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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

expedition in southern China, young
Japan ''MexicO of To-day, a Trip
to Mexico" illustrated, cold Mexico
and her Lost Province" Morocco, Its
People and Races" "Among the
Azores "Six Months in Persia" "Ori-
ent Sunbeams," Fire Fountains" OF
Hawaii, "By Fell and Fiord, Scenes
and Studies in Iceland Lovers OF
art will be interested in "0ld Masters
of Belgium and Holland"
TrollOpe's Homes and Haunts of the
italian Poets" contains biographical
sketches of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio,
Ariosto, Michelangelo, Tasso, Alfieri,
and several lesser poets, and is fail
substitute for those who have not the
time for more complete study of these
great writers.
Froude's Carlyle, Godwin's Bry.
ant, and Picton's Cromwell, are also
among the new books.
For the student and general lover o
/ literature, "India, What it can teacl
u.s." by Max Muller; Mythology o
Aryan Nations" by Sir George w
Cox; "Literary Studies" by Waite
Bagehot, collection of carefully con
sidered and critical papers upon emf
nent writers from Shakespeare t.
Thackery and Dickens, each presen
attractive pages. In short, book 70
every age and taste VIII be foun,
among the books just received.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

dalewill probably remain in Pomeroy
bend, O., and distribute her load. The
bend contains 10 towns, embracing
40, 600 inhabitants. All of the towns
are flooded and losses are estimated at
over 1900, 900. Five relief steam
boats patrol the bend, giving ont pro-
visions.
Over 100 buildings have been swept
away at Parkersburg, W. Va. The
town of Belpre, o., opposite Parkers-
burg, is mass of desolation. There
are in Camden, w. Va, 300 destitute
people, in Middleport 1000, West
Columbia 400, Clifton 20, Mason City
400, Pomeroy 1000, Minerville 600,
Hartford City 400, Syracuse 700, Ra-
cine 500, Antiquity 100, and German
Furnace 100.
Milton and Hedgesviile, Ind, are
entirely submerged. The people are
encamped on the hills and many are
suffering greatly. At Brooksburg $50
| persons are destitute. At Mainland
the homes of $50 persons are entirely
submerged and the people are in great
need. The people of Florence are in
great distress, % families being hud.
died in church and 50 persons in an.
other building. Patriot is in a mos
distressful condition, only five house:
being above water. Thirty persons
are sick and relief is greatly needed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
Note and Comment.

The Woodstock Standard comes out
modestly but earnestly for Lieut.. Gov.
Pingree.
The Barton Monitor thinks the Free
Press too previous in announcing Gen.
Grout rs committed to DR.. Nichols for
governor, or indeed to any candidate
yet mentioned.
1t will be of local interest to know
that the Iowa democrats were astound-
ed the other day to see their Daven-
port Gazette suddenly abandon its at
and strike out for protection and pro-
hibitiou with a regular warwhOop.
The explanation was that Business
Manager Morgan asserted his stock
majority and turned Editor Russell out
and then turned the paper over. Chas.
V. Barton of this place has been night
editor on the Gazette for the past year
The Lincoln club (coloredl, of Con-
necticut, has nominated John Alexan-
der Logan as candidate for president.
Mrs. Livermore, in recent lecture,
says that in the West she finds "a per
feet network of women's clubs" A
woman with club can accomplish a
great deal, in this world.
Editor Mclean of Cincinnati says
the government cannot prevent the
floods OH the Ohio. They must be
stopped by individuals. The sinner is
the individual who cuts down trees"
Lieutenant Rhodes who did gallant
service at the wreck of the Columbus,
has been promoted by the president
for gallant and meritoriOus conduct"
Secretary Lincoln makes the singu-
lar statement that, in response to a
resolution, the militia authorities of
Georgia sulkily refuse To make return
to the war department of their active
militia, although they accept their
quota of arms provided by the United
States for the state.
Theodore Roosevelt of the New York
assembly, was doubly bereaved last
Thursday by the death of his wife and
mother. His mother, the widow of
Theodore Roosevelt, occupied posi-
/ ton of honor and influence in New
York e,sriety, and was only "a years
old his wife, who was Miss Alice Lee
of Boston, and had been married a
little over two years gave birth 10 a
child Wednesday and never rallied.
The advertisement of Kendall Il
Whitney should not be overlooked by
those who nse seeds. They keep every
thing a farmer or gardener needs. We
could not run a dairy without Kendall
Il Whitney's cOw-beet seed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

The reason Fred Douglas married
white woman is propably because he
wanted to make his trouble as light as
possible. Globe.
Judges Lowell and Nelson have
rendered decisions at, Boston in favor
of the stockholders of the Credit Mo-
bilier, requiring the trustees under the
Cakes Ames contract with the Union
Pacific to account for some millions of
dollars, claimed to have been due to
the Credit MObilier. The trustees
were Thomas c. Durant and six others,
but Durant claims to be insolvent.
Hon. Wayne MacVeagh will have an
article on 'FThe Next Presidency" in
The March Century. He will hold that
an ideal candidate must be nominated.
The proposed statue of Wendell
| Phillips in Boston has been abandoned
at the request of Mrs. Phillips, and a
portrait for Faneuil hall will be substi-
tuted.
There is really a demand for law and
order in Colorado Since the recent
/ lynching of a woman % newspapers
in the state have called loudly for the
ending of the whole mob business.
Senator LOgan's bill to equalize
bounties provides for the payment to
each honorably discharged soldier OF
the sum of eight and one-third dollars
for each month of his service. This is
not a new proposition. When it was
last up in 1850 the paymaster general
submitted an estimate that the cost
would be $10l ,947 ,825 if bounties paid
by states were not deducted, or Is
millions if they were deducted. A
similar measure was once passed by
congress, but it was vetoed by Presi-
dent Grant.
The manufacture of campaign dOcu-
ments is the leading industry at Wash.
ingtOn.- Philadelphia Times.
The New Workers in Washington ar,
imOstly agreed that Senator Edmund:
can carry their state as a presidential
candidate. That depends. But it i:
certain that if Mr.. Edmunds cannot
carry it, no republican can Boston
Herald.
The admission by the Congregation
alist that typhoid fever, scarlatina anC
diphtheria are the results of human
ignorance, stupidity, laziness and filth
rather than visitations of God, as they
once were counted, is Il noteworthy ev
idence of the change which has come
over mems minds Boston Tran
script.
A Mr. Collins of Nevada has SON,
rather striking ideas on American
journalism. Said he: .'the whole sys
TEN as it now prevails is wrong. The
press is Il powerful engine, and can b.
made a very dangerous one" Mr.
Collins had some valuable suggestion
to offer concerning the conduct o
journals, but he did not live to SCI
them all carried out, as he was hanget
last week, for the murder of one w
F. Cummings Boston Pilot.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
Results of the Floods.

Floods, like those that have devas-
tated the entire valley of the Ohio, not
only wash people out of house and home
for time, but they expose them fear
fully to disease and cast cloud over
their whole future prospects. 1t takes
a long time to overcome the ills which
follow in the train of such a disaster.
As soon as the immediate personal
suffering is assuaged, it will be found
THAT the greatest damage is in the de-
probation of real estate, not merely by
the injury to building, but by the
cloud thrown over all sites exposed to
flood. At Cincinnati decline of 25 or
80 per cent in the value of land IN the
flooded district is not improbable. This
affects probably third of the city,
counting the frontage upon the Ohio
and that along Mill creek and its ex-
posed bottoms. The floods of 1880,
1881 and 1852, which did not go over
So feet, all reached their height the
third week in February; those of 1888
aud 1884 just little earlier. A new
explanation is that the use of cheap
tiling by the farmers allows the lands
to drain more rapidly than formerly.
The disappearance of the forests, which
prevent the freezing of the soil and
enable it to absorb the rains, is still
regarded as the chief cause contrib
uting to the disaster. In the Pennsyl-
vania hills, where the head waters are
gathered, the ground has been frozen.
Another feature of the Ohio is that it
pursues almost the same parallel OF
latitude from its origin to it's mouth,
and is therefore subject to the same
climatic conditions throughout its
whole extent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
A Strange Accident.

A most extraordinary and quite I'M
precedented accident took place on the
Hinesburgh road, Friday morning.
The stage was coming to town, bearing
one male and three female passengers.
Two ladies sat on the back seat, bear
ing raised umbrella, to keep off the
wind. When the stage was near Mr..
Arson JOhnson's in South Burlington,
a runaway horse, which had olsen
gagged itself from the sleigh it had been
drawing, overlook it. At the point in
question the road is very narrow, and
the runaway horse, whose steps were
unheard by the occupants of the stage,
made a flying leap into the vehicle.
He jumped completely over the occu-
pants of the rear seat, and come down
with crash in the middle of the sleigh.
Mrs. t. A. WheelOck of this city occu-
pied the centre seat and was very
severely injured-s so much SO that she
was taken into Mr.. Johnson's house
and physician, DR.. CoIvin, summoned
from this city. Later in the day she
recovered sufficiently to be moved, and
was taken to her home here, where at
last accounts she was doing well, with
a favorable chance of ultimate recOv-
cry. The passengers on the rear seat
were not only not harmed, but were
absolutely untouched. The expert
ence, however, is one which they do
not care to repeat. A more remarka-
bic affair has seldom, if ever, been
chronicled.- Burlington Free Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
Some More New Books at the
AIhenRum.

A new invoice of foreign books has
this week been received at the Athe-
neum, and among them some very at
tractivc illustrated works. All who
have read Prof. George Ebers' fascin-
ating Egyptian romances or Edmund
About's Fellah, will be glad to know
that they can now get access to Prof.
Ebers' Egypt. Descriptive, Historical
and Picturesque The work appears
in two large quarto volumes and is
most proiusely and magniticently Illus
trated with some 700 prints.
Egypt, because OF its leading posi-
tion among the ancient nations. and
because of its relation To the Esraelitish
people to whom we are indebted fer
our religion, is a country whose history
presents special attractions to all
Christian people. Nearly two thou
sand years ago Herodotus said it con
tanned more marvels than any other
country. This book will tend to in
crease an already growing interest both
in its past history aud present political
condition, which is unique in its rela-
ton to other European nations.
Another deliberately illustrated
quarto Is ''The Renaissance of Art in
Italy. "-containing some 200 fine en-.
cravings of objects of most interest
in Italy. These attractive books will
be found in the Art Gallery and are
placed there for the benefit of the
public. This is true also of some
$50 volumes of illustrated works to be
found in the cases in this room. They
are for the use Of any who desire either
amusement or information, and will
richly repay careful examination
Lovers of books of travel will find
among many others of the SAME
class, Through Siberia "Acros,
Chryse,' an account of an exploring
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
Personal Items.

Hon. George Nichols of Mortified
and F. Z. Smith of Montpelier have
gone Oh trip west as far as st. Paul,
MINI.
Dr. Percy Templeton, who has re-
Gently removed from Montpelier to
Craftsbury, is the eighth CDR. Temple
ton" who is Il native or has at some
time been a resident of East Montpelier.
Rev. Moses Kidder of Woodstock has
a record that few ministers can equal.
During his forty-four years ministry
he has married 1000 couples and at
tended 1000 funerals.
Hon. j. NJ. Tyler will deliver the
next Memorial day address i'll Brattle
borO.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Thurber OF
West Guilford recently celebrated their
golden wedding. -Mr. and Mrs. Leon
nard Brown of jacksonville have also
recently celebrated like event.
Rev. j. F. Audet, pastor of St. Fran
els Catholic church, WinoOski, having
been in poor health for some time, has
sailed for Palestine and the Holy Land.
The divorced wife of adirondack"
Murray will practice medicine in New
Haven and will start with some of the
first families in the city as patients.
AT a meeting of the committee of the
Boston city government, to select a
gentleman to deliver an eulogy on the
late Wendell Phillips, George William
Curtis was chosen for the honor. The
address will be delivered in fremont
Temple, the exact time having not yet
been decided upon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
The Raymond California Trips.

Messrs. Raymond and Whitcomb, the
wellknOwn excursion managers. have
planned two of their popular Colorado
and California trips for the coming
spring. The parties will leave Boston
April 10th and Oath, and occupy SO
days in a grand round of travel, with
stops for rest and sightseeing in Chi
cago, Manitou, Denver, Santa Fe, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Monterey and
Salt Lake City. There will also be a
special trip through the Rocky Noun
tain region of Colorado, with visits to
some of the most famous canOns,
gorges, mountain passes and mining
regions; and a side trip to the Yosem-
tie Valley and Big Trees. The Ray
mond California excursions, of which
there have been over a dozen in the
three years past, are deservedly pop
ular on account of good manage
ment, the thoroughly tirst-class char
acter of the accommodations furnished,
and the high class of the parties them
selves. A circular giving full details
of the coming trips will be sent, on
application to w. Raymond, 240 Wash
ington street, Boston.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
Vermont News.

A pOstotfice is to be established at
Long Pond, Westmore.
BY the careless deposit of ashes, the
house occupied by Mrs. Olive Monroe
in Pawlet, was nearly burned.
A horse stepped on boys hand, at
MiddletOwn Springs, cutting n hole
clear through it with his toe cork.
Israel Eddy of Starksboro fell from
ladder last week and received iniu-
ries from which he died Saturday.
Alden Jaquith of Aniover was Sc
verely injured in his leg by the kick of
horse, and will probably be disabled
for long time.
Alfred Shuttleworth, while coasting
at Bellows Falls, was run into by a
double ripper and received a three
inch CASH in his leg.
Clarence Ingraham, of Putney, was
badly bitten by dog belonging to
Landlord Kendrick, the dogs teeth
passing entirely through his hand.
Annie, daughter of w. H. Butterfield
of Dover, fell from a flight of stairs in
the house last week and broke her
thigh. She was taken up for dead. but
is now doing well.
The two children of James NJ.
PEBBLES of Jacksonville came near be-
ing drowned by sliding over the bank
into the river, and were carried nearly
under the ice, being extricated with
great difficulty.
c.. K. Marsh of Brandon has a col
lection of old Roman coins, about
twenty-five in number, some ante
dating the Christian era-and all of
much interest TO the antiquarian or
those interested in Dumismatics.
4 party of North Bennington shoe
makers in coasting the other evening
ran into stone wall and one of them
was injured quite severely, bruising
and scraping the flesh on one leg from
the knee to the foot.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
The GOVernOrsiip.

Mr.. Billings having declined to be a
candidate for governor, expressions
are made as to others for that position.
We give place this week to one of
them from the Burlington Free Press,
which. it will be seen, favors the Hon.
George Nichols of Mortified. Lieut..
Gov. Pingree is also mentioned in some
quarters, and these two names, at
present, appear to be the most promi-
nent mentioned for the office. We
shall be glad to give equal prominence
to expression for others if they are
made from the people or the press. So
far as DR.. Nichols is concerned there
can be no doubt as to his qualifications
for the office. The hundreds of officers
in all the towns of the state the past
twenty years who have had official
duty to perform with him, would
promptly testify to his efficiency and
faithfulness as state officer, and aside
from the duties peculiar to his Office us
Secretary of State, there are few per-
sons in Vermont who wonld at once so
well understand all the duties of the
executive Bellows Falls Times.
PINGREE, THE COMING MAN.
So long as there was IA hope left that
Mr.. Billings would accept the govern
orship, the friends of Col. Samuel E.
Pingree had no thought of presenting
his name to the convention, but as the
matter presents itself, we understand,
without claiming to speak by author
ity, that his candidacy will be warmly
pressed. His own position will be, we
doubt not, what it was two years ago,
willing TO serve if called, bat not in
clined to push himself for the place.
His name has been favoFably and spon-
taneously suggested, to greater or
less extent, in all sections of the state,
and the response it has met with in all
quarters encourages his friends to be-
lieve that the convention will yield to
their appeal and offer him the nomina-
ton. Windsor county will give him
united and hearty support, and thus
endorsed at home his candidacy at
large must be successful. Col Pingree
is a gentleman of culture, dignitied
and courteous in bearing, honest and
independent in judgment and action,
experienced in affairs and every way
fitted to discharge aeceptably the du-
ties and to maintain the prestige of the
Office of governor No mistake will be
made if he is put in nomination
Woodstock Standard.
WHY NOT RE-ELECT GOV. BARsTow ?
Already the names of Billings, Grout,
Pingree, and Nichols have been sug-
gesUed for the governorship, and no.
body knows how many dark horses are
being groomed for the race. At the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

How natural this item drops into the
St. Adams Messenger, credited TO
"Ex:" Wayne MacVeagh says he has
been 4 reformer long enough. Gre
formers are neither one thing nor an
other. A reform republican is one
third republican and thirds demo-
craft
The democrats would be puzzled to
nominate a ticket that could beat Ed
munds of Vermont aud Lincoln OF
Illinois.-f Boston Transcript.
The Washington Capital says: Con
sidering the fact that representative
Stewart of Vermont eats and sleeps
under the same roof with the Hon.
George F. Edmunds of Vermont, it may
be well to note the terms of little
resolution put through the House this
week on motion of Mr.. Stewart, which
instructs Mr.. Springer's committee to
go into the whole question of the earn
estness and sincerity of the sta, route
prosecutions.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

CTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT, SIS
- In Probate Court held 1.-THE Probate Office in
St Johnsbury, within and for said District on the
18th day of February, A. d. 1894.
An instrument purportingtO be the last VIII and
Testament Of Neomia L. Eddy. late Of Hardwick
in said district, deceased. being presented to
in named, for Probate 1t is ordered by said
court that all persons concerned therein be
notified to appear al a session of said Court TO be
held at the Probate office in St JOhnsbury on the
sth day of March, A. D., 1894 and show cause If
any they may have against the Probate of saidWil;
for which purpose it is further ordered that a COPY
of the record of this order be published three weeks
successfully in the Caledonan, printed at st.
Johnsbury, previous To said time appointed for
hearing
By the Court, Attest
WALTER P. SMITH. Judg e.
true copy Of Record. Attest
1892 WALTER p. SMITH, Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

The devastation and suffering by the
floods in the Ohio valley are most pitt
able and call forth the sympathy and
aid of the humane everywhere. The
floods are subsiding, but the suffering
will continue for a long time
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
Beach Lots For Sale.

Fifty of the most desirable lots on the Atlantc
coast, situated at Wallis Sands, Rye Y. H., four
miles from Portsmouth. These lots all front on
the ocean and beach, about thirty feet above the
highest tides. uufsiliug supply OF soft water on
each lot perfect drainage and all graded and ready
to build upon.
This property is pronounced by all visitors as
the best located for ocean and inland views and
sanitary conditions. of any Oh the coast. and With
the improvements now being made, will place this
location amoug the most desirable for summer res
licences that can be found. For further iniorma-
ton IN regard to these lots address
JEROME c. BUTLER,
tJune25 Portsmouth. y. Il.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

"A school-hOuse on every hill and
no saloon in the valley" Read on the
fourth page of this paper what Joseph
Cook has to say about constitutional
prohibition and the advance position
several western states take on the sub
ject of temperance. The west is fair
ly outstripping New England on this
subject.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

The Boston journal of the Goth inst
says of the proposed amendment in
Massachusetts making the sessions of
the legislature biennial instead of an
nual: "The local press of the state is
pretty sure to reflect the prevailing
opinion in the several localities upon
any important question like that of the
proposed biennial amendment. Except
in few cases where the paper reflects
the views ct Butlerism, the local press
may be said to he unanimous for the
amendment. This is very significant,
because it shows that the subject haa
been discussed by people as they meet,
aud that the general sentiment is in
favor of the change The CaIedonian
still thinks that Mr.. Billings fails TO
interpret the tendency of the times
when lie advocates return in Vermont
to annual sessions.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

was severely injured, the flesh being
burnt through to the bone in one place.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

DR. j. A SHERMAN'S method IL the only one
that cures rupture without operation prev cRtion
from labor Physicians don't cure rupture--sOnc
of them 81 IL can be cured, a truss. PREF.
udice often prompts them 10 say because DT.
Sherman has thousands to attest his cures for the
past IS years. among them eminent ply sicians
rrusses are rupture cultivators, they impede cir
culatien, cause lumbagO. kidney and bladder alice
tons, nervous debility, indifference TO social
pleasure impotency, loss Of memory, peevishness
and all that tends to make life gloomy. Dir. Sher.
mans bound book, with pamphlet Of pho.
Geographic hkenesse, Of bad cases before and after
cure, with ENDORSEMENTS from elergymen. physi-
clans merchants. farmers and others. will he sent
by express receipt of 70 cents, free Of express
charge He mails pamphlet for 10 cents Dr.
Sherman's success has hlled the country with
fra .tduient pretenders; beware Of them they prom
Use bread and give stone Dr. S. can be consulted
"wednesday. Thursday and Friday each week
until February 29th when II viii be closed To
save trip to New York Tor treatment apply ~
once and when you apply look ont for impositons
in same building. 26-25