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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16
SQIIibS.

Since writing the above it has come
to light that the fire was probably
caused by a $400 insurance policy
rubbing against a 800 house. Os-
wego Times.
A gentleman on being introduced to
Mr. John Holmes of Boston, remarked
"What Are you a brother of Oliver
Wendell Holmes ?" "NO," replied Mr..
Holmes, who inherited the family skill
at repartee, 'he is IA brother of me-"
A down east Yankee is advertising
remedy for red noses. He gets a great
many inquiries for the remedy, and
sends this reply: "Keep on drinking
till your nose turns blue"
A young man, apparently com
mercial drummer, got on the train, and,
noting pretty girl alone in the for
ward part of the car, approached and
smiIingly asked, "Is this seat engaged,
miss ?" "NO, sir,n she quickly and
pertly responded, "but am, and he
is going to get on mt the next station"
"Oh- -ah-indeed- -thanks-beg par
don !" and he quickly picked up his
feet, after stumbling over them, and
went into the smoking car to be alone
awhile.
GLOW is it you never married, Char
ley ?" "Oh, | don't know, except that
remained single from choice"
''Why, heard that you tried to get
that Podgkins girl year or two ago"
Eyes, did ask her to marry me"
''And she wouldn't have you ?"
''That's about the size of it. SO | re-
mained single from choice-her choice,
you know Boston Transcript.
A subscriber writes to an editor
81 have horse that has lately suffered
from periodical fits of dizziness.
Please answer through your valuable
paper and let me know what | should
do with him. Pm afraid he will get
worse if something is not done soon"
The editor replies: 'Our advice,
based on a careful perusal of Every
Man His Own Horse Doctor would be
| take him sometime when he is not
dizzy and sell him to a stranger"
The fashionable pillow-sham is now
decorated with motto. 1t is rather
| difficult to think of appropriate mot
toes for pillowshams, but here are "A
few that might do, "Pull down the
| blinds" ''DOn't blow out the gas; or
| (if kerosene lamps are used,) "If you
don't sleep well, rub the woodwork
with Kerosene" > Philadelphia Call.
81 believe I'll have to reduce your
wages, john" said a miserly Boston
| employer to one of his help, the other
day. "What for Y' was the query.
"Because things are coming down.
/ The necessaries of life are cheaper, and
/ YOU can afford to get along on smaller
pay" 81 should like to know what
necessaries of life are cheaper" said
John "beef is as high as ever, -four
hasn't dropped cent, aud coal is as
dear as ever" "Well," said the EN-
ployer, as he turned away, at any rate,
the price of postage stamps has
been reduced One-third. u SOmerville
Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16

judicious advertising. Pushing up the
grade at the rate of 2l7 feet in every
mile we begin to dominate the Rockies.
The Mullan tunnel is not yet com
pleted and we were carried around
and above it, across great hills and
over gulches on lengths of trestle from
which we could down on brawling
streams, or on little mining towns, or
upon heaps of trees torn by the winds
and butfeted by the floods and hacked
by the axes of the hardy workman.
On the steep sides of the mountains the
spruces stood ranged in battaliOns,
Jagged lodges of rock, BLUSH black or
mottled with grays or tinged with
royal purple uprose gigantic. At the
summit we were nearly 5000 feet
above the level of the sea. This pass
is much lower than those through
which the Union and Central Pacific
railroads cross the Rocky Mountain
chain, but in point of picturesqueness
| believe that it yields to none other in
the northwest. 1t would be well for
the Northern Pacific company to main
tain this temporary track, whic affords
much finer views of the mountain chain
than are to be had by the route on
either side of the tunnel. The hillsides
are dotted with the improvised homes
of the labOrers on the tunuel. Many a
stout fellow had brought on this family
and the spectacle of a black walnut
bedstead, a capaciOus cooking stove,
a checkered carpet and half dozen
chairs in one tent was not at all un-
common. In every valley was a can
vas "SalOon," and in comfortable hooks
dining tents were established. AS the
papers fell to the ground from the train
the blowsy faced cook, with her arms
akimbO, would utter shrek of delight
which would bring fIOm their dinners
ii score of men anxious for ihe news.
at the summit of the poss there is a
sign, evidently the work of some hum
blue toiler, which announces that it is
zone mile to Terra Firma." Perhaps
the sign painter had recently taken Il
trip across one of the lengthy trestles.
The descent on the Pacific side is not
very impressive all the grandeur is
on the eastern slope. We wound
slowly down gentle activities into a
series of pleasant pastoral wales, each
succeeding the other with a mOnotO-
nous regularity. Once down the noun
tains we found that the smoke from the
forest fires i'll Oregon and Washington
had covered the landscape, and we saw
everything through the glamOr of Il
soft hace, which had IL certain enchant-
ment of its own, but which effectually
hindered us from getting glimpses of
the snow clad peaks not very far away.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16
The Law of Sex.

An English author, Mr.. G.. X. Stark
weather, thinks he has discovered Il
great claw of sex" of which the Lon
don AthenHum gives this summary ::
If the husband is superior to the wife
the family will consist mostly of girls,
and vice versa. Dark complexion is
superior to light, dark plants and trees
are the most hardy, and dark horses the
best. A square forehead and prOmi-
nent veins are Superior" large
prominent eye (Which "indicates con
versatiOnal powers'') is the reverse.
But the best indication of superiority
is large and prominent nose, Roman
or aquiline, full third the length of
the face.
Philosophers, lawyers, editors, poets.
literary men and brain workers gen
orally, have a large excess of daugh-
ters. Wine merchants, tavern keepers,
small retail dealers, orators, physi-
clans, and musicians have a prepOn-
derance of boys. Clergymen appear
just to struggle through the ordeal
without incurring the stigma of in
feriority, being equally intelligent,
sober, and moral with their wives, and
producing an equal number of boys
and girls.
OF course, for the stability of the
new law it becomes necessary To show
that musicians, medical men, and or
atOrs are inferior. Accordingly the
first are lymphatic, the second are
made rather than born to their prOfes-
sion land the most distinguished as an
! exception have large families of daugh-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16
On the Northern Pacific.
EDWARD KINGS LETTER TO BOSTON
JOURNAL.

JOURNAL.
Up we went, passing near the rich
belt of silver mines at the head of Ten
Mile Creek, and on through the coun-
try where the Vigilantes did their
sombre work almost daily. Our guides
pointed out to us two or three places
in which murderers had been hung
only a little while ago. This history
of murder meets one at every turn in
Montana. At BOZeman, a peaceful
looking town in Il charming valley, we
were shown neat jail in which seven
murderers were awaiting trial At
Bozeman the civilization is twenty or
twenty-five years old in younger
towns the assassin does not even get
the tritling Inconvenience of temporary
sequestration. The grandeur of the
scenery in the Rockies as they are ap-
preached from the east by this new
railway is quite sufficient to repay one
for the mOnOtOny experienced in trav-
ersing the fiat and dusty plains of Da-
kOta and sweltering in the canOns and
river valleys in Eastern Montana
Truly this vast territory merits its
name. Here the Northern Pacific re-
deems itself from the charge of unpic-
turesqueness which we had been in
clined to bring against it. Here the
mountains are naked and not ashamed.
For miles on miles in every direction
stretch away vast rounded dOmes, now
crowned with spruce and pine, now
covered with brown and withered
grass, but above them rise denuded
peaks, seeming verify to pierce the
clOudless blue of the splendid sky.
Some day this Mullan Pass may be
| come no less renowned than the famous
Gemmering between Vienna and
Trieste. 1t has the same bOldness, the
same sharply defined contrasts, the
same panoramic succession of surprises.
| We could often look across a deep ra-
vine, and see our two locomotives
sturdily pushing their way around a
curve, while we were still trembling
on the edge of precipice, or suspend
ed between heaven and earth on a
| trestle hundreds of feet high. On we
went, and wherever there was a tiny
settlement, dozens of newspapers fiut
tered down from the cOmmissary car,
to be eagerly scrambled for below by
rough bearded men and scrawny wo-
men, who have not heard from the
east for weeks. The enterprising
managers of the Bismarck Tribune
thus undertook to supply literature t,
western Montana, and Dakota mer
chants hope to reap the results of thei
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16
Ruin Wrought by n Joke.

p. L. Robinson died at his home in
Bennington a week ago, at the age of
eighty years. Throughout his long
life he had deserved and won the re-
spect of all who knew him. When a
young man he was clerk for and after
wards a partner of Lyman Patchin
QOng ago dead in his store at Centre
Bennington. About that time when
Mr.. Robinson was somewhat under
thirty years of age, sad incident oc-
CURED in his life, the particulars of
which are told us by old friends who
knew the facts at the time. 1t is "A
romance that sickens the soul and
makes it cry out against a fate that
was determined by an innuendO as
heartless, base, as contemplate as was
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16

ever uttered.
Mr.. Robinson had become acquaint-
ed with Miss Berch, lovely young
girl living cover the mountain, some
where near BrattleborO, which is as
close as the memory of our informant
can come to the locality. They had
fallen in love with each other and were
engaged to he married. The wedding
day approached and Mr.. Robinson went
to the town where his afiianced lived and
took n room at the hotel on the evening
previous to the day fixed for the we'd
ding. AS he was passing through the
barTOOm, he heard some man remark
to others sitting near, "Well, if he
knew what we know about her, he
wouldn't marry her." And during the
evening whenever he would come upon
Il group about the tavern his ears
would catch some fragment of the same
terrible sentence, "lf he knew what
we know, he wouldn't marry her"
At first it merely aroused faint sus-
picion, but at length it was clear to
him that the warning-as he consider
ed it, was meant for himself, and for
none other. The young man grew sick
ut heart and desperate, decided not to
call mt the home of his atfianced and
went to bed in delirium. The next
day, members of the Beach family
who were highly respectable people
called on him and found him low spirit
ed and moody. They tried to induce
him to go to the house, where all pre-
paratiOns had been made, and be mar
ried. He declined, but did not feel at
liberty to give any reason for his con-
duct. He was craZed with suspicious
and did not know what to do. At last
he returned to Bennington without
having seen the girl whom he went to
marry. ThereupOn the poor girl sick
ened, went into decline, and under
the name of galloping consumption
died of Il broken heart.
All too late, as it usually happens, it
was discovered that the words which
poisoned RobinsOn's mind were the
fultillment of nameless plot con
cOcted, it is said, by young man who
was in love with the girl and whose
suit she had rejected, and helped on by
thoughtless people who supposed they
were making a good joke.
A brother of the girl came over to
Bennington with lawyer from Brattle
bOro named Phelps, and threatened IA
prosecution, mot for money!" as the
brother explained, "but to have it
proved that my sister was worthy of
the love and confidence of a good
man." The matter was arranged i'll
some way, and no suit was brOug Int. -
Troy Press.
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Never Again.

He had just got his oyster-shop
opened to the public the other dav
when in came man who asked
Got any ~
Eyes, sir
"Serve 'em on the half-shell ?"
1--WE do"
extra large ?"
eve have some of the largest oysters
| ever saw"
The price was asked and given, and
as it seemed to be perfectly satisfac-
tory the man ordered dozen and
added:
'Tve got a slight contraction of the
muscles of the throat, and sometimes
| choke. If anything happens to me
run me to the door where can get the
air and then rush for drink of water"
The caterer promised to observe the
caution, but it was only when the
twelfth and last oyster was taken in
between two rows of teeth that stood
out like ten-penny nails that anything
happened. Then the eater suddenly
raised one leg, his eyes bulged out,
and he began to skip around like
goat lodging a club. The choke had
come. The caterer seized him by the
arm and ushered him to the door, and
then hurried to the rear end of the res
taurant for glass of water. When he
returned with it, half expecting to see
the customer lying on the floor in the
agOnies of sutfocation, no one was in
sight. The man was not in the door,
nor at the door, nor around the door.
He was two blocks away and the
twelfth oyster had gone down to keep
the company of the other eleven.
Just exactly the same thing won't
happen in that place again. Some
other man with contracted throat
may start in to play the game, but be-
fore he has eaten his second oyster he
will be dispatched with hickory club,
and his body sent to some medical col
lege to find where the loose spoke
Was-l Detroit Free Press
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-16
VOLUME 47---NUMBER 24I6.

ters), and mere public speakers do not
possess .'the highest order of faculties
or intellect" while in most of them
1.-THE base of the brain will he found to
predominant over the superior portion"
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St. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct. = the mails will close at the
Post Office as follows:
Passumpsc K. X. Way Mail, South, BOO a. III.
No. DanVille 900 a.
st. j. l.. G.. k. r. Way Mail, East go p.
st. j. a l.. C. X. K. Way Mail, West, $50 p M.
Passumpsic X. X. Way Mail North 410 p. m
West Concord and st. JOhnsbury East. 900 a.
Waterford, W. Wat'fd and l.. Wat'fd, 40 p. m
Boston New York, Conn K. Val. Mail, 500 p.
Northern and Montreal mail 500 y. M.
Mail will be collected from the boxes at Paddock
village and Railroad street at 500 a. IN. and 3.l5
y. Box at Railroad street will he visited I 80
y. m, usual
The standard time adopted by the railroads
and which is sixteen minutes slower than Boston
time, will he taken the standard tune at the
postOtfice
CHAS. p. CARPENTER. p. NJ.
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st. Johnshnrx Athenmnm.

Library and Reading RoOm,-Free to all Open
from A. NJ to II Nj; from , to 6 p. NJ, and from
To : IL saturday evenings.
Art Gdllery-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
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w. j. BRAY,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
Lumber Yard and Office Opposite
Odd Fellows Block,
r. r. Street, ST. Johnsbury.

All kinds Of Building Material for sale Rough
and Dressed Lumber, Clapboards Shingle Lath,
Doors Sash and Blinds, Brackets Moudings
Hardware Nails, Lime, Cement, and everything
necessary for building at the lowest cash prices.
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Telegraph Office.

Western Union and VI, Internationally st.
IOhnsbury House. Open from a. m, To p. III.
sundays, to 10 a. m to p. III. Night messages
at half rates.
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COHgregatioHdl-Sunday services at 1915 a. IN.
and 6}O p. III. sabbath school at 12.OO. Wednes
day evening meeting at $50.
Methodist.-Supplied by Rev &. f. Burnham.
sunday services at l.30 y.
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Justices Record in Criminal Cases.

new blank for Justice Of the Peace. just
flCE. II
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Nice Calling Cards.

Ilit edged IN boxes OF cases, very neat Jus
CALIFORNIAN OFFICE.
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Grarelers' 6nide.

st. Johnsbury a Lake Champlain Railroad.
July 16. 1888.
All trains run on the standard of time I6
minutes slower than Boston time.
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Tue % mlNed traln goes TO Hyde Park only,
arriving at $50 p m. Returning leaves Hyde
Park at 500 a. m and arrives al st. JOhnsbury at
% p.
The express train reaches Maquam at > 26 and
the mail at 7-ji =. III. Returning, the mail leaves
Maquam at 9.3j "A. IN and the mi xed at IS p.
Mixed trains leave Lunenburg for st. Johnsbury
at 600 a IN and 4l5 y. m, arriving at 3. .25 n.
and so y m.
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Passumpsic Railroad.---Oct. g, 1888.
All trains run on the new standard of time l6
minutes slower than Boston time
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He had just got his oyster-shop
opened to the public the other day
when in came n man who asked
SCOT any raws ~
-,
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TRAINS SOUTH LEAVE ST. JoHNsBURY.
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Bnsiness Gards.
PUBLISHERS

NICHOLS & DUNNETT,
WYERS
Opposite Post Office st .Johu-bury Vt
Nichols at office W Concord SATURDAYS
Duunett at office South Ryegate. Mondays.
\. +. NICHOLS ALEX pUNNETT
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-14
Personal.

Fay Tsmpleton is now Mrs. West
wife of the minstrel.
The president has appointed VIM
=. Roulhac, of North Carolina, to be
secretary of the civil service commits
sion.
A Valparaiso paper says there are
two brothers of Number One" in
Chill, one a priest and the other a
barkeeper.
Secretary Chandler has left Wash
lngton for New Hampshire, having
again been called home by the serious
illness of his mother.
The president expects to be COM
tortably installed in his summer quar-
ters at the Soldiers Home cottage
very soon.
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke is
nominated by the Boston Advertiser
10 run against Butler for governor of
Massachusetts next fall.
Marie Litta, the prima donna. is Sc
rlously i'll at Bloomington, Illinois.
from nervous prOStration and threat
tned with cerebro-spinal meningitis.
a London cable says IF Mr.
Plunger Walton's luck does not turn.
There Will soon be All end to him on
the turf. He is said to have dropped
over 100000 at Newmarket and Ep-
som. He has hard time of it; they
make it hot for him everywhere"
Scandal has never been able to mar
the reputation of the new car. His
life has been bound up in the society
of his wife and children. His wife,
Lhe Princess Degmar, sister of the flu
ture queen of England. came to him
somewhat as his crown. She was
the betrothed of his elder brother.
who on his dying bed besought his
successor to make good the young
girls ambitious dreams.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-14
Police Pickings.

Martha Williams, colored, for ap-
pearing in public in the costume of
Eve as described in the Genesis,
was fined So and costs-over SIS.
Hansen Clark, whom the STATES
MAN mentioned some time since rs
having been arrested Tor threatening
life, was yesterday acquitted as not
being the man.
One of the Cinnamon "washerwo-
men" living just north of the City ho-
tel thrashed his younger companion
Monday, for which privilege he paid
paid So,
Thirty dollars, besides costs, were
added to the city treasury yesterday
10y fines in the mayors court, as fol-
lows: J. s. Canovar, violation of Sum
day law, S. and costs; "Chinaman,"
assault, So and costs; Lizzie Wilson,
drunk, So and costs; Eliza Harris,
assault, $40 and costs; James Birn,
violation of Sunday law, S. and costs.
1t was reported on the streets yes
terday that Mr.. Hill and the officer
had a shooting bout. at Manor, with
Il Mexican. This was a mistake.
The Mexican fired one shot at Mr..
Hill alone, which he returned. See
full particulars elsewhere.
A civil rights suit pending in the
Federal court is attracting attention.
Marshal Kirk and sergeant John
bonneville congratulate themselves.
AL the law breakers are beginning to
hate and fear them. Those who vio-
late the law habitually in any form,
always hate (and fear) law-abiding
citizens, and especially officers who
try to maintain law and order, as do
Marshal Kirk and Detective Chenne-
vile, and all the police force of Aus
tin.
Young Pierce, the companion of
Brown, who was sentenced to the
penitentiary for six years yesterday
for robbing Miss White, has not yet
been tried.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-14
MurderOns MeXiCans.

Mr.. Sam Hill, stockmun living at
Manor, yesterday brought Mexican
In and turned him O\ er to the sheriff
who jailed him on a charge of horse
stealing. The way Mr. Hill captured
him, as he related it to a STATESMAN
representative, was as follows Mon
day morning he went out to his past
ure and found two fine horses Staked
in it, and suSpecting that they were
stolen animals and that the thief or
thieves probably fingered near,
he went to the house and
got his Winchester rifle, and
returned to investigate. He soon found
Il Mexican whom he Immediately cap
tured. As he was going past ravine
on his way to the house with his Az
tee prisOner,I he was startled by the
report of a pistol, and he felt the bull
let rush uncomTOrtably near his
cheek. Looking around he discover
ed another Mexican, who had tried to
shoot him. Mr. Hill leveled his Win
chester at the child of the setting sun
and fired. with what effect he does not
know. 1t may be significant to say,
however, that Mr.. Sam
Hill is a most excel
lent and accurate marksman with
Winchester Reporter He brought
his Mexican No. to this city, as sta
ted above, and will investigate, he
says, in reference to Mexican No. 2.
The captured Mexican confessed that
he and his companion stole the horses
from a neighborhOod about fifteen
miles north of Bolton. The horses
are described as follows: One is
gray, about sixteen hands high, brand
cd with an Y inside a circle, and has
a scar on the left hip. The other is a
brown horse branded on left shout
der
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-14
Now First Class.

We do not usually copy the many
fiattering notices of the STATESMAN
in the various Texas papers, but on
account of the follow .ng having ema-
mated from our esteemed contempt
raTy, the Galveston News, ard having
been garbled in an ostensible repro
duction by one of our spirited even
ing contemporaries, we copy it just
AS it appeared in that ably conducted
column of state Press" in the Gal
weston News:
1.-The Evening News, the new Aus
tin daily. is spicy and wide-awake, in
contrast with the general tone of the
papers of that city for long time.
They may be safe as well as serious,
but they are usually slow. The
STATESMAN has been greatly i'm
proved within the past year, and now
ranks as a first-class morning paper"
The last sentence shows very plainly
that brother State Press meant the
first part of the article to be dig"
at Austin's numerous evening paper
efforts