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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
A Terrible Railroad Disaster.
THE FALL OF RAILROAD BRIDGE IN
SCOTLAND BROWNS FROM l5O TO
200 PERSONS.

THE FALL OF A RAILROAD BRIDGE IN
SCOTLAND BROWNS FROM $50 TO
200 PERSONS.
A portion of the bridge across the
Firth of Tay, on the east coast of Scot
land, was blown down Sunday evening
while a train from Edinburg to Dundee
was crossing, plunging the cars into
deep water and drowning from $50 to
200 passengers. The gale was so
strong that steamboats, were unable to
go to the scene of disaster till late.
Mailbags and other things were washed
ashore from the wreck. There was i'm
mense excitement, and thousands gath
cred at the Tay-bridge station.
The latest dispatches with regard to
the bridge disaster near Dundee, Scot
land, indicate that the loss of life has
been greatly Over-estimated. AT the
last stopping place before the bridge
was reached Sc passenger tickets were
taken up. There were also passengers
for the Broughty ferry, whose tickets
were not taken, number of children
without tickets, and the railroad en-
ployes. The lost will probably num-
Der between rs and 100. The train
consisted of one first-class, one second
class, and four third-claSs cars, and the
brakeman's van. When it approached
the bridge signals pronounced every
thing all right, but soon after the
bridge had been entered the telegraph
stopped working. Fourteen Of the
widest spans were blown down, leav-
ing a gap half a mile wide in the mid
die of the bridge. The train fell about
80 feet before reaching the water,
which was so feet deep, and the wreck
age which nas tiOated ashore shows
that the carriages must have been bad
ly broken up. Divers tried unsuccess-
fully Monday to find the wreck. There
are many quicksands in the bed of the
river, and it is feared that the bodies
may be buried with the cars beyond
recovery. One body has been recover
ed in badly mutiated condition.
The government has sept two inspec-
tors to investigate the disaster, and the
Queen has telegraphed her coincidence
to the bereaved.
The bridge, opened to traffic in May,
1873, was TO-, 800 feet, about two miles
long, being the longest iron bridge in
the world and had 80 spans. 1t was
considered Il triumph Of engineering
skill, its cost being 81, $4,000, while
seven years were occupied in its con-
structiOn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
Temperance in Vermont.

Robert A. Perkins, the slashing ink
Singer from Woodstock, has written a
letter to the Springfield Republican,
showing what failure the prohibitory
liquor law is in Vermont, and using that
exceptional town-Montpelier-to veri-
fly his statements. The Republican takes
this letter as ii text for short edito-
rial and aside from the fact that it
takes Montpelier as a representative of
country towns generally, is quite true
and just:
We apprehend that there has been a
decay of temperance virtue in some of
the rural districts of New England in
the past 25 years. There certainly has
been decline in some of the villages.
Montpelier is cited us place where 80
liquor prosecutions have failed to Sc
cure single conviction. Yet the evil of
intemperance has gone through that
little town like a destroying angel,
marking the first born for ruin, with no
check for half generation. 1t would
be easy to name a dozen young men out
of the first families of the place, sons of
doctors of divinity, leading lawyers,
and of other professional and business
men, lads who did not Ego to war" to
learn dissipation, but have grown up
since, whose lives have wrecked on
this rock. Some of them were college
educated, and all might have been if
they had chosen to be. Liquor prose-
cutions are sneered at in one of the
leading newspapers of the town. The
town agency for the sale of liquors,
which is supposed to provide the arti-
Gle in necessary cases, is run to make it
pay. This is type of the village COM
munity of New England, where the evil
of intemperance Is smiled upon rather
than denounced and held in check by a
strong body of total abstainers and
temperate men, as was the case through
the country when the temperance refor-
nation began. The defects of the law,
us pointed out by our correspondent
are grave, but the fiabby condition of
public sentiment is graver. The city
has been regarded with justice as offer
ing Il wider temptation to sipation
than the country, but us we have often
illustrated in Massachusetts,, the rowdy-
ism and diabolism of rural villages are
quite as grave evils as beset young men
in the city, because the social repug-
nance to them seems to be feebler.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02

~ ''Deming" writes the Boston
Journal from Montpelier, that there are
rumors that the Waterman is soon to
change hands. We hear otherwise
that Mr.. Joseph Poland has purchased
the interest of his son, j. Monroe Po-
land; also that Mr.. Dixon and Mr..
Sault are negotiating for the paper.
Mr.. Dixon was formerly assistant edit
or of the st. Adams Messenger, and Mr..
Sault is now in that position. "Dem-
ing" also writes: 1.-The unlooked-for
and ignoble collapse which came to
sundry cases recently on trial here I'M
der the liquor law is regarded as IA
great triumph to the friends of free
rum, and with disappointment and con-
fusion by the other side" AprOpOs of
the rum question in Montpelier, it has
been remarked IN our hearing, that
there was very little danger of en-
forcing the temperance law in town
that contributed S25, 200 to erect Il rum
palace. The results seem to point to
that remark as almost prophetic.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
Vermont News.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.


The Merchants National Bank of
Burlington has made a semi-annual
dividend of 81 per cent. payable on
and after January 2, 1880.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. E. Harris of Brad
ford, are bOasting over nineteen pounds
of twin boys.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
The seventh reunion of the First
Vermont Cavalry, will be held at Bran
don, January 9TH. The regular bust
ness meeting will be held at the Bran
don House at 3 o'clock, when an inter
estlng paper is expected from Comrade
E. ID. Higley. Supper at 2 o'clock.
The sixteenth annual reunion of YER
mont officers will be held at Brandon,
Thursday, January 8. Members of the
society, and all Vermont officers and
non commissioned officers of the army
and navy are cordially invited to at
tend. The regular business meeting
VIII be held at the town hall, at 4
o'clock p. m. The Grafton will be de-
ilvered in the evening, in the town hall,
by Col. John R. Lewis, U. S. A. Ban
guet at 10 o'clock p. m. Col. A. S.
Tracy is president, and James S. Peck
is secretary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02

surance of about $4,000, which covers
the loss. The iron building facing Win
throp square was destroyed, and was
valued at about $4,000 and was in
sured. The occupants were Pierce ,
Hardy & Co., woolens, who lose $50, :
600, insured; Davis Lake & Allen,
clothing, lose about S2OO,0OO; Spauld-
ing & Tewksberry, paper, suffered a
total loss, but the amount is not ascer-
tanned. Moore, Smith & Co., hats,
Benjamin Calender & Co., cutlery,
George Foster and Moses E. Osgood are
losers. The loss on the building 81 to
to IS Federal street, owned by the heirs
of George T. Bigelow, was $4,000.
Other losses are: E. K. Dunbar, print
er, $4,000, insured for $4,000 each in
the Canada fire and marine and the
Humboldt of Newark c. Y. Crowell,
book-binder, $4,000. insured for $780,
600; S. K. Abbott, binder, $50, 900, in
sured for $4,000; Claffin 81 Brown, pa
per, SIS, 900, partially insured.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
The International Dairy Fair.

BUTTER.
In the general classes: Creamery
butter, none entered. Dairy butter
For best made in November, LIST prize,
$50, to F. E. Douglas & Son, of Shore e
ham. Honorable Mention Best in No
vember-W. G. Chandler, Hartford f.
A. Parks, st. Johnsbury.
In the state class: Creamery butter
made in Vermont: First, $50, A. C.
Flagg, Richmond ID, S25, S. C. No
BILE, St. Adams; Sd, diploma, a. NJ.
TomlinsOn, Essex Junction.
Dairy butter, best made in Vermont {:
LIST, $50, S. c. Noble, st. Adams I'd,
S25, F. E. Douglas & Son, Shoreham ::
Sd, diploma, E. F. Andrews, Richmond.
For best dairy butter made in New
England: LIST, $50, F. H. Marshall,
Boston; I'd, $25, do; Sd, diploma,
Howard Murphy, Belfast, Ne. (The
butter upon which Mr.. Marshall drew
the first prize was made in EnOsb Irgh
by - Dow; that on which he drew
the second was made i'll Richmond by
- Fay; Mr.. Murphy, who drew the
third prize in this class, drew the third
prize in the general class for dairy but
ter made in September; the first $50
for dairy butter made in October; first
$50 for print butter sixth sweepstakes
for best sailed with Ashton's salt, and
made in New England and Canada,
S75 best dairy butter made anywhere
in the United States, and sailed with
Higgins Eureka salt, $50. These prizes
might and ought all of them to have
been taken by Vermont dairymen, as
well as several others in the general
CLASSY
For print butter: E. A. Parks, of St.
Johnsbury, drew ID, S25.
For ornamental specimen of butter {:
Mrs. Thomas Mason of Waterford, and
E. A. Parks, st. Johnsbury, I'd, diplo-
ma.
CHEESE.
Best made in Vermont: LIST, $50,
Park & Robinson, Montpelier; I'd, $25,
A. E. Bates, Huntington Sd, diploma,
E. D. Mason, Richmond.-O. S. Bliss
in Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02

Morrill's letter. He expressed himself
requests Mr.. Morrill, to specify the
points which call for such arbitration.
Morrill, replied to Gov. Garcelon's let
ter, reiterating that the excitement in
Maine may lead to violence, but that
Gov. Garcelou can allay this danger
Gus disorder by referring the disputed
points to the supreme judicial court.
These points are enumerated in a sue
cinct memorandum covering fourteen
different principles at law, there being
no issue about the facts. The fusion
list counted-in members of the legisla-
ture are receiving secret missives from
the state house, instructing them
to bring with them, each, "ten good
men" to ''stand by them" in case Of
opposition to their taking their seats.
On Tuesday quantity of the Maine
state arms and ammunition was remOv-
ed from the arsenal at Bangor and
sent to Augusta, by order of Gov. Gar
celon, to be used, if necessary, in pre-
serving the public peace at the time of
the assembling of the legislature. 1t is
stated that preparations for the defence
of the capitol have been secretly going
on for several weeks, arms having been
removed from the militia armories at
various places for this purpose.
The very latest from Maine looks to
a peaceable solution of the difficulties.
~ The Camerons die hard. At the
meeting of the Republican national
committee, Senator Don Cameron, of
Pennsylvania was chosen chairman,
and Chicago was fixed upon as the
place of holding the convention, and
June Sd as the time. Cameron was
chosen by % votes, against 10 for Gen.
Averill of Minnesota, and one for Platt
of New York. The election of Came
ron is said to be Grant victory.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
BIG Fire at Boston.
THE WHOLE LOSS ABOUT 81 900, 900.

IhE w hOLE LOSS AbOUI Sl ,UUU,UUU.
A fire that started about III o'clock
Sunday night in the second story in the
rear of Houghton & OsgOod's publish
ing house on DevOnshire street, Boston,
entirely destroyed that concerns pro-
perty, and soon extended to the corner
of Franklin and DevOnshire streets and
the paper warehouse of Rice, Kendall
u Co. on Federal street, near Franklin,
besides doing much other damage on
Federal street. The printing house of
Rand u Avery did not suffer from fire,
though the stock was damaged cOnsid-
erably by water. The first estimates
set the loss at five or six million dol
lars, but later the estimate was half Il
million on buildings, and near that fig
ure on stock. The insurance is very
heavy, and will, it is thought, cover the
entire loss. Several explosions occurred
ing, and some of the firemen were i'll
jured. The fire was got under control
about 3 o'clock Monday morning, after
a hard fight by the entire department.
The heaviest losers are Rice, Kendall
81 Co., $I50,000; Houghton, Osgood &
Co., $50, 900, and Rand Avery & Co.,
who had IA large amount of stock in
presses badly damaged by smoke and
water, and whose loss may reach $780,
600. The Union express company also
suffers Il total loss.
The loss of HonghtOn, Osgood g. Co.
and the Heliotype company will prob
ably not exceed $l5O,O0O of which the
book-publishing concern loses 800, 900.
The insurance is about 100000, shared
in about the same proportion by the
two concerns as the loss. The most
important part of their property, the
Riverside press and the plates and ma
chinery, are safe in Cambridge Rice,
Kendall & Co., paper makers, estimate
their loss at $150,0OO, on which there is
an insurance of $1SO,OOO. The loss of
Rand, Avery & Co., printers, is $751;
600, fully insured. Messrs. Scribner, G..
Putnam & Sons, and other New York
publishers, lose considerable in sheets
printed by this concern. S. D. Warren
& Co., paper dealers, in the Cathedral
building (Which belongs to the Rich es-
tate and reverts to Boston university i'm
1885, lose $4,000 on stock, insured ;
Claffin g. Brown, paper, lose $4,000,
insured the Bigelow estate, about
$4,000. The vaults of the North bank
were opened Monday morning and the
contents found uninjured. II. Fl. Hun:
newell, owner of the building occupied
by Pierce, Hart, and others, has an in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
The Boom" in Paper.

Never since its manufacture has pa
per been so low us during the past year.
The tide has turned, however, and
cheap paper is a thing of the past.
The market began to stiffen in August,
and the price has gradually advanced
until newspaper stands to-day from
thirty to fifty per cent. higher than
four months ago. Book and writing
papers, envelopes, and all paper stock
goods are in the same condition. Deal
ers don't care to sell at present prices,
expecting further advance, and when
one gets prices there is generally a
fOot-nOte to this effect: "These prices
are subject to change without notice"
Manufacturers have orders for months
in advance, and some are running their
mills night and day.
All these things point one way: that
the time of cheap printing is over.
With paper stock advanced in the
neighborhood of fifty per cent, and ev-
cry thing that the printer uses advanc-
ed more OF less, it is idle to talk about
the low prices of six months ago.
There is no class of mechanics that
work so cheap us the printers, consid-
eriug the amount of skill and cost of
material used, but even they can not
work for nothing.
The amount of reading matter in the
CGiedOnidn, and the cost of its produc
ton, is more than sixty per cent. great
er than before the war, and yet there
is occasionally a man who thinks the
price should be the same. This is IN
reasonable. And again, no one would
be satisfied nOW with such paper as
we printed before the war, at any
price. The price of this paper should
be, us other things are, So year; but
we shall send it in this county where no
postage is required, for 1880, for SI.75
in advance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
Our Boston Letter.
BOsTON, Dec. %. 1879

BosToN, Dec. %, 1879.
Editor of the CdledOnidn
The citizens of Boston were awakened
last night about II o'clock by the gen.
eral alarm of fire, which proved to origi-
nate in the fine building on 81 Federal
street, occupied by the firm of Rice,
Kendall & Co., IA paper establishment.
Not long after, the flames reached the
Cathedral Building, occupied by
Houghton, OsgoOd & Co. and others,
and the fire department was unable to
arrest the fire only partially, until four
buildings were destroyed. So in three
hours two millions of dollars was con-
sumed. The building in which the fire
commenced was heavily insured in
twenty five different companies; singu-
larly two of these policies expire this
morning. The excitement about mid
night was intense not only the usual
crowd of men and boys were to be seen,
but misunderstanding women, watching
with keen anxiety the progress of the
flames. The debris and sparks which
fell far and near, endangered many
buildings, and caused great fear lest the
coufagration might become as extern
sive as the one that occurred in 1872.
There was some unaccOuntable delay
in the summons of some of the fire de-
partment, but finally by the united eff
forts and combination of several hose
they were enabled to send up streams OF
water which did much to stay the pro-
gress of the flames. The flames are still
smouldering this morning.
Christmas passed this year with near.
ly the same festivities in Boston anG
vicinity. Private families now have
'Trees" in Their own homes for the chill
dren more universally than few year.
since. In the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic churches the music was of
superior order. In the Church of til,
Immaculate Conception the pure whit,
of the interior of the church allows O
much outward Ornamentations. TIL,
nave and arches of the building wer,
most deliberately ornamental with ever
greens and draped with scarlet. TIL,
music was grand and impressive, ant
when the church was brilliantly illu
minated in the eve, it was indeed &
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 81.

| WASHINGTON, II. u, Lee. ~.
Editor of the CaledOnian
A new sensation from Maine in the
form of threatened riot in Bangor,
has caused considerable talk, and the
inability of GarcelOn to guide in a
storm becomes apparent. His attempt
to take from the Bangor arsenal the
arms, was, considering the excited con-
dition of the public mind, foolish and
inconsiderate. After stealing from the
Republican party the fruits of their
honest victory, and from the people of
the state their rights,-tbe Governor,
while all are smarting under the great
wrongs he has inflicted upon them, as
if to force upon the injured public his
fraudulent legislature, attempts to
draw together all the arms of the state
and summon the militia to Augusta. 1t
is no wonder that the respectable peo-
pie of Bangor stand forth like men to
defend their rights. We honor and ap-
plaud them for it. The claim that the
cases in Maine and Louisiana are iden-
teal is false, and known to be so by
every intelligent man in the country.
In Louisiana, canvassing boards were
by law obliged to throw out parishes
where intimidation was proved, and
they did so. In Maine no fraud at the
polls was committed and every man
voted as he pleased. Republicans I'M
derstand the difference between Maine
and Louisiana affairs, and it is due to
the Senator from Maine, and more es-
pecially to Mr.. Blaine, that the enor-
nifty of crime committed by Garcelon
and cohorts has been fttingly explain
ed and denounced.
Captain James B. Eads the eminent
American civil engineer has just return
ed from Il tour in Europe, and an extern
sive examination of all the great engin-
eering projects there, including the I'M
provement of navigation on the Dan
ube, the Suez Canal, and other great
works. His scheme for connecting the
two oceans will now receive attention.
The Captain is of opinion that the con-
struction of a canal to convey the larg-
est ships across the isthmus would re-
quire an immense capital, and Is years
would he required to complete the
work, and when completed its success
full operation can not be assured. He
proposes to build a railroad across
the isthmus, which he says would not
cost over one fourth as much as the
canal, and could be built in three years,
and he is confident it would transport
the largest ships with their cargoes
from ocean to ocean with more safety
than could be possible by canal. The
distance is 40 miles, and a journey of
twenty-four hours would be sufficient
to take a ship out of the Atlantic Ocean
and place it in the Pacific ready to
proceed on its voyage.
Captain Eads thoroughly under
stands his profession, and any plan
proposed by him is worthy of careful
examination.
General Grant will arrive here to-
night, Notwithstanding the reports to
the contrary. No formal reception has
been arranged, but it is expected that
the people will find way to get a
look at him, and il shake of his hand.
HOWARD.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
Senator Edmunds to Stick.

Mr.. c. S. Forbes, in dispatch to the
Boston Journal from Burlington, says
he has information from the highest
authority to the effect that a warm per-
sonal friend of Senator Edmunds re-
ceived letter Thursday night from the
senator, stating his decision in the mat
ter of his proposed accession to the SUI
preme bench, and in which Senator
Edmunds said that the pressure against
bis contemplated senatorial resigna-
ton, in the contingency of Justice
Hunts retirement, was so great that he
had concluded to remain iu the Senate
until the expiration of his term in 1881.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
do Colored Dorkings, Col. coop.

do ColOred Dorkings, Col. coop.
do B. B. Red Game Bantams, w.
L. SWEET, Vt. Union l year.
do B. B. Red Games, w. E. Ball,
Sherbrooke, P. O., Poultry Bulletin L
year.
do S. S. Hamburghs, j. E. DOllOff,
same.
do G.P. do C. E. Nelson,
Derby Line, same.
do S. G. Dorkings, c. S. Hastings,
same.
do Brown Leghorns, w. L. SWEET,
same.
The Poultry World and Am. Poultry
Yard, l year, for best Light Brahma
cockerel, F. A. Fields, Rutland.
do Black Game, Asa F. Dean.
do White Leghorn, W. l.. SWEET.
do Black do, c. FL. Curtis, Brad
ford.
do Am. Dominique, j. M. Fowl
er, Lisbon. N. HI.
do Plymouth Rock, j. c. Higgins.
do W. G. B. Polish, A. A. Annis.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-02
beautiful sight.


At the Cathedral, after the Vesper
service at p. m., the officiating priest
delivered a most radical sermon, upon
The Holiness of the Priesthood /; trying
to prove from the Bible that the priest
was superior to angels and men, al
though acknowledging there might be
some exceptions.
Boston has been considerably agitat-
ed this autumn on the Roman Catholic
question, parochial schools and taxes
the Professionals feeling that they have
taken very strong and ultra ground in
the matter, and for this reason are de-
sirous that their wives and friends
have a voice in the ballot.
The State Legislature will not organ
ize until Jan. Z. Gov. Long will be in
augurated the next day. A grand Re-
ception was given to Gov. Talbot by
the Middlesex Club, of which he is a
member, consisting of many eminent
men.
The Mapleson Opera Company made
a brilliant entrance into this city. They
have a special train of eleven Pullman
Palace cars, in which they travel. The
company number $50 persons. The
Massachusetts State Educational Insti-
tute holds its meeting this year in the
Girls High School Building on Newton
street; the opening lecture is by Prof.
Charles o. Thompson of Worcester
formerly of Peacham. His subject,
"Handicraft in Schools" The sessions
are to continue two days. Much inter
est is anticipated in the meetings.