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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-11-19
Mothers, Don't Brighten your Children

We hayc more than once seen Il wo-
man into whose hands i child had been
given to love and to rear. who never
even once imagined that when she
screamed at the light of IL vcntuIcsOre
mouse. nr the graceful spinning down of
il spider. or Il flash of lightning. that
she 81 shocked the nerves of her child
and 50 deeply thrilled them. that they
were never fully at peace again. The
scream that she uttcIS may leave no
visible wound in the body of her little
one, but the hurt is none the less severe.
and the pail, will return again and again
to il whenever ii sees the small and
very likely harmless insect which sug-
"c>tcd to its mother the terror which
she transferred to her child. We have
seen Il mother gather her children into
Il bed at midday and silently Ice trcm-
bling with dread of IL lightning flash.
until She has made the Young lives of
her family Il burden Ia them whenever
there Is promise of Il summer storm.
OF couI>, there Is danger during an
electric disturbance. hut Is it very re
mote. aid the number of those who
contract Il fatal illness through careless
ness when thrir clothing has got wet III
Il peaceful rain is ten times :iS great as
of those killed 10y lightning. and Vet Il
mother l. often very negligent of this
rNpo>urc. She may tell her children
that the center of the room. with the
windows and doors closed. If there he
no chimney i'll the apartment. is Il safer
pllc" than a doorway or AN open case
mcnt but she need not trightcm them
10y manifest timidity. The time of real
danger she should make one of very
serious Use to her little ones 10y show
ing them the value oi cool clf-poS>es-
sion. prompt action. OF heroic patience.
Ignorant fears are more likely to he
prlprtuatcd III ii child 10y a thoughtlc>s
mother than is Il discreet know ledge of
how To avoid danger. \ child that will
climb to the roofs top OF To the caves
edge will often fear To pass through Il
room alone if it bc told that Il mouse is
III it. and this little gray mischief was
never known to attack any body. y
Worm is unpleasant /" look upon, but it
l. not an active enemy To nIank ind. and
il should only bc avoided in the pres
rucr of Il child uSt aS We would avoid
contact with any other diSaUrceablr oh
jrct. There are children who live in
such perpetual dread of some of the
most innocent of little creatures. that
their health Is often seriously impaired.
and their >lumhcr> are frequently Il
misery and IN injury to them. from the
appalling dreams which are the con
sequences of being frightened 10y Il silly
mother. The really earnest and tender
woman will inform herself and her chld
of all the real dangers that are likely
to surround il. and she will wisely
guard it and show it how and when to
guard itself. The Net,opoiii0n.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-11-19

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European Hotel.)
G3:s 4 G2j WASHINGTO> STREET RosToN
(Opp"Sitc Giob" Theatre)
\ new II"us, with Elevator and all m"dcrn aI,-
p"inim"ntS.
Rooms 81 per 'l:i, and upwards.
Good Restaurant al m"drratr prices.
SANBORN \ HARDY
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-11-19
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
The Blind Member Of Parliament !.

A London correspondent of the Chi
cago Journal writes: You have heard q
good deal about Prof. Fawcett, the blind
Member of Parliament, who would, if
am not mistaken, were it not for his
physical disability, be the coming man"
OF the Liberal party; and am not sure
but he will be as it is, for his blindness
appears to prove very little of drawback to
him. He has an excellent wife, who sees
for him all that is, perhaps, necessary to
be seen. His duties as a professor at
Cambridge are evidently performed quite
as we'll as they would be if he was not
blind. In recent admirable speech at q
meeting Of the Science and Art Depart
ment at Kcnsington he made the first al
fusion have ever known him to make to
his loss of sight. 1t was, he said, nearly
twenty years since he had looked on q
work of art, and he should never again
enjoy that pleasure, but he could recall
the satisfaction which it once produced,
and estimate the precious privilege en-
loved by those who can do so. Do you
know how Prof Fawcett became totally
and hopelessly blind? Twenty years ago,
when he was most promising and active
young man of two and twenty, he was out
with his father shooting in the neighbor-
hood of Salisbury, when by some mishap
two separate shot from his fathers gun
pierced the glasses which he wore. one
lodging IN the very pupil of each eye and
effectually destroying the vision for
ever. 1t was most sad case. His father
was for long time almost frantic, buttllc
son from the first moment to the present
time has continued 10 bear his affection
with the greatest fortitude.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
HendersOn's illusions to the Admins.
tratiOn.

The following extracts are from ex.
Senator Henderson:s speech before the
jury in the Avery case at St. Louis, and
contain the alleged offensive language for
which the President unanimously sup.
ported by the Cabinet, ordered his dis
charge as assistant in prosecuting the
whisky cases at St. Louis:
What right had Babcock to 90 to Douglass
to induce him to withdraw his agents
Douglass was placed in his position to see
that the revenue laws of the Govern.
ment were properly enforced. What
him? When an official goes into office
he should be free and Independent OF all in.
huences except that OF law, and if be recog.
nizes any other master then this Government
is tumbling down. What right has the Pres.
ident to interfere with Commissioner Doug.
lass in the proper discharge of his duties, or
with the Treasurer? None; and Dougla
showed lamentable weakness of character
when he listened to Babcock's dictates. File
should either have insisted that his orders, as
they existed, be carried out, or should have re.
signed his office. Now why did Douglass bend
the supple hinges of the knee and permit
any interference by the President? This was
Douglass own business, and he stood re.
sponsible for it under his official oath. He
was bound to listen to no dictation from the
President, Babcock, or any other officer, and
it was his duty to see that that order was
carried out or to resign. Would that we had
stuff of which the Office holders of olden times
were made. Why do they not leave Their
office when they cannot remain there honor.
ably! Is it to continue that because a man
holds an Office at the hands Of another he is
to be bonded slave?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
A Public ExecutiOner.

The post of public executioner in Alsace
during the seventeenth century was,
though anything but sinecure, very re-
munerative, for he received an annual
salary of sixty-seven livres-a large sum
at that pcriod-from the Government, four
sacks of barley and grains, four cords of
wood and $50 fagots. He was lodged at
the cost of the town in which he resided,
and was allowed the use of a meadow, and
had the monopoly of the sewage. He also
had the privilege of skinning the animals
killed in the town, and of appropriating
any horse offered for sale which was val
ued at less than two florins-a price which
does not give very high idea of the
horses in Alsace at that time. But he
made more by his "perquisites' than by
his regular salary, as he received so much
for each Operation as, for instance,
for breaking on the wheel or burning, 60
livres; for hanging, 80 livres; for expos
ing on the wheel, branding, and placing
in The piilory, cutting down a body, put
ting to the question, piercing the tongue
with red hot iron, executing in effigy,
cutting off head and burning book, is
livres; for branding convict, 8 livres !;
splitting lip, livres; for scattering the
ashes to the wind, 6 livres, and for bury
ing corpse, 3 livres. He was also paid
20 livres for giving parting kick to any
person sentenced to Punishment The
reason for paying so highly this apparent
ly easy operation was that the executioner
had t. accompany the culprit to the FROM
tier, and on arriving there to administer
the kick with the following formula:
"You are banished from the territory,
and if you come back you will he sent to
the galfeys;' and in order to secure re-
spect for his person the Sovereign Council
Of Alsace prohibited under pain of fine
the use of the word executiOnern (bour-
seau), and the Council Of State ordained
that he should receive the style and title
of Mature des hauteseuvres."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
Idol Worship and Fetish Worship.

In an extract in Popular Science Month.
ly from 1.-The Principles of Sociology"
by Herbert Spencer, wehave some curious
facts in relation to ancient worship. Daily
offerings were made on the altar by the
priest to the corpse OF Tahitian chief,
and the ancient Central Americans per-
formed kindred rites before bodies dried
by artificial heat. That along with de-
veloped system of embalming this grew
into mummy worship, Peruvians and
Egyptians have furnished proof. These
people had confused notions either that
the ghost of the dead man was present in
the mummy, or that the mummy was
itself conscious. Among the Egyptians
the embalmed dead were sometimes placed
beside them at table. BY the Pcruvians
the dried corpse of parent was carried
round the field, that he might see the
state of the crops. Ellis tells us that in
the Sandwich Islands bones of the legs,
arms, and sometimes of the skulls of
Kings and principal chiefs are carried
about by their descendants, under the be-
lief that the spirits exercise guardianship
over them. The Crees carry bones and
hair of dead persons about for three years.
The Tasmanians show anxiety to pos
sess themselves of bone from the skull
or the arms of their deceased relatives
The Andamanese " widows may he seen
with the skulls of their deceased partners
suspended from their necks.'
When dead Lord had been burned
among the Mexicans, says Camargo, they
having kneaded them with human blood,
ceased, which was kept in memory of
him Tn ri HipIro,1 DIV
cur. While distinguished King of Con-
go is being em5almed, says Bastian, q
wooden figure is set up in the palace to
represent him, and is daily furnished with
food and drink. In Mostrelets Chroni-
Gle" book the burial of Charles vi. of
France is described thus:
"Over the coffin was an image of the
late King, bearing rich crown Of gold
and diamonds and holding two shields,
one of gold, the other of silver: the hands
had white gloves ON and the fingers were
adorned with very precious rings. This
image was dressed with cloth of gold, etc.
In this state was he solemn
" carried to the Church of Notre Dame"
Monstrelet describes like figure used
at the burial of Henry V. of England,
and the efligies of many English monarchs
are said to have been preserved in West
minister Abbey till they decaycd.
Kane states that the Chinooks think
portraits supernatural, and look at them
with the same ceremony as at dead per-
son. That a savage does think an eiiigy
is inhabited, we have abundant proofs.
Lander, describing the Torubans, says a
mother carries Tor some time q wooden
figure of her child, ana when she eats puts
part of her food 10 its lips. The Samoiedes,
according to Bastlan, feed the wooden I'M
ages of the dead.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
The Opossum.

The opossum is the typical and only
North American representative of that
large order of peculiar mammals known
as marsupials. With the general proper
items of the common rat, almost the size
of domestic cat, it presents rather dis
agreeable appearance and odor. A dense
coat of light-gray wool, with scattered
long hairs interpreted, covers the body,
while the short ears, the eyes, the long,
pointed nose, the feet and tail are colored
quite dark. The strong, round, slender
tail is destitute of hair, but covered, like
the beavers, with scales. But the most
peculiar feature of this animal is the
mammary pocket, or marsupium, formed
by a folding in Of the skin on the abb
donen. Its character is marked by Won
derful cunning and stupidity combined.
The daytime it spends in slothful idleness,
but prowls about nocturnally seeking for
food. Walking or slowly ambling at an
awkward gait, it proceeds from place to
place, usually following the borders of
streams and ponds, often wading where
the water is shallow. Amony the trees it
manitests astonishing agility, climbing or
swinging from branch to branch with aston
ishing quickuess. 1t fares promiscuously
on fruits, vegetables, eggs, insects, worms,
reptiles, small quadrupeds, and birds,
often stealing domestic fowls. 1t com
monty hides among vines and branches,
in hollow trees or logs, or in holes in the
ground. In autumn tho opossums become
exceedingly fat, and are priced for food in
the Southern States, especially by the
negroes. The food when cooked resem-
bles roast pig. The animal is usually
stupid, sullen and slow, but if attacked
assumes a terribly fierce attitude, snarls,
utters kind of hiss or low growl and will
often bite ferociously, though at the first
blow will usually felgn death. No
amount of torture will make it revive or
show sign of suffering, but when beaten
and left for dead it will often crawl away
as soon as its enemy is gone. Its great
endurance is also shown by the fact that
when fat it can live for three or four weeks
without food or water. The female is
very fond of her young, enjoying with
them that domestic felicity portrayed by
Florian in his happy fable LA sarigue
ct ses petits!" In Europe, Asia and Africa
not single marsupial exist. Our only
species, Didelphys Virginiana, the opos-
sum, is found from the great lakes to the
gulf, and from ocean to ocean; but it has
several relatives in South America, where
about twenty species exists, such as the
sarigue, shupati and carigueya of Brazil.
-P01ALar Scienc6 M0nfhLu
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

Capt. Baxter, of Jackson County, Ind.
was out hunting, recently, and killed a
deer. He went up to the animal, and,
through excitement or some other cause
Immediately fell over dead.
La Jeunesse Hotel, at Black River.
Canada, was burned few nights ago and
Rev. Father Murphy, editor of the True
Witness, Father Lynch and a Nine.
Champagne persisted in the flames.
The sugar-house boiler on Fairfax
Plantation, nine miles below Franklin.
La, exploded a few nights ago, instantly
killing three men and badly scalding al
most every man at work about the
building.
While three men we're engaged in ad.
justing some staging at the Centennial
building in Philadelphia, the other morn
ing, the supports gave way and they were
precipitated distance Of eighty feet to
the ground. They were instantly killed.
This makes ten lives which have thus far
been lost on the Centennial buildings.
A man named Ptalski, who was on
the Sunnyside, which was recently
wrecked on the Hudson River, near West
Point, had on his person $1,000 worth of
jewelry when the disaster occurred and
could have easily been saved had he been
willing to trust himself and his wealth to
the water. He refused to leave his state
room.
What began as juvenile quarrel ter
minated in murder at Leavenwo-th, Kan,
few nights ago. On the 21st of Novem.
Der two boys named John Jenkins and
William Frey were playing upon the plat
form OF passenger at the depot, when
an alteration arose between them, during
which jenkins knocked Frey from the car,
injuring him internally. Frey fingered
two weeks in great pain, when he died.
Mrs. Beardsley, who keeps a board
ing house in st. Louis, the other day rut
spoonful of arsenic in some pie-crust she
was making, having mistaken it for yeast
powder. The first three who partook of
the pie were thrown Immediately into
spasms, which caused suspicion, and the
others refrained from eating. The dose,
however, proved too large to result fatal
ly, and with the help of physician the
sufferers soon regained their composure
of stomach. Moral: Don't eat pastry
raised with arsenic.
Mr.. F. B. Carpenter publishes the
following incident in the life Of the late
Vice. President. The evening before his
Inauguration he called on Mr.. Sumner,
and said: Sumner, can you lend me
$lOO? have not got money enough to
he inaugurated on" Mr.. Sumner re-
piled: Certainly. If it had been a large
sum might not have been able to help
you; but can always lend friend $780,
He then gave Mr.. Wilson check for the
amount, and, after the latter had retired,
Mr.. Sumner, turning to Mr.. Carpenter, re-
marked: "There is an incident worth re-
membering- a one as could never
have occurred in any country but our
nyvn ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
Committees of the United States Senate.
The Standing and Select Committees
were announced in the Senate at Wash.
lngtOn, on the 9th a. follows.

The Standing and Select Committees
were announced in the Senate at Wash
lngton, on the 9th as follows:
Privileges and Elections-Morton, Chairman:
Logan, Mitchell, Wadleigh, Cameron Of Wiscon.
s'F For mSR1sn ,saulsbury Merrimon, Cooper
aorton o of
cE. si1sy Es ao9; Of ve,
Of Ns;ada ssBagnsyIse Logan Boutwell,
Appropriations Morrill,, Of Maine. Chairman.
WitSera wWHst Sargent, Allison Dorsey Davis
Ro GHM%3ercscn ,G.1an Chairman; Spencer
Mcmillan, Ransom, Dennis, Mcdonald
Bruce, English. Wallace. "''"
Agriculture Chairman; Rob-
ef Military Axfg srsNhcs So1de Chairman
Of Pennsylvania. Spencer, Clayton, Wad!eish.
Burnside Gordon, Randolph, CocIreil.
uo Maxal Of Mane Chairman Anthony
Whyte. "oo''
Acknowledgements, Chairman; Couk,inp.
Frelinghuysen, Wright Howe, Thurman, Steven.
Postofices and Post Roads amlin. Chairman =.
Ferry; Dorsey, Jones of Nevada, Dawes, Paddock
Public Lands-0glesby, Chairman; Window.
Harvey, Hamilton, Paddock, Booth, Kelly, Nc,
Dor aid, Jones of Florida
Private Land Claims-Thurman, Chairman !;
Bayard, Bogy, Edmunds, Christiancy.
indian Attairs-Allison, Chairman; Oglesby,
Morrill, of Maine, Ingalls,, Clayton, Bogy, Nc,
| Creery.
Pensions-.Ingalle, Chairman; Allison, Hamil-
ton, Booth, Bruce, Mcdonald Withers.
Revolutionary Claims-Stevenson CAai man
Johnston, Goldthwate, Morrill, of Vermont,
claims-Wright, Chairman; Mitchell, wad.
leigh Chr1stiancy. Mcmillan, Cameron Of Wis
~G District Of colum6ia"sIen ss Chairman
Hitchcock, Dorsey, Ingalls,, Robertson. Merr1.
Patents -Wadleigh, Chairman; Window, Dawes,
Public Buildings and Grounds Morrill,, Oliver
mont, Chairman; Cameron Of Pennsylvania, Pad
dock, Cooper. Whyte.
Territories Hitchcock, Chairman; Cragin,
Patterson, Christiancy, Sharon, Cooper Maxey.
RHiroadsnWest, Chairman; Hitchcock, era
gin, Howe, Hamilton, Mitchell, Dawes, Ransom,
Mines and Mining-Sargent, Chairman; Ham,
lin, Alcorn. Harvey, Sharon, Goldth waite, Ran
dolph.
Revised Laws Of the United States Boutwe'l
Chairman; Alcorn, Chris,iancy, Caperton, Wal.
lace.
Education ard Labor-Patterson, Chairman
Sharon, Gordon, Maxey, Key
Civil Service and observation-disclosures
R"rEht oslesby Alcorn
To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses
OF the Senate-Jones, OF Nevada, Chairman
Dawes, Dennis.
Printing Anthony, Chairman Sherman, Sauls.
bury.
Library-H0we, Chairman Edmunds, Ransom.
On hules-Ferry, Chairman Hamlin, Merri.
mon.
Engrossed Bills-Bayard, Chairman; withers,
Anthony.
Enrolled Bills-Conover, Chairman; Robertson,
Kelly
On the Levees of the Mississippi River-Al-
corn. Chairman; Clayton, Harvey, Cooper,
COckreil
TO Examine the Several Branches of the Civil
Service Boutwell, Chairman: CJnklinp Allison.
Nerrimon, Eaton.
On Transportation Routes to the Seaboard-
Window, Chairman; sherman, West, Conove- :,
Mitchell. Burnside, Nor~ God, Davis, Johnston
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
schenck,s Mandrake Pills

will be found to possess those qualities necessary
to the total eradication of oil bilious attacks,
prompt to start the eecretons of the liver, and
give healthy tone to the entire system Indeed,
it is no ordinary discovery in medical science to
have invented a remedy fol- these stubborn COM
plaints which develop all the results produced by
a heretofore free use Of calomel, mineral justly
dreaded by mankind, and acknowledged to be de-
stluctive in the extreme to the human system.
That the properties Of certain vegetables comprise
all the virtues Of calomel without its injurious ten
denotes is now an admitted fact, rendered indis-
putable by scientific researches; and those who
use the Mandrake Pills will be fully satisfied that
the best medicines those provided by nature In
the common herbs and roots Of the fields.
These pills open the bowels and correct all bill
ious arrangements without salvation or any Of the
injurious effects of caomcl or other poisOns.
The secretion Of bile is promoted by these pills,
will be by the altered color Of the stools and
disappearing of the sallow complexion and cleans
ing Of the tongue.
Ample directions for use accompany each box Of
pills.
Prepared only by J. H. Schenck l. Son, at their
principal Office, corner Sixth and Arch streets,
Philadelphia, and for sale by all druggists and DEAL
ers Price q cents Der hOx
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
FOREIGN GNTELLIGENCR.

A MADRID dispatch of the 9th says the
Spanish newspapers had variously CON-
mented upon President Grants message, but
all declare that his utterances are no more
alarming than heretofore, and do not believe
that Intervention is intended. Gen. saballs,
according to Hendaye dispatch of the same
date, had been sentenced by courtmartial to
four years. imprisonment
AN explosion of fre-damp in the coal-mine
at Methley, near Leeds, England, on the 9th,
caused the death Of six workmen.
THE Prince Of Lippe Detmold died ON the
7th.
A LONDON telegram of the 9TH says the
steamer Deutschland, from Bremen for New
York, had gone ashore on Long Sands. off
the coast Of Essex, England, during heavy
northeast snow-storm. About fifty of the
passengers and crew were supposed to have
been drowned. The remainder had been
landed at Harwich.
In an editorial on the Presidents message
the London Times of the 9th says: =" II Spain
cannot suppress the Cuban rebels it would be
hard to expect the United States to let the
work Of devastation proceed unchecked out
| Of regard to the nominal sovereignty of Spain
| Spain is on trial. The limits of her power to
restore order will be the limits of her rights
A BERLIN dispatch of the 10th says the ne
gotiations with Turkey by Germany, Austria
| and Russia contemplate the establishment
of perfect equality between Christian and
Turk.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the 10th
says the Porte had officially announced an
imperial decree reforming and recognizing
the legal tribunals of Turkey.
THE municipality of Paris has voted sub.
scription of s., coo to the fund for the Centen.
NAL statue of Liberty in New York harbor.
THE British Parliament has been summoned
to meet on the 9Th Of February.
TIE Opinion rationale Of Lima, Peru, of q
recent date, says that while repairs were be-
ing made on the San Andres Hospital, recent
ly, wall, on being thrown down, was found
to have been hollow, and filed with human
remains. Between 700 and 5000 skeletons
had been taken out. They appeared to be
from $50 to 400 years old, and all had frag-
ments of clothing upon them. They were be-
lieved to have been the victims of the Inqui-
sition.
A DYNAMITE explosion occurred on the
docks at Bremen Haven on the llth, which
caused the death Of sixty Of the by-standers
and four Of the passengers Of the steamer
Messl, which WAS about 70 leave for New