St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-29

full OF the most ridiculous absurdities,
if we believe his journal written by
himself. 1t appears by that journal
that Dow was born at Coventry, Conn,
Oct l6, III, and was married Sept. 3,
lSOl, to Peggy" the adopted daugh-
ter of Smith Miller in Weston, n. Y,
and was at Danville in the latter part
of June, l605, being then on his way to
visit the relatives of his wife, then
living in Hardwick. Dow died in
Washington, Feb. ,, 1884.
THADDEUs STEVENS,
when he was Il poor, obscure, light,
slender, fatherless boy, and badly
crippled by deformed club foot, and
needed the sympathy, if not the chari-
ty. of every ne,-then it was that but
Il velv few manifested any concern
! iabGGc'1siat poor, unfortunate boy. But
after he had been a celebrated lawyer.
il very rich man, an eminent states
man, and finally laid away in his grave,
where he could neither receive nor i'm
| part good or evil, then each one of the
towns of Barnet, Peacham and Danville
| claimed the great honor of having been
the birthplace of that great and won
deriul man. But Mr.. Stevens, like
some other great men, did not have
| but one birthplace, which happened
| to he in Danvillc, on the 18th of April.
1892, at Il place about three miles south
east of the courthouse. His mother
was il sister of Dea. Joseph Morrill, of
| DanVille. In process of time, the
Stevens family removed to Barnet, and
there Mr.. stevens died. In lSO7 Mrs
Stevens removed to the village of Dan
vile with her four sons, Thaddeus be
ing the second one, and Doctor Morrill,
Stevens, late of st. JohnSbury, was the
next younger. A while every morning
and evening, and when not in school,
ThaddeuS was at work on the shoe
makers bench with his oldest brother.
to help in maintaining the family. The
four Stevens boys and myself attended
same school together at Danville for
| three OF four years, and then the
Stevens family removed to Peacham
At that place Thaddeus passed through
Il preparatory course at the Academy.
| subsequently, through college, and
finally became permanently established
| in his law practice at Harrisburg. Af-
ter tracing the course of Thaddeus
from the time of his poverty and OBJ
security, as he advanced onward and
upward. | finally had the great salts
faction of seeing him when he was at
| the pinnacle of fame, surrounded not
only by great hOnors, but also by great
wealth, and everything else which
could contribute to his pleasure and
happiness and, moreover, his physi-
cal dimensions had been expanded to
such Il degree that he could turn the
scales at about 225 pounds. Mr.. Ste
vcnS died August II. IS6S, aged seven
ty-SiN years, -four months and seven
days. Mrs. Stevens died at Peacham
several Years before Thaddeus, who
manifested so much regard for his
mother that he expended il large sum
of money in Il monument or some other
memorial device ut her grave.
THE GREAT COMET
| appeared about the first of September.
ISL, was located very nearly in a
wcst-northwest direction, and its nu-
clcuS about twelve degrees above the
horizon. That comet was visible all
the autumn, or more than ninety days,
and during the most of that time it did
not appear to have changed its position
much, if any. The different rays. oI
threads of light, streaming from its nu-
cleus, made that great combination Il
wonderful and brilliant affair, and es-
pccially so, when we consider the i'm
mcnsc length of its tail, through the
whole length of which those fine lines
were drawn, being very bright at the
nucleus, or their starting point, but at
some distance from which their bril-
liancy faded away gradually until they
reached their far distant terminus
when that mass of fine threads wa,
lost in small surrounding cloud o
darkness, which, in reality, was merely
an illuslvc appearance by way of con
trast. The width of that comets tai
was i'll proportion to its enormOu,
length. The upper portion of tina
tail was curved dOwnwards in such
manner that a considerable part of tn,
arch. The prodigious length of tina
comet occupied about fifty degrees, o
more than one fourth part of the heav
ems. llenschcl computed the length o
its tail ut a hundred millions of miles
, II that estimate is correct, then tina
/ was the greatest comet that we hav,
f any account of during the last , ,00
years. The comet of 1863 was calle,
. the great comet but its tail was com
pnted to he only thirty-siX millions q
|. miles, and it was visible but yer
! short time. About I35 years hefor
A Christ, two great comets were seen to
r gether for scventy-two days, but thei
, tails were five or six degrees shorte
e than the one of 1911.
COL. ETHAN ALLEN.
Many years ago movement wa
made in Vermont to obtain possessiO
Il of the military uniform suit of appart
Ii nnce hrlnmnimr tn and mnrn hv Ethn