter, went, to Albany Tucselav gin a tenn-of study in St i school Sherman Howe, of the High school class of 8, has engnged to teach schcsil Ilalif -Erank Ken! of Jack kotivilleis "mwiuI assistant" nt store. -Ex secretary A. M. Iii of the M. has left Columbus.

mid gone to accept an engagement in Los An geles, Col -Mr. and Mrs. II. f. Sl.epard son, who have of late lieen living Jack soiiyillo.

ore to start next Monday f.r Nor ii 'n. "ir daughter. Mrs Burr Taft. reside n.i uii their lesidene.i Ji and Miss Minnie Blnnchard returned Mon day from five rAeeks' visit to Suratogu and vicinity. Mrs.

Alfred Simciiid suffered second shock cf an apoplectic nature on tuesilay, but i.u rallied from it sullic ieutly to be able to ut up. BAND CONCERT. The Fine Regiment ill cert from the Brcsik House Uli-ouy next ednesduy evening with thl piogriim tiranet March OlertUTji-Kaust. KhueWlieUatzehen. ijjel solo IVa-ii Ii mi) I'll, liherij naeli bprague Kuril ft urri from favorite author, i lilumpnu,.