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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27
Fourth of july.

The Fourth of July, now near, will
be celebrated by the temperance peo-
pie by an excursion to Lyndonville.
At Lyndonville we shall be welcomed
by the Lodge accompanied by band
and by them escorted to one of the
finest camp grounds in the state, well
supplied with everything necessary to
comfort. Indeed it is expected to make
the occasion grand Temperance Jubi-
lee, reunion of the Good Templars.
Temples of Honor, and Reform Clubs.
The procession when formed at Lyn-
donv1Ile, Will be headed by the Newport
cornet band, and those in the line of
march will wear full regalia, badges
and other insignia. A reception will be
rendered at the grove by the home
lodges. The exercises will begin with
prayer by the Grand Worthy Chaplain.
Rev. A. b. Truax. Songs of welcome
by selected choir. Addresses nv Col
j. B. Mead, Ex-Gov. Geo. N. Dale
Frank Plnmley. Grand Worthy Secre,
tary of Good Templars Rev. A. r.
Iruax, Grand Worthy Chaplain; L. L.
Durant, Rev. III. P. Cushing, Rev. p.
Folsom, and others. Music interspersed
by the band and choir. Open air con-
cert by the combined bands so per-
formers, under the direction of the pop
uiar musician, HI. G.. Blaisdell, at IL
O'Clock, noon, on large stand to be
erected near the depot. The national
airs and many popular selections will
be performed, including Hail Columbia
with the accompaniment of bells, can
non and locomotive whistles. All are
invited to join in singing America.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27
Prince Louis Napoleon Killa by the
Zulus.

LONDON, June ia Refers DIES.
patch from Cape Town, Jne 2 Wis
Madeira to-day, states that Prnce Louis
Napoleon, the Prince Imperial OF
France, accompanied by otlfr officers
left Colonel Woods camp to reconnoi.
tire. The party dismounted il a mealie
held, when the enemy crept lpon them
and assegaied the Prince, killing hin,
His body was discovered in a field Of
long grass. There were no hnlIat
wounds upon it, but there we're seven
teen wounds made by asseai tbrnsts
The body was found stripped. and the
clothes had been taken away
Napoleon Eugene Louis Je,n Josenb
Trlnce Imperial, was the ony child of
Napoleon Ill. and Eugene. and was
born in the Tuileries, MarchI6. 1880
ana his age at his death was sccording,
~ twenty-three years and three months
Al the time of the princes bi,tb his fa
ther was already middle-aged and this
oelng his only child his ambition in
looking forward to the princes succes-
sion was very great. The youtbfnl
prince received a careful education and
almost In very babyhood he was dress
ed I'D military clothes and fsmiliaIi1ed
with the art of gunnery, and in var;o's
ways given the idea that soldier;nn ~, ,Uo 40
me chief business of an Emperor. The
disastrous campaign that the Emnaror
precipitated with Prussia
gave the boyish prince an upusus11%
AIRY opportunity for becoming famiIiar
Win the stern realities of active wa,
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A Shocking Domestic Tragedy.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, June 22.-JOhn
Kemmler, a German, at South Holyoke,
in the absence of his wife yesterday af-
ternoOn shot his three little girls, aged
respectively fifteen months, four years
and six years. He shot them all
| through the head, and the eldest and
the youngest died instantly. The muir
derer is an intelligent German, who has
lived in Holyoke about seven years.
During this time he has always been
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always been sober and industrious,
though he has at times acted very
queerly. Until within few months he
has had money in savings hanks.
About the list of March he drew out all
the money he had, and, after paying
what debts he owed, with about $40
left he started for the Black Hills.
About three weeks ago he came back,
and since that time has done nothing.
He has been possessed with the idea
that he could not work any more, and
was unable to support his family, and
he had had constant impression that
his little girls would grow up land go
to the bad" as he expressed it. Acting
on this thought, he resolved before he
returned from the Black Hills, he says,
to kill his three children as the only
way to save their souls. He says that
he had fixed upon yesterday as the day
when the children must die, and two or
three days ago bought some cyanide of
potassium to poison them. Yesterday
afternoon he sent his wife up town to
buy hat for the youngest, and then he
called the children and attempted to
administer the poison to them, but as
they would not take it he deliberately
shot them. He then wrote letter in
German to one of his neighbors, telling
what he had done, and limiting al sui
eide, and closed by saying that hiswife
knew nothing about it. Carrying the
bleeding body of little Anna into the
room where the others were murdered
he laid it on the bed beside the baby,
leaving the eldest on the floor in apool
of blood. He then went out, LOOKING
the door, and entered lager bee sa-
loon, where he told what he had lone
and asked for glass of beer. DEPUTY
Sheriff Kingsbury followed him upthe
street and soon had him under ares.
All the children were shot between
the ear and temple, the bullets in eery
case having gone entirely through the
head. Ludmilla, the eldest, had evil
IDENTIFY stood beside the bed when hot,
and fell over on the floor, where her
body was found in a pool of bbod.
Reminders wife is suffering the host
intense anguish, and it is believed that
a
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Vermont News.

Isaac Farwell of Dorset, celebrates
his Tooth birthday July IA.
Rutland has voted to use S1S,OOO IN
extending water pipes through the
village.
George Fay, Sharon young man,
has accidentally and possibly fatally
shot himself, while playing with re-
vOlver.
Rev. Adirondack hurry has ordered
his steam yacht to Lake Champlain,
and he is looking for a camp on the
lake shore where he can spend the
summer.
In 1876, P. F. Merrill, Central Yer
mont engineer, lost his leg by col
lision between his and Wells River
train, and his employers have given
him a balf-pay pension. The Central
Vermont then sued the other road for
damages to Merrill and to their engine.
The case has been heard before Z. w.
Clarke of Chelsea, as special master,
and he gives the Central $4,000 for
Merrill and $4,000 for the engine.
Wells River people think the decision
is the beginning of long litigation.
The migratory quail, set free near
Rutland two years ago, returned last
summer and have put in their appear
ance again this year.
A sad case of incest is reported from
Marshfield. In 1867, Lyman Potter
married Lavirna Richards, who had a
11-years-old daughter Ella. The latter
gave birth to child in 1871, and since
then she has had three others, Potter
turning his wife out of his house to
make her daughter his mistress. Pot
ter is now in Jail, but some of the resi-
dents are willing to set him free, for
fear that his wife will become town
charge. His two oldest children, boys
of seven and five, are reprobates, being
masters of the profanest and most OBJ
scene language.
On Saturday last, as Curtis Carpenter
and Moses Pierson were at work with a
drill in the blacksmith shop at the
Wells River depot-the former holding
the drill and the latter striking 1.-THE
drill broke and piece of it flew and
struck Carpenter just below the eye,
breaking the glass of his spectacles, and
driving it into the eye. The glass has
been removed, but the sight of the eye
is doubtless destroyed.
In the Orange county court Stewart
Harvey, lawyer of Bradford, has been
found guilty of assault on Sheriff Bailey
and sentenced to 80 days at hard labor
in the house of correction.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27
Emma Sands.
FOUND ON A CANAL BOAT NEAR FORT
ANN-STARVED AND CRAZY.

FOUND ON A CANAL BOAT NEAR FORT
ANN-STARvED AND CRAZY.
\ 1t appears that Emma Sands was
not found in Port Henry, as at first re-
ported, but on canal boat at Smiths
Basin, on the Champlain canal, six
miles below Fort Ann and II miles be-
yond Whitehall. After officer Drew
had telegraphed that she had gone south
from Port Henry, Mr.. j. G.. Salisbury,
station agent at Essex Centre, went to
Whitehall by rail, where he met Drew,
who had then lost trace of her. But
after awhile they learned that two
young people answering the descrip-
ton of herself and the boy, had gone
towards Albany on a canal boat, and
accordingly they followed on until they
found the boat named, went on board
and there discovered the wanderers.
The scene has not been described yet
but Mr.. Salisbury recognized her at
once, though she was still in male at
tire and had become much changed by
hunger, WEAKNESS and exposure. 1t
was at once evident that the unfortu-
nate girl was insane, all her words and
actions manifesting alteration of mind.
She stOutly maintained that she was
not Emma Sands of Westford, but
"Charlie Thompson of Rochester," She
however, made no objection to being
taken back. Arriving at Whitehall,
officer Drew, pointing at Mr.. Salisbury,
asked her if she knew that man; to
which she briefly but emphaticalIy re-
piled "No; some id officer, sup
pose"
During her, absence. the girl had
walked 10 miles. During all this time
the poor girl got only two or three
meals, which she begged, subsisting the
rest of the time on berries and an occa-
sional drink of milk and when found
she was reduced almost to a skeleton.
At the time she crossed the ferry she
had but eleven cents in money, and this
she gave to the boy, he paying the
terriage (seventy cents) for both.
A medical examination of the cOndi-
ton of Miss Emma Sands has been
made in Burlington, by Drs. Walter
Carpenter, Little and King. The girl
did not recognize her sisters. They of
course identified her, removing any
possible doubt in regard to identity.
She is plainly insane. She gave a com
plete and connected account of her
wanderidgs since leaving the trestle on
that memorable Sunday night, but
everything in her history previous to
that is complete blank. She said that
they had lost girl up at Westford and
they thought she was the girl; and
every effort to awaken the memory of
her previous life was unsuccessful.
Physically she is completely exhausted
and bodily and mentally it will be a
long time before she RECEIVERS from the
effects of her long and terrible tramp.
A later despatch says that Miss Sands
has so far recovered as to recognize her
friends and relatives. She speaks of
her runaway escapade as terrible
dream. She was removed to her home
sunday, and her ultimate recovery is
probable.
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fare. for his father took him to the field
and at Saarbruck, according to the En-
peror's proud despatch to Eugene, he
received his baptism of fire. The inno-
cent boy, who ought to have been In
the playground, was carried about from
battlefield to battlefield, surrounded
by a guard who secretly cursed him as
an incumbrance, and kept in total lg-
norance of the real state of affairs, as
is proved by his perpetual inquiry when
the army would reach Berlin. The dis
astrous issue of the EmperOr's campaign
his sudden fall from the throne of
France by the will of his own people
whom he had so lately ruled, his i'm
prisonment by the Prussians and final
release, followed by his exile with his
Empress at Chiselhurst, are matters OF
recent history within the memory of a
large portion of the readers of this.
When the military situation became
critical the safety of young Louis was
provided for by his being sent to Bel
GUM, and subsequently he Joined his
mother in England. 1t is noted as a
significant fact, that when the republic
can mob entered the Tuileries they
found in the Prince ImperiaPs cham
Der some leaden soldiers and copy
book. During the residence at Chisel-
hurst and after the death of the Emper-
or the education of the young prince
was carefully looked after by his moth
er, who was very fond of him, whom he
resembled much more than he did his
father. The action of the prince in es-
pousing the cause of the British arms
in the Zulu campaign was a great trial
to his mother, and was entirely against
the advice of his friends, and is said to
have caused much regret to the friends
of the Napoleonic dynasty in France,
to whom the idea that a young prince
who might one day become their ruler
should begin his career in English uni
form was far from agreeable. This
course seemed to have been the follow
ing out of his own inclination and tastes
for life of adventure and possible mil
itary glory. He departed from England
for the scene of the South African war
only a short time ago, and still more
recently that rumOr came of his death
by disease, which had hardly been con-
tradicted before the news, which is in
all probability correct, comes of his
death at the hands of the enemy.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27
BUILDING MATERIALS

For SALE. timber, ioice boards, clapboards, ana
laths, cedar and spruce shingle doors, wnd'TESr
blinds, mouldings, brackets, ladders hardwarf n ~
building, lime; paints wall paper and every ~ VI
necessary for building. 1 will not be undersoa ill.,
9nderbid by any one that will pay 100 cents on ~.
dollar; Give me your plans and let me IG9 ; ~
you VIII not have any more trouble about it, Bin w.
IN the white, or painted trimmed and hung TO II
ger. For want of space, will not name the y yr
dlngs that have built, being so in NUM- I.
mostly dwelling houses. stores, and horse Dan,
scattered all over this village. So my TeieIeu' |
are all the leading business men and the llen and
have built for in this town. 1 deliver lumber an'
material to all parts of the city. ,.,or,l
Thanking my numerous friends for their nT nv al
patronage, am now prepared to do all kia nus
work by the day job at prices to suit the not
will furnish all the materials for building OF ibs
as desired by parties wishing to build. tax the
from the bottom of the cellar to the top o. lrbrp
chimneys Plans and specifications furnished % Sni
desired. By being prompt and attentive 70 mast
ness, hope to merit continuance OF YOU P
favors and share of the public patronage dry
WANTED-Fifty thousand feet OF cieai'
spruce, bass and pine lumber. 81. p,rtIand
Residence Railroad street, opposite roi''
street
st. Johnsbury, March, 1879.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27
SIMEON HUSE'S ESTATE

SIMEON HUSE'S ESTATE
H., me subscribers, having been appointed by the
ne Probate Court for the district Caledo
an claims and demands of ali persons against fbs s
Ce on simeon Huse, late of St Johnsbury in said
t deceased, represented insOlvent, and the
S orn OF SIX months from the 18th day of June n
icy, 9eing allowed by said Court to the creditors
al SAD deceased to exhibit and prove their re-.
SIGGtive claims before us: Give notice that we
the dwelling house of Nancy s. Huse. In St To6ns
s Su5y ion IN said district on the 25th day of july
the afternoon on each of said days '0h III
JOHN N. GALE
oEes ALBERT HARRIS. $Comm'rs.
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g The mystery surrounding the
murder of Mrs. Hull of New York, who
was found dead in her bed, gagged and
bound, on the morning of the Ii th inst.
has at last been solved, and the faint
suspicion which was unjustly attached
to her husband has been entirely re-
moved. A negro committed the crime
robbery being his motive; he fed to
Boston, where he pawned same of the
Jewelry, which was the clue which led
to his arrest. He confesses the crime
but says he did not intend to murder
the woman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27

excellence in the field. Several of them
have been long in use in the state,
as well as in other parts of New Eng
land, and thus have abundantly proved
their merits.
Let us hope the approaching conven-
ton will not omit this great opportuni
the people. x.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27

II A correspondent elsewhere gives
some vital points on this vexed text
book question, in which the public are
very greatly interested. The Conven-
ton to meet here next Monday must
agree upon uniformity or the alarming
evils foreshadowed will certainly re-
suit,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS.
w. ]. BRAY, Contractor and
Builder.
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED 70.

Having worked at building for fourteen years
and being contractor and builder for the last SIX
years, have worked and built from the plans ana
drawings of L. Packard, architect of this place and
having built good share of the best building
outside of the Fairbanks in this place, my woA
and close attention to business has gained for me-
the reputation for doing the most and best worS,%
any lobber and builder in this place. l can bulla
mouse IN shorter space of time than any otlr
builder In the place, for 1 keep good carpenltii
lnasons and painters, so that I can have the Wg'
an gong at once. am better prepared than {"
before, having all the appurtenances for hoist;
moving, repairing, re-mOdeling and erecting p
dlngs OF every description. As my business L
creasing every year, am bound to give saslg
uon IN work and prices, and do good share Of /"
building in this place.
keen al kinds of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27

A RCHIBALD NJ. DANIELS'S ESTATE.
"A The subscribers, having been appointed nv
the Honorable Probate Court for the district ~
Caledonia, Commissioners to receive examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate OF Archibald M. Daniels late of ST
lnsolvent and the term of six months from the 9th
"a day OF June. 1879, being allowed by said Court
prove their respective claims before ns G anu
notice that we will attend to the duties Of our ave
RSntmeHt at the dwelling house of Mrs. A M
oth DAY OF August, and 9th day of December next
days. oon' on each OF SAID
A. H MCLEOD
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rilPs story was substantially the same
as told by Van Dyke; that after Pea.
body was taken in charge by the Officer
at Boston, Peabody wished him to &C
up to the house where Mrs. Peabody
was boarding and say to her that he
had been called to New York to meet
Mr.. Putnam and that he had not time
to go up to the house and bid her good
bye; that witness refused to do so but
carried up line for Peabody.
Gen. Pitkin, James Brock and others
testified that subsequent to Dec. 1876
Peabody told them that Van Dyke and
Merrill had endorsed just ten notes fol
him and that the notes they held were
of that number.
These fifteen notes which the State
alleged were forged had endorsed upon
them, "Secured by mortgage"
There was no claim made by re-
spondent that Van Dyke and Merrill
actually signed these Is notes, but that
he did it with their knowledge and con-
sent. The signatures of both Van Dyke
and Merrill closely resembled the gen.
uine ones so close that man not ex-
aiming them critically couldn't dis
tinguish the good from the bad.
There was other evidence offered by
the State tending to show that these Is
notes were forged; and the Govern
ment showed that these notes were
soon after their date passed into the
hands of various creditors of Peabody
& Co.
THE DEFENCE
was general denial Mr.. Peabody the
respondent, testified that he signed
these Is notes with the consent OF
Messrs. Van Dyke and Merrill that he
signed Van Dyke & Merrill's names
because they were not present; that he
simulated their signatures to deceive
business men who might see the notes,
thinking if it was known how many
notes were put out it would be difficult
to negotiate them that the respondent
leased the mill at McIndOe's for five
years at an annual rental of $4,000 to
Van Dyke and Merrill and that these
Is notes were to pay the balance of the
rent on the mill for the five years, max
ing with the $4,000 endorsed the full
rental of sos, 1000. The respondent gave
a detailed account of his business trans
actions from 1870 up to the time of his
arrest in 1877. The firm of Peabody,
Van Dyke & Co. dissolved about July
l, 1877, after which Peabody worked
for the new firm of Van Dyke & Mer-
rill. The respondent testified that the
list of notes which the State produced
were not given at Boston in Nov. 1877,
as testified to by State witnesses, but
were handed to Merrill by respondent
at his request, in the summer of 1877 :;
that he made a list of these notes in his
letter book the ten notes under head
of ''nOtes secured by mortgage" and the
Is notes endorsed by Van Dyke g.
Merrill" The respondent denied max
ing any such admissions at Boston as
were testified to by State witnesses;
denied the revolver story as told 10y Van
Dyke and denied making the state
ments to Gen. Pitkin and others. There
was other testimony tending to show the
respondent was not guilty. The cause
was begun on Friday afternoon, June
20, and continued to date.
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st. cSutmsburg qaledonian.

II The Presidents message vetOing
the judicial bill was read in the house
Monday, and by a vote of 1O4 to 70 the
measure failed to become a law over
his objections.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-06-27
7. C. FLETCHER & cos.
NOTICE..
Ice Cream. Eruite and XoaotobIoe.

Ice Cream, FTuito dTId Vegetables.
we have retired from the Avenue but we hope
not from business, and we have for the last few
years kept Fruit and Vegetables, and have some
customers that wish to have continue to furnish
them, and in order to do this will run a team to
be at your place Wednesdays and Fridays, and if
you and as our village is large, if we do not call
on you you will confer favor ON us by seeing us
or sending postal card. We intend to have all
kinds of berries as soon in market at such
Prices as to suit our customers and should be glad
to fill all orders for the same We are better pre
pared to fill all orders for Ice Cream than ever be-
fore will take your orders when at your place for
the same, or you can write and drop it in the
post otice or see us at our place, Third House on
Pearl Street from Eastern Avenue going south
We are prepared to fill all orders for Ice Cream
on the line of our Railroads. from quart to fifty
gallons at short notice, to be delivered at your
houses or at the express Office at reasonable prices
Thank1ng you for past favOrs, we hope by keeping
good thing to merit continuance of the same.
MATTHEWS & PETTINGILL.
Pearl Street. st. JOhnsbury, vt.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
LIST National Bank of st. Johnsburv. Vt

REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
LIST National Bank of St. Johnsbury, vt
At St Johnsbury, in the State of Vermont, at the
close of business,
JUNE IA, 1879.
RESOURCES:
u Loans = and Discounts, 1858, 400 10
" ). Bonds to secure circulation 500 O0O M
U. 5. Bonds on hand, n oS0 m
Uner STOCKS ponds, ana mortgages, 1906 90
Due from approved reserve gents 34SO 05
Due from other National Banks sac 16
zeal Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 25 go so
Premiums paid lis as
Checks and other Cash Items 5713 %
Bills of other Banks as m
Eractonal Currency, Including NickelsD ITO "a
IIPeoiIei n, 9,I22 60
IESesai- 1enuer nOtes, 5000 90
Five per cent Redemption Fund % 50O M
TOTAL 81, aO7, 9O4 70
Capital Stock paid in, s5OO.OOo 90
1 RlGS inu, 5000 90
S SnalviGe9 fronts, 1882 II
I,aonsll Pank NOTES outstanding, 436, 722 90
Demand Certificates of deposit al e56 Of
Notes and bills re-discounted 5O 0OO m
TOTAL 81, 2O7, sO4 10
STATE OF VERMONT
Caledonia County 3d.
1, GEORGE MAY, Cashier of the above.named
Bank do solemny swear that the above statement
rs rue' 10 tne best OF my knowledge and belief
GEORGE MAY, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th dav
OF June, 1879. A.E. RANKIN.
Correct.-Attest:
Luxe P; POLAND,
HORACE FAIRBANKS, Directors
L., T..