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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25

ed Mrs. Hull, was on Thursday con-
victed of the crime, and sentenced to
be hung on the 29th of August. The
jury were out sixty-se minutes de-
liberating upon their verdict-nOt that
they doubted the prisoners guilt, but
two of the jurymen were at first in
clined to be lenient, wishing to bring
in verdict of murder in the second
degree. COx's mind was apparently
free from anxiety during the trial and
the absence of the jury, and he mani
tested no concern when the jury de-
clared their verdict. and the judge pro-
nounced sentence. There was no eX-
hibition of mental control on the pris-
oner's part, it was simply stupid
Indifference. Cox's counsel will IN
doubtedly make use of the laws delay,
but it will not affect Cox's fate !; the
gallOws will claim its Victim at the
appointed time, and few regrets will be
expressed when it has made an end of
the Hull murderer.
Speaking of judges, law, courts, ETC.,
reminds me that number of our judges
are doing very little work, although
they are drawing their pay with a
regularity that would be commendable,
if services were rendered for it.
Not long ago an attempt was made
by portion of the grand jury to have
Recorder Hackett removed from office
as he had sat in court only thirty out of
three hundred and sixty-five days, be-
ing, it is said, both mentally and physi-
cally incapacitated from attending to
his official duties. A presentment in
accordance with these facts was made
by portion of the grand jury, but it
was lost. Notwithstanding this nOmi-
nal amount of work done the Judge has
regularly drawn his salary of 81 900 per
month, considerably more than is re-
ceived by the Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
The presentment, however, had the
effect of calling attention to the condi-
ton of some of our state and city courts.
Much dissatisfaction has been expressed
at the extent to which business has
accumulated in certain courts, though
as this has often been due to the severe
illness of the judges, no one has cared
to undertake the ungracious task of at
tempting their removal.
There are grave reports coming to us
concerning the probabilities of yellow
fever epidemic along the Mississippi
valley this summer. The outlook is
bad in Memphis, and though it is claim
ed that the cases so far reported are
sporadic, there is fear that the disease
may become epidemic. Our quarantine
regulations will be very strictly en-
forced.
There has been considerable excite
ment over peculiar affection which
has assumed an epidemic form among
the girls employed in Lorillard's tobac-
co factory in Jersey City. There was
rumOr that the sickness originated from
the germs of yellow fever with which
tobacco from New Orleans was impreg-
mated. Jersey City doctors, however,
throw discredit upon the rumor, and
say that the sickness may have been
produced by ice water, or by simply
working in the tobacco, the poisonous
fumes of which might produce the hys-
terical symptoms to which female hu-
mainly is prone. RADIx.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25
Bad Accident from Kerosene Stove.

The following particulars of a bad
accident at Newport we find in the En-
press /:
A very serious if not fatal accident
occurred at the house of A. w. Brown
last Wednesday afternoon. The ser
want girl, Ida Barnes, had been using
an oil stove for heating flats and left it
for few moments. Returning, she
found the blaze quite high and attempt
ed to turn down the wicks. Not fully
succeeding in this and fearing it might
explode and set the house on fire, she
attempted with the tongs to throw the
stove out of doors. In this effort it
would appear that the stove was turn
ed over sufficiently to let the oil run
out, which ignited and set the girls
clothing on fire. Another young lady,
Maggie johnson, was passing by, and,
as it would seem, thou ht to assist Miss
Barnes in her trouble. She reached
the door just as the stove reached it,
and the oil must have spattered over
her, as her clothes at once ignited. The
girls were both terribly frightened,
and instead of throwing themselves up
on the ground and trying to smother
the flames, Ida ran to Mr.. Browns barn
thinking she could find water there
thence she ran several rods farther TO
the Newport House, enveloped in
flames. The johnson girl bethought
herself of a large tank in the basement
of Beams hotel used for laundry work.
which was usually full of water. She
ran thither but found no water. Parties
however, soon arrived with blankets
and the flames were extinguished.
Both girls were very badly burned, and
at first it was feared fatally. At this
time, however, both are living and as
comfortable as could be expected.
Some hope of course is entertained of
their recovery. The stove did not ex-
plode, nor is it thought there was any
cause of alarm from it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25
The Fraud Again Nailed.

With all the faults of newspapers,
the public are largely dependent upon
them for the righting of many wrongs,
or at least for such exposures as calls
public attention TO great evils, or directs
the officers of Justice to the right party
in many a crime.
Last year the New York Tribune eX-
posed the cipher dispatches, thus dem
Onstrating what many believed but
what very few really knew, that Sam
uel j. Tilden and his friends undertook
the gigantic fraud of buying Presiden-
tial electors.
1t was only few weeks since that a
reporter of the Boston Herald discover
ed and caused the arrest of the muir
derer of Mrs. Hull of New York, just in
season it would seem to save the life of
Mrs. Hull's husband, whom the New
York detectives were nearly ready to
swear away.
And now comes the New York Times,
and with a careful analysis of the fig
ures of the last campaign, demonstrates
to a mathematical certainty the frauds
upon the ballot box during the last
Presidential election. A summary of
these facts are given in another column,
and are worth a careful study.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25

found that in this election of 1876 one
ballot was returned for each LOG per-
sons qualified for the suffrage, while in
1859 If was one to each 1.2S. These
statistical facts present the Presiden-
tial election of 1876 as the most amaz-
ing. in respect to the vote returned,
ever held in the country. Was this
enormous increase in the vote an honest
one? the Times asks, and finds the an
swer by pushing the inquiry into those
localities where the increase was great
est, which are certain States of the
South and in the North the States of
New York, New Jersey and Connecti-
cut, spoken of at the time as constitut-
ing Mr.. Tilden's Northern campaign
ground.
The statistics used in the Times's re-
view it says, have been wholly drawn
from official sources, and all calcula-
tons have been based on figures fur
nished by federal and state authority.
They prove first-That under demo-
cratic auspices gross frauds were per-
petrated in 1876 in the States of Loui-
siana and Florida, and that the demo-
cratic claim to the electoral votes of
those States has no foundation in fact
or warrant in honesty. Second-That
unlawful means were employed to Sc
cure the electoral votes of other south
ern States to the democratic nominee
for President that notably is this true
of Mississippi, in which State the ballot
boxes were stuffed to swell the popular
vote to 94.5 of the entire body of suf-
fragists, while large bodies of citizens
were absolutely debarred the privilege
of exercising their constitutional rights.
Third-That in accordance with the
popular will, as expressed through the
ballOt-bOx, the six electoral votes of
Connecticut, the thirty-five electoral
votes of New York and the nine electO-
raj votes of New Jersey rightly belong
ed to Hayes and Wheeler, and that such
electoral votes were fraudulently di-
verified to the use and benefit of their
democratic competitors. The Times
concludes: That the gigantic frauds
perpetrated by the democratic conspi-
ratOrs in 1876 were well known to Mr..
Tilden, if not Immediately planned and
directed by him, cannot well be disput-
ed. They fully explain his cowardice
in failing to defend his title to admin
lister the government of the country, if
title he possessed. The creation of the
electoral commission compromised the
legal rights of no candidate. The courts
have been open to him, and are still
open for the trial of his claim, when
presented. What but guilty knOwl
edge of the iniquitous scheme now laid
bare can have deferred him 2
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25
The Tourjee Party.

The first section of the Touriee eX-
cursion party arrived across the sea in
season to celebrate the fourth of July
in Ireland. They visited the Giants
Causeway, Barney, and several other
places, and arrived in Cork the 4th.
where they observed the day in proper
manner by an entertainment at the I'm
perial Hotel. Mr.. w. H. Hackett, law
yer of Portsmouth, N. H., presided, and
prayer was offered by the Rev. C. P. H..
Mason, of Chelsea, Mass When dinner
had been discussed, the chairman de-
livered a short address expressive of
the pleasure which they had derived
from their visit to Ireland, but adding
that although they had in the pleasant
scenes around enough to win them
from their native land-still, that day
brought back fond memories of their
own country.
MIR. Luther L. Holden proposed the
first toast, which was that of s'Her
Majesty the Queen" The toast was
drunk with cordiality. Mr.. H. NJ.
French, lawyer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
responded.
The second toast was very properly
1.-THE President of the United States, y
and was responded to by Rev. Mr.. Ma
son. Other toasts, speeches, and songs
followed. 1t will be remembered that
Rev. H. w. Jones was in the second
section, which sailed week later, and
he very likely celebrated his fourth on
the ocean.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25
Public Opinion.

A subscriber wishes to know who is
the Messengers preference for the next
president. 1t is of small consequence,
but if he could be induced to serve, we
would nominate Rutherford B. Hayes.
His administration has been peaceful,
patriotic and pure.-St. Adams MeSsen-
ger.
Talk about the Vermont state cleo
ton of 1880 continues. One suggestion
is to make Frederick Billings of Wood
stock republican candidate for govern
or. In no way could Vermont honor
herself more.-Springtfeld Republican.
A large crop of hay is being secured,
and the unusual breadth of potato
fields, the planting of which was stimu-
lated by the high prices of last year,
are being generally we'll attended to,
the prompt use of Paris green keeping
the plants free from the "bugs" So
small a quantity is now found to be
necessary-nOt more than a pound to
the acre-that all fear of injury seems
in most cases to have ceased, and the
danger is not now of loss of the crop,
but of accidents from carelessness in
handling the poison. think you may
count on cheap potatoes as well as
cheap butter this fall. Many of our
farmers are going out of dairying into
sheep, and good cows are plenty at
low prices. The best butter does not
bring over l24 cents, which is just
about one cent quart for the milk,
with no allowance for the labor of man
ufacture or cost of packages. No won
der the farmers are cross.--NeUpOrt
Letter IN Republican.
Jeff Davis never knew a Mississippi
woman who was RECONSTRUCTED" The
Burlington Hawkeye, however, knows
of One-Judge Chisholm's daughter,
who was made a corpse by Mr.. Davis
friends, ''the best gentlemen of Kemper
Jesse Bright, the democratic secretary
of the Senate, has turned out door
keeper who lost both legs at Gettys-
burg. These small offices are not of
much Importance any way, but such
removals are poor party investment
Republican.
The Milwaukee Sentinel saws that
once let the pressure of northern poll
tics be removed, divisions in politics in
the South are inevitable, and then the
colOred element will be protected and
courted by both sides.
The Chicago Times thinks that the
reading of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence by colored youth, accompani-
ed by prayer by a Catholic priest at
Boston's Fourth of July celebration this
year "wOuld have caused riot quar-
ter of century ago"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25
Yellow Fever.
DIX.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 10. Another
genuine stampede of citizens is in
progress. The rush for railroad tickets
this afternoon recalls the scene of last
Thursday when 5000 people left the
city. The desire of all who can go is
to go at once, and there will be jam
on all trains leaving the city tonight.
The officers of the Hebrew Hospital
Association to-day furnished hundred
Jewish families with the necessary funds
to obtain means of transportation to
distant cities. The city authorities also
are sending all the widows and children
out of the city. Three new cases are
reported to the Board of Health this
afternOon-Charles ResmOdel of Clay
street, and his two children. These
make seven as the total number of
cases reported for to-day. Several sick
persons are in the neighborhood of Clay
street whose cases are, to say the least,
very suspicious. Business is paralyzed,
many retail merchants closing their
stores. Fred Eckers died this after
noon.
July 20. Ten new cases were re-
ported to the Board of Health to-day.
Two are colored.
Four persons have died of fever since
last night. There are several other
cases of fever in the city, which will be
to the Board of Health to-
morrow.
The city authorities are sending the
poor people out of the city, having
made arrangements to get half fare
rates over the Louisville and Nashville
railroads. DR.. Dudley r. Saunders,
acting President of the Board of Health,
states that the fever is not SO malignant
as last year and yields more readily to
treatment. Citizens continue to leave
in large numbers.
Its origin is now believed to have
been from privy vaults left unclean
from last summer. Landlords and
were begged to clean
them in mid-winter, when there was no
danger of breeding disease. They were
refused, and in some instances enjoined
legal enforcement through the courts,
and now the house owners reap their
benefit in tenantless property, I'M
healthy and dying or absent citizens.
Business is dead. The wholesale mer-
chants have nearly all made arrange
ments to continue their business at
other points. Many retailers have closed
their stores and left the city. One of
the largest drug houses closed tonight
and another will follow Tuesday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25

chinery, cutting a large cash above and
below the knee, also saving open the
knee Joint and tearing the flesh and
tendons around it, making terrible
wound. The surgeons think 1t very
doubtful if the limb can be saved at
the best it will cripple him for life.
CLERGYMAN IN TRoUBLE.-Charges
having been preferred against Rev. d.
Eastman of Jacksonville for unmlnlste,
rial and uuchristian conduct in several
particulars, committee of clergymen
held an investigation of the case, Rev.
Fl. A. Spencer, presiding elder, presld-
ing; and after hearing the testimony
pro and con, found that most OF the
charges and specifications were fully
sustained; resulting in Mr.. Eastman's
suspension from ministerial duties and
privileges. The case, however, Will
come before the Vermont conference,
whose action in the case will be final.
Willard Frost, one of the oldest and
most respected of BrattlebOro's business
men, was stricken with paralysis Thurs
day night, but although he was I'M
conscious for several hours there is hope
of his recovery.
A steam yacht, large enough to ac-
commodate rs or 80 passengers, to ply
between Bellows Falls and Windsor, is
among the things "talked." 1t is said
that the Connecticut is navigable thus
far and possibly stock company may
be formed for the enterprise.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25

resented by H. c. Belden, Esq, of St.
Johnsbury the Mercantile Trust Com
pany of New York, were represented
by lawyers Phelps of Burlington, and
Noble of st. Adams other counsel were
also present.
Heretofore the Mercantile Trust Com
pany and many other of the holders of
the first mortgage bonds contested the
petition, but lately they have purchased
enough of the Preference Mortgage
Bonds to give them a controlling inter
est in the road, as they think. There
fore Phelps and Noble are very urgent
that decree be made, which on the
other hand is opposed by Amherst Col
lege, which holds one hundred thousand
dollars worth of the bonds. Judge PO-
land remarked that although he has
been severely reproached, he seems to
be the only one but that has changed
sides.
The principal defence set up by Am
herst College is, that the asserting
bondbolders signed off, only on cOndi-
ton that bondholdOrs representing
$IS0,000 in stock should also sign off ;
and that the necessary number of valid
signatures was not obtained-that many
of the assents were informal and in
valid. They say that although the
master has had hearing, and made a
report, they were not notified of that
hearing, and have not had an oppor-
tunity to make their defence.
The Chancellor finally ordered, that
they and all parties should have till the
26th of August in which to produce
their evidence before the master, and
leave is given the master to amend his
report as the evidence may warrant !;
and on the 28th day of August the
Chancellor will proceed to hear the case
on the masters report. His Honor
limits the time of the hearing, in order
that the case may be ready for the
Supreme Court in October, if it finally
goes there
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25
The Jennie Clark Tragedy.

The parties concerned IN the jennie
Clarke tragedy at Lynn, Mass, which
caused so much excitement throughout
New England at the time of its perpe-
tration. have at length been apprehend-
ed and arraigned. They are Caroline
c. Goodrich, who is charged with pro-
curing an abortion on Miss Clark which
produced her death Daniel f. KIM
ball, charged with being accessory to
the crime by harboring and cOncealing
it: and Allen N. Adams, the man at
whose house Miss Clarke stopped for
some time, charged with hiring Caroline
Goodrich to commit the abortion, Allen
is believed to be the seducer of Miss
Clarke. Each of these persons was held
in the sum of SIS, 1000 for trial.
The public will rejoice in the appre-
hensiOn of these parties and it is to be
hoped they will be dealt with as the
enOrmity of their fendish crime de-
mands. Our readers are well acquaint-
ed with the details of the crime, and we
need not rehearse them here. Kimball
is the keeper of several disreputable
houses, and has the reputation of COM
hitting the vilest deeds; Caroline
Goodrich has been in charge of one OF
these vile places. If they get what
they deserve they will be put where
they will have no opportunity of en-
gaging in such hellish practices for some
time. We hope, for the sake of justice,
that there will be no fOOling on the part
of the Massachusetts authorities in
dealing with these parties.-St. Adams
Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25

A FRIGHTFUL LEAP.-An eight
years-old boy named Ryan, living at
Milton, had been on a visit to relatives
IN Burlington, and on Friday afternoon
started on his return, his uncle putting
him on board the train and cautioning
him not to move until he reached Mil
ton. Just before reaching the tunnel
his hat blew off, as he was looking out
OF the window, and the poor little fell
low, ignorant of the danger of such an
undertaking, rushed to the platform
and jumped off, the train running at
full speed at the time; and the result
was that his leg was broken. - Free
Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25

II The Annual Convention of the
American Bankers Association will be
held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, on the
9th, 9TH and 9Th of Aug. Every bank
ing firm, national bank, state bank,
trust company and savings bank in the
United States is entitled to send one
delegate. Members of the Association
have also one vote each at all general
and special sessions of the Convention.
They are to take into consideration the
following: First, the resumption of
specie payment, the success of which
has been largely due to the banks
throughout the country. Second, the
refunding of the public debt, to the
success of which the banks largely con-
tributed, and have thus reduced the
burden of annual interest from $751;
100000 in 1865 to S67 100000 in 1879.
Third, the general Improvement of
commercial credits and public conf
dence.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25

In thunder storm in France a few
days ago, farmer and ten of his. cows,
one of which he was milking, were all
killed by single stroke of lightning.
A party of fifteen French Canadians,
most of them people of prominence,
went on yachting excursion last Fri
day on the st. Lawrence, starting from
Point aux Trembles; they were struck
by sudden squall and eight of the
party were drowned.
A stay of proceedings has been effect
ed in the case of the murderer Cox, in
New York, and justice is likely to be
delayed little through the efforts of
the fellows counsel.
The New Hampshire Legislature add
journed sine die on Saturday the bill
regulating the tariffs on railways was
killed.
An Internal machine exploded in a
staterOom on one of the Hudson river
boats Friday night, causing consterna-
ton among the passengers. A person
giving the name of Henry Evans, hail
ing from Easton, Pa, was arrested as
the author of the mischief.
The lawsuit instituted by the heir of
the late Dictator Rosas against BuenOs
Ayres to recover sequestrated property
valued at SlO,000,000 has been finally
decided in favor of the plaintiff This
decision was quite unexpected, and is
looked upon as creditabIe to the purity
and independence of the bench. The
suit lasted fifteen years. Mrs. TerrerO,
daughter of Gen. Rosas, is the success
full litigant.
A new path to Tuckerman's Ravine
has been opened from the Mount Wash
ington carriage road, two miles above
the Glen House, and goes directly to
Hermit lake, at the foot of the ravine.
The path is a mile and half long and
is third shorter than an old path
which took a similar course. An ex-
tension of the path is being constructed
from the lake to the head wall.
George E. Mitchell and r. G.. Lefevre.
editors of the Albany, N. Y, Record, a
paper exposing the alleged extrava-
gance of some of the city departments,
were badly beaten on Saturday night.
Lefevre was stabbed in the head and
face and would have been killed but
for the prompt assistance of citizens.
Inc dlsgraceful spectacle of base
ball match between Is variety actresses
in trousers and blouses attracted 5000
people at Philadelphia. When game
was called there were about a hundred
men on the home base, two of the wo-
men tainted, the police were overpow-
cred and the bats were in the hands of
a drunken mob. The match was a farce
of the nOisiest kind.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-25

II The dread yellow fever is Great
ing a panic at Memphis. The disease is
rapidly becoming epidemic, and the
authorities still urge all who can to i'm
mediately leave the city. Business is
almost entirely suspended, and whoever
can are devOting their time to the ale
Walton of the sufferers by the fell
scourge. Isolated cases are reported in
a few other cities.