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None to caress.

A few evenings since man who had been
unenterprising and unfortunate in love. de
termined to commit suicide to relieve him
self of the cares attendant upon being in
Virginia with no one to caress. He con-
cludsd to make his death somewhat pecul-
lar, and, leading up an English "bull-
dog" started about midnight for tho
Catholic cemetery. His idea was to shoot
himself in the graveyard, where his re-
mains oss.aa A-e..s~a tl.s>
attendant upon transportation. Full of
this original conception, the man wrote a
letter to his lAndlady on street, and
wended his way toward the spot he expect
ed to relieve himself the burdens of exist
ence. On his way lie attempted take a
short cut across hicken ranch, and here
an unexpected accident occurred. AS he
was about halfway across the lot, an hon
est watch dogs bay fell upon his ears, and
in. moment the animal was coming up
vigorously, with the most savage intentions.
Pulling out his six-shooter he opened upon
the dog, and stood him off quite success
fully. Suddenly, however, the owner of
the ranch hove in sight with double-bar-
relied shotgun and covered the unfortunate
young man. "Don't shoot-for Gods
sake don'tr' called out the poor fellow,
who, while bent upon his own destruction,
suddenly became frightened out of his wits,
and determined to live at any price. With
the shotgun leveled at his head he fell
upon his knees, begging hard for his life,
and trying to explain his accidental pres
enee upon the place. He was finally al
lowed to go, and fed across the country
like deer, soon coming back to this city
and prirning his nerves with beer and sand
wiches. The note left his landlady was as
follows:
DEAR Mrs. c.: am tired Of life,
and will blow out my brains in the ceme-
terry tonight. My rent is paid up to the
9Th. I do this because life has become a
burden to me. Yours,
He is now quite cheerful, and took an
other girl to the theatre last night.
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A P1ucEY LITTLE BOY.
How Ee Fell Into Well, and, After Several
Efforts to Escape, Was Rescued There
from.

The Des hoines Qowa) State Register Of
January 31st, says: "The family of Mr..
John Beckwith, the Assistant Postmaster
Of this city, had real sensation the day
before yesterday. The pump in the well
OF the house had been taken out to be re-
pared. Little Willie, aged eight years,
while out doors alone, concluded to draw
some water, and with the rope and bucket
temporarily used, proceeded to do so. Ice
had formed around the well, and as he was
drawing up the water his feet slipped out
from under him, and he was precipitated,
head first, down the well, % feet deep.
There was nearly five feet of water. The
little fellow went clear to the bottom, his
head striking the earth, and his mouth
filling with mud. Small and young as he
was, he had rare presence of mind, and at
once commenced to get out of the water,
which he did by getting hold of the rope
and pulling himself up. Finding he could
pull up, hand over hand, he kept on climb
ing. helping his hands with his feet when
he could touch the wall He finally got
close to the top, but the ice had formed so
around the orifce that he could not get
out Finally when the brave little fellows
strength was exhausted, he had to fall back
into the well. But again he had the pres
ence of mind to keep hold of the rope, thus
breaking his fall, although he said it felt
like it was going to burn his hands off.
After waiting awhile he again climbed
close to the top, and again had to let go
and go down again. Still not daunted, the
little hero, after resting at the bottom,
again started up, all the time calling for
help as loudly as his failing strength would
permit. It was when he was half way up
the third time that his mother, going out
to see where he was, before starting to
town, heard his voice. She thought it
sounded as if he was back Of the barn,
but not finding him there grew fairly fran
tic in trying to follow up his voice finally
finding him in the well. With equal pres
ence of mind with her imperilled little
boy, Mrs. Beckwith reassured him. and
telling him hold the rope, drew him up. AS
soon as he was out, but not till then, the
heroic little boy, who had made so gallant
a fight for his life, gave up, and his strength
was completely gone. He was carried to
the house, when it was found he was pref
ty badly bruised. But bruises were moth
ing since his life had been saved.''
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-03-02
A Baby Whale.

Last week our Portuguese fishermen killed
large female whale Of the California Gray
species (RhacAianectss GLaucus), about SIX
ty feet in length, being some twenty-five
feet larger than has ever been killed here
before-the average Of females killed being
about forty-two feet. After cutting off the
the blubber they found inside nearly full
grown male calf, which measured eighteen
feet from the end Of it's nose to the tip of
it's tail, or fluke, as the sailors call it; the
circumference Of the body at Its centre,
nine feet; the head about four feet in length;
pectoral fins three feet: breadth of tail
thrse and half feet, and 1t had two ridges
on the lower jaw When brought on shore
it still had three feet Of the umbilical cord
attached to it. The whalebone on its up
per jaw was soft and white; the tongue
large and soft; the eyes nearly full size,
about as large as cows, and the skin was
or ~ uaTA DroWn, m0rJIeu white. 1t had no
dorsal fin. The fotnsIos, whan; ~itt srs,..e,s
generally keep off shore when on their way
down south, to bring them forth in the
warm waters of the bays of Lower Califor-
MIA, where they remain all winter and go
north in the spring. The females, with
calf, are dangerous, as they often attack
the boats of whalers. The writer once saw
boat cut completely in two by the fues of
one of these whales, and it looked as if it
had been chopped in two by dull az ard
So 7eral of the men were wounded. The
term of CESSATION is about one year. For
merly these marine monsters were so nu-
merous in Monterey Bay that whalers
would fill up lying at anchor. Oftentimes
they would be seen playing in the surf, and
rolling the barnacles off OF their sides and
backs on the sand beach-an odd way of
scratching MISUNDERSTANDING CatJor-
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TEaNs Payable Invariably IN advance.
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EvE-ANGEL1CAL CORNER.
The Breton is a new jacket.

The Breton is new jacket.
Plush bonnets are novelties.
Dresses are made extremely narrow in
front
Why is beautiful woman like Hoe
printing press? Because she makes good
impression.
A gentleman said, when a pretty girl
trod on his toes, that he had received the,
stamp Of beauty.
The newest pocket handkerchiefs are of
cream or ecru foulard silk, with initials or
monograms artistically worked in blue, red
or brown silk.
Miss Julia Gaylor, an American canta-
trice, is noted for her beautiful voice and
small feet. Her foot notes must be very
interesting.
A boy at st. Albans, Vermont, shot cat
and hit girl in tho window. II she had
been doing housework she would have es-
caped injury.
A Brooklyn girl was asked PZ very
thin gentleman if she didncS9 -
could learn to love him. "I MIGHT II ~ ~
was stuffed was the reply.
A thrifty young woman in Boston .gotup
handsome subscription for letter-carrier
on the route, and then married him, and
used the fund to defray the expenses of
wedding tour. .-.
An ingenious Partisan lady, has one Nine.
Vidal, deserves mention for getting her
Swiss husband naturalized without his
knowledge or consent, SO that she could Sc
cure divorce from him. =...
A simple way to make long dress short
for wear i'll the street is to place small
brass rings on the back breadths in a man
ner to slope like train and then raise it by
mesns Of linen tape or cord which is run
through them. ,5. sa... s...-....
The Superintendent of the Davenport,
Iowa, schools is..a woman, a teacher of long
experience, and those schools were never
in moro efficient state than Under her
rule. She has been elected President of
the State Teachers Association.
The bride in a wedding in Lexington,
KY, was ninety years old, the groom being
ten years younger. She was, elaborately
dressed, and the ceremony was witnessed
by relatives enough to crowd church.
Five generations were represented, and a.
representative of the .fifth-a four-year-old
boy presented her at the altar with % bas-
ket Of orange blossoms. ii ....s.
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FORGET THEE!

The following beautiful poem was written and nr
shed by the Rev. j. Moultrie more than tween
ears ago:
Forget thee! If to dream by night,
And muse on thee by day
If all the worship deep and wild,
Apoets heart can pay
II prayers, in absence breathed for thee,
To Heavens protecting power
IT winged thoughts that fit to thee,
A thousand in an hour
If busy fancy blending thee
With all my future lot
If this thou call'st " forgetting" thou
Indeed shalt be forgot.
Forget thee! Bid the forest birds
Forget their sweetest tune;
Forget thee: Bid the sea forget
To swell beneath the moon;
Bid the thirsty evening flower forget
To drink refreshing dew;
Thyself forget thine own dear land
And its mountains wild and blue
Forget each old familiar face,
Each long remembered spot;
When these things are forgot by thee,
Then thou shalt be forgot.
Keep, If thou wilt, thy maiden peace
Still calm and fancy free,
For God forbid thy gladsome heart
Should grow less glad for me;
Yet while that heart is still unwon,
Oh! bid no tmine to rove,
But let it nurse its humble faith
And accomplishing love. ....
If these, preserved for patient years.
At last avail me naught,
Ferget me then! but ne'er believe
That thou canst be forgot.
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A Lesson IN French.

We do not wish to appear critical, but
when NE read in the columns OF our local
fashion napsr that before leaving the Gov
crnor's reception the quests : wished their
host and hostess bon jour, we are remind
ed tnat that same paper has habit of
speaking OF & Mrs. Smith fsss Mrs. Brown,
hon Jour is very good French for 4 h0W do
you do? and as nee aaeans borr,s it is
IN using French words ID, BE sura yoli are
right, and then use English --Hrastle with
the yernacnlar, ,as it we're. -,Sf Louis Gso6s-
Democrat,
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? o z TR z
OUR DAILY REcKoNrNr,

IL we sit down at set of sun.
ana count the things that we have done
And, counting, find
one self-denying act, one word
Inat eased the heart of him who heard:
One glance most kind,
mat fell like sunshine where it went.
ihen we may count the day well SPENT
But if through all the lifelong day
we've eased no heart by yea or nay;
If through it all
We've done no thing that we can trace,
That brought the sunshine to face,
No act, most small,
That helped ssme SOUL and nothing cost,
Then count the day as worse than lost.
--NeD York Mdil,
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80 Yes,'' remarked tramp as he
stretched himself out to sleep on q seat in
the Senate gallery, 1.-THE glorious palladi-
asn of our liberties must be preserved. We
can't watch these politicians too closely in
fact, think shall stay here al night.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-23

sonal and other pretexts cling to the
old policy, have already expressed their
hostility to the proposed withdrawal.
They look at it purely from a party
standpoint. The President and all those
who heartily desire to see his Southern
policy carried out cannot consider this
question from any such view.
Governor Warmoth is not the man
one would select as leader, or in gen
eral as counselor. Many of the trou-
bles which now exist in Louisiana are
the fruits of seed of his planting. He
is, however, a man of unquestiOned
ability and his knowledge of the affairs
of Louisiana must be well nigh COM
plete. He is to-day the opponent OF
Governor Packard and not in accord
with the Democrats. He has suggested
a plan of compromise which strikes one
as feasible, and, at the same time, in
harmony with the Constitution of Lou
isiana.
1t is said that the President is favor
ably impressed with this proposition
and may be led to give it trial. There
is, however, a disposition to hurry the
President to take this or that course
But this is chiefly done by parties in
interest. The country is willing to grant
President Hayes more than thirty days
to accomplish with reference to LOuisi-
ana what both parties have failed to dc
in several years.-BOstOn Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-23
Ex-confederate Appointments

Washington dispatches say that Mr.
Keys first appointments of pOstmastcrs
in the South can hardly be considered
success. He has sent in two EXON
federates TO fill pOstoffices at Petersburr
and Lynchburg, Va. The former occuo
pant at Lynchburg was Colonel John
F. Wilson. He served as an officer in
the Federal army during the war of tba
rebellion and was shot in the shoulder
and thereby lost an arm, and was also
shot in the face, losing an eye. He was
removed for the purpose of allowing
Mr.. Key to appoint an ex-Confederate
from Tennessee who had just moved
into the city of Lynchburg. Colonel
Wilson arrived here to-day and visited
the White House. He made IA STATE
ment of his case to the President. and
carried with him such testimonials of
character from citizens of Lyncbburg
that Mr.. Hayes decided at once to re
woke Mr.. Keys appointment, and Of
dered that the commission should be
issued to Colonel Wilson.
Jorgensen, member of Congress from
the Petersburg district, who resigned
his office as Postmaster of that place
when elected to Congress, is here in the
city with delegation of Petersburg
people to protest against the appoint
ment of an ex-COnfederate in that city
by Key. They say that city is largely
Republican and should have a RepuL-
lican Postmaster. Mr.. Hayes has not
considered the second case.
Two more new appointments made
through Keys influence bid fair to
make still greater trouble, and they
may not be confirmed although il il
probable that they will be, as all the
Democrats will vote for them. The
nominations in question are Mike J.
Waldron, of Memphis, for United
States Marshal of the Western district
of Tennessee, and Sam P. Evans,
United States Marshal for the Eastern
district of the same State. These men
ale both Democrats and are both OBJ
jectionable in the extreme to the Ten
nessee Republicans. Representative
Thornburgh says that WaldrOn is an
Irish ward politician, who never held
any position better than conductor on
Il street car.
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Great Yields of Butter.

In late issue of the CdledOnian, |
noticed the account of Mr.. A. SCOTS
COW making GA pounds of butter in
one year, and to close the article says
''next." In the Country Gentlemen, a
paper printed at Albany, dated March
8, 1877, we have the account of Jersey
COW as follows: Cow sold by A. D.
Newell, NJ. D., New Brunswick, n. j.,
to man in Brooklyn, N. Y, whose
affidavit saws he MIXED, measured, and
weighed the butter-made and recorded
the same in book kept. for that pur-
pose, as follows: 1884 quarts by meas
ure, an average per day of 14.4 quarts,
and per week Ill. 43 quarts. Twelve
quarts produced 35 ounces of butter,
and 2O.3l pounds was the average pro-
duction of butter per week for eleven
months. On the 337th day she gave
nine quarts of milk. She was then
dried off, and had calf in three weeks
after. This was not the test of few
days or week but for a year. This
would amount to over 974 pounds in AZ
weeks.
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gate certain charges against me-and
whose action (if any was wholly en-
parte, while it was utterly impossible
for me to be present or make any re-
Spouse, l would furnish it you however
much it might be against me. As it is
L am in the dark, while some one pro-
fesses to know all about it and so in
forms me land the public) through the
Boston Journal! When get knOwl-
edge of facts, as an interested party,
they will be made public-Dot to preju-
dice the public for or against me, but
that they may know and judge for
themselves. E. ID. HOPKINS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-23
Death of Ex-Governor washburn.

Ex-GOv. Emory Washburn, died at
his Cambridge, Mass, home Sunday,
aged II. He was deemed on the road
to recovery from his recent brief illness,
but his disease took fatal turn with
the sharp change from the genial spring
to winter weather. He had lived a
long, active and honorable life and
his was genuine, sunny and ripened
character, whose loss will be widely
felt as personal affection. Gov.
Washburn was a native of Leicester,
spent two years at Dartmouth college,
but was graduated at Williams in the
class of 1917, his friend, Rev. Dorus
Clark of Boston, being its only surety
ing member; he was admitted to the
Berkshire bar at Lenox, began practice
at Leicester, but soon removed to
Worcester, where he was for thirty
years one of its leading citizens and
lawyers, the partner of Governor and
Senator John Davis he was appointed
judge of the court of common pleas in
1874, but resigned in l647 to return to
the bar he was chosen Governor in
1853, succeeding Gov. Clifford in 1856
he removed to Cambridge and accepted
the Bussey professorship of law in
Harvard University, which he filled for
~ years, and few men had a moIe
marked aptitude for teaching, or gained
in larger degree the respect and love
of their students. Gov. Washburn was
an lncessant student, finding time to
compile good many historical sketches
with the preparation of his standard
law works.
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Pen Pictures of the President and Mrs
Hayes.

MARY Clemmer in Cincinnati Commercially
Mr. Hayes pictures give you no idea
of the man himself, whose dominant eX
preston as he appears is that of manli-
ness. This impression is conveyed not
more by his face than his entire pres
ence. His figure, his carriage, the
movement and shape of his head, quite
as much as the force of his features, in
dieate a man of more than ordinary
power and will in the full summer tide
of his faculties. | expected to see
fair, well enough looking man, but had
heard him so often spoken of as a Moses
like individual, who was to be as soft
as putty in the fingers of the republican
makers, was slightly astOnisbed to see
this tall, pOrtly, powerful looking man,
his head erect, his unsubjugated nose
arising straight before him-well fed,
well bred, with a particularly clean
look, as if he took a shower bath every
morning. Well, he made most of the
men about him look rather poor. The
only man visible, who looked as manly,
without looking as handsome, was Sir
Edward Thornton, buttoned tightly in
his fine gOld-laced coat. Whatever else
may be discovered about the new Pres
ident, think the gentlemen who ex-
pected to mould him and his policy will
very soon find out (if they have not
already that he has mind of his own,
and knows how to use it. Per example,
Carl Schurz in his cabinet. What
bitter pill is that for the old senatorial
foes of that luminous TeutOn to swallow.
Then there was Mrs. Hayes in the
gallery opposite, with her two children,
who were hanging over the gallery and
acting as children usually do when their
elders wish them to appear to advan-
tage. She parted them at last, and sat
between them, the true mother, and
then | contemplated the fair cOunte-
nance of the newly exalted lady. 1t is
singularly gentle and winning. 1t looks
out from the smooth bands of dark hair
with that look of sweet wOmanliuess in
the eyes that the world has come to call
Madonna, and the pure head looks
strangely not at home under the pyra-
mid of millinery that Cincinnati has set
upon it in the shape of a bonnet. No,
she is not woman of the world, as we
accept the term, she instinctively shIinks
from low-necked dresses, round dances
and much that the DANES of ''the polite
world" wear with the ease of their old
shoes. Her simple faiths, her old-time
tenderness, John Wesley's discipline,
she brings to her high place and lays
down on the shrine where the gay world
wOrships. Will they be as unsullied
when she takes them back again four
years from now? Perhaps. If so, she
will prove herself as strong as she is
lovely, which is saying much. At any
rate, Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes are the finest
looking pair who have taken up their
abode in the White House for many
lnN
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either on Thursday or Friday. In clos
ing. counsel reviewed at length the
blood testimony, and all the evidence
tending TO show that La Page was the
perpetratOr of the murder.
The Jury took but one ballot.
THE JUDGES SENTENCE.
Joseph La Page, you have been con-
victed by jury of your own selection,
and the court entertains no reasonable
doubt of your guilt.
will not speak of the enormity and
Nervousness of the crime; the counsel
in your defence delineated its horror
and atrocity. You have been ably de-
Tended by able counsel, and everything
has been done in your behalf to prove
your innocence by jury of this county.
You have once, yes twice, been con-
victed by twenty-four good men and
true from this county. You have but a
short time, sir, to live in this world.
Reflect, beseech you, on the world OF
spirits. Dream not of humiliation, OF
death as an eternal sleep. 1t is not in
your power, however it may consist
both with your wishes and yOnr inter
est, to cease to be or TO divest yourself
of the responsibility. The Holy Scrip
lures represent God as infinitely just,
and also a God of love and mercy. We
could hardly conceive of God as just
if wicked man, after committing
crimes and murders, were permitted to
escape punishment by ceasing TO exist
l recommend you to prepare for another
world. "God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten son, that
whatsoever .believeth in him might not
perish, but have everlasting life )" but
that dear Son came into this world and
gave himself a Precipitation for your
sins and for mine, and for the sins OF
the whole world. l advise you to ap-
ply to your Heavenly Father for par
don; murdereIs have been pardOned
by repentance the blood of Jesus
Christ cleanses us from all sin. May
God appropriate that blood to your
salvation. You are young man, cut
off by vice at the morning of your days.
Your sun has scarcely risen before it
will have set, hope not under shad-
Ows everlasting, but that in the morn
ing of the resurrection yOn may shine
in robes of innocence purchased by that
Son of God, and now to the grace, MGR
cy and goodness of God commend you.
Sir, the sentence which the law pre-
scribes for murder in the first degree
the court awards. 1t is that you be
taken from this place to the State pris-
on in Concord, in the county of Merri-
mac and State of New Hampshire, and
there remain until the fifteenth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy
eight, and that on that day, between
10 o'clock in the forenoon and 2 in the
afternoon, you be hanged by the neck
until you are dead, and may God have
mercy upon your soul
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-23
A 'Nigger" in a High Place.

Probably the most conservative poll
tician will now admit that the world
moves. Frederick Douglass, the elo-
quent and learned colored man, has
been confirmed by the Senate to the
best Office in the District of Columbia
four Democratic Senators voting for his
confirmation, as well as all the Repub-
licans, and two prominent Democrats
of Observation-Disclosures and Chris
tie-becOming Mr.. DOuglass's bonds
men. When such men as Ben. Hill
vote for the confirmation of "Blackn
Republican to office in the old slave
District of Columbia, it is time for re-
formers generally to thank God and
take courage. The world does move.