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CHICAGO, September 2O.-The Coroners
jury rendered a verdict that Mcvay, whose
dead body was found on the docks We'd
nesday evening, came to his death by q
suicidal act.
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Haathor IndIoatIanl.

wAsurxaroS, D. c., September 81. For
Tennessee and the Ohio Valley and Lake
Region, cooler southwest to northwes,
winds, rising barometer and partly cloudy
Or clear weather.
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FLusursu, L. l., September 2o.-4still
in the Queens County OIL Works exploded
tbs morning. John MeReon, Cover Lynch
and james McElroy were terribly, perhaps
fatally, injured
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ENGLAND.
nrIcoxsrIrLn,s roLrcY.

LONDON, September 2o.-There Is an un.
easy feeling that Lord Beaconsfield's In.
dian policy will result in war with Al.
ghanistan and the reopening OF the whole
Eastarn question. u. ~.
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prr1ssuRsH, September 21-PErRoLEuM-
MArket.yery qniet: crude at q 00Nc at Par.
keF's; refined at loc Philadelphia delivery,
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sLEEbIEssvRss.W Those who suffer from

sLEEPLnssxRss.4 Those who suffer from
sleeplessness and the number is not
small might do well to notice their posi-.
ton at night. A German physiologist
states that the heating Of the earth by the
sun causes magnetic currents from the
equator to each pole. We should lie, there:
fore In tho direction OF these currents, II
we lie across these, the result is unpleas-
ant, and want OF sleep is the consequences.
The head to the north is the best position
to the west, the worst. Physicians who
have charge Of hospitals attend to the di.
rections in which the beds are placed,
and with the. best results.
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PlIILApELpIuA SUBSCRIPTIONS,

PmlADELPnlA, September 20.-Yellow
fever subscriptions to-day, 81, 40, making
a total of slO0,7ll. The committee nc
knowledge the receipt from citizens Of q
large amount OF groceries, clothing and
bedding, which has been sent forward to
the infected districts The commit to-day
reported a balance on hand Of S23, 900, and
telegram was sent 10 Memphis that ten
thousand dollars were held subjectto their
order IL required. Tfs
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YELLOW FEVER.
General Reports from the Fever
Districts.
Some Abatement in the vlrulence Of
the Disease.
At CINcINSATI.

CISc1xSArT, O., September 20.-Seyeral
cases Of yellow fever have occurred among
Memphis people in this city in the last
few days, no deaths, however, since Mon
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TOTAL DEATIIs

NEw ORLEANS, September 20. : Total
deaths to date, 2,S6s. Among the deaths
to-day is Sister Mary Brigitta, at the St.
Joseph Asylum.
The Howard Association reported 90
new cases to-day and the Young Mems
Christian Association 6l new cases.
The Peabody Association filled 1902
requisitions, equal to S0,0A rations.
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CHICAGO.

.CucAoo, September 2o.-The contribu.
tions for the yellow fever fund to date are
S7G,5l0, OF which S5l ,657 were to the Citi'
zens' Committee. To-tlay's subscriptions,
S3,l42.
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Getting Ready for Kearneyism and Bu
G Ierlsm NJ Washington.

gr Ierism NJ Washington.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
WASHINGTON, September l9.-The Treas
ury authorities have made ample prepara-
tions to resist any assaults that may be
made by mob upon the building with a
view to obtain government funds. Nearly
every clerk in the divisions that have any
thing to do with money has been sup
piled with a navy revolver, which is
constantly kept in drawer in his desk.
There are, besides several dozen stands
OF improved breechloadins rifles ar
ranged in places convenient Of access,
and there is detail Of guards chosen from
men skilled in the use Of the musket.
There is large quantity of fixed ammu-
milton in different parts of the building.
There is also a small battery Of Calling
guns in the basement, which could be
readily moved to any portion OF the build
ing. The Treasury is also connected by
telegraph with police headquarters and
with the arsenal, where troops arc sta,
toned. VI
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RArIoYs FOR the suFrEREl

WASHINGTON, September 9o.--The secre.
tary Of War, having received request
from the Howard Association OF New Or
leans for sixty thousand rations to-day,
had conieren &C with the Commissary
General OF subsistence on the subject and
II was ordered that forty thousand raticns
be distributed among the yellow fever suf-
ferers nj that city.
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Resumption OF Navigation.
ST. CAruARlSEs, September 20.-Navlga;;
tion on the Welland canal will be resumed
on Monday or Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO TnITY THOUSAND.

SAN FRANCISCO, September Gothic to-
tai amount thus far collected by the eiti.
zens relief committee is $4,000. Wells
Fargo's collection yesterday was over ~
900, or about $50, 900 in all.
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9sTABLIsHED AUGUST "a, 1862.
age amount Of capital invested in Uni.
tad States bonds.

age uhOuhb vi GhPllut luNebReu Ill VII
tad States bonds.
, In addition, they pay to the State, coun
ty deity, or town, where they are locat
cd the same taxes paid by all other prop
erty Of whatsoever kind. Forinstance, the
one remaining National bank in Wheeling
pays, in addition to the government taxes
enumerated above, 30 cents on the Sl0o to
THE State Of West Virginia, Il cents to the
City Of Wheeling, and 45 cents to the coun-
ty OF Ohio. .,a-,.
IT is'a notorious fact that tho National
banks throughout the country actually
pay far more tax to the States, counties
and cities wherein they are located than
any other species of bank capital or per-
sonal property. A few days ago the edi-
tor OF the Cleveland Leader, having heard
some speakers at u Democratic meeting de-
clare that the National banks paid no tax
on their bonds, sat down and wrote a
note to the Auditor Of the City Of Cleve-
land. or rather Of the County Of Cuyahoga,
asking ghim for statement us to the as
sessments upon the National banks Of that
city. To this note the Auditor made the
following reply: 5a
Editor Leader: f a
DEAR SIR: In response to your favor OF
this date asking information relative TO
the assessment OF National Banks OF this
city for taxation, l have the honor to sub.
nit the following valuations fixed by, the
State Board OF Equalization exclusive Of
real estate for 1873: ~
First National Cleveland s276000
second National, Cleveland $4,000
Commercial Setlunll Cleveland ........- 1,0!5.0O0
Merchants National, CleyelAnd..... 900
National City, tleve and 900
Ohio National, Cleveland. Sii0oo
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-04-12

the Dutch had left, with store rooms for
trade like those of Amsterdam and 9TH
er trading towns in Fatherland. Thus
at New Amsterdam and Fort Orange
ALBANY rows of houses could be seen
built of imported brick, with thatch-
roofs, wooden chimneys and the gable
ends always towards the street. A few
of these remarkable Dutch houses were
to be seen till within year or two III
this city, but not one now remains.
Among these spade relics, and of far
more recent date than those above de-
scribed, were the bored logs of the old
Manhattan Water Works. AS this COM
pany, which was organized in 1799, sup
piled the city with water until l822,
the logs must be more than half cen
fury old, yet those lately unearthed
were excellently preserved. So the dig
gers in Frankfort street have pierced IN
succession, strata belonging to four CIV
illizations, so to speak, Oh Manhattan
Island-the American, the English, the
Dutch and the Indian.
The Rev. j. P. Newman, better known
as "Parson Newman" who was a sort
of chaplain in ordinary to the White
House during Grants administration,
and who has just returned from Pales-
tine whittier it seems that Congress, for
some profoundly mysterious reason saw
fit to send him as "Inspector of Con-
suls,n has accepted a call to Method
list church here, where he will shortly
enter upon his labors. These will be
likely to be more arduous than that of
ministering to the spiritual yearnings
and necessities of the ex-Executive.
RADIX.
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manian Government on the subject.
The Vienna Political Correspondent,
however, asserts that the Russian rep
resentative at Bucharest repeated
Prince Gortschakoff's threats on Sun
day.
PROPOSED MEETING OF THE THREE EN-
PERORs.
New YORK, April 9. [Cable special
to the Telegram. London. InfOrma-
ton has reached the English author
tiles that the Car intends leaving st.
Petersburg for the customary summer
sojourn at Ems sooner than usual. 1t
is stated that the Gar will stop at Ber-
lin, ell route, and this, in connection
with the profound silence of Gertseha-
koff, leads to the opinion that previous
to a final decision the Car wishes to
avail himself of the opportunity to OBJ
tain the last word with Emperor Will
liam. 1t is also probable that there
will be a new meeting of the three EN-
perors, or if this is not consummated,
an interview will be arranged between
the Gear and the Emperor of Austria.
WILL ENGLAND BE IGNORED
Many influential people in London
consider there is still great probability
that the grave questions now agItating
Europe will be settled between Russia,
Austria and Germany without the
slightest notice being taken OF the Brit
ish protest.
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in the national assembly as they are
with US. Germany, England, The Meth
erlands, France even provide for the
collection of these claims in the same
way that they do for other debts. The
United States seems to think it incon-
sistent with its national dignity to be
sued. A private claim against the gov
eminent which in England or Germany
would be collected in the courts of law,
in this country is brought before Con-
gress, is referred to a committee, re-
ported back and each special claim has
to have a special law. The committee
to which the demand is referred acts as
the court and also as counsel for the
government, for the government has
no other attorney fol these cases. These
committees are not bound by any rules
of any court, nor by any decisions
OF former committees, nor even by their
own decisions. Each case is a law unto
itself. There is however hope of i'm
provement for the private demands
arising from the Geneva award have
recently been referred by Congress to
the court of claims. Now if every pri-
vate claim could thus be referred the
LObby's occupation would be gone.
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The Lobby.

Senator Edmunds, in the course of
the discussion on the Pacific Railroads
Bill, took occasion to make some sharp
remarks upon the conduct of certain
men interested in these roads, who
were at Washington for the sole pur-
pose of influencing legislation in their
favor. Such attacks upon the Lobby
come far too infrequently. There ought
to be more men in Congress who are
outside its influence and who dare speak
their minds on the subject in open de-
bate. The Lobby, as it exists at Wash
ingtOn and at every state capital in the
Union, has grown to be great evil.
Its influence exercised upon Congress-
men is not legitimate, for its arguments
are founded upon everything save the
merits of the case. This institution is
peculiar to America. Sedgwick, writ
ing in the Atlantic, declares that it ex-
lists nowhere else in the organized, eff
cient form in which it is found here,
The reason for this is obvious. In
European countries, private claims
against the government are not litigated
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Another Man Trap Burned.

The building of the Stuben County
Poor House, which was burned Satur-
day night, was brick one, 30 by 40
feet, two stories high, nearly all the
windows grated, and but one mode OF
egress from each story. No night watch
man was employed about the buildings,
and there was no fire apparatus. The
County House is two miles from Bath,
and the fire department did not go out.
An insane epileptic from Hornellsville,
named Ford, locked in cell on the
first floor, set fire to his bed with a
match, probably obtained from fellow
pauper. All the partitions were of pitch
pine, and burned like finder.
The cries of Ford aroused the other
inmates only after the building was
filled with binding smoke. An inmate
who had Ford in charge, opened Ford's
door, and the flames burst out and ran
along the partitions and up the stove
pipe hole into the second story. Ford
could not be seen on account of the
flames. He had forced his head be.
tween the bars of the window, and, un-
able to pull it back, was crying foI
help. The flames poured out of the win
dow around his head, and he persisted.
The upper story was occupied by twen-
ty-tive women and children, and the
lower story by eighteen men, a major
ity of whom were idiotic, crippled, or
very aged. Five on the first floor and
ten on the second were destroyed.
At the first alarm, Eli Darlington, the
keeper, rushed out of the main build
ing with an employee and knocked in
the door at the foot of the staircase lead
ing from the SECOND story. Eight or
ten women were piled up at the foot of
the stairs, and a cloud of suffocating
smoke rolled down. The women were
pulled out, and Darlington started up
stairs, but was driven back by the
smoke. In five minutes from the time
of the alarm the paupers ceased coming
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General Field Elected Doorkeeper.

Perley in his Washington dispatch to
the Boston Journal says: In the House
the DOOrkeeper controversy is settled
by the election of the Confederate Ma
iOr General Field, the victory. The Re-
publicans were not successful in the
Democratic caucus nominee, and both
sides claim having the issue presented
exactly as they wished it, as the rulings
of Speaker Randall were not in their
favor. The House decided almost
unanimously, as it was supposed they
would, that the election of a doorkeeper
is privileged question. That done the
strife begun, and the story of the war
was told over again. 1t is needless to
repeat it here. Gen. Butler drew a
parallel between the Union General
Shields, the hero of two wars, and the
wounded of both, who yet was Dem
Ocrat, and the caucus nominee, who,
educated at the expense of his country
at West Point, laid down his sword at
the outbreak of the rebellion to enter
the service of the Confederacy, and who
since the war, too proud to petition for
restoration to citizenship, took upon
himself the allegiance of the Sultan in
the Khedive's army, and has had bis
disabilities as an American citizen re-
moved for but two months; and in
drawing that parallel General Butler
sought to revive the Northern soldier
sentiment and did not forget to say a
word or two for himself.
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FATAL RESULT OF FoLLY.-A Varle-
ty Company, from Mozart's Garden
Brooklyn N. Y, has been playing this
week in the Opera House at Pawtucket
R. I. One feat is shooting an apple
from the head or hand of a performer.
Mile Volante, trapeze performer, held
the apple on her head, and Mrs. Jennie
Fowler, known on the stage as Frank
lin, was to shoot the apple. With I'M
common recklessness the shooter stood
with her back to the mark, taking ann
by the reflection in mirror. The rifle
was discharged, and Mile. Volante fell
dead on the stage, shot through the
forehead. Nothing can be learned OF
the victim, who has been on the stage
but five weeks. Mrs. Franklin was
taken into custody by the police.
Mile. Volante fingered until Sunday
evening, and died about O'Clock. Her
sister, from Brooklyn N. Y, was present
and a brother from Phelps, Ontario
county, N. Y, is expected. The real
name of the girl is Lottie Maloy. She
was % years old. Her sister was the
only one of the family who knew she
was on the stage.
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Ver News.

A negro named Thomas Fairfax, was
crushed by falling tree ut Vernon, the
I'd, and died the next day.
On the LIST, Mr.. Henry Cheney, the
well known conductor on the Central
VT, was thrown from his carriage while
on his way from his home in Barnard
TO take the night train ut Bethel, frac-
! turing his shoulder and back. He is
now ut home, confined to his bed, and
his injuries are such as to cause ala. N
to his relatives and friends.
The gas works connected with Towns
Hotel, at Bellows Falls, exploded Tues
day night severely burning an employee
and destroying the building by fire.
A boy named Michael Gregg of st.
Adams, about fourteen years of age,
while attempting to get on moving
freight train, yesterday afternoon, fell
between the cars, and had his left arm
cut off just below the shoulder.
The sugar season is about over, and
poor one it has been here, although in
other localities it has been good.-Man-
chester Journal
-Four men and two women have been
arrested and bound up for petty thiev-
ing in Manchester and vicinity. The
Manchester Journal thinks this breaks
up gang of thieves that the authori-
ties have been looking after for some
time.
The Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
Company celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of its organization last Monday.
An adopted son of F. j. Rood of
RPnnly HnIH amaI inrh+ c.I1
pan of boiling sap the LIST, and was so
badly scalded that he died the next
day.
The title of champion walker is
claimed for William Burke, of Castle
ton, railroad track walker During
the sixteen years of his employment at
that work, Burke has walked II3.9OO
miles, or some four and one-half times
the distance round the globe.
The most dishonest man in town
ana we have several pretty tou gh ones
is A. Is. Rand. He agreed to draw MS
some four foot wood to pay for the Cit
lzen, ana when we came to measure il.
we round several sticks that were over
nve feet in length, and others that were
TOUR and half in length. Such rascal
lty as this should be exposed, and we
are going to do it.-MOrriSUiHe Citizen.
Earle ought to have known if he
moved away from St. Johnsbury be
would be liable to fall among thieves
and tricksters. We never heard him
complain of such dishonesty while here
George Bromley and an associate
named Woods, waylaid Robert Callahan
near South Wallingford depot, Friday
evening Bromley held lantern in one
hand and aiming a pistol with the 9th
er, shot Callahan, the ball lodging some
where IN the thigh. He now lies in a
critical condition, the ball not hayin@
been extracted. Former trouble be-
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ont. and in half an hour the roof fell in.
The first floor door leading from the
mems department was never Locked,
and nc one in the building was locked
in cell except Ford.
On Sunday the blackened remains OF
five bodies were taken from the ruins,
and on Monday about two-thIrds OF the
debris were dug over, and more remains
found. All together they would about
fill an ordinary sized coffin. Legs, arms
and skulls were entirely burned of, and
in most cases but very small portion
of the body could be found. No blame
is attached to any one, but the county
is severely censured for providing such
a man trap for the occupancy OF ITS
paupers. Before the fire there were l4O
hampers at the county house.
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Swanton Society Stirred Up.

just now Swanton is having her so
cial sensation. 1t appears that one
Loukes, a farmer, came to Swanton
some time since, with his wife and four
children, and took up residence on
Greenwich street. They were warmly
attached to their religious duties, and
were constant attendants at the Metho-
dist church. They moved in the best
society and were considered as among
the elite OF that little village. In this
family formerly lived "a servant girl
named Hogle, who right here comes
upon the stage, supported by Rev.
gentleman with whom she has been re-
siding as a servant. For some time the
intimacy existing between Loukes and
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lean the two is supposed to nave Deo"
the cause of the attack. Wet
'n The body of R. c. Jordan Of f,; weS,
Roxbury, Mass, who mas as 'e whom q re-.
about three months, ana wnI hns inst
ward was offered at the 9t time 1 aho1t a
been found in Woods B SC, w. "I badlv
nile north of Bellows Falls, VIZ ria "" H;s
decomposed, but still recognlz naUs we're
wallet, watch, letters and papers T. vas
s11 fonnd on his person intact. ~ ;I MaS
probably suicide, and there is G Ion bas q
Pile excitement regarding it. he DE, mas ti1 q .
sister living there, and was at tie ,o ILL :
tracad TO her. when all track was Iost.
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Notice In Bankruptcy

This is to give Notice, That on the 9Th do, .,
April A. D.. 1873, a WARRANT IN RHSR y
WEEKS, Of st. Johnsbury, in the County Of ca1
edoRa and state of Vermont who has been adiudSed
bankrupt on his own petition that fbe
erty belonging to said bankrupt to him OF for Sss
Ssg ana the transfer Of any property by him are
of sSid ny Law that meeting of the creditors
SnGose one or more assignees of his estate viii he
t nea1 at Court OF Bankruptcy, to be holden ~
Sounty of Caledonia. and State of Vernon II f be
ID aSre da So9 6 Nav Edwards ESQ., Register on the
24-26 THOMAS 1eATI Z T Tlock A M.
deputy United States Marshal, as Messenosv