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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

20 Word has been received from the
excursions. of Il vote taken on the boat
train near Amherst, Mass, of the out
ward bound Ccntennialites, which stood
as follows: For Hayes and WheeleI-
men lm. women Ii. total 1872. FoI
Tildcn and Reimbursement IL, women
:. total -. Doubtful. Z. The latter
class was made up mostly of husbands
and wives who di>liked to vote on OPP
poSitc sides. Some instances of marked
Independence waS noted. where one
half voted for Tilden. and the better
half for Hayes. One caI load of
Georgia. Milton. Fairfax. and Grand
Isle folks, went solid for Hayes; and
when 10y Il slip of the tongue caused 10y
Il struggle between il turnover he was
eating aud his windpipe, an old fellow
said ''put me down toI Tilden," such IL
shout of put him out went up, as
nearly threw the ear from the track.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

TERRIBLE DEATH OF \ BTEGLAR-
I'm unknown IMAM robbed n chamber ct
Nh. M"Igan'> residence on Fiftirth
street. New York. the other day. " hilc
the family Was dining. of some SGOO
worth OF i"welry. and then stepped ont
on IL the pcdimcnt over the font door
of the next house. intending to enter
the window of that house. The prdi-
ment WIS but lightly fastened and fell.
the burglar falling under ii "m the >tonp
of the house. His head WAS crushed to
atoms. His plumber WAS found in his
pockets.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

The snow storm of sunday extended
as tar south as Richmond and Nor folk
Va, and 1t WAS very cold there and ut
Washington, Monday. the thermometer
AT Richmond indicating 81 at sunrise.
There have been only eight previous
instances III the past 81 Years in which
snow has fallen at Boston in October.
shipping has suffered considerably
along the Atlantic coast and on Lake
Ontario, during the past few DAYS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

y GREAT GAIN. When the Demo
Gratis get over their growing about their
victory in Indiana. it will do to remind
them hat the Republicans have made Il
net gain of ten congressman each
each III Indiana and Ohio. In Indiana
the Republicans elect 9 of the 10 mem
beers. instead of / Republicans and 9
Democrats, aS i'll the present Congress.
In Obi" the new delegation stands l3
Republicans aud Is Democrats in the
present Congress. If this thing goes on
III this style. the ''rebel NclI' will
soon Ice unhcard in Congress.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

Edward :. Stokes. the murderer of
james Fisk. DR., comes ont of State
Prison on the 2-th inst. broken in
health. but rich man. His mother has
prosprlouslN cared for his oil refinery.
and Ed" himself has continued his
>permlations while in prison. and is now
the owner of Il very valuable patent.
which he purchased while in Sing Sing
from Il convict, for paving streets
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

Fridays cash admissions to Centen-
NAL ol,b6. Ii Is estimated that an
average of $4,000 cash admissions per
day, for the rest of the exhibition, will
he required to increase the daily aver
age cash attendance for the whole I59
days To $4,000. 1t is not expected
however, that the Stockholders will get
their money back even ut this rate.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

CHARLIE Ross. This j. the last
probable hoax about Charlie Ross
that is the last up to the time of going
Ia press: :. Btumcr>. the man arrested
and taken to Philadelphia last week on
suspicion that he WAS concerned in the
abduction of Charlie Ross. has stated
that hr knew MO>her. and that he SAW
Charlie himself i'll Pennsylvania three
weeks ago. If Benner> story is true.
1t is thought that the hoy is sccIetcd in
the vicinity of WrightSvIllc. York coun-
tH.a> that i the place where Benucr>
has stopped when he has been away
from Philadelphia.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

aside from the splendid Republican
gains on Congressman, is that they leave
the decision of the Presidential cam
paign to the deliberate choice and action
OF the American people. 1t might be
comfortable to the Republicans of the
mon to have their candidates chosen
10y proxy, as it We're, that is, to have
the whole battle virtually decided by
the October elections, leaving the rest
of the canvass and the voting in NOvem-
Der to follow in the wake of the local
victories thus won but this is not in
accordance with the interests of free
men, each one of whom ought to feel
that he has Il personal stake in all that
concerns the perpetnation and right adj
mlniStration of the Government. 1t
has been said that there is IL natural
disposition among every nine men to
lean on the tenth. 1t is fatal to indi
vidual Independence, and it is no less
disastrous, when INDUCED in, to the
public interests.
1t becomes the Republicans, there
fore, to look the results of the October
elections fairly in the face, and to con-
slider how they bear upon the remain
ing duties of the canvass. Our OppO-
nenrS may make the most of their facti-
tiouS .jubilatious, lis if the rest of the
campaign could be carried by the
Chinese tactics of raising all the uproar
possible but they will soon get through
with that. Every sensible man now
sees that the isSue now comes down to
II direct and thorough canvasSng of the
will of the American people. This is
heavy pounding" said Wellington at
Waterloo, ''hut the question Is which
can pound longest"
One of these states, in spite
Of the adverse influence of Il local ques-
lion affecting IL class of foreign born
voters, has given ii sufficient Republi-
can majority. which is likely to be
trebled on the 9TH of November. The
other. " here ii considerable Democratic
majority wis rolled up 1T the last cleo
ton tw" years ago, has probably given
II very reduced majority now. The
aiIIlogie> of the two preceding Presi
dental elections warrant the eXpecta
tinn that this will he handsomely re-
vcrScd III November; while Il general
review of the field establishes the CON
clusion that Hayes aud Wheeler can
easily he elected without the vote of
Indiana.
The auspices, therefore, are all that
We need for encouragement at the pres
cnt Time. The battle fields of the cam
pri"u which seem to hold the central
po>itiun> are New York. New jersey
aud Connecticut. from all of which We
have cheering accounts. Not one of
them presents 50 many difficulties aS
those which have been faced for the
last three months 10y the gallant Re
publican rInNaSScrs of Indiana to
whom lee all praise and honor for the
mobile work they have done and for the
results they have actually accomplished.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

The Centennial Commissioners have
resolved. that. i'll accordance with their
previous action, the exhibition shall he
closed Nov. 10.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

- Montpelier has our sympathy
Last year she waS visited with IL con
migration this year Rev" Henry
Morgan gives course of lectures there
Misturtunrs never come siugly. Wher
it rains il pours.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

The occupants OF Il Pullman car on
the Pennsy lvania railroad came very
near being burned To death at Morris
town, \. j., Thursday morning. The
car caught fire when the doors were.
locked, and it was with the utmost dit
tcultN that superintendent jackson and
other prominent railroad men, W no were
asleep, on board, were reused. The ear
was burned up.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

Ii" executive committee of Young
Men Christian Associations and
churches OF Vermont, will commence :,
stlleS OF gospel meetings at South
ardsboro, Saturday afternoon. Oct.
18th. Similar meetings will follow this
series III West Wardsboro, BrookIinr.
D"mmcrst"n and other towns in that
vicinity.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-10-20

FAILED TO IDENTIFY HIM. Sheriff
dudley, of Montpelier, who went to
worcester, Mass, last week. with II
rtqulSftlon from Gov. Fairbanks. for
Charles Barton, the Waterbury bank
burglar, fails to identify the man in
custody lis the same Barton who was
convicted of "crarking'' the bank at
Waterbury, i'll 1871.
a Boston lady who was at the Cen
tennIal Exhibition Oh Pensy lvania Day
remarked to il friend that she saw all
sorts of people, among whom was II
woman with one eye, who thought she
ought to he admitted for half price.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-02
THE PRINTER.

On Monday next the bust of Mr.. Greeley,
contributed by practical American printers,
will be placed, with appropriate exercises,
above his tomb. Such testimony of respect,
pride. and affection would be extremely con-
genial TO his taste and sentiments If he were
vet with us, and the honor had been deSeTv
cdly accorded to another No man could he
prouder of his original profession. Long after
he had abandoned its active exercise he
showed in hundred familiar ways
his attachment and his abiding sense
of It's importance, dignity, and usefulness.
He was fastidlOus i'll his idea Of good
work. and never very tolerant Of bOtchers
or of blundereTs. Any grave mistake III
typographical composition or arrangement
any tlagrantly bad prOOf-reading or press
work, any inferiOrity OF the materials used,
ALWAYS sorely tried his patience and not seldom
got the better of it. He had his own opinion
of the shape in which matter should be set,
and expected his wOrkmen to conform TO it.
1t has been said of punctuation that its main
service is clearly to present the thought of the
writer, but Mr. Greeley insisted upon such an
arrangement of all the types as would most
strikingly present opinions, and especially the
facts upon which they were based. He never
managed any journal upon the physiognomy
of which he did not impress visible tokens
of his typographical taste. These are
most remarkable in the paper which he first
printed - The NetC- Yorker then in The Log
Cabin subsequently in The Tribune Almanac;
while The TRIBUNE itself still preserves many
peculiarities of arrangement which it received
from its founder. The practical printer, about
whose shabby coat his rivals could never be
sufficiently merry, was almost foppish in his
captions, his distribution of paragraphs, his use
of numerical figures and Of capitals his EN-
New-York tribune., 1876-12-02

national politics 1t is not at all
astonishing that men whose annual pre-
miums of life insurance are coming que
are penetrated with unusual anxiety on tne
subject; are debating whether 1t ls worth
while TO make the effort needed for the pay
ment; are doubtful-no matter how high may
be the reputation of the company III WHICH
they are insured-as to whether q renewal Oh
their policies may not be throwing good money
after bad. ,,s-
A large proportion of the premiums on Ire
insurances fall due during the present mon'l,,
The annual statements of the companies VIII
not appear till January. Whatever tnerc may
be of comfort or encouragement Ill 'no'0
statements will come too late 10 CON
sole the pOlicy-holders who yield 10 their
fright in December and let ther poii-
cies lapse. Perhaps some portion Vi
this danger might be avoided if it were posi-
BILE for the companies to give in advance Drier'
informal sketches of their condition. some
such measure is evidently needed to stem the
tide if the lapsed policies of the present season
are not TO outnumber those of previous years.
To men who are doubtful about renewing
their uolicies. a word of advice seems neediul.
If the insurance is in an old company Oh sOou
repute, by all means renew. II II Is III con-
cern of slender resources ana WIN "hosc
name rjlmor is busy, be careful on one point
do not let the existing policy lapse until new
one has been obtained in another company
II is far better to have weak insurance than
none. Even in case of such a failure as that
of the Continental, some portion OF the money
invested in insurance will eventually be paid
to the claimants by the receiver. And ID the
great majority of instances the money winch
has been invested in premiums on LIE
insurance would not, if it had not
been so laid aside, have been saved
at all by it's pOssesSor On the other
hand there is no occasion for general anxiety
respecting our life insurance companies. Even
though there should prove to be one or two
more unfortunates in their ranks, the leading
concerns are sound beyond all doubt, and
there is nothing even in the present troubles
which can impair their sOlytncy.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-02
TILE cASE or MRS. GLEASOM

Whether Mrs. Gleason, whose case Is now
under investigation by the commissioners,
really suffered the Outrages of which she com
plains in the insane wards of BlackwelPs
Island or Bellevue Hospital is not, after all, OF
so much Importance to the public as whether
such outrages are possible or not. Hers is but
an individual case, dragged into notice be
cause of personal peculiarities. But the question
is whether. being woman, rich or poor, there
is a chance that she should bs arrested while
sane, confined for weeks or months without
propcr examination, strapped down in a straight
Jacket thrown into a cold bath, subjected to
indecent exposure, and left to die from neglect.
All these accusations and many others against
the management of insane wards may be but
the fancies of the disOrdered brains of pa
tients when released but the public has
right to know positively whether they are or
not. 1t is a matter of sheer justice to the in
stitutions attacked that these charges should
be thoroughly investigated, TO say nothing of
the justice due to the helpless patients.
The fact is that iI-treatment is made, by
the force of circumstances, too easy posi-
bility. A vast number of patients are gath
cred into mammoth building under the su-
pervisiOn Of one or two physicians. No matter
how skillful they are, or how good their in
tentions, it is simply impossible for them to
give to each case watchful oversight They
pass through the wards once day: the pre-
sumption of madness is against the patients;
their complaints or assertions OF sanity are
naturally ascribed to their madness; in short,
nothing can be easier than for IN honest ply
sician to detain ienoranty patient after the
time he is fit for discharge Nor does the evil
stop here The attendants on the insane are
not skillful physicians, not men and women
chosen for their humanity or their ability to
minister to a mind diseased. They are such
material as can be had for the Office-rough,
unculured, proud Of their authority and
easily tempted to exercise it brutally. When
this is too often the case in costly private
asylums what are we to expect when the
patients are paupersY
Now it Is the people who support these
gigantic institutions, not the few scientific
gentlemen or politicians VINO control them.
The people support them that justice may be
done TO helpless wards of the State, not in
justice. They have right to know therefore
that injustice is impossible, and the only way
to insure this is to open such asylums TO legal
lied inspection of a much strcter character
and more frequent repetition than is at present
possible The detection of wrOng-dOing, if
there be ong-dOing, should not be left to
such exceptional investigations as the present,
but made the authorized duty of uninterested
officials.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-02
THE NEW DEPARTURE AT PRINCETON
COLLEGE.

Princeton College has now announced that 1t is its
policy to strengthen itself not with buildings but
with men. 1t has on its campus good supply of
college edifces old and new, large and small, COM
modious and incOmmodiOus. 1t has dormitOrles,
library, gymnasium, observatory, chapel society
halls, Laboratories, and museums. 1t has the public
ear and eye, thanks to president who is enter
prslng as he is able. 1t has students in full num-
bers. 1t now seems to want nothing but men.
We do not mean to deny that Princeton College
has very competent scholars in its faculty. No in
stitution need be ashamed of such names McCOsh
and Atwater in philo ,ophy Guyot and Alexander in
science and Packard in the classical languages :; yet
some of them are old or ntrm and there is certainly
n need of Younger men to take their placeS-men
who shall be i'm sympathy with the new scholarship
which has reyolutonized at least philOOgy and
science.
Princeton is nearly as old Yale 1t has had an
even more wealthy constituency from which it
ought to have drawn its supplies and it is not at all
TO the credit of the public spirit of the Middle States
and of the controlling religious body in the country
that during the last century and this it has not kept
old Princeton abreast of any other in the appliances
of instruction, and especially in Compare to-
day, after all the progress that the College of New
jersey has made in the last eight years the Harvard
and the Princeton catalogues and beside the former
the list of instruction at Princeton will appear
tremely meager. Harvard and Yale and Princeton
ought, from their age and advantages, TO stand on
! level but no fair-minded PrncetOnian can claim
| that this is the case.
| We suppose that we understand the reason that
would he given by the trustees of Princeton for the
fact that they have improved their architecture
more than their faculty. Like all other colleges,
they have found it very difficult to secure abso-
| lutely unselfish donors. This and that rich man
likes to perpetuate his memory by building that
shall forever bear his name. In building a
wealthy business man seems to see something tangi
BILE for his money! and Others will see it too. But
New-York tribune., 1876-12-02
TIE NLBS THIS MORNLNG.

FoREIGS.-The Greek Ministry has resigned. -=
Italy is opposed to Russia occupying Bulgaria. --
The Roumanian Government proposes to maintain
a concentrated army until the end of this year. -=
There mas been o great fire at Santander, Spain.
- Republicans in the french Legislature call Tor
the resignation of Minis T Dufaure.
DoMEsTC-The DemOc rats visiting in Louisiana
issue an address to the country; at last accounts
the stu zion in South Carolina was unchanged, the
TWO riva Houses having remained for SO hours III
Joint session. IA fire at New-Orlcans DESTROYED
over 100 houses, with total loss between $780,
600 and 100000. =- Exhibition buildings
which cost 81 800, 600 were sold Tor S20G,lGO
CITY AID SUBURBAN.-Thc South Carolina trou-
bles were earnestly discussed in this city, Corpora
tion Counsel Whitney and other Democrats claiming
that the Supreme Court had not exceeded its
mowers. = Assistant Collector Clinch resigned.
- All the bids for the Brooklyn Bridge wires are
in. - The hearing of the charges against Park
Commissioners Martin and ODonOhuc was con-
tinued. - Robert Lee, tailor IN East Ihrty-
fourth-st. killed his little daughter by carclcssiy
handling revolver. -= Gold, 1851, 1OS@ lO9.
Gold value Of the legal-tender dollar at the close
81 To cents Stocks quiet, duh and lower, closing
weak.
The WEATHER.-THE TmBUNEs local observa-
tons indicate few changes except possibility OF
Light snow. == In this city yesterday 1t was cold
and windy. Thermometer, 10o, 1872, lG'.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-02
PERSONAL.

Mr. Jefferson Davis has returned to his home
In Memphis.
The torch which the daring " ls'rul used
when he bounded into the VOLTS cave, is exhibited IN
tho Old South Maybe it is the very same and ayDo
not
Mr.. Edward Lear, the nonsense-poet, the
author OF the delightful "Jumbhes, and the originator
of tbe absurd nonsense quntain is an excellent artist III
water color as well as a lively writer.
Let no man dare to say 10 Signor Bngnol
that he Is old for It makes that very good muscian IN
diopant He il in his 47h year, he says, and that Is
comfortable age, an excellent age an age WHICH "N'
him still owning notes OF honey
Stopewall JacksOn's daughter Julia Is now
a pretty girl OF sixteen with large eyes good heu'
and an xpress sion full OF sweetness and character She
is said to be exceedingly gentle modest anu
She is living with her mother in Charlotte' ~ -
Adelina Patti, of all singers IN the wOrlu
the most movingdencate, lately sang at Far'
soiree and for the first time In the composers hearing
the song "Connaistu lie paysi' from Mignon mon.
scur AMBROSE Thomas did not take IL quietly az a no
actually cried and says that no one Dul .uo ~ ~
Adeina shall the part OF the unhapS heroo' VI
his unpublished score, &" Francose de RminL
Alexandra Dumas is n lucky man. Whatever
he writes whether in accordance not with the preeo
ceived ideas Of society," of success Ino'eu no
once rod very hard on the toes OF French ladies' even
a certain pamphlet about "apo OF the Dead Se ye.
nevertheless it is among the best KNOWN VI ut Jt
anecdotes that OF the leaders ol Ihs ol WnV u -
an attack against his opinions. heeliuk nm A 'NS N
New-York tribune., 1876-12-02
STEAMERS TO South AMERICA.

The distractions of politics do not prevent
some of the business opportunities of the year
from receiving the attention they deserve.
Owing to changes which have taken place in
the world of trade and manufacture. the time
is full of such opportunities One of them re-
fers to our foreign commerce. Speaking of the
shipping interests of the United States, Mr.
Greeley once said that no country could hope
to transact a large commerce until 1t found
itself with a large surplus of manufactures
and under the necessity OF exploring the
world for places to sell them. 1t is one
of the changes of the present period that the
United States finds itself not only under the
necessity of hunting up foreign markets for
its manufactures, but able, at the same time,
70 place n variety of its goods in those mar
zets in competition with the English and
French, who have so long mOnOpOlized thcm
For the last year or two experiments have
been tried in this direction. These having met
with some success, and the balance of trade hav
ing turned in our favor it would seem as if
The conditions laid down by Mr.. Greeley had
been complied with, and that an opportunity
was presenting itself for the enlargement Of
American commerce.
Many CAREFUL InHhelS Sllll uOuoO
the time has really come for the effort,
and in respect to transatlantic commerce
there is reason for a suspension of judg-
ment at present. 1t is the fact that practi-
cal men have hesitatcd to act with regard to
if. In the trade with South America
there is perhaps a different field. Here
there is greater hope Of success. Not only has
the trade of the United States with that re-
gion already reached very respectable proper
tions but it now only needs direct COM
munication to expand it to an extent
which will probably enable steamers engaged
IN the trade to live. The news columns of
The TRIBUNE to-day show that the subject is
ot any rate under consideration, and that ne
cotiltions are taking place for the establish
ment Of lines of steamers to that continent.
A practical outcome of the efforts Of those en-
gagged will be of benefit to the business inter-
ests of the country.