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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
C. o N c e r T
AT THR
OLD NORTH CHURCH

Tuesday Eve, Jan. II, 1882, at 8 O'Clock.
Miss KATE MATTHEW'S,
Miss JULIA X. WHIPPLE,
Miss FLORA 4. BROWN,
Mrs. MINNIE Il. HAZEN,
MIR. CHARLES =. CONANT,
Mr.. W. II. HERRICK,
MIR. II. Ii. MAY,
MIR. n. l.. DODGE.
Assisted by the St Johnsbury. Orchestral Club, :
pieces; In Glees Part Songs Quartettes and In
strumental Selections.
Tickets with reserved seats. y cents. Plan of the
church will be at Howard & Rowell's and Il. c.
Speneer's and tickets for sale on and after Satur-
day January Il.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

The Y. NJ. &. l.. A of st. Johns
bury, established in 1850, is very pros
perOus and now owns library of over
500 volumes, and receives about ~
newspapers - among which are lie
Monde, Evening Post of Montreal,
Freeman's Journal, Caledonian, and the
Catholic Illustrated, of New York, etc.
Sunday last being the first day of the
year, the members of the association
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

One of our North Main street seven
years olds came down to breakfast
Sunday morning and after long ST
lence, soberly said, papa, | know one
angel who's awful mad this morning"
In establishment the parent asked,
'.What do you mean 7" "Why, old
Mother Shipton, cause the world didn't
come to an end."- st. Adams Messen-
ger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

81. cJuhnsburp Galedunian.
st. bloomsbury. VT. Friday. Jan. g. 1889.
Announcements.
Jan IO-Gen. swift's lecture in the course.
Jan. 1O-Annual Bank meetings.
Jan II-Annual meeting of Pass. Savings Bank
Jan I9-Annual meeting Of Mechanics Assosiat'n.
Jan. I7-AnnuAl A grioultural meetings
Jan I7-Coneert At the OldNorth Church.
E. ID. Brown has given up his po-
sition in the county clerks office.
Write it "ISS2" now. The figure
one will intrude occasionally till the
novelty is worn Off
The scale works and the banks
were closed on Monday i'll honor of the
New Year.
Bicycle riding on the 3lst of De
cember doesn't happen every year
but it did last year.
Paddock village school began last
Monday; all the other village schools
resume next Monday.
The Merchants National Bank
have declared a semiannual dividend
of three per cent.
L. |. Bishop is now agent at tins
place for the Union Pacific Railway,
and has an Office at the Avenue House.
Several of the Sunday schools III
town report larger attendance last
Sabbath than ever before. This is a
splendid opening for the new year.
At the New Years communion last
Sabbath, six persons united with the
south church, and nine with the North
church.
A broken rail on the st. j. < l.. {.
road, near Danville, threw IA saloon ear
off the track on Wednesday, but did no
serious damage.
H. c. Belden, Esq. leaves to-day
Thursday on IL business and pleasure
trip to Colorado. He will he gone
probably about four weeks.
People who failed To get their or
ders in for club papers last Monday,
are notified that we shall send again
the Goth. BE in season, this time.
The Catholic school begins again
ON Monday next. We learn that the
Sisters have an increased number of
applications for instruction in music.
Mamie Idle, the young daughter of
+. T. Idle, fell while out sliding, Tues
day, and dislocated one of the bones
of the right elbow joint.
Those boys who got mixed up in
misunderstanding on Monday night
didn't begin the year in a strictly prop
er manner
Matthew Calbeck, the builder and
contractor, has contracted the West
ern fever, and gone out there for
cure
A fire is just as necessary ut Il
village meeting in winter, as at a
grand concert But heat was scarce
at the town hall on Wednesday.
Olive Branch Lodge No. 1, give
masquerade at their hall, Thursday
xevening, Jan. -. All Odd Fellows
and their families invited.
Communion service will he held
by the Presbyterians next Sabbath.
Services of preparation will begin on
Thursday, at 1890 Il. IN. Rev. }. NJ.
Beattie of Ryegate will assist.
The new officers of the Railroad
Street Baptist Sunday school are; w.
w. Sprague, superintendent Charles
Aver, secretary and treasurer; Ed.
Smith, librarian.
Gen. John l.. Swift of Boston gives
humorous lecture at the old North
church next Tuesday evening. His
subject will be sob, Junior" and it
will he worth hearing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
81. JOhmsbury Centre.

Friends and neighbors to the num-
Der of over one hundred rushed in up
on f. II. Stone and..wife last Saturday
evening to remind them of their Both
marriage anniversary. They were pre-
scented with several very nice gifts.
Rev. JOS. Hammond made the presen-
tation speech, which was warmly re-
sponded to by Mr.. Stone. 1t was a
genuine surprise. A good time was
enjoyed by all present.
The state board of agriculture will
hold IA tw" days meeting at this place
on the oath and 25th of this month.
Fred Lougee has returned home
from a two years stop in Michigan.
Fred Stone is at home on IA visit
from Chicago, where he has been EN-
ployed by Messrs. Fairbanks, Morse &
Co.
Chas. King has bought the p. Brooks
place, paying $3.50 for it. He took
possession of it last week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

The annual greeting" was observ-
ed at the Athen;rum on Monday eve
ming, and the rooms of the building
were filled to overlooking, the larger
number of those present being young
people. The st. Johnsbury band added
considerably to the harmony of the Oc-
casion and from half past seven to ten
o'clock sociability reigned supreme.
The decorations were very handsome,
consisting of bouquets and evergreen
trimmings, and, in the lower front
room, beautiful floral pyramid be-
tween three and four feet high, around
the base of which was a finely wrought
inscription in white and crimson.
Happy New Year, 1852" These an
nual gatherings are very pleasurable,
and il participated in generally, will
serve to strengthen social ties.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

Gen. John l.. Swift of Boston gives
IA humorous lecture at the old North
church next Tuesday evening. His
subject will be sob, Junior" and it
will he worth hearing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

- The Week of Prayer is being oh
served with meetings every evening
in several of the churches in this vii
lage, and by union services at East st.
Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
Census of District No. is.

John N. Gale, district clerk, an
nounces the following census of school
district No. Is, on January LIST: There
are in the district 1913 children under )
years of age; l04 between ) and 10
years; 81 between 10 and ID years !;
"A between Is and 30 years, and $50
persons over 30 years old; total inhab-
itants 5l3. There have been - births
and 20 deaths the past year, and we
now have 81 persons whose ages aver
age 74b years; the youngest of this
number is 81 years old, and the oldest
is Captain Morris, whose age is 90
years.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

A sarcastic individual, comment
ing on the village reports, suggests
that the police department ought to he
doubled, because it more than support
ed itself last year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
Sutton.

A St. JOhnsbury correspondent of
the Manchester Mirror writes as fol-
lows in relation to Rev. B. A. Sher-
wood, lately removed from this place {:
II see that the Baptist society in your
city have engaged this gentleman, re-
Gently of Sutton, this state, as its future
pastor. | congratulate that church on
its good fortune. They will find in
Mr.. Sherwood a most acceptable
preacher and a good pastor. | knew
him while a resident of Sutton. He
did good Christian work in that town
He has ability, culture, and the spirit
of his Master, which is better than all
else. May he find happiness among
the good people of his church and SO
ciety, and have abundant success"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

The st. Johnsbury AthenIum has
has Just received valuable accession
to its art gallery in the way of several
fine pictures loaned by Ex-Governor
Fairbanks and Col. Franklin Fair
banks. All save one are oil paintings,
and that one is an old mosaic repre-
senting the "Roman Fortuna beau
at Rome. Visitors at the art gallery
will he interested in examining it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

~ Marriages and deaths inserted free
Obituaries sir cents line
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

A broken rail on the st. j. 4 l.. {.
road, near Danville, threw saloon ear
off the track on Wednesday, but did no
serious damage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
For Sale.

A small farm situated about mile from Rail
Dad street, st JohnsbuTy. Inquire of
RUSSELL HALLETT.
St Johnsbury. Vt, Dec. -, 1881. 1stf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
.UeW Idrerfisemenfs.
Wanted.

me WATCHES REPAIRED and rated al
HOWARD ROWELL'S.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

AT the Railroad street church on
Sunday evening, Mrs. DR.. Johnson
spoke interestingly of her home in Bur
NAH, of which place she is a native.
Her remarks were concerning the
manner and custom of the Burmese,
the methods of preparing food, the
treatment of visitors, the popular re-
LINTON. etc. etc.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

The air is full of rumOrs regard
ing the Avenue House. We are
unable to state anything definite, but
it appears from one rumor that b. @.
Howe, present owner of the building,
is making an effort to come back and
get control of the house; and another
rnmor is that o. f. Barron, of White
Mountain fame, is negotiating for the
purchase of the property.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

A District Convention of the Y.
NJ. c. A, will Ice held in this place
commencing Thursday evening, Jan.
l2th, under the direction of the Inter
national Committee of New York.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
Social Assemblies.
If You Wish to do Business,

If You Wish to do Business,
You must tell the public of that fact, and when
You have once begun, you must keep telling them
of it. Your surest, cheapest and quickest way to
tell them is by advertising inthe Newspaper circu
taing among the people you want to reach.
The LIST Natl Bank of ST. JOhnsbury.
The eighteenth annual meeting of the stOekhOld-
ers of the First National Bank of st Johnsbury,
Vt. will be held at their Banking Rooms on Tues
day, January 10, 1872, at O'Clock p. M, for the
election of Directors for the ensuing year.
GEO. MAY, Cashier.
st. Johnsbury, December t. 1881. 1919
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

H. c. Belden, Esq. leaves to-day
Thursday on ii business and pleasure
trip to Colorado. He will he gone
probably about four weeks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

The new officers of the Railroad
Street Baptist Sunday school are: w.
w. Sprague, superintendent ; Charles
Aver, secretary and treasurer; Ed.
Smith, librarian.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

Dennis +. May of Paddock village
has an eight year old boy very sick
with typhoid fever, but some symptoms
were favorable yesterday. Mrs. Geo.
Hidden is also very sick with gastric
fever.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

The lumbermen will be glad to see
snow. 1t is said that l.. ID. Hazen has
some sixty men and sixty teams virtu-
ally idle for want of shedding and they
have been so week in and out for many
weeks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

People who failed to get their or
ders in for club papers last Monday,
are notified that we shall send again
the 2Oth. Be in season, this time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

Communion service will he held
by the Presbyterians next Sabbath.
Services of preparation will begin on
Thursday, at 1890 a. IN. Rev. }. NJ.
Beattie of Ryegate will assist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06

Matthew Calbeck, the builder and
has contracted the West
ern fever, and gone out there for Il
cure.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-13
Killed by n Poisoned Dagger.

The French papers record remarka-
Bile accident by which the Comte de
Belmont has hnd the mifortune to lose
his youngest son. The count before his
marriage had been II traveller, and from
the Pol ynrsan Islands he had gathered
II remarkable collection of lctnal weap-
ons showing the ingenuity, and, in some
eases at least, the artistic skill Md
power lavished on kris and zGgaic, on
sword and dagger. ~ Il collection of
Tho '. re ;aonded to show the warliko
method of savage races, arrows and
other weapons, whose shining blades
had been dipped in poison, were OF
course conspicuous. His two SONS
Albert, aged eight, and Rudolphe, aged
twelve years, having been left alone for
n short time in the cabinet, with the
lnquisitivc rashncss Of childhood took
down two of the weapons to play with.
Chance placed in the hands of the young.
est child one of the poisoned weapons,
md II slight scratch on the wrist was
sufficient TO inject the fatal virus. When
the unhappy father returned he saw the
child writing in agony upon the ground,
a prey to frightfu commissions, from
which death alone released him. The
medical man who was called in was I'M
able to save him, and could not oven
recognize the poison on the dagger
blade. That most commonly used for
such purposes is derived from the styych.
mas tory,Ta. The wOoruH is said in some
cases to have retained its poisonous
activity after being kept dry for five
years. Manchester Guardian.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-13
WlndmiIls.

The windmill is fixture now quite
common on many farms throughout the
country. 1t has become necessary I'M
pIement for raising water where stock Is
kept. In general way it may be sara
that there are two kinds of windmills,
pivotal and stationary. Pivotal mills are
those in which the entire frame of the
wood is turned about strong pivot.
Stationary mills are those in which the
top Of the mill only revolves, and is sup
ported upon framework OF masonry.
A foreign exchange gives the follow
inc information regarding the construc-
ton of windmills. 1t says that the spot
selected for the establishment of a wind
mill should be far separated from trees,
mountains, houses and any elevated OBJ
iect capable of offering resistance to the
wind. One may select spot by placing
a little mill at the top Of pole, and al
lowing it to revolve an hour after the
rising and two hours after the setting OF
the sun. II the motion is constantly
regular, it is sign that the wind blows
favorably in one direction. If, on the
contrary, the mill turns irregularly ana
by shocks, if it turns little to the right
or to the left, it is n proof that the wind
passes obliqucly where 1t is found, and
therefore the place is not fit for estab-
fishing windmill.
The winds Of the north, northeast,
south and southeast are the most ad-
vantagcous for windmill, because they
blow both day and night, while the 9TH
ers only blow in the night, in time Of
tempest or rain. The operation OF mill
ing is the same in windmill rs in a
waterfall; but the care Of windmill
should not be intrusted to any but those
who have had experience in furling and
unfurling the sails at the proper time.
On the approach of shower, the sails
should be taken in and the mill allowed
to stand idle until the storm is over.
Windmill5 are now constructed in
which the ordinary sails are replaced by
thin boards, which by the aid Of q pc
culiar continuance can be made to slip
over each other without stopping the
mill. With such mill there is no fear
Of being surprised by the wind, because
in less than a minute the boards can be
placed in mass like a beam, against
which the wind has no special force
Nevertheless, if the mechanism should
be found disaTanged when the storm
comes the wheel would be shattered
, N. J. World
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-13
lie Explained.

/ thought might as well drop in and
see how they run weekly down in
south Carolina, and little darby pilot
ed me 40 one street and down another
until we halted before stairway over
which hung Il sign Of "4he HeraM."
The Office was up four flights of stairs,
of course, and / had only reached the
landing Of the first when hunk Of COM
positi0n cut from some old roller whizzed
past my head. There was nothing
strange in that, however, as all we'll
regulated Offices keep half dozen of
these hunks lying around as weapons of
defense, and pressed on. At the head
Of the second flight looked up the dark
way and thought ! saw mar with
GUN in his hands. All weekly newspa-
pers having any influence always keep
At least one shotgun lying around TO In
timidate poets, and so | went whistling
along up the third flight. Then was
certain that | saw man, and certain
that the muzIlc was looking down upon
me. Some editors stand ut the head Of
the fourth flight and practice ut target
shooting to rest their weary brains, and
| was wondering where the bulls eye
was when ! heard click! click, and a
voice called out:
"Stand! or you are Il dead mani"
80 man who thinks anything Of his
clothes will ever be found dead on a
stairway leading 10 Il printing office. |
came to halt, and the voice continued
"Throw up your hands and go down
stairs, or I'll blow your brains into the
street."
didn't believe he would, but az
couldn't prove il the best way was TO
obey his little request. had just got
back 10 the hotel when in came the cdi-
tor and the foreman and the devil and
two comps, and they I'LL began TO talk
at once. They were expecting Il light
ming sort Of politician up those stairs
at that very time, and ii he once got up
he was 10 open fire from revolver and
have Il scalp.daucG over the remains Of
the Hcruih. 1t was II mistake, and they
were deeply gricved, and we had a
lemonade together, and the man with
the gun shook hands again and whis-
percd
"Boy! had my finger on the trig-
ger and dead aim on your head, and ii
YOU had lifted Que foot an inch high 10
come further up I'd have killed you rs
dead rs q hammer"
After that | always sent four boys,
one after another, up stairs with my
card and written declaration that
was not loaded. -COr. DetOH Free
Press.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-13
Forestry.

After awhile the subject Of forestry in
this country will assume some methodi-
cal character, and we shall not only cul-
tiyate trees as we do other crops, but
the old forests will receive such atten-
ton as IL would now almost seem absurd
to give them. At present they receive
no attention nj all. Year after year they
remain without care and without thought
The ground on which they stand has
never had any care, and that it should
become very hOtbcd Of insects and
even Of disease is very natural. We are
complaining, more or less, every year
Of the ravagcs Of insects, and are spend.
ing annually great deal Of time and
money TO protect our farms from var.
ious pcsts-withOut always accomplish.
ing the purpose eithcr-but perhaps
maintain upon our farms these un-
kept, uncleansed forest grounds. In
recent article which we read, the
writer expressed the thought that we
were wasting great deal Of sympathy
when we lamcDtcd forest fires.
He thought that their value was far in
excess OF the damages they did, and that
the value was represented not only by
the destruction Of the insects which live
and breed upon forest lands, but the
guarantee which they give for higher
degree Of public health. lie even went
80 far, if we remember correctly, rs to
say that even the life that was los. by
them was nothing compared To the
life that was lost through the CoEdi-
ton Of things which the fires remcdicd.
Doubtless he was right, too, for we can
not but think that the dccayihs mass Of
rubbish in our forests is productive Of
much disease and death.
However, we can not venture 10 e,ti-
mate the worth Of life, or rather Of
death, when we can not rest upon great
or certainty than we can here. But the
sacrifice Of life Is not necessary in clean
ing up our forests. An object that APP
pears 50 desirable should be accom-
piished in some more systematic way
than by exposing human life, or even
buildings and fences, 10 the mercy Of
accident. II our forests were regularly
cleaned mp, in all sections adjacent 10
settlement, the danger Of fire would ne
greatly le9sened, If not entirclyobyialcd.
The writer referred to suggested 70
forest commission in each State, and u
national commission over all, the com.
bncd duty OF which should be to attend
10 this matter among other things. II
would not be- IN objection 10 such II
plan-if it were successful that il would
BE expensive. Expense ought not TO be
unduly considered when health aud
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-13
Bob Burdctt's Advice TO Boys.

"You say You demand the noblest
type Of womanhoOd in your wife. II
that is the sort Of woman you
want, marry Nora Mulligan, your laun-
dress daughter. She wears cowhide
shoes, is gulltless Of corsets, never had
a sick day in her life, takes in washing,
goes out house-cleaning, and cooks for n
family Of seven children, her mother
and three section men, who board with
her. / don't think she would marry
you, because Con Regan, the track
walker, is her style Of man. Let us
Just examine into your qualifications as
model husband after your own matri-
monial ideas, my boy. Can you Shout
der n barrel of flour and carry it down
to the cellar? Can you saw and split
ten cords of hickory wood i'll the fall, so
as to have ready fuel all winter? Can
You spade up half an acre of ground for
"A kitchen garden? Do you know what
will take the Shiny taste out of the new
cistern, and can You patch the little leak
in the kitchen roof? Gan. you bring
home II pane Of glass and wad of putty
to repair the damages in the sitting
room window? Cen you hang some
cheap paper on the kitchen? Can you
fix the front gate so it will not bag? Can
you do anything about the house that
Con Regain can? My dear boy, you see
why Nora Mulligan will have none of
you she wants higher type of true
manhood You expect TO hire men to
do all mans work about the house, but
you want your wife to do everything
that any woman can do Believe me,
my dear son, nine-tenths of the girls
who play the piano and sing so charm
ingly. whom You, i'll your limited knowl-
eye, set down MS mere butterflies of
fashion, are better fitted for wives than
you are for a husband If you want to
marry first,class cook and experienced
housekeeper do your counting i'll the In
teligence Office. But if you want n
wife, marry the. girl yon love, with
dimpled hands and face like the sun
light, and her love will teach her all
these things, my boy, long before you
have learned one-half of your own
lesson. Burlington HawkGye.