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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25
The Mass Temperance Convention.

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The Mass Temperance Convention.
The convention called 10y PARTIES dis
satisfied with the nominations "t the
political parties, Was held II the town
ball. 1t. .J"hn>huIl, saturday last. the
18th The meeting Was called lay the
rNrruiiNccnmmittc,. "t the Dung Mems
IcmImI:Iuc. Sucl,tN.
Considerable difficulty was expert
cmcrd IA procuring" a chairman. quite a
number declining /" serve. Finally ;.
G.. Oti> was elected chairman. and |. W.
Sanh"rn. secretary.
On taking the chair. Nh otis made Il
few remarks. declaring what he sup
posed to Ice the object at the c"nNcn-
ton: which was To review the action
"t the political parties. and If the can
didltr> Nominated toy them We're not
satisfactory Ia this convention. t" make
further nominations.
Neal the opening at the convention
considerable discussion aI">r, paIticl-
i
!, -
rr>nn. \. j. " illald. Jeremy Pearl. ana
Others. H. rn who had rights IN the con
Nrniiuu: some claimin. that ~ the call
tee OF the Temperance society, only
urmhcI> of that society were entitled
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25
Incendiarism at Bradford.

Last Saturday might about > o'clock
fire WAS discovered III the upper part "t
the TrnttcI House. at bradford. 1t WAS
fist discovered 10y Wales j. Watson.
up Ia cl">, a Window duIIng a hcaNN
shovel \ fearful gale was blow Ing at
the time. and on looking ont Of the
window he SAN Il light in the |. Ia the
main huilding. On listening he could
hear the cracking of flames. lie, i'm
mcdiattlN aloii>cd y. Is. Steven and
gave the alarm Water Wa- at once
secured in pals and thrown on. The
blaze was cNtimguI>lrd. when II WIS
found that quantity of Iag>. carp"t-
iuu and rctu>, had been saturated with
krI">cnr oil and i.nltrd. This male
rial was placed in and between the par
titi"n> "t the huu>c. Om MnndIl
morning II Warrant MAS ISSUED Ton the
of y. l.. StcN cn-. the late proprietor ni
the Nalll,nl"' Hotel. Boston. changing
hen with Arson III wilfullN setting fine
To the TInttcr House. After some de
lay hN d,tcndrnt'> counsel the case WAS
called at II o'clock. when Orin Gam
bell. Esq. Appeared tor the state. and
Colonel k. FIlnham f"I the respondent.
At the request "t the dctcmdrnt'> com
sci the east, Was adjourned. There i
considerable excitement at Bradford.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25

CALEDONIA COUNTY.

CALEDONIA COUNTY
: :. THOMPSON Lyndon, tSrnatnr-
II {. EEIDEN. 1t. l"hn~huTN.
{. /. \ HUMPHREY. Burke Asst Iudsr-.
VI Il GRAY. KNrGatr
\. l.. FRENCH II .I"hn>bmIy Judge al Probate
HENRY {. IDE II I"hn-huIy >tate.s Attorney
WM II PRESTON, ~. bloomsbury. sheriff
E.-EN COUNTY
DAVID : SIOEE> senator
E I,l, ~ : h IHI MAH> Assistant Judges
WM II HAET>HOEN Judge "t Probate
GEO " HART>HORN. state ATTORNEY.
JOSEPH \ MANSUE, >hrTIf.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25

Col. Anthony "t LraVruwoIth. whom
cd tnI Governor. made his first mark in
the free state tight against the borden
rutfiam>. - Years ago. He served gal
lamtll all through the late Wal. l. the
editor "f the leading republican paper
in Kansas has tiahhcrga>trd the mcdi-
cal profession 10y >uNiNin" a fatal
bullet wound in the head. and l. Il
brother of Susan Is.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25

\tw ENGLAND Directory. An
agent i now canNa>-iug this town
collecting the material t"l an edition "t
the New England Directory T." hc pub
li>hcd IN III. The first edition "t thi>
work was published IN l-j'i. and it has
been issued from time To time even
since. This Directory contains the
names. occupations, post office ad-
dresses of all merchants. manufacturers.
professional men Throughout the New
Valuable. book fnr reference. 1t at
trnpt> a full and complete list OF
banks. Insurance offices. manufacturing
companies. post offices. new >paIIrI>.
academies. EXPRESSES. railroads. t""cih-
Il With population at each town. etc.
1t ais" has a map ot New England ;
and altogether it makes u book of 1000
pages, ami l. OF great value l." business
men and uthrI>. a. a work of reference.
We have had an opportunity To lend
our Directory ottrnrI than any other
book "m ouI shelves which fact of il
self tells the stony.
The New England Directory is pub
li>hrd, a. beIet"tolc, 10y Sampson,
DaNrnp"rt y Co, Boston.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25
Centennial Notes

The display of k1n>4- ..a.'.'r'
great agricultural Ir~"ur"~ I"' &c.
ing l. unique. being 800 'h '"'" .
Maltc>, cIo>>. three 81 "a ."-' '..-
occupied 10y kan>a>. the i".''a .
oradu. In the ccutIc. ~.-s'r a''
the dome. l. a tac >lui.' "' ..'
pendcmcr bell. m.td,"i ka.-'- '..'.
The rim i formed "i N.'... '.
hr"nm-cnrm and >niGhWu. 'H'
tlum of miIlct and tlaN. aHa flee .
l. a gouid >iA feet lun-. .'
especially strong IN crlr'.-. -....' '
specimens of which az q" .''.''-
hight. Forty NmI' - ''
are shown. the ring ud't..-
rapid growth. The tIw' a.-r..-
pcctcd To SUI pass tIIat"i "... 90. .'
Indications OF tliI> haNrI.I'.a'
III the shape of apple "i .t.-'
delicious quality. \ rt>' "i
utacturrd silk attracts pa. ...'
ton. IL no other state has '..'..
1t is from the work. "I VI '.''
French capitalist. "h" '.'' Too.
silk factory III Kansas i' '''
The display of uhl" I- '.'.
ais and their manufactured 70
agricultural staples. "~i'''..'
and IN agricultural nnl'.'.'.
mineral exhibit CONSISTS "'
inu stones. hTomrur. cod .'.''
Th,EL.\,ltuI non and ,"..
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25

John Patton shot Barney McCue
through the head and killed him at
West Rutland, yesterday morning. as
the result OF IA quarrel among several
lIlshmen at work i'll the quarries.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25

The New York state republican con-
vention meets at Saratoga on Ntdne>-
day, but who j. likely to Ice nominated
for Governor is one of those things mo
fellel can find out" 1t i pretty gen
orally conceded. however. that Cornell.
Speaker ConklimgS candidate, has N"
chance The three other leading can
didatcS are William VI. Evart>, eNGnv.
Morgan and President Andrew White,
of Cornell University, and the Conk
ling Cornell wing of the party, though
unable To secure the nomination, will
probably bc able to dictate which of
these gentlemen shall hc nominated.
The latest ntimatiom l. that Cornell :
supporters will prefer EVart> t" Nor
gan. "hecau>.. the Latter has antigo-
mzrd them and the former has not ::
but other ~,lt-c"m>titutrd prophets pre-
diet Just the contrary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25

Michael c. Kerr of indiana. Speaker
of the National House of Representa-
tivcs. died Saturday evening at Rock
bridge Alum Springs. Va, after sutfrl-
ing IL long time from consumption "f
the bowels Mr.. Kerr Was born, March
10, I-27, near Titu>ville. Crawford Co.,
Pa
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25

\ blast at the Wulh 60" 'n'
at Winooski. Thur~d.''. '" ,.'....... .
of stone weighing a ton. ID. .
north side of the h"N"I''.- Aa,.
third stony, where It no" ~ .... ..
piece of rock Wa> thl""" 81. n..,..
the mill and fell in front ' w.
carriage factory. hIr'N''-
which stood there.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25
ST. 3ohnsburp Galrdunian.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.

REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR PRESIDENT.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES,
OF ONO.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM A WHEELER,
OF NEW YORK.
For Presidential Elections
JACOB ESTEY of Brattlch"r"-
CHARLES r HOUGHTON, OF Bennington
Fok tioVEENoK
HORACE FAIRBA>k~, of 81 John,hurN.
FOE LIEUT. GOVERNOR
REDFIELD PROCTOR. of Rutland.
For TREASURER
JOHN 4. PAGE, of Montpelier.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25
Beattie's Mills Burned.

Last Saturday night the valuable
mills and lumber of ID. II. n l. u.
Beattie, at Maidstone, VT, were de
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at S2O.OM. with partial insurance.
About IL month ago they lost tw" small
mills i'll Il ncighholimg town.
orr NEXT PRESIDENT. james Ever
dell. :}G2 Broadway. y. Y. has publish
ed 4 fine steel engraving of Rutherford
b. HAYES. The size of the paper Is l.!
xI5 inches and when framed it makes IA
fine ornament for the office or paIlor.
The price is one dollar per copy. post
age paid.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-08-25

John l.. Edwards, Esq. of Newport,
WAS nominated for congress 10y the
democratic district convention held at
Essex Junction last Tuesday
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-16
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

v,MIE PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE
existing between Charles Goll and
Joseph Toomey, carrying on tho business, OF
tho Capitol Market, North Main street, Eu-
reka, is hereby dissolved by mutual consent.
The business will be continued by Charles
Coll who win collect all outstanding ac-
counts and receipt for the same and pay all
''''' ''e CHARLES COLL.
JOSEPH TOOMEY.
Eureka Nov. II, 1876 nlo-lm
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-18
Tutelage Of the Young Emperor of
China.

So LONG as there must be hereditary
rulers the education of very young
Princes, who are to be called one day to
govern large countries, is a matter of no
tritling importance, not only to those
countries, but to the world in general.
So, evidently, think those almond-ey
danes of Picking, the two Expresses, who
are the regents of China. 1t seems that
the embryo Emperor, who has arrived at
his fifth or sixth year, hiss just been placed
under the tutelage of two grave and rev.
erend seigneurs of the imperial court. So
momentous an event was considered de-
serving of an edict full of the most flow
cry language addressed to the Chinese
millions, who were summoned to be hap
py and grateful because the youthful
brother of the sun and moon was about to
begin his A B C's. 1t must be confessed
that to enter upon the attempt to learn
even so much as the Chinese alphabet is
an undertaking worthy of celebration,
since he who should achieve this would
be greater than he who taketh a city.
However, all China thrilled with Joy to
learn that the Imperial Court of Astron-
omers" had selected an suspicious day
for the beginning of the Emperor's stud
les, that the great Prince Chun had taken
the august pupil in charge, and that that
illustrious infant had really begun to bab-
BILE the weird hieroglyphics of his native
TWn nthnr int o1cn Of
ly rank, have assumed the care of the
boys morals and manners; and every
morning and evening they are enjoined to
impress upon him sage and salutary coun-
sells respecting his conduct in life. .
But will these tutors dare to chastise the
sacred person of the relative of the lumi-
naries and near friends of the gods? Or
will they spare the rod, thus spelling the
child? Happily, the resources of Chi
nese inventiveness are quite equal to this
dilemma. The person of the Emperor
must not, indeed, be violated by the ped
agogic bamboo; nor yet must his faults,
his neglect of lessons. and fits ofrebellious
irritation. go UNPUBLISHED. A plan some
what similar to that adopted by Lord
Dundreary, who, it will be remembered,
visits the penalty of his jokes upon the
bury person Of the butler Banny, has
been decided upon. The Office of "whip-
ping-boy" has been established; an I'm.
fortunate little Chinaman, about the age
of the imperial pupil, has been appointed,
in more than one sense, to the post-and
it is he who will vicariously receive chas-
tisement when the little Emperor is
naughty. Certainly the state of uncer-
tainty in which this small but important
court official will be always living is not
to be envied, and it is to be hoped that he
is well paid, and that the quality of the
little Emperor's mercy will not be strained
when he thinks of his luckless substitute.
Those who are tempted to laugh at this
device may, upon reflection, conclude
that after all, schemes not dissimilar are
sometimes used among more civilized
people to transfer their burdens and pen
alties to the shoulders of their neighbors.
-Appletons' Journal.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-18
" Good for a Drink"

In speaking of the scarcity of small
change in the early days of Chicago, and
the substitution therefor of all manner of
local tickets Of Indebtedness, the Hon.
John Wentworth tells the following anec-
dote, in recent lecture in that city:
A single instance will illustrate to what
various purposes those tickets of indebt-
edness could be put. A little boy had a
ticket GOOD for drink" He dropped
it into the church contribution ox, and
heard no more of it. He told another boy
who did the same thing with the same
result. That boy told his sister, who told
her mother, who told her husband, who
deemed it his duty to tell the Deacon.
Meanwhile the boys were putting in the
tickets Good for drink" and telling
the other boys to do the same. The Dea-
con, alive to all the responsibilities of his
position, for the first time in his life en-
tered saloon, called the bar-keeper TO
one side, and asked him to change one
dollar scrip, well knowing he could
not do so unless it were in liquor.tickets,
and declined to make the change, until
the Deacon gave him a hint that, al
though he did not stimulate himself, he
thought he could use the tickets. Then,
said the Deacon, ~ have a curiosity to
know the extent Of these tickets, and really
wish you would put private mark upon
them, and notify me when one returns.n
Think of Deacon putting drink cur.
rency into a contributioa-box! But he
did it, and the boys put in some more
On Monday afternoon the Deacon was
notified that one of his tickets had been
redeemed. Oh, what chance for a
scandal easel Imagine that such a
thing had happened in our day.
Think of our enterprising newsgatherers
calling upon a Deacon, and asking him
what was the average time of LIQUOR
tickets going from his church contribu-
tion.box to saloon! With solemn tread
the Deacon made his way to his pastors
residence, and asked him what DISPOSE
ton he made of the various tickets from
the contribution The reply was that
his wife assorted them, strung them upon
different strings, entered them upon
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-18
The " Said Boy"

"THIs said boy" began Bijah, as he
led out a youth of thirteen, did, to-wit,
viz: Throw stone and smash pane of
glass on Howard street, all of which he
says he will never do again"
Smashing glass, eh?" queried the
court. "Well, the law will have to
smash him, I'm afraid"
81 haven't got any dadn' whispered
the prisoner, while his chin quivered and
his teeth knocked together.
That's nothing to do with breaking
glass, my son. You have no more right
to throw stones and smash glass than a
boy with three or four fathers and a
school house full of aunts and uncles.'
"She slippedm continued the lad,
while a big tear gathered in his left eye.
Why do you and other boys prowl
around the world throwing stones?" de-
manded his Honor. "Why is it that a
boy can heave club or throw a stone
when he's so mortal tired that he can't
walk half a block to do an errand?''
81 was only throwing at a yaller
Bird" protested the prisoner, his right
eye also filling up.
"That makes the offense ten times
worse" shouted the court. "What do
you want to hurt a yaller-bird, or red
bird, or any other kind Of bird for? You
ought to be tied up in a square package,
labeled "A bad boy and placed on Shelf
in the work house for six months"
Il can't go there-I have to take care
of horsem was the boys very solemn an
swer.
Looking over the warrant again, His
Honor continued:
boy, be careful! If you smash any
more glass in this town you'll miss half a
dozen circuses and all the ferry boat ex-
cursions. You'll sigh for home when the
sun rises, and you'll weep and lament when
the sun goes down. Go home TO your
mother, and go and feed that horse, and
for the next year you want to walk around
Detroit as if there were eggs under your
feet"
Biah let the lad out by the private door,
gave him lot of orange peel to stay his
stomach until he could get home to break
fast, and patting him on the head, re-
marked:
"Don't heave any more stuns at the
gentle yaller birds. Birds has rights, OF
the Lord would have made geese Of them"
Detroit Free Press
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-18
Gen. Stark.

TEE oldest of our citizens, natives of
Manchester, N. H., have very distinct
recollections of the last years of Gen.
John Sark's life, and relate many ancc-
dotes and incidents concerning him. lie
seems from his boyhood to have been a
noted and marked character, both in
his own town and neighboring settle
ments.
He has left no legacy of feuds to tell of
bitterness in neighborly intercourse, but
the uniform testimony Of his old towns
men is to the effect that his house was
often open for social parties and festive
gatherings. On these occasions Gen.
Stark was never hilarious, though his
hospitality was sincere, and he enjoyed
his guests.
1t is related of him that he was never
known to show his emotions in word
or expression of face, an old resident
averring that he was never seen 10 laugh
or shed tear On one occasion, to test
his strength of nerve, townsman offered
to fire a pistol close behind his back
while the General was busy conversing.
A party in the experiment agreed to watch
the Generals face in front and report the
result, and see if he were startled or not
There was no visible alteration in his
expression or manner, but he turned very
quietly to see the cause of the explosion.
He was quite as much noted for vigor
in the management of his farm as in the
management of troops, and could never
endure Incidence in any one who had the
strength and capacity to labor.
At the time of the arrival of the
courier bringing news of the battle of
Lexington, Stark was hard at work in his
saw-mill, taking advantage of the spring
floods to finish the saving of logs drawn
in the winter then just past. This mill
was on Ray Brook, and the remains of it
are still discernible when the low water
will admit. Old settlers assert that the
log left half-sawed by Stark, as he mount
ed his horse to beat up recruits, was never
disturbed afterward; it decayed with the
mill in the eight long years of fighting
that ended with the surrender of Corn
wallis.
Stark's integrity and economy in Gov
eminent contracts and the disbursements
connected with army supplies was never
questioned by Patriot Or Tory He sac
rifced his private interests and the en-
joyment of domestic life through the rev.
olution without any hesitation, and en-
couraged the same spirit in mis- sons. He
was incapable of assimilation, and even
when blunt, rough and eccentric, meant
kindness where his manner might belle
his heart.-Cor. Manchester IN. H) Mr.
3.oY.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-18
POisOns in the Air.

PAsTEUR, in his recent experiments on
spontaneous generation, has demonstrated
that the germs of low organisms, bacteria,
micrococci, etc., are everywhere present
in the air; they settle on the skin, IN the
air-passages, ETC., and are ready to become
deyeloped in all cases where there is no
individual vitality, which prevents the
growth of the inferior organisms, OF which
they are the seeds. Healthy people, there
fore, will resist their ravages, but weak,
sick1y, and especially dead bodies, will
soon be the victims of their destructive
action. The air in hospitals contains myr-
lads of them, and besides dried pus
globules, spores of epithelial parasites
emanating from diseased parts, and which
are so volatile or light, by reason OF their
almost infinitessimalism, that they hover
continually in the air. After some time
the walls become invested with them, and
this makes old sick-rooms so unfavorable
for restoration of health. To prove
this, Pasteur had square yard OF wall IN
the surgical ward of the Hospital la Pitle,
Paris, which Intentionally had not been
whitewashed or cleaned for two years,
washed with wet sponge, and the liquid
of the sponge expressed; one ounce OF a
black LIQUID was thus obtained, which, on
examination by the microscope, showed
large numbers Of bacteria, micrococci,
epithelial cells, pus globules, red globules
and irregular, blackish masses OF un-
known nature.
Next comes DR.. Esbeth of Zurich, and
examines in the same way the sweat from
the face, axilla, breast and thigh, and
finds great numbers of bacteria, which
appear to originate from minute bodies
attached to the hairs in those regions,
forming little ncdules like Accommodations
of micrococci.
The lesson conveyed by all this, is
Practice cleanliness about every part OF
the body; it is not in vain that combing,
washing, bathing and rubbing give feel
ing of comfort-ths feeling is a hint OF
nature that the human system needs it.
| Manufacturer and Builder.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-18
The Keely MOtOr-What Is Promised.

:" IF have luck and no further break
ages, think l shall be able to exhibit
the motor at work to the directors of the
company, and those of the public who
choose to come, about June l." said Mr..
Keely, the chief protector OF the new en-
CINE which is to revolutionize the procur-
alton of force, as he yesterday escorted a
Z INES man into workshop IN the rear of
his residence "You cannot conceive"
he continued, "the power of this machine
and what we have had to overcome in ex-
perimenting. This register shell, for in.
stance, weighs 1000 pounds, although it
is only forty-two inches in diameter out
side and thirty inches inside, being six
inches thick. 1t is spherical, is of wrought
steel, and holds sixty.one gallons; it took
two weeks to cool after manufacture.
can charge it in less than one second with
vapor, generated by about three thimble-
fuls of water, that will run 500 horse
power engine nine hours This gauge
registers "a 900 pounds to the square inch
1900 pounds over that of gunpowder.
We have tested it eight times. The safety
valve which you see here" and Mr..