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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
Wade Hampton on the POIti-
cal Situation.

Senator Wade Hampton of South
Carolina does not "boom" for the "old
ticket, and is of the opinion that such
a ticket would not he popular in the
south. He thinks Mr.. Tlden's day
ended in lSSO, and that the sentiment
favorable to him then has died out
since. He does not believe, moreover,
that Mcdonald would he a popular
candidate with southern democrats.
He does not take any stock in But
Ter, and sets him aside without much
comment. The man that the senator
seems to ''tackle to" is Senator Bavard.
because he stood 10y the section when
it needed friends, has been consistent
and true upon financial questions, and
represents conservative idea upon the
tariff issue" Ilampton's opposition to
Iilden, many democrats believe, is the
result of the electoral controversy of
T6-'77, when they believe that Hamp-
ton entered into an arrangement by
which the electoral vote of the state was
given To the republicans and his cleo
ton rs governor secured.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
Public Opinion.
ANOTHER REASON FOR AN ArPROPRIA-
TON FOR THE MISSISSIPPI.

ANOTHER REASON FOR AN APPROPRIA-
TON FOR THE MISSISSIPPI.
Gen. Butler has reached the conclu-
sion that the path to the White House
leads through the South, and he is 90
ing to make Il tour of the southern
states next winter for his health. He
proposes to show the people of the
North that they have misjudged the
temper of the people of the South His
first move will be in New Orleans His
theory is that the southern democrats
in their assertion that they want to for
give and forget will give him Il royal
welcome, and that he will be carried
from the Mississippi to the Atlantic,
and up the coast, on Il tidal wave of
gush and sentiment Washington Re
publican.
THE LESSON OF THE TWO C'S.
Compare the positions before the
public of the two men Curtis and Conk-
ling to-day, the former with con-
stantly broadening future before him,
and the latter shut up to feed upon his
own insufferable selfishness and ego
tism, with little if any hope of being
again considered one of the men who
shape political opinions. There is no
place for him, or politicians of his
stripe, while the mass of Americans
are intent upon such Improvement of
civil service as will place it upon per
manent footing, beyond the reach of
mercenary wire-pullers. Under exist
ing conditions of the public mind
George William Curtis looms up as a
far more powerful republican leader
than COnkling was in his palmiest DAYS.
II Boston Transcript.
MOUSE FROM A MOUNTAIN.
Sixty thousand persons have been in
mates of Tewksbury. OF these a very
large proportion have been exception
ally ignorant, filthy, diseased, vicious.
1t would have been a marvel if micro
scopic examination had not brought to
light Irregularities, cases of impotence.
neglect, even cruelty, in population
so difficult to care for. How many and
how atrocious are these wrongs perDe-
trated as "matter of course" we nm
dertake not to say. But restricting orr
estimate to what has been fairly proved
by fair weighing not only of testi-
mOny but of the persons who testified.
we come to the conclusion that no ex-
animation We have before heard of has
sustained so much thunder of prologue
with so little lightning of performance.
L Boston CongregatiOnalist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
The state Press.
HAS THE CAMP-MEETING DECLINED IN
SPIRITUAL POWER ?

HAS THE CAMP-MEETING DECLINED IN
SPIRITUAL POWER ?
The suggestion is somewhat freouert
in its repetitiOn-the camp-meeting Of
to-day is far inferior to that of the
former days, in regard to its spiritual
character. We have but little svmpa-
thy with the idea that the former DAYS
were better than the present, in afford
ing opportunities for efficient evange-
listic work at the camp-meetings. Such
theories, although prevalent with a
class who habitually draw unfavorable
comparisons beteen present customs as
viewed in company with former prac-
tees, are usually advanced by persons
who are entirely useless to this gener-
alton and who would fain impress the
public mind that they once existed as
useful members of society, and that
there is some excuse for their present
uselessness. Hence the theory of the
superiority of former days is often and
perhaps ordinarily msOund, for the
useless people of to-day have always
lived and gloried on their "reminiscences
or their anticipatiOns, without ever
approaching the value of the passing
present opportunities to be sweet aud
useful Christian Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
The Tariff The Democratic 10
nah.

As the time for holding the next
democratic national convention draws
nigh, less than a year hence,-the
hopelessly -muddled condition of the
party on the tariff question becomes
apparent. The aritf-for-revenue ad-
vocates are not to have as smooth sail
ing as they did in the convention of
l-SO. OF the states that have thus far
held conventions, the party is divided
on this question of the tariff. which
cannot be thrown overheard. but which
must be carried if the ship sinks or
floats. The Ohio democratic plank on
the tariff has been adopted substantial
ly by the party in Virginia and Penn
sylvania. If the New York democracy
take the same position on this question,
the Richmond Dispatch believes that
the attitude the party will occupy in
the next national campaign will he set
tied. That paper argues that the four
great states mentioned will send one
fourth of the delegates to the presiden-
tial convention of 1854, and that they
will exert a paramount influence in that
body. With the party in other though
smaller states pronounced for "a tariff
for revenue only" the prospect for
unity on this perplexing though all-im-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
THE ST. ALBAxs TRUST COMPANY

THE ST. ALBANs TRUST COMPANY
is somewhat involved, but how much
cannot be ascertained. Its largest
stakeholder is its president, Lawrence
Brainerd, and he is endorser for Mr..
Barlow to a large amount, just how
much cannot be ascertained. He has
turned over all his property to the
Trust company, amounting to some
half million of dollars. Mr.. Brainerd
is quite hopeful that the Trust compa-
ny will be able to resume business
shortly. Nearly all the working peo-
pie who have any money saved have it
deposited in the Trust company, so
that in case of the failure of that COM
pany to meet its liabilities the class to
suffer will be those the very least able
to afford it. The depositors in both
the Trust company and the bank are
naturally fearful of losing their saw
ings and deposits, and all sorts of
rumors are current, but until Mr.. Hen
dee has completed his investigation
nothing definite can be ascertained.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
Editorial Notes.

Different people have different ideas
III promoting the spelling reform. Now.
there is the Vermont Christian Messen-
ger, which insists, in a department
heading, of spelling it "Sandw itches."
The Rutland Herald coins Il new
word. 1t is "Negrophobia." Shades of
Ham
The Boston Traveller says the shoot
ing of Carey by O'Donnell shows that
the Irish have adopted the Roman plan,
and carried their old contest with the
English into Africa, the last blood shed
in that long quarrel having flowed at
the southern extremity of the African
continent.
y prophet has turned up in New
Hampshire. One of the legislators pre-
dlcted an election for senator on the
third ballot on the first Thursday in
August. The prediction was fulfilled.
1t is said that the whirlpool at Mag
ara has become a centre of attraction
since the death of Captain Webb.
Thus do the greedy landlords turn ev-
erythlng to account.
If Butler runs again for governor. he
will be thoroughly tanned.
The Boston Herald says that after
holding the state conventions at Wor-
cester for fifteen years, the Massachu-
sets republicans are to meet this year
at Boston, where the rural delegate
'can really find genuine Havana cigar
and enlightened bar-tenders.n
One man not afraid that his speech
es will hurt him. Mcdonald being ask
ed if he did not fear that political
speeches made by him this summer
might injure his prospects for the pres
idential nomination next summer. the
ex-senator replied: ''My services and
my opinions upon all public questions
are always at the command of NV par
ty.n
Gilbert ID. Delamatyr of Indiana
could not initiate the volume of his cur
rency sufficiently in the greenback par
ty, and he Will now try the same kind
os initiation, or the initiation of his
lungs, or both, as pastor of a Denver
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
Another FOOIhardy Man.

The fOOlhardy men do not seem to
he disheartened by the fate of Captain
Webb. The man who wishes to at
tempt what Webb failed to accomplish
is Captain J. ID. Rhodes of Salamanca,
y. Y, a swimmer of some note, having
life-preseTving armOr patented by
himself, who in 1877 dove from "A
staging hundred feet high near the
ferry landing of the Niagara river. He
wrote to Superintendent Nelson of
Prospect park, Niagara Falls, that he
will use his armOr and give $1,000
bonds to swim the rapids and whirl-
pool any time between September and
November %. He desired to make an
arrangement with the Park company,
offering to deposit 81 900 with it as
security. Mr.. Nelson wrote declining
to he party in the attempt. Rhodes
replied that he should go to the falls
and if the authorities would not give
him opportunity, he would cross to the
Canada side from Captain Webb's
starting point and show to the world
that his life-saving armor will allow
him to accomplish the feat. He dis
claims any thirst for notoriety or mon
ey, and says that his purpose is to de
monstratc that his armor will, with his
additional strength, carry him safely
through. He says that before next
Monday he will go to the falls, make
his points and carry out his plans. The
fact that an oil barrel, half filled with
water, then headed tight and decorated
with flags. went safely through the
rapids Saturday morning and at no
time was it entirely submerged, would
seem to support his theory.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
Political.

The Minnesota democrats nominated
w. w. McNair for governor. Anti
prohibition resolutions were passed.
The platform declares for tariff for
revenue only, approves the river and
harbor bill, and calls for a revision of
the patent laws.
Kentucky held an election on Mon
day for state ticket and members of
the legislature. The democrats elect
Proctor Knott governor by about 49,
600 majority. The Legislature will
stand: Democrats 80, republicans 20,
If the present estimates are unchanged.
Senate: Democrats 30, republicans 3.
The general assembly elects this winter
successor to Senator John S. Will
hams, whose term of service expires in
March, 1885.
Hon. w. S. Groesbeck delivered an
address at Cincinnati, by invitation of
a number of democrats, on "Civil Ser
vice Reform" Referring to the PEN
dleton law, Mr.. Groesbeck said: "If
faithfully administered, it will improve
not only the civil service and Congress.
but also the executive department of
the federal government. The reform is
inaugurated, and it will go on from
strength to strength, until it shall take
charge of and regulate all the offices
within its appropriate Jurisdiction and
in due time it will be adopted by the
states, and especially by the large and
expensive municipalities. 1t is bus
mess necessity, and it is right. Nor is
this all. 1t is democratic, and | hope
it may be the privilege of the democ-
racy to take it into their own keeping
at the earliest opportunity, and admin
lister it with impartiality and success"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
Gen. Pike Elected Senator in
New Hampshire.

On Thursday the protracted contest
for United States senator in the New
Hampshire legislature was ended in
the election of Gen. Austin F. Pike.
He was elected on the forty-second
ballot. Whole number of votes cast,
30; necessary for a choice, 15S; Will
liam 5. Ladd, l Aaron F. Stevens, ;
Edward II. Rollins, ! Gilman Mars
ton, 10; Harry Bingham, 10 E; Austin
F. Pike, lSl. Pike is sixty-four years
old, and has been IA member of the bar
since 1915. He has been speaker of
the state house, as member of which
he served five terms, and president of
the senate, in which he served two
terms. He has been chairman of the
state committee, and was member of
the Forty third Congress.
The first ballot was taken June 10.
the two houses voting separately. The
whole number of votes was 32S, of
which Rollins had I27. Bingham I2I =.
Patterson %, Briggs %, Stevens IL,
MarstOn 10. On June 20 the first con-
vention was held, Rollins having I25.
Bingham l2I, Patterson "a, Briggs %,
Stevens Is, Marston IL. There were
torty-two joint ballots in addition to
the one of June 10. Ten were inform
al and the rest were formal. Fifty-twO
persons in all were voted for. of whom
thIrty-four never received us high as
ten votes. Patterson started out with
-, and he arose above that on eighteen
ballots. His highest figures were 81.
Briggs highest was Is, Stevens %,
Marston's 36, Tappan's 81, Burns 10,
Chambers ~, Gallinger's Is. Pike APP
peared July IL, when he had one vote
on the second and third ballots. He
was next supported on July "A, when
he had one vote. His subsequent fig
ures were : July p, 10 on the first
ballot and % on the second July 26,
D July y, 10 ; July 10. informal
ballot, ; July 81, 50 August !, - :;
August ,, ~ on the first ballot, III on
the second and Isl on the last. There
were only six days when more than
one ballot was taken, two ballots be
ing taken on three days and three on
three days.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
? CENTS PER YARD.

These Ginghams were formerly sold at
II cents per yard, but to close them at
once we make the above generous offer.
300 Pieces Print. all of the best quail
ity, mt . cents per yard
This is the last lot of these prints we
shall have this season.
20 Pieces All Wool Cashmeres mt 3sc
per yard.
20 Pieces French All Wool Foules at
ID cents per yard.
We have made special prices in these
two lots of dress goods to close them
quick. They are all new goods pur-
chased during the past thirty days.
800 pairs Ladies' Hose, all colors at Sc
per pair.
800 pairs of Ladies' Hose, " " IOc
per pair.
2j boz. Ladies' Gauze Vests at IJc
each.
This is the greatest bargain of the
season
The very best Ladies' and Misses
Rubber Circulars for $1.OO.
all sizes, ever offered in this state.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10

Methodist church. A man who could
initiate currency at will would be a
good addition to any church.
We thought it would come at last.
Now it is claimed that O'Donnell, who
shot Carey, is an Ohio man.
During the recent thunder showers,
more than once has it been demon
strated that lightning strikes twice in
the same place. In this respect it diff
fers from presidential lightning.
1t is easy to keep cool in Vermont
this season.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
NO INDEMNITY FOR RAILROAD EMPLOY


The terrible collision on the Troy
and Boston railroad the other day, in
which five employees of the road stood
at their posts and lost their lives. some
of them being burned to death where
they were wedged beneath the rolling
stock, illustrates the fearful injustice
of the rule that employees can recover
no indemnity for injuries by the fault
of their cO-labOrers. In this case a
station-agent, overwOrked at that, was
responsible for the collision, and the
train-men could have no possible re-
sponsibility for the disaster in which
they were sacrificed. Yet the employ
ing corporation is under no legal obi
CATION to indemnify their families. This
is gross injustice. The collision took
place in New York, but the law there
is scarcely more favOrably administered
than here Springfield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10

portant question is not a very inviting
one, and the emergency seems to call
for Moses who shall lead the demo-
cratic hosts ont of the wilderness of
doubt and uncertainty in which they
have wandered for over half of the Is
raelitish "forty years.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10

Prosecutions are being made at Bel
lows Falls for the sale of cider.
1t is estimated that fifty acres OF
grain in Barnard will be destroyed by
grasshoppers.
Ed. A. Perry of South Woodstock
has sold his trotter, Susan p, to New
York parties for $1,000.
There have been raised about two
hundred bushels of straw berries in
North Ferrisburgh this seasOn
United States Marshal Henry and
Deputy Marshal Fisk arrested three
Illicit distillers at Tunbridge, Friday
A rattlesnake measuring four feet
two inches was killed in the vicinity
of Skitehawaug mountain, Springfield.
A sea serpent twenty feet long is
said to have been seen in Bruce pond.
covers one hundred acres, in Sheffield.
The new board of directors of the
Rutland railroad have elected Charles
Clement president and j. II. Williams
treasurer pro TEN.
At Rutland, the LIST, BOrax won the
2.45 race best time, 2.35. The 2.27
class was won by Clara NJ, Kitty Ives
second best time, 2.304.
A young man at Bellows Falls has
such big feet that he would have been
drowned recently if he had been able
to get his feet out of the boat.
George F. Davis of Windsor has sold
to Adam FOrepaugh pair of handsome
bay horses, five years old, and sixteen
hands high, of 2200 pounds weight, for
$1,000. These horses are to be present
ed to the president of the PENNSYLVANIA
Central railroad.
The bottom has dropped out of the
hop boom, and in spite of all predic-
lions that prices could go no lower
until this years crop was harvested,
they have dropped from S1.15 to as
low as twenty-five cents and upwards
to forty for the best.
DR.. L. A. Harrington, superintend-
ent of the Florence quarry at Rutland,
on the LIST was engaged in the super
vision of the work, when derrick fell,
striking him on the head, instantly
crushing the life out of him. His body
was frightfully mutilated.
At North Tunbridge, Albert Saulter
was thrown from a moving machine.
The horses ran several yards, dragging
him, and one guard was driven into
his leg above the knee, while the
scythe cut the flesh, taking it free from
his leg in pieces. 1t is thought he NAV
recover without the loss of a leg.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
NEW GLOVES,
NEW GLOVES,
BEST STOCK IN TOWN.

We shall make some very close
prices Ill our Carpet and Crockery De-
partments, as the most active seasons
trade we have had in years, and
to further increase our sales during
July and August, we think it best to
make such actual and substantial re-
auctions in prices as will induce our
customers to purchase also, having
bought in larger qantities and at
lower prices, we can offer greater bar
gains for the next sixty days than ever
known in this section.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
T.C.FLETCHER & CO..
Closing Out Sale =!

As special attraction for July and
August, we offer $50 pieces Bates, Lam
caster and other standard Ginghams
mt the low price of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10
DA UCHY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
TIRED ALL OVER.

What Rested and Refreshed a Weary Man
in Memphis.
No. it never amounted 10 an acute pain, but
continued to be dull weary ache in the small of
my back" writes Mr.. James Thomas of No 80
Madison street, Memphis, Tenn. This was an
old experience, and life became duh music | was
tired all over, with pain in the lower limbs and
habit of lying awake nights Recently tried one
of BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTERS
and decidedly relieved within twenty four
hours. 1t may have been Providence that did the
work but / give the credit 10 Benson's porous
plaster" Mr.. Thomas reverential idea does him
credit but Providence works by agents. and
among them BensOn's plaster ranks first as an ex-
ternal remedy. 1t acts quickly in relief and heal
ing, and renders life better worth living. Price 25
cents. Look in the middle Of the plaster for the
word CAPCINE. AJAX your physician about it.
Seabury johnson, Chemists. New York. as
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10

Hangings are becoming very queer
affairs. \ negro hanged in Richmond,
Va, put on white gloves before going
to the scatioId and made a long speech
to an assemblage of five thousand per
SONS. The sheriff subsequently add
dressed the people, asking that col
lection be- taken to defray the expenses
of taking the body to another county,
and 1t is said that "a good sum was
raised" When hangings are placed on
a plane with Spanish bull-fght, and
the culprit is permitted to air his elo-
quence before a vast multitude, it is
time that there was reform in execu-
tons
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10

Other sections of Vermont are get
ting instalments of the Tribune's Fresh
Air children. Bakersfield, near East
Fairfield, has fifty of them, and thirty
two, accompanied by their mothers,
are quartered at Bennington, where
they will be entertained for two weeks
10y the heirs of the late Trenor W.
Park, mt Maple Grove. Twenty eight
working girls are to pass two weeks at
Manchester. The Tribune fund now
amounts to over Sll 900. The people
who entertain these children derive
happiness equal to that conferred.
1t Is singular circumstance that the
current number of Harper's Young
People should contain an article Oh
'Sca Bathing and Floating" from the
pen of Captain Webb so soon after his
death. The paper contains useful
hints to the young bather, and it is
another singular fact that in this paper
the author endeavors to impress upon
the reader the difference between
"Plnck' and fool hardness" a differ
ence his fate indicates that he did not
himself sufficiently realize. Harper's
Weekly contains portrait of Webb,
which is said to be a rood one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10

Since Whitelaw Reid assumed edito-
rial control of the New York Tribune,
it has been the boast of that paper-a
claim that has been well borne out
that it was the foremost literary daily
newspaper of the country. On the
most progressive phases of politics,
literature, science and art, the Tribune
has been unequalled in the occupancy
of its chosen field. In view of its claims,
what shall he said when it devotes a
column and three-quartcrs to "A descrip-
ton of the recent mill" between Sui
Ivan, the Boston "bruiser," and the
Maori half-breed, Slade? Is the Trib-
une drifting from its high standard,
and intent upon the principle that
"ncws is news ?'
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10

The telegraph strike still continues.
A strike of the railroad operators was
predicted to take place on Monday, but
it has not yet taken place. The latest
development is the cutting of the
Western Union wires. Both parties
have offered rewards for the apprehen-
sion of the guilty parties. There is
little doubt that it is the work of the
strikers, as they would have an object
to subserye in crippling the work of
the company. Tuesday night there
was wholesale cutting of wires about
New York and Philadelphia, the whole
number cut being eighty-nine, but 200
were rendered useless in consequence.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-10

The fact that nearly all the republi-
cans voted for Mr.. Pike on the last bal
lot would indicate that the choice is
generally satisfactory, which leads one
to assume that the protracted contest
has not created factions which may
hereafter affect iniuriously the party
organizations Boston Journal.