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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-02-04

st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

Adrent-PaddOck Village. Sabbath Services at
1890 a. IN. las and $50 p. IN. Sabbath School IL
m. Prayer Meetings at 7:3O y. III. Sunday, Tuesday
and Friday evenings.
BdpGst-Railroad Street Corner Maple Rev.
Z. I. Sandford, Pastor. Preaching 1880 A. NJ $.
School - N. Prayer meeting $50. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 7:3O.
Free Baptist-Main Street. Corner Prospect.
Rev {, ), Frost, Pastor. Residence at Mrs John
Il. Chubb's Spring st Sabbath services, 1890 A.
NJ. and 6:3O N. Sabbath School at 12 NJ Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 73O.
Church Of the Messidh-t tUniversalist) Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street Rev. Il. NJ. Tillot-
son, Pastor. Sabbath services at las 2. NJ.
Sabbath School at - Nj. Wednesday evening meet
ing at 1880.
Methodist-Central street. Rev. E S Locke,
Pastor Residence head of Summer street. Sab
bath services at 1890 A NJ, and $50 P. NJ Sabbath
School at IL NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at
1870.
North CongregdtiondE-AIain street corner of
Church. Rev. Henry W. Jones Pastor. sabbath
services at 1890 A. M, and 6:3O P. A. Sabbath
school at las P. M. Wednesday evening meeting
AT 7:30.
South Congregationdl-Main street Rev. Ed
ward T. Fairbanks. Pastor. Sabbath services at
1880 A. NJ, and 6:3O P N. Sabbath School at IL NJ.
Wednesday evening meeting at 1870
PreSbyieridn Church-Rev. W. r. Laird pas
tor. Services at Presbyterian Hall, every Sab
bath at 1880 4. M, 500 p. Sabbath school 300.
Prayer meeting 6:3O. Bible reading Wednesday
evening 1870.
st Andre,c's-( EpiscopalJ Main street Rev.
y. F. Putnam, Rector. Services on Sundays at
l0:3O a. IN, and p. III. Holy days and Friday at
a m. Wednesdays at $50 p IN. Sunday School,
at $3.50 p.
Roman Outholie-Cherry Street. Rev. J. A.
Boissonnault. Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a m
Nespers and BenedictiOn at p. IN. On the
second Sunday OF the month, service at $50 a. m,
and p. IN. At Lyndonvile same day at 1890 a M.
Y. IT, C. A.-Meetings at the rooms of the Y. NJ.
G. A, Browns Building Main Street, Sunday
mornings at $50, Monday evenings at 1880.
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Squibs.
the way.

Let young man once get on the trail
of a young lady in crowded ballroom
and he will find her very soon and find
her mad.
They tell us matches are made in
heaven, but somehow they never smell
that way when you strike EN- Low
ell Citizen.
The Tennessee legislature has chosen
woman as engrossing clerk. The
susceptible baldheaded members swear
that she is the most engrossing clerk
they ever had.
''What is the first thing to be done in
case of fire ?" asked Prof. Stearns. "Sue
the insurance company promptly an
swered a boy at the foot of the class,
whose father had been burned out once
or twice Bur. Hawkeye.
SIS your wife a republican or dem
Ocrat ?" asked one ROckland citizen of
another in store this morning. "She's
neither was the prompt response /; and
then, glancing cautiously around and
sinking his voice to whisper, he eI-
planned, ''she's home ruler Rock
land Courier.
"Job, my dear" said his wife, wreath
ed in smiles, 81 wish You had been at
church this morning. Mr.. Goodwill was
very interesting; aud when he prayed
tor the absent ones" "Well, that ac-
counts for it then. | haven't caught
such "A string of fish for year as l did
this morning"
Love" says a writer, "lightens the
heart" 1t has been known to have pre-
giea a1,rt . l,a ia
book Cleveland Voice.
The Unprecedented fact that a gas
company in New York has actually ac-
knOwledged that meter can go wrong,
and has given credit for an over charge
in the bill, is credited to the effect Of
the electric light.
One downtown preacher is blessed
with two sons, bright little fellows they
are too. Now it is the custom in that
preachers family for these two lads TO
reclte every morning verse OF scrip
ture. The boys were in great haste to
get out on the hill a couple of mornings
ago, when the father said: "NOw, boys,
recite your verses then you can coast"
I'D rather be a doOrkceper in the
house of the Lord than dwell in the
tents of the wicked" repeated the older
lad. "So'd l." calculated the junior
youth, and away he flew after his sled,
and the father did not demonstrate.
A reighbor, with a coffee cup in her
hand, called on Uncle Nose, remark
ing: "Uncle Nose, / wants to bOrry
cup oh parehed coffee from you for
breakfas' till Tomorrow" 'Go right to
de box on de shef and hep yersef" The
neighbor did rs requested, but discOv-
cred the box to be as empty as the head
ola legislator. "Uncle Nose dar's no
parched coffee in dis heah box" Does
yer know why dar amt no coffee in dat
ar box ?" ''No; ! don't know muffin
about it.n "Dar amt no coffee in dat
ar box" said the old man solemnly,
.bekase dat ar am de returned coffee
bex. Ef yer had brung back all de
coffee yer borrowed last year hit would
he plum full.'-[ Galveston News.
"Did you slip ?" they asked the old
gentleman as they picked him up. 'Oh
no." he growlcd, ''Of course not. was
trying to see if could sit down on that
cOal-hole top hard enough to break it.
Did it inst for the fun Of the thing"
And he glared at them savagely, and
they somehow felt mighty foolish
Boston Post.
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ii

1t is sixteen years after the events
recorded in the previous chapteT-six-
teen eventful years, which have brought
with them the usual changes that are
born of Time.
John LandOr, merchant, of Pearl
street. New York, was between forty
and forty-five years old with dark
hair and eyes-the former turning fast
to gray-and distressed expression of
countenance which reflected mental
care and trouble. 1t was five o'clock
in the evening and although the office
had been closed two hours, and he bad
no particular business to attend to, he
still set there, apparently unconscious
of the time, or of aught else around
him. 1t was all the stranger, too, as
most of the houses were already closed,
and the streets were becoming less and
less crowded every minute. Yet still
he sat. in the same position, and in the
same rejecting attitude as before.
Better, he thought, to stay and suffer
there alone than carry home his tale of
woe. And yet he must tell them, come
what may. For in few days all would
be known, and his credit, reputation,
utmost to avert his fall. But each
fresh venture which he made had
failed his resources had grown feebler
and feebler, until, at length, ruin-act-
ual ruin-stood before him.
He was married, and had wife and
five children. That was the bitterest
part of all. He loved them fondly and
devOtedly; and as he pictured to him
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St. Johnsbury Post Office.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston and intermediate offices. Arrive 4:1O p
Close 9:3U n
Boston through mail Arrive 217 IN. Close
500 = m.
New York and the West Arrive 2:17 a m and
1906 and $40 p III. Close $50 a III and SEQ y III.
Newport and the North. Arrive 1915 a m.
Close 400 p
9:30 a IN.
Swanton and intermediate offices Arrive 1915
a Close 400
Waterford. Arrive $40 a M. Close 400 p M
North Danvile. Arrive $50 Close 1880
a
West Concord and East st. Johnsbury Arrive
1915 m. Close 4:
CHAS. p. CARPENTER. ID, P. NJ.
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Qrarclers' 6mde.
st. JOhnsbury & Lake ChamPIaIn Railroad.
January 10, 1881.
TRAINS MOVING EAST

MAIL-Leayes Swsnton 80 a. m. Cambridge
Junction 6.54 Hardwick $40. East Hardwick e.23
Greensboro $50. Walden 9.O3 Danville 9 70 st.
Johnsbury arrive 1000 leave 40 East 1T. Johns
bury 1854 West Concord IlO4 Miles Pond II a.
East Concord lI.33, arrives at LunenbuTg H.
Portland at 5j7 p. III.
EXPRESS-Leaves Swanton 535 p. m. Cam
bridge junction 7.02, Hardwick s.25 East Hard
wick -.3-, Greensboro : 46. Walden $40 Danville
% arrive st. Johnsbury 1000 p. N.
MIXED-St- JohHsburg to Lttnen5urg-Leaves
st. Johnsbury 446 p. IN, z st. JOhnsbury sos. w
Concord 80, Miles Pond O5, L Concord 622 ar
rive Lunenburg 6.i5 p.
TRAINS MOVING WEST.
MAIL-Leaves Portland - a. m. Lunenburs
IS, p. m, East Concord IA Miles Pond 1.j6
West Concord 2I7 East 81. JOhnsbuTy , 2s arrive
81. Johnsbury 2.4O. leaves As, Danville $40, Wal
den 5li, Greensboro COS, East Hardwick GIG
Hardwick 6.2e. Cambridge Junction 7.4S, arrives
at SwantOn at 9.l0 m.
EXPRESS-Leaves st. JOhnsbury 635 a. M.
Dlnvile 705. Walden 729 Greensboro 80. h.
Hardwick 7.5s, Hardwick Sill Cambridge
J JUNCTION 93 SwantOn ii co a.
notwithstanding 10 St JohHs6tT1-Leaves
Lunenburg 80 a IN. f. Concord 80. Miles Pond
7Os West Concord 7.45. Z. st. JOhnsbury EOS, ar
rive st. JOhnsbury $50 a.
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Western Union and VI. InterndtiOnal-in st.
Johnsbury House Open from a. m to p. IN.
sundays. to 10 a. m, to p. III. Night messages
at half rates.
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st. Jobnsbury Athenmum.

Library aud Reading RoOm.-Free to all. OpeI
from 4. N. 10 II NJ. from to 1. M, and from
: to : - Saturday evenings.
Ari GdteTy-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
CHARLES \. WILLARD. Librarian
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East st. .JOhnSburV.

OOngregdtiOnal.-Rev. F. b. Phelps Pastor
Sunday services at 10. IS a. m and 80 p. m. Sab
bath school at 12.O0 Wednesday evening meeting
at 6 30.
Methodist.-Rev. L. c. Dickinson Pastor. Sun
day services at 80 y.
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ST. cyOlmsburp (aledOnian,
TERMS OF TIE cALEDoNrAS:
G. M. STONE & CO.,

II DISH z IL.
Opposite the AthenRum, st. Johnsbury, VT.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-16
A Travelling Scene.

One of the east-bound trains
coming into Detroit, the other day,
was heavily loaded, and passenger
who got on at ,Ypsilanti walked
through two cars, and finally halted
at seat occupied by very small
man and a grab-bag, and inquired:
''Is this seat occupied?"
"Of course this seat is occupied .
was the reply.
care both halves of this seat
occupied?" was the next inquiry.
"Of course both halves are occu-
pied was the reply.
''Well my friend," said the new
arrival as he let go his satchel, ST
want to bother you with one more
query. Had you rather / would toss
that grab bag out of the window
and sit down with you, or chuck you
out and ride with the grab-bag!o
The grab-bag man got mad at
that, and wouldn't ride anywhere
else except on the wood -bo x<-TDe
troit Free Press.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-16
Altidote for Diseases.

The Benzoate of soda has lately been
recommended as superior antiseptic
in all infectious diseases; it acts very
powerfully, and it is claimed that a
daily dose of from thirty to fifty grains
to a full grown man will render the
poison of diphtheria imperative. The
benzoate is prepared by dissolving crys-
talized benzoic acid in water, neutraliz-
ing at a slight heat with solution OF
caustic soda, drying, and then allow
ing the solution to crystalize over sui
phuric acid under bell glass. Large
doses are said to appear absolutely
necessary good results may be OBJ
tanned by the daily administration of
about II grains.-Exchange.
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WEEKLY CORVALLIS GAZETTE.
Corvallis Dec. l6, 1881.
THE TWO GATES.

A pilgrim once ESQ runs an ancient tale).
Old, worn and spent, crept down a shadow
ed vale
On either hand rose mountains bleak and
high
Chill was the gusty air, and dark the sky;
The path was rugged, and his feet was bare;
His faded cheek was scanned by pain and
care;
His heavy eyes upon the ground were cast.
And every step seemed feebler than the last.
The valley ended where naked rock
Rose sheer from earth to heaven, as If to
mock
The pilgrim, who had creps that toilsome
way;
But while his dim and weary eyes essay
To find an outlet, in the mountain side
A ponderous sculptured brazen door he
spied,
And tottering toward it with fast falling
breath,
Above the portal read, ''The Gate Of Death,
He could not stay his feet, that led
thereto
It Welded to his touch, and passing through,
He came into the world all bright and fair ;
Blue was the sky, and balmy was the air !;
And, 10! the blood of youth was IN his
veins,
And he was clad in robes that held no stains
OF his long pilgramage. Amazed, he turned;
Behold! a golden door behind him burned
In that fair sunlight, and his wondering
eyes,
Now lustreful and clear as those new skies,
Free from the mists OF age, of care, and
strife,
Above the portal read, ''The Gate of Life. :"
-HaTpers Magazine.
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Coed Logic.

A Galveston man deposited sew
eral thousand dollars in local bank
and drew on it as he needed it. The
other day he happened to meet the
banker, and that gentleman stopped
and said, rather excitedly:
''You have overdrawn your
account by several hundred dollars. .
"Well, what ofit? It is my account
| reckon | can do what | please with
my own account. This is free
country"
ayes, bat yon owe me several
hundred dollars"
"Well, suppose l do. You owed
me ten times as much for ever SO
long, and l didn't make any fuss
about it,"
The depositor passed on, leaving
the banker standing on the sidewalk
in very dazed condition of mind
Galveston News.
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UNMARKED SOLDIERS GRAVES .

Some time ago Congress made All
appropriation to defray the expense
of erecting headstones, on Govern
ment contract; over the graves OF
Union soldiers. For time this ap
preparation applied only to the plant
ing of memorial stonss in National
ceEeteries, but subsequently a modi-
fication was made by which it should
apply to city cemeteries, vill4ge
graveyarls, and even private family
burial grounds. There still remains,
it is stated, and unexpended balance
of the money donated for the pur-
pose named, though thousands of
stones have been planted in all parts
of the country. However, many sol
diers' graves in otherwise well kept
burial grounds remain unmarked to
this day. A large number Of head
stones were placed in Spring Grove
Cemetery last spring. All that is
necessary to secure for the grave of a
soldier friend, who died during or
since the war, suitable and durable
mark, at Government expense, IS TO
send request to the Quartermaster
General at ashington,s accompanied
with the soldiers name, the State in
which he enlisted, the regiment in
which he served, his rank if he was
a commissioned officer, and the place
in which his body is buried, wherev-
er that may be, in order that his
name may be readily found on the
records. Not only are requests made
for head-stones for the graves of
poor privates, but often for Lieuten-
ants and Captains, and sometimes
even for Mayors and Lieutenant Col
onels. Of course the intention of the
Government is not, to interfere in
any manner with the placing on the
graves OF soldiers such monuments
as friends may deem fit to provide !;
it is simply that the last resting place
of no man who served his country in
the war shall be suffered to remain
neglected solely through a want of
means to properly mark it with an in
scribed stone. The stones furnished
by the government are small, plain
and not costly.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial.
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ANOTHER GREAT RAILROAD c0EaPLETED

1t was sometime ago predicted
that through line of railroad would
be completed from San Francisco to
New Orleans on or before next New
Year. A dispatch sent to this Office
to-day announces that that road made
the connection with the Texas Pacific
at seven O'Clock last evening, Deem
Der 1st, at Sierra Blanco, ninety-fve
miles east of Ell Paso, thus making a
through all rail line to New Orleans.
The event is one of great Importance
to California and to the whole
country. The construction Of the
Southern Pacific, and 1atterly, of the
Texas-Pacific also, has been prosecu-
ted with great vigor, and in the face
of many obstacles. Practically the
understanding reached by the two
companies consolidates the roads for
all business purposes. New Orleans
is brought into new relations with
San Francisco. If this is to be the
great wheat route to the seaboard,
and the great route for immigrants
to California, its Importance to this
State can hardly be overrated. To-
day we have the tangible fact that
the third great Continental railroad,
with terminus in San Francisco,
has been comprehension Francisco
Bulletin.
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Ee Was Alarmed.

A young man, pale and visibly agi
tated, hurriedly entered Vine street
drugstore late one night last week
and accosting she clerk, said:
aGive me an ounce of chlorate Of
potash, will you, quick as you camp
Observing his perturbation, the clerk
ventured to ask:
whats the hurry 2"
"Why," I've been kissing our. Sun
day-school teacher isince nine o'clock,
and she didn't tell me till ten minutes
ago that she was afraid she had the
diphtheria. Washington Tribune.
Subscribe for the Gazette.
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PERcHEON HORSES.


Harpers Monthly has lengthy and
exhaustive article on this subject,
from which we make the following ex-
tracts:
The Percheon horse is undoubtedly
the most symetrical and powerful for
his size, and possesses the finest action
and greatest of all the large breeds in
Europe. His general type is also the
most ancient of any of which we have
record or tradition, and this is the
principal lTeason why he is more prepo
tent than others in transmitting his SUI
perior qualities to his ofsprings
Tradition asserts that the first
great improvement in refining the large
horses of France was made by Barb
stations captured from the Moors. In
731 thouands of these fine Barb stations
WE'RE captured (for the Moors ride
such only and never mares) and dis
tributed among the French soldiers,
who, on retiring to their farms, bred
them to their own large native mares.
The best and most uniform of this pro
duce were then selected and coupled
among themselves, the result of which
with other well made crosses from time
to time since that period, gives the i'm
proved Percheons of the present day,
described as follows:
Head clean, bony and small for the
size of the animal; ears short mobile,
erect and fine pointed;eyes bright, clear,
large and prominent; forehead broad;
nostrils large, open.
Neck a trife short, yet harmonious
ly rounding to the body and gracefully
curved.
Breast broad and deep, with
great muscular development; shoulders
sloping; withers high; back short; body
well ribbed up; rump broad, long and
moderately sloping to the tail, which
is attached high; quarters wide, well
let down, and swelling with wonderful
muscles.
Legs fiat and wide, with hard clan
bones, and extra large strong joints,
cords and tendons; short. from the hook
and knees down; pastern upright; hoofs
solid, tough.
Action bold, square, free and easy.
Temper kind; disposition docile, but
enerjetic and vigorous; hardy enduring
and long-ivod; precocious; able to be
put at light at eighteen to twenty
months old, possessing immense power
for his size; never banking or refusing
at a qead pull; stylish, elegant and at
tractive in appearance; easy, elastic, and
graceful in motion.
No tendency to disease of any kind
and especially free from disease of the
legs and feet. such as SPAWN, splint
ring-bone, grease and founder.
An easy keeper and quick feeder.
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Not Used to Him.

From the Detroit Free Press.
The other evening a Brush street
policeman heard a whistle shrilly
blown and female voice calling for
help, and after short run he reached
the scene of commotion. A man
was getting mp and falling down
again on the door steps, and female
had her head out of an upper window
and seemed to be half scared to
death.
Whats the matter?" asked the
officer.
"A man has been kicking on the
door," she answered.
ssThls man here?n
s'Yes, thought he'd tear the whole
house down."
The officer reached out for the man
and made two discoveries at once.
It was the womans husband, and he
was fighting drunk.
"Why this man wouldn't hurt you
hes your husband" he called out.
rs that SO? Charles; is that you?"
ssBet yer life's smee,,'' . mumbled
Charles.
"Then you really must excuse me,
Mr.. Officer. You see, we have only
been married six weeks, and / do
not readily recognize him yet. I'll be
down in minute, darling
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and the negro had gone, Hofenstein
said:
6. Herman, did you see how I work
off dose old star brogans ?''
eyes, Misder Hofenstein.
/ "Vell, venever customer comes
in de sdore recolleck dot dey vos de
Louisiana brize shoe, NIT a dwenty
dollar gold biece in de sole of dem.
| dink I viii learn you someding
about de pisness yet."-New Orleans
Times.