St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-04-07

evening: He'll What constitutes ifs
supreme misery The unuuenchablc
flre; what is it Is it eternal etc. etc.
The Middle Class exhibition takes
place at the Academy on Tuesday and
thursday evenings of next week. There
are so many to take part, that the pro-
gram has been divided. Friends of the
scholars and others. are always welcome
to these exhibitions
The delegates from this way. 80 far
as we know, came home from the Bur
llhSt"h convention thoroughly Disguised
with the way matters were carried
There. There are representative men
III Vermont, but they do not appear on
the ticket, to any great extent.
We understand route agents have
received orders to cohtiScate maple
sugar sent through the mail. We do
not understand a> any reason is given
for the order. Nermonters in other
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get their usual supply.
-An"ther SNOW storm Tuesday. The
train from Portland reached the Craw-
ford House, Where the Passengers and
mails were shipped to the Fabyan in
SlcIghS. The train reached this place
i've hours late. The Boston express,
due here ut , "Wednesday morning, was
seven hours late
1t may he unnecessary to call at
tcntiou I" the articles upon the outside.
but they should not bc overlooked.
Mr. Savagr'> letter from Ephe>uS and
Mr.. Bridgman'> letter from Berlin. are
on page one: and the quaint and stIik-
ing epitaphs in English church, wards,
us collected by Mrs Gooden. will he
found on the fourth page.
If those who have the charge of
streets will now notice. they will see
that the worst places i'll the village are
where the streets are not founded at all,
and where there are no side cutters
fake it III front of Geo. Bradley's and
ASA LiNingst"n'S, for example: W hat
better can be expected where the centre
"f the road and the sidewalks are the
lowest points between the fences!
here are great many men ont of
employ ment, even 80 far in the country
~ this. At the scale works of the
Me>sr>. Fairbanks, they refuse from five
to fifteen applicants daily. besides those.
VII" apply 10y letter. II is pitiful to see
whom are forming habits of idlcness. if
rot of dissipation. As soon as the
ground gets bare. there will he business
for some of them
Michael Kings horse is dead. and
Mike Is again on the town. y year
ago. after the boys killed Kings other
horse, the town bought Il horse ton him.
expecting he would take care of him
self. which he has been allie to do: but
like some other Frcuchmcn. he cannot
1--we unless he can ''swappc de hoSs."
and he has kept swapping until he GOT
and 50 died.
One Cahcnau, who owns Il trotting
horse, wants the town to pay him fol
ing himself. smashing the sleigh and
hurting the horse. The authorities told
him that the law did not require them
L" pay damages resulting from driving"
fast horses ON the Sabbath This i the
second time this man has been to the
town tor damages sustained on the high
sunday.
Fairbanks Scales at the Centennial
Three ear loads of scales for the eN-
hibitinn at Philadelphia. have been
shipped from the Fairbanks works. and
some of them have ahead, reached the
exhibition huil.lin.. The shipment in
rludc> l9l entire scales. one represent
ing each class. flcm Il fitty-ton railroad
track scale. down to Il fine druggist
balance. Besides the complete scales.
they also show 2I- different articles.
pertaining to scales. such a> measures
and standard weights Among the
scales sent forward for exhibition. are
the following foreign standards: French,
weighing 10y kilogrammes. instead of
pounds Spanish. by libras: Russian,
10y pools: Swedish. by Skalpunds:
Danish, 10y punds Prus>ian. 10y pfumds;
Turk iSh, okaS Chinese. catties (huth
the latter figured in characters) -Frcnch
and English combined, and French and
Spanish combined: also an old English
scale. which weighs II2 lbs to the hun
bred, and such as is in Use in Great
Britain to-day. Among other interest
ing articles of this COmpany'S manu-
facture, which will be exhibited is il
testing machine" which indicates in
pounds the strength of iron. The ca
pacity of this machine is $4,000 pounds.
and it is us ingenious rs it is useful.
We understand this company have
been assigned a desirable location in
the machinery hall for their exhibition.
and although it is not nearly as much
room a> they need, it is all the mana
gers could allow them-a room 10 10y b
feet in size. We understand that there