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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-02
September stock sales.

There were 1000 head of cattle on the
market on Tuesday, and about all sold at
prices ranging from Sc. to 4c. per lb.
Most of the cattle offered were from
Brown and Highland counties. About
200 head were sold at auction, and the re-
mainder at private sale. The attendance
of buyers was quite large.
Capt. j. S. Foster, auctioneer, reports
the following sales:
Jesse Pond to Joshua Mahan, II year
lings at $2S 40 per head.
S. r. GRAY to Robert Dunlap, Is two
year-oIds at $50 56 per head.
Same to Mat. Lewis, 30 twO-year-olds
at $34 Is per head.
D. McCOnaha to G. w. Patten, 26 year
lings at 313c. per lb.
Same to A. Sellers, II head Of yearlings
at $22 rs per head.
Same to G. Cox, 81 yearlings at $40 60
per head.
Jesse Cross to j. L. Spencer, 30 year
lings at $21 so per head.
Same to Albert Terrell, Is three-year-
olds at $40 per head.
j. H. Baker to John Persinger 80 two
year-Olds at $37 75 per head.
VIM. Moon to Geo. Gregg, 30 yearlings
at $27 60 per head.
Same to same, 80 yearlings at $2G per
head.
Same to James Perrill, three-year-olds
at $35 per head.
Willis Jones to James Perrill, ? three
year-Olds at 500 per head.
HOrney & johnson to Elias BObertS, 80
two year-olds at $50 go per head.
Jesse Gross to Mat. Lewis, 10 head two
year-Olds at $29 05 per head.
Foster & Smith, of the Arcade stable,
sold 81 head of horses at prices ranging
from $40 to $3.50 per head. This firm
shipped two carloads of horses to Gin
cinnati yesterday, for Cincinnati buyers.
P. S. Collins, auctioneer, reports the
following sales:
Moon & Clemens to VIM. Barnes, 81
yearlings at 500 per head.
VIM. Dryden to Wade Cochran, 8 year
lings at 500 per head.
w. A. COnklin to r. B. Dunlap, l6 two
year-Olds at $43 70 per head.
Same to Jerome Drais, 10 two-year-O
at $52 per head.
Capt Hinkle to John Holland 10 two
year-olds at $38 30 per head.
Dryden & Gaymore to r. B. Dunlap, ,29
twO-year-olds at $40 per head.
j. p. Rowe to w. L. Conner, head
| twO-year-Olds at $40 55 per head.
J. w. ROthrOck to A. G. Carpenter. il
twO-year-olds at $34 per head.
Dryden & GaYmOre to Garis & Letting
we'll, 16 twO-year-Olds at $43 per head
year-Olds at $41 so per head.
Bloom & Pond to Abraham ShObe l.
yearlings at $26 so.
Org Purcell to j. w. Smith, 1G three
year-Olds at $4S so.
j. w. Rotherock to Thomas Lang, II
twO-year-Olds at SO Is per hundred.
G. Hart to Jeremiah Mattock, "a shor
twO-year-old at $33 per head.
S. F. Wescoat to Robert Worthington
% short two-year-olds at $32 so per head
Dryden & GaymOre to r. B. Dunlap, 2
three-year-olds at $47.
Charles Mccoy to VIM. Brown, Is year
lings at SIG per head.
, Solomon Scott to Mr.. Madison, 20 three
! year-olds at 500 so.
Dryden & Gaymore to Robert Worth
I ingtOn, l6 twO-year-Olds at $50 per head
&. Same to VIM. Wardell, three-yeal
I Olds at $40 so per head.
Same to Jerome Drais at $69 90.
: W.P. Collins to Mr.. Marks, 3yearling
Y at SIS per head.
S Same to Goldsberry, 6 yearlings ;
$22 so per head.
Eight head of horses changed hands
P. S. Collins stable, at prices rangin
=, from $50 to $175 per head.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-02

No Cough or Cold, however o. stinate,
can resist the healing qualities of DR..
Marshall's Lung Syrup. 1t completely
cures when all others fail. Try it. Only
20 cents bottle, large size 30 cents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11
MIR. Devens' Letter to U. S. Marshals.

The United States marshal at Detroit
having inquired of the attorney general
whether he should continue to serve
warrants in criminal cases, the follow
ing reply was made by Gen. Devens =
advise you to perform the usual
duties of your office, which you are in
no way forbidden to do, to the extent
of your power. The law prescribes those
duties and affixes certain fees as CON-
pensation therefor. No provision fol
the payment of fees for marshals and
their deputies has been made, nor can
l make any contract or promise that
this provision shall hereafter be made
but your performance of your duties, Sc
far as the law contemplates that they
are to be compensated by fees, seems
to me to constitute good ground of OBJ
legation against the United States.
Where the services of deputies are re-
quired, and expenditures are to be
made, l recognize the difficulties you
may have to encounter. In all this
matter, however, you will have to rely
upon your expectation of future legis-
latiOn by Congress that shall be just to
you. All other expenses, except fees of
marshals and their deputies, have been
provided for.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11
The Hose Race at Swanton.

The report of the trial of hose COM
panies at the celebration at Swanton is
thus reported in the st. AlbanS MesSen-
ger. The Island Co. of this place, Capt.
H. E. Randall, competed for prize
The running was made without any
delays and in rapid succession, each
company being cheered on by its
friends. The leading runner of the
Frontiers tripped in the sand and fell
shortly after they started, and this
blocked three others so that they were
obliged to fall out and the company
was checked. The only other accident
was in the Washington. Just as they
reeled off their last length the butt man
tripped as he was trying to seize it
throwing it to the ground. But quick
as flash it was picked up by the pipe
man, Geo. M. Norwich, and the pipe
was screwed home in the quickest time
with one exception, that was made
The best work was made by the St
Johnsbury Co. They had more hose
than was requisite because, doubtless
they preferred to break coupling rather
than risk the falling of the butt into the
sandy and the coupling was broken by
a single stroke on the collar, aud the
pipe adjusted so quickly that the turn
ing could hardly be seen. The Judges
did not call the time after each run, but
it was kept with tolerable accuracy by
others and announced to the next com
panies, so that they knew what they
had to overcome and exerted them
selves accordingly. The last two, there
fore, had the best chance, and they
were the winners. The Reflects have
for some time been determined to con-
test hOnOrs with the Barnes bows. and
now that the ''honors are easyn so ia,
as this local race is concerned, it is safe
to predict that the next general contest
will find them pitted against eacl
other.
The official time was given as follows
Frontier 661 seconds.
Prince Albert, 7S4 seconds.
Bellevue, 500 seconds.
Island, "a seconds.
Washington, 634 seconds.
Relief, Gil seconds.
Barnes, Gil seconds.
So it was announced that the Platts.
burg and Burlington companies were
tied and the judges at first asked them
to run again. Burlington was wiIlino
to do this, but Pittsburgh refused and
offered to evenly divide the first and
second prizes. The Washingtons OBJ
Jected, insisting that Relief and Barnes
were tied on first money and that they
were themselves entitled to the second
A long and noisy discussion followed,
and the Judges ordered that the Relief
and Barnes should run again for first
money and the one that lost it should
have the second, having won it. Re-
iief refused and then proposed to divide
the first with Barnes and give the sec
ond to Washington. A gentleman from
st. Adams told them that if they would
do this, st. Adams would make tour
nament, offering some good prizes, and
invite them. The foremen of Barnes
and Relief went aside and discussed the
matter few minutes and soon return
ed and informed the judges that they
had decided to divide evenly between
themselves the two prizes. The judges
acceded to this, but the Washingtoni
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11
Fourth of July Horrors.

Worcester, Mass, furnishes the most
serious catastrophe this year, and a sad
one it is, resulting in the loss of seven
lives and injury to at least as many
more. The story is briefly told: A
small pleasure steamer plying on Lake
QuinsigamOnd arrives at her wharf to
receive fresh load of pleasure seekers :
a thousand people are awaiting her ar
rival, while she can only safely carry
less than two hundred. Instead of
waiting for the passengers to land hun
dreds of those on the wharf endeavOr
to get aboard couple of hundred
reach the hurricane deck, the frail
structure gives way, precipitating the
crowd of men, women and children in
to the water, and the result is as we
have told it above.
Amherst was visited by a serious fire
early the morning of the 4th; it de-
stroyed the Amherst House, the Am
herst Savings Bank and Post Office, a
livery stable and several stores. 1t is
supposed to have been of incendiaIy
origin. The loss will reach nearly
100000.
Morris Island, an excursion resort
about mile below Trenton, N. j., was
the scene of a fatal accident the 4th
An excursion boat was approaching the
wharf and hundreds of people on the
island rushed to get on when it landed
The wharf suddenly gave way, and rs
people were thrown into the river
Several were taken out badly injured
and at least three were drowned.
A skyIocket set the Third Presbyte-
rian Church of Trenton, N. J. on fire
and it was destroyed loss, S45, 900.
At Waterbury, VT, a lighted fire.
cracker was thrown in the face of Ar
thur Newcomb, IL years old, which ig-
nited a bunch he had in his hand, and
exploding, destroyed his eyesight.
At Columbus, Ohio, by the explosion
of a cannon in a crowd, two men, Mum
rO Brown and William Bamberg, were
dangerously wounded. Portions of the
Gun warn thrown r~--.s:l -.I'r-.r:-- :, =
the crowded streets, without hurting
anyone except in the immediate vicini-
tV
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11
Two Men Drowned at St. Adams.

Friday afternoon about 4 o'clock,
while DR.. John Sheerar, G. Howard
Fonda and Charles Wilson were fishing
off the east shore of Knights Island,
their boat was capsized by squall and
the men thrown into the water. They
managed to detach the mast and right
the boat, and then, clinging to it and
endeavoring to bail it out, called loudly
for help; but seemingly in vain. The
waves ian high and the men were con-
tinually beaten from the boat, but con-
trived to reach it again and hold on,
until, after being in that condition for
four hours and half, Fonda and Will
son were obliged to loose their hold,
and sank. The accident was witness
ed by persons on shore, and after a
very long time boat was sent to the
rescue, but arrived too late to save
Fonda and Wilson. DR.. Sheerar cluug
to the boat until help arrived, but be-
came unconscious Immediately upon
being lifted into the reScuing boat. He
was bruised from head to foot and very
much exhausted from having been in
the water so long time-four hours
and half. Mr.. Wilson was about
thirty years of age, and leaves wife
and two children. Mr.. Fonda was
thirty five years of age, widOwer, and
leaves two children. Both men were
members of Ransom Guards and were
held in high esteem by all who knew
them. This sad occurrence has cast a
gloom over the community. Az
bans Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11
The Stokes Case.

A legally empanelled jury, of average
intelligence, after hearing all the evil
dence produced by the State and the
respondent, have acquitted DR.. Stokes
of the crime of procuring abortion.
Perhaps this is all that should be said.
But there are some facts connected with
the case that are worthy of study by
the public generally.
The facts as disclosed by the evidence
are briefly these: That DR.. Stokes, in
company with young man only, took
a girl to a shanty on Kirby mountain,
near Victory, at a long distance from
any house, and there by the use of GER
tain instruments performed criminal
~r""atinn upon her, of such character
that, as necessary and intended con-
sequence, the girl was within day or
two prematurely delivered of a child.
The life of the child was destroyed and
the health of the girl nearly ruined.
These facts were sworn to by the girl,
and substantially corrOborated by the
testimony of the young man who was
present, and by that of the members of
the family where the child was born.
The evidence was complete and con-
vincing.
The Court that tried the case, the
members of the Bar who were present.
and the outside jurymen who heard the
case were all, so far as we could learn,
unanimous in the opinion that the re-
spondent was guilty and that the Jury
would be out but short time before
convicting him. 1t is telling no new.
to say that the verdict of acquittal wa.
a complete surprise to every one except
the jury that rendered it. Since tn,
trial, Judge Ross has stated in opel
court upon the bench that the thre,
judges were all agreed that the verdic
was against the evidence, was utterl,
unwarranted, and tended to the direc
encouragement of debauchery an,
crime. He further stated that if Juror
wanted to turn criminals loose, the,
must take the responsibility of so do
ing, but that the court would not al,
them by discharging the responder
without trial on the remaining in
dictment. The Court made this health
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11
Our New York Letter.

RADIX OUT OF TOwN-LIFE AT COMFY
THE NEW PIER-A MONEY MAKING
ENTERPRISE MONEY TRANSACTIONS
IN TOWN.
New YORK, July 3, 1879.
To the Editor of the CaledOnidn:
The season at the seaside resorts opens
this week. Large crowds have been
making daily visits to Long Branch,
COney Island, Rockaway, ETC., for sew
eral weeks, but the ball does not fairly
get rolling before the first of July. By
the time the GLORIOUS Fourth" arrives
the entire city, and all the towns in its
vicinity, pour their inhabitants out into
the popular resorts. Cars and steam
boats are crowded to suffocation, per-
spring multitudes rush nervously about
in search of rest and recreation; and
by nightfall on the Fourth, the great
majority of excursionists are limp and
exhausted. The man who has the best
of it at such time, is the one who re-
mains at home on the Fourth of July,
and who reads his paper, smokes his
cigar, drinks his julep, and eats his din
ner in comfortable manner while the
rest of creation are tearing about in a
vain endeavor to have good time.
Of all the places in the world to see
life in a turmoil, commend me to Coney
Island, from the west end, frequented
by the cOmmoner and rOugher element
of our city population, to the east end,
which is the resort of responsibility,
shOddy, vice, in fact every phase of life
that can be imagined. Coney Island,
until about three years ago, had a very
bad name. Decent people would not
go there. 1t was almost entirely given
over to the depraved. 1t could only be
reached by an unpleasant railway Jour-
ney, with frequent changes from horse
cars, or by boats packed with vicious
men and women, who made things live
ly for the company until they dispersed
at the beach. The Island was celebrated
then for three things, three card monte
men, roast clans and surf bathing. The
center and the eastern end of the Island
was dreary stretch of sand that was
little frequented.
During the Centennial Summer a
noted New York restaurateur opened a
hotel at the center of the Island, at a
sufficient distance from the old estab-
lishments to give it an air of respecta-
bility. His object was to provide no.
tel that would not only satisfy the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11
Textbook Convention; its Work and
What Remains.

The convention is to be commended
for its deliberatiOn. 1t is almost i'm
possible for any one committee to ex-
anime thoroughly all the rival books in
each department of study. In some
cases there are six or eight series with
five books in a series. The convention,
therefore, wisely appointed in May sub
committees of from three to seven mem
bers, and gave them two months in
which to do their work.
The convention also was an able one.
In it were two lawyers, six clergymen,
four principals of academies, and many
who have had experience in TEACHING.
The presumption is that the work of
such convention after such a deliber-
alton is worthy of confidence. No one
town could reasonably expect to have
done the work better.
While there were personal prefer
ences, there was on the whole a good
degree of unanimity. Greenleaf's Arith-
MATES, GuyOt's Biographies, the Frank
lin Readers, Higginson's U. S. History
and Halls History of Vermont, Payson,
DuttOn and Scribner's Writing Books,
Cows Book on Morals and Good Man
ners, Crusis Freehand Drawing for ad-
vanced classes and Whites Series No
L, fUr R.;~4AaDy-unrn ndnnted nearly
unanimously, or by large majorities
The committee on Readers unanimously
recommended the displacement of the
New American for the Franklin. The
Franklin Series had no Spoilers, but the
Monroe Series which many thought to
be equal to the Franklin, had and the
committee on OrthOgraphy acting in
dependently, unanimously recommend
ed the Monroe Spoilers. For these
spoilers and Higginson's history, which
has recently been adopted in the Bos.
ton schools, there have been no agents
in the county, but they doubtless, will
both give excellent satisfaction.
The recommendation of Reeds ant
Kelloggs Grammars is perhaps the onl,
questionable action of the convention
The difficulty is in the subject itself
Most of our grammars have two books
Higher and an Elementary, the highe
, too high for our common schools an,
the elementary not high enough. Be
, sides the method of teaching gramma
is in transition state Reeds & Kel
logg's methed is entirely new. 1t ha
given satisfaction in some of the Nor
NAL Schools and Academies, but som
seriously doubt whether it can be mad
practical in our common schools. Som
: would vepreferred Greene's Introduc
tlon now in use. But as a whole, tn
mass of the convention is highly to b
: commended.
T. But what remains to be done? Som
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11

objected, and ordered the committee
not to pay over the money. The treas
urer. however, did so, and the preva-
lent opinion was that it was right, al
though experts in races of various kinds
confessed themselves not clear about it.
The Barnes company had G. W; Rea-
gan, noted runner from st. Abrams,
and it is said to have had two OF three
crack runners from Montreal. 1t re-
quires but slight advantage of this
sort to make the difference of second
or two in the result and it is hardly
fair to regular working companies.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11

AN lDYL OF THE FOURTH.-The boy
stood on the back yard fence, whence
all but him had fled, the flames that lit
his fathers barn shOne just above the
shed. One bunch of crackers in his
hand, two Others in his his hat; with
piteous accents loud he cried, 81 never
thought of thatl" A bunch of crackers
to the tail of one small dog he'd tied {;
the dog in anguish sought the barn and
mid its ruins died. The sparks flew
wide and red and hot, they lit upon
that brat they fred the crackers in his
hand and exc those in his hat. Then
came burst of rattling sound-the
boy! Where was he gone! Ask of the
winds that far around strewed bits of
meat and bone, and scraps of clothes
and balls and tops and nails and hooks
and yarn, the relics of the dreadful boy
that burned his fathers thanksgiving
field Union.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11
News and Other Notes.

The Denison Paper Manufacturing
Company of Mechanics Falls, Me-, has
failed liabilities over SI50,0O0.
A steamer on the river DOubs in
France was sunk during a recent hurri-
cane, and forty-eight lives were lost.
Thirty-one persons were killed by an
explosion in the High Blantyre cOlliery,
near Glasgow, Scotland, July 3.
The Belfast Journal, one of the old
est and most influential democratic
newspapers in Maine, has dissolved
connection with that party, and will
support the republican candidate for
governor in the coming campaign.
Seven hundred horses belonging to
the Indians at Red Cloud agency have
been stolen by white men and driven
across the Nebraska border within the
past two weeks, and no efforts have
been made by the military authorities
to prevent the depredatiOns.
Another disastrous cyclone swept
over portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Dakota on Wednesday and
Thursday, carrying death and destruc-
ton along its track. Throughout Min
nesota and northwestern Wisconsin the
structive. At Vasa, in the former state,
eight or ten persons were killed out
right, and between twenty and thirty
injured. At Red Wing, the destruction
of property amounted to 100000, and
every town in the southern and eastern
portions of the state suffered heavily.
The republicans of Maine have nom
mated d. F. Davis of Corinth for gov
ernor. He was private and corporal
in a Maine regiment and is young
man who has worked his own way up
from poor circumstances to his present
position.
The accomplice of Solovieff, who at
tempted to assassinate the Emperor of
Russia, has been sentenced to death.
There has been expended on the
Brooklyn, N. Y. bridge up to the pres
ent time $40, 523, 574, sc. 1t is now said
the bridge will be completed in 1881.
Two hundred houses were destroyed
by fire at Irkutsk, Russia, on the 4th
instant, and despatch from Port au
Prince, Hayti, states that the city is in
flames, several blocks of buildings hav-
ing already been consumed.
Thirteen hundred sheep, shipped
from Boston, on the 2lst ultimo, were
slaughtered in Liverpool, being infect
ed with the foot and mouth disease.
Advices from Lima, Peru, of the 18th
ultimo, state that reports prevailed
there of a battle at Calama and the
capture of that point by the allied
forces. The CHILEAN loss in killed is
placed at 1900. A report was also cur
rent that the Peruvian irOn-clad Huas-
car had disabled the CHILEAN frigate
BlancO Encalada off Iquique, and many
of the inhabitants had fled the city,
fearing a bombardment.
Reports from the City OF Mexico OF
the Both ultimO, state that reign of
terror has prevailed at Vera Cruz since
the Goth, at which time some of the Of
ticers of the garrison attempted to raise
Il revolt. Nine Of the mutineers, how
ever, were killed, and the government
authorities are apparently masters of
the situation.
The University of Vermont has con-
ferred the honorary degree of L. L. D.,
upon Senator Edmunds.
The Maine democratic convention
did its work quickly and quietly, nomi
mating DR.. AlonzO GarcelOn for re-elec-
ton.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-11

A two-months old child at Ellsworth.
Kansas, was killed by being bitten by
rat while lying in bed.
Frank Harrington of Dummerston had
all the fingers of his left hand blown
off while fooling with powder on the
Fourth.
Charles Lee, in his seventy seventh
year, fell down stairs at Stamford the
other day, and the shock to his system
was so great that he died two days af-
forwards.
A boy threw lighted fire-crackel
under the skirts of Miss Jennie Dunbar
aged y, at Mattewan, N. Y, Saturday
Her clothing caught fire, burning her in
horrible manner, from the effects O
which she died in the evening.