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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-05-08
10 be continaed.l
A Victim of the Pension Tragedy.

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
1t stirs my indignation to see how Indifferent
Congress is to the appeals of our ex-soldiers. !
have IN mind the case of Henry Jones, a vet
eran who enlisted at the age of fifty-iye. His
two sons were killed in the service, and he
himself is now disabled and dependent upon
charity for support. He applied for pension
q number Of years ago, but his claim has never
been allowed CHARLES l.. MACKEY
HIGHLAND, n. Y. J. V. c., Lefevre Post.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-05-08

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
We Of the West cannot attend the Reunions
OF our old organizations in the Eastern States,
so why not have annual meetings Of the REM
nants IN our adopted Statcsg Comrades of the
31st O. v v l., and others Of the LIST brigade,
Sd division, I4th army corps. shall we organize ?
III. ALLsPAUGH,
Rock RAPIDS, Iowa. Co II, 3lst o. V. V. l.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-05-08
SPECIAL NOTICE
To
PENSION CLAIMANTS.
OFFICE OF GEORGE f. LEMON.
1sxrrNcrC,s- N q ,,.sf -

WASHINGTON, D. c., April >, 1881.
The attention of all claimants for pension whose papers
any time in the hands Of the late firms Of CHIP
MAN. HosfEE & Co; HosNER & Co.: GILN0RE & Co, or
CHARLES D. GILMORE, of this city, rS0 hGrs He irsy
7itien he subject (in reply to my printed circular
of January TO- 1882 is invited 10 the fact that viii be
pleased hear from them i'll regard 70 the of their
claims This desire in order to complete the unfinished
records of said firms now in my hands
Ifeach claimant will notify that his claim has been
allowed rejected, that ne has employed another
attorney, that he is prosecuting his claim and
does not desire my services viii deem il favor And
request that all correspondence in reply to this circular
be marked Docket O., TO enable 70 easily md the
proper case.
large number of pensioners whose pensions were
procured through the firms mentioned may be entitled
10 a higher rate of pension under new laws.
request that all names be written legibly, and that
name of soldier rank company and regiment be plainly
stated also number Of claim where known.
GEORGE L. LEMON.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-05-08
YE STORY OF YE WATCH!

On the sunday tlat the change was made and the new
standard OTtlme stabilized immense throrg
nled on Broadway t0WGtch the bail tie Western Union
telegraph But.diu and catch the minute OF the
and consequently there uurlruEals in thu
vicinity Of the fost O6ce, when file titl man with
gray chin WHISPER calmly announced:
wrOngtu
Better step up there and hold IL until You re readvls
groTee stock broker with his Thumb she spring Of
ms quarter second " Ny bank account says eleven min
For any specific amount2" inquired The thin man
kindly
Couple OF hundred y retortei the broker
You're both on objected fat headed man the
cap whose time-piece Indicated that 10 had been pre-
scented TO him While he in the Beard % Aldermen
" My cbrunometer balance talks nine minUies,"
Does its conversation
re seems 20 whisper iftr ~ chuCklci tle eX-ofcia
I'd like 70 get in there II YOU would bar ceFtaiutesn
observed a railroad conductor drawing Gus eeantly
engraved watch that had been prevented % him ia IN
stallments by the patrons Of his fuad-
What does your represe NATIVE % the auction busi
ness seem to think about this dispute ilterrogate the
little man. politely.
IL regulates that ball at eleven minutes responded
the conductor.
How much would that be in eurrenrygD demanded
the little man. pulling cut his wallet AGAIN
The conductor thought he ought 10 rob the little
man OF more than hundred. and the cash placed
without delay.
You're Off soundings yet" -ruuted a steamer cap
tain who had had his chrOn0meier rated THE day before
This simple confluence Of ic j. Of the opinion that
the ball will drop in minutes
Does thar judgment appear e. be 11uded wealth.
There's two hundred collars Fastened % the state
ment," replied the captain Wits gym
Is there little round hole anywhere Ca tiis business
into which could fl . Cooper ntqiex that reasons on
the basis of six minutes and ten seeonds inquired
jolly drummer with a red rce
little man.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
GentIemanIy RunseiIing.

We are not in the governor making
business, but it strikes us if we are TO
oppose any one we can find better OPP
losing material than the charge brought
against DR.. Nichols of Mortified, that
he is Il rum or dram seller, in any
such sense as such expressions would
imply. He has long kept a drug store,
like hundreds of others in the state,
and, we doubt not, in legitimate way,
but those who know DR.. Nichols also
well know that he is gentleman and
never was any such man as the terms
instanced would imply Bellows Falls
Times.
This distinction has not the merit OF
novelty, but still looks strangely ont
of place in the editorial column of such
an excellent paper as the Times. No
body maintains that DR.. Nichols stands
behind polished bar in a white apron
and peddles out the ardent by the
glass, but we fail to see how that would
/ he one whit less honorable than allow
I ing liauor to he sold under the cover
of "a legitimate business in drugs and
medicines. 1t would certainly be more
manly and show no less disregard foI
the law. The violation would be more
open to he sure, but far less harmful
for the public could then see what was
going on.
For instance, We were told long be
fore the governor question arose. 10y
one " no ought to know, that this self
same drugstore was the greatest OBJ
stacle in the way of the schools il
! Mortified and that parents have SEN
their boys away to school on that ac'
count. We do not know how true thin
| is, but it must be plain that the in
! tIuence of such an establishment is no
for good even if boys are not accom-
mOdated.
Moreover. if DR.. Nichols or an!
other man allows liquor to be sold ol
his premises, he is law breaker, ant
choosing law breaker to execute TIN
laws is like setting n thief to catch ;
/ thief Such au act would be 4 dis
grace to any commonwealth of mtelll
gent people.
There are many definitions of tn
word gentleman" but to our notion
no man. be he ever so courteous, VIII
fosters in any way, open or covert
the greatest curse the world has eve
known, can he true gentleman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Ryegate.

About one year ago Mrs. John Glib
son went to Rome, n. Y, and had a
cancer removed from her breast, and
it was hoped that she would experience
no further trouble, but lately one has
appeared on the same breast and one
under the arm She is now at Rome
n. Y, having them removed.
A. S. Moore returned from Rome, n
Y, last week, having had a cancer re-
moved from near the right eye, anC
had encouragement from the physician
that he would not be troubled any
more.
VIM. II. Symes returned to Boston
this week, finding his country farm
here in satisfactory condition.
The Wright brothers were in town
this week and maple sugar will now
probably be at a discount. Up to thii
time sugarmakers have not had mucl
of rush, and seem TO care less about
making sugar than usual, refined sugars
are so low that it is no object to MAKE
fOrfamiiy use.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

mistake the Clipper gave vent to Its
real opinion as follows :-"Mr. Pingree
unquestiOnably is a gentleman and
there is a lot of underground work
being done for him yet we are OF the
opinion that the west side should try
and furnish us a strong candidate for
governor" That is just what the west
side is trying to do for its helpless
eastern partner, but the flavor is just
a little too "strOng."
The Watchman thinks board OF
newspaper experts from Burlington,
st. Johnsbury, and Montpelier could
find out if DIR. Nichols sells rum. Since
the Waterman editor says in the same
issue that he never takes anything
this is evidently slur on the Argus ol
the Chronicle.
The Vermont democrats will prOba'
bly, nominate l.. w. Redington of Rut'
land for governor, and some one ia
miliar with his record and that of his
family has written sketch OF him
which the organs of the faithful art
printing with his picture. Redingtor
is an agreeable yong Rutland lawyer
who was bright enough to join thu
democratic party in 1876, when the
town was full of young lawyers, no
one of them democrat. He has since
done a large professional and pOlitica
business, and has represented his tow
in the legislature and the state at ma
tional conventions. He is now munic
ipal judge at Rutland.
eve understand says the Messen
ger. "that Gov. Smiths business en-
gagements are such that he could no
accept place in the delegation. Unde
the circumstances it may be regarded
us advisable to adopt Gov. Stewart
SUGGESTION We should smile.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Note and Comment.

Dartmouth is a progressive college.
The students have now organized the
first troup of white minstrels ever
formed, the college laws forbidding
them to use burnt cork.
The Argus says that Col. George w.
Hooker of BrattlcborO is after Col. E.
l.. Whtford's place as pension agent
at Concord. n. H., and that the office
"is believed to pay about $4,000
year, The salary is $4,000, and
will the Argus explain on what sched-
ule of stealings it foots up the other
81, 900?
The Burlington Clipper is just mean
enough to say that the Bradford Opin-
ions picture of Edmunds looks "as
much like him as Hiram Atkins looks
like Arthur Ropes"
"The Messenger says it now has di-
rect information that ex-Congressman
TYLER would not accept the nOmina-
ton for governor and that ''this ought
to settle the controversy, unless the
| CaledOnian and Waterman imagine
that they know more about Mr.. Tyler,
! wishes and intentions than he does
| HIMSELF
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Another Ocean Disaster.
OVER ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST

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Another has been added to the long
list of terrible ocean disasters off the
coast of Nova Scotia by the wreck of
the White Cross steamer Daniel Stein
mann off Cape SambrO near Halifax
harbor, which struck on the Sisters
and sank with all on board but nine
souls, Thursday night. The Stein
mann carried 80 passengers, all Ger
mans and most of them steerage, and a
crew of 40. Of these it is only known
that three passengers, whose names
are unknown, the captain and five of
the crew were saved. Intelligence of
the disaster did not reach Halifax until
Friday afternoon and at late hour
that night no details of it had been re-
ceived. Those saved from the vessel
are on Sambro light island aud com
municatiOn could be had with them
! Friday night by signal only on account
/ of the rough weather. Twenty of the
passengers were bound for Halifax and
20 for New York. The steamer was
commanded by Capt. Schoonhoven who
had the reputation of a careful and
painstaking seaman. 1t is thought
that the ship sank Immediately after
striking the rocks.
The Steinmann was built at Antwerp
in 1875. She had been running in the
White Cross line since 1873. At one
time she was considered a very sue
cessful vessel, but during the last two
or three years she had met with various
mishaps. She was chiefly engaged IL
the steerage passenger and freight
carving trade.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
The New Departure ut the Old
South.

The sensation in New England or
thodoXy the past week has been the
installation Of Mr.. Gordon over the
Old South Congregational church III
Boston. After protracted session the
council voted IT, settle the pastor 40 to
l.. the venerable and beloved DIR,
Webb declining to give the installing
PRAYER which is fair evidence that he
was one of the eighteen dissenting.
As near a. We can gather from a re-
port of the dOings of the council the
new pastor rejects the doctrine OF
vicarious atOnement, believing that
Christ came into the world not as a
sacrifice but as emancipation of mans
mind in religious faith. While he does
not know just what is going on in the
next world he is convinced by his rea-
son that punishment cannot be ever
lasting unless sin is everlasting.
This settlement of Mr.. Gordon ovel
the very cradle of Calvinism in New
England is reckoned victory tor the
new departure in Andover theology
and it has been limited that had the
council refused to install him the churcl
would have received him all the same
which may he true and may not. Nc
one will think strange that the council
was divided, and some will look for
ward with more or less appr hensiOl
To the ultimate result.
The new pastor is a young Scotch
man who few years ago was poo
mechanic at work in II South Boston
machine shop. While this shows wha
is possible i'll this country to the DO!
who has "sand" in his makeup, thi
very fact will not allay the apprehen
sion of some that he is little off hi
I base
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Vermont Banks in Trouble.

The First national bank of st. AL
bans was closed Tuesday by Bank Ex-
amiuer Hendee because there was no
money to pay Saturdays drafts from
Boston. The failure was caused by
stock speculations of Z. A. and Albert
Sowles, who have lost heavily. The
stockholders of the institution are :
E. A. Sowles, $4,000 Albert SOwles,
$1,000 Mrs. E. A. Sowles, 100000 /;
Merritt Sowles, $1,000 o. A. Burton G
w. Foster and B. C.. Hall, $1,000 each.
The balance, about $4,000, is owned by
two sisters of Sowles. There is no ex-
pectation that the bank will resume
business again.
There was run on the National
Union bank at Swanton the same day.
the Sowles Bros. being largely interest
ed in that as we'll as their st. Adams
bank. DepOsitors have drawn out
500. 900 in the past ten days. The
directors declare that the bank will
be able to pay depositors in full with
few days time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

Adams to a successive number of local
and iDcipient politicians who can be
depended upon to shape the details.
With the great advantage Of the exist
ing disaffection, Windham county,
united on man of brains, and pro-
nounced convictions, could no doubt
command the nomination in the state
convention to the extent, at least, OF
defeating Nichols and probably could
bestow the honor upon the one gen
orally favored by the county's dele
gates even though he be one of their
numha1. -
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Vermont News.

There are seventy-five law cases and
fifteen chancery cases on the new en-
tries docket of the Chittenden county
court.
The loss by fire at the Ely mine is
now estimated at about $1,000. The
boilers were not injured and the en-
gines but slightly.
Robert Fulton of Waitstield, who
has for some time suffered from neu-
ralgia, lost the sight of both eyes dur
ing Il single night. He went to bed
seeing, and rose next morning blind.
Harrington II. Marshall, wholesale
produce dealer of Boston, has failed.
His Indebtedness is said to be largely
to persons in Vermont and his assets
are very small.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

"Whcu Proctor was nominated at
Burlington in leSO," says Robert \.
Perkins, formerly OF North Pomtret
but now the poet humorist of the
Springfield Republican, ''the matter
was neglected until the evening before
the convention, when a horny-handed
son of toll from Rutland county was
appointed to make the nomination,
and the consequence was that the poor
man had to toll through all the watches
of the night committing to memory
and rehearsing his speech, aided by
the suggestions and criticisms of his
wife from her place between the sheets
-as u number of persons near the pair
in the hotel can testify This is a very
amusing little yarn, but we had caught
the impression somewhere that a Brad
ford gentleman by the name of Farm
ham-we think it was Farnham was
nominated lat Burlington in l5o0' aud
that an Orange county man named
Rowell did the clarifying.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Green Mountain Politics.
Now doth the knowing candidate
Distribute meaning winks,
And of his myriad virtues pirate
Ahny-,a tn. ,au,uai,1n dr.iuka

And of his myriad virtues pirate
Above the campaign drinks.
Huntington Clipper.
1t looks very much as if kinsley
stopped off one train at Mortified on
his return from Washington.
The charge that DIR. Nichols is a
rumseller is still undenied. The near
est any paper has come to a positive
denial is from the Mortified News,
which says, "Dr. Nichols has had very
little to do personally with the man
agement of the store for a dozen years
past. and that 1T believes liquors
have only been sold there for medical
purposes, with the approval OF the
physicians" As the law only allows
liquor to be sold ill this way by town
agencies. the News really cOnfessee
that the genial doctor is a violater OF
the law of which he aspires to be ex-
ecutiTe.
1t may he necessary for the temper
ance voter to take to the woods about
election time.
Lieut-Gov. Pingree tells the Wood
stock Standard he would accept the
nomination.
Isn't the Clipper mistaken when il
says Hiram Atkins has pledged til,
Vermont vote in the national demo
cratic convention for Ben Butler
1t is hardly probable that b. d. Har.
ris or any other man would be big
enough fool to trade congressman,
berth-even prospective-fo a chance
to spend $500 at Chicago for the re,
publican party.
By writing west for least" through
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
The Best Fiction TO Read.

With a million and one books good
and bad to be bought for dime each,
the public library has become a public
necessity. Free books are cheaper
and will displace dime literature. We
need not stop here to enquire why tic-
ton proves so much more fascinating
than fact, or why the career of an i'm
aginaly hero is so much more enter
tanning to the great mass of readers
than the career of the real hero. Poet
ry always precedes prose. English
poetry was eight centuries in advance
of English prose. We are born with
susceptibility for the enjoyment of
the exercise of the imaginative facui-
ties. This fact may well be turned to
account us an educative force. There
are novels which are sources of inStruc-
ton, of education and of culture. Such
are Robert FalcOner, Alec. Forbes,
Paul Faber, Thomas Wingfold, Crevale,
by George McDonald-indeed all of
his later are of this type-and Alton
Locke by Charles Kingsley combines
all the higher qualities of the best tic-
ton.
A good novel is an Invention of the
imagination strictly confOrmable to
the truth" A thorough knowledge of
! life, of human motives and the results
of human action is essential to the
novelist. If he has this there comes
from his creation much which comes
from history and biography and if he
| be master oftentimes more, for the
real is sometimes less true than the
ideal. Barring perhaps little faint
Of the progressive theology of the day,
! Mcdonald is safe, healthful and help
/ full. Charles Kingsley is always this
and more. The stories of Henry Kings
ley are entertaining and, although
marked with far less intellectual force,
will not he read without profit.
The great mass of fiction is simply
story telling. But this, if done by a
master, is not unprOductive. 1t de-
ponds altogether upon whether one
''has a story to tell or has to tell a
! story He who can evolve characters
true To life from model of high ideal
ism creates that which is worthy OF
imitation and which will leave its i'm
press upon those with whom it comes
into contact He who can weave into
a story incidents, events and actions
true to life, in Just so far as he succeed;
in this. instructs his readers in those
elements of education which are de
rived from the study of history anC
biography. There is also in every
f book something beside and beyont
what is communicated by the type
Behind the writer there is the person
good or bad, and from this person
there emanates subtle influence
which goes into and helps form thu
character of the reader, all uncon
. sciously to him perhaps. 1t is only
less potent than contact with the in
t diyidual in social intercourse.
speak now only of the matter of tn,
book without regard to its dress anC
style, themselves matters of no little
moment in this unconventional ag'
: and country, replete as Lanier say
) with democratic literature which
, will wear SLOUGH hat and have it
shirt open at the bosom and generally
not in complete Independence o
! form" BETA.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

The Toledo Commercial Telegram
publishes remarkable letter from u
distinguished Cincinnati man giving il
new version of the riot in that city.
lie says the home papers dare not tell
all that their reporters know about the
riot that the coroner dare not hold
an inquest because the testimony
would show that there was no mob. no
need of military and II" need tor them
To open fire ; that they fired on nm
offending people that such of the
policemen and militia as were shot
were shot 10y militia that Sheriff
Hawkins lost his head that the firing
was utterly uncalled for and cowardly,
and that the bystanders could not be-
leye that bullets were being fired until
they saw men falling. The letter
criticises the entire management al
affairs 10y Gov. Hoadly aud his military
staff, and speaks with the UTMOST Sc
verify of the fear, folly and frenzy %
the sheriff, with which he infected the
militia.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
ST. 1Juhnsburp GaledOnian.
.rnhnshnr,. VT. Thur.dav. April 10. Iss4.

The hand of Thomas Mast is again
seen in Harper's Weekly, and the pub
lie will Ice glad to learn that he has
renewed his health abroad and that his
cartoons in the above-mamed paper are
doing old-time dnty in exposing cor
ruptiom and fraud and enforcing the
great need of reform in politics.
nicipal. state and national.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Lyndon.

James c. Mooney was tried before a
jury yesterday for cruelty to animals
and acquitted. He was charged with
starving some hogs. Gleason appeared
for the state and CahOon and Hoffman
for the defense.
Charles Magoon is engaged in put
ting in repair the feed-water heater on
the locomotive Dartmouth.
The Passumpsic road is running
heavy freight trains south now, the
shipment of hemlock bark and hay
from Canada being very large. There
is one tannery at WOburn, Mass.
which uses five carloads lover fifty
cOrds) of bark day.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Walden.

Mr.. Kittredge, whose illness was
mentioned a short time ago, has died.
At the school meeting in district No.
l, these officers were elected: Commit
tee, c. II. Lane clerk and treasurer,
C. H. Stevens collector, Lewis Wood
bury. Voted to- raise 30 cents on dol
lar. The board was bid off at Sl.45 a
week
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
IuCendiary Fire.

About eight o'clock last evening j.
B. Barron's mill at East st. Johnsbury
was found on fire in the attic. Men
rushed in and put out the fire, but evil
dence enough was left to show that
the fire WIS set.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

BrattlebOro Correspondent Childs
bravely argues i'll the Springfield Re
publican that "it is fully understood
all over the state that whatever strength
Nichols may have is impaired from St.