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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
The Howe Scale Company.

The Howe scale company has re-
organized with John B. Page as presi-
dent, John A. Sheldon treasurer, and
lockwood Barrett, John w. Champion
and John A. Sheldon trustees. w. X.
Page will run the business under the
trustees. The company, which has
been for some months in embarrassed
circumstances, has surrendered all its
property and notes and bills to John
w. Cramton, John A. Sheldon and
lockwood Barrett, known bust
ness men of Rutland, who have taken
possession of the works and will here
after carry on the business as trustees
or managers. These men represent
the syndicate which has been entered
into by twenty-five of the citizens of
Rutland for the purpose of keeping the
works running, it being agreed among
the members of the syndicate that they
will lend their credit and guarantee
the paper of the trustees or managers
to an amount not exceeding 100000
at any one time. These trustees OF
managers are to carry on the scale
business in their own name, without
any connection with the Howe scale
company, and will raise money and
pay off the employees at once, and
the other Indebtedness of the company
as soon as possible. When all the
debts of the company are paid it is
understood these trustees and mana
gers are to surrender the property to
the Howe scale company. Ex-GOv.
Page will have nothing to do with the
present management nor will the Howe
scale company. There is over three
months pay still due the employees who
have been hard pressed for want OF
their wages.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12

who will not regret his indisposition
to go higher. 1t is to be earnestly
hoped that both parties will send to
the front their very best men next year.
There should be good men as the can
didates, not only for president but for
the second place; we have learned the
necessity of providing properly for
both. The days of the available man,
the geographical individual, the per-
son to properly balance the ticket,
ought to have gone by, and the mere
trading politician ought not to go on
the ticket or have to do with the max
ing of it. Senator Edmunds would be
by all odds the best man to lead the
republicans, and as a good citizen he
could not refuse the honor if it were
rendered him. If it were known that
he would be the republican nominee,
the democrats would also put forward
their best man as their standaTd-bearer,
and there would be canvass of which
every citizen would be proud, and a
result, whichever ticket might be cho-
sen, which would ensure a better quail
ity of government than we have beer
used to of late years. We hope there
is reason to believe that Senator Ed
munds is willing to continue to serve
the country, and that he will take
whatever high place his party or the
people choose to give him. There are
not so many men of his purity anC
ability that one of them can be easily
spared. Who is there of his long anC
good service that is unspOtted as he is
| Who better deserves to be presiden
than Senator Edmunds ?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
The October Elections.

The only elections now occurring in
October are those of Ohio and Iowa.
These took place on Tuesday; and
while the party lines were somewhat
changed by the temperance question
which entered into the canvass in both
states, the general result is encouraging
to the republicans. Taking the tidal
wave majority of last year for a com
parison, the republicans have succeed
ed in reducing the democratic majority
from 10000 to 5000, taking the demo
cratic estimate of this years majority.
The republicans, however, concede
Hoadley's election by only 5000 OF
1000. The republicans elect their
candidate for lieutenant governor. The
legislature, which will choose a United
States senator to succeed PendletOn,
is very close and in doubt. The demo
Gratis claim it by five and the republi-
cans by one majority. The liquor
amendment is badly defeated, and it is
thought the majority against it will
exceed 10000.
In Iowa the republicans carry the
legislature and give Sherman a major
ity for governor of 25,OOO or 10000
though the democrats claim his major
ity will not exceed 5000.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
CareleSSneSS.

If people would stop being careless
a good deal of the ill-humOr prevalent
in the world, and much of the prOfan-
ity which shocks sensitive ears, would
cease to be. More time is lost, more
energy is wasted, more precious vital
force spent in making up other peoples
deficiencies than the successful devel-
Opment of very considerable enterprises
would involve. CarelesSness starts most
of the fires that devastate and destroy,
wrecks most of the trains that plunge
into each other, or off the open bridge
or the half-turned switch explOdes
most of the boilers, destroys no end of
good reputation, undOes no end of
carefully wrought work, and is gener-
ally responsible for much of the ills of
which men are not so much the heirs
as the creators. The failure of the
husband to mail the Letter, handed to
him as he left the breakfast table with
the strict Injunction TO post 1t at once,
has caused almost as much misery AS
great wars; the failure to recOllect
packages in railway carriages has bro
ken up families, and the absentmind
edness which leaves umbrellas i'll res
taurants aud other public resorts has
wrecked fortunes. A good many ex
cellent people are careless, but that
does not make carelessness any the
less a crime against the order and com
fort of the world.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
Public Opinion.

THE BENEFIT OF ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS.
Tho Indanand.nt olmost oats into q
fit becanse another failure Of an Arctic
avbihition il followed Inv - "chean
nusilIonimous crrr to mt q ston r.
his avnosnre of life and money for an
Object which is Of no nracticol nse,
Lot tha Indanendent actnalIv
WEIGH tbe Arctic whale-oiI in one nan
and the Arctic knowledge in the Other
and see which is the heavier up to
date Or mt them both AGAINST the
frozen homes of brave men and fin,
burninc of sbips in the ice-plades of 4
northern sea. If ANYTHING has bee1
settled it is that with ice-bergs as now
constituted. we can't get our boat,
beyond the barrier. and the only way
to find This s.secret of the Arctic; is to
make y better ship.-and not to con
tinue TO sprinkIe the north with wrecks
and the lost bodies of men urged OH t,
their fate by the reckless application
of a GOOD sentiment pfield Re
publican.
,,opuo,su xor pprpocp,n,Nc
e',. '' " '',,,' W. .Il
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
A Large River Discovered in
Alaska.

Lieut. Storey, who went on the rev
enue steamer COrwin to Alaska, reports
the discovery of an immense river,
hitherto unknown to geographers. He
proceeded inland from HOtham inlet
in southeasterly direction until he
struck what he believed the mysterious
river he had heard of. He traced it to
its mouth, distance of fifteen miles,
where he saw such huge pieces of float
ing timber as to satisfy him that the
stream must be of immense size. He
retraced his steps for a distance OF
fifty miles, where he encountered ma
tives from whom he learned that to
reach the head waters of the unknown
stream would take several months.
The Indians told him that they had
come down the river distance OF
800 miles, and that it went up higher
than that. The Indians stated that
the river in some places is twenty
miles wide. 1t lies within the Arctic
circle.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
POstm,asIers' Salaries.

Some interesting facts are obtained
from some figures prepared by the
postotlicc department showing the
amount of the salaries paid to the
postmaStcrs of the country. There are
2,l95 postmasters who are appointed
by the president, whose salaries aggre-
gate S3,7jO,OO a year. In the lower
grades there are about $1,000 post
masters, whose salaries increase the
total amount paid for this department
of the public service to about two fifths
of the amount paid office holders of all
kinds.
There is an impression that whoever
holds Il government office has a great
sinccurc From the latest issue of the
"Blue Book which gives the salaries
of all government officials, some equal
ly interesting facts are learned. In the
wear prior to its issue, there were forty
seven poStmasterS in the country
whose salaries for the entire year were
less than II each. eleven who received
less than twenty-five cents year for
their services, and one, in Tennessee,
actually received the muniticent salary
of five cents for his years services
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
Senator EdmumdS and the Pres
idency.

There is no man who can throw more
meaning into fewer words than Senator
Edmunds. At the Episcopal conven-
| ton at Philadelphia last week, he de-
clined nomination for the presidency
of the convention, and said that he
was not "a candidate for president for
this or any other place at this or any
other time" One could not well con-
ceive of more concise or significant
sentence. 1t has OccasiOned good
deal of comment by the press, and is
regarded, as was evidently intended,
as n declaration that Senator Edmunds
| is not IA candidate for the presidential
nomination in the commonly accepted
sense of the term. No one has believed
| that Edmunds is an Office-seeker, or
desires the nomination. Neither is
there much doubt that he would honor
by his acceptance the call of his party
| to become its standard bearer. Such
men as candidates are what the party
and the country need, and no greater
/ step could be taken in furtherance of
/ the growing sentiment of civil service
reform than the nomination of Senator
Edaunds- nomination that would
be equivalent to an election.
The New York Times regards it ga
very important utterance." So it is.
And the Times hopes that he "has been
unsupported, or, ut least, that he may
reconsider his determination" He has
no determination" to reconsider. He
| has said that he is not candidate, and
| the country believes what he says.
That is one good reason why he should
be nominated. The country is tired OF
place seekers, and is anxious to get
back to the good old time when the
office sought the man and not the man
the office. If Senator Edmunds is
nominated, the office will seek him
he will not seek the office. He has not
said that he would not accept the nom
ination if it were offered him, and
when he makes such declaration, il
will be time enough to consider hin
out of the field as a possible presiden-
tial candidate. OF his utterance the
Springfield Republican says:
That is nothing; he always talks so
and without doubt talks as he feels
He is destitute of presidential ambition
and if it Is necessary that man should
lie awake nights worrying, schemina
and laying wires to get the nomination
Mr.. Edmunds will never be the candi-
date. But if he is nominated, we be-
lieve he will never refuse to run.
The New York Graphic says:
The country has not a purer or al
ADLER man than Senator Edmunds, ant
when he was called to the presidency
of the senate, it was felt that in case %
the death or disability of president
Arthur, the government would be il
safe hands. His election as president
pro TEN. was received with the pro
foundest qualification the country
through, and there is no good either
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
College Notes.

Forty four have passed the exami-
nation for admission to Bowdoin col
lege.
Only two young women have applied
for admission to the course of study
offered by Columbia college.
The late Judge Jason Downer OF
Milwaukee, who graduated from Dart
mouth college i'll 1888, left Sl0,0OO fol
that institution.
The opening of the thirty fourth
session of the Women's Medical college
in Philadelphia attracted crowds OF
spectators, the object of curiosity be
ing Mrs. Anandibeau JOshee, a Hind0o
woman who entered into a four-years
course of study. She is pretty and
graceful, and speaks English with flu
ency. She will dress in the costume
of her country, and worship according
to her religion.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
The Attitude Of the Mormon
Church..

At the fifty-third semi-annual con-
ference of the Mormon Church at Salt
Lake City, Friday, the Mormon lead
ers assumed a defiant attitude. One of
the apostles made speech, in which
he took strong grounds in favor of po-
lygamy and tithe-paying. He said
that after the passage of the Edmunds
law, polygamists that had professed to
he good Iatter-day saints had put away
their wives and sent them to their
mothers. For such men he had an ut
ter contempt, and he had more respect
for Gentiles or MethOdists than he had
for latter day saints that were fright
ened by II law passed by Congress.
Among this class is President Taylor,
who WAS the first to send his wives
away, and who did not call them to-
gether again until the Church conclud-
ed to test the constitutiOnality of the
act. Brigham Young, Jr., said that no
power on earth could overthrow the
saints, and that stronger revelations
than those they had received were yet
to come. George Q. Cannon spoke III
the same strain. Apostle Snow said
that all the powers of heaven and
hell could not prevail against the
saints, and that they would go Oh
prospecting. Eighty-one missionaries
/ b,,,o hoan ounninto1 tn ,ro an missions
to Europe and the United States, and
eighteen set apart for the Southern
states, where the Church is meeting
with considerable success. Statistics
were presented showing the member
ship to he l27 900, the number of fami
lies 23,OOO, the births of the past six
months 200 males and 100 females,
the number of children under eight
years in that city 1000, the number OF
beers 23,O40, and deaths 7SI. The
church organization comprises - apOs-
ties, 50 patriarchs, 1854 seventies, :
3,l53 high priests, 900 elders, 800
bishops, 3,40O deacons.
The attendance was large, and de-
termination was manifested to stand
by pOlygamy. Some more vigorous
measures will need to be adopted than
have yet been proposed to root out the
system. The government has tempo
rized too long, which policy of pacifca-
ton encourages the leaders in an atti-
tude of open defiance to law.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
The American Board.

At the seventy-fOurth annual meet
ing CT the American board at Detroit,
Mich, last week, Rev. Dr. Mark Hop
kins was reelected president, and E.
w. BlatchfOrd of Chicago vice-presi-
dent. The annual sermon was preached
by Prof. w. VI. Barbour of Yale college.
The treasurer's report showed the
receipts during the year $590,996 ;
amount expended in direct work of
missions, 1857 PAS; cost of agencies,
S9,007 of publications, S3,02}; of ad-
ministration, 5000 balance in the
treasury, 81 ,225; appraised value OF
Otis fund securities, 1918, 406; general
permanent fund, Sl63,047 permanent
fund for support of officers, S59, Cos.
Each of the two last funds received
small additions during the year. The
secretary's report contains the follow
ing general summary for the year
1SSl-2: Number of missions, 20; sta
tons, so; Out-statiOns, 742; ordained
missionaries (siX being physicians)
l54; physicians not ordained, men and
women, nine; other male assistants
seven; other female assistants, 263
whole number of laborers sent from
ChlS CounblA, too HuIlDcI vi HdulNt
pastors, IA; native preachers and
catechists, 1863; native school teachers
,0l4 other native helpers, 300; whole
number of labOrers connected with the
missions, 1850; pages printed, as fal
us reported, 32,000,000; number o
churches, 278; number of church mem
bers, as nearly as can be learned, 10,
364 added during the year, as nearl!
as can be learned, ,737 ; whole numbe
from the first as nearly as can b'
learned, 1923; number of higl
schools, theological seminaries and sta
ton classes, So; pupils in the above
2,0S6; boarding school for girls, 40
pupils in boarding schools for girls
ABS; common schools, 03l pupils il
common schools, 81 ,0l6; whole mum
Der of pupils, 81, 625. President Chapi
of BelOit college was selected to preac
the annual sermon, with Rev. GeOrg
l.. Walker of New Haven us alternate
at the next meeting, which will b
held mt Columbus, Ohio.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12

The number of bathers at the Boston
public bath houses the past season
numbered over ,000,00O.
Australia has applied for admission
to the international postal union.
When she is admitted almost every
civilized country in the world will be
enrolled in the union. Australia has
been kept out by her inability to re-
duce her foreign postage to the union
rate-tive cents a half ounce on ac-
count of her large subsidies to steam
ship lines. She pays 5000, 600 year
to the steamship line running to San
Francisco, as well as a large subsidy
to the mail steamships using the Sue2
canal
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
The Bay state "scratchers."

The Massachusetts independents met
at Young's hotel in Boston on Saturday,
and resolved to support Robinson for
governor and oppose Ames for lieuten-
ant-govcrnor. They issued an ad
dress, and, to humor the more timid
among them, rcfraimed from placing in
nomination a candidate for lieutenant
governor, trusting to the democrats
to substitute the name of some man in
place of eX- Mayor Prince upon whom
they can unite. 4 letter from Charles
Francis Adams. who was absent in the
west, was read. in which he earnestly
deprecated all "sidc shows and minor
issues" having reference to the oppO-
sition to Mr.. Amcs. The same stand
was taken 10y James Freeman Clarke.
There were l25 present, including Gen.
F. \. Walker, Frank Bird, Col. +. w.
IHgginson, Congressman Lyman and
many active and earnest young men,
who were unwilling to adopt the plan
advocated by the more conservative
ones.
The opposition of a faction repre-
scented by such Il large number of able
and distinguished men will he quite a
factor in the Massachusetts political
problem.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
Better Police Protection I'm the
Country.

There are many advantages in rural
life, and it has its corresponding dis
advantages. The Springfield Repub-
lican publishes a letter from Henry NJ.
Field, editor of the New York Evange-
list, who resides in Stockbridge, Mass,
who tells about burglars entering his
house and taking about 800 worth OF
silver. The correspondent thinks this,
with similar experiences in other towns,
suggests the question whether we do
not need, for our own protection, an
efficient country police He concludes
that ''the good old days of New Eng
land are departed, when men never
locked even their outer doors, and yet
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
New Hampshire News.

The Summit house, Mt. Washington,
has been closed.
Now the Concord Episcopalians have
a surpliced choir, the second in the
state.
The steamer "Lady of the Lake" will
make her last trip on Lake WinnipiseO-
gee Oct. 20.
At the Congregational conference,
there were vigorous protests against
church-fair lotteries.
The New Hampshire supreme court
has decided that compound interest
cannot be collected on a note, if the
interest is not paid when due.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
CTATE on VERMONT. CALEnosIA DIsrRIcr

StTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT r.
- In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. Johnsbury, in said District, the 10Th day of
October, A. d. 1873.
Henry A. Gilfllan a administrator upon the estate
OF JOhni Gillfllan, late of Barnet 10 said idis-
triet, deceased presents his administration
account for examination and allowance and makes
application for decree of distribution and part
ton Of the estate of said deceased.
WhereupOn, it is ordered by said Court, that said
account and said application be referred to a seq
sion thereof To be held at the Probate Office in
said st. JOhnsbury, the 3Oth day of October,
A. d. 1893 for hearing and decision thereon and
it is further ordered, that notice thereof be given
three weeks successfully in the CaledOnian, a
newspaper printed at St JOhnsbnry, previous
to said time appointed for hearing, that they may
appear at said time and place and show cause If
any they may have why said account should not
be allowed, and such decree made.
By the Court Attest
lib WALTER z. SMITH Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12

The physiological plot of that psy-
Geological novel, "Mr. and Mrs. Nor
ton" is said to be taken from "a
Physicians Problems" a book quite
difficult to get, as it is out of print.
The A c Pathfinder Railway Guide
for October is ont, and as usual con-
tains IA large amount of interesting
reading matter, besides the latest
changes in the time tables of all the
New England railroads.
Will Carleton began contributing to
the papers when il boy. In graduating
in 1869 he was the poet of the class
and read "Rifts in the Clouds" Il
maiden effort. Since then four books
of poems have been issued, and the
aggregate sales have been S2OO,OOO.
''The Bread Winners" the anOny-
nous serial now appearing in the Cen
fury, is much praised by other authors
Mr.. Howells, in denying the author
ship to friend, added, ~ wish had
written it." The second half of the
story, yet unpublished, is said to con-
tain some very exciting chapters.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe says
that the novels of the day lack roman
tic interest Human passion has come
to be synonymous with a mawkish
hysteria, to be photographed without
grace, and by what strikes her as a
dry process, which takes the victim in
the middle of an emotion, as a horse is
caught with all his feet in the air.
II. X. Bowker, who has been in Lon
don for nearly four years introducing
Harper's Magazine, attributes the re-
markable success of Harper's and
Scribner's in that country to the gen
eral superiority of American magazine
literature and illustrations. He says
the periodicals of England and America
are different in this one radical par
ticular: "The English magazines treat
of every subject from The critical point
of view; the American in the narrative
style. They criticise /; We report"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12

GTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DIsTKICT ST
DIN Probate Court holden at the Probate Office in
St JOhnsbuTy, the 9Th day of October A. ID. 1888
George A. Chase, executor of the last will and
testament of ElmOre Chase late of Kirby in said
district, deceased, makes application 10 said Court
for license to sell the whole of the real estate of
said deceased, representing that it would be bene-
fetal to the heirs devisees and legatees and all in
terested in said estate to sell the whole OF the real
estate of said deceased and convert the same into
money; and he brings Herewith into court the
consent and appreciation in writing of all the heirs
devisees and egatees to said estate residing in this
state to the granting of such license.
Whereupon. il is ordered by said Court, that
said application come under consideration and be
heard the 27th day of October, A. ID. 1898 at the
Probate Office in st. JOhnsbury and. it is further
ordered that all persons interested be notified
hereof by publication of notice of this applica-
ton and order thereon, three weeks sueees-
sively in the st. JOhnsbury Caledonian, printed
at St. JOhnsbury, before said time of hearing that
they may appear at said time and place and If they
see cause, object thereto.
By the Court Attest,
lib WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12

At the Episcopal convention at Phil
adelphia on Tuesday, a lively debate
ensued over a proposition to substitute
the words "Holy Catholic Church"
for Protestant Episcopal The prop
osition was defeated by a vote of 252
In ~