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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-12

Hon. John G.. Sinclair of Betblaboa,
N. H., is reported faiIed; liabiIitin,
said to be 100000 and no assets ''''eS
Jimmy Blanchard, alias Charlie po.
was sent to Jail at Milford, N. H.. tbee
5th, to await trial at Manchester ir
September, for burglarizing D. S. Rnr IN
hams drug store July 2. Where is tbo
st. Adams Advertiser "0
Persons entering saloons to order hoo.
should be careful not to affIOnt the d.,
nifty of the man who keeps the placse
At Roanoke in Huntington county Ind
IA young man disregarded the etiGno,t11
of the bar-rOom so far as to tell tbo
proprietor to "hurry up with tbat
beer" whereupOn the latter drew 70.
volver and shot the impolite customer
through the head, inflicting a fatal
wound.
An amusing incident occurred recent.
ly during a smash-up on the Boston
Concord and Montreal railroad hoo,
TiltOn. AS soon as Il pOrtly cOlored
woman, with a ticket for Lacon;a
could get out of the cars, she picked my
her valise and started off, and. wbeaP
asked where she was going, she replied
her face showing the greatest terror
''I'se gwine to the woods" She was
brought back, however, and, thougL
temporarily insane, she soon recoy.
cred.
Vice President Wheeler is to spend q
part OF the summer at the Twin Noun
tain House.
Samuel Craig, a coolheaded man.
climbed to the top of Bunker Hill mon
ument by means of knOtted ropes on
the Fourth, and fastened small flag to
the lightning rod.
Joseph w. B. Buzzell has been con-
victed as accessory to the murder of
Miss Susan Hanson at Brookfield in No.
vember, 1874, and is sentenced to u,
hanged July 10, 1879. The case is a
remarkable one, as Buzzell has once
before. been tried as principal in the
murder and acquitted. But young
man in his employ, named Charles W.
Cook, has since testified that Buzzell
pointed the gun at Miss Hanson as she
stood at her window one night, and
made him pull the trigger, his motive
being revenge because she had sued
HliH lOl oicdCH VI piOihiSO dilOI hc ndu
Tilted her and married another woman.
Buzzel is fine looking and well-dress-
ed man of 40, and he took his sentence
with great composure, though he says
he was dumbfounded when he heard
the verdict, being positive the jury
would disagree. 1t is said hOwevet
that he broke down when he reachd
his cell. Young Cook, who is said to
be intelligent and fine looking.
though he allowed Buzzell to make
tool of him, is released OH his own IT,
cOgnizance. His parents have refused
to see him since his confession of crime
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-12

ORLEANS CoUNTY.-The Republican
county convention will he held at 1Ias-
burg, Aug. Is.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-12

Warren H. Blossom, a thrifty farmer
of Woodstock, committed suicide Sat-
urday, with shot gun, the charge en-
tering his side just below the heart and
resulting in death in two hours. He
was Respondent from financial difficult
ties, the result of borrowing money at
low rates, and loaning west at high
rates of interest. Age about 40. He
leaves a wife and two children.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-07-12
Reunion of the Sixteenth.

The first reunion of the 10Th Vermont
regiment at Chester on Wednesday was
attended by an unusually large number
of people, about 400 veterans, repre-
senting every company in the regiment,
being present. The houses of the vii
lage were decorated, four bands furnish
ed the music for the procession in the
morning and during the day, and sa-
lutes were fired by the Fuller battery
of Brattleboro. Col. Veazey of Rut-
land, the colonel of the regiment and
probably the most popular soldier in
the state, was received with cheers, and
in an eloquent speech gave brief his
tory of the regiment during the war,
especially abiding to the battle OF
Gettysburg, at which the 10th dis
tinguished itself and of which the day
was the 18th anniversary. Other speak
ers followed, and after the collation. in
the village park Col. Exit" Haskins OF
BrattlebOrO acted as toast-master, and
different sentiments were responded to
by Maj. William Rounds, Gen. George
j. Stannard, Col. George w. Hooker OF
BrattleborO, j. L. Martin of London
derry, G. G. Benedict of Burlington and
others. Quartermastor Henry, assisted
by Adjutant Peabody, acted as marshal
during the day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03
Why Women Should Read.

Laying aside the thought of our
own rest and comfort, let us look a
little higher. For The chilaren, sake
we mast make the most of ourselves.
Many an unseltish mother has said,
"Oh, / cannot take all this time, there
are so many things to do for the chill
dren" She does not realize that she
may do more for them in the end by
cultivating herself than ifshe spends
all her time on clothes and cooking.
A generosity which makes the reclpi-
ent weak or selfish is not a blessing
but a curse. Have you not seen
grown.up sons who snubbed their
mcthers opinions in the same breath
with which they called her to bring
their slippers ? The meek little wo-
man has ''trotted around" to wait on
them so long that they have come to
think that that is all she is good for
Their sisters keep MA" in the back.
ground because she ''hasn't a bit Of
STYLE" and $50 uucultivated," forget.
ting that she has always worn shabby
clothes that they might wear fine ones;
that her hands have become horny
with hard work that theirs might be
kept soft and While for the piano, and
that she has denied herself books and
eisure that they might have both.
And there are other children, too
noble for such base ingratitude, who
eel keen though secret sense of loss
Is they kiss the dear withered cheek
md think how much more Of a woman
mother might have been if she had
rot shut herself away from the culture
md sweet compauionshp of books -
Scribner for Aprii. !.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03
OLD NOSE I'M TROUBLE.
F1c GlH. - Misunderstanding with
tsc6 60ic c0cNIan'nL oUi ctOo.<-lxccpin.'

We met cold Nose" yesterday, and
noticed that there was a dark cloud
lowering over his Respondent brow.
"Whats the matter, Uncle p we
asked.
lie shook his head as il he had
nothing left TO live for, and said:
Use in Il peck of trouble. DE
Lord knows where di, heah is gwine
to end. Use done glib it up"
"Wbat is the trouble about ?
After several sighs that seemed to
come up from the bottom Of his boots,
he explained that he was the secretary
Of the local colored lolge Of Free
MasonS that he was the custodian
of the books that for keeping the
books be was paid by the lodge ten
dollars a month that every Saturday
night, after the lodge was over, he
carried the books home, and turned
them over to the "ole oman, Aunt
Dinah," for safc-keeping, and she
slowed them away in her trunk,
"along wild her 'tishal flowers, and
fedders, and fnery, and sich." He
also stated that he had forgotten to
mention to Aunt Dinah that he was
receiving ten dollars month for keep
ing the books, and he mad uniformly
forgotten to turn over to her the atore-
said ten dollars, but had squandered
tha same for his own little personal
expenses that some unknown demon
had informed Dinah that Old Nose
was getting ten dollars for teeplng
the books, and consequently, when he
remarked the other evening that it
being time for him to go TO the lodge,
and upon requesting her to hand him
out the books, instead Of doing so
she sat down on the trunk, and posi-.
lively refused to turn over the docu.
merits, until he paid over the ten dol
lars. When he told her the ten dollars
were hisn for keeping the books, she
retorted "Who's been keepin dem
ar books ? Hasn't | been keepin' de
books in de trunk all de time ? Han
1ut dem funds whats comm to me for
seepin' de books"
What did you tell her Nose .
III tole her | wanted dem books to
Keep de minits in, dat che didn't know
low TO keep the books, bat she lowed
'he was gwine to show me she know
ID how to keep de books, and, foah
1od she is keepin' EN-. DE lodge
las rinled committee to investigate
ny accounts, and dar she is squattin
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03
Eternity.

Eternity has no gray hairs !" The
flowers fade, the heart withers, mar
grows old and dies the world lies
down. in the sepulchre Of ages, but
time writes no wrinkles on the brow
of eternity. Eternity! stupendous
thought The ever-preseut, unborn,
undecaying and undyipg-the endless
chain, comprising tho lite of God
the golden thread, entwining the
hrstinies of the universe. Earth has
,ts beauties, but time shrouds them
for the grave its honors, they are
but the sunshine of an hour; its
palaces, they are but as the gilded
sepulchre its possessions, they
are toys OF changing fortune
its pleasures, they are but bursting
bubbles. Not so in the untried
bourne. In the dwelling of the AL.
mighty can come no footsteps of de-
cay. Its day will know no darkening
splendors forbid the ap-
proach of night. Its fountains will
never fail-they are fresh from the
eternal throne. Its glory will never
wane, for there is the ever.present
present God. 1t harmonies will never
,ease-exhaustless love supplies the
'ong. -[Spurgeon.
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be, what paIns he may have taken, to

be, what palns he may have taken, Il
be saved, or whatever circumstance
he may DO IN, God, according 10 thl
writer, can deny him salvation, with
out the least disparagement Of lii
glory. His glories will not be Ia the
least obscured-There Il no natura
man, bo hls character what u may, but
God may cast down 10 hell without
being charged with unfair dealing In
any respect with regard TO that man,
Theologans tell as that Gods design
In the creation was simply 10 glorify
himself, Magnificent object
"l'hc same shall drink of the wine
of the wrath Of God, which Is poured
out without mixture into the cup Of
his Indignation ond no shall bc tor
mcnted with fire aud birthstone in the
presence OF the holy angels, and In tho
presence Of the Lamb, - (Rey,l-l0,
DO you know nobody would have
had an idea Of hell in this world IL IL
hadn't been for volcanoes 7 They
were looked upon as the chimncys OF
hell, The idea OF eternal fire never
would have polluted tho imagination of
man but for them, An eminent Theo,
logan, describing hell, rays ;-"Thcre
is no rccountiug up Of the millions Of
ages the damned shall suffer All
arithmetic ends hcre"-and all sense,
too, Qaughter,) "rhey shall have
nothing to do in passing away this ctcr-
nifty bet to conflict with torments. God
shall have no other use or employment
for them, These words were said
by gentlemen who died Christians,
and who are now in the harp business
in the world to come. Another de-
carcs there is nothing to keep any
man or Christian out of hell except
he mere pleasure of God, aud their
,ains never grow any easier BY their
becoming accustomed TO them. 1t is
llso declared that the devil goes about |
ike a lion ready to doom the wicked. |
Did it never occur to you what a con-
it is to say that the devil
will persecute his own friends ? He
wants all the recruits he can get; why
hen should he pcrsecute his friends
In my judgement he should give them
he best hell affords. Iaushter.)
1t is in the very nature ofthings that
inflicted have no tendency to
)ring n man to repentance, Then
Why torment him if it will not do him
good 1t is simply unadultcrated
'evcnge. All the punishment in the
world will not reform 4 man. unless he
Knows that he who inficts 1t upon him
loes it for the sake OF reformation, and
eally and truly loves him, and has his
rood at heart. Punishment inflicted
or gratifying the appetite makes man ,
fraid, but debases him.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03
The Northern Farmer.

q fayors every year made new
o gifts with rain and sunshine scn,
Tho country oyorruns our due,
The fullncss shamcs our discomfort.
We shut our eyes, the dover bloom ON;
We murmur but the coin.cars iii
We choose the shadow, but the sun
That casts 1t, shines behind us still.
God gives rs, with our rugged soil,
Tho power to make il Edon.fair,
And richer fruits to crown our toll
Than summer.weddcd islands boar,
Who murmurs at his lot to-day
Who scorns his native fruit and bloom
or sighs for daintcs far away,
Reside the bountcous board Of homo
Thank heaven, instead, that Freedom 3 arm
Can change rocky soil to gold,
That love and generous lives eau warm
4 cline with Northern ices cold.
--JOtn q. Whitter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03
Old Mr.. Watts Story,
now 4 YOUNG FARMER WHIPPED VAN.
KEE SULLIVAN

HOW fOlNH tANMIN WHITFIELD iAN
KeE SULLIVAN
Did you ever hear Of my GLOW,
fight with Yankee Sullivan y aske,
old Mr. Watts, Of Newburg,
Old Mr. Watts Is a tall, why, gray
haired farmer of this nelghborhood
had never heard tho story, aud tol,
hun 80,
"Well," he began, /" that must hay,
been mor'n forty yeasL ago. A biz
yellow chap from New York used t.
come up here once a week and give
Lessons In boxing N the ball room oI
the Orange Hotel, and n lot Of Us
young fellows went into 1t with u will
| got to handle tho gloves pretty well
for country boy,
"0pc day was down IN New York,
hunting for clothing store, when
met Mr.. Theodore Fiske OF Ncwburg
IIc had heard Of my hardness with my
fists. and he told me, i'll would 60
along with him, he would show me
some boxing that was boxing, SO at
ter had bought an oyercoat, | went
with him, ! don't remember where
the place was, but when We got there,
there was about dozen men sitting
around. One Of them invited me TO
put on the gloves with him, | didn't
want to, but he urged me, and at last
! said would. Mr., Fiske seemed
nervous about something and said the
mau wouldn't handle me roughly.
"Thc first round was n short one. |
found myself on my back In lcss'n no
time. l got up, SHE'D around for a
couple of minutes, and then, making a
sudden pass with my right, lifted the
New Yorker from the floor with q left.
handler, under the ear. wanted TO
quit, but he didn't, and in the third
round / went down heavily. We toed
The mark again, and got another left
handler, which left the New Yorker
,prawllng on all fours. Then pro-
posed again to quit, but he said that
vas no way to do we should try the
ihh round, and see who was the better
nan. Then | hit him twice in rapid
one square on the nose,
making the blood fly in all directions.
t.satisfed him, end he withdrew to
wash himself.
"By this time there was large
rowd in the room, and everybody was
haking hands with me. BY and by |
he man l had been sparring with
anne back, and he shook hands with
ne, and asked ire TO drink, but
'ouldn.t do that no rum for me
hen Mr.. Fiske intoduced him to me
$ Yankee Sullivan. 1t took away my
reath. Sullivan tried to make a bar
in with me to stay with him, offering
10 $75 q month-good wages in those
ays-and board, but 1 SAID no. For
'eeks atteward | got letters from him,
ffsring me every inducement to so to
lew York. But | stuck to the farm"
New York Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03
Ret,-y.
Prom N Nicholas, for April,
EASTER EGGS.



Dear Grandpa Lee, with little Grace.
Followed tho pathway to tho mill
bright dalsloR starred the shady lane.
EAnd now and then bird would trill,
Once, when brdllng spread in wings,
She said, "All things are fair and gay
The Shy 70 blue whore birdie sipgsl"
said grandpa, "Ihis IL Easter Day"
Thus happily they onward won't,
TIL Grace cried, "lhoFe il little Kate,
Aud Frank and Nellie, too-ani 0h
NeI'a swinging on the garden gate e.
Ab Grace aud grandpa came In sight,
The little OHeH to meet thom rped -
Their eager, prattllug lips apart,
Eyes flashing bright aud checks rosa,rel
"Oh, grandpa IN the hodge wp'yo found
-Four Easter cggs, all colorod blue
They 'rc III the sweetest little nest
We want to show our prize 10 you !"
said grandpa, "Ioucl thcn not, my dears
Those eggs God dyed with coors raroj
Tho molhor'bird will soon come back,
Ind guard hor most with loving care,
These Easter eggs, in loaf.hid nosts,
Imprison countless song.birds bright,
That soon win break the tinted shell
Aud rsc aud sing in joyous hight,"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03

Let evey dawn Of morning be to
you as the beginning of lite, and every
setting sun be to you as its close then
let every one of these short lives leave
Its record of some kindly thing done
for Others, some godly strength or
knowledge gained tor yourself.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03
WOODSTOCK, VT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8. 1878.

on do trunk holdln out her han for dc
ten dollars l'Sc done spent, Doesn't
yer know somebody who wants ten
dollars wui' of whItowashlng done Ia
advanco,--LSa Antonio Express,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03

The grave holds the mortal, but the
immortal roams ou the plane of the
green fields of Eden. Why mourn the
dead when there are no dead? All
nature cries aloud, there are no dead.
Man only dies to give tribute back to
mother earth. The spirit goes whence
it came to seek the infinite mind of the
universe to learn the law, and its re-
lationship, under the law, to that
beautiful world in which it is q
dweller. Why mourn the weak and
weary' Why lament over that which
you know has life, new life, life in
beauty and grandeur ?-[Samuel
Ogden.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03

There is much greater mortality in
the heather, than in the Christianized
districts OF India. The heather are
slowly but steadily Pagan out
burlington Hawkeye.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-04-03

1t is with nations as with individuals;
those who know the least Of others think
the highest of themselves: for the whole
family ofpride and ignorance are incestu-
GUS and mutually beget each other
Cotton.
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L. GALLAGHER,
SALOON

Dealers In all kinds Of Fresh and salt Fish
Oysters aud Iripc, Fruit OF all kinds In thcil
season, Tobacco, Cigars, &C., 40. Team run
five days In week, Under j, 4. Wilder
Furniture rooms, Main Street, Windsor, VI.
The daily gazette., 1878-07-25

If our ports were now open TO a mod
crate tariff, thai the immense stores of
wheat and corn that willrot on the hands
of the farmers might be sert to Europe,
millions upon millions Df dollars would
flow into the country in balances in our
favor. These millions would 90 into the
hands of the farmer in the shape of ten
TO twenty per cent. ddCpnce in pr,ceS as
well, and then flow into the hands of the
mechanic and laboring man. Why there
is enough surplus grain in this country
TO build a mercantile navy. But it must
lay and rot to please manufacturing mo-
nopolists who stopped their mills to keep
up prices and will not even reduce their
prices to gain foreign market, but will
require our farmers to lose all chance
for making any money by their valu-
able crops to keep up nabobism in the
country. Why will men vote for party
that Keeps them poor and weighs down
continually the price of their land, their
crops, and all that they own.
The daily gazette., 1878-07-25

Now we have another batch of rumors
from Washington in which it is said that
certain members were paid about half a
million of dollars to favor the bill by
which the government was saddled with
the payment of the 365 bonds to pay the
debt caused by Boss Shepherd and the
Ring thieves some years ago. The lobby
has had rich harvest; but the members
Invite the lobby, and no doubt help to
form it just as the third house was form
ell at Dover during the pendency of the
France & Broadbent lottery grant. The
names of the lobbyists who received the
bribes on that occasion were all subse-
quently published in the DelUo0re Jour
nal and Statesman about 1866, and they
astonished some people. The names of
the congressman and lobbyists at Wash-
lDgton should also be published without
regard to persons. Some of the Della
ware lobbyists were promised, in bonds,
slo,OOO, some s2O,OOO and some others as
much as $1,000. 1--WE think this is on
record at New Castle) And probably
they would have been paid had the lot
terry company not got Into a quarrel and
ourSt up; for it was said the lottery grant
was worth millions
The daily gazette., 1878-07-25
THE LOUISIANA INQUIRY.

The Potter subcommittee IN New Or
leans has adjourned. Much Of the evil
dence taken by IL was of little importance
or not trustworthy, but the testimony of
man like Governor Wickliffe to the
fact that there was no intimidation in
in Feliciana seems to us conclusive on
that point. Mr.. Wlckliffe is a man in
capable of falsehood and whose word,
where, as in this case, he speaks from
actual knowledge, will not be- doubted.
If the shameless corruption of the
Louisiana republican managers had not
long ago prevented surprise at any ex.
posure of their conduct, the proof that
Kelly. witness who offered to expose
the forgery of the electoral certih ihcates
has been spirited away by friend OF
Senator Kellogg, an employee of the
United States Senate, would cause
general indignation. We trust Mr.
Potter will not let this matter pass
without further Investigation. Yester.
day the republican visiting statesmen
testified at Atlantic City that, so far as
they knew, every thing was all right in
Louisiana. Secretary Sherman will tes-
tify to-morrow.-N. Y. Herald.
The daily gazette., 1878-07-25
Grain Crops of the Northwest.

The Chicago Tribune on Saturday pub
lished the following editorial on the
grain crops of the northwest:
"Three weeks ago the prospect for a
magnificent crop of wheat in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Iowa was excellently
gratifying. There has been serious
change, however, in that time. The
heavy winds, severe storms of rain and
hail, followed by the unprecedented hot
suns of the last ten days, have, in west
ern and southern Minnesota, Wisconsin
! and in northern Iowa. wrought immense
damage to all grain, but especially to the
wheat: These are mainly the only dis
trlcts in which the wheat crop had not
been secured. The grain has been fiat
tened, and lodged, and tangled under the
excessive rains, and the excessive heat
has produced smut and rust to an extent
that indicates a heavy loss. This un-
gathered portion of the wheat crop, had
nothing happened to interfere with it,
would have measured not less than fifty
mill bushels, and the most of il of the
choicest quality. How much of it viii
be lost cannot yet be ascertained, but the
percentage is estimated at from twenty
10 thirty per cent, representing that pro
portion OF many millions of dollars"