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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03
Accident to Gen. Grant.

General Grant while alighting from
a coupe at his residence in New York
slipped and fell Oh his side, sustaining
serious injury in the leg about four
inches below the hip joint. The sur
geOns say no bones are broken and the
superstition is that bruise of the sci
attic nerve has been sustained. The
general was assisted to his bed where
he has remained ever since, lying in
one position on his back. Surgeon l..
A. StimsOn and DIR. FOrdyce Barker
made al examination of the generals
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03
The Week Of Prayer.

The order of exercises for the week
of prayer. as arranged of late. calls out
some criticism from clergy and laymen.
1t is appropriate therefore at this time
to recall how the week of prayer came
about and where il originated. In
1859 a few missionaries in India. by
agreement among themselves and some
friends, united for one week in special
PRAYER for the outpouring of Gods
spirit upon all men. 1t was here and
thus that this week nov So generally
observed was begun. 1t was on mo-
ton of Rev. DIR. j. II. Morrison of the
Lodiana mission in India, in January
1859, the following resolutions were
adopted
Whereas our spirits have been great
ly refreshed by what We have heard of
the Lords dealings with his people in
America. therefore =
Resolved LIST. that we publicly az
knowledge the debt of gratitude we
owe to him, and our obligations to live
more than ever not unto ourselves but
unto him who died for us.
And in view of our own spiritual ne
cessity, aud of the wants of the perish
ing millions about Us. aud in the hope
of obtaining similar blessings for this
land,
Resolved 2d, that We will do our best
To get Union Meetings for prayer. for
the outpouring of the Spirit, established
II our respective stations. and also at
other stations, wherever we may find
two "r three willing to meet together
in the name of Christ
And further, being convinced from
the signs of the times that God has still
large blessings in store for his people,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03
Colorado AVaIamcheS.

A snow slide down the mountains
near Ouray, Col, buried eleven miners
under fifteen feet of snow. Six were
taken out dead, and the other five res
cued in Il crushed and mamgled condi-
ton, and all will probably die.
a dispatch from Telluride, Col.
dated the 9th says At noon to-day Il
snow slide came down Marshall basin,
carrying of the shaft house of the
Mendoza mine, in which were II men.
: of whom We're killed outright, and ,
injured. -Four of the men dug them
selves out.
Dec. 81, two men were caught in Il
snow slide near lronton, Col, and car
rled 1900 feet down mountain side.
When eXtricatcd they were frozen
from the waist down, the flesh open
ing in seams. They cannot recover.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03

lerneath the wagon were the two dead
bodies. The man was found i'll a sit
ting posture with his head resting on
his knees.
Sergeant Mason has agreed to ex-
hibit himself in Philadelphia at IA salary
of 5000 week
1t is seriously said that the poll
ticians are trying to get Gov. Hale of
New Hampshire to run again.
John McGinnis, sentenced to be
hanged on Thursday, has been re-
spited until March 1 to test his sanity.
The failure of 4. ID. Smith Il Co. of
Providence for ! .SO0,00O is Il heavy
blow to the cotton manufactures of
Rhode Island and recalls the Sprague
failure in magnitude.
+. ID. Wiuslow, the revered Boston
forger of eight or nine years ago, Is
huurishing at Bueuos Ayres under the
name of w. ID. Low. He publishes
the Daily Herald newspaper Ill three
languages. has handsome business
block, the best horses in the city,
wife whom he took to England on IA
wedding trip, and is the confidential
friend and adviser of the president of
the republic. Honesty is the best
policy"
New York city welcomed the new
year with Il vigor hardly exceeded by
| that devoted to the entree of the CEN
! tennial year. From 1890 p. III. Mon
| day lower Broadway was crowded with
men, women and boys intent upon pro
ducing the greatest possible noise.
The ehimeS Of old Trinity rang out at
midnight but only now and then could
they he distinguished above the blar-
ing of 10000 horns, the shouts of RS
many human beings, and chorus of
church bells, steam whistles and gOngs
The crack of firearms was frequent and
the distant booming of cannon showed
that the rejoicing was not confined to
the city.
Some weeks ago Mrs. Frances w
| Pomeroy, postmistrcss ut one of the
York county offices in Maine, was in
dlcted for making II false return of
postage stamps sold by her. The
amount involved was small, but the
trial proved too much for the nerves
of Mrs. Pomeroy, who has lived very
retired life, and she has been sinking
ever since, and is not expected to live
many hours. Her husband has been
very dspondent since the trial, and it
is feared he will not long survive his
wife. No doubt is felt that Mrs Pom
eroy supposed she had made correct
returns.
| Jocko, the noted Orang Outang,
died in the Dime museum ut Baltimore
Monday, where he arrived last Satur-
day from Chicago. ON the trip he
contracted Il violent cold, which was
the cause of his death. Jocllo was i'm
ported in 1881 by Reiche, Il New York
animal dealer, and cost $500. He
was over four feet tall and weighed at
the time of death lis pounds.
| The ice on the Montreal river front
has become blocked and raised the
water four feet higher than it has been
there in 10 years. The lower part of
the city was flooded Monday and i'm
nense damage has been done to prop
erty. -Four hundred and fifty hogs
heads OF sugar belonging to Ross Il
| Co. of st. Paul street have been com
pletely detroyed. The Hudson cotton
factory was flooded and 100 hands
are out of work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03
Our Washington Letter.
JANUARY, !, 1884,

JANDAR1, j, iCCf'
Congress has been away from Wash
ington during the holidays, but politics
has known no rest. The committees
have been discussed, and their person
mel denounced and praised according
to the political or selfish bias OF the
! Individual. The weight of comment
| is, however, III their favor and it is
doubtful if any other distribution could
have given so much satisfaction and
so little offense. Mr.. Morrison, the
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee, has expressed his views on the
tariff question through the medium of
an interview, and Mr.. Hewitt, the most
prominent eastern member on the
same committee, has given his views to
| the world in IL letter to the Albany
Argus. From their expressions 1t is
evident that the western and eastern
democracy ara In practical accord on
the all important question now before
the country. Their accord means Il
careful and prudent reduction of the
tariff by placing the raw materials that
are used in our manufactures on the
free list by removing the tariff from
sugar, salt, and articles of common
every day use and by reducing duties
to necessary revenue, and lightly
protective basis.
the usual way in Washington. The
President was assisted in receiving the
four or five thousand callers by ladies'
prominent in cabinet, official and social
circles, among whom were Mrs. Frey
linghUysep, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Chand-
Ter, Mrs. and Miss Gresham, MIS-.
Brewster, Mrs. Teller, Mrs. Carlisle
and others.
Army and navy officers called in
full dress uniform, with sword and
epaulets and gold braid. The repre-
sentatives of foreign governments also
wore the full dress of their respective
courts, and when all these were as
Sembied in the east room with ladies
in exquisite toilet the scene was one of
dazzling splendor. The Marine band
was stationed in ante room and played
selections from MendelssOhn, Weber
and Sullivan during the ceremony of
the reception. Perhaps the most in
terestlng part of the reception was
that of two or three thousand people
who had waited until titled and official
personages had presented their re-
spects to the president. At two
O'Clock the doors were opened to this
vast crowd, and the shop keeper, the
hack driver, the barber, the milliner,
the chambermaid, and other honest or
dishonest unclassitied people, white,
buff, and black, pressed forward to
clasp the presidential digits and tramp
the rich carpets of the White House
Here was such a scene as could be
seen no where else in nations great or
little, and while it was paltry in itself,
it was in a certain sense "a recognition
of the principle of human equality,
and typical of a freedom (some would
call it licensel such as no other people
in the world enjoy. England and
France are called free countries, and
are so praised by publicists and states
men of all lands, but if Queen Victoria
should hold such reception an Irish
mob would yank her off the throne, and
President Greyy would not dare a like
experiment without posting regiments
of soldiers in the Place de Concorde,
and about the Arch of Triumph.
OBSERVER.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03
Ten Thousand Persons Thrown
out Of Work.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Dec. 2G.-The
liabilities of A. ID. Smith & Co.. whose
failure was announced to-day, are
placed at 81 100000. In their various
mills the Messrs. Smith & Co. operated
81 900 spindles, giving employment to
10000 or 10000 persons. The failure
involves the suspension of all their
concerns and Threatens many families
with want during the winter. The
assets are small.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03

The paper printed on the fourth page
of this issue will he read by every one
who cares to know all the arguments
on the various phases of the temper
ancc question. If the writer does not
I.riu,, forward some unanswerable ar
gumcnts we fail to comprehend the
loric of the paper.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03

The year just closed has been hl'eu
with calamitics, even more so thah Is
usual in this world of sorrows. Among
,I. more prominent are the burning OF
tbc Milwaukee hotel the sinking OF
the steamer Cimbria in the North sea
and the loss of nearly 800 lives ; the
torundoes in the west and south de-
stroying nearly 300 persons; the panic
among the school children in Sunder-
land. England, by which POO were
killed the earthquake in lschia kill
inr over 1000 people ; and later the
mated -. 900 persons lost their lives
Besides these. the cholera and plague
DESTROYED mnltitudcs. while the smaller
accidents and disasters have made a
grand total of calamities unprecedented
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03

injury Friday and concluded that no
bone had been broken but that some of
the upper muscles of the leg had been
crushed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03
DFLORIDA ORANGES

We have just received from II. X. IDE'S grove
at Pomona, Florida lot Of genuine Florida
oranges and have arranged b. have some shipped
every week We shall sell them as low a. any one
afford h. sell good article but shall not try to
compete with sour Jamaica oranges packed in
Florida pine boxes. If you want one orange a
dozen b1T give a call. Oranges are good
for a well person and ia sickness nothing il rel.
ishsd ~ well a - oranges
Last year Florida raised Just about orange
Tor every person IN the United States. This wear
the crop il more than twice as large, but the de.
mand - good and prices will be firm for wears to
come Foreign oranges have To be picked green in
order 10 get here without decay, but Floridas are
ripened on the trees which 10 the reason thew ara
80 much better than others We also have for .sis
Nice Baldwin Apples,
Dried Apple, Dried Peaches, Dried
Blackberries, etc.
e. T. & n. K. lDE-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03

the detailed charges are printed in the
newspapers and hardly denied.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-01-03
BLOCKED PAPER.

Letter and Bill-heads printed and blocked in tho
most approved style at the Ca,,aloniAn Office Call
aud see samples Il
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-25

Garden almost penniless. The young
Lord vowed never to desert his wife or
to return to Scotland until he returned as
Earth of Perth, and his wife was received
as befitted her rank. He assumed the
plebeian name of George johnson, and
went to work as a shipping clerk in a
wholesale flour house in the South street.
where he remained working steadily for
about two years until his employers col
Iapsed in the panic of 1878. Except while
on a voyage to the West Indies in a
schooner a year ago Lord pr-mmOnd
has been in the employ of Carhart, Whit
ford & Co, ever since, advancing little
but still half shipping clerk and half por-
ter, and evincing much more inclination
for physical than mental exercises.
The peerage of which the young ship
ping clerk is next heir antendates the dis
covery Of America The first Lord Drum
mOnd was distinguished statesmen and
Ambassador Extraordinary to England
His great-grandfather the second Lord
Drummohd, married Magaret, daughter
of the Duke of Albany, and granddaugh-
ter of King James II. Burke ignores the
marriage of the present Lord Drummond.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Prof. c. A. Young's work on the sun
has been translated into French, German,
Russian and Italian.
Florence Nightingale, celebrated asthe
Crimean nurse, has become an advocate
of woman's suffrage.
DIR. Lorimer, the Chicago clergyman,
is writing a novel, the basis Of which is
to be the Thirty Years War.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor has been black
balled by the New York Bar Association,
just why nobody appears to be able to
find out
Dr. John Kittson, who died at st.
Paul. Mimi, a few days ago, was one of
the thirty-three children of Commodore
Kittson, the noted turfman.
Mr. Rupp, the editor of the Eau Claire,
Wis, Democrat, has been left 1000, 900
by his uncle, the lately deceased New
York millionaire of that name.
Professor Sumner, the free trade doc
trinaire of Yale. says that the fate of the
Morrison bill is "only an incidental col
ision in the irrepressible conflict"
Joseph MiImore, of Boston, has COM
pleted bust of Wendell Phillips, which
that city will present to George William
Curtis as mark of appreciation of his eu-
logy.
Bishop Green, of Mississippi, the eldest
bishop of the Episcopal Church, has
transferred to the Rev. DR.. Hugh Miller
Thompson, his associate, all the admin
istrative work of his office.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-25

case is, that notwithstanding the suffer
ing she must have experienced, she has
grown very fat. She has been constantly
the recipient of flowers, wines and deli
cacies of various kinds from people who,
though strangers to her, have become in
terested in her singular and remarkable
patience.
The gratitude she ,evinces toward DR..
Shrady is immeasurable. She is now in
the most buoyant spirits, and is looking
forward wish delight to the prospect of
attending a, family gathering to take
place next month
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-25
4 LOST EARL.

Lord DrummOnd Turns Up us POr-
ter in New York Shipping House.
At the instance of a lady belonging to
a wealthy and respected New York fami-
ly, and old friend of the Lady Capel-
whose name is withheld at her request
says New York special to the Philadel-
phia Press, correspondent has been en-
gagged for some time past in an investi-
cation as to the whereabouts of Lady
Capels son, Lord DrummOnd heir to the
Earldom of Perth and Melfort, and
kinsman of Queen Victoria, who eloped
to America with his governess twelve
years ago, thus mourning the resentment
of his noble relations. This scion of an
ancient house was found to-day working
as porter in the Broadway clothing
house of Carhart, Whitford & Co.
a young man, coatless, heated, and
with collar lOOsened, came forward and
extended a big brown, toil-stained hand.
''You are Lord Drummond, l believer"
said the reporter,
am, said he, a little surprised, but
NTise Disconnected. He was fully
bet tall and splendidly built, had a
shaped head and full regular fea-
#tures, with closely cut light hair and
moustache.
His story, as gathered from himself and
other sources, is as follows: George Es-
sex Moutifex, Lord Drummond, only sor
of Malcolm, Viscount Forth and the Lady
Mary Capel, neice of the Earl of Essex
was born September 3, 1856. At12years
of age he was an orphan in the care of hi:
grandmother, the Countess of Perth anC
Melfort, who confined his education TO {
nursery goyerness, named Harriet Har
rison, Possessing the entire confidence
of her master and mistress, the governes
and her ward were much together, with
out exciting suspician. When it wa
learned one morning that they had mys
teriously disappeared, the effect wa
startling. Matters were not improved
much when the young couple returned
later in the day, and Lord Drummont
shyly announced that he was married t
Harriet, and prayed his grandfather
forgiveness and blessing. The ancien
Earl stormed at what he denounced as
degradation of the noble name, and an
ethy forbade his young heir to ever ente
his house again.
Inc bride and groom took steerage pas
sage Tor America and arrived at Castl
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-25
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES.
THE LATEST NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS BY WIRE AND CABLE.

New YORK, May 23.-Jones, Willis &
Co., hardware, Pensacola, Fla, have
failed. The business was established in
the fall of 1881 and they did a large trade
on a capital of $4,000.
WASHINGTON, Pa, May 23-Owing to
daily application for the incineratiOn of
bodies and numerous letters Of inquiry
regarding the subject, Messrs. LeMoyne
crematory, have decided that after Au-
gust 1st the use of the crematory be linn
tied to residents of Washington.
NEW YORK, May 23--U. s. Grant, Jr.,
came from Norristown, n. j., his home,
this morning, to the office Of the late
firm of Grant & Ward. He laughed at
the rumOr of his supposed flight to Can
ada He says he has no intention of
leaving, but intends to remain and at
tend to the business which will necessari-
Iy grow out Of his financial imbroglio
Col. Fred Grant is also in the city.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., May 23.-Three mon
ster icebergs were reported on New
FOundland coast, one over nine miles
long, drifting along at the mouth of
White Bay, and one estimated to be seven
miles long, passing south, forty miles
east of St. Johns, and a third several
miles in circumference in st. Johns Bay,
aground on Georges Rock and alongside
the harbor of st. Johns.
GALVESTON, May 23.-RaiIroad traffic
throughout the flooded districts of the
State is still generally suspended. Nc
mails from the North have been received
for two days. No correct estimate of
damage to the various lines is yet obtain
able, but well informed gentlemen of
this city place the damage to railroad
property at $500 This, however, in
cludes the loss by delay and the probable
decrease in the agricultural product.
The actual and immediate damage is
placed at $2,000,000. Besides several
hundred miles of submerged track which
will require repairing, and hundreds OF
culverts, small bridges and trestle-work
have been carried away or loosened.
Large quantities of freight are accumu-
lating.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-The Railway
Mail Bureau has completed a schedule
for the mail service between points in the
United States and the City of Mexico.
The service will be daily and the running
time between New York and the Citv of
Mexico will be six days, twenty three
hours and ten minutes. The distance is
3,749 miles, 1, 1924 miles of the railway be-
ing in Mexico. Starting from New York
at 8 a. M, the mail will arrive in the
City of Mexico at 7;20 a. m. on the same
day of the following week. Coming
north the mail will leave Mexico at 9 D.
M, reaching New York at 1920 p, m. on
the same day of the following week. The
following cities are on the line of commu-
niCatiOn:
The Press., 1884-12-11
The Washington monument wa.

The Washington monument was con- pleted last Saturday afternoon by setting in place the marble cap-stone and its pyr- amldal apex of aluminium. Shortly before ? o'clock Colonel Casey, the government engineer in charge, and his assistants pro, ceeded to set the capstone, weighing $500 pounds, which was suspended from a quadropod of heavy joists supported by the platform and towering 40 feet above them. As soon as the cap-stone was set the American flag was unfurled overhead and salute of 21 guns was fired in the white house grounds. The sound of cheers also came up faintly from the crowd of spectators gathered around the base of the monument, while number of invited guests on the 500 foot platform and in the interior of the monument at that level spontaneously struck up the '.Star Span gled Banner" and other patriotic songs. The flag over the monument fioated Sat urday from flag staff, the top of which is exactly 500 feet from the ground, thus dis playing the American colors at the greatest height of construction ever yet known in the world. The monument itself, with its. total height of $50 feet. far oyertops every other structuEs of human hands.
The Press., 1884-12-11

A T a Court of Probate holden at Will ing "A ton within for the District of Tolland on the 9th day eff December, A. D. 1884,
 Present. JOHN B. CARPENTER, Erq., Judge, On motion of Perry Potter administrator on the tate of Betsey West, late of Wilmington, within said district deceased.
 This Court doth decree that six months be allowed and limited for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims against the to the administrator, and directs that public notice be given of this order by advertising in newspaper published in Stafford, and by posting copy teereof on the public sgn-post in said town of Wilmington, nearest the place where the deceased last dwet. Certified from Record,
 JOHN B. CARPENTER, Judge,
The Press., 1884-12-11

A PASSENGER TRAIN was side tracked by masked robbers i'll Arkansas Saturday, and the passengers obediently held up their haads while themselves and the express cal were plundered. By using blood hounds the robbers were directly tracked to Little Rock, and three out of five ar- rested vera identified
The Press., 1884-12-11
cures all throat affections.

We call lhe attention of our readers to Dr. R. w. R sads Celebrated Astbma and Catarrh Relief This remedy is NEW medicine but used for years by pr Read in regular practice, and is for the first time put on the market. Samples are sent FREE to all who apply. See adv't in another column.
The Press., 1884-12-11

A Court of Probate holden at Willing "A ton, within and for the District of Tolland on the Sth day of December. A. D. 1884.
 Present, JOHN B. CARPENTER, Judge.
 Upon the matter of an argument, presented to this Court by George P. and Caroline Charter, husband and wife, of Toand in said district for the adoption of Flora Arel Charter of Worcester, Massachusetts a minor aged six years. it is:
 Orlered-That hearing on said argument be held at the Probate office in Wilmington the 22d day ot December, 1884, at one o'clock in the afternoon and to appear before this Court at said time and place. then and there to show cause, if any they have why by this Court by publishing notice of said hearing in weekly newspaper published in Stafford tive public signpost Tn said town of Holland at least six days before said day of hearing and return make to this Court. Certified from Record,
 JOHN B. CARPENTER, Judge