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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19
Peace.

We believe We may confidently an
u"Wncc that the difficulty with Spain
has been satisfactorily settled. and that
the demands of our Government have
been complied with. The efforts of the
rowdic> in both countries To stir up war
have failed, and another victory has
been gained for peace. The terms in
sisted upon 10y the United States fully
satisfy every claim which could he hon
"r;lhly put forward. and Senior Castelar's
Government has acted throughout with
entire good faith. 1t would have i'll be
come u nation which has led the way in
settling international disputes by ar
hltrati"n to have rushed INTO war with
ont even going Though the form of
asking an explanation from the offend
my power. As we have said before.
when I'll" papers are laid before Con
grcS> 1t VIII he found that the State De
partmcnt has conducted the negotiation
III Il taultlcSS spirit with great energy
ana determination, and vet with a
proper degree of courtesy. To Sccrc-
tary Fish the greatest credit is due. and
the Administration will add to the hon
"r which 1t previously won III arranr-
ing Il threatening dispute with England
without IN appeal to arms.-N. Y.
Times
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19

man responsible for them, i'll the de
cided and harsh language that it used ?
We trust the trial will he speedy. We
promise that it shall be thorough.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19
New Text Books.

We have received from the publishers
copies of the new readers and spoilers
adopted by our State Board of Educa
ton. This includes the New American
Reader. five series. and the New Amer
lean Pronouncing Speller. We have not
given these books that thorough ex-
animation that we could wish, but the
most cursory examination must con-
vince any one of the great improvement
made in these books since the men now
in business were school. boys. The
beautiful illustrations must be great
help to the young mind in understand
ing the text. About the only things
used thirty years ago, are the three or
four illustrations which were in the back
part the milk maid with the pail of
milk just tipping off her head the rude
boy up i'll the farmers apple tree, and
Dog Tray" being pounded with broom
sticks and other missiles, for being
caught in bad company. What must
the child of to-day think with Il hand
some illustration on nearly every page :?
An advertisement of these new books
appears in Howard & Rowells column,
and they are for sale at their store.
BY the price list it will be seen that
they are furnished at half price when a
corresponding book OF another series in
use is given i'll exchange and when
purchased as an introduction. with no
book given i'll exchange. they are fur
nished at two-thirds price.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19

MEsSR>. BARNES & BUCK of the
United States Hotel. Boston. have taken
the hotel formerly called the Warwick
House. ON Washington street, next to
Dover, and are retitting the same aud
intend to run it in connection with the
United States. This new house they
name the metropolitan" and A. l..
Fahyan, formerly at the Memphrema-
cog House. will he the manager. The
horse cars from the northern depots
pass the door of the Metropolitan.
Transient board only S2..5O day.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19

1t was the nitcd States Senate that
uhdclto"k to degrade Charles Sumner
ana honor Simon Cameron that re-
fused t" confirm +. Lockwood Hoar and
iinds no objections to George II. Viii
llalnS: that let one Patterson 90 ont
with the Credit Mobilier profits in his
pocket and ii shameful record at his
back, and another Patterson come in
with proofs imdisputablc that he bought
his seat /; that let P"merny 20 Oft after
an open attempt at bribery, without so
much as ccnSure; that never so much
as rchuked Harlan for taking SlO,OOO
hrlbe from great corporation that
rarely gives heed enough to evidence
against its party to investigate. and
never investigates hut to whitewash-
1t was this Senate, under its illustrious
leaders, Conkling. Carpenter. Chandler
and Cameron, which, Yesterday, agreed
unanimously upon Matt Carpenter as
Its tittest presiding otficer.-Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19

>NEw>PAPER SUED.-A well known
railroad builder of Springfield. Mass,
Willis Phelps 10y name, has sued the
Springfield Republican for libel. laying
damages at two hundred thousand dol
lars The suit grew out of articles pub
lished in the late canvass, in which the
Republican charged Phelps with being
a ..pubic robber" and public cor
ruptor, III attempting t" manipulate
the city government 50 as to get a hun
drcd thousand dollars or So more for
building railroad to Longmeadow than
he had offered to build il for. The Re
pubIicdH welcomes the suit. and in its
next issue said:
1t is the only libel Suit ever offered
to il that involved the highest principles
of journalism. and the Only one that it
was il real object to the profession and
the public to have tried. The issue is
il clear, Il broad one; there can hardly
he any dispute about the facts on either
side: the question is. was the Rep"bH-
can justified in exposing the character
of the transactions, and deuouncing the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19

PATRIOTIC. The Governor has re
ccived Il letter from Lieutenant Charles
A. Woodruff. of the Seventh United
States Infantry, protferimg his services
To cTmont in case of IL war with Spain.
Lieutenant Woodruff formerly served
in the Tenth Vermont Regiment. WAS
Wounded four times, commissioned as
First Lieutenant of United States Col
Ored Troops. was graduated at West
Point in I-7I. since which time he has
served with his regiment. He desires
the command of Il battery of light aItil-
lcry. but the present prospect Is that
his services will not he needed immcdi-
ately. Lieutenant Woodrutf's present
station i at Fort Shaw, Montana Terri
tory. Momtpeije'' Freeman.
This Lieutenant Woodruff is son of
Erastu> Woodruff. ESP. of Newark. and
we can scarcely blame him for wanting
to get into IL warmer climate than Mon
tana. even at the risk of smelling burnt
powder.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19
Late News in Brief.

Col. Dent. the father of President
Grants wife. died Monday night. He
WAS in his cighty-ci"lth wear. He had
hrrn i'll tor several months, and. latter
". was confined to his room. On Mon
daN he complained of feeling somewhat
worse. hut no alarming symptoms were
manifested until Il late hour at night,
" hen he grew rapidly worse. and died
at twenty minutes past twelve.
Last Tuesday was the centennial an
nivcr>ary "t the splitting of the tea IN
boston harhol, and the day was oh
served largely throughout the country.
The history of the patriotic deeds of
the men of Boston in Mohawk disguise
Il century ago was told from the plat
form ns well as around the family hearth
stone. and THEN healthS drank i'll the
beverage which they historically inn
mortalized. In Boston the grand cen
tcnnialS at Fancuii Hall and fremont
Temple were carried out most success
fully.
a despatch from London says the
steamer Celebrity is lost, and - person,
drowned.
EN-City Treasurer, David \. Gage
of Chicago, is dctaulter t" the tune {"
more than three hundred thousand dol
lars.
At II O'Clock Tuesday night. Il ferry
boat plying between New York an'
Ilnhnkcm. while crossing the Hudson
river with large load of passengers
cullidcd with an incoming Inman steam
er. and WAS badly smashed. Sever;l
passengers jumped overheard, and it /
thought two were drowned.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-12-19

FELoN>. This item is not about
Tweed, hut has reference to another
kind of felOm-those horrible things
that sometimes come on ones fingers.
Having had one of these diSagreeahle
and painful sores III our household the
past two weeks, and reading i'll the
papers that MIS-. Cook of Greensboro
has ii felnn on each hdnd. we hasten to
give publicity to Il remedy told us 10y
one who has had felons. and who has
also ON several occasions prevented
them from coming again. 1t is this A:
As soon as one feels the singing, prick
ing sensation. as though there was IL
thistle in the flesh, apply Il small blister
right over the spot where the sting is
felt. You will have Il sore finger for Il
day OF two, but no telon. We have
seen the weak I've and hot water cure
tried. hut these are not always etfectu-
al but we are assured 10y our friend
/ that fly blister will head off felon
every time. The remedy is certainly
worth trying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01
Our Personality I'm Dreams.

enc remarkable thing rs to the stuff of our
dreams Is well worth q moments consideration
and 1t Is this: OF whatever stuff we are our
selves made $50 far as regards our moral con-
stitutiOn and character, that isl. of such stuff
our dreams will assuredly partake, in a yery
great degree, whatever may be the forms and
phases-grotesque and ridiculous, awful and
solemn-uyder which they occupy the mind in
sleep. 1t has been frequently asserted by
writer's on this subject that the dreamer is at
one time brave as q lion, at another a mere pol
toOn-at one time knave, at another saint.
ETC., etc. But all such descriptions are false
aud baseless-the moral Individuality under.
goes no change in dreams. The coward psrer
dreams that he Is valiant or the brave ma n that
he Is a coward; the sOrdd man has no generous
emotions in the land of shadows, nor does the
free handed, hosptable man become a churl in
his sleep. The dreams of the miser will never
be visions of self-sacriice and bcnevolence nor
those OF the base, mean, and impure, be q whit
more noble or elevated than the acts Of their
waxing hours. 1t IS true that in dreams we
often acquire wealth, honor, dignity. repata-
ton, or power; in fact, we NAV, and it IL likely
enough that We do, in our dreams realize, as ft
were, in the course of our lives, all those va
riOus lOngings and ambitions which we are
in the habit of picturing to ourselves in those
waking myths and day-dreams i'm which all
men, from the necessities or their nature, in
dulge more or less. But, throughout all these
changes, endless as they are, the moral indi-
vidual remains the same, and cannot. or will
not undergo a moral change. Again, in dreams
we never lose our personal identity: one man
never dreams that he is another man, and
though he may dream that he is two men, or
ten men, or twenty, yet each and all of these
will be none other than himself, multiplied he
knows not how. From these considerations and
others which they have a tendency to suggest
IT would appear that we have ourselves a part
to play in furnishing the stuff of our dreams.
To what extent We are ourselves the creators of
our dream life may perhaps be shown in subse-
quent chaptcrs.-LeiSure Hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01
A Detectives story.

little episode i'm the life of Detective Beck
err, OF Newark reads like novel writer's story
MIR. Becker was ordered to Fort Wayne some
time ago, to work up q cOunterfeiting gang.
After much trouble he succeeded i'm getting ad-
mitted to the gang, under the name Of s.Dutch
jim" The Newark Courier tells the rest:
'.Their headquarters was i'm one of the ceme-
teries, where they met nightly and partially
open grave, in an obscure part Of the burial
ground, contained the spols of not only the re-
suit of the cOunterfeiting, but of a number of
bold robberies committed by the gang. The de-
tective worked his case well, ana was astonished
TO find that several of the gang were werl-known
citizens, and members Of churches. Had the
gang once suspected the true character of
life would have been the forfeit. Different ones
OF the gang were arrested. and always Clutch
JIM was one OF the party ''copped, ;" but he
managed always by the 'sskin of his teeth )"
apparently TO be released At last the final
blow came-the arrest of the five leaders, and
'Dutch JIM was one They were on their way
to commit a burglary in a neighboring town.
Becker had telegraphcd the governme mt officers
to be ready, and when the train reached the de-
boarded by dozen officers A fearful fight oc-
CURED, and as it was not vet time for clutch
Jim" to be publicly known. he entered into the
fight with as much earnestness ito all appear
ances) as did his pals, and he did receive in re-
turn some good blows. The ring-leaders were
captured, and in company with Jim from ,Jer-
sey, were put in cells. When the day Of exam
nation came, "Dutch Jim" was put on the
stand, and when he gave az his occupation,
terfeiters wilted. The evidence was too strong
to be broken, and the gang was secured. Becker
has since returned to Newark, and is now on
the city force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01
Frightful Case of Freezing.

The Preston, MIMI, Republican, of the 18th !,
says: "One Of the most heart-rending cases of
loss Of life by freezing occurred last week about
four miles north Of Granger, in this county.
1t happened that on Tuesday, the day the great
storm began, Mr. Evans, a Welch minister of
the gospel, was away from home with his wife
and two children. On his return in the evening
the storm overlook him, and, it appears, when
within three quartersOf a mile Of his own house,
a snow drift stopped further progress in that
direction. From the indications, Il is supposed
he took his oldest child out of the cutter and
carried it home, after which, taking couple of
blankets, he returned to the cutter, wrapped
his frail wife in the blankets, and, carrying his
babe, started for the house again, but never
reached it. In the violent storm he lost his way,
and, with his babe, persisted. Meanwhile, the
child that had been carried home was waiting
in the cold for the return of its father the anx-
ious wife was waiting in the cutter for her hus-
hand. Who can describe her agony and the lit
tie ones terrible SUSPENSE! 1t is all left to con-
lecture. When the neighbors called at the house
the Saturday following, it had but solitary
little frozen occupant; the wife and mother was
found stiffened corpse; the horse had also sue
cumbed to the raging storm. How and where
the unfortunate husband and babe were found,
we are not definitely informed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01
How % Pluck Poultrv.

That farmer whose poultry Is not troubled
with the gapes, that has not been visited with
the chicken cholera, knows what it Is to prepare
forty or fifty fowls for market since the practice
of scalding has been vetoed by the buyers. /
have known persons on market day to go out
and kill dozen or fifteen at q time and bring
them into room where they would be half
a dozen women and boys pulling few feathers
at time between the thumb and forefinger
to prevent tearing them. Now, for the bene-
fit of such give our plan: Hang the fowl by
the feet by q small cord; then, with a small
knife give one cut across the upper Jaw, oppo-
site the corners of the mouth; after the blood
has stopped running a stream, place the point
Of the knife in the groove in the upper part of
the head, which will cause a quiyering and
twitching of the muscles; now is your time, for
every feather yields as il by magic, and there
is no danger Of tearing the most tender chick
before he attempts to flap, you can have him as
bare as the day he came out of the egg. The
wise ones may discuss the reasons-I only know
the effects.-COr. N. y. Tribune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01

II was In Q prison cell, sad willy CLARK VA,
lyf.g ths!e very weak, and ns mother Va
minded Boy, Who had confess to he cri Hse' Of
PItstng stick Of wood scron TIE track on :
b.idge Of the Boston and Albany railroad, At
Chester. On account of his feeble iuseliect he
vas the object Of mothers double love: ana
she scarcely ever left him, after this great mis-
fortune had come. The SHADOW on his mind was
deepened BY the shadow Of the Jail, and he
sick. He never knew how this change had
come over his life, or why he was pent up in
gloom, and not allowed to 60 out and play.
what It meant, and the foreman Of the jury
said after the trial ''We thought he did it, but
we did not think him responsible for his acts."
there sat the mother holding her bows hand.
while he uttered sobbiRg words between the
spasms Of pain. He remembered, and once or
twice sshrSdderingy alluded to the Chester lock
where he was kept one night and part Of the
next day without covering, fire or food, and
without his mother: The sheriff visited him
there, and at the trial he testified to saying to
the boy in that dark hole, 81 can't let you go,
Willy, for guess you put that stick on the
bridge. If You did It the best thing you can do
times, and according to his testimony at the trial.
it at length induced Willy to confess the deed
There was glad promise of getting out of that
He afterwards told his father that he left the
railroad track above the bridge, and had not
gone on 1t at all. 1t in testimony that, after
the boy reached home, the section master
crossed the bridge, and saw no stick between
the sleepers. Then the mountain wood burning
engine crossed the bridge and the passenger
train followed. 1t was the theory of the defence
that the Obstructing stick fell from the frs.-
mentioned locomotive tender. One or two
progressed experts pronounced the theory un-
tenable, but the circumstance has since hap
pened on the very same bridge. A stick of wood
was seen falling from the engine-tender Of a
recent train on the bridge, and the man who
went back to pick it up found it in precisely
the same position as the stick must have been
In which DOOMED Willy Clark to prison.
But the trial was over and the poor boy was I'm
prison, pining away, yet only complaining be-
cause they would not let him go out to play.
One night he appeared to brighten up VITA
more intelligence than usual, began talking
about the prison, and asked If he might 80 out
and play when he got well. His mother, to hu-
NOR his fancy and still still further cheer him
up, told him he was not in prison then. Willy
seemed pleased, and Immediately said: al did
not put the stick there, mother, bnt Mr.. GAM
NELL the sheriff. said must own it or he
wouldn't ever let me come home again.,
A few minutes after the mother sat in that
dark cell alone, pressing the hand Of her dead
bOy.-X. Louis Republican.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01

ANOTHER DRAD COMMUNIST TURNED CP.-
The other day, case was tried in which it was
stated that q chambermaid in the service Of
Madame FOuld was shot for hiding communist
said to be Col. Brunei, who was i'm command eff
the Place de COncOrde. He was discovered in
a cupboard and shot; the girl was also shot, but
she was not dead when left, and recovered from
the fearful wounds she received. The Rappel
now processes to have received a letter from
Col. Brunei, who Is in London, and who protests
against the charge OF incendiarism brought
against him. The man shot at Madame FOuld's
must have been one of the many unknown that
fell during that bloody period.-Paris Cores
pondence London Echo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01

II is quite easy TO prevent manure from be-
coming frozen during the winter. By proper
management it may be worked over so as to be
made in the best condition on the opening of
spring for use on grass land to be plowed for
corn; or fine enough to harrow into plowed land
To effect this, 1t should be kept piled in a COM
pact heap, in which shape it will ferment, and
maintain sufficient heat to resist the severest
frosts and melt all the snow that may fall upon
it, and so keep moist enough to prevent fire.
fanging. The heap should be turned once or
twice, and the outside coarse manure put into
the center. By this treatment early in spring,
it may be made fine and perfectly well-rotted.-
american A1ricultuvist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01
A Very Hard Case.

:, A case now pending before the tribunal of
Rocroy, in the department of the Ardennes
brings to light as horrible an example Of sever
,ty on the part OF the Prussians, as any that has
been quoted against them by French writer's
avowediy bent on convicting them of Odious
conduct. The report of the case shows that
about two months after the battle Of Sedan, on
the 2sth Of October, 1870, Prussian soldier was
killed by Franc-tireurs in or near the village of
Vaux. The next day q column of the Prussian
landwehr occupied the village, seized the men
who still remained in it and shut them up to
the number Of q, in the church, telling them
that they must choose three from among them
selves to be shot. After waiting IS hours, thew
re-opened the door, and presented to the prison.
ers q helmet containing % numbered pieces of
paper, for them to draw lots with. Three men,
however, offered themselves; or, what il much
more painful, three men were pointed out
whom majority Of their companions had Sc
lected by vote-by universal suffrage-tO un-
dergo the penalty of death. They were taken
out of the church, placed against the wall of the
cemetery, and shot. Their widows now demand
from their survivors compensation at civil law
for the loss they sustained through their hus-
bands not being allowed to take their chance of
escape by drawing lots.-Pau Nall Gazette.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01
RECONCILED.
BIT BEN ZEEy.
(4fer Bret HART.

(Xter Bred Harte.)
San Bright
Oh, Yesi
High rs q kite,
guess
That Powder-miil
Bioved mp to kill.
How old?
Turned twenty,
No gold;
Good deeds plenty,
There's one gate that you
Sot L. gold win pass through.
His wifer
OF course,
Most took her life,
In force
he rain-storm goes by,
lhen sunshine, and eyerythisg'sdry.
Widow?
Not long,
Beauty, Won know,
Tom Strong;
Old friend, hut no tin -
Couldn't come in.
Old Brooks,
Big pile;
Pshawi looksi
Gold wins loves smiles
Grief hangs up her harp,
Humphi widows, they're sharp.
lfaf Contributors Saturday Night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01

THE LATEST STORY ABOUT SroKEs.-About
ten days ago, 1t is said, Stokes received an
anonymous letter in which the writer said that
the paper had been saturated with a prepare
ton of poison, and that il was strong enough to
destroy life by application to the tongue
subsequently, another letter was sent to him
which contained some white powders Carefully
folded in neatly cut white papers. The letter,
signed ga Friend" cOunselled Stokes to keep
up his spirits, and If everything else failed him
these communications to Mr.. Townsend, and
that gentleman turned them over to Warden
Finley. The powders are to be analyzed.-N.
L. Erpresf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01

A CRUEL STEPMOTHER-SadC Case of bshuman
dy.-CaPtain Williams, of the 21st precinct was
informed by citizen yesterday afternoon that
Mrs. Lena Heiser, of No. $40 east It'll street.
was In the habit Of cruelty maltreating her step
child, Kate, In such manner as to excite the
Indignation of the neighbOrs and cali tor police
interference. Officer Ketcham was sent to the
place and arrested the woman. The little girl,
who is but eight years of age, bore marks Of Sc
we're beating, one large welt, left by whip
extending across her face. It is said that she
was also locked up two nights in a dark cellar,
where she was nearly frozen. The pretext for
this punishment was charge that the child had
stolen sOmething.-N r. Post 29fh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-01

MORE ACCIDENTAL SHoorrNG.-Tze Vretim
Likely to Die.-John Murphy called upon his
cousin, Jas. Cavanagh. The latter took pistol
from bureau drawer to make it n present to
Murphy, and while showing him how to use it
the weapon accidently went off, the bali strik-
ing Murphy In the temple, and iniicting q
wound that will undoubtedly prove fatal. He
Was taken to Bellevue Hospital. Cavanarh
went to the ninth precinct station house and
surrendered himself to Capt. McCullough.-N.
Y. Express.