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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18
go West. "
THE TERRIBLE WEATHER IN NEBRAsK!

THE TERRIBLE WEATHER IN NEBRASKA.
Extract from private letter from Home Mission
airy, dated Kearney, Feb 6.
1--WE have had seven weeks of intense
cold-snOw on the ground six out of
the seven weeks, suspending almost
generally all buslness-the farmers
showed in at places, and in many in
stances there has been very great suffer
ing, and two or three persons frozen to
death others so badly that amputation
of limbs has been necessary. The
SHOWS have been very light, and winds
high, drifting to depths of from six to
twenty feet. One poor family living
eight miles out on the prairie were I'M
der a drift twenty feet, and would have
persisted but for the heroism of daugh-
ter, sixteen years old, who managed to
dig ont to the top of the drift, and sue
ceeded in reaching town, when a force
of men went to the relief of the family.
In fact, during the prevalence of the
storms of this winter, one is not safe in
going even half a mile without con-
Meeting a line to the door of his house to
guide him back.
On Saturday last the sun shone out,
and we were hoping for better weather.
But during the night snow commenced
falling again, and yesterday a few of
our people succeeded in foundering
through the drifts to the church. But
we had no service last night, for every
hadv was snOUed in -
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18
News Gleanings.

Prof. Franklin Carter of Yale, a
graduate of Williams, has been elected
its president, to succeed Paul A. Chad
bourne.
An ice gorge which threatened the
destruction of property at Cleveland,
Ohio, Friday was broken by the dis
charge of 30 shells fired from the shore.
Navy Chaplains receive $500 a year,
$500 additional for each five years of
service, and at 81 they are retired with
$500 for life.
A Great Falls, n. H., hired girl, on a
wager of 50 and a promise of pair of
gloves and a cashmere shawl if she
was successful, descended into 50-fOot
well and laid the bottom course of
stone, which all the men were afraid to
do.
The California floods are likely to
have an important effect on the APP
preaching price of wheat. A good
deal of the wheat surplus is still on the
Pacific coast.
With the new fuel made of steam and
petroleum it is said to cost but IS to
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18
State Prison.

The new contract for convict labor
made by the state prison directors al
lows so cents for a days labor, and is
irrevocabe for five years; the old one
was 40 cents a day and could be an
nulled on three months notice. The
prison is about to undergo thorough re-
pairs. The old wooded structures
within the prison walls will be torn
down, the eastern wall of the prison
yard removed nearly % feet farther
back, and a new brick building con-
structed large enough to contain all the
machinery and workshop room needed
for the cOnvicts. a large two-story
building, with mansard roof, for the
officers quarters, and another fine
building for the use of the superintend-
ent and family will be put up.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18
Important Decision in a Fire Insur-
ance Case.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. Feb. s. The
Supreme Court of New Hampshire,
Judge Clarke presiding, in a case
against the Phoenix Insurance Company
of Hartford, has made the following
important decision: That where pol
icy of fire insurance is Endorsed by the
company, payable in case of loss to the
mortgage as his claim may appear,
and the assured conveys his property
to his daughter without consideration,
or to protect it from creditors, and no
notice is given of such conveyance to
the company, the clause providing that
in case of sale or transfer or change
in title the policy shall be void, is to be
held literally, and that without the
knowledge or assent of the company
the change in the title makes the policy
void, and that the Endorsement as
above recited is not an insurance of a
mortgages interest, but an order to
pay such sum as should be payable
otherwise to the mortgage in case of
loss, and is not a contract between the
company and the mortgage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18
Death of Fernando Wood.

The death of Fernando Wood at the
Hot Springs, Ark, Sunday night, re-
moves from Congress and the country a
familiar character. His tall, stiff figure,
military moustache, and highly respect
able and slightly mysterious bearing,
became the man who alone of the whole
House had sat in Congress 40 years
ago. Mr.. Wood was born at Philadel-
phia in 1872, his father being Quaker
cigar-maker. They removed to New
York in few years, where Fernando
went into the shipping business and
soon amasssd a fortune. Retiring from
business at the early age of 3S, he en-
tered politics, and soon enjoyed the
reputation of doing much to corrupt
the rapidly degenerating municipal
morals of the period just before the
war. He was elected mayor in 1854
and for some years succeeding. and in
1861 and 1862. His intensely pro-
slavery politics and his reputation for
corruption gave him character at the
North which he has never been able
fully to redeem. In the high excite
ment of January, 1861, he proposed as
mavor that New York should secede
from the rest of the state which had
voted for Lincoln, aud set up on her
own hook "a "a free city He was a
member of the 9th Congress, of the
3Sth and 10th, and every subsequent
Congress down to the date of his death,
making Is years of congressional ser
vice. He was also reelected last fall.
-Sprinqfeld Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18

Labor-reform ideas don't obtain as
much as they did. The L. ). Senate
has indefinitely postponed resolution
to enforce the eight-hOur law.
The L. s. House committee has re-
ported favorably on allowing the North
ern Electric Company to light the CAPT
tol and grounds for six months, when,
if the test is successful, S35O,O00 is to
be paid for introducing the light in the
whole city of Washington.
Iron sleepers for railroads are coming
into quite general use in Germany, and
have been tried in this country. They
are not made solid, but shaped nearly
like the wood ties, with the bottom and
inside left out.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18

- There is an old story of n vessel
having been run into, as she lay at an
Choir in Massachusetts bay, by meet
ing house. This is equalled by the
fact that in Leechburg, Pennsylvania,
a grist-mill has run away dOwn-river.
1t was noticed passing Pittsburg, right
end up and perfect in all its machinery.
1t contains 100 bushels of grain. The
owner was in the city, pursuing the
mill, but if it continues on at the rate
it passed there, it will take him TO the
gulf be fore he catches it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18

II The more the new tax law is ex-
amined and discussed, the more obnOx
ious does it appear. One thing is evil
ident, if the questions published are to
be categorically answered, the effect
will be to either cover up or dispense
capital and personal property. and
bring the burden of taxation upon real
estate, which cannot be concealed. 1t
is strange that Legislature of farmers
should have enacted law which will
inevitably he burden to that class.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18
or even in Vermont These are ques-
tions worth considering.
Does the whipping-Post Lessen
CrimeP

The question of corporal punishment
for wife heaters is creating considerable
discussion. The 50. Adams Messenger,
whose editor has lately married, sis
surprised to note that the proposition
has gained some respectable support"
On the other hand, the Providence
Press argues that wife-beaters ''are hu-
man brutes who can only be reached,
like other animals, through their hides,
and that whipping will have more
salutary effect upon them than impris-
onment."
Where there is such a diversity of
opinion as to the effect of the law if en-
acted. let us turn to a country where it
has been tried, and note the result. A
few years ago wife-beating and inhu-
mainly to children was very common
among the lower classesi in England, es-
peciallv in the coal mining regions; so
common and outrageous had it become
that Parliament enacted law, leaving
it discretionary with the magistrate to
inflict corporal punishment in addition
to fine and imprisonment for offences
against women and children. This law
has been in force some four years, and
it has been vigorously enforced, as we
learn from residents and from the press.
The result as given in late Sheffield
paper, has been most salutary. In re-
gion where these offences were very
common when the act was passed, they
are now unknown.
Experience of this kind is worth any
amount of theory and conjecture. We
admit that the whipping post is char
barous," that this mode OF punishment
is "mean and degrading;" but wife
beating and assaults on women, and
rape, are barbarous crimes. We think
the cat-o'nine-tails will prevent the
! former: it it does not the latter, we &c
for Senator Edmunds' bill, castratiOn
We believe that will he a sure cure.
A LUNATIC's FREAKs.-GeO. Beck
with, temperance advocate and re-
former of some local note, who fell dead
at New Haven, CT, a few months age
while making an address at temper
ance meeting, has received biOgraphi
cal sketch in a book form. As Il sample
of his lunacy we copy a paragraph writ
ten by him on hearing that Samue
! Rockville. an occupant of the aims
/ house. had cut his throat. Here is his
comment "The system of treating the
poor that is practiced in most of the
towns is calculated to make them wea
~ of life. When a man, no matter fol
what cause, is unable to help himself
society should provide for his necessi
ties as earnestly as a mother does tO
her helpless infant; but instead of this
he is farmed out to the one whose lacl
of humanity will allow him to bid thu
lowest BE it remembered, Christian
people do all this"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18
The Broken Brattleboro Bank.

Linus NJ. Price, the receiver appoint
ed by Controller Knox to wind up the
First National bank of Brattleboro, by
the consent of his superior, makes a re-
port to the stockholders of the condi-
ton of the affairs of the bank. 1t is
dated February |. Mr.. Price reviews
the forgery and says that of eleven
notes, amounting to S278, 442, shown
by President Waite to Bank Examiner
Hendee on the 10Th of May, 1880, all
but one were forged. This was not
the beginning of evil. however, for fur
Their on in his report he gives the last
statement of the WIndham county
bank, 1.-THE predecessor of the First
National under state law, July 81,
1864, and shows that its resources were
then Overstated at least $4,000, and
that ''its capital was entirely gone at
the time of the conversion A large
amount of paper was discounted from
1858 to 1864 for William II. Waite
(brOther), secretary of the Western fire
and marine insurance company of Chi
caeO, which failed in October, 1864; of
this paper 500, 800 was never paid, al
though counted as assets. William H.
Waite was a defaulter to a large
amount, and c. c. and Silas NJ. were
obliged to give a bond for 100000,
afterward paid, to save him from ar
rest. The president and cashier never
gave bonds, though the bylaws required
it. Mr.. Price goes into calculation to
show that of the 100000 paid in divi-
dends in Is years, probably $4,000
was taken from the capital and never
earned.-RepubljcGR.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18
No Free List.

The expense Of printing paper 10 such that we
feel obliged require quid pro quo for all papers
sent from this Office As much a would like
TO continue the Caled0nidn ~ slergymen and 9th
srs free. or at a nominal price shall after Jauu
airy 81 adhere 70 published terms given on first
page. 64-o6
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18

" Don't he deceived and misled by
any side issue, but go to March meeting
resolved to elect the best men in your
town to office.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18

Between April DC and May IA series
of cOnjunctions will occur which will
bring the planets Neptune, Saturn, Ju
piter, Mercury, Venus, the sun and the
earth into nearly a straight line in
space. 10 the order indicated.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-18

The American board and the woman's
board of missions received S45, COG from
churches and individuals in Boston
during 1880, the largest amount, S5022,
coming from the Old South CHURCH.
joys building in Boston, which is
being demolished, is one of the few sur
viving landmarks of old Boston, and
was regarded as something so magnifi-
cent when it was built in 1903, that the
country people used to flock to see it,
and were much impressed by it. Work
on the foundation of the new building
began Saturday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-03
IT'S TRULY WONDERFUL

To see what Improvement now exist
as compared with railway travel
only a few years ago. To become
convinced Of this, one has only to
select for his route East, the popular
and well known
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN R'Y,
You are landed by the Union Pacific
Railroad in the Union Depot at
Council Bluffs, where stands the c.
81 NV. Palace Train. composed of
Pullman Hotel Cars, Pullman Sleep
ing Cars. Elegant Day Coaches,
Smoking, Baggage, Postal Cars, etc,
ready 10 convey its passengers
through Iowa and Illinois, and into
Chicago. Gliding smoothly along
over the superb track of steel rail
through thriving cities and villages,
comfortably seated In this train, one
scarcely discover the high rate of
speed which he is riding. Trains of
this road are always on time, con-
nections sure, and passengers seek
ing pleasure, comfort, safety and
easy IN travelling, will find the
"N0rth-W Western" in excess of their
expectations, and the greatest of all
routes to Chicago and the East. In
sist upon Ticket Agents selling you
Tickets ria this Road all agents sell
them. Examine your Tickets and re-
fuse to buy if they do not read over
this Road. If you wish the Best
Travelling Accommodations, you
viii buy your Tickets by this Route,
AND WILL TAKE NO
OTHER.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-03
Weather During February.

The report of the signal Office in
this city shows that during the
month just past, the mean barome-
ter was 29.9S. ranging between 3O.3S
and 29.6O; the highest temperature
was go on the 2Sth, and the lowest
14.50 on the 18th, giving range of
1852; the greatest range of temper
allure being 250 on the oath. The
highest velocity of wind was p
miles per hour, on the 18th. The
total rainfall amounted to PA
inches. Rain or snow fell on "A
days during the month. The COM
parative temperature was-'75, $50 !;
&c, So; II, $50; rs, so; 70, 390 /;
so, 260. Comparative precipitations
10, O.79; ~. 1.52; II, O.3S; rs,
$40; 20, OIL; so, 1.O2; 81, IA
inches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-03
A Change.

AS will be seen elsewhere, Messrs.
Russell & Burns have sold out their
saloon, the Snug, TO Mr.. julie Z.
Clasbey, by whom it will be con-
Quoted hereafter. julie is an expert
at mixing drinks, having long been
engaged in that business and having
acquired a valuable experience
therein. His beaming countenance
viii hereafter adorn the new bar of
which he has become proprietor;
where he will he pleased to meet his
old friends and all new ones, and
give them occasion to rejoice at the
palatable beverages he can prepare
for them. He opens this morning.
and will carry away large share of
the trade III this city, us he guaran-
tees good liquors set up in fine style.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-03
Beaver Bits.
BEAVER CRY, Feb. 26, 1881,

BEAVER ClTf, L CD. 70, 1881.
Editors Herald:
To-day has seen the birth of an
other newspaper in southern Utah
the Southern UtoniGn having made
its advent amongst US. 1t is a -four
page paper containing twenty-eight
columns, and is published by f. r.
Clayton q Co, in Beaver City. 1t
has a clear field before it, and, as
Rip Van Wrinkle says, MAY it live
live long und brcZber."
The shareholders of the Beaver Co
operative Wooden Mills held their
annual meeting to-day, when re-
port for the fiscal year ending Janu-
airy 3Ist was read by the secretary,
and a dividend of 10 per cent. de-
clared. There has ben for the past
three years a reserve fund of about
$4,000, and the late board recon-
mended that one-half of said fund
be paid out to shareholders, making
a dividend of 25 per cent. This is
the tenth dividend declared by this
institution, and makes an aggregate
of 1876 per cent. since 1870, when the
factory commenced its operation.
So much for the success of home in
dustries. A new board of directors
was elected for the ensuing year.
Spring seems to have fairly opened
up with us, and our grangers are on
the qlLi UiUe. There is abundance of
snow in the mountains which gives
an assurance of plenty of the aqua
fluid for irrigation and domestic
purposes.
We anticipate lively times in
Beaver during the March term of
the District Court, there being quite
a number of important cases to
come up for trial, of which more
anon. az"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-03
A Hard Brace.

For a short time back a fellow, as
rumor states, has been stopping at
Grantsville, Tooele County, and
using his best endeavors to procure
young girls for hurGy-gurdy houses
along The line of the Central Pacific
Railroad. 1t is said that he receives
a cash commission from the pro-
prietOrs of such houses. 1t is also
stated that he had so ingratiated
himself into the confidence of one
lady in Grantsville, by plausible
stories, that she had consented to
accompany him away. When the
affair became known, however, i'm
mediate steps were taken to frus-
trate his nefarious design. Friends
took the matter up, and he was
ordered to leave the place, which he
found it comfortable to do, coming
to this city. Here he was Joined by
his alleged wife, and the two left
for Ogden, where, if further rumor
be correct, they are plying their dia-
bolical profession. The fellow has a
decidedly unenYiable reputation,
being associated in a number of
criminal of offenses, from which,
however, he escaped-probably in
Justice, but such is not thought to
be the case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-03
Utah Artists and Their Works

When the Business Sample Room
was opened, Mr.. Meears gave the
Artists of Utah permission to send
specimens of their handiwOrk for
exhibition in the establishment,
which is, without doubt, the most
elegant in Utah. Several artists
have responded, and for some time
past the frequenterS of this popular
concern have Toasted their eyes on
the beauties of the following pic
lures "Burgomasters Feast"
Choosing the Wedding Gown" and
Fruit Piece" by Dan. Weggeland.
Lane in Surrey, England" 1.-The
Ruined Keep" "Mutford Church."
Home of the OHara," by George
NJ. Ottinger. of Portsmouth,
England" Morning" ION the
Ocean, "a Bare Chance. manifest
Destiny" by John Tullidge. "Cal-
der's Lake-Autumn," Scene in
Logan Canyon" "Holbrook Canyon,
Looking West" by Reuben Kirk
ham. Forest Scene" Moonlight"
winter Scene" "0cean Sketch" by
a. Mitchell. Meditation" CrayOn
Portrait of Governor Murray, by
John Hafen. Colorado Scenes" a
pair of small paintings, Anony-
nous.
With the other decorations may
be seen La TentatiOn," water
Scenes in the Harem,"
"VenuS at the Bath" Powers
Greek Slave" etc.
a Bare Chance" and Manifest
Destiny" by John Tullidge, are the
personal property of Mr.. Meears;
the other pictures named as the
work of Utah artists are for sale.
Each picture is marked in plain
figures, and will be sold for the ben
eft Of the artist named, the full
without commission, going
to the producer. No expense at
tends this exhibition, and Mr..
AIeears respectfully invites all Utah
artists to take advantage of this
opportunity to place their works
before a class of people whose at
IentiOn is worthy of attraction.
Mr.. Meears would be pleased to dis
pose Of these pictures, or to intro
luce possible purchasers to our
local artists, whose merits are de-
of substantial encourage
ment. Lovers of the beautiful are
invited to call and see
the Business Art Exposition" in
-he Sample Room, opposite the
EoStOfiice.
Many of the pictures are really
and the fact that they
are the product of Utah brain and
land makes them doubly interest
ing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-03
To-Day, Not To Morrow.

PrOcrastinatiOn is not only the
thief Of time, but Of health and life.
1t willnOt do to daily. for example,
with violent Cold. To-day it may
be 4 Cold and nothing more, to-
morrow Congestion of the Lungs
may have commenced, and in a
week the patient may be in a dying
condition. "HALE'S HONEY OF
HOREHOUND AND TAR" when
taken in the early stages of all
Lung and Throat Diseases, is at
absolute and unfailing specific.
Nothing can supply its place; moth
ing is needed. a favorable result is
guaranteed. Sold by all druggists
everywhere at soc. and 81. Great
saving by buying large size.
DR.. 0rmsby, jr., of Logan, H.,
writes HALE'S HONEY OF
HOREHoUND AND TAR has some
strong Gdc0cateS in this place"
Pixies TOOTHACHE DROPS CURE
IN ONE MINUTE.
PURIFY GARMENT AND LINEN
used in the sick room with GLENN'S
SULPHUR SOAR.
HILLS HAIR AND WHIsKER DYE,
Black or Brown, soc.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-03
The Rebellion.

The Rebellion Mine, the new, big
and promising bonanza of Park
City district, is coming to the front
in the proper manner-nOt in blow
ing up its stock or prospects, but in
making actual shipments. During
the present week, six car loads of
its ore, shipped last week, have been
sold in this city, bringing in over
$4,000 in hard money. the value
being something over so per ton.
The mine is producing steadily and
and besides the shipment
just recorded, the owners have about
$50 tons lying at the Park City smell
ter awaiting reduction.