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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
News of the Week.

John McCOmbe and "A young lady
were struck by train at East Green
witch, X. J., the other evening, while
walking on the track, and both were
crushed to a shapeless mass.
About 81 boys were killed i'll July by
the toy pistol, all sections of the couu-
try furnishing victims.
Mrs. Celia Schmidt, aged 10. and her
daughter Eliza, l6, of Brooklyn. were
fatally burned Thursday 10y the eNplo-
sion of il Kerosene stove. The VapOr
at the wick of the stove ignited, caus-
ing the stove to burst, and the burn
ing oil was thrown upon their dresses.
The proposed extension of the Bos-
Bay to Wiers and LacOnia was defeat
ed in the New Hampshire Legislature.
The public debt was reduced in July
to the extent of Sl0.07S, 023 p.
The government is taking steps to
stop the Illegal traffic in gold tokens III
the similitude of L. ). coins, and
stamped quarter dollar" and ''halt
dollar" They are usually hectagonal
in form.
The gauge of the Chicago, St. Louis
and New Orleans Railway, $50 miles in
length, was changed over the entire
distance in eleven hours.
A powder magazine exploded ut
Mazatlan, Mexico, last Thursday, de
stroying an entire square, and killing
many people sixty bodies had been
recovered at last accounts.
y dog caused horse to run away at
Reading. Pa, killing one person and
injuIing three others.
Col. John G.. Burch, Secretary of the
l. 5. Senate, died AT Washington
Monday.
Some portions of Pennsylvania were
visited on Monday by severe thunder
storm. Several persons were killed
and others injured 10y lightning.
Two tea laden steamers left Yokaha
ma, May n, and arrived ut New York
last Friday, six hours apart. They
raced the entire distance of I1.UOO
miles on Il heavy wager.
1t is said that over 10 fishermen have
lost their lives on the Grand Banks
this season 10y overlooking dorics.
POSTMASTER General james has dis
covered that large number of L. 5.
mail bags have been misappropIiated
by the Canadian post offices, and used
in their local business.
The report that Grove of Peoria, H.,
the fellow who boasts of having made
those Internal machines, had been az
rested, is cOntradicted ny the United
States Marshal. a reporter has inter
viewed Grove, and he boasts of having
entered into Il conspiracy with O'Don-
avian RosSa and other Fenians to man
uiacturc those machines (Which were
powerful enough 80 destroy the largest
block of buildings), and to place them
in the holds of British vessels. The
fellow attempts to justify his cowardly
plot to commit murder by wholesale by
pleading the eXigencies of war.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
The Dartmouth Trouble.

4 committee to whom was commit
ted the investigation of the charges
against President Bartlett have render
ed their report, which sustains the
course of President Bartlett and as
crihes all the troubles to misunder-
standings. The report is il long one.
1t says the charges against the preSi
dent did not affect his high and long
established personal reputation, but
his theories, methods and present con
duet in the administration of the af-
fairs of the college" 1t prOnomces
the financial condition of the college
the most satisfactory it has known for
many years, and gives credit therefor
to the president and others concerned
in the management considers that the
tone of scholarship has been raised,
and the order, discipline and tone of
morals are very satisfactory. The
charges made 10y the New York alumni
are considered as ''scrious,n but the
Spt'lutdllplS Ntlt HloSt vi iItll
trivial" and unsupported 10y adequate
proof and the committee do not think
that the investigation has disclosed
any cause, so far as acts and words
go, for change in the office of prcSi-
dent. "Thc Chandler scientific depart
mcnt is the seat of trouble. An aliena-
ton has grown up which yOu com
mittcc believes to be the root of the
difficulties in the other part of the col
lcgc." The main facts in relation To
this department are then reviewed,
the committee thinking that Sin amy
ease, the board and not the president
is the conscious and acknowledged
cause of any changes in the Chandler
school.
The committee finds the most scri-
Gus difficulty in the relations of the
president and faculty. Most of the
professors are his warm personal
friends. hut differ with him in official
matters. The report suggests that
these gentlemen are too far above re
preach not to he able to meet on
common plane of mutual respect, and
recommends the restoration of harmo-
ny.
The friends of the cnllegc will he
gratiiied to learn that the president
has been sustained in his course. and
that the recent troubles had no iOunda-
ton save in Observation-Disclosures
The college has suffered considerably
from this disturbance, hut it is to he
hoped that harmony will Ice speedily
restored and the administration of the
college affairs continue to Ice such as
will materially strengthen the reputa-
ton it has always enjoyed.
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ton that the primary object of taxa
ton is the collection of revenue has
been supplanted by the idea that the
principal use of a tax-law is to ascer-
tain the moral character of the cOmmu
nifty, and Jas Judge Veazey says. to
drive away ''perjurers and shirks."
1t is maintained that the New Eng
land system of taxation docs lead to
evasion, and makes unnecessary any
examination into the causes of ''taX
lodging. The writer in the Post closes
10y saying that ''if the Ncrmonters like
their new law no one outside of Yer
mont need object to it, but it is found
ed on view of taxation the spread of
which deserves the thoughtful atten
ton of all property -owners." While
we should of course he grateful for the
privilege awarded us i'll the above sen
tencc, we do not believe that our new
law is open to as much condemnation
as this writer hints at. We do not
claim that it is perfect law. 1t must
be looked upon as something of an eX-
pertinent, and people generally con
cede that it has apparently proved Il
successful one. We do not see how the
new law precludes or renders umeces-
sary any examination into "tax-dodg-
ing" If there is any such lodging
and nobody doubts tit is just as nee
essary and desirable as ever to discov-
er its cause. The new law was made
partly to remove such cause, and it has
to some extent fulfilled that part of its
mission. Its course has not been al
together smooth. and it will doubtless
lie tested in the courts before the year
is out But if il shall he demonstrated
in the end, as seems likely now, that
the law has more nearly equalized tax
alton III the state, the people will he
satisfied with it. If it has added SOB,
OOO, 0m to the taxable property of Yer
mont. then it has done some good at
least, and the NermOnterS are 50 much
better off.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
Personal and Political.

Warner Miller, scnator-elect from
New York, is described as "a Mctho-
dist Politician" though it is not stat
ed Just what that means.
Irving, the English tragcdian, paid a
warm tribute of praise to Edwin Booth,
in London the other day.
The managers of the temperance
party in Ohio claim that they can poll
$1,000 votes for their ticket and over
1000 against Governor Foster.
The Atlanta (GaD Constitution
Dem.) says "The ridiculous reply
of Governor Roberts of Texas to Gov.
Fosters proposition for Il thanksgiv
day has been publicly denounced in
every considerable town of the state"
We thought the people of Texas would
speak their mind on this matter
\ subscription has been started at
Atlantic City, y. j., to purchase cot
tage there for Mrs. Garfield. Quite
sensible, if true.
The Chicago Tribune gives the fol-
lowing recipe for making IA civil ser
vice retormer: Take one Senator
knead him into Cabinet officer, then
let him broil by a slow fire.
Mrs Stewart c. Gardner, who was
James A. Garfield's nurse at the time
of his birth, died near Dowagiac. Mich,
on the day and about the hour of the
assassination of the Presi-
dent. She was - years old.
The short wheat crop i'll some OF the
Western states will not revive the
Greenback party among the farmers.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that on
account of the increased price they will
get as much money for their crop this
year as they did last.
Grant is some ways from the poor
house. if John Russell Young tells the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
Oar Tax Law.

The new tax law passed 10y the last
siderable attention from the press of
other states. Some of the comment
bestowed has been OF a cheap kind and
not worth considering at length, while
some of the criticism merits attention.
Some time ago We quoted from the
Springfield Republicans views on the
subject, which generally approved of
the law, Thought it was what the state
needed, but suggested that it might
proiitably have been made little more
stringent rs to corporations. And
now the New York Erening Post de
votes half column to Taxation in
Vermont commenting on our popular
opinion of the law. and comparing the
New England idea of taxation with that
of the economist. The Post puts it in
this way:
Economists and people who allow
themselves To be misled 10y economists
will perhaps find it hard Ia understand
why the NermOnters should Ice So huge
" delighted with their new law. This,
however. is because the New England
view of taxation Is very different from
that taken by economists. According
to the latter, taxation, being an impost
levied upon the profits of industry, Is a
burden which ought to he made To
weigh a. lightly rs possible upon the
community. and hence they have gen
orally agreed in regarding it as an es-
sential feature of good system of tax
alton that it should he levied upon rs
few articles as possible, that the ma
ehinery for its collection should be
simple, and above all not inquisitOrial.
In New England the view taken of
the whole subject is quite the opposite
of this. The New England theory of
taxation Is not only that a tax ought to
be collected ON everything. but that the
machinery for collecting il should be
50 oppressive and inquisitorial that the
taxpayers must either may un' ar
leave the state. Indeed with many
persons III New England the old no
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
stormy Freaks.

The recent thunder storms. which
have been rather frequent. have done
considerable mischief and tuycd with
persons and property in a way not al
together pleasant. \ daughter of No
BILE L. Johns of Bristol received Sc
we're shock from the lightning, which
struck near tine house, and WAS with
difficulty restored to consciousness. In
Brattlcboro General Phelps housc was
struck and several others badly dam
aged. In Burlington Dr. Atwatcr's
and Antoine Melot's houses were
struck, and considerable damage was
done. At South Burlington Edward
Van Sicklen's house was struck and at
ii number of other places in that vicin-
ity slight damage was done.
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truth when he says that Grants income
year from his sons firm, in which he
is silent partner, from his railroad
positions, his own investments and the
Grant fund, is S50,000 a year.
Conkling says he is out of politics
forever There may be some ''sour
grapes" about that statement.
nice Too" is in his political grave.
with no signs of resurrection.
Wait little. Ii may turn ont that
Senators Miller and Lapham are not
quite as insignificant us some of their
detractors represent them to he. Nci-
ther has yet failed in any serious un-
dcrtaking of his life Troy Times
(Rep0
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dicted by the Grand Jury and tried,
when | trust that the full measure of
the penalty will be dealt out to him.
1t is rumored that Nanderbilt, the
railroad king, whose magnificent new
palace on Fifth avenue is nearly COM
pleted, intends to purchase the lot on
the other side of the avenue Just OPP
posite, and on which now stands the
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, for
the purpose of making it an extensive
garden for his own private use. The
price said to have been offered for the
property is half million dollars a
pretty large amount to pay for Il flower
garden, but rs his income for only four
weeks will pay for it, it doesn't seem
so very eXtraVagant after all.
RADIX.
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Facts for the CaIedonian.


From st Albans Messenger. July SOth
The st. Johnsbury CdledOniaR of this
week takes occasion to say that, alt
having come to Superintendent Harris
knowledge that the Central Vermont
was intending or had threatened to
tear up the crossing ut Bellows Falls,
where the Connecticut River road
crosses the Rutland division of the
Central, IA judge of the supreme court
was asked to grant an injunction
against such proceeding and the Cen
trail was so enioincd a week or So ago"
The CGiedORidn says that it came ia
Mr.. Harris that the Central intended tn
take up the crossing mt Bellows Falls,
while the facts are simply these
There Is connecting track at the
Falls, between the Cheshire and alley
roads which the Central owns but Is
now used only by the Valley road.
For its use Superintendent Hobart ask
ed an annual rent. The terms were
not agreed upon and President Morris
of the Valley road asked Mr.. Hobart
whether he would not take MP this side
track If the rent was not paid. No.
said Mr.. Hobart, eve shall not diSCOm-
mode public travel. There are other
ways of fixing this matter than tearing
up tracks, The idea was one that
had not entered his mind. But Harris,
with superintendent zeal. went Ia work
and got ont this Injunction, something
which fell flat. for the Central officials
paid no attention Ia it, since they had
no idea of taking up the track a. the
CdledOHiGH So brilliantly suggests. The
Valley people have been very quiet
and disposed to let the matter drop,
having found that the proceeding was
not warranted by anything said on
done by Mr.. Hobart, and have now
agreed to withdraw the suit and pay
the rent as originally asked.
If the Central was not intending IL
disturb the track, the Connecticut
River Superintendent thought SO: il
not, why the Injunction
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
Note and Comment.

Underground telegraph wires in
every city are now IA mere question of
time. The New York Legislature has
passed law requiring telegraph COM
panies to put all their wires under
ground i'll New York city below Forty
second street before January |, 1883.
In Philadelphia il movement for under
ground wires has been begun, and the
report of the federal engineers, who
have in charge the public works of
Washington, recommends Il law requir-
ing all wires to he laid underground.
If the devil ever finds time to grin,
he must chucklc audibly when he
hears that Henry Ward Beechcr, Jerry
Black and Bob Ingersoll are having II
tripartite theological set-to.- Taun-
ton Gazette.
The people at large do not fully APP
preciate the vast benefit to the country
of an efficient and well-trained army
of servants, by which the business of
the country can he carried on as
smoothly and economically as the bus
mess of great railroad. Nearly
everybody has some unfortunate friend
who wants to find place on Uncle
Sans payroll, and every such an ap-
plicant is the centre of little circle
who will oppose any change in civil
service rules which would lessen the
chances of their friend. \ genuine re
form will come when the people at
large recognize the evil and are ready
to sacrifice individual desires for the
good of the whole country. Just at
present there is an impression, I'M
doubtedly erroneous, that the most ac-
tive avowed reformers among the pub
lie men are those who have had the
largest number of personal friends tax
en- care Of Hartford COnrant.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05

1t appears now that the Chinese gov
at Hartford, Conn, 10y the hnsty decis-
ion aud report of an ambassador sent
over to see how the school was pro-
glessing. If, discovered what to him
seemed an alarming condition of al
fairs He found that the wards of his
nation were fast becoming American
lied, 80 much 81 that some of them
had parted with their pi%tails, and had
seemingly lost all their race pcculiari-
The ambassador forthwith informed
his government that the tendency of
the school was tn ALLEVIATE the Celestial
Young men from Tia" manners and Gus
toms of then native country. and rec
commended the immediate abandon
mcnt OF the mission. Another big
mistake the ambassador made was To
tell his government that the American
schools did not furnish practical cdu-
cation, and thus could not fulfil "a plin-
cipal desire of the Chinese authorities
when they established the school. Here
the ambassador was wrong, and he has
since realized that lac was too fast with
this part of his condemnation, rs well
a. with the rest of it, But his report,
hasty and inprIdcni rs it was, served
the purpose of his government, which
abandoned the school at once. The
ambassador regrets very much now
that lac did not make a more careful
investigation into matters before rec
ommcnding the abandonment of 50
excellent an enterprise.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-05
Conn. & Pass. r. r. Co.
NOTICE.

The stockholders in the Connecticut and Pas
sumpsic Rivers Rail Road Company are hereby
notified 70 meet at the hemphremagog House IN
Newport Vt, on wednesday the seventh day
Of September next at two o'clock p IN, for the pnr
pose Of eecting a Board of Directors and 10 trans
act any other business that may come before The
meeting.
ELIJAH CLEVELAND, Secretary;
Coventry. August LIST lsel. 1893
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ST. cJulmsburp QaledOnian.

The discovery of certain Internal
machines ON board steamer from
America to Liverpool has created con
siderable excitement. 1t is supposed
they were intended to blow up the En-
glish Parliament in the furthcrance of
Ircland's cause. But such an attempt
would fall far short of helping Ireland
it would only tend to increase the
rigor of Englamd's policy towards her.
Grove, the maker OF the machines, is
an American, and rather glories in
the product of his hands
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periodicals will money and trouble by or
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The Oaieioneian will be sent for ISL with any OF
the holow named publications follows:
MoNTnIEs
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81. Nicholas and the Caledoninn. AS
Scribner's Monthly and the Caedonian $40
larper's Magazine aud the Caedouan, $40
wERKIIEs.
n. y Tribune and the Calcdonian, $500
Springfield Republican and CaledOnlan $40
Scientific American and the Caledonian 40
Supplement TAO
n. T.. Farmer and the CHedonian. 375
The Rural New Yorker and Caledunian, 375
Youths Companion new subsD q CaledOnian, 3I5
Harpcr's Weekly aud Caedonian, $40
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fhc Christian Union and Caledonian AS
y. y. Observer new subsl and CaleduuiAB. 400
sENI-wEEKLEs.
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DAILIEs.
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We cannot take any subscriptions for the above
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tons IN the mOnthlies commence with January
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In n" other way can the leading periodicals bo
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ART EN- BROIDERY.

Mrs. Cawley of Boston will he in town about Au-
gust :, for week only. with samples of her
work in Konsingt0n Embroidery and ladies Of ST
J"hnsbury and vicinity wishing instruction in this
work can receive class private lessons at reason
able prices Material furnished if desired, and or
ders taken for all kinds Of decorative embroidery.
also dress embroidery. Address
MRS. y. j. CA WILEY
st JOhnsbury House.
ST. JOhnsbury VT. 96y1'
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WEDDING STATIONERY.

We have added some choice Wedding Papers
Env elOpes and Cards TO stock, and with new
and beautiful script type, can fit out wedding par
ties at short notice.
Also nice calling cards, gllt-edged. put up IN
leatherette boxes
CALIFORNIAN OFFICE
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The President.
THE BALL LOCATED.

Prof. Bells electrical instrument was
used on Monday in locating the bullet
in the Presidents body. 1t worked
satisfactorily, and demonstrated that
the ball was lodged in the anterior
wall of the abdomen, five inches below
the navel and three and half inches
to the right of the median line i'll the
lilac region. This confirms in all re
spects the theory maintained by Dr..
Bliss
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WAN %.

A young who has had some experience in
business and who can bring references
az TO honesty cspablity and steady habits TO work
for me in my store and u make himself generally
useful. Address in own handwriting stating age
amount Of experience and salary wanted.
+. Z WOODS.
Pa.aump.ic Vt Jnlv u IsaI
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Randolph Normal School.

Fall Term Opens Aug. %.
Teachers and those designing TO teach, will do
inc full information IN regard to thy. school
gl9s A. W EDISON Principal
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The returns which have been made
tn the bureau of statistics for the year
ending June Both, show that more emf
grants arrived in this country during
that year than in any other year of our
history The whole number was 66S,-
OOO, as compared with l57 ,257 i'll l75O.
In the month of June alone 9j.673 i'm
migrants arrived ut Atlantic coast
ports. The German government begin
to fear that continued emigration Will
dcpopulatc some of their provinces,
and they have some ground for such Il
fear. since unc-third of the immigrants
coming here last year were from Ger
many. The emigration from Ireland,
England and Wales continues very
large. Oar country offers facilities to
the sober, industrious emigrant which
cannot hr found III any other country,
and to So many of them as are sober
and industrious America extends Il
welcome. For the other sort we have
no welcome. and would, if we could,
prevent their coming. But 50 long as
this is free country, we must take
them rs they come, and make the best
of them.
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ST. jOHNSBURY ACADEMY..

Rev. H. T. FULLER, Phi. D., Principal,
Teacher Of Latin Greek. and Mental Science
CHARLES E. PUTNEY, A. M,
Teacher Of Latin and Greek
SOLOMON n. BRACKET, A. M,
Teacher Of Natural Science and Higher Mathematics
Miss L. JENNY COLBY,
Teacher Of Latin, French and English Literature.
Miss MARY E. CUMMINGS,
Teacher Of Mathematics and English.
Miss ABBY F. MITCHELL,
Teacher Of German, History and English.
Madame EMMA MARIE,
Teacher Of French
Miss ORRIS PADDOCK,
Teacher Of Instrumental Music.
Miss TIRZAH M. GUY,
Teacher n Drdicing.
WENDELL P. STAFFORD,
Teacher Of Eloeution
Teacher Of PermdnSeip.
Three Of the classes in Dartmouth College were
last year led by students who fitted here.
The next year will begin THURSDAY, AUG
USI 30, 1881. For Catalogue further informa-
ton, apply 10 IL. T. FULLER, Principal.
Mr.. Fuller viii be at Peaks Island Portland
Iarbor 10 remain till August g afterwards mostly
at st Johnsbury till the term bcgns. $3.50