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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-30
AN ELOQUENT MURDERER.
Printer JohDsOn's Speech of Fifty Year,
Ago Handed Down on Yellow Parcli'
ment.

trlnIer OonUbObh opeecH Oi ruiy AeaIl
Ago Handed Down on Yellow Parcr
ment.
IN. Y. Sunl
Chief Clerk John Sparks of the General
Sessions, the oldest court of record in the
United States, has probably been longer
in Office than any otherliving court official.
He takes particular pride in the preser.
walton of the court records, and an iniict.
ment found 100 years ago is as accessible
as one presented by the Grand Jury yes.
terday. He occasionally finds notable
mat ers of record in the heavily bound old
books that were compiled by his predeces-
sors ola century ago.
"Here is curiosity" said he yesterday.
pointing to yellowed parchment page in
in a sheepskin bound volume. "Here is an
official report of the most remarkable
speech that was ever delivered, under like
circumstances, in this court. Nowadays
the business of the court is so large that
the clerk has only tine 10 make the brief
est minutes, but fifty or sixty years ago
things were different"
The entry was an account of the arraign.
ment of R chard johnson TO receive SEN
tence of death for the murder of Ursula
Newman, otherwise Ursula Lattel. The
date of the entry was March 81, 1929. The
Judges were o yden Edwards, Circuit Judge
of the First Circuit o. Oyer and Terminer;
John T. Irving, Judge of the Court of Com.
mon Pleas, and Alderman Samuel Stevens,
VIM. S. Coe, id Benjamin M. Brown, sit
ting as Justices of Oyer and Terminer.
The handwriting of the clerk was like the
most exquisite copperplate. The entry
was as follows:
The prisoner Is put to the bar, and it is
asked of him what he hath to say why
Judgment of death should not be pro.
nounced against him according to law.
The prisoner replies: II your Honors
please. ! am asked what have to say
why Judgment Of death should not be pro
nounced upon me. To this reply: To the
Judgment of the law, nothing. A jury Of
my countrymen has pronounced me guilty
and there remains no discretion with the
Court but to pronouce upon me the sen
tence Of the law. But to the Judgment Of
the world have much to say. ! have beer
convicted of crime, the bare recital ol
which causes humanity to shudder; and 1t il
q duty owe to myself while living, and TO
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-30

Going Overheard in the Est River at Day
break-A Letter to His Friends In Provi-
dence, Ending In a Half Leg BILE Scrawl.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-30

/ am sole agent here for the sippo Coal
Company's Massilon Coal, acknowledged
to be the best Massion Coal produced. /
also have superior quality of Soft Coal
for CRATES or domestic use, entirely free
from suit and but little ash A full stock
of the best Lackawana Hard Coal always
on hand, and Blossburg Coal for black
smiths use. Coal by the carload speci.
atty at prices as low as the lowest.
G. e. SUTLIFF.
Wellington, Dec. 12, 1883. 97yf
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-30

Wellington, Dec. 1s, 1883. 97y1-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-04-30

MIR. R. 7. Booth, the temperance
re'ormer, says that since he went to
Great Britain he has persuaded over
7GO. 600 persons to take the pledge and
over 1,0OO,OO persons to wear the blue
ribbon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20

which has been beaten in this election,
is not the republican party of 1860. 1t
is the republican party which nomi-
mated James G.. Blaine. The demo
cratic party, which is nominally yicto-
riOus in the election, is not the demo-
cratic party of 1860, but is the party
that took for its standard bearer Gro
yer Cleveland. l am willing to trust
the party of the future, and that party
of the future, is, so far as this hall can
hold it, before me to-day. The cam
paign is ended its work is done its
battles are no more to be fought over
again. Our work is of the future. The
question is, what are we to do in that
future. First of all, we are to remem-
Der that the man who comes into pow
er by our means comes into position
upon which there is ordinarily brought
to bear a pressure so tremendous in the
way of hungry office seekers that more
than one president has been killed off
by it in a month or two. From that
tremendous pressure it is our business
to- guard Grover Cleveland. Grover
Cleveland goes into the White house
aided by civil service reform act that
he ut least means to stand by, if no
body else does. Those of us who have
elected him need to stand by him. If
we stand by him and he stands by it.,
then the country is safe for the next
four years from the disgraces which
led us into revolt and have brought
about this revolution in politics. Col.
T. w. HigginsOn at Fanueil Hall.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20

age of eighteen. She is the only presi-
Dental wife who had the honor of Civ
ing a wedding reception ut the White
house. There are at least two people in
New York who danced at that recep-
tion--Mr. Henry Bergh and wife.
We shall not attempt to recount the
misfortunes of Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs.
Garfield, for they are well known to
all the world. Poor Mrs Lincoln sur
yived her husband dozen years or
more, but she never survived the shock
his death gave her, and the latter days
of her life were clouded by a disordered
mind. Few and far between were the
happy moments that fell to her lot from
the turbulent hour that her husband
became president.
The story of Mrs. Andrew johnson
is almost rs pathetic, but is not so well
known. She was nearly sixty years
old when her husband became presi-
dent, and had been married over forty
years. She was almost as little known
at Washington during the presidential
career of Andrew johnson as if she had
not lived at all, aid the American
people knew less abOut her than of the
wives Of any of the chief executives of
their country. She died in 1876, six
months after her husband had died.
1t is not supposed that Mrs. Grant is
by any means a happy woman, though
she has the satisfaction of knowing
that the American people will always
hold her husband in the highest es-
teen for his great military services.
The disaster that came upon Gen.
Grant and her sons, who were in bust
ness i'll the firm of Grant & Ward, told
very heavily upon ner, and she, along
with other recent presidents wives,
has burden to bear.
Mrs. Hayes seems to he peacefully
settled in life, and lives quietly ut a
village in Ohio. The greatest misfort-
une that has befallen her is that she is
the wife of president whose title was
always held in doubt by u majority of
the American people and who holds rs
eX-president very insignificant place
in the public estimation.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
"BuIIdOZing" in Vermont.


Some things have come to my knowl
edge which greatly surprise and grieve
me. In the heat of the present pOliti-
cal excitement, many have lost their
heads aud some their hearts. Repub
licans everywhere have spoken in
strongest condemnation of the shot
gun policy of many of the southern
districts of the country, by which some
voters have been killed and thousands
deferred from casting the ballot ut all.
But has it come to pass that the same
policy is TO be pursued in Vermont by
a process more crnel than the shotgun
method | believe that the st. John
movement was mistake, and that the
consequences growing ont of it may be
more disastrous and far reaching than
the most fearful now imagine. But
has it come to this, that man in Yer
mont must ask the political bosses how
to vote, or take the risk of losing his
position, or being ostraciZed by his old
iriendsP Has it come to pass that II
man cannot be man in Vermont
Must he he Bringing tool Are min
listers to be dismissed and employees
discharged because they have dared to
cast an independent ballot? What
are republicans thinking off Do they
want to drive all decent men from the
partyg DO they care only for those
who can be kept in line by the party
whip2 Do they propose to try to kill
with the crnel shotgun of social and
commercial ostracism all who have diff
fered from them in opinionP 1t is time
somebody had called Il halt. | hope
the sober second thought will show
them the cruelty and the iniquity in
volved in the attitude they have taken
in regard to this matter. For humani
tvs sake, and for the sake of all we
hold sacred in free Christian country,
let us not he guilty in Vermont of the
methods we so righteously and en-
phatically condemn in the south.
"Bulldozing" in this country is not
the strength of any party worthy of an
existence. cannot believe that such
conduct receives the sanction of the
party as such. 1t is only the outcrop-
ping of frenzy that has seized Il few
narrow minds in this crisis. | have
always voted with the republican par
ty, and ] am sure that the great mass
of the party will utterly condemn such
Il spirit as has manifested itself in
Montpelier and other parts of the
state Rev. II. A. Spencer in the
Montpelier Waterman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
Presidents wives.

The mstortunes of women who have
been the wives of our late presidents
is remarkable. Mrs. Harrison, Mrs.
Taylor, Mrs. Lincoln aud Mrs.
Garfield all became widows while at
the White house. the two last under
the most terrible circumstances. The
first Mrs. Tyler died while her husband
was president, ami the second Mrs.
Tyler, who is now living at George
town, ID. c., was compelled to ask con
gress for a pension i'll 1879. Ex-Presi-
dent John Tyler died at Richmond in
January, 1852, and his property was
destroyed by the war.
Mrs. James X. Polk, who is vet liv-
ing at Nashville, at the advanced age
of eighty four, had fortune left her.
and has long enjoyed the society of a
rare circle Of devoted friends, but the
last days of her life have been much
embittered by the disgraceful defalca-
ton and subsequent imprisonment OF
her nephew, who was state treasurer OF
Tennessee.
Mrs. Tyler and Mrs. Polk are the
only women now living who were the
wives of ante-bellum presidents. and
it is rather odd that Mrs. Tyler is the
younger of the two by TWENTY-FIVE oil
thirty years, whereas her husband was
president in Ioi3 to 1874. while Mr..
Polk did not rome into the office till
later. Mrs. Tyler was not only second
wife but was married at the early
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
The Prohibition Party EndOrS-
ed by the w. G. II. U.

In the last Caledonian, 1t was stated
that at the annual meeting of the ma
tional w. c. T. T., the resolutions ia
vOring woman suffrage and prohibition
were not acted upon. This we find,
by an examination of the proceedings,
to he incorrect. The woman suffrage
resolution was passed, and the one
endorsing the prohibition party also
passed after an all-day discussion, by
roll-call, with iS2 voting in favor of
its passage and - against. The reso-
buttons are as follows:
Since law is the expression of the
average public sentiment, and but one
half of this public sentiment has been
expressed in law, we shonld earnestly
work to secure the ballot for women i'll
the interest of more efficient protection
to themselves, their children, and
their homes; action in this matter,
however, shall he discretionary in the
states.
We refer to the history of ten years
of persistent moral suasion work, as
fully establishing our claim TO be
called non political society, but one
which steadily follows the white ban
ner of prohibition whereveI it may be
displayed. We have, however, as in
dividuals, always allied ourselves in
local and state political contests with
those voters whose efforts and ballots
have been given to the removal of the
dram shop and its attendant evils, and
at this time, while recognizing that
our action as a national society is not
binding upon states or individuals, we
reafiirm the positions taken by the So
ciety both at Louisville in 1882, and at
Detroit in 1883, pledging our influence
to ''that party by whatever name
called, which shall furnish us the best
embodiment of prohibition principles
and will most surely protect our
homes.f And as we now know which
national party gives us the desired
embodiment of the principles for which
our ten years labor has been expended,
we will continue to lend our influence
to the political organization which
declares in its platform for National
Prohibition and Home Protection. In
this, as in all our progressive efforts.
we will endeavor to meet argument
with argument, misjudgment with pa
thence, denunciation with kindness,
and all our difficulties and dangers
with prayer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
The work OF the independents.

We thought it was to be only re-
form. 1t has turned out a revolution.
We thought it might teach lesson to
one great political party 1t has trans
formed both parties. They complained
of us independents that we did not
strike of by ourselves and inaugurate
"A new party. We did help to inau-
gurate new party, and that party
fills this hall at the present moment.
The republican party, if such it be,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20

STATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT IS
- In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. JOhnsbury, in said District, the 18th day of
November A. ID. 1874.
George 7. Blair, Administrator upon the estate
of William Manchester late of Barnet in said dis
trct deceased, presents his administration
account for examination and allowance and makes
application for a decree of distribution and parti-
ton of the estate of said deceased
Wberenpon, il is ordered by said Court that said
account and said application be referred to a ses
sion thereof, to be held at the Probate Office in
said st. JOhnsbury, on the Sd day of December
A. ID. 1884, for hearing and decision thereon: and
it is further ordered that notice thereof be given
to all persons interested by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the Caledonian a
newspaper printed at St. Johnsbury, previous
TO said time appointed for hearing. that thew NAV
appear at said time and place. and show cause II
any they may have, why said account should not
be allowed, aud such decree made.
By the Court Attest,
6s-7O WALTER p. SMITH Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20

TIE CaledOnidH has nOw been printed
nearly fifty gears. It's character is CeH-
knoarn by nearly all in this part Of The
State, and good many outside the
STATE. HendeaUOrs TO be honest, true,
pure and clean. As public Journal 1t
is compelled to tell unpleasant truths,
bat IL neusr hunts for scandal. IT beIiepes
hata newspaper has a higher mission
than to pander TO the Uiie or eUen the
sensational. Ififs conductors hare not
kept IL up 10 the ideal, they certainly hare
received much credit for the high stan
ddrd IL reaches after.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20

STATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT 81
- In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. Johnsbury, within aud for said District on the
4th day Of Nevepber, A. ID. 1884
An instrument purpOrting to be the last Will aud
Testament of Atrial Albee. late of Hardwick
in said district, deceased being presented to
Court by William l.. Pearl, the Executor therein
named for Probate.
1t is ordered by said Court that all persons con
cerned therein be notified to appear at session of
said Court to be held at the Probate office in st.
JOhnsbury the 22d day Of Nov. A. ID. 1884, and
show eause, if any they may have, against the
Probate of said Will for which purpose it is fur
ther ordered that copy of the record of this order
be published three weeks successfully in the Cal
edonan, printed at st. Johnsbury, previous said
time appointed for hearing.
By the Court, Attest,
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge
A true copy of Record Attest,
6769 WALTER p. SMITH Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
RowELLs ADVERTISEMENTS.

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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20

Thirty-nine countries and cities of
Canada have adopted the Scott liquor
prOhibitOry law.
Subordinates in public places should
be selected and retained for their eff
cheney and not because they may be
used to accomplish partisan ends. The
people have right to demand here,
as in cases of private employment,
that their money be paid to those who
will render the best service in return,
and that the appointment to and ten
IRE of such places should depend upon
ability and merit. If the clerks and
assistants in public departments were
paid the same compensation and re-
Tuired to do the same amount of work
as those employed in prudently con-
Quoted private establishments the anx-
iety to hold these public places would
he much diminished and the cause of
civil service reform be materially
aided Grover Cleveland's Letter of
Acceptance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
NARIEIY Store p

l would ike 10 remark that have Ist returned
from Boston and have purchased the laTgest and
finest line OF goods before seen in tr Variety
Store. Goods will lie arriving every
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
Votng for Mrs. Lockwood.

Probably the only vote in Indiana
for Belva Lockwood was cast at the
sixth ward polls in Vincennes, by Mrs.
DR.. Mason, a highly respected lady.
She walked up to the polls and said
she wanted to vote. Her appearance
created great surprise, but through
courtesy the crowd of politicians
stepped back, lifted their hats and al
lowed her to approach the window.
The inspector asked her what she
wanted, and Mrs. Mason replied with a
smile that she wanted to vote for Mrs.
Lockwood. Mrs. Mason handed him a
little piece of white paper on which
was written, "FOr President of the
United States, Mrs. Belva Lockwood"
Mrs. Mason then withdrew, and the
work of electiOneeling proceeded as
usual. The ballot was counted.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
LANES GoopwILLIE,s ESTATE.

JAMES GOODWILLIE'S ESTATE.
~ The subscribers, having been appointed bv the
Honorable Probate Court for the district Of Gale
donna commissioners, Ia receive, examine and adjust
all claims and demands of all persons against the
tate of James GoOdwillie, late Of Barnet.
in said district deceased represented insovept and
the term of six months from the 10Th day Of Sent
a. d. 1891, being allowed by said Court TO the
creditors of said deceased, to exhibit and prove
their respective claims before us: Give notice
that will attend to the duties Of our apDoint-
msnt At the dwelling house Of Nancy GoodwiIIis
in Barnet in said district. on the 2stb
day Of Nov. iss4 and 18th day of March, Iss5 next
at one clock in the afternoon each Of said DAYS
RoBE aS GIBSON }Comm,I,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-20
1885
WIDE AWAKE
The Magazine. of True Stories.
SERIAL STORIES:

( EOIShose IN IN prHCtA-
cal helping
SERIAL STORIES:
DOWN THE RAvINE. By Charles Egbert Grad
dock. No story in young folks literature for the
last ten years has approached this in combined
originality. humor and picturesque strength IL
Institutions by z. H Garrett.
HOW THE MIDDIRS SET UP SHOP. by Adelipe
D. t. Whitney. A Jolly business story and & first
rate detective story too
In LEIsLER'S TIMES. by Elbridge S Brooks.
A stirring tale, historically true, of the days
when New York City peopled with Knicker-
booker Dutch, Indians. wolves and bears "a illus
trations by VIM. 7. Smedey.
THE BUBBLING TEAPOT. by Lizzie W. Champ
ney.
ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES.
A NEW DEPARTURE FOR GIRLS, (several ar
ticles,) by Margaret Sidney.
For those girls who don't do KensingtOn work,
never tired pottery painting and haven't an idea
of the last new craze in art work, yet who must
support themselves.
HOW THE BooJUMS WENT DOWN THE
CRATER, by Ten of the Booiums. ..e
At K faIAcE by Xm hlsa HaGfa
DAHABEEAH Wreck, BY Julian B. Arnold
A, YOU'VE EgMIIS MIS-. by NJ; B. Ballard
LAZY BARBERRY'S AMBITION, by F. Throop
WINDMILL PILGRIMAGE, Amanda B. Harris
AMONG THE GYPSIES by M. Ii. CatherwoOd
A group of Four true Western Stories.
WAGON-TIRE CAMP, by Kate Foote
THE RICH MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS,
By Helen Sweet
OUR VENTURE, by Jane Andrews
HOW WALTER FOUND HIS FATHER
By Flora Haynes AppOnyi
A GROUP OF FOUR TRUE EARLY NEW
ENGLAND STORIES, by Mary f. wilkins, from
original records and documents:
l. The Bound Girl. IL. Deacon Thomas Wales
viii. Ill An Adopted Daughter. ~. The Horse
house Deed.
A Group of Four Plantation Stories by Mrs.
Jesse Benton Fremont (her own girlhoOd):
l. Crazy Sally. II. Uncle Primus and Dog Tur-
ban. Ill. The Big English Bull ". William
Rufus.
" HEN 1 WAS a BOY IN CHINA, dozen arti
Giles by Van PhOu Lee, son OF Mandarin
THE POPSY STORIES. Stories bv III III, about
| determined little Western girl.
WONDERFUL CHRISTMASES OF OLD,
BY Hezekiah ButterwOrth 10 drawings by Luugren
CHILD-LIFE IN VENICE, Two articles with 81
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PAPERS, CARDS, ENVELOPES
in stock and printed at short notice.

We do not claim TO do better W0rk o,
cheaper cork than any other establish
ment but zoe do claim that are do as
good loork tor the money asked as any
printing office 'Ohere they pay their obi
Cations one hundred cents on the dollar.