davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
Henry w. LOngfeIIOW.

The death of the poet Longfellow,
which occurred at his home in Cam
bridge, Mass, last Friday afternoon,
will carry sorrow into thousands of
households where his poems were read
and admired. He was "A universal poet.
lie was not 50 distiLctively American
in his writings as are some of the 9th
.r leading poets; but he wrote for all
people, and on both sides of the water
were his poems appreciated, and their
anthor loved for his kindly syripathet
ie and noble nature. Longfel Ow has
very justly been spoken of as "Amer-
ica's greatest literary SOD :" and al
though he will never again take up the
pen which has been 50 potent for good,
Yet his works will live on, his tender
and familiar verse will continue to
cheer and inspire those who read. In
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
Personal and Political.

Kaiser William of Germany celebrat-
ed his 55th birthday last week, and
was congratulated by his people and
the Car of Russia.
If Mr.. Arthur is as much of a man as
his friends claim, he will veto this an
ti-Chinese bill of the demagOgues.-
Hartford Times.
Mr. Blaine is a very clever man, but
he evidently forgets that clever men
before him have talked themselves to
death. New York Graphic.
An illustration by Mast: Fritz to
Pat-"If the Yankee Congress can
keep the yetlOr man out, what is to
hinder them from calling us green and
keeping us out too ?"
Scion Chase is twitting the Maine
Greenbackers on facts, and reviling
them because of their trading with the
Democrats during the last presiden-
tial election.
What if China should follow our ex-
ample and refuse permission for mer-
chants from the United States to en-
gage in trade i'll that country 1t
would be a righteous retribution.-
Boston Journal.
According to Bombay dispatch to
the New York World, Mr.. Joseph Cook
has made complete failure i'll his mis-
sion for the conversion of the heather
of India. The East Indians don't take
much stock in him.
Nothing would SO commend the ad-
ministration to universal confidence
and support as the evidence that the
same considerations which persuaded
the President 20 select Judges Gray
and BlatchfOrd are to guide him il
other and less important appoint
ment.- Harper's Weekly.
James q. Blaine can never he Pres
ident of the United States 1t would
he contrary to the nature of things
Neither can John Sherman. They
NAV come to the surface i'll conven-
tions, but the doors of the White
House are forever closed against them
i New York Sun.
II is true, as the Boston Herald re
marks, that ''what the country needs
is President who is something more
than an office dispenser, and cabinet
ministers who are something more
than his chief clerks" But such Pres
idents get shot Utica Herald,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
Will He Veto 1t!

The delay of President Arthur in
dealing with the anti-Chinese bill re-
Gently passed by Congress gives rise
to the opinion that he will veto it, and
thus prevent, so far rs his power goes,
the contamination of rather severe
measure against the citizens of the
Celestial Empire. Considerable pres
sure is brought to bear upon him by
the Pacific coast people to induce him
to sign the bill and one argument ad
Vanced is that if this bill does not be
come law. California, Oregon and
Nevada will Ice given over to the De
mocracy. But there are potent argu-
ments on the other side, and the Pres
ident cannot Justly sign the bill if he
believes the House and Senate have
gone too far i'll the matter. That is
what the veto power is given him for
to check hasty and inconsiderate
legislation. 1t is hard to see the JUS
tice in this discrimination which the
bill calls for; it is not easy to under
stand why 80 sweeping measure
should he adopted against the Chinese
and not against other immigrants
though certain restrictions, looking to
the welfare of our country, might
very wisely he put upon all immigra-
ton. The President is between two
fires, and there is nothing, up to the
present writing, to indicate what his
course will be-thOugh it is rumOred
that he will refuse to sign the bill on
dinlomatir grounds.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31

and three of the minor appropriation
bills, with a few pension and other
private bills. The funding bill has
not been touched by the house, and
neither branch of Congress has done
anything on the silver question, while
legislation on the tariff has only been
commenced. There is, however, dis
position to adjourn early in June.
In General.
Richmond, Va, had a S600,O00 fire
on Sunday.
The Plattsburgh depot of the Chat
eaugay railroad was burned the other
day, with round house, engines, etc.
One life is reported lost.
The Boston Daily Advertiser has
been sold to Oliver Ames, and Prof.
Chas. Dunbar will be cditor-in- chief.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
Thursday night to burn the Highland
Military Academy at Worcester, Mass,
and three of the boys are under arrest
on suspicion.
Nine new cases of smallpox were
reported at Chicago Sunday and five
deaths.
The boiler of Philadelphia tugboat
exploded, killing four men. A build
ing and another tugbOat were set on
fire by the explosion and destroyed.
Lieut.. Melville of the Jeanette has
sent to the Secretary of the Navy a
statement of plans for the rescue of De
Long and his companions.
The imprisonment of priest in Ire
land for using seditious language
caused intense excitement, requiring
extraordinary precautions to prevent
an uprising in County Queens.
Sarah Bernhardt is lying very i'll at
Naples.
a man died at Milford, n. H., re-
Gently from the inordinate use of to-
baccO.
The disaster on the Northern Pacific
Railway at Sweet Brier Creek, men
toned last week was serious affair,
although not so bad us ut first report
ed. Eight men were killed, and their
bodies burned almost beyond recogni-
ton, and many were injured.
Judge Cox of Minnesota has been
impeached for drunkenness.
Gen. George Z. Lane, a member OF
the Governors staff in New Hampshire,
Treasurer of the County of Rocking
ham and President of the Union Five
Cents Savings Bank of Exeter, is con
| fessedly a defaulter i'll the sum of S45,
600. About 100000 was taken from
the county and S25, 100 from the bank
treasury. Stock speculation.
Wind, hail, rain and lightning did
considerable damage to property in
parts of the South and West on the
9th.
Newspaper men sent to report the
Mississippi flood tell of terrible
plague called the buffalo gnat. 1t is a
large fly which comes in swarms and
kills cattle with bites. TO keep them
off the animal may be covered with oil,
which is expensive, or smoke may be
raised 10y setting fire to old logs. The
cattle scent this smoke for six or sew
en- miles and cluster around to avoid
the pest. This year buffalo gnats are
about in great numbers and earlier
than usual, and of the cattle that
were not drowned many have been
bitten to death, for there are no logs
to burn and planters cannot oil the
poor beasts, because often they cannot
reach them.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
Vermont News.

Rev. A. ID. Jones, who has faithfully
ministered to the Baptist church in Al
bany for the last four years, has closed
his labOrs there, and goes to MinnesO-
TIA.
George BOwker, IA wooden mill en-
plOye, while on a drunken spree, made
an assault on Miss Lucy A. Smith re-
Gently at Springfield. She succeeded
in breaking away from him, but not
before two of her ribs were broken.
BOwker was sent to Woodstock jail
under 5000 bonds for trial in May.
Parker, Mudgett & Co.'S steam saw
mill in WOlcOtt was entirely destroyed
by fire Saturday afternoon. Loss So
600. Fine new machinery had just
been put in. Application for insur
ance was made only two days before
the fire.
Dupuis Banford, while chopping in
Derby Line woods, Friday, was killed
by a tree falling upon him.
About % men in the polishing room
of the Columbian marble company of
Rutland, struck recently because the
company had put a negro to work in
their room. Work was soon resumed
with new set of men.
Frank Demo and Lena Santor, from
Salisbury, while passing over the road
from West Salisbury station to South
Cornwall, the 10th, were overturned
and Demo was instantly killed.
Ex-GOv. ProctOr's residence, with
books, paintings, etc, at Sutherland
Falls, was burned on Friday night,
probably by an incendiary.
Rockingham refunds its Indebtedness
by issuing $4,000 of / per cent bonds,
running twenty years, interest cOu-
pOns attached, but Tedeemable any
time after three months notice.
While sliding, little Ida George of
ROyalton met with a painful accident.
Her sled ran into a clump of trees and
bushes, and she received frightful
cash in her cheek that extends from
the mouth to the ear.
And now they are talking up a rail
road to run from Barre by way of
Washington, COrinth, Ely, West Fair
lee, Thetford, through Post Mills,
ThetfOrd Centre and Union Village to
POmpanOosac, and down the line of the
Passumpsic railroad to White River
Junction. Elk.
Bellows Falls is talking of tele-
phone line which will take in other
villages within radius of IA miles.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31

The Senate says that polygamy must
Ice wiped out. The House agrees with
the Senate, and President Arthur has
signed the Edmunds bill Now let us
have practical test of this new law
Let the polygamOus Mormons be made
to feel that this last bill is no farce,
and they cannot escape its provisions
and penalties. The Edmunds bill, ex
cellent IA it is, will he no better than
any other Intellectual measure i'll that
direction unless it is enforced. The
people have watched the progress of
this bill with considerable interest, and
now that it has safely passed the or
deal of Congress and President, they
want to see its practical workings. If
it is fully enforced, the results cannot
fail of being most beneficial to the
country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
STATE OF VERMONT.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
NORTHFIELD, MARCH q, 15s2.


NoRTHFIELD, MARCH %, 1872.
Agreeably to the provisions OF an act entitled
An act providing for the publication of future
volumes of the VERMONT REPORTs. approved No
vember ~ 1879 sealed proposals for printing and
binding eight hundred copies of the Fifty-fOurtb
Volume of said Reports will be received ON be
fore the 18th day OF pril 1ss2, TO be opened the
day follOwing) under the following conditions, to
wit:
FiTst-The printing, including size Of page, style
OF heads size and style Of type and quality of ink
used 10 be uniform with the preceding volumes ;
and each signature to embrace sixteen pages a
sheet of medium.
Second-The paper 10 be medium, twenty BY
tW enty four inches weighing thirty pounds to the
ream and in color stock. and finish corresponding
with the preceding volumes.
Third-The binding 10 be in law sheep strongly
bound. thoroughly pressed, and trimmed CORE
spending in quality, stamping and style Of titles
with he preceding volumes.
Printers making the requisite sealed proposals
are required to state the price Of composition per
Thousand ems, the price of paper per ream, the
price of press-work per token of two hundred and
fifty-twO perfect whole sheets of medium, printed
both sides, and the binding per copy.
Contracts to be subject TO all the conditions
of the above named and the right 10 reject any
or all proposals. not deemed advantageous 20 the
state is reserved.
Proposals must be addressed to the undersigned
at Mortified. Vermont endorsed "Proposats for
printing Vermont RepoTtS"
1892 GEORGE NICHOLS, Secretary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
F. C. STEVENS.
TAILOR.

has this week received his
stock of SPRING WOOL
EMS, and every customer may
be assured that the very thing
he wants for "a Spring Suit is
waiting his order.
There is nothing especially
new in the styles of Woolens.
Very fancy goods are but lit
tie used, and plain mixtures
are still the favorites. In re-
gard to prices | can suit all.
The man who wants a medium
priced suit will be accOmmodat-
ed, and the man who calls for
a high priced suit will not be.
sent away naked.
March s, 1882. a,.n
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31

WATERFOWL Union Live stock Market.
MARKET BEEF--A few choice 80 IS 10; extra
S. IS a So first quality S. 90 a g. So second
quality IS IS a 81 So third quality IS 90 a IS So
STORE CATTLE-WOrking Oxen, per pair, from
800, 5000 5000 sl75.
Mich Cows AND CALvEs-s2O a s3s SIS.
500 FarrOw Cows SIS a s35
YEARLINGs-S7 90 sl3 two years old Sl4 a 500
three years old S25 a $50
WESTERN FAT SwINE-Live, 7ic per 10.
PRICES OF SHEEP AND LAMBs-ln lots 60 90 90 90
50 so, 81 so, 90 a IS 90 per head extra IS 90
&c so per head, or a Ct per III.
Spring Lambs, a 7tc per ID.
Veal Calves, 3 a 64c.
Brighton Hides 81 per ID.
Country Hides Il a per ID
Brighton Tallow, a u perlb
Country Tallow, 4a6 per H.
Calf Skins IL 12tc per Ib.
Lamb Pelts IS a Is
Sheared Pelts,
n. b. Beet-Choice grade includes nothing but
Stalled 100 to 400 lbs. BullOcks Extra and first
quality includes the best, large fat oxen. Second
and third quality includes Oxen and two and three
years old Steers.
Sheep-EXtFa includes COssets and when those
of inferior quality are thrown out.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
Current Opinion.
ROUGH ON MASON.

Petitions for pardon ought to he dis
regarded by the President; the dsci-
pline and military health of the army
are at stake, and Mason ought to be
made Il stern example of, so that here
after ii soldier may clearly understand
that prisoner is ii sacred trust, whom
not only he must not murder but is
bound to defend at the risk of his own
life. No sheriff, no soldier, can be
safely permitted to pass upon the guilt
of his prisoner and execute him accord
ing to the ruling of Judge Lynch.
The fool Mason is of no consequence,
but the welfare of the army is of the
greatest consequence Rutland Her
aid.
THE CHINAMAN NOT SO MUCH OF 4
CRIMINAL AS SOME OTHERS.
Are we now so rich in labor and in
other respects that we do not want any
more labOrers? Is the territory all
occupied ? Are the mills all full ? Is
there not room for another man? ? On
the contrary, there is ii call from every
direction for more labor. Even Cali
fornia itself wants immigrants, and
we hear from that state the argument
that the wine producing area could
easily be doubled if patient and thrifty
labOrers could be had. If the China
man is worse i'll his moral character
and in his general conduct than some
of our immigrants from Europe-take
the Mormon horde, for inStance-he is
a pretty bad fellow; but it is strange
he does not show it. We believe the
statistics prove that criminal justice
has had less occasion to deal with him
than with any other foreigner who
comes to this country New York
Herald.
EVERYTHING so. X"
1t is coming out all right. Cameron
has whatever he wants i'll Pennsylva-
MIA Logan has just had his son-in-law
taken out of private life and made a
paymaster in the Army over the heads
of hundreds of Army officers Conk-
ling is put on the Bench and General
Grant on the retired list with SlO,25O
year and no drawback. "The work
goes bravely on" and there is no i'm
portant election until November AL
bany Journal.
FACTS ABOUT THE MATCH TAX.
Why don't people petition for relief
from the match tax? The match man
ufacturers are actually asking Congress
for its retention, simply because the
tax enables them to hold a monopoly
of the business. In Canada a quarter
gross of matches costs 10 or ~ cents
III this country it costs about 80 cents,
because our government retains the
war tax of one cent per hundred, or
per bunch. This amounts to 30 cents
for the quarter gross, so that every one
who buys a large bunch of matches
pays sc cents to the government and II
or II cents for the matches. Pine and
birthstone are cheap, and if it were not
for the tax small factories would
abound and matches would be cheap.
But in order to pay the tax a consider
able capital has to be locked up in rev
enue stamps until the prodHct can be
sold, and the large purchaser of stamps
gets an increased per cent of dis
count on.his purchase. Hence the big
factories have eaten up the little ones
and they are very content now to keep
a monopoly of their trade Spring
field Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
March s, 1882.
In inSolVencY.

9T Caledonia 8s Bisflisi Court of Insolvency
In the matter of william II. Lynds of Peacharn
in said District, insolvent debtor
Notice is hereby given that the third meeting
of the creditors of said insolvent debtor will be
held the Probate Office in st JOhnsbury, IN
said district the 18th day of April, lss2 at 10
O'Clock in the forenoon, for the purposes set forth
in sections l54s and 1861 of the Revised Laws Of
Vermont of A. ID. lc-O.
Also that Cloud Harvey assignee of said insol-
vent debtoas estate has filed in said court his
counts preparatory to a final dividend To the credi-
tors Of said estate.
BY order of Court,
3i-32 HENRY FRENCH, Register.
STATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA DISTRICT. So
- In Probate Court, held al the Probate Office in
ST. Johnsbury, in said District, the nth day Of
March, a. ID. lSs2.
Abel Wiley, administrator upon the estate
Of Otis Hallett, late of 81. .JOhnsbury in said
district, deceased, makes application TO said Court
for license 70 sell the whole Of the real estate Of
said deceased except the widows right of home
stead and dover therein but including the rever
sion OF said dover, representing that said sal. Is
necessary for the payment of the debts Of said de
ceased, and charges Of administration upon said
estate.
WhereupOn it is ordered by said court that said
application come under consideration and be- heard
on the 18th day Of April. A. d. lisa, at the Pro
bate Office in st. Johnsbury and, it is further or
dered that all persons interested be notified here
Of by publication Of notice OF this application and
order thereon three weeks succes-ively in the
Caiedonian printed at st Jobnsbury, before said
and place ana if they cause, object thereto.
By the Court, Attest
3l-33 HENRY FRENCH, Register.
S1TATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA DIsrRIcT S.
> In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
St Johnsbury, within and for said district. the
25th day Of March, A. ID. 1872.
An instrument purpOrting To be the last W III AMI
Testament Of Polly Roberts, late Of st J0hnsbury.
in said district deceased being presented 20 Court
by Abel Wiley, the Executor therein nam
ed. for Probate:
1t is ordered by said Court, that all persons
concerned therein be notified 10 appear at session
Of said Court To be holden at the Probate Office
in ST Johnsbury on the 18th day of April
A. ID. lss2 and show cause, If any they may haN.
against the Probate Of said Will; for which
purpose il is further ordered, that a copy of the
record of this order be published three weeks sue.
cessively in the CaledOnan. printed at 81
Johnsbnry, previous to said time appointed for
hearing
By the Court, Attest
HENRY FRENCH, Register.
true copy Of Record, Attest
H'5 HENRY FRENCH, Register.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31

Speaking of the recent appropria
ton of Sl5O,OOO for "A Federal business
block at Montpelier, the Woodstock
Standard says: "Of course all over
S25, 900 of this amount is fraud on
the public purse" With this $780,,
600, instead of preteutious structure
AT Montpelier, the government could
easily construct besides that at Mont
pelier neat and commodious struct-
urcs for post office and customs bust
ness at Brattleboro, Bennington, st.
Johnsbury, st. Adams, Woodstock and
Richford where the need is fully as
great
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
Safe For Sale.

New and moderD-just the thing for Farmer. or
small Business Man. Very cheap Tor cash En-
quire of Z. M SIONE.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31

President Arthur must he aware that
the press and people of this country
are very willing To stand by him and
commend him when he makes IA good
appointment such, for instance, as the
recent accepted appointments to the
supreme court. But they are equally
rs ready to condemn poor appoint
ment or Il step taken in the interest of
his cronics. They do not ask from
him "Stalwartn administration, or Il
yielding to the demands of "half-
breeds = but they do expect Il popular
administration, Il handling of govern
ment affairs in such way rs will en-
nance the public welfare and let private
interests slide.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
Piano Forte For Sale.

First-class Chickering Piano In perfect order for
sale at half price. Owners sell as they have no
further use for it. Enquire at this office. If
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
The Waterbury Murderer.

Now that Mccartney, the Waterbury
murderer, is safe within the walls of
the asylum at Brattleboro-tO which
the states attorney saw fit to assign
him rather than try him for murder
he is perfectly sane, and now wonders
why he was not locked up in safe
place before. But it is limited by those
best acquainted with the man that his
tiendish deed was not so much the re
suit of an insane freak as of an out
burst of brutal passion, to which he
was addicted. This matter should be
sifted thoroughly, and if there is no
real foundation for the plea of insani-
ty, Mccartney should not be allowed
to escape a trial for murder. Accord
ing to statements in the Waterman,
there are good grounds for taking lit
tie stock in the theory that insanity
had all to do with the murder.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31

The post-oflice fight which has been
raging at Negennes for some time is a
disgraceful affair. johnson, the present
postmaster, has had the Office eight
years, and is said to have been good
officer. Talbot, "A bankrupt merchant,
is his opponent, and numerous petitions
have been sent to Washington i'll be
half of both parties. Local jealousies
have been melted, petty quarrels are
the order of the day, and there has
been any amount of bad blood shown
over little office worth 1890 year.
Nergennes must he sadly i'll need of Il
sensation.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
w est Concord.

Prof. b. F. Xix holds a three days
sing in this place, commencing Thurs
day afternoon and closing Saturday
evening, April LIST, with concert.
Singers are all cordially invited to at
tend and help make it interesting.
Singing school closed last week Sat
urday evening.
School meeting was well attended
last Tuesday evening, and great deal
of interest was manifested in school af-
fairs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-31
st. cyohnsburp Galeduniall.

Gen. Grant has 'put his foot into it,
again. His zeal for the restoration of
Fitz John Porter has led him into but
ton-holing Senators and personally urg-
ing them to do what the President will
not do-recall the sentence of con-
domination passed on Porter. The
spectacle of an exPresident attempt
ing to overrule the decision of Congress
and President may be one of the
things possible in this great and glOri-
GUS republic, but it is not spectacle
to be very proud of.