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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
Let No Guilty Man Escape.

Evidently the people of st. Adams
have been brought to that point where
they believe that no guilty man should
escape Section of the charter of the
Trust company provides that "the di-
rectors shall be liable to the creditors
and stockholders of said corporation
for any loss which may be sustained
in consequence of any incompetency,
untaithfulness OF remissness in the dis
charge of their official duties hereinbe-
fore OF hereinafter prescribed, and any
member of such directors may he sued
in the same action by any claimant
under these provisions" Under the
provisions of this section, Noble X
Smith on Saturday sued out writs of
attachment against Lawrence Brain
erd, \. O. Brainerd, ). G.. Holyoke and
other directors of the company in be
half of number of the depositors. 1t
is high time that the people were pro
tected against the officials of institu-
tions guilty of criminal neglect or
carelessness in the handling of the
money entrusted to their care.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
Southeastern Matters.

Forbes, of the Boston Journal, was
in Montreal on Saturday, and struck
another ''status" of the Southeastern
trouble. His dispatch says: alt now
turns out that the Canadian Pacific
company has paid the claim of the
WasOn Manufacturing company against
the Southeastern, and for the satlsfac-
ton of which writ of replevin on Il
large number of cars was issued to
United States Marshal Henry. Papers
attaching Il large quantity of wood
along the line of the Southeastern were
also issued Friday by creditors in Yer
mont, but this claim has been settled
by the Canadian Pacific. The two
payments made amounted to several
hundred thousand dollars, and still
further tightens the grip of the Cana
dian Pacific on the Southeastern. The
claims of the Canadian Pacific and Pas
sumpsic and Boston, Concord and
Montreal railroads against the south
eastern now aggregate two million
dollars, and this financial hold on the
road, in connection with the fact that
parties in the interest of these roads
constitute a majority of the active di-
rectors of the Southeastern, make it
almost certain that the road will soon
he owned by the largest creditors of
Bradley Barlow.
In the event of the Canadian Pacific
and Passumpsic and Boston, Concord
& Montreal railroads coming into pos
session of the Southeastern railroad
proper it will he necessary to secure
the Montreal, Portland X Boston rail
way in order to complete their line and
make the desired connection between
their respective termini ut Montreal
and West Farnham, a distance of thirty
miles. This important link is owned
by separate corporation and has an
incumbrance of 1901 900 of first mort
gage bonds, of which 500 900 in
amount is held as collateral security
by the Vermont National bank on their
loan of S3I9,000 to Bradley Barlow.
The Canadian Pacific and other roads
interested in the line have made an
offer to receiver Hendee for the pur-
chase of the bonds in question, but at
lower figure than the receiver is will
ling to take. 1t is probable a better
offer will be made.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

Howard Owen is to be the editor of
the Maine Farmer after DIR. Lapham's
resignation takes effect.
Hugh J. Hastings, proprietor of the
New York Commercial Advertiser,
died at Monmouth Beach, n. j., Sept.
-.
Senator Voorhees, has been engaged
as the leading counsel for the defense
i'll the case of young Mutt of Union
town, Pa, who killed Dukes, the muir
derer of his father.
Mrs. Julie p. Smith, the well-knOwm
novelist, was killed at her summer
residence at New Hartford. She was
driving with her husband when the
horse took fright and ran.
Rev. j. +. Clark, pastor of the Will
liston church of Portland, Me-, has
rendered his resignation, to take effect
Oct. |, and accepted the call from the
Phillips church of South Boston.
Miss Emma Thursby has been offer
ed ten thousand dollars ii year to sing
in the choir of st. Bartholomew s
church, New York, on Sundays. 1t is
said that w. ii. Vanderbilt will defray
the expense.
Sir Henry Maxse, governor of New
foundland, is dead. When a young
man he was a cOrnet in one of the reg
iments and on the staff of Earl Lucan,
and participated in the charge of the
''noble six hundred" at Balaklava.
John Wanamaker of Philadelphia,
who has made a large fortune by the
liberal use of printers ink, has added
one more to his many benefactions to
the Young Mems Christian association
by giving the Philadelphia association
S5O,0OO to pay off its floating debt.
The entire amount of the debt
5000, OOO-was made up by other sub
scri hers
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
College Notes

Phillips academy at Andover has be-
gun the term with 100 boys, there
being a prospect of 240.
Wellesley college has opened with Il
full attendance of the upper classes
and larger freshman class than usual,
about 100 having entered up to the
present time.
President McCosh, i'll behalf of the
college of New Jersey, has warned the
members of the sophomore class that
hazing will not be permitted, and states
that it is as unpopular with most OF
the students as with the faculty.
The bill in aid of Dartmouth college
which has just passed the New Hamp-
shire Legislature, grants the first money
the state has given to the institution
for one hundred years. The last grant
was : 900 to aid in building Dart
mouth hall. Ground will be broken
for new chapel next spring, and a
new library building will be begun
soon afterward. The freshman class
numbers one hundred members, being
the largest class that has entered col
lege for several years. The present
graduating class at the medical college
numbers fOrty-hve members.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

aged forty-eight years, was a native of
Sheldon, was a student at the Georgia
academy in 1854, married a daughter
of the late Hiram Ballard of Georgia,
went west in 1855, became tea inspect
or in July last, since which time he
inspected over 10000 chests of tea.
Hon. Martin c. Rice, forty years an
honored citizen of Rutland county,
died at Benson September 6, at the
age of sixtv-five years. He has been a
member of the house of representatives
and of the senate of Vermont, a county
Judge in I579-6O-SI- 80, thirty years an
agent and county director of the Yer
mont Mutual Fire Insurance company,
and a long time director in the First
National bank of Orwell.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
Political.

Leon Abbott has been nominated for
governor by the New Jersey democrats.
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher is the
greenback candidate for secretary of
state in New York.
The New York prohibitionists have
called a state convention to be held in
Syracuse the Goth. Women are eligible
as delegates.
Mccullough, editor of the st. Louis
GlObe-DemOcrat, thinks that Senator
Edmunds or President Arthur will be
the republican nominee for the presi-
dency, and that Arthur may succeed if
he can heal the differences in New
York otherwise Edmunds will be the
strongest man.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

Judge Wheeler of the United States
court has rendered a decision i'll the
case of Roland G. Hazard VS.. American
Loan and Trust company of Boston
hearing of which was lately held in
Rutland which was an application for
an injunction restraining the Loan and
Trust company from issuing the bonds
of the Consolidated Railroad company
of Vermont in exchange for the stock
of the Vermont and Canada railroad
company. Judge Wheeler denies the
motion for an injunction. He holds
that both roads are practically one and
owned by the Vermont Central that
the roads and their property are COW
cred wholly by the mortgages of the
Consolidated company ; that the Yer
mont and Canada had the power to
change the form of its securities; that
the act of 1859 brings the Vermont and
Canada within the act of 1882; that
the eXtinguishment of the rent practi-
cally extinguished the value of the
stock : that the transfer of the stock
to the Consolidated company is valid ;
that the settlement is just one, and
that Hazard is in no danger of being
deprived of any of his rights.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
State Personals.

Gen. w. w. Grout will be the orator
at the Colebrook, n. H., fair.
Gen. James Watson Webb is visiting
his son, DIR. W. Seward Webb, Bur
lington.
Mrs. Parker Leach has been engag-
ed as teacher of vocal music at the
POultney academy.
Hon. II. II. Powers and wife of Nor
risville expect to arrive in Fargo, Da-
kota, about the 18th instant.
Col. George a. Merrill has rendered
his resignation as president of the
Howe Scale company to take effect
October |.
Rev. j. X. Williams of the Congrega-
tional church at West Rutland for tif-
teen years has resigned, to take effect
October |, next.
James Hinckley, formerly of Burling-
ton, and the eldest son of the late
Capt. Silas Hinckley, has purchased
the New York Graphic.
Elias Tinkham of POmfret, father OF
o. NJ. Tinkham, the agricultural editor
of the Montpelier Freeman, died re-
Gently IN his ninety-tirst year.
Hon. Farley Starr of BrattleborO, il
is said, is slowly gaining strength and
is improving in all respects. His
friends hope he may be taken home
soon.
Prof. harrington McIntire of Boston
has been unanimously elected by the
trustees of Lewis college at Mortified
to the prOfessOrship of astronomy and
geology in that institution.
Rev. p. NJ. Frost of Windsor has ac-
cepted a call TO the pastorate of an NJ
f. church in Nashua, n. H., for the re-
mainder of the year, in place of Rev
b. p. Raymond, resigned, to accept the
presidency of a western college.
Nelson c. Draper, tea Inspector o.
the port of Chicago, who died Sept -
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
New Hampshire News.

The present session of the New
Hampshire Legislature is the longest on
record in that State-l02 days.
A Cornish man exhibits a stalk of
corn measuring thirteen and one-half
feet in length, and bearing several ears.
The annual meeting of the state or
ganizatiOn of Young Mems Christian
associations will be held at Tilton, n.
H., commencing September I3, and
continuing six days.
Elcho, the famous dog of the strain
bred by Jarvis of Claremont, and for
which $4,000 was paid by Portsmouth
party, was stolen from the station at
Manchester, n. H., Thursday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
of "A Montreal Bank

The Exchange bank of Montreal sus-
pended on Monday, and has been put
in liquidation until the pressure Is over.
The liabilities are S2,OO0,OOO. The
circulation is S430,OOO The last state
ment showed a surplus over all the
liabilities, including the $780, 900 CAPT
tai. The cause of the suspension is
ver-discounting and the large amount
locked up in inactive estates taken over
from creditors. The directors say the
circulation will be met promptly.
There is fear of commercial trouble en-
suing as the bank is said to be carry
ing some weak firms. The directors
are wealthy and four out of five hold
nearly three fourths of the stock This
is the second failure of the institution.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
Public Opinion.

The inquiry into the recent hazing of
naval cadets is bringing to light some
thing a good deal more disgraceful
than boyish practical joking. 1t has
already demonstrated that one of the
very first ideas instilled into the minds
of the young men who join the naval
academy is false code of morals
They are taught that it is honorable
to abandon honor, honest to lie and
upright to cheat. They are taught
that the duty they owe the government
which clothes, feeds and educates
them is nothing; the duty they owe to
comrades who deceive and maltreat
them is everything. They learn that
honor does not require them to obey
any law that they can possibly evade,
but does require them to perjure them
selves if necessary to shield a comrade
from deserved punishment. If this is
the effect of the training system in use
at Annapolis, the sooner that institu-
ton for the encouragement of vice and
immortality is abolished, the better
Philadelphia Bulletin.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
Deposits for PosIomce Keys.

First Assistant Postmaster General
Hatton has found it advisable to recede
from the regulation, established some
time ago, that the fifty-cent deposits
for post-ofiice keys he turned over to
the department. a recent order directs
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
w alden.

Rev. J. w. ThurstOn of Glover
preached at South Walden on Sunday,
Rev. Mr.. Taylor being absent.
Bert Stafford is to teach the school
at North Walden this winter.
Potatoes were only thirty three cents
delivered at Walden depot last week.
Foxes are doing considerable damage
among young turkeys in this vicinity.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
ST. c5ohnsburn (aledOnian.
1t. .Iohnsbury, Vt. Friday, Sept. FL, 1888
A very good index of the prosperit,

A very good index of the prosperity
attending the country are the national
banks that are springing up. An I'M
usual number of banks have been
organized during the past year, and
the annual report of the Comptroller
of the Currency will show the number
to be larger than in any year since
1865. which followed the enactment of
the national banking law.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

Frank Jones, the wealthy brewer of
Portsmouth, n. H., is building a fine
chapel for the Middle-stree Baptist
church of that city.
Rev. Mark Hopkins, ID. D., for more
than thirty years president of the
American board of foreign missions,
will decline reelection at the next
meeting of the society at Detroit, Oct.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
Local Notices.

The skating rink will be open Friday
and Saturday afternoon and evening.
Music Saturday evening at seven,
sharp.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

Some interest will centre in the libel
suit which is supposed will come to
trial in Franklin county at the present
term of court. The case is that OF
Fletcher Tarble, greenbacker, who
brought suit against 7. NJ. Tobin of the
Swanton Courier for SlO,OOO, about
two years ago, for alleged libelous
articles which appeared in the Courier
principally during the famous Barlow
campaign, when Tarblc was the candi-
date for Congress from the old Third
district on the greenback ticket. An
imposing array of counsel has been re-
tanned for each side, and the case prom
ises to he an interesting one, especial
" in the view of the fact, as the Free
Press states. that it is rumored the at
torneys for the defence will adopt a
course which will prove highly sensa-
tional.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

Geo. W. Peck, the author of the
bad Boy" sketches, is to have them
dramatized, and on his recent visit to
the east he signed contracts with Mr..
Chas F. Pidgin, who wrote the libretto
of"The Electrical Doll'' and "The Let
ter t." and these contracts call for the
speedy construction of a drama from
material furnished. The sketches are
coarse and vicious, and the great de-
mand for them shows to what an extent
such reading is demanded by the pub
lie. Those who met him are said to
have been disappointed at finding the
author of these sketches to be SO much
of "A gentleman as they found him. He
SAYS his mother often asks him why he
makes such fool of himself, and he
tells her that it is because it is the
most profitable thing wise man can
do" There is no accounting for peO-
Piles tastes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

The Philadelphia Press has been dis
cussing some of the qualifications which
the next republican candidate for the
presidency must possess to be elected,
and its conclusions do not simplify the
matter at all. Such a candidate as 1t
indicates will be harder to find than to
elect Here is its ideal candidate :;
.sHe must be the free and real choice
of the party; he must not he identified
with any offensive machine; he must
bc in sympathy with the reform ten
denotes of the party; and he must be
able to inspire confidence among the
conservative business classes ana
among the independent voters"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
Wednesday.

The weather was counterpart of
the preceding day. This is always
the great day of the fair, and may be
called the '1adies' day" as they i'm
prove it to come in and see their
numerous relatives and friends. 1t is
the great day in
FLORAL HALL,
and large crowds surround the count
ers all day examining the various arti
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

The third annual musical festival OF
the Philharmonic society of Burlington
will take place ut the Howard Opera
house oct. .. 10, II and -, under the
direction of Carl Xcrrahn, with chorus
of, at least, 25O voices. The talent
comprises Miss Fanny Kellogg, sopra-
no. Miss Ita Wclch, contralto, G. w.
Want, tenor, ID. NJ. Babcock. bassor
Mrs. Martha Dana Shepard, pianist,
and the orchestral work will he per
formed 10y the famous Beethoven clul
of Boston. under the leadership of G
y. Allen. The music to be used viii
Ice "Thc Stabat Mater, ""Prodigal Son,
and the revised edition of the Index
including selections from Gounod'
redemption"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

Postcards. which are made so useful
in this country and in England, do not
seem to he rs popular in France. In
lSS2 only q. OO0, 900 were used against
1000. 900 in England. The Pail Mall
Gazette accounts for this lack of popu-
larity by the peculiar condition of the
French people, who live, more than
do the people of any other nation, I'M
der the regime of the concierge, and the
fact that the price of the French post
card. six centimes, makes it an eXpen-
sive method of communication, when
the difference between the postcard
and letter postage is but trifing. A
cheaper card would doubtless prove
rcmumerative to the government.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21

Fine Wools-Wm. Russelow, buck
lamb, yearling buck j. b. Cook, two
pens two-year old buck lambs, two
pens three year-old eve lambs, two
pens ewes, and yearling, twO-year-Old
and four-year-Old bucks.
CotswoIds- G.. Gleason, lambs,
bucks and buck lambs, five ewes; Will
lam Higgins, buck, buck lamb, ewes,
yearling ewes and eve lambs E. Har-
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-20

ness, could sell all the goods they had on
hand. Taking these facts ss true, what is
tee inference, There can be only one. Hav-
/ ing determined they would never pay
Ciaiiiin, they would naturally resort TO any
course, or expedient, to defeat their cred
itors; and what more probable course would
they take than TO sell out their goods on
the best terms possible, and let Clatin get
his Judgment and pay the costs thereon?
The consequence was that Clatlin must
either give up his debt, or attach the prop
erty of the debtor, II he intended to collect
il. Defendants testify that when the goods
were attached they telegraphedto Bloom.
bargh to pay the Clatlin claim,
thereby admitting the Justice OF
the claim, and that they had
funds in the hands of BlOombargh sufii.
clent 10 pay the same. Again,
the plea of reconyention 80 COM
mon in the state courts and
SO successfully practiced, seems TO have
been in contemplation by the defendants.
Ii the defendants really believed their
stock of goods to be worth from $1,000 to
Sli,0OO, all they had to do was to give a
bond and security TO Clailin, condition to
pay whatever might be due them, aud take
their goods rs If nothing had happened.
The attachment law is in effect, u call upon
the debtors TO secure TO the creditors their
claims. II, when so called. upon. they do
not take a proper course to give the secur-
lily, the creditors have right TO take what
Will be such security, and il the debtors
voluntarily abandon the property, and the
property is thereby rendered less valua-
Bile, it is in consequence of the non-action
of the debtor.
As has been stated in this case, the de.
PENDANTS positively refused to pay the debts
positively refused to secure the same-were
selling what little effects they had on hand,
and were sending the proceeds to man in
New York. In other words, they were con
verting their property into money for the
purpose OF placing 1t beyond the reach of
their creditors" and cannot conceive of
stronger case than this when party could
be so charged with doing.
Believing that should not be doing JUS
tice between man and man, by rendering
Judgment on the verdict in tins case, must
decline so to do, and set aside the verdict.
AMOS MORRILL,, Judge,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-20
TaE REPORTED SALE OF THE II. g. T
o. RAILWAY

For some days past the people OF til,
state have been attempting to get at TIT
truth or ialsity of the report as to the salt
OF the MORGAN interest in the Houston
Texas Central railway to G. z. HUNTING
TON. kilograms have been sent out from
New York, alleging that the sale has actu
ally taken place, while the officials of tn {
Central road in this state have as persist
emily denied their truth. The matter has
therefore, been left, up to the present, in
doubt, the officers of the Central as late az
yesterday positively denying that the Nor
GAN interest had been sold, and insisting
that the reports on the streets, and in
bankers and brokers' offices in New York,
were made in the hope OF influencing for pur.
poses of speculation, movement in
the stocks OF the road not held in the Nor
GtE family. We publish this morning,
from the New Orleans Times Democrat of
Friday last, statement through u speci al
TO that paper from RICHARD MORGAN, to THE
effect that the interests Of his family had
not been sold. Mr.. MORGAN, as one,of the
heirs and IA heavy holder, ought to know
whereof he speaks better than any one else.
Along with the statement Of Mr.. MORGAN
We also publish the Picayuues special OF
next day, declaring that Mr. HUNTINGTON
admits having bought out the MORGAN
heirs. The matter thus is left in doubt,
unless it be that HUNTINGTON, KEENE and
others are using such reports to in
huence the stock OF the company,
which may be more than likely. The
gentlemen who thrive from the fluctuations
oil the stock market understand all the
tricks OF their trade. We noticed in the
HERALD some weeks ago the fact that
negotiations were pending for such trans.
fer as il now affirmed on one side to have
been made, but denied on the other, but
we have refrained since then from referring
to the matter until we could obtain aut
atiyely from the proper officials of the road
the result of such gotiations. Up to the
present time these officials have no
knowledge whatever Of any such sale hay.
ing been made and the natural inference is
thai all reports on the outside must be
taken with great allowance. 1t is reasona-
bic to suppose that the presi
dent, vice-presdent and superlntend
ent of the company would be informed at
once OF any change in the ownership of the
controlling interest in the road. Extend.
ing as it does through the very richest and
most populous portions of the State of
Texas correcting with the principal gulf
port steamship lines and all the important
lines OF railway in the state, handling the
bulk OF the cotton shipped from Texas,
and carrying in and out great proportion
of the merchandise of the state, the Hous-
ton Il Texas Central railway has been
coveted possession to the heavy syndicates
and ambitious, pushing millionaire rail.
way kings who have, within tie past two
or three years, been so rapidly pushing
their great lines of road across our terri.
tory, and if money will buy 1t they are
bound to purchase it sooner or later.