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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07


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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
ARE YOU GOING WEST

If so he sure and 20 on HARVEY'S EXCURSION
Tickets sold to all principal points in the West
leaving st. Johnsbury by Special Train in first
class cars with special tirst-cass Montreal to
Chicago without change, with guide to accom-
panv the party Baggage checked through in
Bond. Save money and time and 20 with Harvey.
For full particulars. call or address
A. C. HARVEY,
Western Land, and Ticket Agent.
St. Johnsbury Vt.
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Estates.
yARNUN's ESTATE.

TOHN vARNUM'S ESTATE.
- The subscribers, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the district Of
Caledonia, Commissioners 10 receive. examine. and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of John Narnum, late of Peacham, in
said district, deceased represented insolvent aud
the term OF six months from the 3Oth day OF
Oct, le5o, being allowed by said Court to
the creditors Of said deceased. to exhibit and
prove their respective claims before us: Give
notice that we will attend to the duties of our APP
pnntmcnt at the dwelling house Of l.. Il.
Naruum in Peacham, in said district on the lIth
day of January, and 29th day of April next, at
O'Clock in the afternoon ON each Of said days.
LEONARD WEIGH, (C,
66-6s JACOB TRUssELL. }OOm" rS'
STATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA DISTRICT IS
- In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
St ) ohnsbury within and for said district, ON the
2'th day of December, \. ID. 1SS0.
An instrument purporting to be the last viii and
Testament of Isaac Woods, late of St.
Johusbury in said district, deceased, being pre-
scented To Court by Horace Woods one of the ex-
ecutors therein named for Probate:
1t is ordered by said Court, that all persons
concerned therein he notified Ia appear at session
of said Court to be holden at the Probate Office
in ST. Juhnsbury, ON the 18th day of January
y. ID. ISL and show cause, if any they may have
purpose it is further ordered, that a copy of the
record of this order be published three weeks sue
crssiVely ia the Caledonian, printed at st.
Johnsbury previous to said time appointed for
hearing.
BY the Court, Attest, =
HENRY FRENCH, Register.
true copy of Record Attest,
COOS HENRY FRENCH. Register.
CTATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA DISTRICT ~
- In Probate Court, held at the Probate Office in
St Johnsbury, in said District ON the 9th day of
December \. II. $50.
John G.. Northrup administrator with the will
annexed, upon the estate of James Davis, late of
PeaCham. in said district, deceased. presents his
administration account for examination and allow
ance, and makes application for a decree of dstri-
button and partition ot the estate of said deceased
Whrrcupnn ii is ordered by said Court, that said
| account and said application be referred Ia n SEES
sion thereof to he held at the Probate Office in said
St JohnsburS, on the 18th day of Jan, \. ID. ISL
for hearing and decision thereon: And il is further
ordered that notice hereof be given to all persons
interested, by publication of the three weeks
| successfully in the CaledOnian a newspaper pub
lishcd at st. Johnsbury previous to said time APP
| pointed for hearing that they may appear ut said
time and place, and show cause, if any they may
have, why said account should not he allowed, and
such decree made.
BY the Court Attest,
&c e. HENRY FRENCH. Register
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN

attractive styles are now ready.
Best Cabinet or ParlOr Organs ia
the World winners Of highest dis
Junction at Every Great Worlds
Exhibition for thirteen wears.
Prices s5l, 81, $50. ga, siO-. To-
500 and upward. For easy pay
ments, Sd-3s quarter and upward.
Catalogues free. MASON &
HAMLIN ORGAN CO, I54 Ire
mont St, Boston; 46 East Ii,h St,
tOnion Square,D New York lIg
Wabash Avenue, Chicago. 6l67
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
WILL BE SOLD

at an extraordinary bargain, my residence in sum
mervile. large part Of purchase money eau lie
un mortgage.
FL RICHARDSON.
st. Johnsbury July 20 I3tf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
THE CALIFORNIAN WITH
OTHER PAPERS.

Persons DESTROYS of taking one more papers
periodicals will money and trouble by
dering them i'll connection with the Cdledonidh,
The CdledoHian will be sent for 1881 with any OF
the below named publications as follows:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
LETTER HEADS

In the most desirable styles for business men kept
hand and will be printed as cheap as good
stock and good work can be furnished.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07

from the scalp in all the semblance of
life. 1t made my flesh crawl all over
to look at it, and l experienced an al
most irrisistable inclination to smash it
with a broom and then ''chug" it up
and down half dozen times, as l have
seen courageous women do, to make
sure | had crushed it. Maiah looked
Indignantly around, to see if his ILL
luck could be traced to the fact that
anybody was sitting with foot on
rung of his chair, and caught my fasci-
mated gaze riveted on his spider. In
moment all his i'll humor had vanquish-
ed, aud his red and rotuDd face beam
ed with the pleasure which the invent
or of Il patent churn feels in explaining
its movement at a county fair. "Ah,"
said he, Il see you are admiring my
spidah. | flattah myself it was rather
a clevah ideah. What is the ideah, you
ask Why my deah fellow pilgrim, it
ought to he obvious to a pusson of yo'
appah'nt dissunment. Flies, sab ! That
tells the whole STONY. You see evan
since | lost my hair from the fevah |
have been pestered to death with the
infunnel flies. They made life bud
den to me, sab, every time | uncOvah-
ed my head, and as | couldn't wear my
hat in church, | dreaded for Sunday to
come around. | tried Il wash O. penny
royal an carbolic acid, but it took the
skin often my head, and then the pcsky
flies was wnssan ever. Last August
there came along a drunken loafer who
said he was shipwIecked sailah, and
he was tattooin' mummaids an ship an
anchors on all the boys in town.
caught the ideah from him.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
arm at Auction.


$. f. Grout, AuctiOneer. The subscriber will
sell at auction SATURDAY, JANUARY :
ISL, at IL o'clock in the forenoon the premises
the farm known As the HIBBARD FARM. located
in the town of Concord. The farm contains 165
of excellent land, well protected by fence and
stone wall has good house and barn with good
water at the same, and an excellent wood lot. AL
at the same time 20 tons of hay tons of straw
cows, calves, 20 bushels of oats, Is bushels Of
pOtatOrs, bushels of wheat. Tems-Cash down
for all purchases under $500 Credit thirty days
given on larger purchases. Liberal credit to pur-
chaser of the farm.
PASSUMPSIC SAVINGS BANK.
st JOhnsbury, Vt, Dec. 30 lss0. 66-67
Horses and Wood for Sale.
Two good work or driving horses; also 200 cords
green wood.
W. BRAY.
st. JOhnsbury Dec 81 1850. 65-67
The following il the sworn statement to the In
surance Commissioner of Massachusetts of the f.
nancal condition of the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
New England Mutual
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

of Boston, on the 3Ist of December, 1879.
ASSETS.
Stocks and Bonds at market value, 80 ~, III 30
Loans ON Mortgage, 2Ii9,sG9 -
Real Estate, POS. 900 10
Premium Notes secured by policies
worth double the amount loaned, ,.lSc2, $40 -
Amount deferred quarterly premiums 20l,ll9 b
Outstanding Renewal Premiums up
policies upon which a valuation
has been made and reserved 10000 b
Accrued Interest and Rents, 20i ,06S 81
Cash in Banks Sll II
Loans on Collateral ll3 200 90
sI5l3I, $40 e.
LIABILITIES.
Reserve at per cent.
in compliance with
the statutes of Mas
sachusetts, sI29I7.II9 %
Distributions unpaid, 1SI, l76 sc
Death losses unpaid. Of, $50 90
Matured Endowmcnts
unpaid 81 OBS 90
sl3.252O7S 80
Surplus SI.s79 lG2 Of
Both Annual Report now ready Tor distribution.
Free to any address.
BENZ. +. STEVENS, President.
JOSEPH NJ. GIEBENS, Secretary.
March II. lSSO.-l year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07

OF all descriptions furnished at short notice and
at reduced prices.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-07
LAB ELS

Furnished in large or small lots and desirable
styles.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
Marrying in nI-HeaIth.

A prominent Eastern physician has
related that he was consulted by two
consumptives as to the propriety of mar
rying. They were both weakly in con-
stitution, but intellectually brilliant, and
their tastes were harmonious. They
loved each other ardently, and could not
be happy apart. He counseled them to
marry, and they did 50. They lived to-
gether most pleasantly for about a
dozen years, and died at about the same
time. According to the physical school
of thinkers, they should have remained
single, each dragging out the twelve
years in solitary discomfort. Of course
there can be no general rule for cases in
which disease exists; each instance must
be Judged on it's own merits.-Cinciu-
natl Gazette.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
Cigar Stumps in Paris.

The market for cigar stumps, which I
looked in upon in the Place Maubert
yesterday, is q veritable Partisan curios-
lty. The place is full of life and activ-
ity from 8 until IL o'clock in the fore
noon. A kilagram Of stumps is worth l
franc 30 cenitmes to 2 fir. SO c., accord
ing to the length Of the stump. Cheap
er cigar stumps bring lower prices.
There are four or five wholesale dealers
in cigar stumps who have their head
quarters in the nine saloons in the vicin-
lty OF the market, and there deal with
the old men and women, and ragged lit
tie boys and girls, who go about the
streets picking up these stumps. Much
OF the tobacco thus scraped together is
sold to exporters, who make it up in fine
cigarettes. There was once an old fellow
who bought cigar stumps for living,
who died worth $1,000 francs year.
These pickers-up of ends and half
smoked cigarettes are quite nuisance to
those people who frequent the boulevard
cafes. They are forever getting in ones
way, burrowing about ones legs, hunt
ing for the coveted stump. From the
heights of the Rue Mouffetard and the
Rue Montmartre swarms of these Iaz0-
Toni swoop down upon Paris and make
US miserable with their intolerable pres
ce.--PGri8 Letter.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
Was Booth Insane2

Probably the only history which gives
color to the theory that Booth was insane
is that by J. S. Blackburn, principal of
an academy at Alexandria, Va, and w.
N. Mcdonald, principal Of n male high
school at Louisville, Ky. In their his.
tory, which is being extensively used in
Southern schools, they soy: Booth
committed the act under the fanaticaI
idea that the war would terminate and
the South gain her freedom if Lincoln
were killed" This same history adj
vanccs, among the causes Of the failure
of the rebels, the following: "The
primary cause of the failure of the Con.
fcderacy was that the people of the South
were not unanimous in their efforts to
gain their liberty. In the history of the
world q united people, struggling for
liberty, have never been subiugated,"
The dt0Lics are tho work of Messrs
Blackburn and Mcdonald. Booth was
shot in q barn 1T Garrett's farm, near
Bowling Green, and died soon after.
That was April 26, 1866. .-Chicago IN.
ter OCCUn,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
THE Salt Lake Herald tells remark

The Salt Lake Herald tells remark
able story. Among the many pros
pector': OCau wear ago were four
young men, who were 'ewarded by the
discovery of a valuable min near Haley.
One of the young men had a lady friend,
and it was decided to name the mine
after her, and to so fix the title that, in
case of their death, it should be hers.
Last winter, while working upon their
claim, the whole party was buried be-
meath q snow-slide and now the young
lady is planning what good she will do
with the $65, 1000 that has been offered
her for her neat little legacy.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
Writing for the Public.

There is no work done in the world
which expends vitality SO fast as writing
for the public. 1t is q work which is
never done. It accompanies q man
upon his walks, goes with him to the
theater, gets into bed with him, and
possesses him in his dreams. if he
stoops to kiss the baby, before he has
reached the requisite angle O. point oc-
ours to him, and he hangs in mid-air,
with vacant face and mind distraught.
"What's the matter ?" says Mrs. Emer-
son, in the middle of the night, hearing
her husband cropping about the room.
"Nothing, my dear, only an idea !"
flames Parton, in North american
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
EYangeIjne.

Longfcllow said Evangeline" was
suggested to him by o gentleman with
whom he and Hawthorne were dining,
and who urged the novelist to write =
novel on the theme Of the exiled young
Acadian girl who spent the remainder OF
her life searching for her lover. "I
caught the thought at once" the poet
said, that it would make q striking
picture if put in verse, and said, Haw.
thone, give it to me for poem, and
promise me you will not write about 1t
until have written the poem Haw-
thorne readily assented to my request,
and it was agreed that 1 should use his
friends story for verse whenever / had
the time and inclination to write it,
PhiL0CleLl1hS6s Press.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

Work on De Lessep's canal is not
progressing satisfactorily. Four en-
ployes have died, M. Etienne, sub-con-
tractor, at Aspinwall, of softening of
the brain; Mr.. Bertrand, his Secretary,
of malaria, and Messrs. Barrier and Di-
lembowsii, from overwork. The eli
mate is maIarious, the rolling stock anti
quated, and the engineering poor with
work unsystematized. Americans will
have to do that job yet.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
How It Feels to Drown.

Tt is not often that You hear of an
editor with a curiosity. Most of them
accept earthquakes, tornadoes, murders,
fires and floods rs every day occurrences,
and even nitroglycerine explosion next
door would not interrupt the routine
work of the sanctnm very long. But q
French editor, and the editor of n Lyons
paper at that, had n curiosity to know
how n person feels when drowning. He
therefore put up q job on himself. Ho
arranged to come within hairs breath
of drowning, but WAS to be pulled out in
the nick Of time, rolled on barrel,
hauled over the sands. thumped OH the
stomach and otherwise rcsuscitated. All
went well during the first act. He leaped
into the water, refused to struggle and
gradually sank from sight. At the proper
moment he was hauled up by rope
and act second commenced. This was
an occasion where all editor was too
smart. They rolled him according to
programme, and seven or eight men tired
themselves out with rubbing him and
hanging mp head downwards, but he was
n dead man. He may know how it feels
to drown, but he'll never trouble the
public with q description Of his feelings.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01


THE days of miracles, magic waters,
etc., are returning. Hot Springs County,
Arkansas, reports the existence, fifteen
miles northeast of Witherspoon, of O
spring that promises to bring about the
millennium almost before we get ready
for 1t. John r. Yeats, Baptist minis
ter of some celebrity, who has visited
the spring, says the spring flows
from mountain about four hundred feet
high, comes out Of the ground about
one hundred feet from the top of the
mountain on the north side, and flows at
the rate of about forty gallons per min
ute, and tastes just like apple brandy,
and has the same effect. Those under
the influence of the water are perfectly
ecstatic, and hugging and loving every
thing they meet. He says: CT never
saw the like, children and boys and girls
hugging and kissing every one they
meet. Old men and old women, young
men and young ladies, embracing each
other by hugging and kissing. met
an old, white-haired man and woman-I
suppose about eighty years old-and
they were hopping and skipping like
lambs. I saw hundreds lying around
the spring so drunk that they could not
stand up, and they were lying and laugh
ing and trying to slap their hands. The
people call them the Millennium
Springs % All we ask of John is, just
to please send us barrel.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

THE "Mellennium Strings" in Ar
kansas, makes those Who drink of its
waters, hug, and kiss snd frisk about.
1t also makes them DRUM. People have
been doing these things 200 much since
the time of Adam and wi can not for the
life of us see what good IAN come of the
discovery. We shall al be. a pack of
fools some day. ..'
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

The mystery surrounding the death of
Jennie Cramer, at New Haven, Ct., is
attracting considerable attention. The
Mallery brothers, the sons of q rich mer-
chant, one of whom was Jennie's suitor
and neducer, and Miss Clements alias
Blanche Douglass, fast woman from
New York, suspicion strongly points to
as her murderers. Miss Gamer was
the belle Of New Haven
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
A New Way to Kill Stage Robbers.

AS there is no reason to suppose the
stage robbers intend to retire voluntarily
to the shades of private life very soon,
and as there is not much dan
ger of their being compelled to
do so, we, ourselves, have determined
to put stop to the business. We
have written to persons in Western
Texas whom we suspect of designing to
send us original poetry, to forward the
manuscript in a registered package by
stage. The stage robbers are in the
habit of opening and examining regis
tered packages. After this, when
stage is robbed, and any of our original
poetry is stolen, all the authorities will
have to do will be to send out O wagon
to the scene of the robbery, and bring
in the bodies of the highwaymen who
have been bored to death. They deserve
all they get.-Ie1a Stftin98.
THERE is no reason why an elderly
woman shouldn't be we'll preserved.
The young ones have 80 much sugar in
their composition, you know.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

bouquets and go on so about him that
the average Chicago man goes around
with well-loaded hip pocket for no
other purpose in the world, seemingly,
than to improve the first opportunity
to make himself q pet of the ladies
who, in Chicago, just dote on murder
ers. Up to date no law has been made
% prevent people making fools of them
selves. r. Ill.,.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

The miscellaneous collection Of articles
at the White House, consisting Of beds,
medicines and nearly everything else
under the sun, sent from all over the
country for the benefit of the President
and his family, is mostridiculous one,
including as it does two white mice, o
stuffed humming bird, "to relieve The
monotony Of the sick-room," and the
blood of a black cat. But it would be
unkind to laugh ct it, as, notwithstand-
ing the absurd character OF many con-
tributions, it represents the ontpouring
Of the national heart. Doubtless the
lady who sent the stuffed bird did what
she thought was the best thing she could
do. Just exactly what the cats blood
was sent for is not clear, but there are
many people in this country who believe
in the working of charms, and as it was
doubtless intended to promote some
good to the patient, we should give the
sender credit for carrying out the dicta-
tions of an honest opinion. AS to the
white mice, they may amuse the chill
dren. ~
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

The hip pocket is having things all
its own way in Chicago. They don't
consider it mach of day now when
there isn't at least one murder in that
city, and in most of the cases they never
seem to find the fellow. When now and
then some one declines to mako his
escape, and is locked up in jail, the
ladies IN Chicago overwhelm him with
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

ADEn1NA PATTI, the 1tineo donna Of
the lyric stage, in her american tour
wiz WIZ not visit Cincinnai, Why, does
noe appear This fact rather aston
ishing when we considershat Cincinnoti
people claim to be pecr larly of a mu-
sical disposition, and assessed Of an
exquisite musical taste.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

WHAT blessing it is that we can al
ways grumble at the weather, and vet
not without reason. L is too hot, too
cold, too wet or too Manageable. It
never is just right, and b never will be.
But we have right to rumble, and as
long asTit don't cost Anything, we are
going to do it.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01
PICKENs S G., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER |, 1881,

IT rs estimated that be loss to the
corn crop of Ohio for 1 |B1, on account
OF o. BAD seed, will not bs less than no..
0OC, 600 bushels, and in illinois, 60, OO0-
oOO 1t would seem frot such alarming
totals that in future it Fpuld pay we'll
TO make more careful selctions of seed.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-01

WE ARE shocked at the Cincinnati
Gazette. 1t says: "1 is a sQrrowful
TACT that the barrooms }re more honest
with their lemons than khe temperance
Plcnlcs. Ihls Is a saR commentary.
We knew that the chui ich had had q
'lmllar charge set over against it, but we
never thought it would 70 any further.