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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

A YANKEE TRlCK.-A week ago four cred
ltors started from Boston in the same train
of cars, for the purpose of attaching the pro-
perty of certain debtor in Pennington in
the state of Maine. lie owed each one Sep
ara,ely, and each were suspicious of the OBJ
ject OF the other, but dared not say a word
about it. SO they rode acquaintances all.
talking upon everything except that which
they had most at heart. When they arrived
at the depot at Pennington, which was three
miles from where the debtor did business,
they found nothing to put EN- over the
road" but solitary cab, toward which they
ali rushed. Three got in and refused admis-
sion to tie fourth, and the cab started.
The fourth ran after and got upon the out
side with the driver. He asked the driver
if he wanted to sell his horse. He replied
that he did not want to-trat he was not
worth more than so, but he would not sell
him for that. He asked HIM if he would
take 800 for him. "les," said he. The
fourth man" quickly paid over the money,
took the reins and backed the cab up to a
bank-slipped it from the harness, tipped 1t
up so that the door could not be opened,
Jumped upon the horses back, and rode off
.lick-a-tv SWITCH" while the "insiders" were
looking out OF the window feeling like sing
ed cats. He rode to a lawyers and got a
writ served and his deDt secure, aud got
back to the hotel just as the outsiders" came
in putting and blowing. The cabman soon
bought back his horse for so The sold
men offered to pay that sum if the fortunate
one, who found property sufficient to pay
his own debt, would not tell OF it in Boston.
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farm. Garden and kitthen.


The Valley Farmer SAYS strict cleanliness
about the roosts and nests will always pre-
vent hens from becoming lousy. The drop
pings under the hens should be removed fire.
quently. the nests often renewed, and air
Stacked lime and ashes scattered around the
floors and roosts. Boxes of dry ashes and
lime should always be kept under cover
where the fowls can have constant access 10
them, that they may wailow in them at plea
sure.
But when they have become lousy, the
roosts should be thoroughly swept ard clean
ed, the straw and litter from the nests en-
tirely removed, and the woodwork and roost
poles OF the house white-washed with fresh
Stacked lime, into which a quantity Of sui
phur or tobscco has been mixed. 4 day or
two before this operation the fowls should
be fed with coarse Germ meal wet with milk
or water, into which a quantity of sui phur
has been mixed. Feed with this several DAYS
it may then be omitted for few days, and
repeated again at intervals Of three or four
days. and continued IN this way until all the
nits have hatched, when the insects will drop
off and leave the fowls. Thorough cleanli-
ness after this will generally ex,erminate
them. Fowls are always poor and un,hriity
and setting hens are seldom successful in
Matching their eggs when annoyed with yer
min, little care is all that is necessary TO
prevent it.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

DETERMINED TO BREAK HIS NECK-Not
long ago soldier in Strasbours aScended
to the top of the Cathedral spire and per
tormed elevated gymnastics. Orders were
Immediately given by the police to prevent
the repetition of any such proceeding. but
soon alter the same man who was formerly a
sailor on board the Belle Poule, elujcd the
vigilance Of the guardians 10y Disgusting him
self, and with several others ascended to the
platform from which the spire rises. When
there, as the guardian refused to open the
stairs leading to the top, the ex-sailor climb
ed up the bar of the lightning conductor, and
SO reached the weathercock again. He then
stripped Oft his disguise, flung it down to the
square and went through a seieet acroba,ic
programme, concluding by standing on his
head on the weathercock. When he descend
ed however he found a commissary of police
in waiting, attended by a file of soldiers, who
took him into custod dy for violating the regu-
latlons of the town.
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\ Grist to Grind.

If time allowed, and additional facts were
desired to add TO the damnable record Of the
investigation, the Covode Committee might
be prottably employed digging out the cor
ruptiOns of the Charleston Convention. Bu.
as this cannot be, We mag take the testimony
of the Douglas men of the Northwest, who.
being penitent and mad, just now, are telling
truths at an apalling rate. 1t appears that
Senator Rice first fixed" the Minnesota del
egation against Douglas, and then clinched
the arrangement by the distribution of fat
jobs. Thus, one A. NJ Fridley. delegate
who is interested in grist mill at Belle
Plains, above st. Paul, got contract to
grind 5000 barrels of flour for the Indian "a
gehcy, al $3.50 barrel, or a total of S2S,
600. "Not bad, is it, all things considered -
writes partner in letter now come to light,
since "only that portion Of the flour intend
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22
TeIegraphing III 1850.

Most Of the telegraphing in our country is
now performed neither with the Morse,
House, Balm, nor any Of the visual recording
telegraphs, but simply by sound. Ten years
ago each line had most complete set Of ap-
paratus. The receiving register was made
with the greatest care,so that the clock work
would move with the greatest perfection, and
the various appliances had to be arranged in
particular form. The operator put the ma
chinery in motion, and he read from a paper
the despatch as 1t was slowly received. AS
he read aloud, a copyist near by wrote it
down with pencil, and when finished it was
handed to the copying clerk, who wrote it
out, put it in an envelope, and dispatched it
by messenger.
Expert telegraphists at length dispensed
with the copying clerks, and soon after the
recording instruments were laid aside The
first operator who received messages by
sound was Mr.. Edward +. Barnes, of New
York City. This is now the daily practice Of
all the leading telegraph stations in America
only the local or interior stations have in use
recording apparatus.
MIR. Shatfaer states in his work that some
years ago, as president Of telegraph line
he made rule forbidding the receiving of
messages by sound, but since then it has
been reversed, and no operator can get EN-.
ployment in first class station unless he can
receive by sound. At the Cincinnati sta.
tions alone there is not single recording in.
strument the mysterious agent speaks
through the wires the pen has given place
to the tongue of the lightning and an exper,
operator can receive two thousand words PEI
hour.
Such is the perfection, and such the pres
ent daily practice in American electric ,ele
graphing and the 40 miles Of wire between
Washington and Baltimore in 1914 have
grown into about 10000 miles in Is years
an almost miraculous achievement.-Artizan
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

COMFORTS OF CHMDREN.-Call not that
man wretched, who, whatever else he suffers
as to pain inflicted, pleasure denied. has a
child for whom he hopes, and on whom he
doats. Poverty may grind him to the dust
obscuri,y may cast its darkest mantle over
him, the song of the gay may lie far from
his own dwelling, his face may be unknown
to his neishbors, and his voice may be un-
needed among those with whom he dwels-
even pain may rack his joints and sleep leave
mis- pillow-but he has gem with which h.
would not part for wealth defying computa
ton, for fame filling worlds ear, for the
luxury of the highest wealth, or for The
sweetest sleep that ever sat upon mortal's
-Coie,rdge.
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$ittlf- or-4othiu9s.
Odds and Ends.

HONOR AND CREDlT.-One of our eminen,
lawyers, of Irish descent, was engaged some
time since, to defend an Irishman who had
been charged with theft. Assuming the pre-
rogative of his position, the counsel i'll
short private interview with his client.
said to him, "Now, Patrick, as l am to de-
!end you'll want you to tell ME frankly wheth-
er you are guilty or not. Did YOU steal the
goods p Faith, then," says Pat. Il sup
pose must tell yez. In troth, | did stale
'em " Then you ought to be ashamed Of
yourself to come here and disgrace your
country by stealing" :" said the honest couu-
sci. "ln troth, sir, maybe ought ; but,
then, if didn't stale, you wouldn't have the
honor ard credit of getting me off ."-Bos-
ton Journal.
ECHoEs-What must be done to conduct
newspaper right Write.
What is necessary to farmer to assis,
him System.
What would give blind man the greatest
delight Light.
What is the best counsel given by JUS
tice Of the peace Peace.
Who commit the greatest denominations ?
Nations.
What is the greatest terri6er Fire.
What is the difference between truth and
eggs? Truth crushed to the earth will rise
again" but eggs won't.
Two persons were once disputing so loud
ly on the subject Of religion, that they a.
woke big dog which had been sleeping on
the hearth before them, and he forthwith
barked most furiously. An old divine pres
ent, who had been quietly slipping his :es
while the disputants were talking, gave tht
dog kick ,and exclaimed Hold your tongue
you silly brute you know no more about il
than they do"
GETTING AN ISvI1ATIoN.-Rev. DR.. s.
had travelled far to preach to a congregation
at -. After the sermon he waited pa
tiently expecting some of the brethren to in
vite him home to dinner. In this he wa
disappointed. One and another departed
until the house was almost as empty as tn
minister's stomach. Summoning resolution
however, he walked up to an elderly gentle
man, and gravely said, "Will you g. hom
with me to-day for dinner, brother?" "Whsr
do you live ?" "About twenty miles iron
this, sir" NO." said the man coloring
"but you must 90 home with me" "Thanl
you-I will, cheerfully." After that time tn
minister was no more troubled in that plac
about dinner.
Paddy Malone went to his priest and ask
ed him, What is me,icle, your rivirence ?
The priest asked him several questions, an
found he had been to the revival meeting
and heard the strange talk. He was might
mad, and telling Paddy to stand out befor
him, he gave him tremendous kick in tn
} rear.
did it hurt you ?" asked the priest
ITO be sure it cid" said Paddy.
"And it would have been mericle if
didn't" replied his reverence; with whic
Paddy walked away-answered, but not sal
isfed.
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.ed for the officers and agents being REQUIRED

ed for the officers and agents being required
to pass inspection, the rest can be of an in
'ferior quality, such as middlings or flour
made from middlings." The palties expect
ed to make $4,000 or $4,000 by the opera
tion but some quarrel having arisen as TO
title to the mill property. private referee
trial was agreed upon, before leading Dem
oerat, to keep the facts in the family. And
the man who now makes them public, over
his own name. and with distinct demand
that MIR. Covode shall send for the witnesses,
is rot BLACK Republican" but none other
than Earle 5. Goodrich, editor of the ST.
Paul Pioneer and Democrat. himself hoary
headed corrup,ioHist of the old school. [now
left out in the cold. as the records of the
Fort Smelling swindle will show. The evi-
dence is entirely satisfactory. and Mr.. Good
rich promises some more of the same Sort
Springfield Republican.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

ANOTHER FROZEN WEII.-The frozen well
at Brandon, VT, has found its parallel in an
other OF the same sort at Austerlitz, n u,
on the premises of Abyah Heath. In the
earl part of the spring ice accumulated in
large quantities on the stones at the sides of
the well, extending upward from the surface
of the water some three or four feet The
we'll has been dug for several years and moth
lng of the Kind has occurred before, except
IN the very coolest weather slight freezing .
over. The ice has been gradually disappear
ing, and but small portion of it now re-
mains, the water being at temperature of
81 >. The well is twenty feet deep. and has
eight feet Of water in it. Other wells in the
vicinity have temperature of SO . to As .
The soil is gravelly. with occasional beds of
clay. In this case the limestone laver is want
ing, to which the refrigeration of the Bran.
don well was attributed.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22
Selsfted 2ottru.
The Mothers Vow.
ST.JOHNSBURY. vt

l saw little sutf' 'rer lie
Upon its cradle bed
Disease had stamped with early blight,
The rose of health had fed.
And bending DER that infants couch
A fair young mother wept;
Her heart flowed out in anguished words
While she her vigil kept.
Oh must my boy, my loved one die
oh must he haste away
And must give him to the tomb
In life's fair opening day l.:
Just as he twines his tiny arms
Around his mothers s neck
On must the ties of new born love
Thus early snap and break
on God in pity spare my boy
Take not my only son;
l cannot live upon the earth
Without my darling one
l cannst give thee up,
My hearts love and delight
How can | give thee to the tomb
And deaths long chserless night
A frenzied gleam lit up her eye
Despair came DER her heart
She caught her darling to her breast
To shield him from Deaths dart.
And as the breath came slow and short;
And edges of blue grew dim.
That M other's voice went up t, God,
And thus she vowed to Him
"Oh God. if in this heart enshrined
The object Of each thought,
I've made thy gift an idol there,
The Giver quite forgot
Forgive the sin, oh spare my child
Henceforth nv aim shall be
To take this idol from it's throne,
And worship wholly thee.
God heard her prayer of agony
In mercy on her smiled;
He gave him back to life once more,
In pity spared her child.
Like some chilled plant the boy revived
The rosebud of her love;
But. Oh remembered she the VOW
She made 10 God above
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

James Wood, formerly of Philadelphia, ,
man of wealth On Chestnut street, who shot
his daughter in 1889 for marrying against
his wishes, escaped the penalty of the law by
his counsel setting up the plea of "moral in
sanity" died in that city recently. The old
man, stricken BY immediate remorse, buried
his daughter in Monument Cemetery in that
city, close by the wall, built him little cot
tage on the outside, and as near as possible
to her grave, and there lived solitary and
heartbroken.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

" Mr.. Levi Fisk of Shelhurne, Mass.
on tuesday of last week, was passing from
Nottingham Center to Jacksonville with a
load OF shing les, and when going down
hull near the latter place one bunch of shin
giles became loose and fell of. frightening the
horses, which ran, pitching Mr.. Fisk between
them, where he hung Tor some time. but
soon lost his hold and tel. to the ground
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

iat". and plastering without being broken at
all. The shingle is of cedar, and of ordina-
ry size and thickness. This incident also
shows the rotary motion of the tornado. The
chimney of Mr.. Anthony's house, weighing
nearly tun, was taken off and deposited in
the garden ten feet from the building, in an
upright position, without single crack to
show that it had been disturbed
! Mr.. Ralston, living three miles west of
Camanche, saw the black column of destruc
ton directly advancing upon his house, and
sent his family to small grove of loousts,
with directions to lie upon the ground and
cling to the trees. While living there they
saw the house taken and carried about twen-
ty rods to the west, and returned to within
few feet of its original position. 1t was then,
as Mr.. K. expresses it, rubbed out, as you
would rub out SNOWFALL between
your hands, Not fragment remains.
At Dewitt, where the course was due east, a
building, with the whole family in it, was
carried from the east to the west side of the
highway, and deposited without even break
ing the crockery.
A singular instance of the power of the
tornado has been furnished by Mr.. Reed, of
the firm of Reed & Harper of Bertram. A
large rock, weighing over twenty tons, about
twelve feet long, eight feet wide, and six feet
thick, was imbedded in the east bank of the
Cedar river. Only about eighteen inches of
this rock projected from the bank of the riv-
, er the rest was firmly planted in the clay
The tornado striking the rock, wrenched it
from its bed, and turning it over, end for end.
until it surmounted the bank, carried it a.
bout one hundred yards
In several instances wagons were torn in
pieces, and the tires of the wheels straight
enrd out perfectly flat \ portion of the
warehouse of Rabinau X Pfautz at Lisbon was
found sixteen miles away, north of Onion
Grove. 1t was recognized by the peculiar
color of the paint. There is the testimony
of four eye-witnesses, living at Bertram who
say that they distinctly saw man in he
very vortex of the tornado as it passed Ber-
tram, high above the tops ofthe ,alest trees.
They followed the track for some distance.
hoping to find the body, but did not. We
have since heard that human body, too mu-
,ilated to permit of recognition, was found
three and half miles from Bertram."
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

REMoRsE.-The Divine Lawgiver will not
allow sin to 90 unpunished, and though a
criminal may eude the sentence OF human
tribunals, sure and terrible death fellow
him. Conscience is often transformed into a
nudge more to be dreaded than any human
court. One of our exchanges has the fol-
lowing:
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

q The Burlington Times is responsible
for the following: :.
"The Bell and Everett ticket is looking
up! AT present i, is tolerably sure Of three
States the state of Hope, the state OF Coi-
lapse and the state Of Despair. This isn't
had for a beginning. A final triumph Is
looked for, if the party should not remove
INTO the state Of Suspended Animation be-
tore election"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

Geo. L. Il Geo. w. CAHOON,
ATTORNEYS K COUNSELLORS Al LAW
AND SOLICITORS IN CHAACERi,
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS, LfNDoN' VI.
Ley will attend Courts in Caledonia, Orleans
~
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MILLER A. TRULL.
QUIMBY 4 OVITT,

tAkRIAGE NANUFACTURERS. Open and Top
a!Ha.- Oh had Also, all kiuds OF Carriages made
Ivu
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IRA NI.lI

Manufacturers and Dealers IN
~ Is WOODEN, GLASS AND TIN AXE
NrrIu
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HARRIS LY DIS.

ps- e al kinds OF DRY GOODS, BOOTS SHOES
tr.r.,i.. p,,,t. ,uI, xc &c "Iy
P,4. A,1, C,ru.r Vermont.
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]. ID. CT. A II IA

I'm BINDER Bradford. w.
80 r'1.s of all kinds, from superior Paper-maae
.Ider, aud ruled u any pstteTn
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j 6 AIfLIN a. CO,
CLOTHING, DRY GOODS GROCERIES
Iuuenhuryh Vermont.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22

PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS
= 80 CITY WHARF, BOSTON.
a. X. b. Co.. would call the special attention OF
th'r.t 10 the tact that they conhne themselves eA-
- u tONnis ssiu business.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-06-22
DICKERNAN. RARNEY & co.,

i3i and l2S Milk street, Boston.
i.'t tGrer- and holesae Dealers In Fluid ana Gam
- ns. Soaps. Candles, Kerosene Oil cons'ahty
80 'i;' All ;uaiIyW 2rrantsd.
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LYNDON HOUSE, Lyndon, Vt.
DARLING. Propris or. Pa,rois Of he House con-
'..y the DepO,, nee. Hornes ana 1atflaSeo
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-12-01
o1rrrr..rn. NOV. 26. 1860.

Friend Telegr0ph--The election Is past The
summer is over, and our country is saved, s..
Carolina to the contrary, notwithstanding. We
feel the effects Of the bluster Of this little Hre-
eating state TO some extent IN our city. South.
eru and western banks are Just now IN bad re.
pute among our bankers. Illinois, Wisconsin,
aud Virginia money is selling from fifteen to
twenty per cent. discount. There is quite pan
ic, especially among small dealers, who refuse
all paper currency, except bills on the State
Bank Of Ohio. Brokers without doubt will
reap rich harvest before this panic subsidies,
as subside It doubtless will within few weeks
at most.
The Republicans have had two grand jollid.
cations over the results Of the last election. On
both occasions the city was brilliantly illuminat-
ed, the Wide Awakes were out from the differ
ent wards of the city, and also several compan-
les from surrounding towns. The Cleveland
regiment Of Wide-A Awakes number some seven
hundred, are we'll drilled, and make fine dis.
play on parade.
The side wheel steamer City Of Cleveland
came into port last night from Detroit after o
very rough passage Of forty eight hours in dura.
ton. The same distance is traveIsed in fail
weather by the Cleveland and Detroit boats in
ten or twelve hours. The captain reports the
gale as terrific. Over thirty thousand dollars
worth of freight was thrown overheard in the
passage. The sea swept over her decks, freez
ing 10 the intense cold wherever it struck. Cab
10 doors we're broken in, costly furniture demol
ished mirrors smashed, stoves and lamps thrown
down, and her elegantly furnished cabins soor
presented q scene of confusion and ruin. Thc
boat was several times almost given up as lost
but her officers and crew worked nobly for he
preservation, and at last succeeded in bringing
her into port, minus her guards, wheel houses
and one Of her wheels.
Our harbor has been the scene OF severO
marine disaster this fall. A large schooner i
attempting to enter, became entanged with tn
light located on the government pel
lifted it from its foundations, aud cody dragge
it into the lake. The Michigan Central r.
line have withdrawn their boats, and navigatio
is considered as good as closed for the season.
JOIN B. GouGH, the great temperance lectuI
er, has been engaged, and will deliver two lee
turers before the Y. M. c. A., at the Acaden
Of Music next Monday and Tuesday evenings
Bayard Taylor lectured last week before th
Mercantile Library Association.
The course of lectures for this season befor
both associations, promise to be of more tina
usual interest, as far as talent is concerned.
Yours, @. W. C.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-12-01

THE "HorsPUR" cooking stove, an illustration
Of which ellis so large place in our outside
this week, has been introduced into this place
by Mr.. T. M'GUIRE, from the foundry of VosE
& Co., Albany. The claims set up for it, and
the liberality Of the proprietors in an honorable
effort to bring those claims before the public,
induced us to give it something more than q
passing notice, and we feel constrained to ad.
NIT, in our own judgment, fair title to all that
is claimed for it, and this being corroborated
by the experience Of those who have adopted
It, TO keep peace in the family, we found it
necessary to order one. The strains of enthu-
siasm that have been coming up from our culi-
nary department ever since, have made us one
of the happiest of mnrtals. The thing almost
keeps house ITSELF and encourages the idea, that
when we fairly get the disadvantage of it, we
shall be enabled to get along tolerably well
without those disturbers Of our peace, the butch.
er, the baker, and the grocer. A great institu'
ton, that "HotspuFr"