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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-02
Vermont News.

Rev. DR.. Eli BallOu of East Mont
pelier is in feeble health.
Col. U. A. Woodbury. withdraws from
the mayOralty contest at Burlington.
A. B. Valentine will build larger
knitting mill in place of the one burned
at Bennington.
Rev. DIR. Alfred Stevens of West
minister celebrated the 10th anniversa-
ry of his passionate Friday.
Mrs. George p. Marsh is to present to
the library of the University of Yer
mont IA fine bust of Mr.. Marsh.
Hon. Prosper Merrill of Woodstock
has been very much out of health al
winter and has started for Florida.
Rev. John H. Hincks of the COngre-
gational church at Montpelier, a Yale
graduate, is called to the Presbyterian
church at Buffalo.
Gov. BarstOw and staff gave an in
formal reception at the Weldon house
to the officers of the National Guard
Friday evening at st. Adams.
The directors of the Windsor County
mutual fire insurance company have
voted to wind up poor business. The
company started 43years ago.
A. Sidney Needham, aged about 20
one of the oldest residents of Mont
pelier, well known as proprietor of the
Vermont house at Old Orchard beach
died Friday, Feb. 23.
The heirs of Arunah Huntington OF
BrantfOrd, Ont, make no opposition to
his bequest of 100000 to the State OF
Vermont, and the sum will soon be
paid to the State Treasurer.
Henry w. Putnam, of Bennington,
has entered a suit against the Eagle
Iron Works of Des MOines, Iowa, claim
ing $4,000 damages for alleged in
fringement of barbed wire patents.
The boys at Middlebury college tore
up IA recitation-rOOm the other night,
pitching stove, benches, tables, etc,
outdoors, and now every student pays
his little assessment for the repair of
damages.
j. T. MarstOn, formerly a prominent
citizen of Montpelier, where he was the
editor of the Vermont Patriot, died
Feb. 10th, at Madison, Wis, where he
had lived for the past twenty years,
aged 70 years.
a son of Peter Bourbon, of Winoos-
Xxi, ten years of age, while going
through the railroad cut near the lime
kilns Friday afternoon during the pass
ing of a train, slipped and was run
over by the cars, having one leg cut off
Just below the knee.
Governor Butler has refused to de-
liver up Charles F. Cushman to the
Vermont authorities, on the ground
that the offence chaTged-subOrnatio
of perjury-did not constitute a crime
according to the laws of either Yer
mont or Massachusetts under the cir
cumstances as related.
In attempting to board a moving
train on the Montpelier branch of the
Central Vermont road, Friday, Nathan
NJ. Parsons, aged Is, fell beside the
rail and was rolled over several times
by the truck frames striking him. He
was not seriously injured, though cut
and bruised considerably.
G. c. Noble, Esq, of st. Adams, who
was so badly injured by a shotgun,
continues to improve rapidly, and all
danger of losing his arm is passed. He
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-02
4 VcrnOnIer in Disgrace.

A special to the Boston Herald of
Friday says
M Lieut.. Gov. George \. Dale of Yer
ont appeared in the st. Louis police
court Wednesday morning. Thursday
night Mr.. Dale became noisy, the re
suit. it is said, of an overindulgence in
strong drink, and, az the noise was
confined to DeBar's Opera house, Mr..
Dale was taken in charge by the o.
lice. \ revolver was found upon his
person, and the charge preferred
against him was that of carrying con-
ccalrd weapons He asked for ii con
tinuancc of his case, which was grant
ed, the defendant giving bonds to an
swcr the charge in the sum of 800.
The Burlington Free Press thus
speaks of this man:
X-Licutenant-GOver George \.
Dale, who was brought into unpleas-
ant notoricty by an item telegraphed
from It. Louis. held the office of lieu
tenant governor twelve years ago, and
is Il conspicuous example of the ruin OF
fine personal powers and prospects by
the demon of strong drink. His life OF
late years has been succession of at
temptS to reform, and relapses into
habits, of which his present disgrace Is
Il natural sequence. He had been
spending the winter in California, and
was probably in st. Louis on his way
home
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-02

According to the calendar, this is
the first day of spring.
Schiller, the Newhall-house bar
keeper and alleged incendiary, was in
dicted at Milwaukee Monday and held
for trial in default of $4,000 bail.
The prohibitionists of Iowa are to
have newspaper organ. They have
formed IA stock company and will buy
the Northwestern News, now located
at Davenport, and publish the paper
hereafter at Des MOines.
Salmi Morse tried to bring out his
Passion play at his so-called residence
in New York Saturday night, but was
arrested and held in $500 to answer to
the charge of giving a theatrical per-
Torrance without license.
The Rhode Island press association
elected Il. l.. White of the Providence
Press president at Pawtucket Tuesday
and Charles A. Lee of Pawtucket sec
rotary and treasurer. The association
was entertained by Gov. Littlefield in
the evening.
A large mass-meeting of the students
of Amherst college was held, Saturday
| afternoon, to protest against the action
of the faculty i'll regard to intercOllegi-
ate sports. Resolutions were unani-
mOusly adopted characterizing their
action as inconsistent and unwarranta-
BILE.
Walter Aiken of Franklin has sold
his patents of the narrowing knitting
machine to the Abel manufacturing
company of Laconia for $40, 900. This
| sale ends two suits, that of Aiken
against Abel for Infringement of pat
enu, and that of Abel against Aiken for
libel.
! At Gloucester, Mass, Virgins pre-
dictiOn of Il terrible storm in March has
deferred number of fishermen from
making their next trip to the banks,
/ the women urging the men to stay at
home. 1t is feared that idleness may
become general and the best time for
good catch be lost.
In the New Hampshire supreme
court Friday, in the suit of Betsy l..
| Head against the city of Dover, to re-
cover $1,000 damages, caused by inju-
ries sustained by slipping on icy side
walk on st. John street in February,
1882, the jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff, for $3.50.
John NJ. Martin has got "A verdict for
S20,000 against the Pennsylvania rail-
road company and the Norwich and
New York transportation company for
injuries received two years ago in a
collision between the Pennsylvania
cOmpany's ferry boat Hudson City and
a steamboat belonging to the transpor-
ia ton company.
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Prof. sumner and the Will
mantle Linen Company

In recent lecture in Brooklyn, \.
Y, on "The Forgotten Man. Prof.
VIM. G.. Sumner of Yale college, "A
prominent tariff reformer, made a
statement which has brought hornets
nest of protcctionists about his ears.
There is little question that the profess
sor was unsupported On this point he
SAYS that he never allows himself to
read the reports of his lectures and
speeches, and in this manner he pre-
serves his eqUauimity. He was re
hundreds of women employed in the
thread mill at Willimantic. Conn. who
are paid only fifty cents day. What
he did say was rs follows, as he gives
it in response to inquiries from the
president of the corporation in ques-
ton:
am told that there are sewing
women in this country who earn fifty
cents day of twelve hours and pro-
vide the thread. On the cost of every
spool of thread more than one cent Is
tax. If woman earns fifty
cents ia twelve hours, she earns "A spool
of thread. as nearly as may be, i'll an
hour. Ii she uses a spool of thread per
day. she works fifteen minutes every
dav to support the Willimantic Linen
Co. which in leS2 paid ninety per cent
dividend to its stockholders.
In conclusion, lac says:
Who will say that am not right to
try Ia make people understand the
truth about this tariff system? Who
will say that am not right TO expose
the fallacy which is involved in all the
arguments drawn from the wages of
the operatives and the beauty of the
mil Who pays the wages The Lin
en Co.-out of its ninety per cent, per
haps The people who use thread pay
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Lyndon.

The Passumpsic railroad company
have this week received new thirty
seven ton engine-the heaviest on the
road-built by the Rhode Island Loco
motive works at Providence. 1t is
called "W. X. Blodgett, No. %"
Rev. Milliken of West Derby preached
at the Centre last Sunday. Rev. Owen
preached on temperance at the Baptist
church in Newport.
The Lyndonville Dressing Mill COM
pany have received twenty-five car
loads of sawed lumber from Canada.
About seventy five carloads more are
to follow Immediately.
Albertus Allen will have charge of
the Bigelow farm, recently purchased
by Mr.. Vale, for the coming year. He
will remove to the farm Immediately.
Frank Allen will carry on his fathers
farm.
Business at the box-shop is improv-
ing and there is an increase in the
number of men employed.
The Methodist society are making
some repairs to their chapel. They
have sheathed the sides in hard wood
and contemplate putting down new
carpets. When all is completed it is
probable that the Good Templars will
have to hold their meetings elsewhere.
Sumner Proctor has gone to Lowell,
Mass, to work in a hotel. He has
leased his farm to Luther IngersOn.
H. L. Parker is to occupy the west
store in Fletcher's block when complet-
ed.
A. II. Harris of New York is visiting
relatives here.
The Stephen c. Eastman place has
been bought by a gentleman from
Sutton, named Allard.
Mrs. Dea. Woodman is not as well
this week.
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building of this sort within few miles
of Boston. the construction of which
was begun in midsummer and COM
pleted in ten or twelve weeks, in seas
on to be opened for the fall term. In
form and construction it comes near to
being an ideal death trap; the ordina-
~ perils being heightened by the fact
that the rooms do not all open into the
halls, but lead into each other through
narrow doors. In the event of panic
in such a building, there would be
scenes more shocking than those in
New York, for fire once well under
Roadway would level the building to
the ground in an hour. The six or sew
en- hundred children in the building
would be helpless, and even with the
admirable control which the sisters i'll
charge have over them, it would be
little short of miracle if they all es-
capped alive. There should be thor
ough inspection of every building used
for school purposes, public or private,
and adequate means of exit should he
required within and tire-escapes with
ont Boston journal.
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Public Opinion.
THE WAY OUTSIDERS LOOK AT SAINT
JOHNSBURY.

/ lif Al VI lSlbflN0 i-pOh \ NAlN
JOHNsBURI.
John \. Gale, for several years su-
perintendent of the village water
works, turns out to he IA defaulter; the
village trustees settle with him for
$3.50, not knowing just how much he
cheated the village during his admin
istration. And so the thing is to be
hushed up. st. Johnsbury is the best
place in the state to commit mischief
if one hopes to evade the law. The
cases of +. ID. Hopkins, Dick Peabody
and others are instances Barton
Monitor.
There is no harm in banquets, no
political harm certainly. But it is a
curious spectacle to see the New Eng
land democracy capering and perform
| ing genutiectiOns before Gov. Butler.
TO find a man who can get offices
and who believes in getting Off
ces for his friends, turning out the
fellows who are in and putting in his
supporters, is an experience that COM
forts the hungry democratic heart ev-
erywhere. They bury the past with
alacrity, everything that has happen
ed since Washington, who was Il fede-
!aliSt, and jefferson and jackson, who
We're democrats, and hail with enthu-
Siasm the new era Of--success.- Spring
field Republican.
COLLEGE ROwDIEs.
Dartmouth college students are de-
veloping ch' acteriStics which would
be looked fo a third rate mob. A
party of the> hoodlums serenaded one
of the professors the other night aud
entertained him still further by pulling
down his fences and breaking his win
dows. On "A subsequent morning these
same rowdieS amused themselves with
the manly (9) tick of smearing the
chapel settees with lard. Such per
| formances are disgrace to all con
cerned in them and should Ice visited
| by discipline of severe sort. The
young men who let their love of fun
get away with their manhood in such
manner should be taught that a col
| lege is not founded to make dare dew
| lis and hOodlumS, but to educate and
make men of them. st. Adams Mes
senger.
! CATASTROPHE WITH 4 MORAL.
! l ne ultldICholN accident IN New
York, 10y which fourteen or more child
rem in a Catholic school lost their lives
in a panic caused by fire, should serve
to direct attention To the imperfect
construction and inadequate means of
exit which are characteristic of many
such structures. The ardent desire
which many Catholic priests feel to es-
tablish paTochial schools in which
children of their faith can receive re-
/ ligiOus as well as secular education
leads them often to begin the work of
| building before they have funds enough
in hand to build properly or with due
regard tn the security of the children
| The result is that a building is put up
of wood, three or four stories high and
shabbily constructed, with little regard
! to means of exit. We have in mind "A
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The Western Floods.

The Ohio river is draining off quite
rapidly, while the Mississippi flood of
course increases. For two hundred
miles below Cairo it seems that the le-
wees have given way in so many places
that all the river bottom is being COW
cred with water as it was last spring,
and recent rains on the west make it
probable that the worst has not come
there. In Kansas and southern Ne
braska the storms have been specially
heavy, and very high water is reported
all through that region. The receding
Ohio leaves sad scene of disaster in
Indiana and Illinois. Many of the
smaller towns have been completely
drowned out, buildings and great guam
titles of other property are destroyed
and, with all the rest, an epidemic OF
malarial diseases is expected.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-02
TO CITIZENS
-OF-
ST. JOHNSBURY AND VICINITY.

| have bought the stock of
SPENCER, PEARL & MERRIAM,
to take effect from March LIST,
1888. Intend to keep on hand
at all times a stock of first
class groceries, and all fruits in
their season. l purpose to do
a straightforward, legitimate
business, and hope by fair and
honorable dealing with all to
merit a continuance of the
liberal patronage which the
firm of SPENCER, PEARL &
MERRIAM have heretofore re-
ceived. | shall have a first
class salesman call at youl
homes for orders as soon as
possible after taking inven-
tory, March /, 1888. Please
wait for the new man.
1880 E. B. MERRIAM.
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The End Of u Good Man.

President Paul 4. Chadbourne, of
Amherst agricultural college, who has
been Ill in New York for several days,
died Friday. Mr.. ChadbOurne was for
some years president of Williams col
Iege and died greatly lamented. The
following tribute is from the Springfield
Republican
The career of Il man like the late
President ChadbouTnc, who lived in the
world for the good he could do i'll it,
who mixed freely with men yet kept
himself pure and unsullied from
the evil that is too prevalent in
social, business AID political life, has
its deeper and SOLDERING side. In such
Il life there is more than success, and
something higher than present and
personal advantage. He was honest,
brave and pure, loyal to early ideals,
dead in earnest, always doing some
thing and getting ahead by various
lines of effort but all the while the
horizon of his life was consciously
broadening. and he was indeed gaining
a hold on the future. 1t is difficult for
men absorbed in the present, surround
ed 10y the increasing demands of each
days engrOSSing duties, to see many
things as clearly as he saw them, for
his naturally acute perceptions were
never dullcd by foolish, low or mean
living: but the death-bed triumph OF
such man has Il noble value that
should not bc lost at this time. Paul \.
Chadbourne taught young men much
by his example and words, and the Sc
renity of his death gave the stamp OF
reality to the faith by which he lived.
Says one who saw him die: "No one
could doubt future life who saw that
face radiant with heavenly light, OF
could have heard the triumphant
words, like psalms of praise, that
burst from his dying lips. 1t was won
derful beyond words" There is some
thing genuine and enviable about Il
Christian life and death. During his
last week of pain the doctor told his
wife to say to the widow of former
beloved associate that he remembered
well how his friend had called him to
his bedside of pain and told him of the
glories that were present i'll the hour
when earth was fading away. The end
of good man is peace.
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Editorial Notes.

Governor Butler, in his fast-day
proclamation, "eXhOrts the clergy Oh
that day to feed their tlocks with the
divine word, and not discourse upon
political and other secular topics which
may divert the serious thoughts of the
people from worship of the Father"
The proclamation itself, in matter and
length, is quite a sermon.
Another comet has been discovered.
Those editors who were troubled by
the paragraphs about the other will do
well to make note of it.
New jersey is still welded to its
idol. All the prohibitory measures in
the legislature have been defeated.
A bill adopting the national civil ser
vice bill to the needs of Pennsylvania
was defeated in the house on Friday.
CamerOnism is too rampant in that
state.
Providence claims to lead other cit
les in the proportion of telephone sub
scribers to population, there being one
telephone to every seventy-two per
sons.
The freight rate from New York to
Boston is twelve cents hundred, but
if the freight is stopped at Hartford ii
is twenty cents hundred. The Con-
necticut legislature has IA bill before il
forbidding railroads to charge more fol
IA less distance than for greater dis
lance. This is the law of Massachu-
sets and has been since 1874, and has
been enforced by the railroad commits
sioners upon some complaints.
Foreign papers state that Booth is
being received with great favor in the
+ old world. At one place, at the close
of the acts, he was called upon the
scene no less than twenty-four times.
The New York Tribune says that
New Hampshire, through Il blunder %
her constitution makers, is constantly
in trouble about her senatOrships. The
trouble arises from the fact that the
legislature does not meet until June
while the senatorial vacancy which il
= is required to fill occurs in the previ
Gus March. When an extra session o
the senate is called, therefore, in the
year when Il senator is to he elect
ed, the state has only one senator
unless the governor appoints another
and to this proceeding there are some
constitutional objections. Appeals have
been made to the senate to come to the
assistance of the state in this difficulty
But the easiest and most obvious way
10 get over it is to change the time o
the meeting of the Legislature. A very
little trouble on the part of the New
Hampshire people would set the matter
right and obviate the necessity of con.
tinually dragging it before Congress.
Tie absent acknowledgements o
mont should make IA longer time be
tween drinks Boston Herald. The
present Acknowledgements of Yer
mont is Col Sam Pingree, and no sucl
', fellow as the drunk who was picked NJ
at st. Louis. Springfield Republican
| The Republican is very sanguine.
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does not recover the use of his fingers
and hand as rapidly as could be wish
ed, but to what extent this difficulty
will be remedied time only can decide.
The Journals correspondent at Brad
ford writes that the total losses by the
recent fire foot up $4,000. The in
surance amounts to Sal 800, and the
net loss on buildings and stock in
stores, offices, etc, is over 100000.
Ex-Governor Farnham lost all of his
executive papers and loses $1,000 over
his insurance on law books.
1t takes Barnard mouse to beat the
Barnard panther. A farmer in that
celebrated town slowed away under
straw three months ago the carcasses
of two big hogs and three quarters of
beef. The other day he went after a
piece of meat for dinner and found I'M
der the straw pile of shining bones
and one solitary mouse too fat and logy
to escape.
| Oscar p. Squires, a farmer living near
East Fairfield, and of excellent stand
ing, committed suicide by cutting his
throat. He had been in poor health for
some time, and was no doubt Temporal
rily insane. He was about 80 years
old, and leaves a wife and several chill
dren. He was living with his second
wife who had lost her first husband by
suicide i'll IA similar manner.
The death is announced of Simeon
Dewey of Montpelier, at the age of 50
MIR. Dewey was a member of Company
g, 10th Vermont Volunteers he took
part in twenty pitched battles
His right hand was struck by IA mimic
ball in the last fighting in front of Pc
tersburg, and so badly broken that by
nothing but being sent home and faith
fully nursed was his life saved.
The venerable Stephen Herrick OF
MiddleseX came to Montpelier Sunday
to celebrate his eighty eighth birthday
and at the Methodist prayer-meeting
in the evening he said 81 have come
to celebrate my eighty-eighth birthday
in prayer meeting. | have been {
professor and firm believer in tn,
Christian religion sixty-tive years, anC
| have erected my family monument
with this inscription, Firm believers
in the Christian religion" Mr.. Her
rick has written IL history of the tow
of Middlesex from the time of its char
ter, and giving the names of all til,
first settlers of the town.
John j. Hughes is suing J. f. Owens
at POultney to recover II farm deco
which Hughes claims was got from hin
while drunk. According to his story
woman named Williams with whom h,
lived as his wife filled him with run
and then induced him to sign a pape
deciding his homestead to her. She ha
since sold the place to Owens. A wO
man who calls herself the real wife o
Hughes has appeared and the court
before deciding on the validity of tn,
deed, must determine whether Hughes
was drunk when he signed and wheth
or the second woman in the case i
really his wife. The case has beef
confined till after the March term.