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

Western farmers are said to be n
month behind-hand in their spring
work.
The Russian press is agitating the
question of International cooperation
against the Nihilists, Internationalists,
etc.
DR.. p. NJ. McFarland's residence at
CentraIia, ILL.,, was entered Wednesday
night, and over $1,000 in cash, bonds
and securities was carried off.
Don't You FORGET IT.-Those who
use automatic pencils will do well to
remember that the purple leads are
composed in part of deadly poisonous
mixture. A piece of lead the size of
IA pea, if taken internally, would kill
man of ordinary vitality.
At meeting of the stockholders of
the Boston, Concord and Montreal road
it was voted to issue new bonds to lay
the road with steel, in anticipation of
the traffic to he gained by the purchase
of the Ogdensburg road by the repre-
sentatives of the l.. c. g. st. j. railroad.
Hon. ID. c. Linsley of Burlington has
two hundred men ut work, force which
will soon he increased to one thousand,
upon line of railroad from Ottawa,
the capital of the Dominion of Canada,
to Alburgh, Vermont, there connecting
with the Central Vermont. This line
will be of great value to the Central
Vermont aud the city of Burlington as
it is IA short and easy route to the Ca
madam lumber country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
The Local Railroad Revolution.

One of the most important railroad
changes which has taken place for years
in New England is the break in the al
lance of the Boston and Albany and
the New York and New Haven railroad,
and the formation of a new connection
between the former road and the New
Haven and Northampton or the Canal
railroad, as it is commonly called. The
latter will be projected to New York
OBJ line parallel with the New Haven
line. and thus becomes a great indie
pendent line between Boston, Spring
field and New York. The precipitation
of this break will turn the old Southern
road interest still more to the New
York and New England for its Boston
connections. This is a railroad revolu-
ton of the first magnitude.-Springtfeld
Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
Dividing the Spells.

The President has nominated Will
liam Walter Phelps, Minister to Aus
tria; VIM. E. Chandler, Solicitor Cen
eral Edmund S. Merritt of New York,
Consul General ut London; Adam Ba-
dean, Charge d'Affairs to Denmark /;
Samuel F. Phillips. Judge Of the Court
of Claims; NJ. b. Cramer, Minister to
Paraguay William H. Robertson, Col
lector of Customs at New York; Lilo
mel A. Sheldon, Governor of New Mex
leo; William F. Osborn, Postmaster at
Pttsfield General Stewart l.. Wood
ford, for United States Attorney for the
southern district of New York j. IL.
Murdoch, Postmaster at Woodstock,
Vt. vice Luther 0. Green.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

Some weeks ago we called attention
to the remarkable rise in the securities
of the Ogdensburg road, which, if the
market sales afford any proof, is now
worth double what it was seven weeks
ago. 1t seems that this appreciation is
due to the buying of the stock by par
ties in the interest of the St. JOhnsbury
and Passumpsic roads, who are thus
seeking to form through line from the
lakes to the sea. 1t is now out that
Emmons Raymond, president of the
Passumpsic, is to be president of this
new road, and under his management
vigorous measures are to be adopted
for making the property of some value.
-[St. Adams Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

YES said great traveller, "ge
the St. Bernard if you want a good dog
Thousands of times have | seen this no.
BILE animal in the bitter cold carrying its
frozen master 10y the slack of his trous-
ers over the highest mountains of Eu-
rope. The truth isn't half told about
these superb creatures"
After all the evidence was in, a Gal
weston judge asked the accused, who
WAS charged with stealing watch, if
he had anything more to offer. 81 did
have an old silver watch to offer you,
Judge, but my lawyer borrowed it and
hasn't brought it back yet Calves
ton News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

says that so hostile is Attorney General
McVeagh to the appointment of w. E.
Chandler as Solicitor that
Chandler will request his nomination
withdrawn and be Modified with for
eipn mission.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO,

Call the attention of farmers to this well known
high grade standard brand, rich in Bone Phosphate
OF Lime Ammonia and Potash. combining these
elements in the most available condition To be as
simiI,ted by the CROP Farmers may be assured
the high standard Of excellence will be maintained.
Ii is not only the but the Cheapest fertilizer
in the market Local agents through TINS county
will have a supply for spring crops Send for cir
attla Ia
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

e The President tells the office
seekers who call upon him that he does
not intend to turn out any office hold
ers who are serving acceptahly, to make
room for new men. This has had a chill
ling effect upon these patriots, aud
their ranks at Washington thinned out
freely after the announcement.
The above has gone the rounds of the
press pretty generally. Too credulous
people may believe it; but in the light
of what is transpiring at Washington
every day, it sounds ridiculous. The
office holders will have to go unless
they can show ii stronger political back
ing than the men can who want their
places. This is political administra-
ton, and it is bound to reward its
friends regardless of any civil service
reform. That is the way it looks now.
OF course they have the right to do this,
but it is not the highest type Of gov
eminent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

1t is a curious fact that the United
States and Russia, two widely separated
nations animated by peculiar friend
illness for each other, have now ex-
changed words of sympathy, within a
little more than is years upon the cold
blooded assassination of their chief ru-
lers.-INew York Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

r The signs of coming financial
storm are increasing. 1t may lie some
way off yet, but the big drops begin to
fall. Week before last the failures in
creased Is per cent. over the previous
week throughout the United States.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

useless information for the next four
years to the horny handed sons of toll
in this country.
George Howe of BrattleborO is still in
Washington looking after an appoint
mentn
The coinage of the five cent nickles
has been suspended. Cause, over-sup-
ply.
Strikes are now the Order,-the spin
ners at Fall River, the tanners at Aver,
Mass, the timers at Pittsburg, marble
workers in n. Y. city, etc. Strikes are
one of the penalties of revived industry.
A certain class of laborers are bound to
keep poor anyway.
Sarah Bernhard has returned to Bos-
ton and opened a second engagement
there to slim audiences. Curiosity to
see an unmarried mother pals even
with Boston "culcbure."
Lc.d Beaconsfeld Is seriously i'll and
liable to die. He is now attacked with
brOnchialasthma.
A freshet in Nebraska the past week
has caused great damage, especially in
the Platte valley. Several lives were
lost and communication on the Union
Pacific road greatly interrupted.
1t may he of interest to some readers
to learn that the Whittier court martial
is dragging its slow length along at
New York, Ex-Gov. Chamberlin open
ing for the defense yesterday. 1t will
be remembered that Whittier is the col
ored cadet who was alleged to have
been brutally maltreated at West Point
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

Political book -keeping by double en-
try, now an office to this side and now
one to that, may do while for boss
like Blaine in a state like Maine; but
Gen. Garfield will find out, soon or late,
that presidential administration whose
accounts are kept in this fashion will
wind up its affairs bankrupt in princi-
pie, in friends and in reputation.-[Spr.
Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

The governor of California has called
an extra session of the Legislature for
April 4 to enact a general appropriation
bill, levy taxes. pass a deficiency bill
and an appOrtionment bill, enact road
law and to confirm appointments. The
session is limited to 20 days.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
LATER.

LATER.
About so persons are supposed to
have persisted in the Italian opera
house fire at Nice, France, which makes
one of the greatest disasters of the sort,
though 300 died in the Brooklyn On. "
theatre fire in December, 1876. Sixty
nine bodies have been recovered, and
many of them are charred beyond re-
cOgnition. The tenor, bassO and bari
tone, who were to have taken part in
in the evenings performance of Lucia
de Lammermoor," and many of the
choristers are supposed to have perish
ed. DIR. Avend, Il German, was also
lost. Most of the Others were Italian
artisans. Manager Strakosch had a
slight confusion of the leg. Signora
DOnadio, who has lately achieved tri-
umphs in Venice and Milan, was to
have appeared for the first time the
evening of the fire. She made her way
from the stage to the street in safety.
A gas jet set fire to some of the seem
cry and caused the fire. As the cur
tain was down the audience were una
ware of the danger till the gas exploded,
when the smoke became suffOcatingly
thick. Some of the people tried to
throw themselves from the small win
dOws near the roof of the theatre.
Many were trampled to death in the
narrow corridors and stair ways. The
people in the galleries had the greatest
difficulty in escaping. A man who es-
capped from the upper gallery by jump
ing, declares that with perhaps dozen
exceptions every person in his part OF
the house was burned. Most of the
singers were in their dressing rooms
and did not know of their danger. The
sole occupant of the stage when the
explosion occurred was seen envelOped
in flames. The scene in the town is
understandable. One woman, whose hus-
band was burned to death has commit
ted suicide. Nothing now remains OF
the theatre but the four walls.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

burglar proof-had two holes chiseled
in it. Hon. George II. Bigelow, spe-
cial agent of the postoffice department,
was summoned to Bennington and in
conjunction with the local authorities,
Investigated the case, the result being
the tracing of the burglars to Canada.
James 0. Batchelder, a brakeman,
was killed on way freight at Bolton
Saturday evening. When making up
the train he was standing on the brake
beam of the tender, from which he
slipped and was run over, nearly cut
ting his head of and killing him instant
ly. He was % years old, lived in North
field, had a wife and baby.
Mr.. J. A. Chamberlain's little girl,
who has been very i'll with membranous
Group, is better. One week ago Satur-
day, when the case was considered dan
gerous, tube was inserted in her
throat by Drs. Clark and Fassett, which
remained until Friday night, when it
was safely removed, and since then she
has been gaining.-[St. Adams Messen-
ger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01

= Editor Greene of the Woodstock
Standard is rotated out OF the post of
fee, and editor L. H. Lewis of the Hyde
Park Netrs is rotated in. The govern
ment is square with the Vermont press
to date.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
Theatre Burned and Great Loss G
Life.

NICE, March %. The fire in the
Italian Opera House broke out at the
commencement of the opera this even
ing. Fourteen persons who were suffO-
Gated have been taken ont and their
bodies placed in the church opposite
the theatre. 1t is feared that one hun
bred men and women persisted in the
flames.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
H. A. BLAKE, Sutton, Vt,
LOCAL AGENTS.

Special Agent for Vermont and New Hampshire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08
DIR. HoJI and as A School Master.

The experience of the late DR.. J. G.
Holland as superintendent of schools
at Vicksburg is thus recounted by Ed
ward Egglestm in the December CEN
TURY:
At the endof the tedious river voy-
age, he found that the public schools
which he had been called to superin-
tend had notyet been organized, and
that, beyond a department for girls,
they had no existence. Dr. Holland
was warned that discipline was out of
the question-that if he exacted ODE
dience he would be put out by the
larger boys. There ensued stern fight
for supremacy between him and his
rebellious pupils, in which his quick
decision OF character gave him the
mastery. Even at later day than this
such. q thing as the shooting of a
school-master for whipping a boy was
not unknoWnin the Southwest, and it
is wonder that DR.. Holland escaped
violence. Nothing but his superior
quicKness and unfaltering courage saw
ed him. Once, the larger boys resolv-
ed on revenge One who had suffered
a sharp punishment at his hands pro-
vlded himself With club, and, backed
by a crowd Of burly. overgrown school
fellows, waited to attack the teacher on
his way to the post-office. Seeing the
I crowd, and knowing its meaning, Doc
tor Holland flied his steady dark eyes
on the one who held the club, clenched
his fists, and walked straight forward
through the very midst of the group,
which melted slowly away at the ap-
proach of the terrible master. When
the rebels had dispersed, the teacher
found the prints Of his nails in the
palms ofhis hands. Though he staid
in Vicksburg but fifteen months, he
wrought resolution on its educational
system. In less than a year from his
coming, the private schools were all
given up, except one which derived its
support from out of-town pupils. The
schools were graded, and were taught
in one building under his supervision.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08
NiIwauaae TaarkeI.

MILWAUKEE,, Dec. Flour Dull and
nominally unchanged. eat-Advancing and
strong; No. hard, 1,37; No. 2, 1929
1929 for seller December; l.29A for seller
January; 100 for seller February; 1907
for seller March; l.31 for seller April; Is;
for seller May; No. 3, 1.12; No. 4. nomi-
nal; rejected, nominal. Corr-Firmer; No
2, 81. 0ats-Scarce and higher; No. ., 43. Rye
Scarce and frmer; No. !, So. Rarley-Quiet
No.2, 969961z. Provisions December opening
Mess Pork-13.5O for seller cash; 1850 for seller
January. Lard-Prime steam, 30 for seller
cash and November; 11.4O for seller January
Live Hogs-Drooping but in fair demand; 5.7O9
800. Receipts-Flour, 4,535; wheat. q, GOO
barley A., 5S4; shipments, flour, ,1O2 wheat, s.
225; barley, 10 $50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08
A GaOd Fence Idea.

A western farmer writes to one OF
our exchanges af follows:
every farmer has his ideas about
fences. [ have mine. Here they are:
Raise black walnut posts on the lot
where they are wanted. If they grow
fast they will do in from five to seven
years. Use the barb wire. Fasten
brush on the top so that horses and
cattle can see it. Black walnut Injuries
crops the least of any green tree that I
am acquainted with, No stock will
gnaw or hurt il. The roots run straight
down so you can pillow against the
trunk. The tree gives black color to
the soil as far As the leaves reach. 1t
grows straigh; and tall. and has but
very few limbs. The workings of the
tree will not break the wire Black
walnut will pay all expenses in a few
years in fruii''-P. E. d., kalamazoo,
Mich.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08
8 NOCTURNAL KlNBLE AND
WHAT CAME OF 1T

Some genius-we suspect him to be-
long to the jovial order of humanity
has said The day to drone and
dream, the night to learn and ramble. .
We do not propose to dispute this
wOrthy's view Of the matter, but pre-
sent herewith the experience of a Phila-
delphia journalist, Mr.. William II.
Cunningham, 1712 North Twentieth
street, one of whose nocturnal rambles
he thus refers to, beginning his nara
ton rather peculiarly ihoweyer Il am
not rheumatic, and have been trou-
bled very little with bodily pains. Last
Tuesday morning | experienced 8 very
annoying stiffness at the neck. which
grew worse as the day wore on. Toward
evening it became very severe, and I
could scarcely turn my head in any
direction. Arriving home at tea time.
it was with difficulty that I could eat
my meal. My wife wanted to rub my
neck with ST. Jacobs Oil, but refused,
saying [ thought the affiiction would
soon pass away. Tea over, against tn e
remonstrances of my family, | left
home to ramble toward the new Chest
nut-st. Opera House, about two and a
IdII A111So 1IO1LI Ii y 16StO0uC6. SIdIl-
ed in the midst of heavy snow storm,
and remained at the theater until the
close of the performance, although l
could feel my neck getting worse and
becoming very painful. Leaving the
play, the trouble came to reach home.
The storm continued; the car III which
[ was became clicked in nearly every
square, cold current Of air swept
through the car, and l did not reach
my home until toward 2 a. M, by which
time my neck had become absolutely
rigid. Then I consented to the use of
St. Jacobs Oil, which my wife applied
two or three times before l arose. l
continued its use that Day. and by eve
ming was free from pain, and the next
morning l amused myself by twisting
my neck in any direction that suited
me, and not vestige of stiffness re-
manned .-B0ston Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Dec. T. lour-Quiet and un-
changed. Wheat-Active, firm and higher
strong; No. 2 Chicago spring, 1.27A@
1.27I for seller cash; 1919 for seller Deem
Der; 1.215 for seller January; 1908 for seller
February; No. 3 Chicago spring, 1.151l re-
jected, 1892. Corn-Active, firm and higher
81 for seller cash; 81 for seller December; 81 q
for seller January 624 for seller April 622s
for seller February; 6775@67 for seller May
Oats Fairly active and shade higher; 40 for
seller cash and December AK for seller JAN
uary; 461a for seller May. Rye-Steady and
unchanged. Barley-Frm at 102%. Flax Seed
-1.44h@I.45. Fork-Steady and in fair de.
mand new 1925 for seller cash; 1925 for sell
Ter December; 1747h @17.5O for seller Janu-
airy; 17.67H@17.O for seller February Lard
Steady and in fan demand; ll.l7H for seller
cash; 11.17H@ 11.2O for soler December; 11.4O
for seller January; 11.55 for seller February
Bulk Meats steady and unchanged. Whisky
Steady and unchanged at LII. The ''Drovers
Journap reports: Hogs-Receipts, 45,OOO
shipments, 300; general market unchanged
quality very fair, out not so good as yerterday
sales: common to good mixed packing
5.65@6.lO; light, 5.5O@6.OO; heavy packing and
shipping, G.15@L4O; skips and culls, 3.75@
500. Cattle-Reeipts, 5000; shipments, $500
market weak all round; sales, exports, 6.OO@6.6
good to choice shipping 5.2O@5. $780,. common
to fair, 3.75@46O; mixed butchers, abundan
supply; dull; 2.0@365; stocker' and feeders
2.5O@375; Texans, 3.OO94.OO. sheep-Receipts
2, 400; shipments, 300; slow and 20 to 4Oc lowe
on range stock; common to fair mixed, 2.OO0
$50; good to CHOICE 3.6O94.OOi fine selected
4.6O9515.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08

reporter and trying to get him into an
interview, the notes Of which were
used by the district attorney.
Bailey afterwards gave up the report
from his notes for the New York Herald.
and Guiteau wanted to know what he
received for it. 1t was finally brought
out that Bailey had been given $500.
The prisoner was worked up consider
ably and contradicted witness, accus-
ing him Of perpetrating a fraud upon
him. Scoville wanted Bailey's notes
but they had been destroyed.
Afterwards Scoville resumed reading
of the clippings, and there being nc
other witnesses the court adjourned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08

Keely, of the "motor" mystery, is to
be smoked out. At lively meeting OF
the stockholders of the Keely Motor
company in Philadelphia recently, the
determination of the board of directors
to obtain from the inventor his secrets
on pain of prosecution was Endorsed.
1t is stated that one member Of the
board submitted a compromise by
which KeelY agrees to make conf
dant of single member of that body;
but it is said that he now manifests a
disposition to be obdurate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08

The USE of an improved ram that
may cost fifty dollars and which will ,
say, raise the standard of his get one
pound above The flock average, will be
fully paid by he increased product at
the first shearing of the lambs, where
the ram is used on moderate number
of ewes-2OO, or perhaps less.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08
The president of the republic of Mex
leo is alarmingly i'll.

NiENsMANs PEPTONIZED BEEF Tonic. the only prep
araton of beef containing its entire nutritious proper
ties 1t is not mere stimulant like the extracts o
beef but contains blood making, force generating
and sustaining properties invaluable for INDI
forms of general debility Also in all enfeebled condi
tons whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
ratiOn Overwork, acute disease, particularly if
sulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswel IIazart
q Co., proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08

EENEALE OCH ENT,ss ,,

DR.. R. '. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. y: Dear Sir
l was sick for six years, and could scarcely walk
about the house. Ny breath was short and ]
suffered from pain in my breast and stomach al
the time; also from palpitation and an internal
fever, or burning sensation, and experienced fire.
quent smothering or choking sensations. I also
suffered from pain low down across my bowels and
in my back, and was much reduced in flesh.
have used your Golden Medical Discovery" and
"Favorite Prescription" and feel that am we'll
Very respectfully,
DELILAH B. MCMILLAN, Arlington, Ga
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08
Henry Wart Beecher is growing oil

Henry Ward Beecher is growing old.
A week ago he complained to his con-
gregatlon tina; those who wrote to him
used very pale ink, and Sunday he read
amiss the number of the hymn he was
giving out, and had to stop the people
short after they had sung one verse of
an entirely different composition. How
ever, he preached one of his old-time
eloquent, focible and glowing ser
mons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08
RGpuIls1tESns

The Editor wishes to know if there is one OF his
readers suffering with rheumatism. If so let him
try bottle of Durangs Rheumatic Remedy 1t
is taken internally and never has and never can
fail to cure the worst case in shortest time. 1t
can be had at all drug stores. Send for free
pamphlet to R. X. Helpenstine, Druggist, Wash
ington, D. G.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08

The ritualists in England now offer
to give up incense, and to cease from
various practices that have been deem
ed Objectionable. They also agree to
accept the prayer-book with all its
"vestiges of foreign Protestant infu-
ence.n
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-08

SECRETARY BLAINE is reported to
have said that if he were to remain in
the cabinet he would seek to annex
Cuba by diplomacy. He thinks the
island would be cheap at $500, 900, 600.