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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-17

IMPORTANT PENSION BILL. - The
senate passed the bill increasing twenty
Der cent. the pensions of soldiers and
sailors who lost in the var for the sup
preston of the rebellion. both eyes or
both hands. both feet. OF one hand and
one foot. 81 H. to Ice imcalacitatcd for
caring for themselves. The amount
which this bill will annually take from
the treasury will he Sthnl.@l. 1t has
received the earnest support of the
Grand Army of the Republic and other
soldiers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-17
DEATH OF +. BrCHANAN READ.

DEATH OF L. BUCHANAN READ.
Thomas Buchanan Read the poet. paint
Ell and sculptor. died ut the Aston
House. Saturday night in the fifty first
year of his age. For several wears past.
Mr.. Read has been in feeble health. re-
Siding i'll Europe, where he WAS highly
esteemed us one of the leading Amcri-
can poets. and received many marks of
honor He began the study of sculp-
tire at the age of fourteen. and WAS 4
pupil of ClcNcngcr. but he soon turned
Ills attention to painting. His most
notable pictures We're .'Sheridan 's;Rite"
and ''L"ngtcll"w'S Children" His best
known roetiral production was his
"slrndan'S Ride" the most popular
ami spirited poem of the war. founded
on the same incident in the experience
OF the Mon General that gave inSpra-
ton for the painting. His longest poem
was his ''Wagoner of the Alleghaiies."
but the most beautiful work of his pen
was The Closing Scene" IL work of
which the Westminster Review spoke
lis the finest poem in the language writ
ten 10y an American.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-17

HE DOCToR> ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
The twenty-third annual session of
the American Medical Association. was
held i'll Philadelphia, last week. Among
the resolutions adopted was one to dis
courage the use of alcohol for stimu-
lants i'll their remedies, and another
recommending that all bottles contain
ing poison. he not only labelled '.pois-
on, but made rough ON one side, SO as
to indicate their poisonous contents to
the touch, and also labelled with the
most ready and efficient antidote. The
first named resolution is one which
should be needed by every member of
the profession. Many habitual drunk
ards trace the first awakening of the
appetite for strong drink to the physi
clans prescription.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-17

We see il stated that in several
towns IN this state. farmers have had to
draw water for nearly Il year and II half
for their cattle. often bringing it from IL
distance of over Il mile. 1t is Il fact
that we have had but very little rain
all through last year and this spring ::
III spite of the many predictions that
We were To have great treShrtS when
the winter broke up, the ground is very
airy and vegetation quite backward
Mess we have abundant showers soon.
the grass crop is likely to he light. and
the season very dry. \ pouring rain
would he welcome, both to man and
beast. 49, Boston Netrs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-17

\ TwENTY-Two l'OTNp IEnTT.
The PlattShurg Republican says that ON
the 9Th inst. Mrs. VIM. {. Rhodes
caught Il salmon trout in Chazy Lake.
weighing tTeHty-trO Po"Hts ant one
0nncc. Mrs. X. WAS about two miles
above Mcadcr'> Hotel when she hooked
the monster. and having no g;Iti-ho"k
in her boat WAS Obliged to tow him all
til" way tn Mcadcr'>. Ca coming with
in hailimg distance of the hotel. she
shouted t" the people on the piazza. t"
come ont with gatt hooks and help her
t" land her fish. No landing hook was
to br found. hut the Meadcr Boys seized
such implements a> Were within reach.
showed off in two boats. and met her Il
few rods from shore. just as the mon
~tcr. fish. finding himself in shallow
water. WAS beginning to lash its surface
into foam and springimg from their
boats into the water. they seized him
10y the gill>. and the expert angler had
the satisfaction of seeing her prize safely
landed on McadrrS lawn after an cNclt-
ing fight of tw" hours.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-17

GRAY W. BLUE.-The Louisville
Courier exultingly boasts that 1.-The bows
who wore the gray jackets" are all for
Horace Greeley" The "boys who wore
the blue" will meet them under the lead
OF Grant, or vanquish them as they did
on the fields of the rebellion. - Boston
,jOundl
a little girl, daughter of Charles Z.
bennett of ColcbrOok, n. H., while play
ing with beans on Tuesday last. got
two OF them into her nose SO far that it
required il physician and the influence
OF ether to save Il fatal result.
The latest firearms murder, just in
fun, happened i'll Fremont Center, Sui
Ivan County, n. Y, Sunday evening.
where young man named Milton
Crandall pointed an old shotgun at his
sister, and pulled the trigger. killing
her instantly. Such things will happen
till pointing firearms at person is
made state prison offense.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-17

A MAGNIFICENT GIFT.-Ihe other
day, Mr.. Samuel A. Hitchcock of Brim-
field. Mass. intimated to the Treasurer
of Amherst College and of Phillips
Academy at Audover, that he would
ike to see them and when they obeyed
the summons, MI. Hitchcock gave Sloo.-
900 to the money-keeper of the College
and S5O. 900 to the representative OF the
school. He had before given S15,OoO
to Amherst and ii like sum to Andover:
besides establishing protesSor>hip of
Hebrew in the Theological Seminary
and protrssorship of Natural Thc"lo-
" in the College, to which must he
added the endowment of six scholar
ships for undergraduates. And, what
is better. Mr.. Hitchcock has done all
this in his lifetime.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-05-17

ONGREss.-COngress accomplished
very little of Importance last week.
The tariff has been under discussion,
but is by no means decided, and proha-
bly, will not he adjusted during the
present session. In the Senate the post
office appropriation bill has passed:
doubling the subsidy of the Pacific Mail
company for the China service, but the
latter was struck out i'll the House as
was an amendment abolishing the
tranking privilege. Another attempt
has been made to pass the general am
ncSty bill, but Senator Sumner persisted
in attaching to it his civil rights bill,
and it was again lost by the casting vote
of the vice president. The House has
been holding evening sessions and has
passed Il bill giving an additional rep
resentative in congress to Vermont.
New Hampshire and several other
states.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
How a President is Elected.

Each of the United States is entitled to
as many electors as it has Senators and Re-
representatives. in Congress. In each State
the electors are chosen by plurality vote.
That is, if there are three sets of cleo tors
voted for, the set having the highest num-
Der of votes is chosen. But candidate
for President, in order to be successful,
must have total majority of electors
The electoral college, as now constituted,
consists of 317. Therefore, 159 are neces.
sary for choice. If there be three candi-
dates for President and neither of them re-
ceives majority of the electoral college,
then there is no choice, and the election
goes to the House of Representatives
The House must confne their choice to
the three highest candidates voted for by
the electors The Representatives vote by
States, and each State has but one vote :;
so that the power of Delaware is as great as
that of New York. Each State has one
vote. The majority ofthe State delegation
casts its vote. A candidate, to be successful,
must receive a majority of all the States,
or nineteen States. If the delegation is
divided, the vote of the State cannot be
counted, and is therefore lost. AS the pres i.
ent House is constituted-and it is upon
this House the election will devolve in the
event there is no election by the people
nominally the Republicans hold twenty
States; but its majority in ten of these it
holds by one single vote. Should there be
a third candidate there would be no choice
found in two of these ten States.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
A DYING Nation.

The accounts of the famine in Persia,
which continue to arrive in greater detail,
bid fair to treat the world to the spectacle
of q calamity the like of which has not been
witnessed in historic times ut least-the
sudden extinction of a race for want of
food. This has been the fate of the great
states which once filled the valley of the
Euphrates, and it is fate which has for
centuries been threatening some modern
states-Spain for example. Man has strip
ped the soil of trees the absence of trees
has brought droughts; has slowly dimin-
ished the productive powers of the ground
and finally destroyed them the population
in the meantime dwindling in numbers and
vitality. Spain had forty millions of PEG
pie in the time of the Romans, and flowed
with milk and honey; it is now an arid
region, only half of it under cultivation,
with only sixteen million of inhabitants,
and if modern science had not come to its
aid would probably go the way of Baby
Ion. Persia was one of the most powerful
states of antiquity, and even in the four
teenth century was able to support the
army of Tamerlane which marched without
commissariat or baggage, during bloody
contest. 1t is now almost wilderness,
with population of only two millions
about half of them nomads, which is rap
idly perishing from famine brought on by
drought. The worst of it is that, owing
to the absence of either common roads or
railroads, it seems to be impossible for the
charity of the world to reach the sufferers,
so that there is really strong prospect of
total depopulation of the country.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
Josh Billings Wisdom.

The genuine Christians are the laffina
ones; the man who has haz tew watch his
morality all the time for fear it will xix VI
its heels, IL full ov the DEVILS oats.
A good-natured man haz got one oy
them kind of souls that will grow emmy
thing that IL planted in it, good, bad OF
indifferent.
Human happiness il such an eazy, sim.
| pie thing, that those who hav the most ov
it kno it the least.
| Thare are men in this world whom flat
terry makes stronger, bekause it makes them
more kareful; but sutch men are skarse
Yu kant learn pigeon to fiji slo, nor q
snail tew trot fast.
Suckcess iz as hard to define az falling
oph from log; man alwuss kan tell ex-
ackly how he did it.
Thare IL no person worth being jealous
ov who il willing tew he the kause of it.
Wise men hav but phew confidants, and
cunning ones none.
Heaven IL ever kind tew us she puts
our humps on our backs, so that we kant
see them.
Hunting for an honest man is just about
az mulch like work az trieing tew trace out
kat's pedigree.
Take the misery out ov things and they
lose two-thirds of their attrackshun.
When a man il thoroughly lazy he IL
good for nothing only few Shoot at.
Tharc would be but mighty phew Sc
krets in this world if folks would tend tew
their own dizziness.
Yu may make mistake in q mans ka.
pacity, but yu kant in his vanity.
Natur never half finishes job nor I'M
derlets kontrakt.
Hope is flatterer-she cheats every
body alike, but after all il the best friend
we have got.
Everybody seems to dispize hippokrit
God, man and the devil.
Knowledg il power no doubt, but it il
not always virtew-there are sum people
who only edukate their vices
Every man should kno sumthing ov law
If he knows enuff few keep out ov it he
IL pretty good lawyer.
Waiting for ded mans shoes IL Just az
mean az stealing the shoes before the man
dies.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
Our Martha.

A kind of second mother is our Martha :;
she not only enters into motherly counsels
as to the best way of turning the excepting
room" carpet and Bob's worn out pants
of making Kitty's new frock and Tommy's
pinafore, but needles and threads and scis-
sors are the implements in her hands by
which share of her work is accomplished.
We talk of an associate editor; Martha is
an associate mother, and she is also me-
diator between parental authority and .ju-
venile trangressors. Her ear is always
open to the unhoard-of pranks and sly ca
pers of Bob and Ned; and Martha never
tells but somehow the penalty is made
easy after the secret is committed to her
keeping.
How often it happens couple begin
life in small way, at the very bottom of
the ladder, and the oldest daughter must
help bear the burdens that grow lighter
as they mount upward toward indepen-
dence, burdens that the younger children
never know anything about. AS that an
cient Martha, acting the part of an older
sister and mother combined, in her home,
near the mount of Olives, was numbered
with many cares and much serving, 50 are
our modern Marthas-our oldest daughters
of the household. We say, God bless them,
wherever they are. We pity the home
that has no Martha in it, the mother who
has no oldest daughter to lift her burdens
and enter into her counsels. We pity the
little Tommy who has no big sister to
build cob houses for him when he is tired
and fretty and don't want to go to bed the
mischievous Bob who has no "go- between"
when he expects a sharp rebuke; even
Tabby, the house-cat, feels her CHEEKY pre-
sence as she purrs contentedly by her side
while she busily stitches away ON Ned's
new handkerchief, or mends his torn kite
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
Porte CraYOn in Virginia.

Porte Crayon is up in the highlands OF
Pendleton county, Virginia, making sketch
es for Harper's Magazine. There are four
in the party, and they have their guns and
dogs along and are having high old time
with the mountaineers of that section.-
Porte describes Squire Adam Kari, an old
gentleman with whom he and his party
stopped awhile. Old Adam is worth some
two thousand acres of rocks and forest and
keeps five tlint-lock rifles behind his cham
Der door. He's a rough old pattern but
true as steel. When the 'young minister
preached his first sermon in that neighbor-
hood, old Adam took him home with him,
and that Sunday night when the young
preacher went in to supper, (pretty hungry
there was nothing but an old oak table
without any cloth or plates or knives, and
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
The Valley of Death.

The Valley of Death, spot almost as
terrible as the prophets valley of dry bones,
lies Just north of the old Mormon road to
California, region 80 miles long by 80
broad and surrounded, except at two
points, by inaccessible mountains. 1t is
totally devoid of water and vegetation,
and the shadow of bird or wild beast new
er darkens its white glaring sands. The
Kansas Pacific Railroad engineers discov-
cred it, and also some papers which show
the fate of the "lost Montgomery train"
which went south from Salt Lake in 1850,
guided by Mormon. When near Deaths
Valley, some came to the conclusion that
the Mormon knew nothing about the coun-
try, so they appointed one of their number
leader, and broke off from the party.
The leader turned due west; so with the
people and wagons and flocks he travelled
three days, and then descended into the
broad valley whose treachcrous mirage
promised water. They reached the centre,
but only the white sand, bounded by
scorching peaks met their gaze. Around
the valley they wandered, and one by one
the men died, and the painting focks
stretched themselves in death under the
hot sun. Then the children, crying for
water, died at their mothers breasts, and
with swollen tongues and burning vitals
the mothers followed. Wagon after wagon
was abandoned, and strong men tottered,
and raved and died. After weeks wan
dering, dozen survivors found some water
in the hollow of a rock in the mountain.
1t lasted but short time, when all perish
ed but two, who escaped out of the valley
and followed the trail of their former COM
panions. Eighty-seven families with hun
dreds of animals persisted here, and now,
after % years, the wagons stand still com
plete, the iron work and tires are bright,
and the shriveled skeletons lie side by side.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12

a large wooden bowl of "frmenty" stood
ON the middle of the table. A tallow can
die famed and smoked the melancholy
scene. Old Adam said grace, and seizing
his wooden spoon, dipped into the bowl,
telling the Young preacher to "pitch in,"
that they Jared "middlin' rough" but he
reckoned young Christian could stand
that" The minister did his best. But the
next morning when he came down to break
fast, there to his surprise, was a splendid
table loaded with fried chicken, eggs, hot
cakes, honey, maple-molasses, and every
thing nice and tempting, and snow white
table cloth with silverware in abundance.
Old Adam skinned his eye at the young
preacher, and said, young man, youU do.
Toler'ble rough fare last night, but l
thought I'd see if you wasn't one of these
proud, stuck-up young fellers. You'll d."
And he did do.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
Gems of Thought.

A day ofidleness tires more than a week
of work.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with
the mind.
Genius has limits; virtue has none, every
one pure and good can become purer and
better still.
A promise should be given with caution
and kept with care. 1t should be made
with the heart and remembered by the
head.
There are men who by consulting only
their own iuclinations, have forgotten that
others have claim to the same Difference.
Truthfulness is corner stone in charac-
ter; and if it be not firmly laid in youth,
there will always be weak spot in the
foundation.
Memory is a patient camel bearing huge
burdens over life's sandy desert. Intui-
ton is a bird of paradise, drinking in the
aroma of celestial flowers.
Every human creature is sensible to some
infrmities of temper, which it should be
his care to correct and subdue, particular
ly in the early period of life.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
Poe t ic al.
The Old Mans Reverie.
F. w. B A K E r


l can't make out, for the life of me, what als
my eyes tonight
AS clear as ever, the hills and fields stand out
in the sunset light.
But, whether look this way or that comes up
different scene,
As if another picture had somehow slipped
tween
Her fathers apple orchard, and we two loiter-
ing there.
shouldn't have stayed minute hadn't one
I'd only just come over to try to borrow q
plough;
But the sight of her put my hurry right out of
my head somehow.
mind the apple blossoms how thick they We're
that spring!
Yes, and I'm likely to mind them as long as any
thing.
Some of the boughs, l remember, were Just a
sight to see;
The buds were as red as roses all over the top of
the tree.
held the branch while she stripped it, till,
shaken out of place,
A bee from one of the broken flowers came fly
ing into her face
She screamed, and II kissed her, Just for cure,
you know.
And she blushed till her checks were pinkcr
than the pinkcst applcblow.
And so-and so-we were married before the
spring came round again;
Under this roof we lived together five happy
years, and then
Well, well, she never was wrinkled, like me,
and old and gray;
think of her always fresh and fair, Just as she
looked that day.
I've somehow taken notion that the first thing
l shall see,
When open my eyes in another world, will be
that red blOomcd tree
The burden of years will drop away, and young
and strong again.
shall meet her under the orchard boughs just
as | met her then.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12

NOT INA pompous, well-dresscd per-
son entered bank one day, and address
ing the teller, who was something of a wag,
inquired, Is the Cashier in ?"
mo, sir,' was the reply.
"Well, am dealing in pens, supply
ing the New England banks pretty largely,
and | suppose it will be proper for me to
deal with the cashier"
II suppose it WILL" said the teller.
Every well; will wait"
After sitting in a chair, with which the
teller politely furnished him, for an hour
and half, the pen-pedler asked, "How
soon do you think the cashier will be
in 2"
"Well, don't know exactly" said the
waggish teller; "but expect him in about
eight weeks. He has gone to Lake Supe
rior and told me he thought he should be
back in that time"
Pedler concluded not to wait.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12

"A man who pretended to have seen a
ghost was asked what the ghost said to
him. "How could understand" replied
the narrator, what he said2 l am not
skilled in any of the dead languages"
"A pretty, rich, young widow was re-
garding herself lately at a mirror in her
chamber, while for the first time trying on
the widows cap. Behold, she exclaimed,
the real cap of liberty"
"A Hudson milkman was overheard
singing to his fellow craftsmen, eyes,
We'll gather at the river" He meant more
than he said.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12

"A prisoner arraigned before recorder
in New Orleans was told l really don't
know whether had better fine you one or
ten dollars, what's your idea about it p
Prisoner" Your honor, all have to plead
is that you will not set down aught in
malice
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-07-12
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