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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07

sequent loss to democrats of 1875 ma
jority, was gross outrage. The re-
publican managers found out before the
election that the democrats were going
to carry it any way, ordered their vot.
ers to keep away from the polls, and
then throw ont the democratic votes or
the ground that the republicans had
been prevented from voting by intimi-
dation. That Anderson made trouble
about doing his part of the dirty work
after the election has always been
known, and there is nothing essentially
improbable in his account of how his
protest was fixed up. To be sure, he
has sworn to contrary statements about
some of his business before, but his
present story agrees with known facts
pretty well.
The mole interesting and important
part of AndersOn's testimony is that
which concerns Secretary Sherman,
and in less degree Senator Matthews
and Judge Harlan. His account of his
fist interview with Sherman is OF
course to be taken only as the evidence
of man who has prejured himself, and
cannot stand before the secretary's flat
contradiction. The importance OF the
pretended letter is greatly weakened by
the fact that the original is not produc-
ed and by Mr.. Sherman's declaration
that he does not believe he ever wrote
it. Even if authentic, its significance
depends upon the previous interview
with Mr.. Sherman, AndersOn's version
of which the secretary denies. The
strongest point in Sherman's favor,
aside from the inherent weakness of the
inculpating evidence, is the improba-
bility that he would have given such a
fellow as Anderson letter that might
put him in the latter's power, and the
even greater imp obability that, if he
had been so foolish, he would afterward
have provoked Anderson's resentment
by failing to secure him the Office that
would have stopped his mouth. Some
thing more than the story of a charac-
terless adventurer and pretended
copy of letter will be required to
overthrow this strong presumption in
the secretary's favor.
The man who cuts the sOrriest figure
in Saturdays disclosure is Stanley Mat
thews, and, like SO many other unfOrtu-
nate gentlemen, it is one of his own
lcGJSIS tudb itlIS UHc WolSO dShihoO hiih'
In note to Anderson while he was
trying to get him an Office, he informs
the latter that he can tell Nash, if
necessary, that ~ have the agree
ment." Now, this agreement was one
which Anderson had entered into with
Nash, member of Congress from his
district and candidate for reelection,
by which the latter agreed to secure
Anderson the position of naval officer
at New Orleans, in consideration of the
promise that "said Anderson shall sup
press evidence showing that the said
parish of East Feliciana was fairly car
ried by the democratic party"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
The Potter Investigation.

The Potter committee opened bust
ness on Saturday with their best card
the testimony of Anderson. James E..
Anderson is journalist by profession,
and is now engaged upon the Philadel-
phia North American. He was clerk
in the New Orleans custom house pre-
viOus to the last presidential election
and supervisor of registration in East
:Feliciana parish, La, during the cleo
ton, and in that capacity made up his
statement and sent it, with the returns
of the commissioners of election, by
mail to Baton Rouge to the secretary OF
state at New Orleans.
The substance of his testimony was
that he received written assurance from
Senator Sherman, while the court was
pending in Louisiana, that if he stood
firm, he would be provided for after
the 4th of March that Senator Mat.
thews afterward promised him an ap.
pointment, and the President recog.
onized his claim, but the only Office
they offered him was an inspectorshiI
of customs at 81 day, which he de.
clined.
In speaking of this case the Spring.
field Republican says:
1t may be broadly divided into two
parts. One is an exposure of the way
i'm which the scheme to throw out thu
parish of East Feliciana was cooked III
before the election and carried out af
ter it. This part of Anderson's story
develops some new points, but only
confirms what was notorious before
There has never been any reason t,
doubt that the rejection by the return
ing board of this parish, with the con
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
One More Terrible Cyclone.

10 PEOPLE KILLED AND 40 WOUNDED.
A terrific cyclone passed over Rich
mond, Mo-, Saturday afternoon. level
ing to the ground more than half the
buildings in town, over 100 houses being
totally destroyed, and the loss OF nron7
erty Will reach quarter of a milli6n
dollars, while Is people were killed and
4O were wounded. Whole blocks wera
completely swept away, and the debriS
was scattered for miles. The storm
came from the southwest, passed to tbn
northeast, and was preceded bv rain
trees uprooted and carried thro1pb The
ar ike feathers, as were fragments of
houses, and in fact everything that the
storm struck. The Shaw house. large
orick hotel, was demolished. and the
inmates were buried in the rn;nS
Horses and stock of all kinds in tbe
track OF the storm were swept off the
earth. The cyclone was the color nf
steam, and at times a fnnnel-s ha, u
whirling cloud would break or ona "" pea
emit what appeared like black SMOKE
snen gather again, and with incraosaj
force continue on its march of destruc-
ZION. 1t first approached SLOWLY not not
.as.er, perhaps, than man could wall,
!nen moved faster, leveling everv N%,n,
IN It's path with the ground. 'n'"s
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07

Because democrats want to find reason
for declaring that the President was not
duly elected, they are certain to lean
the more strongly to that belief the
more the question is disputed, to attach
undue weight to testimony sustaining
that claim, and to more or undervalue
evidence on the opposing side. In short,
the very discussion of the subject re-
wives all the intense, bitter and malig-
nant partisanship which it was the OBJ
ject of patriotic men to allay after the
decision of last year. Mr.. Potter only
contradicts himself when he says that
he does not mean to assail the Presi-
dents title. He actually did assail that
title the moment he rose in the House
and offered his resolution; he did all
that was in his power to cause doubt
and disbelief, and to encourage men to
look hopefully for measures, however
reckless or revolutionary, by which
what they are led to think a great
wrong may be righted. 1t is well
known and just rule of law that every
man must be held responsible for the
natural consequences of his acts.
Experience within the past fortnight
has taught how surely and swiftly this
revolutionary attack upon the title of
the President gains strength from party
feeling and discipline. Very recently
scarcely bakers dozen of democratic
representatives could be found who
dared to countenance any dispute of
the decision of the Electoral Commits
sion. ave demanded that arbitration"
they confessed, "and are in honor bound
by it. We want peace and order, which
non11 no ocSurnH N nthar on6
we have now no right to renew strife
not i'm our favor" Yet the very same
members, within ten days, voted for
Mr.. Potter's resolution, and about fifty
voted against the resolution of Mr.. Har-
risOn, which declared that the question
could not now be lawfully or bOnOrably
re-Opened. 1t is true that somewhat
larger numbeT-about sixty of the dem
Ocrats present-vOted to sustain the
latter resolution. But what reason is
there to believe that these members
also will not throw off the mask, or
change their minds, whenever they may
hope to grasp by single vote the whole
patronage of the Government for the
democratic party?
This business means mischief. Sec
rotary Sherman meets 1t manfully, as
far as one man can; but who would
like to be tried by packed jury, of
whom seven out of eleven had declared
that they believed the accused guilty,
and were strongly interested in proving
him guilty? Unless the case is extra
ordinarily strong, prejudice is sure to
prevail. 1t is time foI the country to
take part in this matter. Law-abid-
ing citizens, who do not intend that the
Government of this country shall be
Mexicanized, should find means to speak
at once. Business men, manufacturers,
wOrkmen and farmers, who have every
thing to gain by peace, and everything
to lose by revival of intense sectional
and partisan strife, ought to speak. AS
for republicans, whether they like or
dislike the administration, they ought
to be united to the last man in resisting
the new rebellion. The man who lends
aid to the revolutiOnists in these times,
belongs where the copperheads belonged
in 1861
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07

The month of May has had a colder
average temperature than the proceed
ing month of April had.
Senator Coke, of Texas, seemed to
have a comprehensive idea of the re-
suits of the Potter exploration when he
predicted that it would hurt nobody but
the South and the Democratic party.
1t has done that already, and hasn't
even started.
The economical Democracy have
rushed through the House an appIOpria-
ton of $4,000 to pay the expense of
the special fraud committees trips to
Florida and Louisiana. That is lib
eral price to force the country to pay
for the unloading of a batch of quick
ened conscience.
90 per cent of the southern people are
opposed to the whole fraud movement.
Mr.. Springer has been appointed a
member of the Potter committee in
place of Mr.. Cobb, whose health is pre-
carious.
In New York, Friday, two sons of a
policeman named Murphy were playing
rough and tumble game, when one of
them found a revolver in drawer, and
in fun aimed it at his brother, who was
killed.
The New York Sun says the manager
of Baldwin's theater, San Francisco, has
just closed an engagement with Beecher
to deliver ten lectures in California for
$4,000 and expenses.
A mob at Mansfield, O., Friday, bent
upon seeing murderer executed. tore
down the Jail wall, overpowered the
guard, and forced the sheriff to make
the execution public.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
DESPERATE FIGHT WITH TRAMPs:

Dup.rE FIGHT WITH TRAMPs.
P;cbmond. Va, June 2. Last nlgns
: niuctv Young widow, living near
Tareweil Court House in this otaIe,
defeated two tramp ruffians after Ignt
,rhicb cost all three their lives, AoouS =
M n;clock two men went to the house Oh
Mrs Becky Baldwin and ASKED her
20 Give them some silver in exchange
Sor 9otes. offering seven dollars OF the
Litter for five dollars of the former.
Tbev soon left, but returned a1ter sue
retired broke open the door and enter
ad her bedroom. She jumped from tne
he'd and told them to leave the room;
They demanded her pocket Dook anu
threatened violence if she dId not gIye
il. She went to her dress, deliberately
took her pocket book from IL, CONTAIN.
ing S21, and threw it in the nre. one
of the tramps stopped to get 1t, ana sue a
suatcbed an ak and dealt him terriIc
blow, knocking him down, quickly FOL
lowed with other blows, dashing his
brains out on the hearth-stone. Inc
second tramp then drew dirk kn1e
and stabbed her twice in the lett breast.
She dealt him fearful blow with the
AK. nearly severing his right arm near
the shoulder. The miscreant fed, leaV-
ing trail of blood behind. His dead
body was found this morning, two miles
from this place. A young white man
came by this morning and found Mrs;
Baldwin dying. She told her story and
died two hours afterward. The dead
bodies of the tramps were thrown IN
hog pen, so great was the indignation
of the people in the vicinity. There
were no papers upon them by which
they could be identified.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
Another Great Disaster at Sea.

A terrible disaster occurred off the
English coast, Friday morning. A Ger
man squadron of four ironclad vessels
was bound for Plymouth and thence to
Gibraltar, and when off Sandgate, at a
quarter before ten, two of the vessels
came in collision. One of them, with
500 persons on board, sank in five min
utes, and 300 people were drowned, in
spite of all the assistance the other
vessels could render. The cause of the
disaster was that one of the irOnclads
did not obey orders, and instead of
starboarding her helm, continued to
port, bringing the vessels in direct con-
tact
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
The Body of a wen-Known Man Stolen.
1T Is FOUND IN THE OHIO MEDICAL COL
LEGE AT CINCINNATI.

1T Is FOUND IN THE OHIO MEDICAL COL
LEGE AT CINCINNATI.
Considerable excitement was created
at Cincinnati yesterday by the acciden-
tai discovery in the dissecting rooms of
the Ohio medical college, of the body
of j. Scott Harrison, which was buried
Wednesday, in the family vault at
North Bend. 1t appears that a young
man named Devins died at North Bend
,, last week, and on Wednesday, while
the funeral services at HarrisOn's grave
were progressing, John Harrison and
George Eaton thought they observed
appearances about Devins' grave which
were suspicious. After the funeral,
they caused an examination of the
grave, and found that it had been rob-
bed. Preparations were at once made
to prevent a similar dissertation of Har-
rison's grave, and the coffin was enclosed
in wall of brick and the whole covered
with a slab of heavy stone set in cement.
The grave was left open to allow the
cement to harden, and watchman was
placed in charge. Wednesday night
these men went to Cincinnati in search
of Devins' body, procured search war
rants for all the medical colleges and,
accompanied by n detective, visited the
rooms of the Ohio medical college.
They found nothing, and were about
leaving, when one of their number no.
ticed rope attached to a windlass was
down the chute and evidently had
something attached to it. Upon draw
ing it up, the naked body of a man was
discovered hanging by the neck with a
cloth over the face. As the hair was
gray, they said it was not Devins' BODY
and were about to leave, but the detec-
tive suggested that they uncover the
face and see who it was. They imme-
dlatelv recognized Mr.. Harrison. and
John Harrison staid with the body until
coffin was procured and the body
placed therein and removed to an un-
dertaker's. The janitoI was at once ar
rested, aud it was reported last night
several persons Mt Cleves, near North
Bend, were also taken in charge for
completely in the outrage. The rela-
tIves of Harrison now in Cincinnati,
express determination to prosecute to
the full extent of the law all concerned
in the affair. The excitement at North
Bend is intense.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
The County Convention.

By the call of the county committee,
elsewhere given, it will be seen that the
Republicans are to hold theiI county
convention at this place on Thursday,
June 20th-also that it is to be a mass
convention. This is in accordance with
resolution passed at the last conven-
ton.
The principal business of the con-
ventiOn is to nominate county officers {:
two state senators, two assistant judges,
judge of probate, a states attorney,
and a sheriff. The county was espe-
cially fortunate in its selection of a
ticket two years ago. Messrs. ThOmp-
son and Belden represented this county
ably at the state capital, and if the
voters should see fit to return them both
for another term, their experience and
ability would give them rank in the
senate from the start. But it is in our
prosecuting and peace officers that the
people are equally if not more inter
ested. Our present states's attorney
and sheriff have shown themselves right
men in the right place. The increase
of crime, especially in this vicinity, has
called for the most clear-headed, dis
Greet and energetic men in these offices
men who knew their duty, and know
ing it had the ability and courage to
perform it. Such men we consider
Messrs. Ide and Preston, and we believe
the voters of the county will make a
grievOus mistake if they do not elect
them for another term. If the law
loving voters of the several towns think
so, let them come out to the convention
and nominate them.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
The Plain Duty of Patriots.
From the New York Tribune, June l..

A notorious craftsman, who had
served two or three terms at Sing Sing,
if caught cutting through the floor into
bank, with full set of burglars tools
ready for opening the safe, would hard
ly have the impudence to assert that
he did not mean to steal any thing. But
burglars cannot be expected to have
the hardihOOd of democratic leaders.
The leaders are caught in the act of
cutting through the protecting partition
built by the Electoral Commission and
the last Congress. They are caught
with full set of tools for assailing the
Presidents title. a memorial from
Maryland, pretended confessions from
sundry officials, and letters purporting
to be from friends or advisers of the
President. Yet some of these demo-
cratic leaders have the phenomenal
etfrOntery to assert that they do not
mean to raise any dispute about the
title of the President. In the face OF
the formal demand made by the very
memorial from Maryland on which their
resolution was based, they hope to es-
cape all the deserved odium of disturb
ing the peace and paralyzing the bust
ness of the country, until they can get
together men enough to GUST the Presi-
dent and Mexicanize the Government.
After they have broken open the safe
and carted off the booty, we can call
them burglars as much as we like
until then, they insist that they are
merely virtuous citizens, trying to find
out whether the partition wall is hol-
low, and not at all to burglary in
clined.
The common sense of the country in
stantly rejects this pretence. Self-re.
speeding and patriotic democrats admit
that it is shallow and fraudulent. Ii
truth, there is no room for argument OF
doubt The title of the President Il
assailed by the very terms of the reso
luton adopted. That resolution doe
produce, and was intended to produce
serious dispute as to the lawfulness ani
validity of the election. 1t does cause
and was intended to cause, strong
feeling among democrats that they have
been cheated and robbed, and that any
method of ousting the President said t,
be improperly inaugurated, howeve
violent, lawless, or revolutionary tina
method may be, is only sort of rud,
!; justice-mere "tit for tat.r Thus it il
hoped that the minds of men will b,
prepared for the extreme measures con
templated hereafter. This calculation
is correct. Human beings are so con
stituted that the majority are prone t,
believe what they want to believe
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
Caledonia court.--June Term 1879

Caledonia court.--June Term, 1878.
hon. JoNA: Ross, Presiding Judge.
Hon. G. I. A. HUMPHREY .
Hon. M. r. GRAY, ASST Judges.
A. b. Rankin, Clerk.
z: A. Willard, Deputy Clerk.
w. ID. Preston, Sheriff.
Tr1e:nry Z: lde, States Attorney.
Elisha May, Court Auditor.
GRAND JURORS.
Claud Somers, Barnet H. M. Hall.
Burke; Moses M. Batchelder, Danyille .
Martin Weld, Groton; F. ]. French.
hardwick John w. Gorham, Kirby :
5. w. Russell, Lyndon S. B. Co1liss
Newark; Solomon H. Rowell. Peacbam
Robert Nelson, Ryegate; Horace Drown
sheffield Levi p. Shepard, Stannard .
"A. Z. Babbitt, VIM. A. Chapman. ST.
Johnsbury Reuben Ellis, Sutton John
d. Rogers, Walden; VIM. M. Hovey.
Waterford; VIM. B. Jones, Wheelock,
MIR. Rowell of Peacham, was appoint
ed foreman, and Daniel Coffrip has
charge of the Grand Jury.
PETIT JURORS.
w. K. Nelson, James R. Galbraitb,
Barnet; M. w. Stoddard, iona. B. Jen.
kins, Burke; w. H. Harris, A. A. Fin
ley, Danville; 1. M. Kicker, Groton
r. F. brennan, Edgar Hunt, Hardy wick
Milo Jenkins, Kirby; William Park. d
S. Winter, Lyndon; Ira Humphrey
Newark Hiram A. Sanborn, Paul F
Ferguson, Peacham; j. H. Currier
VIM. N. Gilfillan, Ryegate w. H
Drake, Sheffield; Samuel Winchester
Stannard Pembroke Stevens, E. F
Brown, st. Johnsbury; Frank w. Bar
ker, E. L. Carr, Sutton; L. w. Cam,
eron, f. s. Kimball, Walden Elisha
Brown, W. c. Hill, Waterford Samue
H. Jones, Wheelock.
Fifty-Dine cases were set for iurv
Several cases that have been shappin,
fire" several years, have been settled
Nos. B. N. 1Hlotson Us. Chas F
Ramsey. Action of general assumpsi
to recover $500 paid for patent on saw
frames. Plff. claims that deft's patept
! was an infringement of prior patent
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07

THE WESTERN HARvEsT.-An agent
of the Messrs. Fairbanks, who has trav-
eled in Indiana for the past twenty i've
years, under date of May Both, writes
as follows: "SOme large farmers in the
southwestern part of the state, have
commenced harvesting wheat, and with
good weather for securing the crop, it
will be much the largest ever produced
in this state; and it looks finely in all
parts of the state. l have never known
wheat harvested in the month of May
before this year"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07

~ William Cullen Bryant met with
a severe accident while ascending the
stone steps of house in New York,
Wednesday of last week. He had been
attending the unwilling of monument
for several hours, and in the act of en-
tering the house of a friend became I'M
conscious, fell backward and struck his
head upon a stone step. 1t was severe
blow, and the aged poet-editor may not
recover.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
Assignee's Sale.

The subscriber having been appointed assignee
of the estate of C. j. Houghton bankrupt will sell
at public auction at the store on Railroad street.
in st. Johnsbury Vt, formerly occupied by said
at one O'Clock in the afternoon, all the stock of
goods in said store, consisting of Watches Clocks
Silver and Gold Goods Furniture and Fixtures
SC, and one share Passumpsic r. R. Stock Also
all of the accounts due said bankrupt Terms cash
down. F. F. FLETCHER Ass;gnaa
st. Johnsbury, VT, June 4, 1878. 1924
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
W Both houses of Congress have
voted to adjourn on June 18th.

II George r. Waterman, who, az
paymaster at the Pacific Mills at Law.
renee, embezzled Sill, 200, which he
could not repay, was last week SEN
fenced by Judge Bacon, at Newbury-
port, to twelve years in the State pris-
on. He plead guilty.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07

THE p. & O. IN New HAMPSHIRE
Lively skirmishing on railroad matters
is expected at the next session of the
Legislature, as the Portland & Ogdens-
burg road will make another attempt to
have its charter amended SO that it can
complete it's route without passing
through the town of Littleton. The
corporation desires an independent track
from the Fabyans to Dalton, where it
now runs over the iron of the Boston,
Concord and Montreal line. 1t is re-
ported that there will be a movement
to secure a charter for a narrow-guage
road from North StratfOrd, on the Grand
Trunk line, through Columbia, Cole
brook and Canaan, VT, to the Canada
border, in opposition to the cOntemplat-
ed extension of the Montreal road. No
tice has been given of intention to ask
for charter for a narrow-guage rail-
road from LittletOn or from Bethlehem
to the Profile house.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07
Auction,

viii be sold at public auction at the dvslln.
OF THOMAS S. RANDALL, in Danville, vt. on
Saturday, June 10. 1875. at 10 a m, tho follow
ing personal property:
u nice young cows, Jersey bull full blood. l
year, earnng colt lumber wagon. moving machine
norse rake, narrows, and AL farming tools har
nesses, sielgh, buggy wagon buffaloes &c 2 an
gar pans heaters $50 tin buckets $50 new wooden
Suckets &c; 100 cedar posts, barrels phosphate
1888 JoIrNr r,,pnso,-
May 80, 1878. $500,