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Mohave County miner., 1883-07-15

By passengers on last nights train the report is. brought that very large chamber of exceedingly rich ere has been struck in the Christie Company's mine at Mineral Hill. No defnite particulars could be had, but the story is that the find is of great importance.-Eureka Sentinel.
Mohave County miner., 1883-07-15

The other day a train on the Lake Shore railroad was suddenly stopped. The engineer had seen the apparent ly headless body of human being. On going back to where it lay, it was found to be the body of a young squaw, whose neck was encircled with blood-red handkerchief, giving it the appearenc6 of being covered with blood. On her stating that she wanted to kill herself, the kind heart ed conductor took her on his train and carried her to the next station, five miles distant When she step ped off the train her dispair left her, and applying her ontstretched thumb and finger to her nose, expressed the opinion that an Indian squaw was heap smarter than the pale faced brave who owned the smoke wagon.
Mohave County miner., 1883-07-15
NOTICE-COUNTY LICENSE

Under the law passed by the late legislature all persons engaging in the saloon or any other business without first procuring a license are subject to heavy fine or imprison- ment, Hereafter all licenses must be procured from me at my office in the Court House at Mineral Park.
 ROBERT SHEEN,
 Sheriff.
Mohave County miner., 1883-07-15
County.

Sheriff-Robert Steen.
 District Attorney--W. G. Blakely. Reccrder-J. K. Mackenzie. TreaSurer-W. NJ. Krider.
 Court Commissioner-J. J. Hyde. Probate Judge-Chas. AtChisson. Public Administra tor-J. J. Hyde. County Surveyor-Otto F. Kuencer. pervisors-W. H. Hardy, W. F Grounds an M w. Henkle. c erk of the Board of Supervisors-H
Mohave County miner., 1883-07-15
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Territorial.

Governor-F. A. Tritle, Prescott.
 Secretary-H. M. Van Arman, Prescott Attorney General-CIark Churchill. TreaEu urer-Thomas J. Butler. Prescott Superintendent of Public Instructicn-W
 Horton, Tucson.
 Auditor-E. P. Clark. Prescott.
 Adjutant General-M. H. Sherman. Supreme Court-C. G. w. French, Chief Justice. Prescott; Daniel H. Pinney, Asso- eiate Justice, Phoenix; W. W. Hoover, Asso' siate Justice, Tucson.
 us. District Attornoy-J. A. Zabriskie, Tncsou.
 U. s. Marshal-Leon s. Tidball, Prescott; Supreme Court Reporter-Murat Master SSa, Prescott.
 Surveyor General-J. W. Robbins, Tucson. U- s. Internal Revenue Collector = Fisher, Tucson.
 Delegate to Congress-G. H. Oury, Flor Onoe.
 Judge of First Judicial Distrio t-W. w. Hoover, Tucson.
 Judge of Second Judicial District-Daniel H. Pinney, Phoenix.
 Judge of Third Judicial District-C. G. ". French, Prescott.
Mohave County miner., 1883-07-15
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

F.. l.. BURDICh. M. D.. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Mineral Park, A. T.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21

kind to those who have money to buy
privileges. Prisoners who refuse to
answer questions are tortured, and wo-
men are frequently violated. The
writer makes an especial appeal in be-
half of women, whose position he de-
clares is far worse than that of men.
The London Times says that these al
legations demand serious investiga-
ton. So they do, but they are not at
all new The condition of the Russian
iails has not been bettered in any re-
spect since Towards famous mission.
Prince Karpotkine's account of his own
imprisonment in the same TrOubetskoi
bastion has but recently been given to
the world. He was studiOusly mod
crate in his statements. Dostoieffsky's
books have exhibited in its horror the
administration of Russian Justice in
iails near to and remote from st. Peters
burg. In any land that is called civil
lied there is nothing quite SO bad else
where as these prisons. And when we
consider that the inmates of such dia-
bolic pens are large men and women
of character, education and ability,
whose offense is that of labor for the
| liberty of the people, the atrOcity of the
cars government is deeply en-
| phaSiZed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
Advice TO ~ Young Man.

And then remember, my son, you
have to work. Whether you handle a
pick or pen, wheelbarrow or set
of books, digging bitches or editing Il
paper, wringing an auction bell or
writing funny things, you must work
If you look around, my son, you will
see the men who are most able to live
the rest of their days without work are
the men who work the hardest Don't
be afraid of killing yourself with over
work SO. 1t is beyond your power to
do that on the sunny side of thirty.
They die sometimes, but it's because
they quit work at six p. IN. and don't
get home until two a. IN. It's the in
terval that kills, my son. The works
gives yO an appetite for your meals,
it lends sOiidity to your slumbers, it
gives you perfect and grateful appre-
citation of holiday. There are young
men who do not work, my son but
the world Is not proud of them. 1t
does not know their names, even: it
simply speaks of them as old so-and
SOS boys. Nobody likes them; the
great busy world doesn't know that
they are there. SO find out what YOU
want to be and do, my son, and take
off your coat and make dust in the
world. The buster You are the less
deviltrv you will be apt to get into,
the sweeter will be your sleep, the
brighter and happier your holidays,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
Horrible Treatment Of Political
Prisoners.

Another revolving relation of the
horrors of Russian prisons is published
in the London Times, which vouches
for the source from which the story is
derived through its Paris cOrrespOn-
dent. This, like Il previous letter
some months ago was written in his
own blood by a revOlutiOnist confined
in the TroubetskOi bastion at St.
Petersburg. 1t asserts that the food
of the prisoners is often mOldy and
sometimes putrid that dysentery and
scurvy are prevalent, that the bodies
of those confined rot and eXhale the
oder of death while they are yet alive
that the doctors do not dare touch
their patients, and that the few medi-
cines they prescribe are generally
countermanded. Many prisoners go
mad, and when they do they are
strapped down and chastised with the
knOut by the keepers /; there are fire.
quent suicides. Women are imprison-
ed in these dungeons with babies, and
have to fight day and night to preFen
the rats from devOuring their children.
Prisoners are not allowed combs or
soap, and they are devoured by lice,
particularly women, whose hair is
allowed to grow. The jailers are only
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21

a grasshOpper, meeting an ant when
the biting wind of November was mas
ticating its way over the plain, humbly
requested pecuniary assistance until
next Saturday. ''Why should | share
my store with you p inquired the ant
"Here | have passed the entire summer
in laying up roots and grain, and col
lecting bad debts, and making deposits
in the savings bank. What, may
ask, have you been doing during the
heated term p ''May it please you,
responded the grasshopper, 81 have
been dancing" every WE'LL" said the
ant, ''now you may sing" Fright you
are :" exclaimed the grasshOpper, sit
is big scheme" And he at once went
and got an engagement to sing in grand
opera ut five thousand dollars Il night.
The moral of this fable teaches us that
plOdding industry is not only bore,
but occasionally gets left Puck.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21

anv one time, and several men were
selected to assume the role of women
for the occasion, and they were dis
tinguished from the others by cheap
fire-red ribbon worn on the left arm.
The music was furnished by two men
one PLAYING a cracked violin and the
other a prOdigiOus bass viol which
had two or three bullet holes in its
sides.
The dance went on satisfactorily,
bOisterously, until some after midnight
and the old citizens of the town were
congratulating themselves that the
boys were going to have quiet night
of it, when all of sudden they were
startled from their bar-room reverles
by two shots in rapid succession III the
ball room. The music had ceased and
all hands rushed to the scene. The
bass viOl man, hard looking fellow,
was standing on stool, with big
revolver in each hand, daring the man
who had fired IA shot into his instru-
ment to show himself. Nearly every
man and woman in the room had pistol
or knife in hand. The proprietor of the
place had, with "A Winchester i'll his
/ hand, pushed through the crowd to
| the side of the bass violinist, and
learned from him that two bullets had
| been fired into his instrument by some
body in the room, and that he did not
propose to stand any more fooling
Each shot, after passing through the
shell of the bass viOl, had hit a dancer
causing painful wounds. The pro
/ prietor had just succeeded i'll calming
| the musician when one of the men who
had been shot stepped up and offered
| to fight the man who did the shooting
with revolvers, Winchesters, knives OF
fists, just as he pleased. This caused
! great excitement, but as no one ap'
peared to take up the gauntlet, the
dance was resumed.
Toward morning two of the men got
into quarrel over Il question of etl-
quette, and exchanged shots, doing
some damage to two bystanders, but
not hurting each other.
With these exceptions the dance
passed off pleasantly, and to-day thu
town is rs quiet as Il burying- ground.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
Dress Goods Department.

In this department showing many fabrics and
shades such satin solel shuddah cloths cashmere and
annes in fine all wool goods, also full stocks of low and
medium priced goods. In black goods have very full
assortment of Henrietta Cloths, Drap, DeAma, Oomans
Corduretes, India Serge, Satin Meveleax, Beges and
Cashmeres in which show exceptional values.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
All AND WINTER OF 1881.
{. B. MERRIAM & co.
On Wednesday, Oct TO- shall open large and complete
stock of Dress Goods
cLoAKs AND SMALL WARES,

just purchased in New York and Boston markets for the
fall trade of 1888. This being first fall in bust
goods all of purchase and of and
desirable These goods have been purchased for cash
and will be offered at cOrrespondngy low prices. We
would call the attention of all of the speciates
mentioned below.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
PATENTS.
r.. II. f. ID ID y .

No. 10 State Street, opposite Kilby Street Boston
secures patents in the United States also ia
Great Britain, France and other foreign countries
Copies OF the claims of any Patent furnished by
RENTING one dollar. Assignments recorded 1T
Washington. No agency ia the United States pos
superior facilities for obtaining Patents or
uecrtdiHiHg the pdtentdbiti'y Of iHUeihcnS. Il. II.
EDDY. Solicitor of Patents.
TESTIM ONIALS.
Il regard Mr.. Eddy one of the most successful
and capable practitioners with whom | have bad
official intercourse. CHAS. MASON.
Commissioner of Patents.
Inventors cannot employ person trust
worthy or more capable of securing for them an
early and favorable consideration at the Patent OF
flee. '-EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner of
Patents
Boston. October 10, 1870.
L. II. EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir You procured for
me in IslO, my first patent. Since then yuu have
acted for and advised me in hundreds OF cases and
procured many patents, reissues and extensions.
have occasionally employed the best agencies in
New York, Philadelphia and Washington, but |
still give You almost the whole of my business, in
your line and advise others to employ You.
Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER.
Boston. Jan. l. Iss3.-lv
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
FISTULA AND PILES

Cured without the Use of the Knife
WILLIAM READ tM D.. Harvard 1si2l and
ROBERT NJ READ. on. D., Harvard, 1S7GJ offices
Evans House, rs fremont ST., Boston give special
attention to the treatment of Fistula Piles and all
Diseases of the rectum, without detention from
business. Abundant references given. Pamphlets
sent application. Office Hours II a m, to
o'clock, y. m. Except sundays tFeb-I
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21

Gen. Slocum will soon introduce in
the house bill for the relief of Gen.
Fitz John Porter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL.

The VOtaic Belt Co., Marhsall, Mich, will send
Dr. Dyes Celebrated Electro VOltaic Belts and
Electric Appliances on Trial for 80 days to men
(young old who afflicted with Nervous
Debility Lost Vitality, and kindred troubles.
anteeing speedy and complete restoration of health
and manly vigOr. Address above.-N. B.-NO
risk is incurred, az 80 days trial is allowed.
t5Feb. "a
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
GIVEN AWAY.

MOSS ROSE DECORATED TEA SETS. French
W. China Gold Band Tea Sets Stone China Dinner
Sets and hundreds of other PREMIUMS to per
SONS getting up TEA CLUES. Send postal card
for Catalogue. including tel
PECIAL OFFER.
Annoy TEA CO.. 1888 broadway. Providence RI
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
Forests and water supply.

and the better satisfied will the world
be with yon.-TBurdette.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
WAN

By old and prominent Life Company, a man
who has a large acquaintance through this district
and who il energetic, thorough, and willing to de
vote his entire time the business act as Gen
eral Agent. To such a man rare inducements will
be offered, combining salary guarantee. All
policies nOnfOrfeting by their conditions after
three payments. Endowment policies at life rates
Popular plans. Experience not necessary, but
those who have had experience and successful
and desire TO change will find it greatly 70 their
interest to correspond with before making any
arrangements Address Drawer % Albany p. o..
\. Y. 1922
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
SILKS AND VELVETS.

In this department purchases have been very large and
complete and offering black silks at $lOO $l.25,
the celebrated production of r. Savoe Co. and Guno e
Co. We invite inspection of this stock feeling very
den show superior goods at low prices In veves
purchases made in August previous to the advance
in prices and therefore enabled offer veves old
prices We invite the closest inspection Of this stock and
prices Also full assortment of satins and coOred silks
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
FOR SALE,

Six good bOrses two good driving harnesses.
some buffalo robes, one sleigh, one large new re-
frigeratOr The above will be sold cheap for cash
As l have of that kind Of property than /
ing to make room for more Gltf W. J. BRAY
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
PRUSSIAN ARMY
HA RIM SS
OIL BLACKING

Freezing and Cracking.
SoflenS Without hjWjng.
oils without Cumming.
BIdckenS without Cracking.
Guaranteed PUe and Free from all
AcidS.
Z. 4. q. CO., 25S Washington st.
eOwtSepl64 Boston. Mass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
MUSIC.
SHOEMAKINC,

/ beg leave to inform the public that have on
hand good stock Mems Custom Made Boots and
Shoes made of the best stock in the market and at
the lowest price possible. Also a good assortment
of Ladies' Kid Shoes of best quality at g 90 and
- 50 per pair. Ladies' shoes and rubbers repaired
to order in first-class style and at short notice.
p. A BROWNE,
p Eastern Avenue. ST. .IOhnSbury 1881
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
Wire Staples and Punches

just the thing for fastening together legal docu
ments, manuscripts, pamphlets, etc. For sale at
the CaledOnian office. II
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21

STATE OF VERMONT. CALEDONIA DISTRICT s.
- In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. Johnsbury, in said district, the 9th day OF
December, A. ID. 1888.
John Emerson, administrator upon the estate of
Samuel Redwood, late of st. JOhnsbury, in
said district, deceased, presents his administration
account for examination and allowance and makes
application for a decree of distribution and parti-
tiOn of the estate of said deceased.
WhereupOn, it is ordered by said Court, that said
account and said application be referred to SEES
sion thereof to be held at the Probate Office
i'll said st. JOhnsbury, on the 22nd day of Dec,
A. ID. 1883 for hearing and decision thereon And II
is further ordered that notice hereof be given to
all persons interested, by publication of the same
three weeks successively in the CaledOnan, news
paper published at st. JOhnsbury 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,
1921 WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
John A STATIONS ESTATE.
- The subscribers, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the district OF
Caledonia, Commissioners To receive, examine, a I'd
adjust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of John A. Stanton, late of Danville.
in said District deceased, represented insOlvent
and the term of six months from the LIST day of
January 1884 being allowed by said Court to the
creditors ofsad deceased to exhibit and prove their
respective claims before Give notice, that we
the dwelling house of Mrs R A Stanton, in Dan
vile in said District the LIST day of January and
July next at o'clock in the afternoon,
each OF said days.
II. A. KELSEY lC,
1921 LYMAN STEVENS, Ooi"in TO-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
Marriage Certificates

For Clergymen to give the parties On plain pa.
per, also Autographs card From three cents
10 20 cents each. CALIFORNIAN OFFICE
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
ENVELOPES

Furnished and printed. Any style furnished par
ties may wish, and business men will consult
their interests by giving us a call for
this line of goods.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
CIRCULARS

OF all descriptions furnished at short notice an,
at reduced prices
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-20

officers, who formed d hew Board Of
HEALTH. The ItB& Board called q Hear.
ing, at which the antiabrush nten were
represented by the Hon. Thomas M.
Waller, the present Governor Of the
State. Gideon F. Raymond appeared
with the other oystermen in opposition.
The excitement at the hearing was 80
fierce that Mr.. Raymond was glad to
escape from the audience-roOm and
from the town.
The Board decided that the brush
must be taken up. w. S. Fish and
Thomas w. Noyes were appointed a
committee to execute the task. A
dozen men were hired to pull up the
trees. They worked industriously from
late in the autumn of 1881 till the spring
or 1882 before their work was accom-
pllshed. The trees were found to be
covered with oysters in all stages Of
growth. Every bough and twig was
bent with the load. They were thrown
in rattling heap OH the shore, where
they were frozen and died by the cart
loads. 1t was found that most of tho
crop Of the year 1879 were fit for mar
ket, and many Of the year 1880 were in
like condition. The oysters on trees
planted latest, though only few weeks
old, We're as large as silver quarter dol
lars. Many were found no larger than
a shad scale. Raymond promptly
brought suit against the Board of
Health, claiming $4,000 damages.
Ills legal statement was, first, that the
Board was not a legally constituted
body; second, that they were respons-
ible as Board for any mistake they
might have made, and, third, that it
was comforting extraordinary powers
on any Board to authorize them to des-
troy property merely at their own ca
price. The case came before the Su-
perlor Court in New London last fall.
The Courtroom was thronged. The
most interesting evidence for the OYSTER
brush men was furnished by CAPTAIN
James M. Buddington, of Groton, a
polar whaler and explorer and owner of
an oyster forest. He estimated that
SUI bushels OF oysters had been des-
troyed on the Raymond lot alone.
though the greater part Of the crop was
not a. quarter grown. He said that he
mad seen from fourteen to twenty five
bushels OF oysters Oh single tree. He
presented i'll Court two or three twigs
OF birch that were loaded with oysters.
During the trial the merits of the P0
quonoc River oysters were thoroughly
discussed. In the opinion of one ex-
pert cultivatOr their delicious flavor
was due Ill part to the strong solution
OF iron brought down in the streams
from the rocky hillsides of inland. towns.
AL the witnesses asserted that the Po-
quonoc oyster was entirely free from
the hard substance that iniures the
quality Of other kinds. One Poquonoc
enthusiast said that they were the finest
oysters in the world on the half-shell.
Inc scarlet fever aud dipAtheria ceased
TO be epidemic in POquonoc on Septem- =
per l, 1881, though cases Of malarial
1eVer, an unusual disease in the town,
appeared later.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-20
a Thrilling Scene,

AT Perranporth, near Truro, England,
the driver of a wagonette party, wander
ing on the beach found his retreat ont
OIL by the tide. He essayed to climb
the cliffs, but when half way ur he
found progress impossible. The ledge
on whiok he was supported would only
give space for one foot, and tho ground
TO which he olung above was loose and
orumbling. For some hours he endured
this suspense, when the visitors descried
him from above. The news spread and
crowd congregated, but mono dared
venture along the slight edge by which
alone the man could be approached. To
have thrown rope would have been
useless, for the effort to catch it would
have certainly caused tho poor fellow to
fall. A coast guardsman named Began
volunteered to be let down 100 feet over
the face of the oliff, and while no de-
soended the excitement was quickened
tenfold. BY sudden effort the cosst
guardsman clasped the man with n
strong grip, and they swung off the
ledge together. Even then the danger
was not at an end, but a descent wa.
safely effected to ledge below, whence
access to the summit was gradually
gained. The spectators collected q good
round sum for the gallant coast-g guards
man.