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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
The Middlebury College Trouble.

The college trouble at Middlebury is
creating considerable comment, and it
is not easy to see what will be the up
shot of the matter. The New York
Tribune gives its views on the subject
as follows:
The difficulty had disgracefully
small beginning. There is rule for
bidding the kicking of football be-
tween the college buildings. This being
violated by student he received de-
merits to the amount of thirty. Suisse
quently, on account of a cane rush, his
class, the Sophomore, received twenty
four dement's each. This gave the
original offender so many dement's
that they operated as a suspension.
The SOphOmOres resented this and be-
ilaved in such way that they were all
suspended. The Seniors resented this,
and behaved in such a way that they
were all suspended. The Juniors re-
sented this, and behaved in such way
that they were all suspended. That
finished up the college. There was
faculty left, but no students. All this
came from the infraction of a law
doubtless designed to protect the col
lege windows from fracturel Really,
it seems to be childish piece of bust
ness, while it suggests unpleasant re-
Elections. 1t is hard that any individ-
ual student should he unjustly treated
by the faculty, but it would be hard to
assign any reason why the undergradu-
ates, because they think that one of
their number has been unjustly disci-
plined, should think it necessary to go
into general rebellion. The public
sometimes think that the Judgment of
II court of law is not exactly what it
should be; but the public does not on
that account defy the courts and refuse
to recognize their jurisdiction. 1t
should be precisely so in college. For
any unfair treatment of a fellow the
other undergraduates are not response
BILE. They may regret and sympathize
with him, but they are not called upon
to break the laws of the institution in
order to show their feeling; and, of
course, the Middlebury faculty cannot
yield an inch, though they never get
another student.
P. S.-The troubles are partially
healed, and the college term has again
resumed; but some of the boys yet
show a rebellious spirit which a little
vigorous home discipline might i'm
prove.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
Cheap Newspapers.

The Bellows Falls Times and Wood
stock Standard have been giving their
readers some excellent reasons why a
good newspaper cannot be furnished to
subscribers for less than 50 year. The
Standard says: "Many times we have
been asked, us other publishers have,
why don't You come down in price with
everything else? Our price before the
war was the same as now, and all
through that trying period we contin-
ued on the same terms, and thereby lost
large amount of money. No man
ought to print, MOI can he afford to
print, a paper the size of this, and on
which so much care and labor are ex-
pended, for less than So per year. The
great mass of our readers appreciate
this, and we only speak to those who
do not seem to understand the matter.
But there is another and new consider
ton which the Times omits to mention.
namely, the upward tendency in prices
of everything, white paper among them.
Grain, butter, eggs, and all kinds of
produce are booming and so is print
paper. The last we heard it was re-
ported two or three cents higher pei
pound than few weeks ago."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

almost black in the distance. They add
much to the distant prospect. The
slabs used to mark the graves, are high,
narrow, singular shaped ones; one side
covered with bright green, or blue,
with an Arabic or unknown inscription
on it. Many are so old that they have
fallen down.
We have enjoyed our stay here so
much, for the missionaries have done
everything to make our visit pleasant.
We are now making our arrangements
for our inland journey into Asia Minor.
Mr.. Bartlett has gone to BrOOsa to pur-
chase horses and set up the carriage,
which he had made to order in Amer
lea, for the Turkish roads are SO very
narrow, it is impossible to use those of
ordinary manufacture. We hope if the
roads are respectable to travel from 20
to 80 miles day. L. B. c.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

to convince any person capable of rea-
soning of the ruinOus folly of such in
vestments. Take one of the companies
whose agents in this city are now being
prosecuted, as an example. This COM
pany advertises 100000 tickets at 80
each, and 1857 prizes, amounting to
$11O.400. Now, the chances are nearly
So to l against a given ticket drawing
any prize at all. In matter of life
and death, in any human enterprise
excepet gambling, such a chance
would not be worth moments cOnsid-
Grafton. The chance of drawing any
of the very few prizes over $40 in
amount are so enthusiastically small that
man might purchase ticket or ten
tickets at every monthly drawing for
fifty years with as little prospect of
getting one of them as making a fortune
at ''skin" game of faro. To any esti-
mate of mathematical probabilities
should be added the unknown but,
doubtless, formidable element of fraud
on the part of the managers. On most
OF the patrons of these lotteries reason
ing is wasted, however. An Observant
person will notice that sewing-girls, ill
clad and half-staIved, and poor clerks,
and labOring men predominant among
the throng that pass in and out of the
agents offices. These misguided peo-
pie literally take the bread from their
mouths to buy lottery tickets, and the
mean and grasping band of managers
fattens on their misery. Over $1,000
900 year are paid out ia this city for
lottery tickets, mostly by people too
poor to live decently. 1t is a shameful
waste of hard-earned money, and
should be stopped.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
Let Us Have Peace.

There is probably hardly man from
Maine to Texas, who would not say
amen to this aspiration. The only diff.
ference is as to the grounds upon which
the peace shall be established. If his
tory teaches anything it is that nc
peace can be real or lasting, which rests
upon any compromise with, or conces-
sion to, evil.
1t was supposed by the mass of the
people at the North that when the rebel
armies laid down their arms and were
permitted to depart unmolested to their
homes, it was settled that peace was to
be upon the basis of equal rights to all
before the law, free ballot, and free
dom of speech, and of the press through
out the whole country.
We could have had peace at any time
during the war, or have avoided the
war altogether, by submitting to South
ern dictatiOn, but it was wisely judged,
that war was preferable to such a peace,
and the war was fought out. The cry
of the South all through the war was,
We only want to be let alone. But to
have let them alone would have been to
submit to the disruption of the Govern
ment. The North could not let them
alone without ruin to itself. Neither
now can the North submit to such a
state of things as has been inaugurated
at the South. 1t is destructive of the
very foundations upon which our Gov
eminent rests. There is among the
people of the North no feeling of hos
tility against the South, but on the
contrary an earnest desire to see that
section prosper as never before. But
there is and we pray God that there
ever may be a deep and uncompromis-
ing hatred of such acts of lawless vio-
lence, as have prevailed and been cOun-
tenanced by a large proportion of the
white population of the South.
If the Southern whites want peace
and good feeling between themselves
and the North, let them "study the
things that make for peace" The shot
gun policy does not tend in that direc
ton. If they would have the North
stop complaining Of their outrages, let
them stop perpetrating them. When
they stop making "bloody Shirts" the
North will stop waving them. 1t is not
hostility to the South, but regard to
the true interests of all sections alike
which calls for the putting down of in
timidation, violence or fraud wherever
ATTEMPTED. The most determined
"stalwart' demands nothing more of
the South than he demands of his own
state, viz. : A fair and open canvass, a
free ballot, and an honest count.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
Honest Politics.

Under this head, DR.. Hoskins, of the
Vermont Waterman, remarks eff we
are to have honesty in our public affairs,
or intelligence, it must begin with the
people. We have all heard the anec-
dOte of the representative who main
tanned that it was necessary for him to
be drunk at least half the time in order
to properly represent his town. There
is food for thought in it. The persons
whom we send to the legislature or to
Congress ace send there. Every man
who is sacrificing our interests in those
assemblies to his ambition or his greed
was put there by the popular vote. If
public virtue and wisdom do not pre-
vail among our Legislators, it is only
because they do not prevail among the
people. Honest and bright men do not
long allow themselves to be represented
by rOgues or fools. When we really
desire better government we shall have
it. But it will not be until the ratio of
one dollar appropriated for religion and
education to five dollars paid for rum
is reversed"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

A recent canvass in Middlebury, by
the ladies for signatures, intended to
ascertain how many were in favor of
sustaining the execution of the prohibi-
tory law, disclosed a vast majority on
the right side.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Gov. Proctor has appointed General
John l.. BarstOw of Burlington, as state
commissioner to represent Vermont at
the centennial celebration of the battle
OF Yorktown in 1881, the plan of which
was started at the exhibition at PhiIa-
delphia.
E. w. Miller, of Richmond, in at
tempting to get on the engine of the
Wednesday night express, while in mo-
tlon, slipped and fell under the engine,
which cut off one of his legs.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The saloon of l. L. Gibbs on Lake
street, was raided on last night, and a
quantity of liquor seized. Gibbs was
afterwards arrested for keeping liquor
with intent to sell, and for keeping a
nuisance. He was taken before "a JUS
tice this morning, but his case was con-
tinued. This continuing business is
getting mOnotonous. Gibbs is entered
on the village directory as a "confec-
TONER" There seems to be discrep-
ancy somewhere. Either he has changed
his business since the directory came
out, or else he thought that was about
us ''sweet" IA name as he could give it.
But what's in name? We hope the
raid will result in taking the rum out of
his cOnfectiOnery-for it is a bad mix
ture, you knOw.-St. Adams Messengsr
ORANGE COUNTY.
VIM. Wellington, the well-te-do far
mer who committed suicide at West
Randolph, Monday, was married about
two weeks since to Miss PAMELA Stod-
dard, highly esteemed maiden Iady
Temporary insanity is thought to have
been the cause for the suicide.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
There is well-founded rumor afloat
to the effect that one of our business
firms have had $1,000 worth of butter
seized by custom officers.-No. Troa
Palladium.
Max, son of Col. E. H. Powell, Of
RIchfOrd, had the i'll fortune to come
in collision with team the other day,
and the end of the thills striking him i'm
the face, broke one of his teeth and
knocked him down, when the wagon
ran over him. Fortunately no perma-
nent injuries were inflicted, though the
escape was narrow one.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
On Thursday, Dan VIM and Leande1
and Fred Rowe attempted to cross the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
The Insolvency LAVA Decision of
General Interest.

At the recent General term of the
Supreme Court, decision was made of
more than usual general interest. Two
cases involving the same questions, one
from Orleans County, and one from
Washington County, were heard to-
gether. In each case an attachment
was made of a debtors property, after
our State Insolvency law came into
operation, but upon debt existing be-
fore the passage of the law. Insolvency
proceedings were commenced against
the debtor in each case, within sixty
days after such attachments.
The attaching creditors claimed that
their attachments were not dissolved
by the proceedings in insolvency; and
the provisions of the law to that effect
were unconstitutional and void, as I'M
pairing the obligation of contracts,
They also claimed that as the State In
sOlvency law was passed while the Ma
tiOnal Bankrupt law was in force, the
state law never had any legal validity
The cases were argued on behalf OF
the attaching creditors by Mr.. Dilling.
ham of Waterbury, Mr.. Thompson o.
lrasburgh, and Gen. Grout and on be,
half of the assignees in insolvency by
Mr.. Baldwin of Barton, Mr.. Palmer O
Waterbury, and Judge Poland.
The Court sustained the law agains
both objections, and held that the Law
was properly passed, and that the in
sOiVeney proceedings dissolved the at
tachments, aud gave judgment in favo
of the assigDees.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
The General Term.

AT the General term of court at
Montpelier. the only case on the Gale
donna docket which was heard, was
the Pa o. Z. Z. case, the others all
being put by to the adjourned term
which will meet in this place the sec
ond Tuesday in May. The ease was
argued for the preference bondholders
and against the lien claimants, by
Judge Poland, z. J. Phelps, B. F. FL
Held and by Mr.. Stevens of st. Albans
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
Facts for Advertisers and Business
Men.

That advertising in the columns of the Caledo-
MAN is the cheapest and best way to reach the peo
pie of St. Johnsbury and vicinity, offer the
following:
1. Advertisements set in bold, attractive
type, and are printed so they can be read.
.. The CaIedonian is favorite local paper is
read by all the household, and goes into nearly
cry family, as the following figures show:
3. There are 524 copies taken regularly in this
town. Taking he common estimate of five read
ers to each paper, and it will be seen the Caledo-
MAN has over 5000 constant readers in St. Johns
bury.
4. While circular or handful may be at once
thrown aside or destroyed, local paper is usually
preserved for days and weeks, and is frequently
referred to, thus increasing the chances OF seeing
an advertisement many fold.
3. AS we carefully exclude Objectionable and
disguised advertisements, and intend print only
those of legitimate and respectable business, par.
ties who us our columns have the advantage OF
good company,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

II The Christian Union is a paper
which no one can help becoming at
tached to if he reads it. The summary
of important news and events, with
comments; the editorials, and the cor
Iespondence, are all choice and valua-
BILE. Its prospectus appears in another
column, and Il sample of its cOrrespon-
dence is given on the first page.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
CoNTAGIoUsNEss OF DIPHTHER1A.-

CONTAGIOUSNEss OF DIPHTHERIA.-
A few weeks ago family of three
children in this town had the diphthe-
ria, but made good recovery. After
they had been well and about the
streets for two weeks, they went to
Fairfield and visited in four families
At that time there was no diphtheria
in Fairfield, but since then it has bro
ken out in each of those four families
The question that puzzles the physi-
clans is, whether they carried it in their
clothing or 10y slight catarrhal dis
charge from the nOstrils of one of them.
st. Adams Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

in favor of the consolidated bondhold-
ders and by T. H. Russell of Boston,
in favor of first mortgage nOn-assenting
bondholders. The case was argued for
the lien claimants and against the
bOndhOlders, by Belden and Ide of
this place. No decision was rendered
in any branch of the case.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

w The winter quarter of the Ran
dolph Normal School is now full and
under way with an attendance of 118,
a number that has never been ex-
celled, and but once equalled, during
the winter since the establishment of
the school.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

WORTH REMEMBERING posta
regulation, which has been in force for
several months, appears to be very
little known among business men, to
whom tits of some pecuniary interest
Under its operation an unreceipted bill
or statement Of account can now be
mailed in an unsealed envelope for one
cent postage. To receipt a bill or to
write upon it any such words as "please
remit" will, however, subject it to let
ter rates of postage; but the request
for remittance may be printed as part
of the heading. Newspaper publishers
have the right to inclose with their pa
pers either receipted or unreceipted
bills, but the addition of any written
request will be treated as an infringe
ment of the law.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
Agents for the Caledonian.
To Subscribers and Agents.

Above will be found list of agents for
the CALIFORNIAN. Other agencies will
be established soon. When more conven-
lent, subscribers can pay money to our
agents, and the same will be credited them
at once. We earnestly urge all our sub
scribers to pay either our agents, or at
this office, and take advantage of the re-
duced advance rates. See that the label
on your paper is correct.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

e The prospectus of the favorite
New England newspaper, the Boston
Journal, appears in these columns to-
day. For fresh news, reliable informa-
ton, and readable correspondence from
all parts of New England, the Boston
Journal leads all the papers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

The Boston betting company and the
Boston rubber shoe company will in
crease the salaries of their employees,
whose expenses are increased by the
rise in prices of the necessaries of life.
Dwight Whiting, of WATERFOWL, will
go to Australia, shortly, to purchase a
cargo of young Ostriches, which he will
ship to California to start an ostrich
farm. This is the first experiment OF
the kind in this county.
Yardmaster COlwell, who was re-
spOnsible for the recent railroad acct
dent on the Michigan Central, at Jack
son junction, Mich, has gone crazy.
He went into the railroad yard the
other day, and began to open and close
switches, at the same time yelling to
the yard men to hasten the trains cut
of the way as the express was coming.
He finally seemed to imagine that a
collision had occurred and cried, "There
they lie BE-! Don't you see those dead wo-
men 7"
Out of 100000 votes cast in Maine
last fall, Gov. Garcelon got 81 ,000,-a
little more than One-seventh, and now
it is proposed by his democratic advis-
ers to have him appoint a legislature
who will re-elect him.
1t is estimated that S0,0OO,OOO feet of
lumber will be put in the upper Con-
necticut river this season. One thou
sand men and 800 horses will he requir-
ed to do the work.
Another evidence of the revival of
business is the renewal of the surprise
party campaign. 1t was hoped that this
piratical method of extorting hospitali-
ty had become eXtinct.-PaILddium
The republicans in New York begin
to fear that there is something wrong in
the counting of the vote in New York
city and Brooklyn. The figures have
been changed in both cities, so as to
give Potter for Acknowledgements SO
more majority in Brooklyn than before
reported, and 81 more in New York,
leaving Hoskins' majority in the state
but 305. The official declarations are
held back in both cities, and it is not
unlikely that the democrats will count
in their man by repeating the methods
of Tilden in 1868.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28
Court of Insolvency.
Assignee's Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the Third Meeting =,
the creditors of Charles S. ScrutOn of Ryegate la
the district of Caledonia insolvent debtor wiz The
held at a Court of Insolvency to be holden at tne
Probate Office in ST. Johnsbury in said district ~
the 10th day of December A d. 1879 at III 0G,US
will present his account and creditors may ODIeo
thereto II they see cause; and such other busipe
will be transacted relating 10 said estate, as i""
JAMES WHITE, Assignee IA
Dated at Ryegate, Vt. November, 1879
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

WHAT CONSCIENCE CAN Do.-One
day last week middle aged, intelli-
gent looking man made a journey of
some fifty miles to visit one of our in
surance offices for the purpose of frank
ly cOnfessing to having burned his
buildings, for the sake of the insurance,
some ten years ago. He made a clean
breast of the fearful crime, and gave a
sacred promise to refund the last dol
lar, with interest, as fast as he should
be able. A quickened conscience I'M
der the power of religious truth, he al
legged was the sole cause of this humili-
ating step. Are there ten that are
guilty, and only one returned to con-
TESS 2-MOntpelier Waterman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

river Just above the fork factory dam
at Barre, in boat, when about 20 feet
from the shore one of the oars broke,
leaving them at the mercy of the cur
rent, which carried them within 80 feet
of the dam, when Mr.. Winn jumped
out, and succeeded in getting footing
and holding the boat. Timely assist
ance saved them from being dashed to
pieces.
The next state fair will be held at
Montpelier on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of the second week in Sep
TENDER, 1880. The last fair was pecuni-
arily successful, a small margin remain
ing after paying expenses.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Mrs. Lucy Fox of Brattleboro, whose
stairs at the residence of her daughter,
recently, died the 18th, after much suf-
fering.
There has probably not been so busy
time in Bellows Falls since 1873, as
the present, especially in the finishing
work on the new houses and buildings.
The Fall Mountain Paper company are
employing over 300 men inside and out
side of their mills.
Col. F. G.. Butterfeld, of SaxtOn's
River, is candidate for appointment
to the office of supervisor of the census
for Vermont-tO be taken next year.
The Brattleboro correspondent of the
Springfield Republican says the formal
opening of the Crosby opera house, on
fThnrSAa 1aSt nrnua1 no
cial event of the season, and by far ex-
ceeded the most CHEEKY anticipations.
Nearly one hundred couples were pres
ent. The Brattleboro orchestra and
brass band played alternately through
the evening, both for the promenade
concert and dance. Mr.. Crosby and
Artist Piggott were called before the
curtain, the former expressing in a short
speech thanks for the public;s apprecia-
ton of his enterprise. One of the mer-
riest features of the evening was the
appearance in set together of sthe
jolly Squire Field" c. N. Davenport,
George j. Brooks, Farley Starr, Messrs.
Alexander, AthertOn, and Starkey, to-
gether with local clergyman and 9TH
er wellknOwn citizens, all of whom
pigeon winged the various changes in
"Money Musk" in manner calculated
to excite the envy of the latter-day
dancers.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
W. H. Cleveland, of White River
junction found in a hole, on Ugh
knoll back of the lily pond, Is ivory
handled knives, II silver plated tea
spoons, 66 silver plated forks and three
desert spoons. How they came to be
buried there is mystery.
Alice Guy, an insane woman, aged
Sc, who wandered from her home in
Ludlow on the LIST inst, was found
drowned in a brook, on Sunday. She
evidently committed suicide.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-11-28

A recent canvass in Middlebury, by
the ladies for signatures, intended to
ascertain how many were in favor of
sustaining the execution of the prohibi-
tory law, disclosed a vast majority on
the right side