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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
The Modest Circus Agent.

lDetroit Free PressD
An advertising agent for one of the
great circus combinations has been in
Detroit for a week, and yesterday he
sat down long enough to answer few
questions. The interview started off as
follows:
GLOW many diamond pins will you
wear this summer, and what will be
their valuePr
II shall not wear any. Our show has
made a new departure in that matter,
and nobody except the man in the tick
ct wagon will be allowed to wear dia-
mOnds. l am just going up to the ex-
press Office to send my seven pins, four
rings and sleeve buttons home to my
brother"
Glow many consolidated shows do
you advertise Pn
"Only l3, but we have exactly IS.
We do not intend TO do any blowing
this summer, but will practice the mod
esty dodge. We have ~ clowns, but
advertise only 10. We have 10 ele-
plants, but advertise ouly 3, and so on
right through"
"Have You the only man in the world
who can turn a double sOmeIsault over
Is horses r.
'No; there is another man who can
do it, and although he is in state prison
we didn't want to say we had the only
one. We shall practice no deception
and carry no humbugs."
"Have you the only baby elephant r.
''Yes, sir, but we don't advertise it.
We don't want to be mean toward 9TH
er combinations"
Have you twice as much capital in
vested as any other travelling show 7"
eyes, sir, but we don't say so on the
bills. The public don't care about the
capital, but want to see the animals"
"Will your street parade be a mile
long ?"
1.-TWO of them, sir, but we don't ad-
vertise that fact. We let people come
and be agreeably surprised"
Have you got an elephant which has
killed seven men ?"
"Seven! Why he's laid out this
very winter! think the list foots up
81, but we don't advertise it. An ele-
phant is an elephant, aud what's the use
of blowing about it :"
"1Ou have two or three man eating
NifCIo VI NOul 30
"Of course-seven or eight of them,
and we also have list of the names OF
people who have been eaten by them,
but we make no blow about it."
"Have you boa constructor AZ feet
long ?"
"We have one 62 feet long He's the
longest and largest snake ever import
ed, but we give him only one line on
the bills"
"Have you the sacred COW of India p
eyes, sir, and the sacred OK of Japan
and a sacred calf and a sacred pig, but
we don't blow over 'em. We let the
public come in and separate the sacred
from the unsacred Themselves
"Will you have two circus rings2"
1--WE shall have four, but we DOM
put it on the bills. As / told you at the
start, we are making a new departure
We shall not exaggerate. We shall not
even tell the plain truth. No diamonds
no trumpets-no side challenges
no humbug offers-no fields of the cloth
of gold. We are going to sail along in
gentle, modest way and give the peo,
| pie five times the worth of their money
That's all-children half price and nc
lemonade sold inside the tent"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
ST. JOHNSBURY, VT, FRIDAY, APRIL l, 1881.

IL. Farmers tools, including carts,
wagons and other vehicles mot exceed
ing 500 in value for any one vehicle),
necessary to carry on the farm.
Is. Provisions necessary for the con-
sumption of the family of u person for
one year.
10. Sheep, cattle, horses and swine
that have not been wintered one win
ter. Construed by the Legislature to
mean such animals as were not in exist
ence at the beginning of the preceding
winter.)
20. Hay and produce enough to
winter out the stock
81. For each person, whether farmer
or not, one wagon, one sleigh and har-
ness for using the same, provided that
the value of such wagon or sleigh does
not exceed 800.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
Geese on a Drunk.

The London Telegraph has made a
pretty good "original" story out of one
that the late Judge Hyde of Sudbury,
VT, used to tell to the Thousand aud
one who passed the summer season at
his hOstelry in the Valley of Lemon
Fair before be was elevated to the
bench, and the New York Tribune cop
les it. The foundation of fact is that
Judge Hyde's fathers geese got drunk
on about peck of Ium cherries that
had been thrown out as two old for
further use. In fact they were dead
drunk, and the hired help thought they
were dead. So they set about to save
the feathers, taking off even the down
after they had plucked them clean out
of their clothing. AS fast as they were
picked they were piled up in the cow
stable and there left for the inspection
of the elder Mr.. Hyde when he return
ed from Ticonderoga. He did not re-
turn that day, and early the next morn
ing the girls went out to milk and found
the geese all up and dressed, as far AS
! not one feather would permit. They
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
Printers Mistakes.

The mistakes which daily occur in a
printing Office have theiI humorous as
well as serious side. Most of them are
exceedingly annOying-some of them
are supremely ridiculous. Any proof
reader who has been ia active service
for fifteen years, might, if he had kept
record, have a volume of blunders
that would astonish and amuse the
world. But they are mainly corrected
and forgotten before the printed page
reaches the public eye. Whenever an
error creeps into the finished work, the
blame is laid by the public to the proof
reader, and by the proof-reader to the
composition. Three times out of five it
rightfully belongs to neither it is due to
the careless, slOvenly, intolerable writ
ing. If printers were not unoommonly
good and amiable, some mythical names
and places in every printing Office
would be real indeed. As it is, after
spending a dollars worth of time at
tempting to deciPher three-cent SEN
tence, and after consulting the diction-
airy, encyclopaedia, book of synonyms,
Anthony's lexicon and map of the world,
the ''intelligent compositor" calmly sits
down to perusal of the new testament
until the writer comes around.
But we started out to chronicle some
of the ludierous mistakes made by
printers, which have been preserved.
The Chicago Times has collected some
of the more famous blunders, a few Of
which we append:
In the New York Worlds report of a
political meeting-''the snOuts flor
shouts) of 10000 Democrats rent the
air." In Gath's Fourth of July Grafton
about the effect of the immortal declar-
alton at which "Thomas reeled," )" he was
made to say, instead of ''thrones reel
ed" Instead of the fiat of the Almighty,
New York paper spoke of the fist of
the Almighty" Another paper declar-
ed that the MeekeT massacre was caus-
ed, not as the dispatch said, "by the
farmers pulling down the Indians tents
and cOrals," but ''the Indians beets and
carrots" Out west the obituary of a
right reverend ''prelate" was described
as "the death of pirate :" in sermon
il clergyman was announced as preach
ing about "a woman clothed in scanti-
ty," instead of sanctity; and the sub
iect, "Intluence of Rome on the FOrma-
tion of Christianity" got into print as
the 'Intluence of Rum upon the Diges-
ton of Humanity" The compiler, says
the Detroit Free Press, should have
added to his collection the story of the
Connecticut editor who wrote what he
thought an unusually fine article, en-
titled, as there no Balm in Gilead p
and awOke next morning TO read, sis
there no Barn in Guilford p This
same intelligent cOmpositor is a very
literal person and has little faith in ia
bles. But why he should persist in
transforming the name of Ruben's
painting of "Mereury, Argus and 10,
into Mercury, Argus and Co.," passes
understanding. He was probably broth
er of the man who ''set up'' the words
1.-the great am" in such wise that they
appeared as 1.-the great 9 a. m.," and a
distant relative of him who described g
''tallow chandler" us 'tallow chande-
lier."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

seemed rather confused about them
selves and looked upon each other as
strangers. As the milkmaids put it
"They looked as sheepish as a gander
party after Fourth of July dinner,
and one or two of them must have had
the headache, as they sat down and
tried to fan their ears with their webbed
feet" 1t took all summer for the geese
to regain their coats, and the growth of
their tail feathers was u source of con-
tinual wagering among the guests of
the house, some of whom are now living
in New York city and Philadelphia, at
the good old age of threescore years
and ten.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
st. Johnsbury Post Office.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston and intermediate offices. Arrive 4:4O y
IN. Close $3.50
Boston through mail. Arrive 2:17 a m. Close
500 pm.
New York and the West. Arrive 2:I7 a IN and
1906 and $40 p IN. Close $50 a III and SEQ m
Newport and the North. Arrive 1915 Il m.
Close 400 p m.
Portland and the East. Arrive 300 p m. Close
$50 I'm
Swanton and intermediate offices. Arrive IO15
a III. Close 400 IN.
Waterford. Arrive 500 a m. Close 4:OOpm
North Danville. Arrive $50 a III. Close 1890
a
West Concord and East st. JohnsbuTy. Arrive
1915 III. Close 4:
CHAS. p. CARPENTER, I'd, P. NJ.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

THE SADDEsT YET.-This most terri
BILE affair occurred at Ellenburg, n. Y,
last week. A Mrs. Luther Haekett gave
her little girl, seven years old, guam
tity of carbolic acid. The child having
tasted the acid argued strongly against
taking the full dose, but Mrs. Hackett
insisted on being obeyed, and the poor
girl swallowed the liquid, but never
spoke again until few minutes before
she died. When DR.. Rust arrived, about
half an hour after the occurrence, the
mucous membrane of the mouth had
become soft and white, the enamel OF
the teeth was already partially destroy
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
Non-Taxable Property.

The following property is exempt
from taxation:
/. Real and personal estate owned
by the state or the United States.
,. Real and personal estate granted,
sequcstered or used for public, piOus or
charitable uses; lands leased by towns
for educational purposes, and lands
owned or leased by colleges, academies
or other public schools or leased for the
support of the gospel. (But private
buildings on such lands are not exempt,
neither are town poor farms nor does
this provision exempt from taxation
real estate owned 10y railroad corpora
tions). See laws of 1880, No. 81.
3. Buildings erected by the trustees
of a normal school, or by their agent.
and accepted as a boarding house for
pupils in the school, so long as such
buildings are devoted to the exclusive
interests of said school.
4. Any building, or building and
real estate attached, owned by post
of the Grand Army of the Republic and
used for the purposes of the post only.
>. Lands used for cemetery
purposes and the structures thereon,
trust funds and other property belong
ing to or held by cemetery associations,
and the lots of the proprietors there
of.
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS,
MINES AND QUARRIEs.
6. Manufacturing establishments
and the machinery and capital used for
operating them, also the ''machinery
put into unOccupied buildings and the
capital used for operating it," where
the amount of capital invested is more
than 1000, are exempt from taxation
for period of five years from the time
of commencing to operate the same ;
and may be exempted for further pc
riod of five years if the town in which
the manufacturing establishment is sit
uated so votes.
z. Quarries and mines opened since
Nov. 10, 1880, have the same exemp-
ton. See Laws of 1880, Act No. 1913.
STOCKS AND BONDS.
Ofthese the following are exempt from
taxation in this state
8. United States bends and ohheI
securities which are specially exempt
from taxation by the laws of the United
States.
9. Stock in the railroad corporations
of this state.
10. Stock in corporations situated
out of the state when such stock is tax
ed to the corporation iu the state where
it is situated.
DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS BANKS.
IL. Deposits in a savings bank, saw.
ings institution or trust company, are
exempt from taxation to the depositor.
when such savings bank, savings insti-
tuition or trust company, pays the state
tax of onehalf OF one per cent Oh iti
} deposits required by Act No. of th,
laws of 1878.
OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY.
- ~. Personal estate owned by inhab
itants of the state which is situated an,
taxed ia another state is exempt : also
I3. Household furniture to the valu,
of $500.
IA. Wearing apparel.
Is. Private and professional libra
= ries.
l6. Mechanics tools.
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Trarrlcrs' 6nide.
st. Johnsbury & Lake ChampIain Railroad.
January 10, 1881.

MAIL-Leaves SwantOn $50 a. m. Cambridge
junction 6.54 Hardwiek $40. East Hardwick G %
Greensboro ESQ, Walden 9.O3. Danvile 926 St
Jobnsbury arrive 1000 leave 1910 East St Johns
bury 1854 West Concord II .O4, Miles Pond IL "a
East Concord 1l-33, arrives at Lunenburg ll.45
Portland at 5.57 p. m.
EXPRESS-Leaves SwantOn 535 p. m Cam
bridge junction 7.02, Hardwick s.25 East Hard
wick SIS, Greensboro 40. Walden $40, Danville
9.29 arrive St Johnsbury 1000 p. IN.
MIXED-St. JohHs6ury to Litnen5urg-Leaves
St JOhnsbUry i46 p. m, f. st. Johnsbury sos, W.
Concord 5.z3, Miles Pond O5, f. Concord g. ~, ar
rive Lunenburg 6.i5 p.
TRAINS MOVING WEST.
MAIL-Leaves Portland rs a. III. Lunenburg
1.35, p m, East Concord 1.47, Miles Pond 1.56
West Concord 2-l7 East St JOhnsbury 2.25. arrive
st. JohDsbuTy 40 leaves AS Danville $50, Wal
den 5.4i, Greensboro COS, EaS Hardwick GIG
Hardwick 625 Cambridge junction 7.4s, arrives
at Swanton at 910 p.
EXPRESS-Leaves st. JOhnsbury 635 a. m
Danville 7.05, Walden 7.29, Greensboro 80, T.
Hardwick 7.5s, Hardwick ell, Cambridge
JUNCTION 9.34, SwantOn IL co a. IN.
MIXED-Lunenburg to 81. JohnsbuTy-Leaves
Lunenburg 6 30 a. m, L. Concord $50. Miles Pond
7.Os West Concord 7.45 Z. St JOhnsbury sos ar
rive ST. Johnsbury $50 a IN.
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VOLUME 44---NUMBER 2279.

desolate life, her irreparable loss, her
tOrmenting money, and carry them all
out of the city she could no longer en-
dure, back TO the home she now dread
ed. One more awful lesson to the hun
gerer for this worlds goods, that now,
as of old, ''there is that maketh himself
rich, yet hath nothing"
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ed by the quick chemical action of the
acid, and a viscid mucus oozed continu
ally from the mouth. In about IL hours
from the time of taking the acid death
closed the terrible scene. The bottle
was clearly marked "Poison," but the
cOrOner's jury declared it to be an acci-
dent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

COngregdtiORdl.-Rev +. b. Phelps, Pastor.
Sunday services at 10. .45 a IN and $50 p. III. Sab
bath school at 1900 Wednesday evening meeting
at 30
Methodist.-Rev. L. c. Dickinson, Pastor. sun
day services at l.30 p
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Library and Reading ROoni-Free to all. Open
from 4. NJ. To II NJ. from to q z. NJ, and from
! to l-2 Saturday evenings.
Art GalIery-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
CHARLES \. WILLARD Librarian
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Western Union and VI. InterRdtionGl-in St.
Johnsbnry House Open from a. m TO p. III.
sundays, to 10 a. m, to p. III. Night messages
at half rates.
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SHIPPING TAGS.

We make specially Of this work, and can fur
nish good article at low prices.
c. N. STONE CO.
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TERMS OF THE CALRDOSIAS:
[Aiter January /, 1850 in Advance
One year-in Caledonia Co. SI.75
Six months, do do 80
One year out of this county 100
Six months do do LOO
For convenience in rcmtting subscribers
in this county will be credited SO weeks for 200
Twenty nine weeks for LOO
Subscribers out Of this county will be cred
tied IS weeks for 200
Clergymen in service, per year. LOO
Remit by Post Office order otherwise at subscri-
bers risk.
Each Subscriber will find on his paper in con
nectOn with his name, the date To which he has
paid. No other receipt is necessary.
Job Printing of all kinds done at living prices.
With new and modern machinery and skillful work
men nearly all kinds of Job Printing can be done
as well and cheap in the cities.
Legal Blanks, Card and Paper stock constantly
on hand.
Rates OF Advertising.
One square l2lines, one inch space) week 81 90
Each continuance e.--.---...-....---..2 -
Half square t6 linesl one eweek....-...........7 IS
Each continuance. ce..-.-...-....-......l Is
One square tone inch of spacel per year. 90
Business Cards per year leach lnel 90
Liberations Estrays, etc. I.25
Special Notices per square, one week 25
Each continuance ce-------------.------3O 30
Special rates to business advertisers by the year.
R-AdoertiseneHts illustrated lcih Ctits tiOeRty-
GUe per cent dd1dHee scale rates No o6jeetiOHd
Die df1ertiseeHts TeeeiUsd and nothing but legitimate
bHsiHess Gf1ertiSiHg solicited.
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ST. cyufmsburp (aledunian.
G. M. STONE & CO.,

% H. . ON u CL W,
PUBLISHERS.
Opposite the Atheneum, st. John nsbury, VT.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-03-25

Nail, Southwark, connects at Charlottesville
with Ches. & Ohio K. T., East and West Al
Lynch burg, connects with Atlantic, Miss. &
Ohio 4. K, through Southwest Virginia, 10
Nashville, New Orlesns Memphis, Little Book
and Texas-snd st Dsnville with Richmond &
D"nvlia b. r., to South snd Southwest.
Express southwark connects at Charot.es.
vilie W ell points on Ches. & Ohio B. T.. and
at n.nvile Tor sll Joints South. East and South.
MINED TRAINS for Main Line leave al.
ehsndriA dsily, except Sunday, 8 90 q. m. and
II OC III, and returning arrive at Alexandra
CO q and 2S6 p. m.
I IL a. N. and Alexsndris 81 l. M, daily
except Sunday. strive at Strasbprg at II Is pm,
connecting with the Valley Road Esst and
West. itosvo St1ssburg 80 p. M, arriving at
| Ale1andfia III IS D. m.
MIXED TRAIN FOR MANASSAS DIV.
lSiOa leaves Alexandria daily, except Sum-
day, st y W 3. H., arriving at Strssburg 81 %
y. M, and returning leaves Strssburg n 5 10
4. m. arriving in Alexandria at 2 A. 2. m.
For Giddlebu1g, daily connection st Plains
station
For upperville, regular connection ut Della.
plnna
For WARRGNToN, leave Washington At
I III ~ e., daily.
All trains make good connections, at Wash.
| inEton, 10 and from North and West.
New Orleans sleeper leaves Washington 1t
~ a. m. running through without change,
On Express train, leaving Washington at 10 90
p. n Marks Adjustable Reclining Chair Car,
With extra Charge only SI.OO, througlto
Usnvliie.
Pullman Sleeping Cars between Washington
and Augusta, Ca, without change, on lOU
p. N. Train.
|. Through tickets very low to the South and
Southwest.
MERCER SIAUGHTRR q IA.
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I'll EDGGEN AL.

PERRY Houston &c UNITY Ca
We have known "Swifrs SyphiIit!c specific"
tested in hundreds Of cases Of Syphilie, Mncur.
isl Rhemst'sm, Scrotua. etc. 1t made The most
perfect and permanent cures IN erery case.
Hugh l.. Dennsrd. Sam. D. kuien. Judge
Go. Ct, j. /. Warren, OF j. w Lnthrop & 20 +,
Savannah, Ga Ed jackson, Dep's CHk. SUPP.
c.: VIM Brunson, Eli Warren, J. w. VIM
6erly. j. Q. Giibe:t, Dr'g't, j. W. Mann, 20.
Iress., VIM d. Pierce, Shf. G. Q. Duncan,
Day & Gordsn.
l an acquainted with the proprietors. and
many Of the gentlemen whose signatures az pear
to the foregoing certificate. They are men of
high character and standing
a. H. COLQUITT,
Governor CT Georgia
THE SWIFT SPEUIFIC COMPANY,
Proprietors. Atlanta, Ga.
Sod by r. :. LEADBEATER & BRO.
Call for copy of Young Nj ems Friend"
decl
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alexandria Oazette
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH IS, 1881.
Things Found IN Bmw Sugar.

oUHl III HbN" sugar.
[ had read bat sugar rrhuers used bullocks'
blood to Clarity the liquor, and 10 my simplicity
ked my friend whe1e vas the bulIocks' blood
Fl laugh very heartily Of my ignorance, and
told me there had not be- n such thing used
10 Grseaocs snco be had known anything abour
the trade, DOW over thirty years What struck
me most vas the sand and mud that ny { ietd
showed me hal been Il ken ont of th,raa sugar
wtep saw it Fl ed; aod that day registered
vow thst | would nav;r again be ltmpted to
buy real rsw sugar" for domestic use.
shudder 81 | thick Of the quality OF mud that
l must have cateo IN ny lime, aud feel annoy
ed at having beeo d. u led into psyiog a penny
a pound more for tn. real raw sugar" than |
could have b(u vt the pure refined article tor.
L tod my freud what was passing through my
miod, at whlcl he again laughed. and said ::
Every one that 3ontS 70 see through the re-
huery sgys the me thing. 4Ou sometimes
hear gree IT'S charged with putting saud 10 Their
sugar. They really do pothlng of the s)rt. 1t
would no. pay them to do 50, even ii they had
n mind. IT the use OF raw sugar we're giveo n
by the pubic, we would never again hear OF
such az accusation against the poor groc r.
My friend, seeing the disgust had displayed
at the sand and mud, took me 10 the Laboratory
in connection with the refinery, Wncro he said
ne would shOW ne even worse than mud 10 the
raw sugar. He took small glass vessel like 9
tumblcr, into which be put teaspoontul OF
real raw sugar." such as Is sold 10 the shops,
and then poured some water slightly heated
over it. 10 a short time It'll, specks appeared
on the surface scarcely visible to the naked eye,
two or three Of which be placed und,r micro
scope and babe me look through it, TO my
amaz ont nj saw illle insects like lice craving
about asked Rhat they we're, and was told
they were he Acarus s4ccbar. or raw sugar
mite, aud that they stound 10 raw sugar more
especially 10 tho better descriptions | asked
if there were none 10 be found 10 refined sus ar,
and ny friend SD &C; tina: they were all either
retained in the filter ba, S or killed during the
boiling. | undersisod celebrated chemist
has estimated that there will be as uaDy as
lOO,O 600 Of these creatures 10 pound of raw
sugar, learned that there were abou' dtzsn
re6neri 5 ct work in Gseenock. lutDiog out
about 100000 to 800 0OO tons OF sofs. refined
sugar per anDum, belrg more than third OF
al the eur"r c1uEumed 10 Great Britain
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