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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Literary.

The Manhattan. published in New
York, as its name indicates, is rapidly
winning its way to popular favor. The
October edition is already exhausted,
and another is in preparation. Mr..
Whittier received 800 for the poem
which appeared in that issue, and Il
poem 10y Edmund Clarence Stedman
will head the list of contents for No
Vember.
GLOW John Norton kept his Christ
mas" is the title of the story which w.
II. H. Murray has prepared for the
extra holiday number of Harper's
Weekly, and is a touching tale of Adj
rondack adventure, turning upon the
painful journey taken by John Norton,
an old trapper, and his companion to
relieve from starvation poor family
who had been fOrsaken in the wilder
ness.
Donnelly & Co. of Philadelphia pub
lish small book which purports to be
revelation of the campaign of 1884,
with accounts of next years national
conventions of both parties. Blaine is
made the republican candidate and
Butler the democratic. The audaciOus
author even goes so far as to give the
vote for each candidate from each state,
but his calculations are likely to be
somewhat upset.
The American Journalist is the title
of new monthly publication, the first
issue of which is before us, and is pub
lished at st. Louis, Mo. 1t contains
- pages, is handsomely printed,
its engravings are excellent, and its
first instalment of portraits and hi
ographical sketches relates to Missouri
journalists. Its main object, as stated
in its own words, is to laid the I'M
known, unseen stars of the press, who
scintillate through the editorial and
miscellaneous pages of the great news
papers, and whose sparklings give
greater luminosity to the central light
that controls the editorial pages 1t
is the best periodical Yet given to the
craft.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
State Personals.

Miss Fannie, daughter of ex-GOv-
ernOr Proctor, died at Rutland Sept.
%.
Rev. C. w. Stowell of Coventry has
been assigned to a Methodist church
at Kernville, Cal.
Hon. Z. p. Walton of Montpelier was
severely i'll with what was found to be
blood poisoning, but has recovered.
Ex-Governor Redfield Proctor, so a
correspondent thus early states, has
consented to deliver the address at
Chester next Memorial day.
F. S. Heath, an old aud respected
citizen of Castleton, dropped dead in
his house, Sept. "a, from disease of the
heart. He was sixty-fve years old
and has resided in Castleton since 1910.
Hon. Zenas c. Ellis, president of the
First National bank of Fairhaven for
the last six years and one of the di-
rectors of the bank since its Organiza-
ton, died Sept. 26, of Bright's disease.
He was assistant judge of the Rutland
county court two years.
William Eaton, cOmpositOr in the
office of the Danville Star, is in his
eighty Fourth year, and is probably the
oldest type-setter in the state. Until
the other day, when he was confined
to his house with illness, he had
worked for nearly seventy years at the
cease" without hardly losing II days
work.
Frank X. Bates, Esq, of Northfield,
grand worthy secretary of the grand
lodge of Good Templars, died OF
consumption, Sept. 26. He graduated
from the Norwich university in 1874,
studied law and engaged in practice at
| Mortified. DIR. II. NJ. Chandler OF
Woodstock has been appointed to fill
the vacancy until the meeting of the
grand lodge i'll January.
st. Michael's Episcopal church at
| BrattlebOrO was filled with society
people the 25th ult., at the marriage
of Katherine b., oldest daughter OF
Frank w. Brooks, and Oscar A, only
son of AzOr Marshall. The bride was
attired in white satin court train, Orna-
mented with lace and pearls. A re-
ception followed at the house of the
bride, the BrattleborO orchestra fur
nishing the music. The presents were
elaborate, including Il 81 900 check.
Rumor tells Il good story about Sen
ator Edmunds and b. F. Fifeld, Esq.
according to the Waterman. These
gentlemen were fishing for bass last
week and luck seemed to be in favor
of the senator until suddenly he found
that he did not have bite, while his
companion was fast gaining upon him
Investigation showed that the great
objector had been trying to catch bass
with dead bait which had very consid
erately been put on his hook by Mr.
Fifield.
Rev. Geo. B. TOlman, who died a
Santa Barbara, Cal, Sept. 3, was ma
tive of Greensboro, and Il graduate OF
the University of Vermont in 1852
After studying for the ministry he wa:
ordained pastor of the Congregational
church at Sheldon, where he remained
somewhat more than seven years
afterward at Brooktield for eight year
more he finally left his native state il
1880, going to California i'll search o
health. He was for a short time aftel
his arrival in California able to assum,
and discharge the duties of pastor o
the Congregational church of SAINT;
Barbara.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
A Hinesburg Ccntenarian.

Mrs. Catherine Rood of IIinesburg
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
anniversary Sept. 20, on which occasion
about 10 persons were present. Among
them were residents of fifteen different
towns, one relative coming from Iowa
to be present at the reunion. Seven
teen persons over seventy years of age
were also among the company Zone of
the number, Mrs. Polly Berry, being
nearly ninety-nine years old. She was
born in Connecticut. In her infancy
her father, Jacob shy der, emigrated to
Vermont, then almost an uninhahited
wilderness. He settled in the town of
Huntington, and Mrs. Rood has resided
all her life with the exception of two
years spent i'll the north part of the
state) in the towns of Huntington and
Hinesburg. Jacob Snyder was il man
of considerable note in the early histo-
ry of the state, and his daughter in
herited much of his intelligence and
force of character. She has never been
severely i'll, and has always enjoyed
remarkably good health. She has
borne two children, both of whom are
now living. The present preservation
of her faculties is wonderful, and her
bodily strength is superior to that of
many persons much her junior. She
has been member of the Methodist
church for more than eightyiive years,
having joined them when they first
came to this part of the country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Public Opinion.
\ DEMOCRATIC OPINION OF TEwKs-
BURY.

\ DEMOCRATIC OPINION OF TEwKS-
BURY.
Several persons have asked the Post
what it thinks of Gov. Buffers illustra-
ted Tewksbury pamphlet. The Post
thinks it is coarse, nasty and nauseat-
ing. 1t thinks its publication was
very iniudiciOus, that it is calculated
to do great injury to the democratic
ticket, and that it is astonishing that Il
man of Gov. Buffers shire wdness
should not only have permitted, but
directed, the publication of Il thing so
vile. 1t is to be hoped that the report
that its further circulation has been
stopped by Gov. Butler or his ad viserS
is true Boston Post.
TIE MODERN sCHOoL-MIsTREss.
The modern school-mistress is a
fruit of our civilization of which we
have no reason to be ashamed. She
owes her position tO-three things,
American liberty of women, the Ameri-
can absorption in business by men,and
the desire of women to earn their own
bread. Age and experience are against
her as an ideal teacher. Time is the
only one who can put old heads on
young shoulders. But if she cannot
always match her masculine rival in
age and experience the female teacher
may, if ambitious, meet him success
fully in scholarship and preparation fol-
her work. Minnesota Journal of Edu-
cation.
THE MOST USEFUL MAN IN PUBLIC LIFE.
Senator Edmunds of Vermont is also
known as an ohiector. But he always
has reason for everything, and no
man in either house can get up and
state his reasons as clearly and forci-
bly, as Edmunds can. By odds he is
the best debater that we have had III
Congress in twenty years. Many II job
he has killed not by ~ object
strategy, but by getting up and telling
his reasons why the bill or resolution
should not he passed. a great man is
Edmunds | am glad to hear his
health is better. If anything should
happen to him it would be II national
calamity. He is not only the biggest
man in the senate, hut he is the mos
useful man in public life to the repub-
lican party Ramsdel's Washington
Letter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

Hiram A. Cutting of Lunenburgh and
Herbert Brainerd of st. Adams, fish
commissioners, announce that having
perfected arrangements whereby they
hope to supply all applicants with
they would ask all desiring them to
write full particulars about pond or
stream and if, in their opinion, they
can subsist they will supply them with
pleasure. Remember they are vegeta-
BILE feeders and do not omit to staff
the water vegetation (kind and amo unit
in the pond or stream to be stocked !;
also kinds of fish there. Applications
can be sent to either of them. 1t is
desirable that all applications be in
before Oct. 18th. Such as are not may
have to 90 over to another year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Another Of John u. Howard
BenefactiOuS.

Friday John =. Howard purchased
of the Burlington Savings bank the
"Underwood place ut the north end
of the college park for the immediate
construction of IL new and larger build
ing for the medical department of the
university. The place includes the
well known mansion and several acres
of land, eXcellently situated for the
purposes of the medical school. 1t is
understood that Mr.. Howard proposes
to use the house in part, with such en-
largements and alterations as will give
on the lower floor large and conven-
lent rooms for the needed offices, ana
tomical museum, and dissecting room f.;
and above these Il spacious, well-lght-
ed and cOmmOdiOuS lecture room, of a
capacity to accommodate three hun
dred students. He also intends to
take out the interior of the present
medical college building, and to make
of it Il convenient and well-appOinted
gymnasium, with suitable apparatus
for gymnastic sports and physical
training. The medical college has for
several years been too small for its
large and growing classes. The new
building will be more convenient and
suitable for its purpose, and will have
margin of space for future growth
The cost of the whole will be about
$40, 900, and will make over S400,00C
that Mr.. Howard has given to the
university and the city within ten
years. 1t is expected that the build
ing will he ready for occupancy at the
opening of the next medical term. The
work is to be commenced Immediately
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
The Vermont and Canada'S
Troubles.

The directors of the Vermont and
Canada Railroad company are out with
Il circular in which they warn the
stockholders that the Central Vermont
directors, who already own one-quarter
of the Vermont and Canada stock, will
get control of the road ut the coming
meeting ut Bellows Falls, Oct. Is, un-
less they are watched. They say that
one of the reasons for going into the
compromise, by which the Consolidated
Vermont company was to take both
the Central Vermont and Canada roads,
was that the "Langdon suit" should be
withdrawn. This has not been done,
and Langdon declares that he shall
press it. If the Vermont and Canada
transfers its stock ut the coming meet
ing i'll pursuance of the compromise
it will have no power to
compel the other side to live up to its
part of the trade, and the directors
insist that until the compromise agree
ment is fully executed no Central Yer
mont interest should be allowed in
their board.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

Albert Taft, leading manufacturer
and well-knOwn citizen of Burlington,
was sutfocated by gas on Sunday
morning. He had been out of health
for several weeks, and, as had been
his custom, it is supposed that he
took his medicine in the latter part of
the night, and did not properly shut
off the gas. The pin which should stop
the thumb plug was on the bureau
directly under the fixture, thus making
it evident that the pin dropped out and
the thumb-plug turned too far without
attracting Mr.. Taft's notice For sew
eral years Mr.. Taft had had no sense
of smell, and this accounts for his not
being conscious of the OdOr when he
first returned to his bed. All attempts
at resuscitatiOn failed. Mr.. Taft was a
native of Crown Point, n. Y, and came
to Burlington in 1868, and after being
in the employ of b. S. Nichols three
years established the firm of A. Taft &
Co. After a number of changes the
present firm of Taft, Morgan & Co.
was established, of which Mr.. Taft
was the senior partner. He was fifty
seven years of age, and leaves four
children, having lost his wife last
spring.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
A Terrible Powder Explosion.

The explosion in the California pow
der works, situated near PinOle, on the
Central Pacific railroad on Friday,
took place in the mixing room. The
immediate cause will never be known,
as all those engaged in the room, com
prising forty Cinnamon and one white
Overseer, were blown to atoms. Scraps
of their bodies were picked up in differ
ent directions at distance of a quarter
of mile from the scene of the disaster.
The only white man. killed was the
overseer of the mixing room. This
makes the third explosion in the pow
der works which are reckoned among
the largest on the coast, and which
employ twenty white men and l25
Cinnamon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
The CasIIetOm iId-Murder.

The grand jury at Rutland on Friday
found no bill against Mrs. Goodwin,
under arrest for the murder of her
child Sept. -, and she will he dis
charged. The testimony of Theron
Goodwin, the father of the child, is
decidedly opposed to the superstition
that the deed was committed by the
mother. He says it was discovered mt
daylight that the shed door had been
burst open, and that his wife was stand
ing inside the house, with her face close
to the windOwpane watching for his
coming to the house, when the first
shot was fired at her from the inside.
He was out on the lake fishing at the
time. He says the revolver found in
his house with some of the chambers
empty was closely inspected by parties
present, the inspection showing that
the weapon could not have been re-
Gently used, the empty chambers being
rusty and dusty. The father says he
has no suspicion who committed the
deed, and that he has not been. and
will not be, permitted to speak to his
wife in private. The latest report from
the mother is that she had received
some indefinite warnings from her
father-in-law.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
General Personals.


Emile Charlotte Langtry is her cor
rect name.
Edwin Booth is about to make his
permanent winter home in Boston.
DIR. William T. Smith has been made
associate professor of anatomy in the
Dartmouth medical college.
Hon. William FaxOn, assistant sec
rotary of the navy under Gideon
Welles, died suddenly of heart disease
at Hartford, Conn.
Rev. F. II. Kasson, editor of the
Golden Rule, has received a unanimous
call to the pastOrate of the Tewksbury
Congregational church.
Luther L. Holden, of the Raymond
and Whitcomb Excursion bureau, has
started on ten thousand miles tour,
in the interest of that firm.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin is about to
present a fine public clock to his native
town of Paris, Me-, to be placed in the
tower of the Baptist church.
Corrodus, the eminent violinist, has
become the pOssessOr, at cost of 81,
400, of the Stradivarius violin once
owned and used by Paganini.
Leila j. Robinson, Boston's female
lawyer, has been nominated by Gov.
Butler as special commissioner to take
dispositions and administer oaths.
Christopher Columbus remains are
to be enclosed in plate glass urn.
| This urn is to hold the cas<et contain
| ing the actual ashes in such manner
that the remains will be plainly visible
Gen. Sherman will turn over the
command of the army to Gen. Sheridan
November Il and virtually retire t.
civil life, although he will not he placed
upon the retired list of the army until
February 8.
Mrs. j. X. Barney of Providence ha,
been appointed delegate, by the gov,
ernOr of Rhode Island, to the Nationa
Convention of Charities and Correc
tons and been chosen delegate t.
represent the w. c. T. L. in that con,
ventiOn.
Professor C.. F. Emerson of Dart
mouth college leaves about the mid
die of November for nine months stud,
in Europe. He will give part of hi
time to perfecting himself in German
and the remainder to the study of tn,
methods of instruction and systems o
laboratory work in the French, German
and English universities.
Robert J. Burdette of the Burlington
Hawkeye, after having travelled owe
the country for several years, has a
last been seriously injured by being
struck by Il railroad train. He stepped
from one train between the tracks JUS
as an express swept by on the othe
track. A passing coach caught tn,
valise which he held in his hand, strik
ing it so suddenly and with such fore,
as to throw him back against the NOV
ing car. His wounds are not considered
dangerous. He is now at his home IA
> ArdmOre, Penn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
College Notes.

Phillips academy, at Andover, began
the school year with 100 boys. There
are now 272, which indicates an enrol
ment for the year of over 300 pupils.
The Yale college preliminary cata-
logue shows this division of students {:
Academic department, seniors Isl,
Juniors I43, sOphomores l55, freshmen
$50; Sheffield scientific school, post
graduates four, special students not
candidates for degrees three, seniors
men eighty-four. The junior class of
the law department numbers forty.
One of the thirty-fve seniors is a
negro.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

mated for the ant-gOvernOrship,
in view of the unpopularity of Mr..
Ames, would stand chance of cleo
ton"
Senator Bayard says Buffers past
does not entitle him to be considered
a democrat. Does his past entitle him
to be considered anythingG
The old-line democrats in Massachu-
sets complain because the Butler re-
publicans get the cream while they
have to pat up with skinned milk or
nothing.
The New York democratic cOnven-
ton gave Grover Cleveland's presiden-
tial boom quite a boost. BY the admis-
sion of its delegates, Tammany's mouth
is closed, though its braves will not
don much of their war paint.
Oliver Ames is said to feel hurt be-
cause no mention was made of his
name at the republican ratification
meetings. But Cakes Ames' son is not
W bt utltilt'l II ulOlltN VIII CIt'i iiilI
his enemies may rest assured of that
Oliver is great fellow for vindication.
Won't the Boston Traveller give the
variations on its familiar tune OF
Governor Butler must go" ? All good
things wear ont by frequent repetition
a Butler paper wants the democrats
to send out RobinsOn's portrait rs Il
campaign document. That is game
at which two could play, and the
Butlerians cannot boast of beauty as
one of their candidates qualifications
DIR. Bland, Buffers biographer, has
just discovered that his subject Is not
the man he thought he was. And al
because he sang requiem over the
grave of the greenback party
The st. Adams Messenger tells the
Massachusetts republicans GLOW t.
Beat Butler" That is what they wan
to know.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Daring Attempt 10 Rob n Train.

The following account of a daring
attempt to rob a train on the Atchison.
Topeka and Santa Fe road, between
the hours of two and three in the morn
ing, is given by Patterson, the express
messenger, whose bravery alone frus-
trated the robbers
The train had stopped at Coolidge
Station as usual twenty minutes for
lunch. After putting off some railroad
mail lay down on my box in front of
the side door, and soon dropped off into
a doze. My revolver lay at my side
ready for any emergency that might
arise. 1t was about time for the train
to start when heard the words, "Come
ont of there you d" This woke
me up, and | afterward learned that
the remark had been made by Con-
ductor Greeley to man whom he no
ticed getting into the ear. When
awoke ] saw standing within four feet
of me man with pistol in his hand.
| did not have time to speak before he
fired, the bullet passing over my head.
The man then fired out of the doorway
ut the conductor. When he fired
realized that Il train robbery was going
on, and with the hope of making the
robber believe that he had killed me,
| unclasped my hands which were fold
ed on my bosom and allowed them to
fall by my side. My right hand fell on
the muzzle of my revolver meantime
the man was working his way toward
the rear of the ear, evidently suppos-
ing that he had finished me, and in
tending to kill the baggage man, OF
any one else who got in his way. As
soon as got hold of my pistol | fired
walked toward him. He raised his
revolver, but it went off prematurely
the ball striking the roof of the car
When | shot ut him part of his body
was behind the stove. | aimed at his
abdomen. and | believe my ball took
effect. About this time | saw another
man, who proved to be a pal" of the
first, trying to climb in mt the side door
No sooner had | fired, however, than
he disappeared and the man | had shot
at jumped out on the platform. Thai
was the last | saw of the robbers. EN-
pecting that they would come up t.
the front side door, | seized some
j freight and barrlcaded the door. In
less than half minute after the rob.
bers left my car, heard three shots al
the engine. | stood at the front sid,
door of my ear, revolver in hand. JUS
then Conductor Greeley came up anC
said that our engineer and fireman
were hurt. Then Greeley went for
ward to them and coming back to me
said, ''They are both killed. The en-
gineer is shot through the heart anC
the fireman through the neck" | thel
Jumped out on the platform and saw
the engineer and fireman lying on the
platform alongside of the engine. TIL,
fireman was still conscious, and wai
taken into the hotel where | talked
with him a few minutes. At Cimarron
twenty miles distant, we met the spe
cial train from Dodge City conveying
to Coolidge the sheritf's posse to pur
sue the robbers" Three men hav,
been arrested for the murders.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
A Failure Of Justice in Rutland

The grand jury adjourned without
making any presentment in the matter
of the alleged embezzlement of the
cash of the Rutland railroad company.
The attention of the grand jury was
specially called to this matter by Judge
Neazcy in his charge, and it is Il matter
of public establishment that the grand
jury did not succeed in finding out
facts that would warrant Indictment of
some party or parties presumably
guilty of this alleged embezzlement.
Forty thousand dollars has been stolen
by somebody, and yet the grand jury
makes no presentment. We do not
learn that the present directors, whose
expert has been searching carefully
through the deep tangled wildwood of
the accounts of the recent manage
ment, were summoned before the Jury
to testify; we do not learn that there
was any exhaustive effort made to eX-
plOre the mystery of this alleged en-
bezzlement, and secure the Indictment
of the presumably guilty party or par
ties. 1t is u curious result, not likely
to increase public confidence in the
capacity of our present judicial ma
chlnery to sift out the truth from the
mass of mystery and contradiction with
which this alleged embezzlement has
been wrapped like IA fog, for the last
five months. The failure of the grand
jury to indict anybody leaves the
people in the fog more than ever, and
we are driven to one of two conclusions
The grand jury and the prosecuting
officer did their whole duty or they did
not; if they did their whole duty with
out finding facts to warrant an indict-
ment, why, then the judicial machinery
they represent is so radically lame as
to warrant compassion if not contempt.
- Rutland Herald.