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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-06

whites will be attacked. II the fever
makes as great drafts on the working
organizations during the coming ten
days, nobody will be left to direct the
efforts of the nurses and the distrlbu-
ton of supplies. The doctors, nurses,
undertakes and even grave-diggers are
broken down. 1t is common occur
renee for two OF three dead bodies to
be found in the same house. The ap-
plicants for relief increase daily. 1t is
becoming difficult to maintain order
among the mob at the relief office, and
the supplies are nearly exhausted.
THE SITUATION AT MEMPHIS.
At Memphis Rev. George Harris,
Dean of st. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral,
is sick. A man who called to secure
DR.. Hodges services, on opening the
door found Hodge lying helpless from
fever. Bnt for this discovery he would
have died without attention. Two
cases have broken out at Father
Mathew Aid Camp, six miles from the
city, one of the cleanest and healthiest
localities. A number of cases are also
reported at Fort Pickering, which has
been exempt from epidemics since 1857
when fever depopulated it. The fever
has taken entire possession of the city
and suburbs. Visitors continue to re-
port finding dead bodies. One was
found yesterday in the upper story of
Library Building so decomposed that it
was impossible to ascertain whether the
victim was white or black. The saw
mills and lumber dealers having closed,
it is thought the Mayor will press all
lumber found to be converted into cof-
fins for the pauper dead. The impress
sion prevails that all whites in Memphis
will be attacked. If the fever makes
as great drafts Oh the working organiza-
ton during the coming ten days as it
has during the past ten days nobody
will be left to direct the efforts of nurses
and the distribution of supplies. Doc
tors, nurses, undertakes, and even
grave diggers, are broken down. 1t is
Il common occurrence for two or three
dead bodies to be found in the same
house. The applicants for relief in
crease daily. 1t is becoming difficult
TO maintain order among the mob at
the relief office, and supplies are nearly
exhausted.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. A dispatch
from Memphis says: d" Nurses with
yellow fever experience are urgently
needed. Twelve ladies and two gen
tlemen have already volunteered. Sat
urday, delegate from the Soldiers
Home offered his services and those of
65 other soldiers at the Home who are
pensioned by the Government, TO the
Howard Association at Memphis, to
serve as watchmen, police, nurses, or
in any capacity without compensation
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-06
Paris Letter.
(From our regular Correspondent
No. rs AVE. WAGRAM,

No. rs AVE. WAGRAM,
PARIS, AUG. II, 1873.
The plan of the Universal Exhibition
of 1873 is, so far as the Champs de Mars
is concerned, simply an immense paral-
telegram, intersected at right angles by
numerous avenues, between blocks of
glass cases full of the most ingenious
and the most highly finished specimens
imaginable of every thing that can con-
tribute to the convenience, the comfort,
and the luxurious enjoyment of life
There is obviously, no limit to the pro-
ductive powers of humanity, if there be
an adequate supply of the raw material,
of capital, and of mechanical or of man
ual labor; but there does, so it appears
to me, occur from time to time a visible
halt and surcease in European inven-
tiveness. Such stOppage of the inven-
tive faculty is defect characteristic of
the enormous Bazaar beyond the Bridge
of Jena. The "rOaring looms of timer
make as stunning clatter as ever
but it is the old, old tissue that is being
woven. There is a maximum of gre
gariOusness and maximum of isolation
among the exhibitors. You look in
vain in these interminable corridors of
shop windows for many rare specimens
of individual ingenuity. Individual
man, except in a very few instances,
seems to have disappeared, and is re-
placed by great companies and great
firms. In particularizing the merit of
this or that display one almost feels in
clined to append to the description the
warning word advertisement
The Exhibition is, in fact, a carnival
of enterprising manufactures solicitous
of orders, and of pushing tradespeople
who are eager to sell their wares. AL
most all the samples of retail goods
have price tickets affixed to them and
when we find such articles as CHEAP
boots and shoes, and coats and panta-
looms, so marked, our enthusiasm about
the educational value of the show is apt
to grow cool. On the other hand, Oh
the opposite side of the Seine, the edu-
cational character of the Exhibition is
insisted upon. The Palace of the Fro
caderO has become a social science con-
gress combined with society of Arts
and here the din or scientific talk al
most rivals the clatter of wheels on the
other bank of the river.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-06
The Causes.
ask it..

That the Peoples Ticket failed of an
election, resulted from variety of
causes. Chief among them, of course,
was the great stress laid upon Irregular"
nominations, no matter how procured.
In towns like Lyndon, where the parties
are nearly evenly divided, party disci-
pline is rigidly maintained, and any
departure from caucus or convention
dictation, is regarded as liable to give
the opposite party some advantage !;
consequently in such towns, an indie
pendent movement gets little support.
Another cause was the fact that most
of the skillful and experienced political
managers, in distinction from intelligent
voters, were and always will be in favor
of Irregular" nominations. The success
of their schemes lies in keeping the
mass of voters within the lines of eau
Gus and convention rules, so that they
may continue to control the county by
manipulating the primary meetings.
Another cause was the want of or
ganizatiOn on the part of the friends of
the old ticket. The movement was
mainly the spontaneous action of public
spirited citizens, each acting for him
self, with none of the machinery used
in political combinations.
Again, in some towns, the party lash
was applied with telling vigor. Men
were actually compelled to vote the
regular ticket.
Add to these reasons, the facts that
in some towns the People Tickets did
not arrive at the polls till large part
of the votes had been cast that in
Others they were made way with and
destroyed, and that, at the very last, a
few friends of the ticket in some towns
were suddenly convinced that boiling
was. wrong.
On the whole, the carrying of four
towns, with st. Johnsbury as one of
them, and the casting of between one
third and One-half the whole Republi-
can vote in favor of the Peoples Ticket,
are as good results as could be ex-
pected.
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Over 500 Lives Lost.

LONDON, Sept. 3. The excursion
steamer Princess Alice, in returning
from Gravesend to London this evening.
with about 800 passengers, was run
down off Dorking, about 8 O'Clock, bya
screw steamer. The number of persons
drowned is variously estimated from
500 to $50.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-06

THE REASON WHY.-Some complaint
has come to our ears because we would
not lend the columns of the Caledonian
to abuse the Peoples ticket and extol
the virtues of the regular ticket. We
inserted every thing of this kind that
came Except one grossly personal arti-
cle) until the ring secured an organ,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-06

and then there was no further occasion.
And to put it mild, we consider it pref
ty cheeky in the regulars after that to
ask it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-09-06
VERMONT ELECTION,
Republican State Ticket Elected by
$4,000 Majority.


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Our New York Letter.

NEW YORK's GREAT CHARITY-LAUDA-
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-03


Eprome Court Of the State Of New York-rho Farmers
and Trust Company. plaintiff against the Erie Rail-
TO Judgment ana decree OF foreclosure and
rendered and entaed 1t special Of the said Supreme
Court the above entitled action the 7th day OF Nov
Der. A. 2. 1877, George Icknor Curtis, refer O. ap:
pointed therein to sell all singular the morteagcd
and mixed, mentioned In the complaint In this
action and mentioned in the said Judgment and de-
to the plaintiff she farmers Loan aud Trust Company
mortgage bearing date the i.h Of February y.
ry IN at the yssr ISIS q i noon a. the
Exchange salesroom. No IL Broadwav In the city OF
shall sell public auction to the highest bidder for
cash the following described property and singular
the Hudson River, TO and including the final
minus OF the said railway Lake Krie the railway
main iino aud also all that part OF the railway desg.
mated as the Buffalo Branch Of the Erie Raway ex-
York. and also all other railways belonging TO the
psny In tho states Of Now York. and New
TRACKS, lines. rails bridges, WAYS. buildings, piers,
wnarves, structures erectons fences wallis fixtures:
also all the locomotives engines tender carriages,
tools. machinery. manufactured unmsnufsctured
appertnning said company: and all tolls income.
arising out OF said property and all rights
title aud interest," terms aud remainder OF fran
chses privileges and rights of action whatsoever
tho SM Sa E or
Erie Railway Company By the Union Railroad Company,
BY the buffalo Bradford Pttsburg Railroad Company
by the Rochester and Goncsee Valley Railroad Company
chooses in action. stocks bonds. book accounts bills
ceivabo and other evidences OF Indebtedness eaeh0d
and other property IN the said judgment
Giyon under my hand the city of New York. this 9th
George TiCKNoR CURTIS. Referee.
TURNER, LEE MCCLURE,
Plaintiffs Attorneys,
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COAsTWISE sTEAMsHIPs.

For CALIFORNIA, JAPAN, CHINA, AUSTRALIA NEW
ZEALAND. BnlrIsH COLUMBIA. OREGON, &c..
sailing from pier loot OF Canal North River
For SAN FkANCIsCU via Is II Nus OF PANAMA
Steamsh'p ACAPULCO...... . TUESDAY January is
From SAN FRANCISCO TO JAPAN AND CHINA.
From SAN FRANCISCO TO SANDWICH ISLANDS,
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.
steamship CITY OF SYDNEY Monday, January %
For freight or passage apply at the companys Office
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CoD FfsTING-7fH TRIP SUNDAY. JXNUAEY .
OTiursdsy 10th and sunday 18th: steamer Seti Low
leaving Harrison ST., N H. 49, 10Th ST. ~ 7:25 at
st.. r. r., 1855; pier II b. r. $40; Whitehall st.. next t
S. Jerry 20 A. NJ cod tackle and bait board; ticket
81. AL. u. FOSTER, manager.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-06-12
NV Little wife and /. y
From the Domestic Monthly.

frOLn VIle QOMoSbIO mUutuAY.
We are travelling over lifeIsFoad together,
Ny little wife and i;
We are happy in fair and stormy weather,
Ny little wife and !.
The reason why is very plain,
There's nothing queer about it;
We never give each other pain
When we car 10 without it.
WehavetOiledo Ger many road mostdreary
NV little wife and i;
But our hearts were light when our feet
were weary,
My little wife and /;
The reason why we jouTneyed on,
Since hand in hand we started:
We ne'cT had seen the battle won
BY those who were faint-hearted.
Though our home be plain, thatnever leases
NV little wife and 4;
Though humble cot, right well it pleases
My little wife and /.
The reason why we are content
We do not fear to labor,
And though in toll our time is spent,
We envy not our neighbour.
We never dream of i'll for the morrow,
4 MY little wife and /;
Buttake what may come, be 1T Joy OF sorrow
MY little wife and !;
AThe reason why, we do not fret,
And you'd do well to try it;
We ne'er have found q person yet
p. That was gamer by it. q. II. c.
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Loves Young Dream.

A bridal couple, with more style
about them than a grass widow, hon
ored the Indiana House with their
presence two or three days during
the past week. They gave the din
ner room mighty tony look by
marching in at meal time arrayed in
their new clothes, with white gloves
on, and when old man Ryman first
saw them, he took one square look,
set down his coffee pot and went out
into the kitchen and laughed until his
eyeballs felt pointed. In thatsupreme
moment he felt that he was paid
ten times over with compound inter-
est for all the trials, vexations and
unpaid board bill encountered in his
hotel experience since he left the old
farm.
When the dinner room girl got her
face straight enough, she got behind
their chair and said:
"Roast beef rost pork, lamb, chick
en- or fish ?"
The bridegroom said, "Chick'n an
fish, but the bride, with the character
istic presence of mind for which her
sex has ever been noted, interposed:
Oh, no, duckey, dear; we can't
take any o that; for, don't you know,
bidgywidgy, 'twould muss your
gloves up? Wen have to have some
thing We can cat with our knives and
forks.
$50 we will, bonny-blue eyes-I
never thought O. that. What do you
say to roast beet, then huxy-puxy !?
Can we go some O that sweety !"
asked the happy man.
mo, no-Jarley. It'salwaystoug
and we might splash the gravy and
soil our clothes, don't you see, honey
dew? Let's take lamb, posie, that's
always tender I don't care r1uch
about it, cut SO easy, love, expect
the knives are as dull as hoe, "
remarked the bride.
We'll ! don't care, pussy; what
ever you say, tor ] s'pose we've. got
to keep up appearances but durn my
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OPEN AIR ExERcIsE.-A proper
amount of exercise in the open air is
no doubt essential to health. But
when the exercise is too severe, or
too long protracted, producing ex-
treme fatigue, the remedy produces
disease instead of preventing it. Sud
den death sometimes follows upon
violent exercise. A case is recorded
in Boston in which ayoung man after
several hours rapid running on by
cicle fell dead. In base ball, cricket,
polo, and other athletic sports, danger
turks in the pleasant excitement
Walking is probably the most eff
Gent method of securing the benefit
of exercise; though even this may be
overdone, andis oyerdone when the
walker, after his turn at pedestrian
ism, is conscious of unwonted lassl.
tude.
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huttonsI srgar lhmp, BIZ I hain,t gos q

buttons sugar lump, if | hain't got q
COMPOUNDED big notion to peel off
these tnittens an'awade into SOME o.
that ere chicken and fish, for I'm all
KILN fond of it, an these blamed
things sweat my hands so doosy
poosy, an pucker an draw wors'n q
stickin' plaster, an hang me if [ don't
almost sonsate they'ev blistered my
fingers all up"
"No, no never, goosy don't do
that for the world, or everybodyll
know we're from the country, an
maybe they'll put us in the papers,
hubby, dear, an wouldn't that be
awful ?"
And the young wife had her own
way about it, as they always do.
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The Froggie's Party,
From the Nursery.

4 AOLA OAO ANAAoOASs
The frog who would a-wOOing 90,
Gave a party you must know;
And his bride, dressed all in green.
Looked as fine as any queen.
Their reception numbered some
OF the best in frOggedOm;.
-Four gray froggies layed the fiddle
Hands all around and down the middle;
Some stern old croakers there did come,
In white chokers, to the room;
While the bellies. with rush-leaf fans.
Danced with beaux III green brogans,
Flirted in the bowers there,
Hidden from the ball rooms glare.
Three old frOggies tried a reel
Twist lem, turn 'em, toe and heel.
One little Miss was asked to sing,
But she had cold that spring;
Little frogs were sound asleep,
Late hours-bad for them 70 keep.
Each one wished the couple joy,
No bad bows came to annoy;
This next fall the news is spreading,
They will have their silver wedding.
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AGRICULTURIST.
What book n 1t was sanseripts

"a
What book ~ 1t was Sanscripts
turn now to beIpuzkled. I'LL N
Why, ThsE Meandering or Nude
teers, orthe Mystery of the Murder
ed Man, in three volumes.
A light seemed TO be breaking in
upon Sancript's Mortified mind. He
grasped the poker and hoarsely
whispered
Young man, who are YOU? What
are your"
The visitor took the precaution 10
arise and side toward the door before
he answered. He was no doubt ben
Gifted by the experience OF q busy
life.
I'm agent for this book under my
arm, the"
And you are not preacher "
"No, sir"
Well, durn my buttons
There was a rush, a scurry of feet,
the opening of a door, a dull thud as
if leather and flesh had come into
violent collision, and two men went
tumbling down the front steps to the
pavement, and Sanscript wasn't one
of them.
The book agents exit was SO VIC
lent and sudden that man coming
up the steps at that moment hadn't
time to get out of the way. Both
went ratteling and rolling down to-
geth n. The new visitor picked up
Il = stove pipe, busted his breeches
with his hands and looked wonder
lngly after the book agent, Who was
limping away down town as fast as
exhausted nature would carry him.
Finally, visitor No. 9 cautiously as
cended the steps ducking and dodg-
ing as if expecting some internal ma
chine to be sprung upon him at every
step. He rang the bell carefully, as
though it was house of mourning.
Sanscript again came to the door.
Well, sir. +"
The visitor fairly jumped loose
from his skin in alright.
"Is this where Mr., Sanscript lives?"
What, 1T is? What d'y want -
"Softly. softly, Brother Sanscript.
The Good Book says"
"Oh, you're book agent, too, are
you? Well, I'll soon fix you.
Away went visitor No. 2 after the
manner of visitor No, l. AS he slid
off the tip. of Sanscript's right boot
the Mortified voice Of Mrs. S. arose
in an excited key from the door way
John. John ! what have you done
19TTg sr Eh Ilee The -.
"Your minister Well, I'll be bless
ed if I didn't take him for another
book agent. ~
Let us draw the veil.
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The Matrimonial Lottery.

A young stranger called on DIR.
NC one evening, while he was q
pastor in New York city, to engage
his services in the performance OF a
nuptial ceremony.
81 wish to make bargain with
you, DOCTOR" said the young man.
81 think the girl l am to marry will
make a frst-rate wife. If you will
wait a year for your fee, and she
turns out as l think she will, I'll then
give you fifty dollars"
They agreed; the young couple
were married, and the incident passed
from the doctors mind. At the end
of a year, at the same time in the
evening, the young man called again.
The doctor did not recognize him
at first.
"Do you not remember the bar
gain we made when you married me
a year ago?"
"Oh yes" replied the doctor.
"Well," said the young man. g. she
is twice as good as l thought she was.
There's one hundred dollars for YOU"
Exactly the opposite of this is the
following:
A clergyman in one of the Hudson
River towns united a German couple
in marriage. When the knot was
tied the bridegroom said, "Dominie,
I've got no monish, but I'll send you
Won leetle pig" 1t was done. and
the circumstance was forgotten by
| the clergyman. Two years afterward
for the first time since the marriage
ceremony was performed.
Dominic" said the German, you
remembers you married me, and 81
gave you Won leetle pig?"
eyes"
swell, if you'll unmarry me, I viii
give you too leetle pigs. "-Etlito7's
Dra,oer IN Ho'per's for april
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SUBrERRANEAN WATER COURSES.
1t often happens in years of great
drought, that the waters of the Dan
ube, near its source, nearly altogether
disappear in the assures and holes in
the bed ofsthe river The proprietors
of works situated further down the
stream have frequently closed these
subterrean passages to avoid losses
of water. But other manufacturers
owning works on the Aach, tribu-
tary of Lake Constance, few miles
distant from the Danube, and at an
elevation some $50 metres less, con-
tended that these holes and assures
III the bed of the Danube open into
water passages connecting with the
source of the Aach; hence they ap-
piled to the courts for an Injunction
to prevent the stopping Of these out.
lets. To test the truth Of this theory
of the Aach water supply, 10000
kiiOgrammes OF common salt was
thrown into the Danube at the point
where it gets lost. This salt reap
peared IN the water of the source Of
the Aach. Another experiment CON
sisted in mixing fluoresceine with the
Danube water at Che same point. On
On October 9, at 5 P. NJ, about fifty
litres of this dyestuif was poured into
one of the openings in the river bed.
On the morning of October -. the
observers stationed at the source of
the Aach perceived the coloration of
the water, which was Of an intense
green. The color grew more intense
till the evening Of October u, and
disappeared about 3 p. NJ Of the 18th.
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preachers ~ - Z
And Sanscript kicked the cat
through the doorway with such force
that the poor creature dislocated two
of its teeth by conclusion with the
wainscoting on the opposite side of
the hallway. Puss Sunk away lick
ing her bleeding chops and wonder
ing. whether the house had fallen on
any body else, while Sanscript banged
the chairs into position and contin-
ued his soliloquy.
csNow, / Amt used to preachers,
and no doubt I'll make a muss of it.
I'd sooner trim the corns on the hind
feet of mule, or comb the name of
Uncle John Robinson's boss lion
than entertain a minister. What
will the old duffer want to talk about,
wonder? If he sings any Bible
conundrums at me I'm lost. | never
took much stock in the Bible. |
don't hold very full hand in relig-
ious learning, and preachers have
such a knack of setting up the deck
that they deal themselves full hand
every. time. Wonder, now, if |
couldn't stand pat and bluff the old
snoozer on ace high. Since I come
t. think of it, I'm not so Internally
ignorant, after all. It's been long
while ago since ! Went TO Sunday
school, but ] recollect some of the
prize-stories we learned there Let's
see"
And Sanscript sat down to think.
So intent was his mind rummaging
round through his brain for the dusty
lore of his Sunday school days that
he never noted the fact that he had
sat upon his wife's twenty-dollar fall
bonnet, which she had carelessly left
lying upon the sofa.
Let's see, now" unused John, tap
ping his forehead. "There was some
thing about Daniel going to the Zoo
logical Garden and falling into the
bedr-pit, or getting bit by camel.
! forget just the. nature of Dams
acciaebt. Then, what was the tough
yarn about some lite Jew boys who
we're thrown into The furnace Of
rolIing-mill, and came out without
even singing their eyebrows. Oh,
yes.i Wasn't il Goliath who licked
twenty million Indians with the jaw
bohe of d mule and then sat down
and bawled because there wasn't any
more left ? Never mind, I'll give the
old Hoodlum a pretty good tussle, l
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" Don you think, said "a husband.
in mild form Of rcbuke to his wife.
that women are possessed bv the
devil% Yes" was the answer. "as
soon Is they are married"
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The yoang man who boosted ne
could marry any girl he pleased,
tound th&t he couldn't please any.