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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30
Our Washington Letter.


WASHINGTON, d. c., Mar. %, 1877.
Although week has elapsed since
the adjournment of the Senate, many
Senators and members of the House re.
main in Washington, and there is rea-
son to believe that interest in the polit-
ical situation will be prolonged far into
the summer. If is difficult, Just now
to tell whether the struggle for political
supremacy in the Forty fifth Congress-
the effort to resuscitate the old Whie
party, the Civil Service departure, OF
the Southern question, is the more en-
PERTAINING or aggravating, as the case
may be, to political partizans or philos-
ophers. But these questions are enter
dependent, conglomerated, and the
future is nebulous charged with sur
prises. The Democrats who have been
doubtful of their ability to control the
organization of the next House, are now
more confident, since Packard's obsti-
macy embarrasses the Presidents South
ern policy and has tendency through
suspicion to keep the Democratic pha-
lanX intact. Messrs. Wood and Randall
are here looking after their respective
interests, and genial Sunset Cox is
"touring" through the sunny congenial
South on the same unselfish mission.
But it is by no means certain that the
next Speaker will be a Democrat. or
that the result will be dependent mere
ly upon the denOuement in Louisiana.
The effort to make the Wing party a
factor in politics is formidable, and
some Democrats say, portentious.
Political parties may be held together
by great hopes or great perils but In
piping times of peace they are perme-
able by the dew of patronage. If the
Republicans shall decide that they can
not elect as Speaker one of the straight
est of the sect, they will try, at any
rate, to defeat the Democrats by COM
bining upon some Southern man who it
is hoped will be able to draw a sufficient
number of votes from his own party, to
defeat with their powerful help the
Democratic nominee. Again, there are
those who treat as a QuixOtism the
idea of galvanizing the Wing party, and
ask if there are dolts stupid enough to
believe that political parties issue
Minerva-like from the brain of Presi-
dents and Cabinets, instead of through
dim throes of birth, and struggles of
infancy, from the people.
The determination of majority of
the Cabinet to recommend sending a
commission to Louisiana, to examine
and report upon the condition of affairs
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30
ST. cSulmsburp Galedunian.
Special Notice.

The time Of year has come for settle
ment. We respectfully ask those NTH
Whom zoe haze deal to square their ac-
counts. Subscribers IN towns aUhere pe
haze agents, WiH find their accounts acith
them. We ask that settlement be made
pih them or at this office, at an early
day. Those whO haze accounts against
ms, iUiH present the same.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30
Disastrous Freshet.

The heavy rain of this week, has
caused a serious disaster at Staffordville,
Conn. A reservoir which furnished the
water power of manufactures, gave
way, and the water sweeping down
through the valley, carried away mills,
factories, dwellings, banks, Congrega-
tiOnal church, stores, depots, etc, etc.
One or two lives were lost, and the
property destroyed will amount to from
One-fourth to half million of dollars.
The reservoir covered 300 acres, and
was made of granite blocks supported
by earthen banks. 1t is now claimed
the earth was improperly placed in the
dam, being put in in frozen chunks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30

SEED CATALoGUEs.-Am the latest
received, is the seed catalogue of James
j. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass,
the producer of the famous Hubbard
squash. The catalogue contains all the
standard seeds, as well as several new
varieties. 1t is sent free to any address.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30

MIR. BEECHER IN THE WEsT.-There
has evidently been an effort of late to
create the impression that Mr.. Beecher's
power and influence is OIL the wane.
The result of his Western trip, which
ended last week on Friday, would seem
to contradict this impression. In his
trip of seven weeks, he lectured and
preached fortyseven times, and did not
lose train, an appointment or meal.
His reception by the Western people
was very enthusiastic, and his audiences
were only limited by the size of the
audience rooms in which he spoke. Mr..
Beecher was not the least one impressed
by this Western journey. He said that
he was in constant state of astonish-
ment at what he saw about him. He
found everywhere not alone material
prosperity and progress, but intelligence
and culture. 1t is evident that this
Western trip of Mr.. Beecher's will do
good in more WAYS than one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30

BANK RoBBING MADE EAsY.-The
examination of the Northampton Bank
robbers developed a curious piece OF
rascality. One w. D. Edison, a New
York bank expert, who was regarded
as the principal witness against the rob-
bers, finally admitted on the stand, that
while employed by the Northampton
Bank in repairing the locks at the bank,
he took an impression of the keys in
wax, and when he returned to New
York, Scott, the bank robber, called at
his house and received these wax meulds.
thus intimating that it was all under
stood between them. This robbing a
bank is not so difficult trade when YOU
come to ascertain who furnish the facil-
tiles for unlocking the vaults. 1t will
be interesting to see if anything is done
with Edison, the man who provided the
way for the robbery.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-30
LEE COMMENDED.

After | reported to Brigham Young !
went home and met Haight and gave
him full report of Young's statement.
Haight said, "Well done, faithful SER
want You shall receive a celestial re-
ward for your services you have de-
served well of God and the church."
Lee says he then wrote an account of
the massacre. laying the blame on the
Indians, and says: it was years after
ward before | knew that | had been
made tool of by the leaders. l only
obeyed the orders of my superiors. l
then believed was serving God and
would receive a celestial reward. Now
know it is wrong, and that my reward
is not to be celestial.
1t was the first plan to have none but
Indians take part in the massacre, but
as William c. Stewart, Joel White and
Benjamin Arthur were coming to Noun
tain Meadow on Wednesday night they
met Young Alden and another man 60
ing from the emigrants to Cedar City for
help. They told of the Indian attack
and asked aid from the settlers. The
only reply was a shot from Stewart
which killed Alden. The other man was
wounded by White and Arthur, but es-
capped and carried word that the whites
had come to help the Indians. After
this the authorities said there was no
safety except in killing all who could
talk.
VIM. C.. Stewart was the most blood
thirsty of any one there. He cut threats
just Tor amusement. Kingensmith, Bish-
op of Cedar City, killed a man. Every
one there took part in killing women
and children as religious duty. We
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
The PathOs Of the Bible.

Palestine to-day is land of rnins
Fields once fertile are desert; hill-sides
once clothed with vineyards are barren
and unsightly; cities dismantled, harbors
choked with rubbish and the refuse OF
the sea. All is worse than solitude, &C
cursed, "trodden under the foot of the
Gentiles;" yet the hills are musical with
words that shall outlast them an eternity
Traverse the valley of Hebron; there lie
the bones of patriarchs. Visit the Dor
ders of the Dead Sea; its sluggish wa.
tiers roll over the cities of the plain, and
trace the tire-storm from heaven. And
there, beautiful for situation, the Holy
CITY -Jerusalem-whither the
tribes went up; the guilty city, where he
warned, and healed, and pleaded, over
which he wept; the fated city. desecrated
by mans darkest crime, consecrated by
the marvellous manifestations of redeem
ing love. AS the veri6cation Of pro-
phetic truth-as the center Of memories
tenderest, most sacred-these ruins are
natures tribute to the psthos Of the BIZ
BILE. They recall the touching narration
of holy wit, whose sympathetic influence
is felt wherever the word has gone forth.
Divested Of its pathos, the Bible were
but compilation of social ethics.
An ancient legend has it that tyrant
of the East went forth to battle with the
Greeks. Gazing upon the mass OF liv-
ing millions enlisted in his cause, the
monarch's heart was melted. He wept,
he knew not why. The tears came not,
a. he supposed, from any inference OF
reflection. They arose spontaneously, as
they will at times amid the hustle of a
crowded thoroughfare. Our own emo
lions are reflected back from other hearts
We feel the thrill of spiritual contact
tho mighty presence of life. Such is
the pathos of the Bible, the underlying
tenderness which makes the book Of
books the book Of human nature-sound'
ing the depths of human sympathy, uni
versal, indeanable, profound. - Pr's@
Grafton, BY Hosoard p. Euis.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

THE Female Medical College of st.
Petersburg has now 40 pupils-7S Jew
esses, 10 Roman Catholic Poles, and II
Protestant Poles; the rest belong to the
Greek Church. Pupils for this college
come from oil tho Russian governments
They belong to the middle class, and are
gsnsrally between twenty and twenty
i've; very few arc above thirty. Seventy
eight Of those now stNdying are married
TIE courss lasts for ave years. and tn<
pupils have to undergo = regular routine
G stndy and to paas many exaninaooes
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
More Testimony as to the Merits
of the New Piano.

While "the Baldwin" that byou Of American
hotels, was being constructed, Mr.. Baldwin
searched through the Eastern cities for the
most magnificent furniture that wealth could
command to grace his princely parlors, and
none will deny the exquisite taste of his Sc
lections. He also visited all the leading piano
manufacturers, each Of whom displayed his
most superb instruments and offered them at
the most tempting figures, being naturally
DESTROYS to increase his business reputation
by being able to announce that his pianos had
been given the preference over all others,
and were TO adorn the splendid salons of "the
Bald win" The following tells the result
"THE BALDWIN,"
San Francisco, May LIST, 1877.
Messrs. Blackmar & Davis, Agents for the
Rogers" Piano.
Gentlemen
The two beautiful Rogers Upright Pianos
which bought of you give the most perfect
satisfaction, being admired and compliment
ed by all. Respectfully,
f. j. BALDWIN.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
SAN FRANCISCO, April %, 1877.
MRssRs BLAcKMAR Il DAVIS.

SAN FRANCISCO, April q, 1871
MRssRs BLACKMAR Il DAVIS.
Gentlemen
Having heard that the Rogers Upright
Piano Company had introduced novel ana
important principle in the construction OF
pianos, we have examined the instrument
with much interest. We find simple but
original application Of the "set screw" by
which metallic slides holding the "tuning
pinsr are moved up and down, Tightening and
looseuing the strings.
1t is evident that neither weather. climate,
nor lapse OF time can have any effect upon
pianos constructed with this ingenious
mechanism.
THEODORE p. PAINTER,
PAINTER 4 Co., Type Founders, $40 Clay st.
ISRAEL w. KNOX,
palmer, Knox & Co., Golden State Iron
Works, 10 TO IS First st.
IRA p. RANKIN,
Goddard 4 Co., Pacific Iron Works, l2s to
OKLA GRANGE,
(Superint e ndent OF the United States Mint
MARTIN BULo1K,
(Supt Engineer, Pacific Mail steamship Co..
w. T. GARRArr. (Brass and Bell Foundry
w. HovvNEYER, (Enaineer.l
Blsekmar 4 Davis, General Agents for ths
Paci6c Cost, $50 and o6a Market street, sau
Francisco.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

ENGINEERS are examining the founda-
tons of the Washington monument. They
will suggest tearing down the present
structure, and the removal of the stones
to the circle at the corner of Massachu-
sets avenue and Fourteenth street.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
Russia's Wheat Supply.

There is one important contingency in
regard to the wheat supply of Russia
which American spectators thus far
seem to have ignored. They have as
sumed that Russian wheat would be cut
off altogether by the blockading of the
ports on the Black Sea. But Russia has
large railroad system, which is under
the absolute control of the Government.
There are $4,000 miles Of trunk line
railroad in Russia, which have been con-
structed since the war Of 1886, and
were located by the government with
special reference to strategic and COM
mercial necessities in time of war.
Three of these main lines connect Cen
trail Russia with Germany, so that, be-
sides the Russian port of Riga on the
Baltic, Russia has an outlet through the
North German ports like Koenigsburg
and Dantzic. The Russian wheat export
to Germany for German consumption
has been for some years transported by
rail, and the same facilities may be used
for export to Great Britain from the
Baltic ports when the Black Sea ports
are closed. The longest distance which
it would be necessary to carry the wheat
by rail in taking this direction to a Baltic
port to Great Britain does not exceed the
the distance from our Northwestern grain
fields to New York and other Atlantic
seaports, and the sea voyage will be very
much shorter. High prices will un-
doubtedly bring out in this way all the
surplus wheat that may remain in Russia
If the war continues it may reduce to
some extent the amount of Russian pro-
duction, but as long as there are friendly
relations between Russia and Germany,
the American grain growers will by no
means have a monopoly of the British
demand for eadstuffs.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

THE pool selling bill has had an un'
expectedly easy triumph in the Senate
passing without negative vote and in
the exact form in which it was received
in the Assembly. Mr.. Morrissey made
some gloomy predictions of the probable
effect of the measure upon race-courses,
and was excused from voting, at his own
request, on the ground that he was him
self interested in one, the fact being
modestly concealed that he had also been
the principal proprietor of an establish
ment devoted to the practice which the
bill was framed especially to prohibit
that of political betting. The arguments
of those opponents of the bill who are
not interested in gambling-houses, and
their number is large, must now be ad-
dressed to the Governor. 1t was the
recommendation in his annual message
for the passage of a law to put an end to
betting upon elections which inspired
the present bill, aud it remains to be seen
whether he will sacrifice one of his own
measures to save the race-cOurses.-N
Y. Tribune.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

GERMANYs resolution is mistaken not
to go into the Exposition of 1878. AS the
Director. General will not recognize pri-
vate exhibitors, and Germany refuses to
appoint the commissioner through whom
the exhibitors must apply, the non-par-
ticipation of the Germans seems a fixed
fact.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

CHEMICAL analysis disclOses the fact
that among the many articles used for
food there are only two, wheat and milk,
which contain all the elements of the hu-
man body and in the proper proportion.
Other articles-such AS butter, sugar,
syrup, and fat Of all kinds-are wholly
carbonaceous, or heat-producing; so that
if human being were to attempt to live
on these articles alone his brain and
muscles would starve. By actual expert
ment it has been found that man could
not survive two months on such a diet.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

TIMBER IN WEST VIRaINIA.-West
Virginia has the larges. and most valua-
BILE body of timber Of any State in the
Union. Professor Gontaine estimates
that the area still covered by forests il
between 5000, 900 and 100000 acres,
and that the value Of the surplus cx-
portable timber is fully t75,000,OO0 -
L stands in the forest. The oak, walnut
cherry, ash, poplar, maple, elm, sycamore
and locust attain . sire that arc not sur
pessed on the American continent.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

NOTHING breaks down mans faith in
human nature and the merciful dispense
ton Of things so much as to tit up the
spare room just beautifully, with q new
bed, Eastlake paper, Brussels carpet and
q Spitz dog, and advertise FURNISHED
room to let, with board" and count on
having about 600 month out of that
room, and then the very next day have
three country relations come in with .
ow-slip full Of gnarly apples to stay
three Burlington Hasckeye.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

ABOUT NOsEs.-There are three ma
tional noses among civilized people, and
only three-the Jewish, the Grecian and
the Roman. Each is of description
totally different from the other two, and
all three have distinct character of
their own. The Jewish is the only ma
tional nose now remaining; the Greek
and the Roman are occasionally repro
duced among modern nations, but as ma
tional characteristics exist not longer.
That the ancient Jews attached no slight
importance to this feature is evinced
from Leviticus xxi. 10. where che that
hath fiat nose" is ranked with the blind
and the lame, and crook backed, the
scurvy and the scabbed, and is for hidden
to take part in the service of the sane
tuary.
The Greek nose has come down to us
in the Greek sculptures, and certainly
accords better with our Northern ideas
of personal beauty than any other.
Seen in profile the outline is almost a
continuation without curve or deviation
of the outline of the forehead. and would
seem, phrenologically considered, quite
in harmony with the unparalleled pro-
gress of the Greek in art, science and
philosophy. Among us moderns the
perfect Greek nose is extremely rare,
save on the canvas of our painters.
The Roman nose is the very incarnation
of the idea of combativeness, and suggests
the notion that it was borrowed from a
bird of prey.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

From an article on pineries and modes
of chopping in the Northeastern Lumber
man, we extract the following: The
styles of axes differ with nationalities. A
Canadian chopper prefers broad, square
blade, with the weight more III the blade
than elsewhere, the handles being short
and thick. A Down-East logger, one
from Maine, selects long, narrow head,
the blade in crescent shape, the heaviest
part in the top Of the head above the eye.
New York cutters select broad crescent
shaped blade, the whole head rather
short, and the weight balanced evenly
above and below the eye, that is, where
the handle goes through. A Western
backwoodsman selects a blade, the cor
ners only rounded off, and the eye
holding the weight of the ak. The
American chopper, as rule, Sc
lects long, straight handle. The
difference in handling is that Down
Easter takes hold with both hands Of the
extreme end, and throws his blows easily
and gracefully, with a long sweep over
his shoulder. A Canuck chops from di-
rectly over his head, with the right hand
we'll down on the handle to serve in jerk
ing the blade out Of the stick. A West
erner catches hold at the end of the han
die, the hands about three inches apart,
and delivers his blows rather directly
from over the right shoulder. In fact an
expert in the woods can tell the nation
atty or State a man has been reared in,
by seeing him hit one blow with an ak.
1t is, however, an interesting fact to
know that Yankee chopper, with his
favorite AK and swinging cut, can, bodily
strength being equal, do fifth more
work in the same time than any other
cutter, and be far less fatigued. This in
very large degree will account for the
greater percentage of Maine men who
will be found each year in the woods.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

QUEEN VICToRIA's LITTLE DOMESTIC
QUARREL.-Queen Victoria, in the early
DAYS of her welded life, had one of
those squabbles with her husband, of the
sort which will come about sometimes
even between the most loving married
couples. Chagrined and vexed, Prince
Albert retired to his room and locked
the door. The queen took the matter
quietly for while, but after the lapse of
an hour she went to his door and
raped.
"Albert," she said, "come out"
"No, will not" answered the prince,
within. "Please, go away; leave me
alone"
The royal temper waxed hot at this.
"Sir," she cried, ''come out at once.
The queen, whose subject you are, COM
mands you"
He obeyed Immediately. Entering
the room she designated, she sat down in
silence. For long time nothing was
said. The queen was the first to break
the silence.
albert" she said, "speak to me-
"Does the queen command it," he
asked.
"No," she answered, throwing hel
arms about his neck; 'your wife begs it,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-27
FOREIGN.

One predominant feature of Hungarian
watering-places in general is great extrava-
gance in dress. The ladies dress four times
day.
Queen Victoria will it is reported, go
to Berlin saortly to witness the marriage of
her granddaughter, Princess Charlotte, to
the Prince of Meningen.
The engineers of Marseilles have, it is
said, discovered that since the opening of
tha Suez canal, the level of the Mediterra-
mean has sunk three and one-quarter inches.
In France political journals must give
security to the government for their good
behavior. Up to a late date nine hundred
and thirty-eight newspapers had given secu-
rity to the total amount of 6,593,311 francs.
The chief raw material wealth of
northern Mexico is the mines, more espe-
cially the silver mines, which never have
had a fair chance of development under the
so-caIIed governments, Spanish and native,
which have cursed and crushed the volcanic
nation since the flag of CASTLE first glittered
on her shores.
Fifty young BARRIERS recently left Co
penhagen for Russia, where they are ap-
pointed medical assistants. Every barber
in Denmark has to pass an examination in
the elements OF surgery. They were accom-
panied by a score of working butchers, who
also are to be attached to the Russian army
The king of Italy is hunting chamois
on the Alps where he leads trapper's life.
He rises early, and the frugality of his table
| often forces wry faces from the gentlemen
of his suite. There is rarely anything seen
on the royal table except roast meats, a
! humeIy haricot of mutton, Bordeaux and
| Macon wine. The king knows his life de-
pends upon his taking exercise. He is very
| stout. His neck is unusually thick, and his
physicians advise him to hunt as the exercise
| best adapted to avert aploplexy from him.
| He Outwalks the best walker and is never
tired. He wears baggy trousers of velvet,
! roundabout of the same material, and a
! Tyrol hat.
1t was said years ago of Earl Russell,
il his Lord John" days, that there was
nothing to which he did not consider himself
equal and that st a weeks notice he would
have taken command of the Channel feet
So with NJ. Theirs. The story goes that in
| 1888 Thiers made ten days journey IN En-
gland, and pledged himself to Louis Phil
iippe to learn in that time all worth knowing
of the politics, commerce, revenues, religion
arts, sciences, and social economy of the na
ton. While there he wrote to a man con
nected with the Treasury, the folio wing
note: "My dear sir, would you give ME
a short quarter of an hour, to explain to me
the financial system ef your country? Al
ways yours T."