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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Disappointed Hopes.

The feasibility of compromising with
criminals is doubtful /; either justice is
hampered, or only half administered,
and an unsatisfactory result is attained.
In the notorious compromise in New
York, between Tweed and the Attorney
General of the state, it seems that the
latter possessed himself of Tweed's
confession, and documents, and after
showing them to Tilden, several politi-
clans, and pretty much whom he pleased,
returns them to the eX-Boss with sniff
of derision and lets his ''ex-cellency"
linger in Ludlow street Jail.
1t don't require a lawyer to decide
how this looks ON the surface, nor a
very able person to see that something
exists in Tweed's statement and papers
that would carry justice so tar that
parties now out of range of the imme-
date case, would be raked by the evil
dence badly. No such simple reason
as insufficiency of its facts and points,
leads Atty General Fairchild to pass
the evidence back to Tweed. To an
impartial mind it seems that the Boss
has very full hand, and if the courts
won't accept the confession in exchange
for his liberation, he will Immediately
play it alone aud it will most assuredly
cause an awful rumpus.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
ST. cyuhnsburp Gatedonian.
The Molly Maguires.

Ordinarily such an execution as was
referred TO last week, would have an
effect to intimidate the remaining viii
lains but no sooner are the bodies
laid away than the witnesses and all
who assisted to bring the guilty to exc
cution are threatened and threats car
ried into execution, two men being
assassinated the night after the execu-
ton.
This gang of Thugs should be sifted
to the bottom, and the actual instiga-
tors,-the leaders who really keep this
fiendish band together, for the purpose
of getting their hands into the Maguire's
treasury, and who haven't the least in
terest as honest, hard working miners
in the ostensible purpose for which the
Union was organized, should prompt
ly and without exception be made to
suffer death at the scaffold. 1t is the
province of the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania to place the state militia upon
the scene, and if needed call on the
General Government to assist in pro-
tecting the civil courts in carrying out
the details of indicting, putting on trial,
eonvicting, sentencing and hanging these
cowardly assassins.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Judge Hilton VS.. the Jews.

Judge Hilton, who seems to manage,
if not possess the A. L. Stewart estate,
gave orders to the Grand Union Hotel
managers at Saratoga, not to entertain
Jews in general, and the family of one
Seligman Of New York, in particular.
Brother Bowles of the Springfield Re
publican, puts the case in this way:
New York city, after tearing its
clothes for a week with the Jew-hOtel
controversy, has begun to take hu-
morOus view of the question, and even
to be little ashamed of the fuss it has
made over it. The Jews themselves,
first inclined to magnify it, to organize
for sweet revenge and to masquerade as
martyrs, now refuse to talk about it,
and ask the press to let them alone.
At the synagOgues on Saturday there
was scarcely any allusion to the ques-
ton, and the few rabbis who did speak
of it in their discourses said it was
merely quarrel between two individ-
uals, and of no general consequence
either to the public or the race. Mr.
Hilton sums up the matter rather tri-
umphantly, and intimates that the
Grand Union hotel has gotten good
deal of very excellent advertising out
of the discussion, and that whatever
people may say about the abstract prin-
ciple of equality and the duty of taverns
to take all Corners, it will now have the
pick of Saratoga goers and its most
prosperous season. He is equally non
chalant on the threatened withdrawal
of business patronage from the Stewart
dry goods house. A few jew firms have
closed their accounts there, but he rath-
er satirically remarks that the Jews, of
all people, only traded with it because
they could buy cheaper at it than else
where, and that they are not likely to
go away so long as he can give them
any advantages in price. But he con-
tinues with some personal acerbity to
make a distinction among the Jews.
Like the man who said there were two
classes of fools, -'fOols and darned
FOOLS" he says there are Jews and Sc
ligman Jews,-and it is the last sort
that he doesn't want at his tavern.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Liquor Drinking and the President.

Mrs. Livermore and her associates of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, are entitled to the hearty thanks
of the Christian people, not only of
Massachusetts but of the entire nation,
for their memorial to Mayor Prince,
asking that at the banquet to be given
by the city of Boston in honor of Presi-
dent Hayes, no liquors may be furnish
ed at the public expense. The custom
is, as the memorial well says, "a relic
of an age of sensuality," and if it is to
be continued, it is well that Christian
people should enter their protest, lest
they seem to consent to it. Mayor
Princes avowed determination to fur
nish liquors, and his bold defense of the
social drinking customs of the day, will
not surprise those who are familiar with
the habits of fashionable society but
that he should so far forget his position
as to insist, as Mayor of the city, upon
making his personal private habits Che
expressly states, 81 have wine on my
table every day of my life") the standard
of conduct upon public occasion OF
this kind, is matter for great regret
The position of Mr.. Hayes, as total
abstainer, is we'll understood, and we
see no way i'll which so glaring a dis
courtesy can be shown him, as by pre-
tending to honor him by custom which
cannot fail to be grossly offensive to
him.
The immoral influence of public wine
banquets cannot be overestimated. AS
Mrs. Livermore says, ''There will be
whiskey-drinking in the slums of the
city, so long as there is wine-drinking
in its palatial residences" The North
End copies the vices of Beacon Street,
and rum will flow more freely in the
haunts of debauchery. because of the
example which is to be set at the Presi-
dental banquet. The occasion will be
remembered with sadness in many a
home, for scores of our best citizens
have gone to drunkards' graves, victims
of these social drinking customs; and
some who will attempt to "honor''
President Hayes by drinking his health
in champagne, will come at last into
shame and dishonOr through the habit
thus INDUCED. We are glad the Chris
tiap women of the State have entered
their protest, and believe it will not be
many years before they will see the
fruit of their labors.-Zi0n's Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
News and other Items.

The reported attempted escape of
Phair is denied. He was locked up
i'll his cell for other reasons. Still it
looks as though there was something
to it.
Peter Harvey, the warm personal
friend and political adviser of Daniel
Webster, died at Boston, June %.
The welcome which New England is
giving to President Hayes saws re
morselessly through the underpinning
of the Manhattan fraudulency platform,
and leaves it an uhsubstantial standing
place for claw-hammer craftsmanship.
Fifty Jewish houses in Cincinnati,
representing an aggregate of over
| $4,000, 900 of capital, have published
"a card in the Cincinnati papers pledging
themselves to entertain no business re-
lations whatever with the house of A. Il.
Stewart & Co. Among them are sew
eral heavy clothing houses.
As the President rode through Bos-
ton the other day a grizzled one-armed
veteran shouted long and loud, waving
his hat with his remaining hand. Il
fought under Hayes" he observed to
those around him. 81 know him, and
he'd know me if | had chance to talk
with him. He'll come out all right
with his policy, and don't you forget
it.n Near the Tabernacle a colored
woman held up an infant few months
old and called out: "Mr. President, |
named dis baby for you Rudderford
Hayes Benson. Don't you go back on
the colored people"
Tho r olya Sbnro 10 4
with having done what it could to atone
for the Ashtabula disaster by volun-
tarily paying, without waiting for an
appeal to the courts, as heavy damages
as the law would award to the living
sufferers and families of the dead.
Two young women had parts on the
commencement program at Cornell uni
versity last week, and one of them was
also chosen to fill one of the class-day
appointments.
The first barrel of new -four was sold
on Change at Nashville, June %, for
$3.50, and afterward shipped to st.
Louis.
There has been another fatal case of
hydrophobia at Hartford, and this time
there is no disagreement among the
doctors over its reality. Daniel Ora
hams daughter Annie, four years and a
half old, was bitten by dog nearly six
weeks ago. She complained Monday of
feeling unwell, was taken with cOnvul-
sions Thursday morning and died in the
afternoon, after undergoing all the
symptoms of the terrible disease.
A singular accident occurred near
Palo Pinto, Miss, the other evening.
A Mrs. Roller was milking a COW, and
her son, man of 25, was standing near
with stick three or four feet long in
his hand, the hand resting against the
left groin. While in this position the
COW kicked striking the end of the
stick, and driving the opposite end
against the lower part of Mr.. RS abdo-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Mormon Proselytes.

Strange to say nearly one thousand
proselytes to mormonism are en-route
for Utah. A more deluded set Of I'M
fortunates cannot be imagined. They
look, nOp, upon the "saint" Brigham
Young and his satellites as good and
pure men. Coming from Scotland,
Wales, and Scandinavia, ignorant gen
orally, and of the actual position and
condition of the Mormons, they are
destined to a sorrOwful disappointment.
Instead of the ideal saints, they will
find a set of bigoted fanatics, living
contrary to our laws and with their
hands red with the blood of slaughtered
men, women and babes. Men who
have at this very instant the meshes OF
outraged law closing inexorably upon
them, and with every prospect of some
forty or fifty of the highest, oldest, and
wealthiest, meeting the fate of Bishop
Lee, and filling murderers' graves be-
side his on the scene of the Mountain
Meadow massacre.
Polygamy is bad enough. They have
lived in defiance of the whole country
and open violation of that statute, to
this they add avarice and murder, and
it is to such ''saints" these strangers are
to be left. Would it be an extraneous
move for Government to memorabilia
Europe to put stop to emissaries from
Utah carrying this delusion any fur
thar
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Another Life Insurance Co. Failure.

The Charter Oak Life Insurance Com
pany of Hartford, Conn.,, is in very
bad condition. There is an actual de-
felt in the assets of over 81, 900, 900,
and there are questionable assets
amounting to over Sl,735,O 900. The
special commission appointed under a
resolution of the last Connecticut Legis-
lature to investigate all the life COM
panies in the state, consisting of Judge
Origen 5. Seymour, Henry M. Cleve-
land, chairman of the House insurance
committee, and David P. Nichols, ex-
treasurer of the state, have published
this conclusion as the result of their in
quest on the Charter Oak, the first COM
pany examined. Although the Charter
Oak has been under a cloud ever since
its investment in Connecticut Valley
bonds, it has been bouyed up by reor-
ganization and the shifting of its unsta-
BILE bonds for New York real estate. The
policy holders are however advised not
W ShdbSCS, do lut
company may come out better than il
now looks. The Springfield Republican
says:
We don't see how the Charter Oak
can go on under the certain and proba-
BILE losses here displayed. 1t is griev-
Gus ruin. 1t is the first of the old COM
panies, established before the era of
wildcat life insurance, to weaken. 1t
is the first prominent insurance COM
pany established prior to 1860 to fly the
flag of distress. OF the 80 companies
in existence in that year, only one in
New England, the American Mutual OF
New Haven, has passed out of exist
ence, and only five others in all, three
of which were at the South. The "a
remaining companies have stood stead
fast till this debilitation of the Charter
Oak. This is the whole fact, both for
encouragement and for distrust.
This ought not to weaken faith in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

STATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT, Sc.
DIN Probate Court, holden at the Probate Office, ID
st. Johnsbury, within and for said District the
Sd day of July, A. ID. 1877.
Mrs. Lizzie NJ. Brown, guardian of Gertie >
Brown, Bertha Z. Brown, and Harry A. Brown;
heirs of VIM. F. Brown, late of Lyndon, in sara
district, deceased, minors makes application to Sald
court for license to sell the following described
real estate of her said wards, to wit: Their inter
est in the 1'Caswen Place." called, situated III
Lyndon aforesaid representing that the sale therg
Of for the purpose of putting the proceeds oil sut
sale at interest investing the same in stocks 81
other real estate would be beneficial to said Waru
Whereupon it is ordered by said court that sAlu
application be referred to a session thereof to Oe
held at the Probate Office, in said st. JohnsbgrS
on the 2lst day of July, A. D. 1877, for hearing
and decision thereon and it is further OF
dered that all persons interested be notified hereof
by publication of notice of this application ana u
der thereon, three weeks successfully in the Clle
DOMAIN printed at st. JOhnsbury before SAID tnlJ
of hearing that they may appear at said time aV
place, and if they see cause, object thereto
By the Court, Attest
1896 HENRY FRENCH, Register
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Opening of the Burlington & Lamoille
R. R.

Monday, July End, 1877, will be a
date long memorable in the history of
Chittenden county and that of our
neighbor LamOille, for on that day the
first passenger train over the Burling-
ton and Lamoille Railroad made the
trip from it's terminus in Cambridge to
this city-not only bringing into the
"bounds of civilization" rich and fer
tile country, but giving us new route
to the sea-board, and one which can not
fail to greatly add to the wealth and
prosperity of Burlington. The Burling-
ton and Lamoille Railroad is now sub
stantially completed; and the through
route only awaits the action of the Port
land and Ogdensburg, whose authori
ties are pushing forward its work with
energy; and trains to st. Johnsbury
may be expected in very few weeks.
For this successful accomplishment of
an extremely difficult and dishearten-
ing task lin some of its aspects, at least)
the public are indebted, first and fore
most, to the Hon. D. c. Linsley, the
builder of the road.-Burlington Free
Press, july 3.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

O'BRIEN's SHow.-Early during the
past winter several circus managers con-
ceived the invasion of the New England
States, each endeavorng to monopOlize
patronage by the organization of COM
pany larger than the other, which we
must say was an exhibition of good
judgment on their part, as the people
are always sure to patronize the largest
and the best. For several years past
MI. John O'Brien, a wealthy Snowman
and animal importer, has had an enoI-
nous sum invested in circuses and men,
ageries, sending out each year, in diff
ferent directions, three, four, five, and
as high as six companies at one and the
same time, making the one bearing his
own name larger and better than all the
rest, and managing the same in person.
By experience he has learned that the
show under his-own management, no
matter how successful and profitable the
others were, always made the most
money. This fact, and the Efforts of
rival managers to outstrip him, caused
him to merge all his six shows in one
for the season of 1877, and with this
formidable combination he takes the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
Vermont News.


The other day man was in Bridport,
claiming to be the ex-rebel General
Mosby, searching for rebel aid. He
called at the house of Horace Lapham,
Sen, claiming that he had been recon-
mended by S. l.. Bissell to Mr.. Lapham
on some important business, and stop
ped all night. In the morning Mr..
Lapham found that his visitor had been
searching and drawing a map of the
house and its location, supposed to be
intended for burglary. Mr.. Lapham is
in fear of being robbed, as he is IA
wealthy farmer.
Fourteen candidates for admission to
the Freshman class of Middlebury Col
lege, have been admitted, and one was
absolutely rejected, and some ten or
twelve more have signified their inten-
ton to join the class at the opening of
the fall term, making about twenty
five as the ultimate number of the class.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
A contract has been awarded by the
Vt. Centennial Commission to a caterer
named Pierce of Boston, for the ban
quet in Bennington, Aug. 10th, -3500
plates to be set.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
While d young man named Peter
Lapointe was driving in WillistOn, the
horse became unmanageable and took
his own course at a high rate of speed
to stump fence, and stopping sudden
ly threw the young man with great vio-
lence upon sharp projecting root of
one of the stumps. The root made its
way into his body breaking two ribs
and, it is believed, penetrating the lung.
He lies in very critical condition.
As Patrick Hayes, an employee at
Linsley's Mill in Burlington, was clean
ing planer, some one started the ma
chine and his left arm was dragged into
it and frightfully mutilated. The limb
was cut off close to the shoulder and
chopped up into fragments, not Il piece
being found more than few inches in
length. The wound was dressed and
there is every prospect of the mans re-
covery. The knives of a planer makes
some three thousand revolutions a min
ute.
The Free Press says the next Fresh
man class in the University bids fair to
be an unusually large one. Twenty
four candidates for admission to it have
already been examined, two or three of
whom may be advised to continue their
preparatory studies another year; but
it is plain that the class will exceed
thirty in number.
Miss Hemenway of Burlington, au-
thor of the Historical Gazetteer of Yer
mont, writes to a friend in Brattleboro
that SIZE has resumed the publication
of the fourth volume of her work
which embraces Windham county, and
not only intends but has good reason
to expect to be able soon to complete
the entire work, which she began l9
years ago.
Dartmouth College, on Thursday,
conferred the degree of d. D., on Pres
ident Buckham, of the University of
Vermont.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
On Saturday of last week Curtis Ellis
of Fletcher was brought before Justice
E. S. Butler of Fairfax, for obtaining
liquor by false pretences of Judge Fair
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

DISASTER AT A PICNIC.-The steamer
Lady of the Lake" exploded her boil
er on Silver lake, Plympten, Mass, last
Thursday, and six persons were severe
ly and perhaps fatally scalded, and IL
less dangerously. There were about
30 persons Oh board, who were attend
ing a picnic of the Dorchester and Ne
ponset Unitarian Sunday schools. Mrs.
George w. Phillips, Mrs. Joseph T.
Orne, and little Fanny Brown, all of
Boston, who were injured by the explo-
sion, are still in very critical condi-
ton, and the latter will not live. Mrs.
Phillips's 9-years-old daughter Myra
died Friday afternoon, in great agony,
she having been fearfully scalded from
head to foot.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

Mast has one of his most amusing
cartoons in the last Harper's 1t repre-
sents Tilden and Hendricks as couple
of old mummies slowed away for use
in 1880 or later. Mummy Hendricks
with a most placid smile says to Mum
my Tilden: 81 am glad l am not so
feeble as you.n The cooked eye of the
''great retormer" turned up at Hend-
ricks, expressing both Indignation and
disdain, is strikingly characteristic and
comical.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

DR.. Lavalette, of New York, has, af-
ter profound study, discovered that
Encyclopaedia is not the result of spe-
citic poison, but of molecular change
brought about in the sputa of the dog
by an abnormal nervous condition ;
that is to say, it is form of energy
governing the atoms, not a seminal
principle injected into them" In Other
words, if a human being has hydropho-
bia it isn't the dogs fault but his own.
His nervous condition has no business
to be in such condition as to produce
the molecular change. This discovery
relieves the dog of a fearful response
bility.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

field confident that if one sixth of his
present attraction pleased the public,
the entire six shows must give salts
faction in an increased ratio. O'Brien's
six consolidated shows in its entirety,
will exhibit at st. Johnsbury, Friday,
July 18th.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06
DA UCHY'S ADVERTTSEMENTS.
A. GREAT OFFER,.MTss { will su 5i.so :sf

100 PIANOS and ORGANS, new and second
hand of irst-class makers, including WATEko'
at lower prices for cash or instruments or to let
until paid for, than ever before offered Waters
Grand Square and Upright Pianos and Organs
Gncluding their new Souvenir and Boudoir) are
the best made. octave pianos, $3.50, u do slOO
not used year. "2" Stop Organs. $50, Stops 90
Stops s6s, Stops s75 10 Stops sss 10 Stops slOV
cash, not used year, in perfect order and wa,
ranted. Local and travelling agents wanted
Illustrated Catalogues mailed. liberal discount
to Teachers, Ministers, Churches, etc. ohe''
Music at half price. HORACE WATERS
SONS, Manufacturers and Dealers, 40 East i.'D
St. Union Square, N. Y.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

Life Insurance. Not the principle of
Life Insurance, but the unpriDcipled
miss managers of other peoples money,
brought this disaster about. Mutual
Companies, unless administered as
economically, and honestly as Stock
Companies, will surely come to grief,
and almost always the cause is dishon-
esty of the officers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

1t was a busy week, last week. Nine
colleges held commandments; Marble
head suffered from a great fire; the
Iowa Republican convention refused to
approve the course of the Republican
President; the Democrats in tue New
Hampshire legislature tried to pass res
olutiOns approving the same policy, and
the Republicans resisted them success
fully; Gen. Grant visited Queen Vic
tOria at Windsor Castle, and the Rus
slams crossed the Danube.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-06

The Baxter scandal case at Rutland,
came to an end Tuesday. Mrs. Payson
who had threatened the damaging dis
closures relative to Gen. Baxter, adj
mitted that there is no truth in them,
and was committed by the judge to the
care of her friends. j. r. Ryan, the
brother of Susie Ryan, the woman
whose character was aspersed with that
of Gen. Baxter, was fined SO and costs
on Monday for his assault on reporter.