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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Purity of the Ballot-Box.

There is no wonder that this subject
demands notice, for in it's disturbance
our whole political rights are menaced
with danger. There is no wonder that
good men look upon it with serious ap-
pIehension, and utter the voice of warn
ing as they see our political super
structure gradually undermined. In
our body polite the vitals have been
attacked with the insidious workings
of treason. The worm of aristocracy is
already gnawing at the heart of oul
liberties. In saying this we are not
uttering the cry of an alarmist. We
are stating facts, beyond question in
disputable. The enemies to universal
freedom failed in their first open on
slaught upon this government. They
have now altered their tactics, and are
throwing poison into the spring where
we all must drink /; they are loosening
the timbers of the national bridge over
which we must pass in the duties of
citizenship; they are making secret and
backhanded thrusts at the jugular vein
OF our liberties they are trying 10
drive from our people the great Ameri-
can Idea, and to corrupt and destroy
the American System of free govern
ment. To lie, cheat, rob, or murder,
are great crimes. In the corruption of
the ballot-bO will be found the ala.
ments of all these crimes. The men
who will do this would secretly invite
the enemy into sleeping camp; they
would rob women of their chastity,
children of their daily bread, and all
of their life, character, and sacred hon.
or. We are sick of resorting to the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Waddell, and Free Speech.

That was pretty cheeky business in
Col. Waddell, to look a northern audi
in the face and say, that any northern
man who would behave we'll and mind
his own business, could speak as freely
in the South as he was speaking here
That very remark showed the aRimus
of southern sentiment, which is ever
bold and brazen. 1t showed what utter
disregard the old slave aristocrat had
for anything that combatted his pecu-
liar institutions. For Col. Waddell to
get up and make such an assertion as
that, in the face and eyes of testimony
to the contrary all over the land, we
repeat, was pretty cheeky. Not more
than two weeks before his speaking
here, the distinguished Greenbacker,
Mr.. j. H. Randall, who had been stump
ing the State of Mississippi on the
money question, was peremptorily or
dered by a few young bulldozers to
pick up his buds and leave-the quicker
the better for him. Mr.. Weaver, the
Presidential candidate, tells the same
story-saying that southern leaders still
connect energy with murder, as they
did in the days when they were slave
holders. Mr.. Weaver has lately been
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27

firm in New York manufactures and
sells 100000 worth of this stuff per
month, and that in certain specified
time they have used 5000 bushels of
corn, which yields them over fifty cents
profit per busbel. This preparation is
to a large extent mixed with the darker
kinds of brown sugars, which gives
them nice looking appearance. We
have heard it stated that flour did occa-
sionally get tinkered to make it look
white and nice, and to add to the pro-
fits of somebody. 1t is, however, fact
beyond question that many kinds of
groceries, particularly spices, are adul-
terated to an alarming degree. The
bare speculation in bread-stuffs-hold-
ing them for outrageous prices, is bad
enough but when to this is added the
still greater outrage of adulteration,
then the matter begins to look pretty
serious. We don't know how people
are going to avoid this nuisance, unless
they refuse to buy, as did our forefa-
theirs foreign articles during the odious
days of the British Stamp Act.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
The Sectional Cry.

We believe no more than any one
else, in stirring up and keeping alive
old national troubles, merely for the
sake of argument, or for contention, or
to be able to say that we belong to a
certain party. But we do know that
certain old issues exist, and will con-
tinue to exist, until the people of this
country are willing that the law of right
shall come uppermost, and that justice
shall be done. 1t is going to be no
damage to this country to let the truth
be known, and the sooner it can be seen
and comprehended the better it will be
for all. If to argue the true principles
of Republicanism is to disturb aristo-
cratic feudalism, and the fossilized de-
, mocracy of the land, then disturbed let
them be. If to lay bare strong facts,
and to tell plain truths regarding that
class of people who upheld slavery, de-
nounced the war, discouraged its prose-
cution, and have sympathized with
southern insolence right along, is to
keep up national issues and the Demo-
cratic bugbear of "sectionalism," then
all we have to say is, let them come
thick and fast-the sooner they are met
and conquered the better for all. We
have already learned, that with the
South anything is sectionalism when
they cannot have their own way. We
of the North will never be in good odor
with the South until we PROSTATE our
selves before them, and invite them to
lay their hands upon our necks. They
are determined to be satisfied with
nothing short of their old aristOcratic
way, and if they cannot have this, they
will trump up some excuse for a fuss.
The great hue and cry now is, "section-
alism, sectionalisIn," fOstered and pro-
mulgated by the Republican party. By
and by it will be sometbing else overshad-
owing and just ready to ruin them.
We say to Republicans, do not be taken
in with this specious cry of "section
alism," but hold your grip upon your
lifelong principles of freedom and equal
rights.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Is the World Growing More Wicked P

There are good many persons here
and there who are constantly predicting
evil, and preaching the degeneracy of
mankind. To them there is nothing
now as good as it used to be. They
are constantly telling what happened
when they were young-how well their
fathers farmed, what good schools they
used to have, and how well their moth
ers could cook. To them, the world is
just ready to turn bottom side up on
account of the preponderance of evil
over good. Our summers are not SO
pleasant, we have more droughts, our
winters are colder, the springs later,
and the falls have more clouds and
wind than ever before. The glamour
of youth stiH bangs by them, when all
was sunny, serene and hopeful, and the
progress of the world has thereby es-
capped their attention. Now we are
ready to give these people all the cred
it their due for every good word and
work. But we should remember there
is a vast difference in the condition of
the old time and the new. Fifty years
ago there was not a tenth part of the
thought and activity there is to-day.
Everything done then went with the
pace of oxen. Our literature was moth
ing compared with that of the present.
Newspapers, books and schools were in
their infancy. Railroads, telegraphs,
machinery and the vast world of i'm
provements were almost unknown. So
their means of knowledge, quick COM
municatiOn, and what was going on in
the world were vastly inferior to what
we now have. All sorts of crime hap
pened then as well as now; but the
news did not go then as quickly, if it
went at all, consequently crime was not
SO much heard of or discussed. Then
again our population has greatly in
creased-people are constantly travel
ing in great numbers, and the facilities
for spreading news have greatly multi
piled. So we must not look through
glass darkly. If there is considerable
crime there is considerable good also.
We believe our institutions to day are
better than the world ever saw before.
Everything considered, we have more
knowledge of general subjects, more
wealth, less poverty, more happiness,
and less misery than ever before exist
ed. There must be more rirtue than vice
in the arorld, else ii wOuld sink. And not
withstanding all the troubles we hear of
now, we believe this age is far better
than any proceeding one, because we
believe in the general law of progress
and for this reason we think that for
genuine comfort and happiness. the
world will be better an hundred wears
hence than now. Our conclusion is.
that the world is not growing more
wicked, but is more strongly establish
ed than ever in human virtue,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Democratic County Convention.

The Democrats of this county met in
place last Thursday. There was good
representation from the various towns
in the county, and the convention came
to order about eleven o'clock, when
Major n. P. Bowman was chosen Presi-
dent, and made brief speech upon
taking the chair. George Eaton of the
North Star was chosen Secretary, and
A. B. Perry assistant Secretary. The
Vice Presidents appointed were the
venerable George c. Barney of this
place, Peter Lindsay, and John Bu-
chanan of Barnet. A letter was read
by the President from Hon. T. j. Cree
of Wheelock, who was unable to be
present. Mr.. Weeks, of Lyndon, moved
that a committee of three from each
town be appointed as a committee to
nominate county officers, which motion
was carried. An adjournment was then
had until two o'clock, when the follow
ing ticket was presented by the COM
mittee of the convention
For senators, w. H. Harris of Dan
Vile, Alexander Cochrane of Ryegate /;
assistant judges, r. Ellis of Sutton, j.
r. Delano of Hardwick states attOr-
ney, Thomas j. Cree of Wheelock
sheriff, B. L. Hastings of st. Johnsbury I;
high bailif, Peter Lindsay of Barnet.
COUNTY CoMMITTEE-George Hid
den, St. JOhnsbury A. B. Perry, Nc
Indoes 4; j. NJ. Weeks, Lyndon.
Town CoMMITTEE-H. E. Randall,
w. X. Gordon, S. N. Houghton, G. D.
Randall, G. E. Goodall, j. H. Applebee,
E. Fitzpatrick.
Immediately after this, the resolu-
tions adopted by the State Democratic
convention, were accepted by this con-
vention. Col. A. NJ. Dickey was then
called upon, who made ten minute
speech, recounting among other things
the misrule of the Republican party in
managing the finances. The great at
fractions of the convention were speech
es by Col. Waddell, of North. Carolina,
who was an officer in the rebel army
during the war, and Maj. Haggerty of
New York, an officer of the union army.
There was quite turn out-the town
hall being filed full in the afternoon by
democrats, and republicans who came
to hear the other side discussed. There
was also quite large audience in the
evening. The St. Johnsbury Cornet
Band furnished the music for the occa-
sion.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
True as Preaching.

1t seems to us about time for news
paper publishers to combine in opposi-
ton to the pictorial style of advertising
that is so much in vogue just now, and
which disgraces almost every paper in
the cOuntry-our own Included. A
small, "twO-line" tree or house with
some estate advertisement was well
enough, indeed it did not look bad.
But when the whole side of paper is
covered with monstrous pictures of
Quakers, giants, skeletons, spawned
horses, Lydia Pinkhams, hearses, and
liver pads, the result is decidedly dis
graceful. These illustrations may be
endured by those who conduct papers
solely for gain, but they curdle the
blood of those who take any pride in
the appearance of their sheets.-SOuth-
bridge Journal.
The above hits the nail squarely on
the head. 1t is time for all papers to dis
card this hideOus business. There is no
need of it. Look at the Bellows Falls
Times, the Woodstock Standard, the
Springfield Republican, and many other
papers, and compare them with the
SPAWN Cures. the Liver Pads and the
Pinkhams of the general "run" of pa
pers, and give an honest judgment as to
which looks the best. If such papers
can refuse cuts, others can. Besides, in
nine cases out of ten, these illustrated
ads. are frauds and humbugs, and pub
fishers do their readers mnch harm Inv
publishing them, and will do them a pos
tive service by refusing them altogeth-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Vermont News.
CHITTENpEN COUNTY.

At the Burlington city caucus on Sat
urday evening Hon. Russell S. Taft
was nominated for representative.
Communication 10y telephone was
held on Sunday between Burlington
and Factory Point, distance of 100
miles, using the Western Union wire.
No perceptible difference could be de-
tected in the working of the telephone
that distance, from that of line as ma
ny feet in length.
William Francis, Saturday, fshed Gus
of the water at Nye's dock, Burlington.
a musket, bearing the date I6If. The
musket is entirely composed of copper.
except the butt, and is i'll wonderfully
good state of preservation. 1t is quite
a curiosity.
Charles King of Burlington, freight
conductor, fell from his train at Bolton,
Monday, striking outside the rails and
received a severe cut across his fore
head, which may prove fatal, but there
is some hope of recovery. He is sup
posed to have fallen from sunstrOke.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
G. R. Caswell has recently purchased
from the widow of Judge Steele, all
the timber land owned by her in Hol-
land.
The hay crop is gathered and the
barns are full. Amasa Scott, of Crafts
bury, has finished cutting his second
crop.
Daniel Hall of Holland, recently
shot hen-hawk which measured four
feet from tip to tip of its wings.
Ex-Gov. Hartman of New Hamp-
shire, and w. w. Grout, are to speak
at North Troy on the political issues,
next Friday at 2 p. m. Railroads carry
at reduced rates, and large attendance
is expected.
Bears are killing off the sheep in
Westmore, Orange Spencer and Rufus
Averill having lost several.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Rutland has never had so many Sum-
mer visitors as now.
Fifty car loads of Spanish nerino.
sheep have been shipped from Rutland
to Texas the past year. Most of them
from Addison county.
A mine of French chalk has been dis
covered, about Is miles from Rutland
in Plymouth.
There will he a farmers field day at
Brandon, on Thursday of next week,
under the auspices of Brandon Grange,
No. Al, and the Farmers and Mechan-
les club, at which addresses will be de-
livered by j. j. WOOdman of Michigan,
Master of the National Grange, Hon. A.
B. Franklin and others.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Census of the South.

There has been considerable said in
the late papers regarding the taking of
the census in the Southern states-as
though frauds had been perpetrated,
making it to appear that there had been
large and an improbable increase of
population. 1t appears by a statement
from Gen. Walker, chief of the census
bureau at Washington, that as yet he
has no evidence of fraud in the returns.
1t is thought that some, who knew that
there had been an increase in a few
counties, had taken them as samples of
all the other counties in their state
hence, the story of fraud. Gen. Walk
er states that if there should be evil
dence of wrong in the returns, the work
must be done over again, and those
making the mischief will be punished,
as he has the requisite authority to cor
rect the evil aud make matters right.
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in the South and saw how it was with
his own eyes. Now it is not rational to
say these gentlemen did not behave
themselves while in the South. 1t is
not natural, where one wishes favor,
to offer abuse the first thing. These
men knew perfectly well the temper of
the southern people they never went
down there to insult them, but to argue
their case just as they would here, in
the hopes of giving political enlighten-
ment on the greenback question, and
thereby receiving some help in their
cause. 1t is an unlikely story there
fore, that they in any way abused these
people. We repeat, they probably ar
gued their case there just as they would
here but Mr.. Randall was ordered to
leave in hirty.tfre minutes, and because
their moral cOwardice made them afraid
that southern Democracy would be in
terfered with. This is Col. WaddelPs
free speech-the southern liberty dealt
out to northern men who behave them
selves.
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Major Haggerty.

We do not remember of hearing a
public speaker for long time, whose
tongue was so voluble, and who said
so little, as did Maj. Haggerty at the
Democratic county convention here last
week. If we belonged to the Demo
cratic party, and wanted to make con-
verts from the Republican ranks, we
should want some one whose political
logic was keener than his. 1t don't
amount to much in an intelligent COM
munity like ours, for any campaign
speaker to recount his nativity, what
Office he has held, or what may be his
private opinions regarding national pol
icy. Maj. Haggerty discussed no great
issue, such as now interests the Ameri-
can people. The fact is, our Democrat
ic brethren can say nothing, only to find
fault with Republican rule" and to
advocate the necessity of "change,"
because, forsooth, the Republicans have
run the government for about twenty
years We do not apprehend that the
Republican majority will be cut down
much in this county, on account of the
solid arguments of Maj. Haggerty.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Wade Hampton.

Wade Hampton must be a truthful
man. In his speech at Staunton, Va,
recently, where he said in Democratic
meeting, "consider what Lee and Jack
son would do were they alive. These
are the same principles for ,ohich they
fought for four gears" he only proved
that rebels are rebels still, and that he
is yet true to his natural old Southern
instincts. When northern Democrats
tell us that the South has returned to
the Union with loyal outstretched arms,
and lovingly accepts the arbitrament of
the war, they lie, while Wade Hampton
tells the truth. If Hampton has made
a hasty and lamentable speech for his
party, all the lying in the world won't
help the matter any now. Democrats
know well enough that disloyalty still
exists in the South, but they have
feigned to believe otherwise, and now
in HamptOn's speech they have a dose
plump in the face. We need not fear
results, for give these fellows rope
enough and they will hang themselves.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Adulteration of Food.

If in business transactions there is
one thing more reprehensible than an
other, it is this adulteration of food.
People often wonder at the cause of
physical maladies, when a large num-
Der of them, undoubtedly, may be di-
rectly traceable to poisonous and I'M
wholesome food. But it is a sad COM
mentary upon human virtue, when men
can be found communicating the articles
that we must eat and drink. 1t is no
new thing under the sun, and at this
time it is a matter of some discussion in
the public prints concerning the adul-
teration of sugars, which has arrived at
that point where no particular secret is
made in the business. An article made
from corn, called glucose, the manufac-
tnre of which has to go through the
chemical action of sulphuric, nitric and
muriatic acids, enters largely into this
adulteration. 1t is claimed that one
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27
Col. Waddell.

In our mind, the talk of Col. Waddell
here the other day was just as real reb-
ell talk as was ever expressed anywhere,
but slicked up and vanished over for
the occasion with cunning politeness.
One could plainly see his great anxiety
to smooth over, cover up and excuse
the outrageous doings of the South.
None could fail to notice that all his
explanations regarding these troubles,
turned out every time in his favor and
against us. The whole North were
carpet-baggers, usurpers, and robbers.
The Kuklux were long suffering, pa
tient men, who finally had to organize
for simple self-defence Northern men,
while pretending to he friends to the
negro, were really greater enemies to
him than the old Southern masters. His
talk of how glad he was that the South
had been licked and slavery abolished,
was mere bosh.
If any here were taken in by his
Southern politeDess, and could not see
through his political mask, then all we
have to say is, we are sorry for them.
Not one single issue did Col. Waddell
argue last Thursday afternoon but, as
we have said, his main talk was to ex-
cuse and defend the doings of his still
rebellious people, and to arraign the
Republican party as the cause of all the
Southern troubles! We say to Col
Waddell and all Democrats of his stripe,
that we have not forgotten the year
1861. We have not forgotten what their
disposition then was, and what they
tried to do. They fired upon the flag,
they trod upon it, and tried to replace
it with an ensign of slavery. They
throttled this Union, and their aim was
to destroy it. We remember james
Buchanan, John Floyd, Glen. Valan-
digham, jeff Davis, and Robert Toombs.
We say we still remember these trail
tors, and we know there are more left
where these came from. We of the North
would be fools, and deserve execration
by the world, to now yield to the cum
ming of the Waddells and the Hagger-
tvs.
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Among the Adirondacks.
LAKE PLACID, Aug. 3,

LAKE fLAClb, aug. 8, 1880.
Loon Lake is pretty sheet of water.
three miles by one, with shores wooded
and of almost unbroken wildness. af-
fording but little game however, and
its waters at present no fish, though a
quantity of young trout are there in
training for the future angler. Its
boats furnish a view of Whiteface. in
pleasant weather, but from the hotel
only De Bar, fourth rate mountain is
visible. Yet it is region salubrious
with pine and balsam, and hunting and
fishing are not far away. Strings of
trout come in daily, and in one davis
triumphal procession we saw. a live
fawn ride in on the guides shoulders.
the mother deer arriving also as yeni-
son, after which it may be well to add
that our only approach to a surfeit of
wild diet was private trout twice,-opce
as my share of one days labor of four
men and two horses, none of whom, let
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licences, while the furnishing of these
in the extravagant upholstery taste of
the day absorbs millions. Coarse Cam
elhair shawls are now imported to serve
as curtains and lambrequins. Their
colOrs are unfading though to the I'M
aesthetic eye they may seem old and
not very pretty, in fact somewhat bar
barous. But they are very "stylish."
The brewers and beer dealers gener-
ally, are in sad taking about recent
decision of the Excise Commissioners
that they will insist henceforth on a
$3.50 license fee. The temperance folk
are Unexpectedly delighted while the
poor devOtees of King Gambrinus are
correspondingly blue. They want to
''see" the right man and probably the
little difficulty will be properly
Strengthened out. Of course, this thing
is only done for effect, slugation with
potential money in it, and the law how
ever rigorous will in due time like all
of its kindred become a dead letter.
1t may indeed increase the number of
low bucket-shops.
RADIx,