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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-04
UNITED STATES FIyE.TwENTIEs

Closed on that day at 1864, while English
consols closed at 95i. Yesterday the
American securities closed at 1861, and
English copsols at 95s. Thus, while Eng.
liah funds have fallen !, American bonds
have fully held their own, aud this Is in
spite Of the fact that the United States
have been accused, not only by the Eng
lish, but by many American newspapers
and tinanciers, Of having partially re.
pudiated their engagements. and endeay-
ored to swindle their creditors. The
truth is that the English holders Of Uni:
ted States bonds can not be frightened
by any such nonsense, and while
the prophets Of evil have been
prophesying that American securi-
ties would have a great fall, they have
maintained their position In the most ex.
traordinary manner. It should be re.
membered that there is hardly one secu-
rity on the London Exchange that has
not fallen from 1 TO II per cent in the
same time. The effect upon silver IL
equally encouraging TO those who insisted
on its reconciliation. From about So
pence per ounce it has steadily advanced,
in spite OF heavy sales on German ac-
count, until II now stands at 55t pence.
An equal increase further will bring
it on an equality with gold as a coin;
that ia, an American silver dollar will
be neither better nor worse in any mar.
ket Of the world than gold dollar.
English holders OF American bonds have
not yet been frightened into selling them
to any noticeable extent, and it Is quite
likely that the men who bought them
when the prospects Of the United States
were so gloomy as to make them worth
less than Fifty per cent Of their face, are
not going TO be greatly alarmed about so
just and reasonable a measure as the re.
monetization OF silver.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-04
MEXICAN BORDER ouTRAGIs.


The Committee on Civil Service Re-
form continued their investigation into
the affairs Of Doorkeeper Polk, and Clerk
Adams testified in relation TO the rolls Of
the doorkeeper sent TO his office, aud the
employment and discharge Of men as
shown by the rolls.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
Public Opinion.

The elections for state officers come
in a couple of weeks. There will be a
run between Messrs. Ladd and Powell
for auditor; and there will be some
opposition to Mr.. Phinney, the present
sergeant-at-arms, who, of course, gets
blamed by large percentage of those
who don't get the places they ask for.
The Republican of to-day copies an
article from the Caledonian pitching
into his appointments, which contains a
good deal of "pizen," mixed with good
sense. The wonder isn't that mistakes
are made, but that there are not more
of 'em.-MontpeHer letter to Republican
The New York Tribune alleges that
Nephew PeltOn went on himself to Bal
timore with the cash 1880, 000) to meet
Smith Weed when the latter arranged
a meeting there to deliver the bride
money. The Tribune infers that Mr..
PeltOn would not have gone on himself
money, and that therefore he had the
money with him.
OF course, it is well that the memories
of the late war should be buried. 1t is
we'll that the southerners should be
protected in all their rights, but it is
not well that they should be protected
in the privilege which they apparently
claim of killing niggers.-Matt Car
penter.
Those South Carolina red-shirts are
determined to force the nomination OF
Gen. Grant upon the republican party
in Chicago Tribune.
The debate day before yesterday on
little bill of Mr.. Potter of Pawlet,
drew out Judge Poland. The question
was merely whether a plaintiff might
recover his costs before Justice up to
five dollars, regardless of the smallness
of the sum for which he obtained judg-
ment as damages. Mr.. Sprague of
Brandon took the opportunity to in
sinuate, as often before, that the law
yers for the bill were so for business
considerations. This thing had evil
IDENTITY got rather irritating to the ven
cradle chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee, and the result was that he de-
livered an impressive discourse on
things which, as he said, 81 despise and
condemn He carried the bill very
easily, and pleased the Householder
to the Springfield Republican. 81.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
Our New York Letter.

GIGANTIC BANK ROBBERY - ''THE
HOUR THAT is RKEsT"-RAILRoAI
v. MISREPRESENTATION SICKNESS
NEW YORK, Nov. |, 1873.
To the Editor of the Caledonian
Since the celebrated Northampton
bank robbery of few years ago, moth
ing in this line has occurred to compare
for successful audacity with the Man
haitian Savings Bank burglary of last
Sunday morning, and it may be safely
asserted that there never was a case
which the entire police force, from the
Superintendent to the most recently ac-
cepted patrolman, was more anxious to
clear up than this. The audacity OF
the burglars in selecting a bank within
few yards of the Central Police Office,
and one in which very large proper
ton of the force have deposited mon
eys, and which was, therefore, watched
over with sort of personal interest by
the police, has excited in a remarkable
degree the pride and combativeness OF
the officers and impelled them to unu-
sual efforts. After the most careful
search of the premises not single clue
to the identity of the gang could be
found. Not trace was left behind,
save the costly and ingenious tools with
which the work was done; and these.
as might be supposed, tell little, if any
thing. The success of the gang is pro-
nounced almost miraculous by the de-
tectives, and certainly nothing more
audacious or wonderful can be found in
the pages of Jack Sheppard literature.
That six men, in broad daylight, should
enter bank on one of the busiest cor
ners of Broadway, work for three NOR
tai hours in plain view of any passer-by
who chose to glance through the win
dOws, hammering and banging at the
ponderous doors of the safe, bag nearly
$4,000, 900 in cash and securities, and
then disappear with their booty as COM
pletely as if they had vanished into va
por, is certainly, as incredible a story
as ever was spun in the brain of a TO-
mancist.
Fired, probably by the recent exam
pie OF the would be assassins of Empe-
ror William and King Alfonso, one of
our city ruffians attempted, the other
night, to Stay an American pOtentate,
one of the most illustrious and most
majestic of despOts-in short, New
York Alderman. ''They say that the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
That Contested Seat.

A mystified public has at last the
possible solution of the story that j. NJ.
Tyler, congressman-elect from the I'd
Vermont district, is ineligible, and thae
following the precedent in such cases,
Col Dickey, the rival democratic can
didate, must be taken in his stead.
About 10 years ago, as the whispers
Iun, Mr.. Tyler, while states attorney,
compromised for $1,000 fragrant case
of attempted rape, made by a promi-
nent official upon 17-year-old Guilford
girl, retaining good fee from the mon
ey himself. In other words, he is thus
said to have compounded a felony as
well as received a bribe, either of which
debarred him ever after from holding
office. Another, and probably the cor
rect version, is that no criminal suit
was ever entered in the case, and that
the $1,000 was paid to settle the person.
al damages inflicted upon the gill, and
that Mr.. Tyler had no part whatever in
the transaction, although the law firm
Of which he was Il member was retain
ed in the girls behalf. According to
the latest reports the democrats do not
believe they have any chances in the
premises: while Col. Dickey protests
that he shall never try to get an office
to which he was not elected by the peo-
ple.-Springfeld Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08

erwoman, and, not having his clothes
ready when he called, he made an as
sault on her, from the effects of which
she died last Monday. Two men were
present when the drunken man assault
ed the woman, and they were too cow
ardly OF stupid to protect her.
AT convention of stone cutters of
the United States and Canada, held in
New York on Saturday, resolutions
were adopted denouncing the employ
ment of convicts at low figure, thus
competing with honest labor.
A fellow named Wilson Montgomery
of Adams, Mass, invited two men to
bis house on Saturday for the purpose
of playing cards and drinking cider.
When they got ready to go dispute
arose over the payment of ten cents,
and Montgomery deliberately shot Geo.
Ellis with a gun, inflicting serious
wounds.
Gen Sherman is reported to have au-
thOrized statement that the newspa-
per rumors in regard to his family af-
fairs are without any foundation. The
determination of his eldest son to enter
the Roman Catholic priesthood was the
result of his own conscientious convic-
tions and natural bent of mind.
Work on the Profile and Franconia
Notch railroad begun last week.
Rev. Joseph Cook began his lecture
course at Boston, Monday, his subject
being, Socialism VS.. the Common
wealth, or the Infidel Attack on Prop
erty.r
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
A Remarkable Office Holder.

Gen. George W. Grandey, of Yer
gennes, has held the Office of justice of
the peace AZ consecutive years mayor
of Vergennes IL years school superin-
tendent % years county superintend-
ent years; city attorney years :;
representative in general assembly IL
years; speaker of House of Representa-
tives D years and also at the extra SEES
sion of 1857 !; state senator 2 years !;
quartermaster general years states
attorney 3 years; court auditor years :;
member of state board of education 2
years; presidential elector and chair
man of electoral college in 1868; dele
gate at large to national republican
convention III 1872; chairman of the
republican state committee during the
last three presidential campaigns; and
for the past 5 years has been national
bank examiner for Vermont. General
Grandey has been attorney at law 80
years, and president of the Addison
County Bar Association during the last
Is years.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
More Indian Massacres.

A letter from Denver, Col, reports
that the Cheyenne Indians who recently
went on a raid across Kansas and
Nebraska, massacred IA men in Sappa
valley September % and 30, and left
20 families in utter restitution by burn
ing ranches and crops, stealing horses
and cattle, while the outrages CON-
mitted on young girls and women were
too horrible to recount. After devast-
ating valley, they went to Beaver
river and Republican valley, where
they killed Is more men and committed
more awful Outrages on women and
girls. The settlers state that Can't.
Mauck, with his troops comprising the
pursuing party, encamped on the night
of October only three miles from the
camp of the Indians, and that he al
lowed the redskins to escape. The
military authorities there the CORE
spOndent says, have denied the out
RACES by Indians, but the correspondent
has seen several eye witnesses and some
of the victims.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
The Elections.

GAINS OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN
There were elections in thirty states
on Tuesday. Massachusetts buried
Ben. Butler, giving Talbot, Republican
fully $4,000 plurality. All the Repub-
lican Congressman are elected except il
the Fourth district, which elects Leo
pOld Morse, DemOcrat.-New Hamp-
Shire elects Matt Head, Republican gov
ernor, by the popular vote, which is
somewhat unexpected. The Legisla.
ture is Republican, and there is gain
of one Congressman.
In Connecticut there was no election
of Governor by the people, but the Leg
islature is Republican, insuring U. S
senator, and gaining two Congressman,
one of them being Gen. Joe Hawley
New York fought Tammany success,
fully, and elected Edward Cooper may
or, and gained some half dozen Re-
publican Congressman. The Assembly
is also Republican, probably insuring
the reelection of Senator Conkling.
Pennsylvania elects her Republican
governor (Hoyt and seventeen Con-
gressmen, against ten Democratic
The majority on Governor is claimed
10000.
New Jersey elects five Republicans to
Congress, against two Democrats.
The southern states are generally
Democratic and the western Republi-
can.
Bradley Barlow is elected in the
Third Vermont district, over Circuit,
Republican nominee, by probably 1000
more plurality than he had in Septem-
beT. Nearly all the Democrats voted
for him.
The net result of Tuesdays elections
is gain of Republican Congressman all
over the North, but not enough so but
what the Democrats will control the
next Congress.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
Gen. Butler.

Gen. Butler has now for the third
time pOlled the state of Massachusetts
for the governOrship after very ear
nest canvass in which he chose his own
issues and had everything in his favor,
except the candidate against him. He
has repeatedly sought this last vindi-
cation and at length projected his own
candidacy upon the people. Tried up
on very thorough canvass, he has
been decisively rejected and buried be-
meath a plurality of fully $4,000. The
effort to force himself upon the state
rallied all the old Puritan reserves
against him, and the people united re-
gardless of party to finish up once for
all the humbug reformer, the political
and financial trickster, the proctor of
spoils and perquisites, the statesman of
folly. Now, then, is Gen. Butler salts
fed and ready to retire ? He can't do
anything else.-Springtield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08

ES Mr.. Horace White has written an
article for some review, in which he
points out very clearly that while Con-
gress can declare what money shall pay
debts already contracted, the business
men of the country can determine for
themselves what money they will use
in their daily transactions. This pow
er, the banks, as the representatives of
the business interests of the country,
can exercise by simply declining to re-
ceive silver OF deprecated paper on de-
post after the LIST of January, and as
Mr.. White says, this is perhaps as good
a way to settle the vexed question as
could he devised.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
Woman's Board of Missions.

The Vermont Branch of the Woman's
Board of Missions held its sixth annual
meeting in the Winoeski Congregation
al church in Burlington, on Wednesday
Oct. Both. 1t was the largest gathering
of the kind ever held in the State, there
being five or six hundred present at the
afternoon session. The reports from
the various officers showed an increased
advancement in the work for missions
the past year, and the contributions
through this Board were reported as
amounting to over $4,000. The inter-
est of the meeting was greatly increased
by the presence of three missionaries,
Mrs. Snow of Micronesia, Miss Mary
Ely of Bitlis, and Mrs. De Riemer OF
Ceylon, all of whom gave an account of
their fields, and their laboIs.
The officers chosen for the coming
year are as follows
President-Mrs. Horace Fairbanks.
st. Johnsbury.
Vice Presidents-Mrs Miles E. Ran
som, Alburgh, Grand Isle county; Mrs.
A. B. Swift, Enosburgh, Franklin coun-
ty Mrs. E. P. Wild, Newport, Orleans
county; Mrs. Charles Benton, Guild
hall, Essex county; Mrs. L. c. Butler,
Essex, Chitteuden county; Mis-. j. G.
Hale. Stowe, Lamoille county Mrs. c..
NJ. Stone, St. Johnsbury, Caledonia
county; Mrs. c. B. Hubert, Middle
bury, Addison county; Miss Amanda
c. Clark, Montpelier, Washington coun-
ty; Mrs. Mary P. S. Prichard, Brad
ford, Orange county Mrs. Newton Kel-
loSg, Rutland, Rutland county; Miss
Emily Hazen, Hartford, Windsor coun-
ty Mrs. A. c. Reed, Manchester, Ben
nington county Mrs. Allied Stevens,
Westminster West, Windham county.
Secretary-Miss Sophie H. Aiken,
Rutland.
Assistant Secretary-Mrs. Thomas r.
Bailey, Rutland.
Corresponding Secretary-Mrs. H. T.
Fuller, st. JOhnsbury.
Treasurer-Mrs. George H. Fox, Rut-
land.
Assistant Treasurer-Mrs.S S. G. Put
nam, Rutland.
Auditor-Miss Ellen Barrett, Rutland.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
The News in Brief.

POstmasters appointed: o. R. Rice
at East Alburgh, VT; C. A. Powell, No.
Fairfax, VT.
Clarence d. Grant, % years old, of
Suncook, n. H., committed suicide yes
terday by shooting.
Thomas Cardinal has been sentenced
at Quebec to IA years in prison for an
outrage on a child.
Mrs. Murphy of Charlestown, was
probably fatally burned Sunday night
by the upsetting of kerosene lamp.
Bridget Jarvis, Lowell girl of 10,
was fatally burned on Saturday, while
kindling fire with kerosene
Col. Thomas A. Scott, President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
has gone to Antwerp, to be absent until
spring.
1t is reported that James Gordon
Bennett is en- route to Afghanistan.
1t probable that Secretary Sherman
will reduce the issue of one and two
dollar Treasury and National Bank
notes after January first.
The Clarendon Hotel at Saratoga
was damaged by fire to the extent of
$4,000 on Sunday.
The Cheyennes, during their recent
raid in Colorado, killed over thirty set
tiers, burned houses and barns, destroy
ed the crops and committed nameless
atrocities.
1t is reported that the Delaware,
Lackawana and Western railroad in
tends to reduce laborers' wages from 80
to rs cents day, and other wages pro-
pOrtiOnately.
A Rock Island Ill.) dispatch says:-
Frank Sturgeon fatally shot Miss Mary
Buffum, school teacher on her way
from school at Melan, Friday. He was
her discarded lover.
Jacob Lazarus committed suicide at
Williamsburg in bed Sunday morning
with rifle, probably because he had
been found to be an embezzler of $4OO.
Joel Palmer of Windsor, Conn.,, was
seriously bitten by a dog recently, and
the animal had to be shot before it
would let go its hold.
drunken charcoal vender named
Dawley attempted to outrage the wild
Ow of the late Rev. j. NJ. Worcester, an
estimable lady, at Patchogue, Conn.,,
near Jewett City, the other night, but
her cries for help aroused several of the
neighbors, who secured Dawley and
gave him sound thrashing. He was
afterward arrested
Andrew p. Anderson was arrested at
Boston Sunday on charge of manslaugh-
ter in causing the death of Betsey Re-
naldO, October 13. She was his wash
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
A Possible Cause.

The wonder is, not that so many have
died at New Orleans of yellow fever
(about 40O0), but that so many have
escaped for committee, appointed by
Mayor Pillsbury, have discovered that
the seeds of disease and death were
scattered throughout the city, last
spring and summer. by 1000 loads of
kitchen garbage, which were hauled
from the public dumping ground to fill
the streets. The citizens have made
complaints all along of the disgusting
stencil arising from this sort of road
bed, and the board health at last found
their complaints worthy o. attention
and asked stoppage of this sort of fill
ing. John Mccartney, the city official
who allowed it, however. told the board,
in so many words, to mind their own
business, and continued to haul from
the dump, though transferable permits,
good for any amount, were granted, so
that the quantity taken might not be
easily known.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
In Insolvency.

STATE OF VERMONT, DISTRICT OF CALEDONIA IS.
In the matter of j. S. Hight and J. c. Harvey
Insolvent Debtors.
Notice is hereby given that there will be Sec
ond meeting to the creditors of said Insolvents to
be held at the the Probate Office in st. Johnsbury
in said District on the 18th day of November A. D.
1873 at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon for the purpose
of proving their claims etc.
st. JOhnsbuIy, Nov. 5th A. d. 1873.
By order of Court. Attest
1t HENRY FRENCH, Register
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
A bill prohibiting Judges of the su-

A bill prohibiting judges of the su-
preme court from holding offices in rail-
road companies has passed the Legisla-
ture. Some members of the House
have developed such tendency to run
away from business that bill has been
introduced providing that the roll be
called every morning, and that delin-
quents lose their pay for the day, un-
less they are excused by the House.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
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D~ The Legislature has not been in
session the past four or five days, it
having adjourned out of courtesy to the
election in the Third District; hence
we have no letter from Montpelier this
week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
ONE D. S. MORSE

VI ST. Johnsbqry, is understand selling rights in
morse detaehlng apparatus of which hold the
patent and to which the said Morse has no RIGHT
This is to forbid all persons negotiating territory
authorized by me, and of warning them against the
said Morse in particular. '-0
j. B. GOLDSMITH
Rockport, Mass, Oct. %, 1873. 53-54.
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SCRIBNER's MONTHLY.-The pros
pectus of this magazine for 1879 will be
found in our advertising columns. 1t
is an excellent monthly in every respect,
while its editing by DR.. Holland and its
illustrated articles we think are unsur-
passed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08

II Massachusetts buried Butler, and
New York squelched Tammany; but
Vermont elected Barlow.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-11-08
Reliable Energetic Men Wanted.


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