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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
College Hazing.

The silly and brutal practice of haz-
ing has received something of Il check
at the Syracuse, n. Y, University. A
few students of that seminary of learn
ing amused themselves, few nights
ago, by enticing ono of their compan-
ions into Il carriage and then driving
him some miles into the country, where
they gagged him, tied him to a tree,
shaved his head, and left him there to
release himself and make his way home
as best he could. The young man so
treated had not, perhaps, fine sense
of humor. AT any rate he objected to
this treatment, and Prof. French, the
head of the faculty, agreed with him in
thinking the conduct of his tormentors
improper. The boys were not surprised
at that. They are prepared for a lack
of appreciation by the faculty of their
peculiar jokes, but they were surprised
and outraged when Prof. French caused
four of the ringleaders to be arranged
in the police court for an aggravated
assault. The whole body of students
seemed to regard this as an unwarrant-
able encroachment upon their scholastic
privileges. 1t is the proper treatment,
however, for such conduct, and will
doubtless be more effective than aca-
demis censures.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
Deborah Lee.

| Tis dozen or so Of years ago,
| Somewhere in the West countree,
That a nice girl lived, as the Hoosiers know,
! BY the name Of Deborah Lee;
Her sister loved by Edgar Poe,
| But Deborah by me.
| Now was green and she was green.
As summer squash might be-
But We loved warm other folks
and my Deborah Lee
| With a love that the lasses of Hooserdom
| Coveted her and me.
But somehow it happened, long ago,
| In the agueish West countree,
| That a chill March morning gave the shakes
To my beautiful Deborah Lee;
And the grim Steam Doctor Course him > came
And bore her away from me:
The Doctor and Death-old partners they
In the agusi-h West countree.
The angels wanted her mp in heaven.
/ (But they never asked for me .
And that is the reason l rather guess,
In the agueish West countree,
That the cold March wind and the Doctor and
Death
Took of my Deboroh Lee.
Ny beautiful Deborah Lee,
From the warm sunshine and the opening flowers
Anu hiu away rum Il'.
Our love strong a six horse team,
Or the love of folks older than we,
And possibly wiser than we,
But Death, with the aid of the Doctor and steam,
Was rather too many for me
So he closed the peppers and stopped the breath,
Ofmy sweetheart, Deborah Lee,
And her form lies cod in the prairie mold,
Silent and cold-ah, me!
The foot of the hunter shall press her grave,
And the pTairie's sweet wild flowers
In their odorous beauty around it wave,
Through all the summer hours
The still bright summer hours;
And birds shall sing in the tufted grass,
And the nectar-la laden bee,
With his dreamy hum, on his gauze wings pass,
She wakes no more to mel
All, never more to me
Though the wild birds sing and the wild flowers
spring,
She wakes no more to me.
Yet oft in the hush of the dim, still night
A vision of beauty see,
Gliding soft TO my bedside, phantom of light
Dear, beautiful Deborah Lee,
My bride that was to be.
And l wake to mourn that the Doctor and Death
And the cold March wind should stop the breath
Ofmy darling Deborah Lee
Adorable Deborah Lee!
That the angels should want her up in heaven,
Before they wanted me!
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
Learning Trades.

Many men who would like to learn
more than one trade have been deferred
by the constant irritation of the old
saying, "Jack of all trades, master of
none" Now this is only partially true.
Many trades, OF rather branches of the
same trade are so closely related to
each other that there is no reason why
the young mechanic should not learn
two or more of these branches. To do
so would not only widen the horizon of
thought, but would give him more self
reliance, enlarge his experience and
render him more independent of the
fiuctuating circumstances of hard times.
If he gets out of work in one trade it is
more than probable that he can earn a
livelihood by means of his reserve trade.
Again, his manifold accomplishments
render his employment more secure.
When the time comes to reduce the
number of men in shop, those who
are the most accomplished and who can
turn their hands to the greatest number
of things, or who can change from one
class of work to another are the ones
who are retained. 1t is well known TO
those who are observant that the great
est part of the difficulty experienced in
"making things work." in cases where
two trades depend closely upon one an
other, as for instance, pattern maker
and moulder, arises from the utter ig-
norance of the workmen in regard to
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
An Unpleasautness.

The dispute between the Scribner
and the Harper publishing houses over
Carlyle's "Reminiscences proves to be
the beginning and token of a most uu-
christian state of war between the two
firms. FrOude gave the "reminiscences" :"
which were undoubtedly under his full
control, to the Scribners, his own
American publishers but the Harpers
claimed that the book was one of Car
lyle's works, and that they were Car
lyle's American publishers, and had
agreed with Mr.. Carlyle before his
death, through the agency of Moncure
ID. Conway, for the publication of these
manuscripts. The claim of the Har-
pers to be Carlyle's publishers is stout
ly disputed by the Scribners, as well as
the other merits of the case, but the
Harpers have issued the "Reminiscenc-
es" not only in their Franklin Square
library, but in a clOth-boand volume
almost as handsome as and somewhat
cheaper than that of Scribner. The
Harpers now evidently propose to make
the most savage inrOads upon the Scrib-
ner list of foreign authors which has
heretofore been protected, as many of
the Harpers' own publications have
been, by ''the courtesy of the trade y
The Harpers have already issued the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
Give Us Scrip.



The sooner some kind of convenient
postal currency in fractions of a dollar
is created, the better. Business men
and others have been daily annoyed
long enough by the lack of something
to take the place of the old ten, twenty
five and fifty cent shin-plasters which
used to be found so handy for sending
off in letters when the wIiter desired to
make a cheap purchase, etc, at a dis
tance. Not much time, trouble, labor or
expense would he involved in the pro-
ductiOn of postal currency, and it is
the duty of the government to finnish it
without further y-dallying. In re-
gard to what should be the size of such
currency, and how it should be re-
deemed, a correspondent of the New
York Tribune makes some original sug-
gestiOns. He says that it should be
printed in the three denominations of
50, %, and 10 cents, and that all the
denominations should be of one size,
which should besmall enough to 90 into
an average pOcket-bOok or letter with
out folding. They should be sold at all
United States post offices, guaranteed
redeemable, cent for cent, in United
States postage stamps, stamped envel-
Opes, cards or other devices, used for
paying mail carriage or for mailing is
sued by the United States, of whatever
denomination, at any time and at any
United States post office, and renewal
bic if torn or worn too badly for further
use. Substitute silver for the post
Office truck with which it is proposed to
redeem the notes, and the scheme would
be a good one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
VOLUME 44---NUMBER 22S3.

the requirements of each others trades.
Both may be wrong yet they will al
most invariably charge the failure to
produce a good job each upon the 9th
er. Now if each understood the diff
culties under which the other labored,
he would be able to point out the error
at once and there would be no neceSsi-
ty for jarring. Ignorance is the great
producer of discord. Young mechanics! |!
Never lose a chance to acquire knOwl-
edge of more than one trade. Remem-
Der that he who can readily turn his
hand from one branch of trade to an
other need never lack for either appre-
citation or profitable and steady en-
plOXment
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29

but Col. Roberts of Titusville will at
tempt to throw even that extraordinary
performance into the shade. There is
now building for him at the Baldwin
Works locomotive which is designed
to be the fastest in the world. The
builder and the owner will be disap-
pointed if it doesn't make a record of 50
miles an hour, and run 100 miles with
out taking on coal or water. 1t will be
taken TO Europe and tested on the rail-
roads of England and the Continent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
Pa,sumpsic RaiIroad.---Feb'y 81, 1881
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

AdUent-Paddock Village. Sabbath Services n
1890 a. N. Las and $50 p. m. Sabbath School /,
m. Prayer Meetings at 1870 p. m Sunday Tuesday
and Friday evenings.
Baptist-Railroad Street Corner Maple Rev
Z. 4. SANFORD, Pastor. Preaching 1880 A. NJ. 5
School - n. Prayer meeting $50. Prayer meet
Ing Wednesday evening at 730.
Free Bdptist-Main Street Corner Prospect
Rev. II. Lockhart, Pastor. Sabbath services IO:3C
A. NJ, and G:3O =. NJ. Sabbath School IL NJ Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30.
Church Of the Messiah-t tUnivcrsalistl Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street. Rev. l.. NJ. Tiot
son, Pastor. Sabbath services at 1:I5 =. NJ
Sabbath School at Il Nj. Wednesday evening meet
ing at 73D.
Methodist-Central street. Rev. Z. $. Locke
Pastor. Residence next to the Church. sab
bath services at 1890 a NJ, and $50 NJ. Sabbath
School at IL NJ. Wednesday evening meeting al
North Congregational-Niain street. corner OF
Church Rev. Henry W. Jones, Pastor. sabbath
services at 1880 A. NJ, and $50 z. NJ. Sabbath
school at las p. NJ. Wednesday evening meeting
at 7:30.
South CongregaGonal-Aiain street Rev. Ed
ward +. Fairbanks. Pastor sabbath services at
1890 A. NJ, and $50 =. NJ Sabbath School at IL ~
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
PreSbyteriGR Church-Rev. W Il. Laird pas
tor Services at Presbyterian Hall, every Sab
bath at 1880 a. m, 300 p. Sabbath school 200
Prayer meeting $50. Bible reading Wednesday
evening 130.
st. AndreWs-( (Epscopal,) Main street Rev
\. +. Putnam, Rector. Services ON Sundays at
l0:30 a. m, and p. m. Holy days and FRIDAYS al
a. m. Wednesdays at 1870 p. m. Sunday School
at 3:3O p.
Boissonnaut. Parish Priest. Mass aud 10 a. m
Nespers and Benediction at 3 p. m. On tn,
second Sunday of the month service at $50 a. H..
and p. IN. At Lyndonville same day at 1880 a. NJ
J. n G. A.-Meetings at the rooms Of the Y NJ
c. A, Browns Building. Main Street, Sunday
mornings at $50, Monday evenings at 1870.
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go West"--The Other Side.
From Montpelier Watchu an.


An estimable lady who, ten or fifteen
years ago, was compelled, 10y force of
family ties, to 'take up her bed and
walk" for the far west, that is, North
western Wisconsin, thus expresses her
present views of facts and prospects of
that section. She was native of Wash
ingten county: 1.-The cold and deep
snow has been terrible to encounter,
though the suffering here is nothing to
what it has been in Minnesota. They
keep everything as dark as they can.
In some cases several families would get
into one house and burn other houses
and furniture to keep from freezing. Oh,
the horrors of the western country So
many have left comfortable homes to
come here to suffer death. | wish |
could preach Il sermon that all Vermont
could hear. But with all the suffering
there has been, there will still be lots of
fools that will go west during the com
ing season. | cannot see why they will
do it. The farmers here do not begin
to lay up money rs they do east. If
they would think they had better stay
where they are. If the eastern people
could see the mortgages that are carried
here | think they would conclude they
had better remain east. 1t is awful to
see how our people are in debt. You
can have no idea of it. Still they crack
up the west. 1t seems to me there has
got to come a fearful crash, for cannot
see how the debts are going to be paid.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
An Important Fact Briefly Stated.

Too much attention is given in this
day to the mental training of the mind,
with an utter disregard to the welfare
of the body. The parents take great
pride in their child's advancement at
his school, overlooking the exercises of
his body entirely. The consequence of
this is thin arms and legs, narrow
chest and large head. As the years
go by we see the races of men growing
smaller and more ont Of proportion.
All this needs complete revolution
lChristian at Work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
st. Johnsbury Post Office.


ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston and intermediate Offices Arrive 40 I
m. Close g:3u a
Boston through mail. Arrive 2:17 m. Clos,
500 III.
New York and the West. Arrive 2:I7 q IN and
1906 and 4:iO y Close $50 and SEQ III.
Newport and the North. Arrive 1O:I5 a m
Close 400 p m.
Portland and the East. Arrive 300 M Clos,
$50 III.
Swanton and intermediate offices. Arrive IO:I.
a m. Close l:O0 IN.
Waterford. Arrive 500 a IN. Close 400 pm
North Danville. Arrive $50 n m. Close IO:3t
a
West Concord and East St Johnsbury. Ariv,
lO:l5 a NJ. Close 1: p III.
CHAS. p. CARPENTER, I'd, Z. NJ.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29

II "No. TO-" the new passenger en-
gine on the Pennsylvania road. built to
pull the fast train between New York
and Philadelphia, has driving wheels
SIX feet six inches high, lS-inch cylin-
ders, carries I40 pounds, and has 50
more square feet of fire surface than the
largest passenger engine. ''No. I0' is
perfectly plain, no brass-work and little
polished metal. A locomotive capable
of attaining a uniform speed of sixty
miles an hour is not to be sneered at 4,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29
Grarrlers' 6mde.
~. Johnsbury a Lake Champlain Railroad
January 10, 1881.
TRAINs MoVING EAsT.

MAIL-Leaves Swanton 80 a. m, Cambridg,
Junction 6.54. Hardwick $40 East HaTdwick 2
Greensboro SO Walden 9O3 Danyille g26 st
Johnsbury arrive 1000 leave lO.4O, East St Johns
bury 1854, West Concord ll.0i Miles Pond / -
East Concord ll.J3 arrives at Lunenburg Il.4j
Portland at So p.
ENPRESS-Leaves Swanton 535 p. m. Cam
bridge Junction 702, Hardwck s.25 East Hard
wick -3- Greensboro 46 Walden 30, Danvills
9.29. arrive St Johnsbury 1000 p. III.
MIXED-!St JohnsJury 10 Lunen5Urg-Leaves
st Johnsbury i.i6 p. m, r. st Johnsbury sos. W
Concord SO Miles Pond o. +. Concord G22 ar
rive Lunenburg 6.i5 p.
TRAINS MOVING WEST.
MAIL-Leaves Portland % a. m. Iunenbura
l.3j, p. m, East Concord Ia, Miles Pond IJ6
West Concord 2.17. East ST. Johnsbury > p arrive
st. Johnsbury 30. leaves As. Danvlle $50, Wal
den 5fi Greensboro COS, East Hardwick G.16
llardwicS 6-2s Cambridge Junction rs. arrive,
at Swanton at 9.lOp
ENPRESS-Leaves st. Johnsbury 6 % a. m.
Danville 7O5, Walden 10, Greensboro : so. h.
Hardwick lbs, Hardwick sill Cambridge
j junction q.3i Swantou II co a. m.
Matchmaking To 81 Jo6nsBuy7,-Leaves
Luneuburg $50 a. M. 4. Concord $50, Miles Pond
7Os, Wcst Concord As, i. 1t. Johnsbury -.Oj, ar
rive ST. Johnsbury $50 u. III.
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st. Jobnsburv Atbennum,

Library and Reading RoOm-Free to all. Oper
from 3 \. NJ to II Nj. from to =. M, and from
to - Saturday evenings
Art GdHery-Open Tuesdays and Fridays
CHARLES \. WILLARD, Librarian
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Telegraph Ohice.

Western Union and ". Hiternafional-in ST
Johnsbury House. Open from : Il m, To 9 p. IN
sundays to 10 "A. m, to p. m. Night message,
at half rates
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r. e. RICHARDSON.
Manufacturer Of
BON 8 M EAL,

for Cattle, Poultry and Fertilizer.
An orders promptly filed Ny machinery IL
new, and am bound ~ give satisfaction
81 Johnsbury July ~. NV
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East st, .JOilnsbuTy.

Oongregahondl-Rev. +. b. Phelps. Pastor.
Sunday services at 1O.45 a. and $50 p m. Sab
bath school at 1900. Wednesday evening meeting
at $50.
Methodist.-Rev. L. c. Dickinson, Pastor. sun
day services at l.3O p. m.
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SHIPPING TAGS.

We make a speciality Of this work, and can fur
M. STONE &Co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-29

'Tis dozen or so Of years ago,
Somewhere in the West couutree,
That a nice girl lived, as the Heosiers know,
BY the name Of Deborah Lee;
Her sister was loved by Edgar Poe,
But Deborah bv me-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-11

evening. He had been at work pilinp logs
and probably died with heart disease.
The agent of the state fish commission
has recently stocked ponds in Newark and
Sutton, and several on the line of the ST.
Johnsbury and Lake Champlain railroad,
with black and Oswego bass.
"A company at Holyoke, Mass, have
bought the Sumner place in Hartland which
includes the falls in the river at that point,
and will erect thereon pulp or paper mills.
Connecticut river is becoming the source of
paper supply for the whole country.
An addition so feet in width by 10 long
and five stories high is to be made TO the Van
Ness House at Burlington. Work has already
been begun.
Col. O. W. Seaton, who has been made
superintendent of the census bureau to sue
coed General Walker, is native of Vermont
and son of Rev. O. NJ. Seaton, retired
Congregational minister now residing at Essex
junction. Colonel Seaton CIRCULATED at Mid
dlebury college in the same class with Judge
Dunton and was an officer in General W. Y.
W. Ripley's regiment of sharpshooters.
The st. Adams Messenger says that car
rying French Canadians to Canada amounts
TO business for the Central Vermont Road
of about $4,000 month, while that of their
immigration to the states represents over
$1S,000-these figures indicating that the
Oanucks are coming to the states to stay.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-11
The National FInnnces.

The report Of the United States Treasurer
Gilhllan, for the last fiscal year, contains
some figures full of interest The extremely
prosperous condition of the country is shown
by the fact that the receipts of the govern
ment exhibit an increase over those for 1880.
from every source. The increase in receipts
from customs is $11, 637, 0OO from internal
revenue, Sl1, $780, 600; from sales of public
lands, 81, 1873, 900; miscellaneous sources,
S3, $4,000; total increase, $27, 255, 600,
which added to the net reduction of SO. $50, =
900 in expenditures, makes the increase in
the surplus revenue $34, 1S5, 600. The net
revenues were $3.50, 7S2 600, expenditures
$500, 7l2,00 The excess of receipts over
payments was 800, 069, 900 of which $780,
$4,000 was expended in the redemption of
the public debt The balance in the treasury
increased $48, GG7, 600, or from $203, 791 900 at
the beginning, to $252, 45S, 600 at the end of
the fiscal year. The amount expended on
account of interest and premium on the pub
lie debt ran down from sos, 552, 900 in the
fiscal year $780, to $S3, $40, 600. Not only
do these figures show the unprecedent-
ed prosperity of the country, but they
speak volumes for the care and efficiency
with which the administration of public af-
fairs is managed. The immense influx of
gold to this country is shown by the state
ment that the gold belonging TO the govern
ment, September 3Oth, was $169, 5j2, 600, an
increase of Sil, 900, 900 reaching the highest
point ever attained; and that more than 1928,
500, 900 in gold has been deposited with the
assistant treasurer in New York during the
last fifteen months, exclusive of the amount
deposited on account OF standard silver dol.
lars. The gross amount of gold aud silver
coin, and bullion, held by the treasury, with.
out regard 10 obligations against it, in 1881,
xuop 5000 TOf q
The gross assets of the government are 1881 ).
9Sl 900, having increased $64, 600 600 dur
ing the year and being larger than in any
year since 1873.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-11

Gen. Sherman ia his annual report earnest
ly urges that Congress furnish the authority
to recruit the army up to a standard number
of not less than 30 privates to each company,
'making G2 enlisted men aud three officers to
each Of the 430 companies, thus increasing
the army proper to 26, ego enlisted men,
which number in practice will probably never
exceed %, 00O." There should also be a nom
combatant force of 1888, making total en-
listed force of every nature and kind, of 3d.
449. Such increase in the numeral force of
the army would be matter of actual econ
omy, as it would make great saving in the
large item of transportation which is now oc-
casioned by hurrying troops forward, often
from great distances, ito protect at one time
settlers against the Indians, and again In
dams against the settlers. Gen. Sherman
says many OF the fortihc atoms and coast de-
fences, now employing the time of the army
TO garrison, are absolutely of no use, present
or prospective. He recommends that the
whole question of coast defense be submitted
to board of high officers of all arms of SER
vice, who shall report to the Secretary of
| War what coast forts shall be maintained,
| what sites shall be retained for future use,
and what may be absolutely sold. He rec
| ommends a similar commission to report up
on what inland military forts may be advant-
ageously disposed of. The general next dis
cusses at considerable length the subject OF
military education" In his judgment the
military academy at West Point fulfils its
uses aud can be safely entrusted to prepare
boys to become soldiers OF the future.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-11

Prof. Heckelmeyer of Pennsylvania has
discovered new bug, the cimex anthracitus,
which he says is eating up the coal deposits.
1t il only about AS big as the top OF needle,
but it is very numerous. 1t eats holes in the
coal and il it eats long enough completely
spoils it for use. The professors theory is
that the coal oil which is produced in such
great quantities is only the juice of these in
socts which have been crushed. He says that
the kissing and cracking Of coal when first
put upon the fire is caused by the expiring
struggles of these cimices, and the reason
why one kind of anthracite burns faster than
another is that one has more bugs than the
other He says the bugs will bore into the
flesh and produce white swellings and event,
ual death, but that coal miners who drink
much whiskey are never annoyed by them.