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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
One Way to Encourage Crime.

The Burlington Free Press says that
President Hayes has pardoned Samuel
Morgan, the dishonest pension agent.
The ground for this pardon is not Civ
en-, but if it is the same as that on which
several of the newspapers acquitted him
IN advance of his convictien,-that is.
that MOrgan's crime "was no worse
than that committed by other pension
agents,'-we feel that the President has
made another grave mistake. 1t is
most likely case similar to that of
Haywood of Boston, where the facts
were misrepresented to the President.
and scoundrel thereby let loose upop
the community after expensive and i'm
partial trial and just conviction. 1t is
another instance of where the criminal
can snap his fingers at law and point
to high authority as his hacker.
All this is very discouraging to law
abiding and law-loving citizens. What
is the use of courts, with all their at
tendant expense, if their verdict is to
be thus set asideP Which is most like
ly to get at the "true inwardnessn OF
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
The Scheming Tilden.

AS the following is from the Lewiston
Qn.) Democrat, "a Democratic paper
it cannot be called Republican lie:
This office is ia regular receipt of the
Albany Argus, Mr.. Tilden's personal or
gan. 1t comes to us weekly, with all
its Tilden articles carefully marked.
We infer that Democratic papers gen
orally are similarly favored. This is
the old plan. In the spring of 1876,
Mr.. Tilden inaugurated this identical
scheme. He even did mole than that
--employed a regular advertising agen-
cy to procure the insertion of Tilden ed
itorials in Democratic papers at so much
a line. The offer named came to this
office-of $40 for printing five certain
short editorials in Mr.. Tilden's interest.
The identical editorials appeared in
many papers, but not in the Democrat.
We doubt if any other presidential as
pirant in America ever resOrted to such
contemplate means to secure Il nOmi-
nation. 1t would be degrading in a
candidate for even pitiful county Of
fee. But it was in keeping with Mr..
Tilden's management of the campaign
throughout. With full knowledge of
the facts stated, it is not very singular
that we more than surmise that Mr..
Tilden was not ignorant of the Oregon
rascality and the Infamous cipher des
patches. We do not deny that Mr..
Tilden was defrauded of the office to
which he was elected. His own mex
cusable cOwardice made this crime pos
sible. This sickeuing cowardice, the
groveling methods of his campaign, and
bis evident completely in the attempted
frauds proved against Pelton & Co.,
render it impossible for honorable men
to join in the scheme to boom Tilden to
the front in 1880.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
The Difference.

There are fifty-five men in Congress
who served in the Union armies, and
seventy-seven who served in the Con-
federate armies. Of the fifty live Union
soldiers the Democrats elected eight
and the Republicans forty In
the Senate there are only four Union
soldiers, all Republicans Burnside,
Kellogg, Logan and Plumb. The Dem
Ocrats have forty-two members in the
Senate. Of these not one is Union
soldier, but nineteen-within two of
half-are Confederate soldiers. The Re-
publicans have one hundred and twen-
ty-eight members in the House, of whom
forty -seven-or one third of all are
Union soldiers. The Democrats have
one hundred and forty six members of
the House, of whom only eight-Or only
one-eighteenth of all-are Union SOL
diers. The Republicans have not cleo
ted a single Confederate soldier to
either House of Congress, while nearly
half of the Democratic members in
Congress are Confederate soldiers and
owe their seats to the aid of Democratic
votes exclusively.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02

the case. the court that hears both sides
of the case, or the executive who hears
only oneP
This case of Morgan our readers
doubtless remember. He took $500 out
of supplemented man named Sears,
when the law allowed him S25. To ac-
complish this he had to resort to the
most INSCRIPTIONS acts as well as bare
faced fraud. When demonstrated with
by Sears, Morgan undertook to bull
doze him by telling him to shut up, as
he could unmake pensions with as
much ease as he could procure them.
Morgan had fair trial. He had en-
inent counsel. He plead guilty by ad-
vice of counsel probably, expecting
thereby to get off with a fine. But
Judge Wheeler declined to pass such a
light sentence. He considered the Of
Tense too fragrant, and sentenced him
to one year in the state prison. Presi-
dent Hayes now pardons him before he
ever gets to Windsor at all.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
Purely Sensational.

ST. JoHNsBURY, Vt. April %, 1879.
No subject for many years has created
more general and serious comment IN
church and temperance circles through
out this section than the recent arrest
of the well known and once popular
temperance orator, John Carl Cheney,
at Greenfield, Mass. Not only is the
subject of this correspondence of pecu-
liar interest to this town and county,
but it may be added the whole State,
as from the Canadian border to the
Massachusetts, State line John Carl Che
ney, VermOnt's temperance orator, is
known to the public as an advocate OF
temperance and Christian reformation.
Phair is hung; E. Morton Smith has
been "retired )" but Carrigan still lives
and is allowed to write such bosh as
the above-and nearly column more
to the Boston Journal. Cheney's
father formerly lived in this town, but
the bigamist never was resident OF
the town, and so far as the general
and serious comment in church and
temperance circles" is concerned, there
is not one person in ten in the whole
town who ever heard of the man, or
have any more interest in his arrest
than that of any other man arrested in
Massachusetts for a similar crime. The
idea conveyed that this community is
excited over this affair, is entirely SEN
sational, while the effort to make an
important person of him and palm him
off as a st. Johnsbury man, is as untrue
as it is unfair. 1t is depreciating to the
character of the Journal to have such
THINGS in if
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02

Mr.. Matthew Baird, the locomotive
builder of Philadelphia, who died re-
Gently, left an estate which has been ap-
praised at "a, $4,000.
Henry Smith, colored night watch
man in the San Francisco mint, is under
arrest for stealing about $4,000 gold
bullion.
Conductor Hartwell, on trial for man
slaughter in causing the Wollaston
disaster, was found guilty of man
slaughter.
James Tully, a Boston tramp, tried
to force his way into the Milton town
farm house the other night, attacking
Night Officer Maurice Pierce with a
club, and he was shot four times, though
none OF his wounds are dangerous.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
Is it Justice ?

Mr.. Editor: AS your article in the
last weeks Caledonian on "The Brooks
Insurance Case," together with the de-
cision and claims there set forth, might
lead those holding note policies, to think
that they applied to note policies III
other companies and that your state
ment that, GAS this company has nearly
81, 100000 of such notes it is apparent
this decision may prove very disaster
ous," would perhaps cause those insur-
ed in the Phoenix an apprehension of
its insolvency, l offer the following ex-
PLANTATION
Not proposing to discuss the correct
ness of the decision, will only say of
claim No. l, that any one who thought
the company had not acted in good
faith in this matter, will not see much
in this claim to admire.
AS to claim No. 2, most other COM
panies advertise the fact that any bal
ance of notes not paid by dividends aUiH
be taken from the amount insured, and
put clause to this effect into their
policies, (Which | am informed was not
in this policy also so advertising in
their book of rates and some companies
in their receipts.
Claim No. 3 would not apply to COM
panies where the notes taken the years
for which the dividend was less than
the note taken, or where the dividend
had applied to pay part of a note and
a note given for the balance above.
AS to this decision proving disaster
GUS, it will not prove so, for if these
notes which are a part of this reserve"
required by law to be kept for the pay
ment of the policy, is not of any value,
and cannot be taken out of the amount
insured, the yearly dividends which are
allowed to reduce the annual premium,
will be reduced enough so the insured
will pay this balance of note, and then
given up according with this decision.
In this and other insurance on the
mutual plan, all are supposed to have
equal rights, and if one dies the rest
haze to make up the balance, or if one
gets more than another it is loss to
one and not mutual. Mutual insurance
on note or all cash plans only, allow
dividends to each alike. The note plan
allowed one to give a note for one-half
the premium (call it S100) for the first
four years, amounting to 5000, another
party pays all, and both have the same
dividend each year, and at the settle
ment of the policy the one paying all
cash has paid 5000 more than the other
for their thousand dollars, and so to
make it mutual, the company propose
to deduct the 5000 of notes, of the other
from the 81 900, but this decision SAYS
no; pay him his 81 600 for 5000 less
than his associates. l leave the reader
to judge of the justice in the matter.
will say this cold note plan" as applied
to the present plans of insurance is gone
by, and now thing of the past.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
n Ex-Gov. Peck and Chief Justice
Pierpoint are both improving in health.

THE p. & o. RAILRoAD.-It is I'M
derstood that the Mercantile Trust Co.
of New York, which is the largest hold
er of the first mortgage bonds, has late
ly purchased about 100000 worth OF
the preference mortgage bonds. This
looks as though they thought the Court
might hold the preference mortgage
valid, and so we're trying to get control
of a majority of those bonds. There
were half million of the preference
bonds issued, we believe.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02

John Nee, 40 years old, of BROOKLYN,
bitten on the hand by n strange New
foundland dog in January, was taken
suddenly with hydIOphobia Monday
and has since died in great agony.
This is the second death from that dis
ease i'll Brooklyn within a week.
Warren Prout died at Kingston, N.
Y, from the effects of injuries received
while playing leap frog.
Joseph Pollard, a nine years old boy
of Woonsocket, died suddenly from
over eXertion caused by walking.
Frank Forrest, conductor of Metro
polltan horse-car at Boston, fell dead
Friday afternoon while changing a bill
for passenger.
John Brown, drunken brute at
Boston, has been arrested for open and
fragrant infidelity with woman as de-
based as himself, and long continued
cruelty to his respectable wife and chill
dren, which eliminated last week in
his throwing II frying pan at his wife,
and frightfully scalding his little girl
with the boiling fat.
The directors of the Mt Washington
railway have appointed committee to
examine the line, and see if anything
can be done to make it more secure.
The Boston-boun express train at
Lebanon Friday afternoon smashed a
team to pieces, without hurting the
driver, and knocked a child several feet
in the air without harming it. But the
engine was considerably damaged.
The irrepressible Jesse Pomerov has
been making himself prominent once
more. Somehow he got hold of part of
a case knife, and nearly cut his way
out OF the state-prison at Concord with
1t, having, when discovered by little
careiessness in replacing his work, saw
ed of the cast-iron fittings of his cell.
and cut through the bottom of one iron
bar and nearly through the ton.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
The Attempt to Kill Edwin Booth.

A Chicago despatch of the 23d, gives
the following particulars of the attempt
on the life of Edwin Booth: While
Booth was giving the soliloquy in the
last act of Richard III. y" at McVicker,s
theatre tonight, a shot was fred at
him by man sitting in the left-band
upper gallery. Booth sat still until
after about three seconds a second shot
was fired, when he arose and started
toward the left wing of the stage, point
ing out as he went the would-be assas-
SIN. The latter was at once seized. and
out for the Intervention of officers.
would have been roughly handled. He
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02

states his name is Mark Gray that he
is twenty three years old that he has
been three years preparing to do this
deed; is surprised that he failed; that
his failure to kill Booth is the emily part
of the attempt which he regrets. Gray
was arraigned in that city Friday on
charge of attempt to kill. He pleaded
guilty and was sent to Jail in default
of $4,000 bail. Booth disclalms all
knowledge of the man.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02

HISTORY OF THE PHAIR Case.
c. Carrigan has compiled history of
this celebrated case from the steno-
grapher's reports and official records,
from the first trial to his execution. 1t
makes book of 100 pages, and is for
sale by news dealers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02

FOR Sale by #. #. Fletcher, Eastern Avenue
This Stove, with Patent Feed Door open, pre-
nre, and by inserting the Broiler (which accomna.
MES the stove) as shown in the cut we obi in the
most perfect arrangement for brOiling offered
Free from smoke, dust, grease OF smell and ia 40
simple and effective in its operation that it com
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-02
, CLOSING OUT SALE y

On account of the poor health of Mr. Harvey,
MOORE g. HARVEY will close out their entire
stock of Ready-Made Clothing, and go out of the
Clothing business This will be good time to buy
your Clothing very cheap we shall offer our en-
tire stock at a very low price, and while we are
closing our stock we will order New Styles at a
very small margin, for any who favor with their
orders.
Our stock is not composed of lot of Old Styled
and Shop-worn Goods, neither are they all New
Spring Styles, but we have bought a few new
goods and shall continue to buy few sizes of sta
pie goods until the entire stock is sold.
We shall keep our usual large stock of Hats and
Caps, also Gentlemens Furnishing Goods, of which
we now have very large stock, comprising all the
new and novel things in Fancy Shirts Collars
Ties, Silk Handk'fs Hosiery, Gloves, Trunks, Va
Uses, &c.
Thanking the public for so large a share of their
patronage we hope to merit a continuance of the
same. Yours very truly,
MOORE & HARVEY,
st. Johnsbury, VT, Apr. 1, 1879.
~ 40 Tons of Mamie Smear wantad in Excbanoa
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-17
Trying to Astonish a Pawnbroker.

The impurturability and C, treme eau.
tion of the average pawnbroker are pro-
verbal. On Saturday young man OF
an experimental and facetious turn of
mind, resolved TO astOnish a pawnbroker
or die in the attempt So, entering the
secret shrine, he gave the officiating
pontif ten-dollar gold-plece and said
"Well, old man, how much'll you advance
me on that:" The pawnbroker tested,
rang, and weighed the coin, dropped a
little aquafortis upon it, and replied
Il can let you have "a on it." "Four
Erebuses" cried the young man; "why,
it's worth more" "Well, yes" answered
the pawnbroker, 1.-The gold is good, evil
IDENTIFY, but it is very old fashioned-it
was made in 1S64-and isn't worth any
more than its weight in old metal. Be
sides, there is such fluctuatiOn in gold
and silver. I've seen gold up to 2s5 and
silver down to "a: how do l know but
that silver may go up to 2S5 and gold
down TO "a? l can't take any risks in
my business like that, you know. But
I'll tell you what 1 will do, seeing it's
you. 1 don't mind letting you have $5 on
it; but don't let the boss know for he has
the heart disease, and the shock might
kill him."
Gimme 81, and take it." said the i'm
petuous youth; but the pawnbrokcr shook
his head SO sternly that he knew it was
no go, and so, picking up his ten-dollar
gold piece, he departed. He returned
three minutes afterward, and, throwing
down the same piece, said to the pawn
broker: Say, can you give me two s.
greenbacks for thisT' "Certainly, sir"
said the pawnbroker, calmly, and pro
duced the notes. "You sweetscented old
IDIOT" said the young man as he pocketed
the bills, that's the same ten-dollar gold
piece that you wouldn't lend me 81 on at
interest a minute ago" 81 know it, my
iriend," said the paw nbroker-"that was
business-that was business."- Chicago
Tribune.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-17
The Virtues OF Beer.

There is severe battle going on now in
relation TO public beer drinking There is
so much said about its mischief that when
any good comes from it it ought TO be told.
One of our very young men has been very
popular among our military. He belonged
to rich family, whose father was very
indignant He was a very fast young man
and spent his money more freely. He
treated everybody that would drink with
him. He got on the downward grade.
He was bleared and dropsical. Too late
commenced a temperance reform and alb
stained from all forms of liquor. Dropsy
set in. His doctors gave him up and said
he must die. WELL" said the young man,
Iii l am going to die, what is the use of
nv tempcranceg l might as well die
drinking as any other way" There Is no
use," said the doctor, You might as well
live one way rs another; you can cat and
drink what you please; you will die if you
do and you'll die if you don't" He rolled
cask of beer into the cellar and reveled
in the foaming tankard. He drank enough
weekly To kill ten men. All at once he
began to amend. His dropsy abated; his
appetite came to him. He ate like a
butcher and slept like child. He ate
everything that came to hand He can be
seen nightly at the Armory, hale and
hearty as any member of the corps, anC.
promises to live as lOng.-[N. Y. Cor.
Boston journal.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-17

comes for. . picture the negative is turned
the Other. side, the collodion put on and
the glass put in the camera. In this
manner the portrait of the sitter is on
one side of the glass and what is intended
for the spirit on the other. When the
negative comes 10 be printed tho paper is
placed against the side of the glass having
the portrait of the sitter and exposed to
the light. The spirit being on the other
side of the glass has To strike through
1t which gives it the hazy appearance,
while the portrait, being on the other side
next the light, comes out clearly defined.
Any one who is desirous of doing SO can
test this for himself, and the illustration
shown by the photographer explained the
matter fully to the eyes of the inquiring
newspaper man. The more artistic 4
photographer is, of course, the more un-
earthly he can make the work, and the
gentleman in question said he could pro-
duce picture of the most ghastly de-
scription.-[R Rochester Union
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-17

the existence of an Arctic Continent, anG
the probability of its being inhabited Il
we carefully examine, says Mr.. Brooks
the almost universal features of all land
known to us, we find prevailing form
wherever we turn. Each territorial area
OF magnitude seems to have an appendagt
tending southwark. If we apply this
rule, by turning the North Pole of q
globe toward us, we readily see at a
glance that Greenland, which is known to
us, may bear to an unknown Arctic Con.
tinent the same relation that South Amer
lea does to'NOrth America, or Africa to
Europe. Hence it is perfectly logical to
infer. by the great analogy of nature, that
an Arctic continent exists beneath the
North Pole, extending three and half
to four degrees south from the northern
axis of the earth. AS previous Arctic ex-
peditiOns have advanced to S3 g. north
-latltude-Or within 1914 miles of the pole
the distance thence to such continent
would not exceed about $50 to 1SO miles.
This intervening space. however, is diff
cult to traverse, as it presents very rough
surface. If the sea, during the height of
q gale, when waves ran mountains high
were instantly frozen, it would present
much the appearance here encountered
For ethnOlogists, the question is, can an
Arctic continent be inhabited, should one
exist? This may be met by the we'll
known fact that the latitude of 7So is
about the lowest mean temperature. The
earth is about thirty seven miles less in
diameter at the equator than from pole to
pole, having enlarged at one point and
at another, because of its revolv-
ing motion. Now, it is well know that
lower temperatures are encountered as
we ascend high attitudes, and the de-
ut fhn vN<Svn 1,xr
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-17
Facts About Flour.

Flour is peculiarly sensitive to atmos
pheric influences, hence il should never be
stored in a room with sour liquids, mol
where onions or fish are kept, nor any ar.
ticle that taints the air of the room in
which IT is stored. Any smell perceptible
to the sense will be absorbed by flour
Avoid damp cellars or lsffs where a free
circulation of air cannot he obtained. Keep
in cool, dry. airy room, and not exposed
to freezing temperature nor to intense
summer, or to artificial heat for any length
of time above zoe to rs : Fahr. It should
not come in contact with grain or other
substances which are liable to heat Flour
should be sifted and the particles thor
oughly disintegrated, and then warmed
before baking. This treatment improves
the color and baking properties of the
dough- The sponge should be prepared
for the oven as soon as the yeast has per
formed its misslin, otherwise fermentation
sets in and acidity results.-IAmcrican
Miller.