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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-04-04
MERE-MENTION.

MERE-MENTION.
The United States ship, Supply, with ex-
hibits for the Paris Exposition, has arrived
safely at Havre. .''......'At Columbus, Ohio,
last week, George M. Weymsn, proprietor of
the Columbus Steam Pump Works, was shot
and instantly killed by his father, George
Weynan. The father committed suicide
few moments later. Business complications
led to a misunderstanding. .'''''''''The Demo-
cratic members of Congress will pay no atten.
tion to the attack of Senator Howe upon the
President. The President desires his friends
to follow the same course. '''''''"It is now
said that the Mrs. Morgan killed by the re-
cent tornado in Kentucky, was the widow of
Gen. John H. Morgan. '''''''"A young wo-
man who was bitten by mad dog at Dun.
more, West Virginia, nine years ago, has
just developed all the symptoms ofhydropho-
bia. '........At Stoneham, Mass, last week,
Mrs. Phoba Atkinson, aged 7S, was arrested,
charged with numbering her luuatic sister,
aged 76.''...'."The New York Assembly has
adopted a resolution favoring the introduce
ton of the Mofet Bar-room Punch in that
State '.'..''..The records show that fifteen
Molly Maguires have been hanged in Penn
sylvania.
Jefferson Davis on the Late Pope.
- The Cleveland (Ohio) Catholic Uni
verse, quotes from personal letter to its edit
or from Jefferson Davis, the following tribute
to Plus TX:
II grieve with you over the decease of the
great and nobly-good Pho Nino. In common
with all who honor true piety, that which be-
gets universal charity, feel the loss which
the Christian world has sustained in the de-
parture of this grand exemplar; but have
personal obligations added to the common
cause for mourning. You have mentioned
many characteristic acts of that sublime
man. Let me add one, of which you might
not otherwise learn, for it was as privately as
it was graciously done. When our war was
closed in the defeat of the South, and / was
incarcerated with treatment the most need
lessly rigorous, if not designedly cruel when
the invention of malignants was taxed to its
utmost to fabrcate stories to defame and de-
grade me in the estimation of mankind; when
time servers at home as we'll as abroad, Joined
in the cry with which the ignoble ever pur-
sue the victim, voice came from afar to
cheer and console me in my solitary captivi-
ty. The Holy Father sent me his likeness,
and beneath it was written, by his own hand,
the comforting invitation our Lord gives to
all who are oppressed, in these words: "Ve-
mite ad me omnes qui lc6oratis, ct ego refciam
DOS, divit Dominus' That the inscription was
autographic was attested by al Cardinal
Barnado, December, 1885, under his SEAL
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-04-04

will be seen in our Court proceedings. ma
jority of those arraigned for trial, pleaded
guilty, thus saving the Solicitor the labor of
endeavoring to convince the jury, which is al
ways noted for perverseness.
More people are in attendance upon CoouqFt
this week than usual. 1t is rare occurrence
for all the seats in the courtroom to be occu.
pied but on Monday and Tuesday the room
was uncomfortabIy crowded during the en-:
tire sessions of each day. This is attributed,
not 80 much to fondness Of the people for
attending Court, as to the fact that the dry
weather has forced upon them leisure time
at a season when they are usually very bus-
ly engaged. From all portions of the county
we have reports of dry weather and ground
too hard to plow.
Sheriff Glenn has inaugurated reform in
the courtroom which has long been needed,
and will meet the hearty approval of the law
yers. Hereafter he will prevent spectators
and others having no business to transact in
Court, from crowding and filling up the space
allotted to lawyers, their clients, and others
whose duties bring them before the Court
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-04-04
the long dry spell to such an extent that the
farmers ploughed with difficulty.

the long dry spell to such an extent that the
farmers ploughed with difficulty.
An Association. composed of the following
Baptist Churches Chester, Calvary, Brushy
Fork, Liberty, New Bethel, Hopewell, Co.
dar Grove, Woodward, Biackstocks, Beaver
Creek, Cool Branch and Mount Zion, was
formed here on Saturday. The Association
was called and will be known by the name Of
the "Chester Association" The meeting at
which this important action was taken, was
we'll attended by the. delegates of the various
churches named. Mr.. J. F. V. Legg was
Chairmap f:the meeting, and Mr. j: G. Nc
Fadden, Secretary. The first meeting of the
new Association will be held at Woodward
Church, beginning on Friday before the 3rd
Sunday ,ins October The Introductory. ser
mon will be preached by the Rev. Z. @. Hin.
ton. The missionary sermon will be preached
by the Rev. A. M. Cartledge. ,rT.r-n
An infant child of Mr.. T. N. Youngblood,
departed this life on Saturday. The burial
took place yesterday at Evergreen Cemetery.
Services were held at st. Marks Church on
yesterday, Rev. R. P. johnson, officiating.
He preached two excellent sermons. QUI. :
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bill providing for the establishment of three
additional weather observation stations in the
State of North Carolina. In the contested
case from Massachusetts, the majority report
in favor of seating Dean, Democrat, was
adopted by one majority. Mr.. Dean was
sworn in, and the House adjourned.
The proceedings in the Senate on the 29th
we're unimportant. Mr.. Eden, chairman of
the committee on war claims, reported back
the bill appropriating s420,OOO for the pay
ment of claims reported as allowed by the
commissioner of claims, and it was passed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
Diptheria.

DR.. Z. NJ. Snow of Providence, X. L.
in his last official report asks the atten.
ton of the people of that city, and es.
pecially of parents, to the following
facts =
1. No case of diptheria occurs with
out an adequate cause. This is self
evident.
2. The cause of nearly all cases of the
disease exists in the house or premises,
or within a few feet of the house where
the cases occur.
3. The cause of nearly all the cases
that occur in the city is breathing i'm
pure air from the privy vaults, or sink
drains, or cesspoOls, or drinking impure
water.
These observations, his long expert
ence satisfies him, says DR.. Snow, are
applicable in all cases, whether in the
tenement of the poor or the mansions of
the rich; and we may add that the
remedy is obvious. Disinfect your
privy vaults, sink drains, cesspools, etc.,
and boil your well water before drink
ing it. This last precaution will give
you little trouble, and the water will
soon cool at this season or the year with
ont ice
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
Winter at Last.
SEVERE COLD AND VIOLENT STORMS
BOTH IN THIS COUNTRY AND EUROPE.

SEVERE COLD AND VIOLENT STORMS
BOTH IN THIS COUNTRY AND EUROPE.
Winter has set in in dead earnest fol
the holidays, both in this country and
Europe. The storm of Saturday and
Sunday seems to have been especially
severe in York state, and it has de-
layed trains at Buffalo with snow
three feet on the level, blocking all Erie
and New York Central stock trains at
East Buffalo, and Obstructing travel in
the northern part of the state and i'm
Canada as thoroughly. New York Cen
trail trains reached Buffalo five and six
hours late, though driven by three or
four engines each, and none of the fast
trains reached Albany from the West
had postal cars, as communication was
severed west of Rochester. The st.
Louis express west on the New York
Central road, while stopping at a sta
ton five miles east of Buffalo, was run
into by the Chicago express bound
west, and A. Gray and Michael Maho-
ney was killed and George Wick had his
leg broken. The heavy drifts in the
Buffalo freight yards were cleared Mon
day morning and the trains again be-
gan to move with some show of regu-
larity. Hudson river is filled with float
ing ice north of Rhineback, obstructing
navigation so that the steamer Martin
of the Albany and Newburg line was
unable to force its way through and
had to return to Newburg AtStuyves-
ant the ice is fast from shore to shore.
Sundays gale did great damage in Hal
flax harbOr and along the Nova Scotia
coast and tha Al,
Nlmbus of Gloucester drowned two men
in going to pieces-Augustus Long and
Andrew Robinson of Southwest harbor,
Me. The storm has been accompanied
and followed by cold wave, which has
driven the thermometer to 3 degrees
below zero at Chicago and Milwaukee,
in both of which places the snow lies
three feet on the level.
In Great Britain and throughout the
continent the fall of snow has been
heavier than for years. 1t was particu-
larly heavy in Scotland, drifting IL feet
about Aberdeen, near which place a
dozen trains are showed in. Two Lon
don mail trains are in the same pre-
dicament. In Geneva 400 men and 100
carts are constantly kept at work clean
ing the streets, and travel is almost
wholly interrupted throughout Switzer-
land. Between BOuveret and st. Maui
rice the service is entirely suspended;
no post has reached Geneva from Ger
many or German Switzerland and until
Sunday night there was no commune
cation between Berne and Lausanne
There is more snow on the Vosges than
the oldest inhabitant remembers, and
it has driven the wolves out so that
they have penetrated to the very gates
of Metz
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
Week of Prayer.

The executive committee of the Evan
gelical Alliance of the United States
makes the following suggestions for the
Week of Prayer, subject to such altera-
tions as local circumstances may render
desirable. The Alliance is now so wide
ly extended as to include in its mem
bership Christians in all nations, and
the first week in January, 1879, will
be observed in all Christian countries,
and at missionary stations in heather
lands.
For the Sabbath, Jan. 5, as a subject
for the pulpit: "Christian Union"
MONDAY, Jan. 6. Thanksgiving for
blessings of the year past, and prayer
for their continuance.
TUESDAY, Jan. z. Prayer for the
Church of Christ; its ministers, its
growth in grace, and its enlargement.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8. Christian edu-
cation the family ; the young; colleges
and seminaries of learning, Sunday and
other schools; Christian Associations
of young Men and Young Women.
THURSDAY, Jan. 9. For nations, rul-
ers and people; for peace and religious
liberty in the earth.
FRIDAY, Jan. 10. The press for a
blessing on publishers, editors and au-
thors; the cause of temperance and
other social reforms.
SATURDAY, Jan. IL. Home and Foreign
Missions and the conversion ofthe world.
On Sabbath evening, January ~, it is
suggested that public union meetings
be held for prayer, praise and the pre-
sentatiOn of the object and work of the
Evangelical Alliance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
The Weather---worse, and More of It.

The cold wave which was reported at
Chicago and westward on Monday has
swept onward toward the Atlantic coast,
leaving the Mississippi closed by ice
from St. Paul, Mimi, to its junction
with the Ohio. 1t was zero weather at
Cincinnati Tuesday, 2 degrees below
at indianapolis, 7above at Buffalo and
3 above at Pittsburg. The storm seems
to have blockaded Buffalo, N. Y, most
completely, and the mails which left
New York Sunday night had not reach
ed there Wednesday morning. The
storm began there Sunday night, and
continued with only occasional lulls at
1890 o'clock Tuesday night.
The extremely cold weather of the
past few days has ranged from a to 10
degrees below zero, and made an unu-
sually quiet Christmas season on the
streets of Chicago. Trains are DELAYED
as much as twelve hours on some roads.
and freights in some cases have laid up
entirely. The embargo on railroad travel
seems more rigid, as the severity of the
cold and the constant drifting of the
snow is proving more serious obsta-
Gle than any before encountered. About
Detroit the extreme cold of the past few
days has been indicated by the Their
mOmeter at degrees below zero. There
as elsewhere snow has fallen in large
quantities, and trains on nearly all the
roads were delayed Monday.
In Great Britain the severe weather
continues and adds to the general dis
tress. The mayor of Sheffield announced
on Monday that $50, 900 would be need
ed to feed the sick and hungry. News
is also received of heavy gales on the
isthmus of Panama, at the first of the
month, which sunk several vessels in the
harbOr of Aspinwall
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
One Wife too Many.

Under the above head, in our issue
for Nov. %, we copied an article from
the New York Tribune, charging Heze-
kiah B. Smith, Congressman elect
from New Jersey, with having two
wives living. AS Smith went from
Woodstock this state, we thought the
case of interest in this vicinity. Since
that account was first printed, the mat
ter has occupied considerable space in
the newspapers, but what was finally
settled upon as the social or moral
status of this new Congressman, we
cannot now tell. In fact the thing had
gone out of mind until we received a
few days since letter from Mr.. Smith
in which be writes as follows:
"Now the facts of the case are,
never ran away from any place, never
married or pretended to marry Verona
Eveline English, never told any human
being she was my wife. The stories
she may have told and the differences
drawn by the public therefrom, l am
not responsible for. Whatever dealings
Verona E. English and myself have had
it was well understood by as both that
marriage real or pretended was never
in our minds. You will oblige me by
re-enlightenipg your readers on the
subject in question. III. B. SMITH.
SmithUilLe, N. j."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
c. Morris. Judgment for nlfs.

c. Morris. Judgment for plfs.
209. Same VS.. S. R. Learned and
trustees. Judgment for plf. Trustees
liable for 1886.
30. Same VS.. j. W. Learned and
trustees. Judgment for plf. Trustees
discharged.
No. 232. w. j. Fletcher VS.. Alanson
Fletcher. Judgment by default. Clerk
to assess.
No. 234. Claud Somers VS.. J. D. Alb
bolt and trustees. Same entry as last.
No. 235. Eliza A. Hall VS.. Edwin A.
Grow. Same as last.
No. 239. A. F. Nichols VS.. James
Hubbard and trustees. Same as last.
Continued as to trustees.
No. 242. j. Emerson VS.. Luke Buz-
zell. Judgment for plf. Clerk to assess.
No. 246. o. T. Brown VS.. Thomas
Knox. Default. Clerk to assess.
No. 248. Gilchrist, Bowman ct al VS..
Horace G. Dickinson and trustees. De-
fault. Clerk to assess. Continued as
to trustees.
No. 252. Elizabeth Whitney VS.. Isaac
Whitney. Same entry as last.
No. 260. Fred'k Fletcher VS.. Chas.
c. Field & B. F. Field. Default. Clerk
to assess.
No. 261. H. E. Fletcher & Co. VS.. j.
w. Haskell & Son. Default. Clerk to
assess.
No. 262. James Lonergan VS.. PIP.
LOnergan. Same as last.
No. 269. w. w. Grout VS.. Geo. w.
Circuit. Same as last.
No. 295. Margaret Kelley VS.. P. P.
LOnergan. Same as last.
No. 276. w. w. Cato VS.. Orlo Cady.
Same as last.
No. 279. j. S. Durant VS.. VIM. Oder
kirk. Same as last.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
Colorado, the Invalid's Paradise.

Mr.. A. Clark Harvey, of this place
writing from Pueblo, Colorado, speaks
favOrably of the climate, especially fol
invalids. "The month of November is
much like the LIST of September in Yer
mont, a constant succession of warm,
sunshiny days, often sitting with doors
and windows open and too warm for
comfort, at times. The air is dry, pure
and bracing, with almost an entire alb
sence of fogs, wind and rain"
Under date of Dec. IA, he says: 81 am
to-day sitting by fire. We have had
two snowy days, and about eight inches
of snow has fallen, but the sun has come
out hot, and the snow is going fast.
Aside from this, and two rainy days in
November, it has been very fine weather
ever since came here. Day after day
the sun shines warm and bright; the air
is dry and pure; ground dry, and no
frost except little around the pump on
the north side of the house. Invalids
enjoy it and gain strength. Most are
here for lung troubles, but | believe it
is to he the great resort of the sick of
every disease; they are here now from
nearly every state in the Union. The
country is splendid overhead, but it
would make old Vermont farmers blue
to look down and around the soil is
reddish sand or earth, mixed with al
kali. The grass, what little there is,
grows in lunches, about as big around
us teacup, five or six inches apart, and
about six inches high. This is very rich,
much better than common grass-but
there are no green, grassy spots to walk
on, or sit on, no trees except on the
river banks, or where they have been
set out.
1t is quite a dairy country. They
have their ranches up near the noun
tains, where the springs of water are
cold, and they make good butter, which
they sell to the miners for 35 and 40
cents per ID. They raise large quantities
of grain, and the flour is very nice and
white. 1t sells at $3.50 per barrel. Po-
tatOes are raised up near the mountains,
and sell at Sl.20 per bushel. There is no
fruit raised here, there is too much al
kali in the soil.
Vegetables grow well, but everything
requires irrigation. The land is nearly
level, with occasional hills. The scenery
is not nearly as fine as among the noun
tains, the nearest of which are thirty
miles away. Pueblo has about 1000 in
habitants; is situated one hundred miles
south of Denver, forty-tive miles south
of Colorado Springs, and the same dis
lance southeast of Pixies Peak, and
seventy-fve miles north of the Spanish
Peak"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
IIH[O[L|IDIA[Y[ [GT010|D1s|I

Having just returned from Boston. !
am prepared to show you large line
of HOLIDAY GOODS, consisting OF
TOYS, CLOCKS, PICTURE BOOKS.
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. Largest
Stock of AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS.
from zoe. to s1.87. DOLLS from lie. to
95c., all sizes. CHRISTMAS & NEW
YEARS CARDS, Prang's and others.
1879 DIARIES Cheap. Also filings for
same. Best assortment of FANCY
BOX PAPERS, from 15c. to Sl.S7 each
in town. Also WRITING DESKS, &C.,
Call early and get a good choice at
c. F. ROBINSON'S, AVENUE HOUSE
EASTERN AVENUE.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
Vermont News.

AmOry Dawson of Craftsbury, re-
Gently took one thousand head of cat
tie down country to market,
Col. Estey of Brattleboro, was Sc.
verely injured the other evening while
attempting to stop runaway horse.
At West Rutland, the other day, the
new Congregational chapel, partially
raised, fell, injuring several of the
wOrkmen.
Hon. John Lynde of Williamstown
started for Boston, Mass, recently.
with wagon load of butter, after the
style of our "grandfather's days"
G. H. Hyde, a young druggist in Mid
dlebury, was badly burned on the 10th
by the explosion of some dangerous
acids which he was mixing in large
proportions.
John Hammond, alias "California
jack" has been sentenced to ten years
at hard labor in the State prison for
breaking into RObinsons & Marsh's
store at Chester depot over a week ago.
The real estate, accounts and other
assets of the Montpelier Manufacturing
Company have been sold to General
P. P. Pitkin for the amount of the in
debtedness of the company, about $685.
900, and q new company is to be organ
lied.
Hon. Tappan Stevens, formerly of
Newbury, and for long time proprie-
tor of the Spring Hotel, at that place,
died the 18th, at the age of SO years.
Forty years ago he was a prominent
Democrat, and represented Orange
County in the State Senate; and was a
.'side justice" of the county courts. We
believe he was 2 relative of the famous
Thad. Stevens of Pennsylvania.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
Republican Bulldozers can be Pun.
ished.

One case of bulldozing at the South
has been punished, and it is rather odd
that the first offenders to suffer should
be republicans. 1t was in North Caro-
lima; Marcus Williams, a negro of Win
ton, voted for the democratic candidate
for Congress, and Samuel jacob and
Ebert GOtling, two celebrated repub-
licans, assaulted him in murderous fash
ion for going back on the party. Jacob
and GOtling were arrested, tried, con-
victed of assault with intent to kill,
and sentenced to six years apiece in the
penitentiary. Meanwhile the trials OF
democratic offenders in South Carolina
before the United States circuit court
at Columbia continue to prove fruitless.
The latest case was that against three
managers of election at precinct in
Richland county, who were charged
with making false certificate of cleo
ton, and the jury disagreed, standing
eight to four for acquittal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27

grand jury. The State Numbered again
in not employing the counsel which
knew all about the case and had the
charge of it in its earlier stages. But
Notwithstanding the weakness and
laundering of the prosecution, the
charge of Judge Ross was plain and
straightforward, and jury that con-
sidered their oath, would have found a
verdict in accordance with law and evil
deDce and the Judges charge. But the
case was sacrificed, and this opportu-
nifty to make crime an Offense, and to
maintain the dignity of law and Justice,
was lost.
The public, however, appeals to a
higher court. The people are greater
than any jury, and their verdict is much
more likely to be right. 1t was for this
reason that the CaledOnian gave more
particulars of this case than it ordina-
rily would. The public could not hear
the evidence, but they could read it,
and their verdict is already rendered.
The great legal tribunal which hears
and settles the cases of this county
may continue to convict men of petty
larceny, and occasionally one for horse
stealing or burglary but when the
greater crimes are winked at, and the
worst criminals set free, the great jury
of public opinion will render their ver-
dict, as they have already done, that
the court is farce, and that justice is
deaf as well as blind.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-12-27
Death of Bayard Taylor.

Bayard Taylor, Minister of the United
States to Germany, died in Berlin at 4
O'Clock Thursday afternoon. The fatal
symptoms had come on suddenly. He
had been out of bed, and transactine
business with the officials of the Ameri-
can legation in the morning. His
death was peaceful and painless. Mr..
Taylor had been suffering for some
months from internal disorders, but
within a short time his recovery had
been regarded as probable.
This celebrated author and traveller
was born at Kenneth Square, Pa, Jan.
IL, 1925. Having received a common
school education, he was apprenticed
at IL in a printing Office, and at the
same time began his poetical contribu-
tiOns to periodicals; and in 1874 he
published volume of poems. Soon
after, with a small fund from this and
other sources, he started on a pedes-
trian tour of Europe, and gave his OBJ
servatiOns in series of letters to the
N. Y. Tribune, and also in a book. AT
ter his return, he spent year editing a
country paper in Pennsylvania, when
he went to New York, and wrote for
the Tribune and Literary World. OF
the former, he became assistant editor
and shareholder in 1849, and as it's cor
respondent he made extensive travels in
California, Mexico, Asia Minor, Cen
trail Africa, India, China, Japan, Swe-
den, Denmark, Lapland, Germany,
Greece, Russia, etc., which were de-
scribed in letters to the Tribune, and in
numerous books. He also published
many other works. Mr.. Taylor was a
frequent and valued contributor to sew
eral magazines and literary journals !;
he wrote excellent poetry, literary re-
views, etc, and his writings display ex
traOrdinary versatility. He was also
an accomplished linguist. Last winter
he was appointed minister to Germany
by President Hayes, and the nomina
ton was at once hailed by the press and
public as one eminently fit to be made.