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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-12-15
\ PORTRAYAL OF THE DEEDS OF VIo-
LESCE.

result So suggestive of violence aud
intimidation was obtained by means of
the most terrible and revolving organ
lied clubs of masked armed men. formed
and recommended by the central dem
ocratic committee, who rode through,
the country at night, marking their
course by the whipping. shootin..
wounding, manning. mutilating of wo-
men, children and dcfrnSelcs> men.
whose houses were forciblv entered
whilst they slept, and as their inmate,
fled, through fear, the pistol. the rifle.
the knife, the rope, were employed to
do their horrid work. Grimes like
these, testified to 10y scores of witnesses.
were the means employed in Louisiana
To elect Il President of the United States.
and when they shall succeed, the glorics
of the republic will have departed. and
shame and horror will supplant, in tn,
hearts ot our people, that love and ven
Grafton with which they have hitherto
regarded the institutions of their couIl-
try. The proof OF violence and intimi-
datlon and armed disturbance in man\
, 1876-04-01

Peter O'Rsily was one of the pioneer min
ers of Washre and one of the disuoverers OF
the Cumstock Silver Mines--one OF the men
who turned up TO the light of day that gilt.
tcring ore which was the first Of over $780,.
100000 since taken from the great vein they
hit upon.
Before going to work on SiS.mile Canyon,
ut the head of which the great discovery
was made, Peter o'Rcily mined on Gold Can.
yon, long and large nyine heading on the
opposite side oi Mount Dayison, a mile south
of the canyon first named There he
wrought with pan and rocker at washing
placer gold from the sand and gravel Of the
bed and bars Of the canyon.
Pete" was fond OF rambling away alone
alnong the meandcrings of the stream in
search of rich spots, where he could be by
himself ard mine in his own WAY. Provided
he could find few "culors' (small specks OF
Gold) he would dig and pan away for days,
quite confident that his luck would at last
lead him to the right spot and that in the
end his labors would I've richly rewarded.
Pete was not only spiritulist, but was
also firm believer in luck and all manucr
of signs and omens. The last mining he did
on Gold Canyon was when he started in 10
prospect bar where he already found II
"squatter' in the person of frog, which
frog began, in short time, to give him a
great deal OF trouble.
He constructed small dam or reservoir
to turn the small rill running into the ravinC
into ditch leading to his panning-hole near
the bar The reservoir held but about a
dozen hogsheads OF water, and it was soon
sitter this was complete and filed that Pete
first had notice OF tho presence on his claim
Of the frog. lie had sunk bit almost down
to the bedrock, and had washed uut two or
three pans of dirt that yielded well. He was
filling his pan with some particularly fine
looking gravel, when he heard n small
squeaky voice sing out, struck it Z"
Pete was at that moment deeply absorbed
in the work in which he was engaged, and
the shrlI, squeaking voice sringing out So
near ut hand and asking II question that 81
exictly chimcd in with the train of thought
running through his he,' 50 startled him
that his pick almost fell rom his hands. lie
prckcd up his ears and looked about in all
directions to sre whence proceeded the chce'
ry little voice. He half expected to see Il
little, red.mnntlcd fairy standing in som,
neighboring clump of willows or pecring
at him through 4 TUT Of rank grass grow
, 1876-04-01
The Element OF struggle in Amer.
lean Life.
LECTURE BY REV. BROOKE HEREFORD.

LECTURE BY REV. BROOKE HEREFORD.
Rev. Brooke Hereford, pastor of the
Church ot the Messiah. croner Il Michigan
avenue and lwenty-third street, delivered
the frat of q series OK three lectures on The
Aspects and Prospects OF American Life
at his church last Sunday. 1t was entitled
The Element Of s ruggle in American Life
The reverend gentleman introduced his lec'
ture by remarkng that it had at first oc
Cured to him. as it ND lubt had to others,
that the subject might be too secular for the
Sabbath evening, Int when he reflected that
he had ut one time delivered 4 series of lee
lures based on an extended tour through
Italy, which were deemed appropriate, he
came to the conclusion that there was more
to mediate upon in the life Of to day, than
in the dead works of the past He tclt that
ii was more difficult task 10 deal with liv'
ing THAI dead issues, ~ il was harder to
speak OF mans character while he was liv-
ing, than to preach his funeral sermon.
Roman life is closed volume and we can
estimate it; but it is rot so Of n people in
the beginning Of their history, and the his
tory OF the American people, although good,
yet is only a beginning. When he had been
but fortnight in America, he felt that he
could write lecture vividly portrnying the
peculiartics of its people. After being here
A month, lie was in doubt as to whether he
could or not and at the expiration OF five
months he was inclined to hold his tongue.
However, on his return to England his
friends urged him to give them the benefit
Of his experience, and ut length he accepted
the situation and wrote and delivered the
series to his people in Manchester just ms he
proposed to deliver IN here. lie did moi
aim to be ,Iogmatic, or claim to speak Will
certainty but merely endcayored TO give hi'
impressions of American life The speaker
then proceeded with mis- lecture, Of whicl
the following is 40 abstract;
, 1876-04-01
aSosu.
rhc wile'. plea.

"T0Is,, | will not any hnlrancG prove,
But like Athcnc, helm, 4 guiding star,
\ glOry and comfort. o, he sure
Ny heart shall take Il, lesson from thnc own.
Ny voice shall cheer the mariners at their oars
In the Rjght watches; 1t shall warblc SONGS
Whose music shall o'crpower the luring airs
Of Ncrcid or Siren. Ii we lind
Those isles thou rWm'>l, where the golden fount
Gives youth to all who taste II, w. will drink
Deep draughts, until the furrOws leave thy brow,
And shall walk iu.bcauty, ns when first
saw thee from atr in Sparta's groves.
But II tmllyhdis seizo our keel, or swift
Black currents bear lis down the nosomo wave
That leads TO IIsdcs, ill the vessel sink
In Styg!un waters none the less our souls
Shall guin the fsI thcr shore, aud, hand IN hand,
Walk frs-R! the strand across Elyslan fields,
'Mong mppy orunsmg shades, that point and
suy;
There 70 the great Ulysses, lored Of gods,
And she, his wife, most faithful unto death '"
, 1876-04-01

is virtually no other. Occasionally some OF
these trontersmen go back to the cities, oil
more populous sections of the country, and
impregnate il with the frontier spirit, so
that this border enterprise becomes the lite
of the country. Even In cities the people
plunge into occupations in the same spirit
that the more adventurous ones 20 To the
mines and the ranches. In England the
masses ARE generally content with the hills
on which they were born. In America
everybody tries for u :" big thing" An un
usual number engage in speculation, and
thus increase the risks OF those who do not
desire to do business in that way. Many
foreigners come 70 this country, are Clissat
sfed and go hack grumbling. America is
u grand country for those who have the
spirit Of cnt rprise, and can 20 at the fast
pncc and not be borne down. 1t is good
thing to I've land owner, and if an agricu-
tural laborer from England can get to Mis-
souri, and have enough money left TO buy a
small farm, and can make up his mind to
live poorer than he ever did in England,
after many years he may come to prosperity
But he cant eat his land, or dress in his land,
and it is not pleasant to sleep on it, | may
overrnte the hnrdships, but do not the ne.
ccssity of selfreliance and patient struggle,
And in this connection it will he observed
that have not alluded to the destructive
foods, hurricanes, etc, that mus, be taken
into account. In Denver, Pueblo, Trinidad,
and other western towns, one thing struck
me fOrcibly. They are well laid out. their
streets are skired by rows of shade trees ;
each town expecting to he Chicago in the
near future. They are situated in the centre
of great wastes OF land, and they tap rivers
miles away, and by means OF channels fol
lowing the level of the plain, bring the wa
ter tp the roots Of each tree. Fir,t and las ,
everything is alive with effort. II this keen.
cr struggle is the result Of the fall of man.
for my part thank Eve for giving us this
encrgizng influence in place Of the lotus
eating life OF the Orient. The struggle is
something to feel the glory Of, because the
baser discipline of earth is toll, AMI those
who toll do more than win earth-they
nnurish stronger humanity which rises, in
the long run, to finer tolls, and is called to
come up higher
Mr.. Hereford announced as the subject Of
next Sunday evenings lecture, The
Strength and Weakness Of the Present Re.
suits of that Struggle. '-Er.
, 1876-04-01
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, 1876-04-01
sNNmONASm DlREavrOYHY.


SNonoMsH NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
y. G. Ferguson, President
n. 4. Gregory
W H. Ward We Presidents
ysaic Cuthchrt,
Ehridge Morse, Ll6rdridn
III w. Packard, TrcdsHrer
y1r A. G. Folsom, COr. SrrhVN
" .SlDt S~iek1idc DW
". H. Ward SrW. Th,uytja, Ei,Sic, De
T,-Stt&
Nessrs. Ferguson Gregory Ward, Calhcart,
Morse, Packard and Folsom.
d
sNouoMIsu FREE RELIGIOUS. ASSOCIATION.
OFFSERs
tdridgc Morse, :. P,csideot
bcni Stretch,
itcn. Plumb :. Pae FItSdt1G
4, &. Folsom ,
". H. Ward, q. =. SrrttdrB
TrasterS
M.ssr,. Morse Stretch. Plumb, Fpsom and
Ward,
sEOnOMIsn County AGRCuLuSAl SOCIETY,
OFFICERS
Jas Masterton, =. E. PssiInt
Sal,m A. Woods, =. .. Vi%.IreShtcat
Eldridge Morse, o.. =. Serctny
T,qntes
Jas MNstcrson Salem A. Woods, EIirdGe Morse,
George Frazier, John Davis, j. N. Low and o, s
Young
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sSouoNIsn TELEGRAPH COMPANY. --OFFIcERs,
F., C. Ferguson =. .. President
r. D KRONER
Henry Jackson, :. =. VEs- -Pre'ilein
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TruStees
L. C. Ferguson, f. D, KRONER, Henry Jackson,
Isaac CathcaTt and Edridge Morse.
r.
SSSouoNIsH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. -OFFTCERs
Hugh Ross, PyeNdcat
Isaac CIihcart, Flcr Pt,Nidrnt
j. c. FERGUSON, Secretary
Tr,StteS
Messrs. Ross, Cathcart, and Ferguson.
, 1876-04-01
DENTISTRY.

Dir. J. G. GRASSE, DENTIST.
Office in Stone & Burnctt's new buiIding on
COmmmercial street All work warranted.
nS
, 1876-04-01
y. III. Lo wv,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
SNO no MLSH CITY,
snohomish County, w. T.

ConNcynr Ger Dealer In Real Estate, sc, dc.
Has on hnud u (nll set of legal and business
blanks VIII endcayOr to do all business Gu
trus,ch 10 him With promptness and accuracy.
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, 1876-04-01
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Local Agents.

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j. B. Bingham, for New Tacoma, Pierce County.
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Sums paid them for Use OF the paper.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-22
The Spirit of the South.

Some days ago we stumbled upon a
dispatch purporting to report extremely
violent appeals addressed by a South Car
olina Democrat to a meeting of his fellow
partisans. 1t was, in effect, an exhorta.
tion to murder. The white Republican
leaders in the State were to ba singled
out and shot if they persisted in address.
ing and organizing the colored voters
with view to the election. The state.
ment implied such cold -blooded, murder
GUS designs that we doubted its genuine
ness. We doubt no longer. What read
like the rant of a drunken ruffian now
appears, with variations, in the editorial
columns of several Southern journals.
Here, for example, is the Charleston
Re'os and Courier writing of the recent
disturbance in that city, heaping the re-
sponslbility altogether upon the black
Republicans and their white friends, and
notifying the latter that unless they let
the Democrats do as they please they
"must be held TO stern and swift ac-
count by the community, whose bitter
foe they are" What "stern and swift
account" means, in the mind of South
Carolinian chivalry, the Republicans
of the State know too we'll. The Bam-
bridge (Ga.) Democrat, under the head
" A Warning" has much threatening of
the same sort. 1t apprises the detested
minions" of the Republican party that If
they "do not wish TO bring down ven.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-22
Mr.. Tilden's Income.

The newspaper indictment against Mr..
Tilden for defrauding the Government
by false returns of his income in 1869
consists of two counts. The first definite
charge was embraced in the publication
of two affidavits, one made by Mr.. Til
den in 1862 that his income was $7,1tS,
the other his affidavit in 1876 that for
his services as a lawyer he received in
1862, in certain railroad operations, two
fees of $40, 600 each. To this an answer
was forthcoming. The official instruc-
tions of the Commissioner directed
lawyers and physicians to make an esti-
mate, not of the moneys actually re-
ceived, but of the moneys earned, in
1869, excluding all receipts from previ
GUS earnings, and including an estimate
of all anticipated receipts from the
years work. The $4,000 referred to in
Mr.. Tilden's affidavit was paid for serv-
ices rendered in 1859, go, and '61, and
was not therefore amenable to the tax.
The second count was that, even on
this construction of the law, the income
received by Mr.. Tilden and his unpaid
but overdue earnings were largely in ex-
cess of $7,11S. This at first rested sim
ply on natural presumption that a
lawyer of Mr.. Tilden's extensive rail-
road practice and well-known operations
must have earned more than $7,11S in
1862. But there is another presumption
that every man is to be presumed inno-
cent till proved guilty; and the Christian
Union set the one presumption against
the other and preferred to rest upon the
first. This second count, however, no
longer rests upon presumption. The
New York Times presents a bill of
items. 1t specifies fees for legal services
to the amount of $108,O00 in 1862, and
indicates the sources when they were de-
rived, and the corporations by which
they were paid. That this whole sum
was paid for services rendered prior to
1862 will hardly be pretended; if it is
pretended, some evidence will be re-
quired to support the pretense. Even
then it will require some evidence to re-
but the presumption that other work
was done in 1852 and charges made
therefor which should have been estimat-
ed by Gov. Tilden in his return. The
charge is no longer of the shadowy sort
which is unhappily too common in our
American politics. 1t is definite, precise
and accompanied by bill of particulars
Unless Mr.. Tilden, or some one for him,
denies it in a way to compel the proof,
or explain it, if it is explicable, those
who have hoped, as the ChriStian Union
has hoped, to see in this Presidential
campaign contest between the best
men of two great parties will have to
submit to cruel disappointment. And
the public will not wait patiently for
Mr.. Tilden's explanation as long as they
waited for his letter of acceptance
Ghristian Union.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-22

geance terrible upon their heads" they
viii withdraw from the South and allow
the white Democrats TO pursue their
plans unmolested. The Petersburg (Va)
Under Appeal directly instIgates the as
sassination of white Republicans who
shall continue to address meetings or
colored people. "These are the mission.
aries of mischief" IL says, at whose
bosoms the people Of the South should
strike II any disorder is forced upon
them at the polls.p "They will be the
men to suffer-" II adds, "and the habit
of Furnishing" them "might as well be
begun at an early as at a late day " The
whole article Of the Petersburg Demo
cratic sheet is conceived in the same
spirit. We have seen nothing like IL
since the days when the old slave-power,
insolent and brutal, visited with condign
punishment any man who dared to speak
of freedom in the Southern States.
OF course, there is an attempt to hide
the enormity of these pleas for violence
by charging the white Republican lead
ers with "sowing the seeds of discord,"
alternating the two races" and other
wise "periling the peace and prosperity
of the South" Everybody knows what
these phrases mean and how indiscrim-
inatcly they are applied. The existence
of the Republican organization in the
Southern States is the prime grievance,
and its managers and workers are objects
of hatred and vengeance. If they call
together, irrespective of
color, they are said to be "sowing the
seeds of discord." If they endeavor to
instruct the negroes and to guide and aid
them In political matters, they are al
legged to be engaged in alternating the
races" II they push forward the work
of organization and declare that, with
the help of the law--and, if need be,
Of the military order and liberty shall
be maintained at the polls, they are
pointed at as incendiaries and anarchists,
whom the white Democrats will be justi-
fed in shooting down without mercy.
The truth is that the brutal instincts and
habits which we're born of the slave sys-
TEN still predOminate among the South
ern whites and predispose them to vio-
lent methods of acquiring the mastery.
The great body of them have not even
tried to adapt themselves to the new or
der of things. The liberty of speech and
Of organization, the reedOm of the bal.
ot and of political opinion, which at the
North no man dreams of questioning, are
10 the average Southerner Incompetent
sible. He cannot contain himself when
his black laborer, formerly his slave,
votes against him, or when Northern
man denounces within sight of his plan
tation the tyranny and cruelty for which
Independent political action is made the
pretext. These are things to which the
editors and politicians must
sooner or later become accustomed. And
If, meanwhile, the Federal power finds
stern interference necessary to secure the
liberty of the voter, they must blame
only themselves.-N Y. Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-22
MSS FLKp 1T THE CENTENNIAL


Oh, Mss Flip Of New YORK city, lately vent to see
the show .t ..
Thats held in Philadelphia this season, as you
know, 'Hl -
And the, things that dsmsel saw and heard the
- things she learned and felt ~
Would nll an anchorite with Joy, or heart Of Nero
heard her tell her dearest friend aboat It all one
And beg to tell the story in her own sweet eirish
way. UfI fI1-F 80 !
VI saw, oh, Rosyi lots Of things. The trip was,
wore my ecru polonalse with white embroidered
vine n r. /. IN -7'l.-
The loyeliost machinery, so grand, you know; and
Twas fun to see them working it-those lovely,
My cavalier went wild with rage because watched
These nobby fellows alwaysare so Jealous, dear.
The neart gallery, they say is nice as It can be;
But really there was such crowd didn't try to
In the Japanese department bought me such
wonder how they ever learned to make such
And oh the way rushed around, on foot, dear.
and on chairs,
Was fearful, for in such place most everybody
stares.
didn't mind, because it's only every hundred
years
Centennisls come, and no one cares how just one
$50 uncle said) But one can't help ones feelings,
after all,
When ones feathers oil get limpsy and ones pufrs
get squeezed so small
dear,
To have been at the Centennial, and not seem
green and queer
And then the silks, and flowers, and lovely lace
oh myi
They make you wild, because, you see. they're
awful hard to buy,
To see them does expand the mind and give you
new ideas.
I'm going to copy me dress that's shown by
Madame Speers;
I'm going to get a bonnet, too, made just like one
saw
A perfect darling just mass Of roses, lace and
straw.
saw q real live Turk one day (but didn't like to
lOok), -
All dressed in sword and trowsers, like picture
in a book.
You needn't go abroad, they say, for all the world
And really do feel as IL I'd been most every.
where.
There's everything on earth to see-suc6 jewelry
and lacel
must say the Centennial is Just the sweetest place
went to the Tr0is Freres, and had, obi such a
heavenly time
With Mr. F-and Harry b, who really turns
ont prime.
Such lovely creami although they charge outra-
geously they say
Which doesn't matter much to girls, as tce don't
have to pay.
Oh, mercy on us must 90. But I'm glad I've
seen the show.
And told you all about it and the things you ought
to know"
--Hdy.Dsr's Bazar
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-09-22
The Perils of Love.

In Fridays Daily Banner appeared a
short account of a tragical affair some
twenty miles east of this city, which re.
suited in the suicide of young man and
the dangerous wounding of young lady.
The full particulars we learn from the
Pierce City Record. The occurrence
took place at Round Grove, in Lawrence
County, and, for popularity of arrange
ment, has no parallel in all the murders
and suicides committed. Two young
men, residents of Round Grove, both
loved the same lady, Miss Henderson.
For reasons best known to herself she
had encouraged neither of them, and her
friends say that on all occasions she
avoided their society as much as posi-
Bile. Yet it seems that the young men
were infatuated with her-earnestly in
love-but, for wonder, were not in the
slightest degree jealous of each other.
A short time ago both young men pio-
posed to Miss Henderson and were re-
jected. Then the blind passions of their
love were stirred up and they determined
to commit crime. We are informed
that the young men made their arrange
ments and carried them out to the letter,
according to the following particulars
On Wednesday morning, armed and
prepared, they went to Mr.. Henderson's
house. Mr.. Poland went into the house
and told Mr.. Henderson that Mr.. Morris
wanted to see him at the gate. AS Hen
derson reached the gate he heard pis-
tol fired in the house and scream. He
rushed back and as he Deared the door
he heard another shot, and when he en-
tered the house he beheld his daughter
on the floor, near the middle door, una
bile to rise, while Poland lay in the mid
die of the room dead. The lady says
that when her father went out she arose
to leave the room, as she feared Poland
had knife and would hurt her, as he
kept his hand in his breast all the time.
When she got to the door Poland drew
his pistol and fired, the ball entering the
back on the right side, below the shoulder
blade, and, passing through the body,
came out on the left side Just beneath
the ribs, The lady is in very danger
GUS condition, but at last accounts was still
alive. When the girl fell Poland placed
the pistol to his breast and fired, the
ball entering near the center He fell
and Immediately expired Morris filed
his part of the arrangement by engaging
Mr.. Henderson outside while Poland
committed the murder. We think this is
certainly the first case that ever occurred
where two young men agreed to murder
the girl they both loved. The thing to
be reg cited most is that the other luna
tic, Morris, did not get chance to shoot
himself Carthage (Ao,) Banner,