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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05

much depressed, and there has just
occurred the heavy failure of house
which enjoyed the highest reputation
and still enjoys the esteem and sympa-
thy of the whole business community
The house of Risley s. Co. has been
foremost among our tirst-class mer-
chants for thirty years. They have
now failed for not far short of a million
dollars. And there are sundry other
failures of some moment.
Lieutenant Schwatka, the gallant
Arctic explorer is here now and getting
considerably lionized, while the episco-
pal bishops, who have just finished up
with their convention, have also been
taken care of by the fashionable circles.
They seem to have decided on consid-
cradle notifications of the order of
prayer at the discretion of officiating
rectors, had good deal to say about
marriage and divorce, but appear to
nave lett the question just where they
found it, for another year at any rate,
and wound up by comforting episcopacy
on the brother of the Bishop of Massa
chusetts, Rev. DR.. John A. Paddock, for
many years identified with one of the
most important parishes of BROOKLYN.
and a most estimable man. T6ev
wanted to make him Bishop of Colora-
do, 1 think it was, some years ago, but
his friends exclaimed at the barbarity
of such an exile and it was thought he
would, by waiting just little, succeed
to the bishOpric of New Jersey. But he
tant wilds of Washington Territory.
RI h., "a
the secret service people in good stead.
Ihey have just made most important
haul OF the principal members of the
most formidable gang of counterfeiters
who ever infested this country. 1t took
them just one year to fasten the crime
on the perpetrators, who were as eau
tious in covering their tracks as skiIlful
IN the execution of their Legitimate
business. The bank notes and bonds
they turned out were indistinguishable
even by trained experts, except by
careful measurements of two or three
most minute variations from genuine
bills, and they must have floated mill
ions of them. One was, perhaps, the
best engraver in the country, never be-
fore arrested, though under grave sus-
piclon for years; another was an artis-
tic printer, and was caught after being
shadowed for a year by a detective
who, pretending to be a night watch
man, obliged to sleep in the day time,
hired lodging opposite the house
which the culprit had purchased in
East New York, and watched diligent-
ly with an opera glass with unremitting
patience all day and every day through
torn window shade. The third was
the chief Brockway, who has already
served the state in striped attire, very
formidable parsonage in the great guild
of the "crooked." RADIx.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
What is Reform?

The virtue of a people is generally in
proportion to their aspiration for higher
and better things, and accompanied
with intelligence, it constantly seeks
for improvement. No people can be
guided by better qualities than these.
With many, however, the standard of
all that is desirable is in doing exactly
as their fathers did, generation after
generation. To break loose from old
notions and customs, is to them sacri
lege. Their only safe course is in the
extremist conservatism. Undoubtedly
such people have their places in the Di
vine plan, but so far as human progress
is concerned. they are comparative
mummies, who look from their coffins
in establishment and disgust at the rad
ical doings of mankind. The people of
high aspirations are not satisfied with
such conditions. They see no progress
but in ceaseless activity. Their con-
slant impulse is to reach for something
newer and better-tO attain still
greater excellence. In the matter of
reform, it is not good doctrine to assume
that all old things must be torn down
and destroyed. Because government
is bad, we cannot do without it, nor
can we dispense with the necessity of
education or religion, because they may
have incompetent and hypocritical ad-
vOcates. But however we may find
them, it is our duty to enlarge, beauti-
fly, and gradually perfect the conditions
surrounding them.
Enlightenment is calling for reforms
to-day as it has never done before
This is owing to the superior state o.
the people. All that is worn out and
useless is sought to be discarded fol
something more in accordance with thu
demands of the age. Reform, therefore,
seeks not to destroy ideas, or their nee
essary counterpart, but rather to build
around them more perfect condition
for mankind. 1t is changing from ;
lower order of things to a higher. Ii
its length and breadth, it means 70
humanity less grossness and more spir
ituality. We are sorry to believe, how
ever, that many of the so-called re
forms are not SO in fact, but are th
vagaries of misdirected enthusiasm
/. Let us be careful in discrimination.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
Mrs. Lincoln and the French Actress.

There was an incident of the landing
of the French actress at New York
which had a certain curiousness of con-
trast. As the passengers gathered near
the gang-plank of the Amerique, all in
that mortal dread of spending another
moment on board which characterizes
equally the survivors of an ocean voy
age or the passers over ferry,-Miss
Bernhardt and her numerous managers
were foremost, and among the rest
stood an aged woman, dressed" says
the observant reporter, "plainly and al
most commonly. There was a bad
rent in her ample cloak. Her face was
furrowed and her hair was streaked
with white. This was the widow of
Abraham Lincoln" She had come
alone across the Atlantic, from south
ern France, where she has lived for
four years past. A nephew met her at
quarantine, but there were no friends
around her, and no one to pay her at
tention. On the wharf the Bernhardt's
carriage was long time getting through
the gaping crowd, and while she wait
ed everybody else waited,-indeed
most of them wanted to wait, and will
stir up the envy of their various circles
all the season with illusions to "the
time went down to meet Bernhardt.n
But Mrs. Lincoln, with her nephew,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
Things That Have Not Happened.

Grant was not nominated. Tilden
was not. The machine did not rule the
republican party. 1t failed to rule the
democraict. The electoral vote of New
York state was not cast by the republic
can legislature. Collector Merritt was
not removed to please CoDkling. The
bloody shirt was not the prominent is
sue of the republican canvass. Garfield
has made no bargain with Grant men.
SANDER and forgery have not been ap-
proved by the American people. Chalk
ing up 800 did not decide the contest.
BulldOzing has not prevailed over the
South. Federal troops have not been
needed to keep the peace at the polls.
They have not been used there. There
has been no new rebellion" The pee-
pie have not wanted change for the
sake of change. The tariff was not a
dead issue. The presence of deputy
marshals at the polls was not a live is
sue.-SpringJfeld Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
Thanksgiving, November IS.

AT no period in their history since the
United States became a nation has this
people had so abundant and so univer-
sal reasons for joy and gratitude at the
favor of Almighty God, or been subject
to SO profound an obligation to give
thanks for His loving kindness and
humbly to implOre His continued care
and protection of health, wealth and
prosperity throughout all our borders,
peace, honor and friendship with all the
world, firm and faithful adherence by
the great body of our population to the
principles of liberty and justice, which
have made our greatness as a nation,
and to the wise institutions and strong
frame OF government and society which
will perpetuate it. For all these let
the thanks of happy and united peo-
pie, as with one voice, ascend in devout
homage to the Oliver of all good. l,
therefore, recommend that on Thurs
day, the 25th day of November next,
the people meet in their respective
places of worship to make their ac-
acknowledgements to Almighty God for
His bounties and His protection, and to
offer to Him prayers for their cOntinu-
ance.
In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
LIST day of November, in the year of our
Lord 1880, and of the independence of
the United States, the I05th.
R. B. HAYES.
By the president,
WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs, Sec'y.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
Electoral Vote of 1875.
The Vote in Boston.

Last year the Democrats carried the
city of Boston by 5240; yesterday the
Democrats had plurality of 1925 votes
on the Governors vote. In 1876 Hayes
received 20, 45l /; yesterday Mr.. Garfield
pOlled 25,43. Tilden received 3237
more ballots than Hayes, and this year
Gen. Hancock has plurality of 1929.
The total vote for President four years
ago was "A, l39, and yesterday it reach
ed 53,046. The business men of Boston
went to the polls and exerted their in
fiuence-hence the result. When it is
remembered what influence the Repub-
licans have to contend with in large
city, great is the credit due to the gall
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
The Result.



1t is glorious tldings which the Jour
nal conveys to its readers to-day. The
menace of "ths solid South" which the
democratic party has offered to the
country is met by the spectacle of a
solid North-a North solid for the
maintenance of the national credit, for
the preservation of the purity of the
ballot, and for the securing of equality
for all men before the law. The dis
patches which have been received up
to the time of writing indicate that
there is no break anywhere in the line
of Northern States. Gen. Hancock has
apparently received the 1873 Electoral
votes which Wade Hampton promised
to him at the democratic national con-
vention, but he has gained them at the
cost of forfeiting all support in the
states which were loyal to the Union
during the war, and which are still 10y
al to the principles which actuated
them then. The so-called doubtful
states, which the democrats contested
most bitterly and claimed most boast
fully, all take their place in the repub-
lican column. All the assured republic
can states have excelled themselves in
rolling up majorities for Garfield and
Arthur. Ohio testifies her appreciation
of the services of her eminent son by
giving him a majority of 5000. Penn
sylvania answers the Democratic pre-
tentions in that state by n majority of
10000 for Garfield, and Massachusetts
gives the republican candidates, Fan
Old-fashioned majority" reaching about
$4,000.
In this state the success of the repub-
lican candidates is of the most over
whelming character. The probability
is that the state will be represented in
the next House of Representatives by a
solid republican delegation. The dem.
Districts. In the Senate they have Sc.
cured but four out of forty members
and their representation in the House il
IN about the same ratio.
The figures which we give are o
course incomplete, but we have no rea
son to believe that the Electoral vot,
as we give it, showing 23l votes TO
Gen. Garfield to 1873 for Gen. Hancock
will be altered by the later advices
The gains of republican congressmel
make it certain that Gen. Garfield will
have the support of a republican hOus,
TOT MS administration, and 1t Is almOs
equally certain that enough republican
senators will be chosen to succeed dem
Ocrats to make the senate at least tie
with the casting vote in the hands Q
the republican vice president. The re
publican victory is therefore complet
at every point, and the defeat of tn
democracy is simply overwhelming.
The country is particularly to b
congratulated that the result is so deci
sive. Desperate as the democracy are
aud utterly INSCRIPTIONS as to method
they will not venture to tamper with a
expression of the popular will SO en-
phatic aud unmistakable. Party lead
ers who should attempt to turn IL
Electoral votes into 185 would find tn;
they had undertaken something whiC
it was not prudent to carry through
The people have expressed their will
and there will be no trifiing with
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
All About the Election.

Exit 1929.
1t is clean sweep.
Forgery, we beg to suggest, does not
pay.
Let us give thanks for a decisive
election.
The funeral is a long one, but the
mourners are few.
There will be no need of a Commits
sion to count the Electoral vote this
time.
Barnum's mules pulledion Gen. Gar
fields tow-path.
Glory to whom glory is due. Hur-
rah for Hayes 1t was he who made it
possible.
Everybody cannot be happy over the
result, but the voting shows that a
large majority in the North can be.
Who will hunt for Morey now?
The Superb will have to take another
reef in his corsets.
The country has sat down on the
democratic party, and there doesn't
seem to be much left of it.
Net result of the Morey fOrgery,-a
disgraceful riot at Denver and increas-
ed impetus to the tidal wave.
The democrats have found the adj
ministrator of Morey's estate at last
it is Barnum.
Barnum knows now that when one
stumbles into a quicksand the more he
struggles the deeper he sinks
The people have elected James A.
Garfield, and they do not expect him to
accept a substitute in the person of
Boss COnkling or Boss Cameron.
Gen. Grants speeches are all very
well, but Mr.. r. B. Hayes's administra-
ton is what has brought back popular
favor to the republican party. "Hand-
some is that handsome does"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05

~ How is this? The Springfield
Republican says in one column that
Sarah Bernhard has habit of alluding
to her children as my ''petites accidents"
In another column the same paper
speaks of the reception accorded Miss
Bernhardt on her arrival in New York.
Sarah is the French actress that the
Gothamites are all agog over just now.
Can it be that respectable people are
going wild over this kind of a girl !
This is hardly the way to raise the NOR
al standard of the theatre.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
Public Opinion.

Bet You SIS, Barnum, that you can't
invent campaign lie so big that the
World newspaper won't father it, and
wish it were bigger New York Trib-
une.
Gen. Hancock is man of remarka-
BILE dignity and entire truthfulness. He
is, in this respect, like Washington,
who could not tell lie. Let it not be
forgotten that the qualities which are
admirable in candidate are also admit
rable in his snppOrters.-[Ne New York
Sun.
English promised to pay 100000 for
the presidential nomination, and
has, up to date, paid Is cents on the
dollar.-l Cincinnati Commercial.
Grant has at last developed into a
great stump orator. That was to have
been expected after his years of associ-
alton with great men, such as Conkling,
but the humOr with which he is dash
ing his speeches in New York is a sur
prise to his best friends. The impress
sion has been heretofore that he could
not tell a joke from a hoe handle
Post-Dispatch.
There is great victory in store for
some party leader who will resoIutely
refuse to lie about his opponents, who
will decline to be party to forgeries
and brides, and who will have the man
illness to acknowledge that his political
opponents are not all scoundrels. An
honest, straightforward mode of con-
Quoting political canvass would have
the merit of novelty, and, for this rea-
son, would not be understood by the
opposition until it would be too late to
counteract its effects Graphic.
The New York Sun, a Democratic
paper, knowing the Barnum- Morey for
gerry is hui ting Hancock in New York,
says, The fact that some pretended
Democrat was base and wicked enough
to forge letter in General Garfeld's
name affords no reason whatever for
voting against General Hancock"
The Chinese Forgery, with all its
concOmitants, is likely to go into his
tory as the most despicable offence
against everything respectable in Amer
lean politics that ever was committed.
To defend the shameless offence myth
zeal statements of persons having no
real existence have been fabricated.
AS the villanOus elements connected
with the forged letter appear palmer
and palmer it would seem that the eff
feet on the public mind would be such
as to Overwhelm the men who have Ia
bored to get into power by sncn nm
hallowed means.-[ Boston lr"nSciip''
The calumpies, forged letters and the
oanaraI ..cussedness" of the campaign
now closing might have been predicted
when both the big parties took their
national committee chairmen from Con-
necticut, the home of the untoothsome
Eastwood ham and the flavoress wood
en- nutmeg. Connecticut is responsible
for Mr.. P. T. Barnum, prince of Hum
Burgers; upon its soil flourish divers
life insurance companies its broad seal
autheDticates the charters of sundry
curious stock companies, and Mark
Twain, the author of the dumping
Frog" lives at Hartford, whence come
annually swarms of book agents and
lightning-rod people.-[Boston Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05

moved toward the gate. A policeman
vigilantly touched her on the shoulder
and babe her stand back, and back she
stepped, while all the people there were
damned aside to let Miss Bernhardt's
carriage draw up. When she had re-
lieved the ferry house of her presence,
the widow of Abraham Lincoln was al
lowed to pass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05

II All the states voted for electors
Tuesday, and all but five, Maine, Yer
mont, Ohio, Indiana and Oregon, voted
for representatives to the number of
249. All the territories voted for dele
gates. In 16 states legislatures are
chosen which elect federal senators.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05

liant workers who brought about the
result They had glorious cause and
most gloriously they have achieved
victory. The Democrats boosted OF
ten thousand plurality in Boston.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05

The forgery part is bad enough, but
what makes Garfield really mad is to
be paraded as man that can't spell.
MIS-. Gould, "agent" of the "Ladies
Deposit" has secured bail. Mrs. Howe,
the PRESIDENT" still languishes in Jail.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
Mrs. Hayes.

While every good Republican readi-
ly grants that the present administra-
ton is one of the best that we ever had,
perhaps few have stopped to consider
the influence Mrs. Hayes has had upon
it. We think it doubtful if the wife of
any President ever brought so great a
blessing to an administration. Perhaps
the history of the world cannot produce
another case where a woman in high
life has had the nerve and the will
power to successfully veto the use of
ardent spirits. Possibly there has been
no time before as favorable for this re-
form. But whether this be so or not,
Mrs. Hayes has been the means of
glorious change for the better in regard
to this universal and degrading habit.
The influence of it has reached for
eign countries, for men saw the point at
once, and with good sense have carried
the reform home with them, and have
sought to make it popular. AS we'll
balanced and even as the President
himself has been, and as prosperous as
the country has been under his guild
ance, there has been nothing about his
administration more worthy of praise,
than the grand womanly influence be-
slowed upon it by Mrs. Hayes. This
influence has been felt and commented
upon by all the distinguished visitors
at the White House. And sometime
hereafter, when the appropriated histo-
nv of these times shall he written, we
think she will have in it just place by
her husbands side, as having COM
meDced reform that no other ruler,
either man or woman, ever dared to in
augurate. Her work for good has been
both incalculable and Incompatible.
All honor to Mrs. Hayes! Our country
will ever remember and love her for her
good deeds.
Where Shall Consumptives.. Cor
The article on the first page under
the above head, will be read with in
terest, and is no doubt of value, COM
ing from the pen of medical man who
has made the subject study. 1t is
important to every one with weak lungs
to know just what to do. 1t is more
important however, we think, to know
how to prevent lung difficulties alto
gether. We believe there is not boy
OF girl in the country, but can make
themselves positively proof against this
prevailing and fatal disease, and in
very easy and simple manner. Five
minutes a day used in initiating their
lungs to their fullest capacity, and
keeping them so inflated as long as
they can hold their breath, and persist
ence in it, will save any person from
this dreadful disease, .swho does not in
herit it, and will no doubt strengthen
many whose lungs are already weak or
even diseased. The preventive. is so easy
and simple and inexpensive, that but
few will adopt it, and so the fell de-
stroyer, Consumption, will continue to
cut down the youth and flower of the
land, and weak and sickly men and wo-
men will continue to ask the question,
Where shall consumptives go?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-11-05
DRESS FLANNELs. All Qualities.
PIaids !! PIaids III!

o. H. HALE & CO.,
Railroad Street sat
The Weekly Kansas chief., 1880-11-11
An Evening With Saturn.

The planet Saturn, which was at its nearest
point to the earth ON the 18th ult., is now in a
very favorable position for observation. Shin
ing with dull, leaden color, in striking con-
trast with the brilliant Jupiter and the scintil-
lating fixed stars, il is almost the last object in
the sky that one would expect to find interest
ing. But in the telescope its whole aspect is
changed. and il presents a scene of marvellous
beauty. 81 wouldn't have believed that there
was such an object in the sky is a remark that
the owner of a telescope hears again and again,
when he shows his friends Saturns rings. There
is nothing resembling them in the whole yisi-
bile universe. In truth, Saturn's rings have been
a great puzzle to the astronomers. Mathemati-
clans have figured themselves into the belief
that il is physical impossibility for those rings
TO exist, vet the rings are there. Theory after
theory has been invented TO account for them,
yet the laws of their being cannot be said to he
understood. When in 1Sj0 Professor Bond dis
covered the wonderful Grape or gauze ring in
side the others-which is sem-transparent so
that the body of the planet may he seen through
it-there was a great overturnng of old theories.
The notion that the rings We're solid aban-
doned. Some said they were liquid. Finally, it
was decided that they were composed of 4 vast
multitude of tiny satellites, travelling around the
planet, close together, and in the same plane.
If there were inhabitants like ms these little
worlds, they eould look across and see into the
windows of the dwellers upon neighbOring
worlds. They might knock each others worlds
to pieces with hundred-ton guns.
Whether any one of the theories about Sat
nrn's rings is correct. nobody knows, but any
body with a three-inch telescope can see the
rings, graceful and perfect in outline, as bright
as polished gold, and marked with delicate lines
and shadinSs. The two main rings together are
about 30, 600 miles broad, and only fifty miles
perhaps less-thick.
Huygens, in 1853, had TO make telescope l2O
feet long, after what was called the aerial pat.
tern, with the object glass hung upon tall
pole, before he could make out what the rings
were, which our modern achromatics SHOW so