St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-08-29
Letter from Philadelphia.
PHILA. AmC. 25th. I-13.


knoWlcdgcd head of the Philadclphi.
bar. Although past three score year,
and ten, he was president of the Con.
>titutional Convention which opened
its session in this city last spring. to re-
wise our State Constitution but owing
to i'll health his seat was vacant some
time before the Convention vacated fol
the summer months. At one time h,
was secretary of the Treasury of tn,
United States. and in consequence ot
his valued services the Treasury de
paItmcmt at Washington was closed on
Thursday, the day OF his funeral. He
was also at another time Attorney Gen
for Il number of Years was Il member OF
the City Council, and five of those
years he acted H. president of Select
Council. He began lis career when Il
large port of the city property now
covered with buildings. WAS rich farm
/ ing lands hut his great mind grew and
lstii'N''i as l''~A slN AilN III 'lii'll
/ " olkiug for the good of others until
the hours of his death, we have lost
another valuable life tlIat scorncd idle
ness and when death opened the door
it closed after IL much loved citizen.
carving a golden shcaf and crowned
with the white hairs Of seventy five
well spent Years.
/ In addition to the Diplomas of Hon
or granted at the Vienna Exposition, to
MesSrS VIM. sellers * Co. for machine
/ cry. and Samuel :. White for dental
products. medals of merit have since
/ been awarded to Henry Bower for
drugs: Henry G. Lea for works on sci
cicc: DuVal \ Hunter for chromns ::
Charles Abby y son dentistry: and
Thcodorc Beng for brewing in>tru-
mcmts. all of which are residents of
Philadelphia. The medals are of five
kinds. namely those for lin" arts. prog
rc~S, merit, taste and Workmanship.
They are Stamped III bronze. ami are
two and three quarters inches in diam
cttr. All iIvr medals bear on the OBJ
vcI>c. a face. the portrait of the En-
Prr"r with tlir inscription III German.
Franz Joseph l., Kaiser Won Oc>tcr-
reich. kocimg Won UnganI : meaning
Francis Joseph l.. Emperor of AUSTRIA
Ming of BoilcmII. &c.. Apostolic King
at Hungary. The reverse side of the
metals contain cmhlcm- and artistic
designs, according To the respective
GLASSES. They also contain Inscriptions
in German of which the following on
the medal of merit Will serve for an cX-
ample: "Wcit -AusteIling 1913 Wien.
Fucr : rr,iicn>tr." the pure ENGLISH be
iug. Universal Exhibition 1873 in vi
emma. For merit.
The tulloning interesting incident is
said 10 have actually taken place in
Vienna. The three PHILADELPHIA Com
mis-ioncrs. c. IL. I. Coils. John l..
Hill. and VIM. l.. ElkimS. were one day
c>''"itin@ SOME ladies through the EN-
position building, when business COM
PEELED them to rclimqui>h THEN charge
for Il sh"It time. The ladies being left
alone naturally continued their exam
nation of the many hcautitul things.
while Il German Baron. by the name of
FlUnk>. watched them narrowly very
much t" the disgust Of the far visitors.
! he German seeing them walking slow
~ around tn" avenues, passing and re-
passing HIM, cHdcaVOrcd to make
HIendN 10y staring in a very imSulcmt
manner; he then bowed. and finding
II" notice NaH taken of even that, final
y approached ANA spoke t" one of them
Ill "'lh'ah just as the three commits
Ni"L'ls i"Ihcd thc party. When one OF
'"em t"i" Fer hU>tand Of the insult.
'rhcfhl coils Immediately stepped up
I" 'ie baron, and with true Yankee
NFllU' slapped MN III the lace. (Which
ny Inc way WAS the most appropriate
'h'hS That could be done under the
'h'"hl>'ahcrS.) he act produced great
excitement, amt resulted III the arrest "t
inc 'hi'r fhIIadrlphIdn> and the Dutch
"l'H',it' "H the Guards. The next day
the baron sent challenge to the Cen
''"I' 'i'''h ""N OF course accepted, the
Weapons "N'"' t" be niles at forty pa
''N' Inc baron p">llNcly refused to
u>c amy such weapons on the ground of
WI I'M pro-
friends and General Cali. ,,,., ana,