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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15

Judge Reid of Kentucky, who was
recently assaulted and brutally beaten
by lawyer of vastly superior physique.
bravely refuses to challenge his assail-
ant, COrneilsoD, or shoot him at sight,
which hitherto have been the only
modes of redress that man could re-
sort to in Kentucky without social
shame and civil death. Judge Reid
prefers to appeal to the law, and Cor
nelson has been bound over for trial.
Judge Reid's conduct would be ap-
proved i'll any of our New England
states, in New York, in PENNSYLVANIA
or Ohio, or iii even any of the Western
states that have risen above the ciyili-
zation of a mining camp, but in Ken
lucky the conduct of Ju Ice Reid is
denounced as that of bastard. He is
a candidate for election to the court of
appeals, and has been notified by let
ter from several influential citizens
that they will not vote for him unless
he will first kill Corneilson, or try to
kill him. In other words, an excellent
judge is told that he cannot be reflect
ed to IA judicial tribunal, whose bust
ness is to try and sentence murderers,
unless he first commits murder himself
at the risk Of being murdered. What
would we think if Il judge of our high
est court should be brutally assaulted,
and because he appealed TO the law,
of which lie was the official exponent,
for redress, was notified by the lead
ing citizens of his town and county
that unless he shot his assailant they
would oppose his reelection Why,
we would think that Vermont had be-
come bedlam, when a judge was asked
to qualify himself for reelection to the
bench by an attempt at murder. This
Kentucky Judge, however, is braver
than the bully by whom he was bru-
tally beaten he is braV II than the Sin
fiueutian citizens who threaten him
with professional and social infamy if
he does not shoot his assaiiant, because
he has the raIe moral courage to stand
by his conscience against the public
opinion of all Kentucky. In a recent
speech to his neighbors he says that as
an elder in Christian church his re-
ligious convictions forbid his taking
life in private quarrel, and. as a
judge, he thinks it his duty to set ali
example of Obedienee to law. For both
reasons he cannot, with good con
science, do what the community seems
to expect of him. He fOresees that il
] Is opposed to the current Of what he
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
VOLUME 47---NUMBER Pap

believes to he a mistaken public sen
tlment which has prevailed in Ken
tacky, but, lie adds:
have made my decision ut the bar
of my own conscience, in the fear OF
Almighty God, guided by the precepts
and principles that have so far directed
my life aud controlled my conduct
among men cannot do otherwise.
come what may. / believe that the
tide will set strongly toward me, and
that my people will vindicate them
selves and me
Such words in New England would
command the respect of the most ferO-
cious rough and puguacious hummer
that cumbers the = of our secIion
bnt, in Kentucky. universal is the
social assent and re; erence for arhi-
tration by assassination that a Judge
and an cider of the church finds it nee
essary to defend himself for choosing
to appeal tn the law for redress rather
than ia the bloody code of the street.
Some of Judge Reid's friends stand
by him. Even the Louisville Courier
Journal. which applauded Congress
mau Philip Thompson for numbering
80 - S"A''''i' hS'' d" s1"ou "otu loE JuuSS
Reid, as follows: 'FoO long have we
put above the law and tile safety of
society mere personal revenge and ami
mosities. We should now turn from
savagery to civilization. We have toll
Grated personal revenge so long, we
have SO long winked ut wrong aud in
Justice, that government is mockerv
ia mere make -believe-scarcely Sc
curing the respect of any man. Let
us change it now and change it alto
gether. = Rutland Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
Lynch Law Punished for Once.

We have said that those who COM
NIT murder under the authority of
Judge Lynch should be hing like other
murderers and yet we confess that
the first case that has come to our
knowledge in which this has been
done, staggers us.
A man in Howard County, Ark, is
the owner of IA considerable farm. He
is a well-to-do citizen. His daughter,
girl i'll her teens, while at work in
the field alone, was assaulted by "a
worthless rut1ian, terribly beaten, and
left helpless. The authorities refused
to arrest the villain. Thereupon the
friends of the girl pursued and found
him. He opened fire upon them, and
they returned the fire and killed him
on the spot. ThereupOn the ruffian's
friends gathered, to the numher of
four hundred, and went on hunt after
any who could be suspected of sympa-
thy with the girl and her avengers.
They killed the first man they met,
and while he was being buried they
fired into the company and killed
four more and wounded others. They
then arrested the most prominent citi-
zens they could find, who were in sym
pathy with the girl, and three are con
demned to the gallows-0ne of them
was to be hanged last week-and thirty
are sentenced to the penitentiary for
terms of from five to eighteen wears.
What that means, under the convict
law of Arkansas, with its letting out
of convict gangs, can he imagined.
They will live only very few years.
Thus justice has been honored. The
men who could not get the ravisher
arrested, and, therefore killed him,
have been punished. But how about
that other party of four hundred who
killed the five ? Has anything been
done to them Nothing. They will
no more he interfered with by the law
than was the ruffian whose assault
gave occasion to the whole lameutable
affair
Do our readers think that this is an
state of public sentiment,
which has no Indignation ut the raw
ishers of female virtue, and whose
sympathy is not with its defenders but
only with the ruf1ian 1t is easily ex-
planned. The girl was colored. Her
avengers were cOlored. The rnffian
was white. His avengers are white.
COlOred people have no rights, not
even to chastity. They have no right
to defend OF to avenge themselves
Public sentiment does not allow them
to ask for justice, and will not grant
it to them. If white man receives
the smallest indignity he shoots, and
gets no punishment. If the deepest
injury is inflicted on a cOIOred man or
his wife or daughter, he must endure
it. That is the public sentiment in
some parts of the country. We do not
believe in lynch law. We believe in
hanging lynch law murderers. But we
do not believe in hanging the colored
lynchers and letting the white lynchers
go.-[N Y. Independent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
The Hot Axle.

The express train was flying from
Cork to Queenstown it was going like
sixty-that is, about 60 miles an hour
No sight of Irish village to arrest our
speed, no sign of break down and yet
the train halted. We looked out of the
window; saw the brakeman and a
the locomotive, and "A dense smoke
arising. What was the matter 2 A hot
axle!
thought then as think now, ihat is
what is the matter with people every
where. In this swift, express" Amer
lean life, we go too fast for our endur
ance. We think ourselves getting on
splendidly, when in the midst of our
successes, we come to dead halt.
What is the matter7 The nerves or
muscles or brains give out we have
made too many revolutions in an hour.
A hot axle
Men make the mistake of working
according to their opportunities, and
not according to their capacity of en-
durance. "'Can | run this train from
Springfield to Boston at the rate of fifty
miles an hour y says an engineer.
Yes. 'Then | will run it, reckless of
consequences" Can | be merchant,
and president of bank, and "A di-
rector in life-insurance company, and
school and help edit
paper, and supervise the politics of
our ward, and run for congress ~
can :" the man says to himself. The
store drives him; the bank drives him :
the school drives him politics drive
him. He takes all the seedlings aud
frets and exasperations of each posi-
ton. Some day, ut the height of the
business season, he does not come To
the store. From the most important
meeting of the bank directors he is
absent. In the excitement of the most
important political canvass he fails to
be at the place appointed. What is
the matter9 His health has broken
down; the train halts long before il
| gets to the station. a hot axlei
Some of our young people have read
till they are crazed of learned
/ blacksmiths, who at the forge con
qnered thirty languages; and of shoe
makers who, pounding sole leather,
| got TO be philosophers; and of mil
liners, who, while their customers were
| at the glass trying on their spring hats,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
No Mistake in Hers.

At noon Il girl, about nineteen years
old, and wearing somewhat faded
costume, came up to the delivery win
dow of the post office, threw down
letter, and said to the clerk ''Is that
air stamp all squeegee - "Yes, it.
seems to he all right" "An' is the
address writ SOS thar kin he no show
of its Citing otl'n the trail an mon
keyin' all round the country afore it
gets to whar' it's addressed ?" "Oh, |
guess so. The mail boys can manage
to" 81 don't want no guess work
bout it, for that's a matter % life and
death. If that letteF'll go straight say
so, and if it won't just unlimber your
tongue and give me square uusic.n
'.I'll guarantee that it will tihd the
person to whom it is addressed ~ said
the clerk, who had deciphered the
hierOgIyphics on the envelope. "rhen
that's all right, but if it don't git thar
on time I'll have yon took mp fur mur-
der That letters fur my feller back
in ilIinoy, an he writ that if | wouldn't
marry him right OFF he'd kill hisself,
an I've writ back that he kin come on
an double up jest as soon as he wants
ter. II that letter don't get thar
straight Jim's Jest fool enough to
swaller "a dose of pizen or sOmethin',
an mind, young man, that you are
liable To be pulled any minute for mur
der if he does. My names Rhoda
Lumly, an anybody that knows the
Lumlys ii tell yon that we're not to be
fooled with when human life's at stake"
And she shook warning finger at the
clerk and walked cut. - Leadville
Democrat. 80.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
No Deficiency.

Brother Jones of the Lime Kiln Club
secured the floor to observe that there
was a rumOr in the air to the effect
that the treasurer's report for the last
quarter didn't balance with the cash
book within S3. He didn't pay any
attention to the rumors himself but
some of the members were "A little
panlc-stricken and would like to hear
the truth i'll the. matter "Brudder
Jones" replied the president in ii voice
that shook the shingles overhead,
docs you imagine dat has gone blind
or lost de power of addin' up figgers
When reports an books doan' balance
i'll dis club dar won't be any rumors to
h'ar. Oar will be sich "A ruckshun dat
you'll all know what's de matter. Oar
hain't nuthin' in dis club which doan'
balance to cent. When our treasurer
can't make de fOOting's come out eben
dar will be gallopin' up an down
until dis foo won't hold de crowd.
Sot down, Brudder Jones. Oar am no
'cashun fur to be alarmed
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
They Met i'm the Car.

"There," she said, as she raised a
window i'll Pullman car the other
day, ''now | can breathe The air in
this car is sitting. Why don't they
have better ventilation If / conduit
sit next to an open window believe
should die"
Presently slender female sitting
directly back leaned over and asked
her if she wouldn't just as lief close
that window now, as the draught was
more than she could stand.
"No, madam, | shall not close this
window. | could not live with it down.
was just thinking how delightful it
was with it open, now you want it
shut, but shall not shut it so there
''Then you are "a selfish thing, and |
shall have to change my seat"
Just then a gentleman sitting close
by reached over and said: Ladies'.
that window being raised makes no
difference, as this car has double win
dOws, and not il breath of air can pos
sibly get through the one that is still
down"
Then the one that had raised the
window turned to the other, and, with
a crushed look OIL her face. said
Madam, | beg your pardon, but !
think two fools have met at last"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
Saved by a Dream.

About l o'clock Friday morning DIR.
c. +. Stark was called to attend a girl
who had had tooth extracted the
previous day, and who was suffering
from an excessive hemOrrhage as a
consequence. The mother said that
Thursday night she dreamed that she
WAS holding her daughter in her lap
and that the child was dying. She
awoke, went to the child's bed, and
found her daughter in a critical condi-
tion. The doctor was summoned and
found the child almost pulseless. Her
garments and coverings were soaked
with blood, and he found it necessary
TO inject milk into her veins to stimu-
late the circulation. The doctor is OF
the opinion that if the child's condi-
ton had been discovered an hour later
she would have been beyond help.
The warning dream of the mother
proved most opportune.-I Norwich Bull
letin.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15

Tn awfnlly sorry for Door Jack Roe;
Hes that boy that lives with his aunt You know
And he says his house is filled with gloom
Because it has got no mothers room
tell yon what, it il fine enough
To talk Of 'boudOirs" and such fancy stuff
But the room of rooms that seems best TO me,
The room where I'd always rather be,
Is mothers room, where a fellow can rest,
And talk of the thIngs his heart loves best
What if do get dirt about
And sometimes startle my sunt with shouts
1t is mothers room, and. il she doesn't mind,
To the hints of others m always blind.
Maybe lose my things-what then ~.
In mothers room find them again.
And I've never denied that litter the floor
With marbles and tops and many things more;
But tell yOu, for boys with tired head,
1t is jolly to rest mothers bed.
Now poor Jack Roe when he visits me.
/ take him TO mothers room, you see,
Because it's the incest place to go
When fellow spirits are getting low.
And mother she's always kind and sweet
And there's always 4 smile for poor Jack TO greet.
And sOmehl Nv tho sunbeams seem to glow
More brightly in mothers room, know,
Than anywhere else and You'll never find gloom
Or any old shadow in mothers room.
Harper's Young People.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15

wrote a volume of first rate poems.
The fact is, no black smith ought to he
troubled with more than five lair
Snages; and instead of slIoem:lkel-s
hecoming philosophers, we would like
to turn our surplus of philosophers into
shoemakers and the supply ar poetry:
Is SO much greater than the demand,
that we wish DliliinerS would stick To
their business. Extraordinary ex-
amples of work and endurance may do
as much harm. Because Napoleon
slept ouly four honrs night hundreds
OF students have tried the experiment;
but, instead of Austerlitz and Sara
gossa, there came of it only a sick
headache and hotch of II recitation.-
". Dewitt Talmage, in Home Science
tor May. ....... -.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
ST. JnhnshmrN Centrn.

COngTsgatiOHdL-Rev. j. T. CIosson, Pastor sun
day services at IL 4. NJ, and 500 p II. sabbath
school at II Nj Wednesday evening meeting at
7.3O p. NJ
Mehodist-Rey. W \ Evans, Pastor. Sunday
services at III A M. and z. NJ. Sunday School at
IL NJ. Thursday evening meeting at 80
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
St. JohnsburY Post Office.

Commencing Oct. = the mails will close at the
Post Office follows:
Passumpsic Il. X. Way Mail, South 300 a H.
No. Danville 900 a. M
St j. Il L. c. K. K. Way Mail, East 2.I5 D. M
St J. 4 J.. G. L. X. Way Mail, West 2.I5 D. u
Passumpsic K. K Way Mail North. 40 p. m
West concord and 81. Johnsbury East 900 III.
ateff"id W. wat and l.. Watfd. 40 I. m
Boston, New York, Conn. K. Val. Mail 500 D. N
Northern and Montreal mail 500 D. NJ
Mail Will he collected from the boxes at Paddock
village and Railroad street at 500 a. IN. and 3. 10
y. Box at Railroad street will be visited at 80
.. IN, usual.
CHAS. p. CARPENTER. z. NJ
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
Evils of the HIgh-Heeled Boot.

The evils of the high heeleil boot or
sh0e are due TO the fact that it is an es-
SentIally badiysfitting. article. 1t il
made IN defiance of the relation which
1t ought to bear to the anatomy of the
foot, and to the direction in which thu,
pressure of the body weight falls upou
the latter. Hence the ncculiarly
eramped walk of ladies of the present
day. Any one may observe the conse-
qnences of the 'idvanced position" y.
nearly under the instep, aud the in-
creased height of the heel, in the sub-
stltntion of forward inclination Of the
body, and trip suggestive in a meas
ure of the stumbling gait, for the .up-
right carriage and the free and graceful
swinging movement natural to the leo
in walking. The boot, ur shoe, in order
that 1t may not shift on the foot. which
has lost much of its usual purchase of
direct downward pressure, must hold
II hrmly and even tightly, and in par
ticular it is necessarily constructed 50
as to hold with undue firmness lust
above the back of the heel. With some
persons, perhaps, no Inconvenience re-
snlts with others who have fine skins
chaiing is readily produced. This is
IN ltseli "A tritie. hut it may neverthe-
less be the slight beginning of graver
troubles. Probably there is no prac-
tltIoner fairly long acquainted with
town practice who cannot recall IL case
OF cases in which extensive intlamma-
ton OF the leg, with absccss formation,
has followed even such Il slight abra-
sion, and the exciting cause when
looked for was discovered in the pa
TENTS shoe. There have been even
fortunately rare, but still oc-
caslonal, where abscesses arising round
some neglected tritie of this kind Shave
ended fatally. These are facts which
cannot he denied, and should not he
overlooked.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
East st. JuhnshnrY.

COhgTegdhondt-Rev. j. n. Walker Sunday
services at TO- - a. III and go IL m Sahbatb
school at lsOo Wednesday evening meeting at
uethodtst.-Supplied by Rev. E w. Culver
sunday services at I.3O p. Ill.
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Telegraph Office.

Western Union and Vt. InterndtiOnaL-in 81
I"hnsbury House. Open from a. m, to p. IN
sunday . to 10 a. m, 5 To p. NJ. Night message
at half rates.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15
st. Johnsbury Atheneuun.

LtbrGTy aud Reading Room--Fr to all. Open
from = A N. to Il NJ; from to p. NJ, and from
I" - Saturday evenings.
Art GaiieTp-Open tuesdays and Fridays.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15

A Philadelphia man has invented
what he calls Il '!hachelor's needle"
The best sort of needle for bachelor
is one which has two eyes, isn't pol
ished, and will needle little bonnet
every spring. See the point q Bur
lingtOn Free Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15

Pa>sumpsic RaiIrOad.---Dec.I 10. 1888.
TRAINS sOIpp IF.vF sT fouxspupv
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GyarrIers' 6nide.

| st. JohHsbury & Lake ChampIaIn Railroad.
February =, 1884.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-15

The members of the rescued party
on board the Titania presented pitia-
bic appearance to those who boarded
the vessel at Quebec. So sudden was
the accident that many of them who
we're in their hunks at the time had to
hurry on deck and into the boats in
their night-clothes. Most of them had
very confused idea of what really
transpired, but all could distinctly re-
member IL crash and rush TO the boats
as the ship went down amid the shrek,
and lamentations of the passengers
Those Oh duty then remember see
ing red light fash for an instant, fol
lowed by an instantaneous crash, after
which nothing but confusion followed
the steamer beginning TO sink and
hurried preparations being made t.
launch the boats. The bark which
collided with them went down instan-
taneously. The frightened passengers
lshed on deck in their night-clothe,
and a SCENE of indescribable confusion
ensued. The women went into hysteric,
and the men refused to move. The
women especially objected to leaving
the doomed vessel, some who coult
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-07

now returns to work. His first move ha,'u-
ol,v. is an effort to get more money to spenu Oh
salaries. end he has demanded from the b"a'u
or Estimate and Apportonment the transfer u,
$4,000 Appropriated for clamp ems ana
electric citing" to the fund to pay 'n'
travelling cxpcn .cs Of employees In h' d'ra I
r,nt. This Is Mr. lhompsons usual course
lint itisncvcrthcrss plainly aeainsi the spin
or the law. what Is the usc o' hovm oar"
of Estimate and Arporionmrn' to Il" app'o.
uratiors IN advance il they cal Voc inrrrhsrn Nv
Nh. + ompsuu's win U1ultlcss th"tIaNrilinS
.,xprnsrs nf the Commissioners political os TAI
ants who hold pincps IN 'hc Department oi
ruhlir No,ks have been heavier thun usnnl
this Nrar, bat that docs not alter the 'qoi"''
AL thD ,tan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-07
pFPvOVtL.

At No - Ebury--t. London. NJ Justin Mccarthy
doe, his literary work sIttng al Bpewrtng machine
900 hs kypIrlor study. There lew books 30 ihs
r,ou.-fhc the ,cttcf NJ VI 'Carthv thint-.-tnt
~,lrtinh cct~ of curious trest rhie among whifh De-
.iuuri-hrl Mr. M,rutnf -lcrfnly dcciaes thA ln re-
ir 90 that oh EFT Dee Nuulu shed his i'irnl, Mr. Nttn
Bac.t. for NJ Black has tor liuNrrheli 20 rpv-rl
fiuu Che Roman ,aupl-na, while Mr.. Mccarthy 10 a
,tiurl-hrl from Jerusalem
Nh ~ngerley. the millionaire proprietor Of he Fhpd
3eiph1 Eeeor has mania for honscs he has already
hui 900 IN the northwestern pant ~ lhadel PIMA. aid
intends Ia build ESQ more, The 900 viii te WUitn On
IN atrrage about 10000 each.
Atthc CorueHle Exhibition In Paris thirty portraits ~
he poet ver" shown not ~ which u considered to
Doe u iuthtnl likeness.
The inscription atey published that On the urn con-
nmiug the n.hcs of the late Professor Hro's. Of Ihf
d,pHii was REALLY chat memorial carl prepared
puti dI4tuhuipd ht priic-.ut Nandal ui tie iniUily
l Iru-No. q ,l1-r nIrnd Ui d. tius- Tho uth ufafs
600 inscription su, fhp uHur ut the dp,raspd hnd Inc
iItr- ut INA tlrth and death
THE ,tuuo 4iroplasu. ior the tomb ct calhoun hss
n,,n upI-hrl and vil ot once hr .ot.m place az II
lutf- ,huithAhr thHflosiun, e G.
UiumA y w. Nov o. Congressman John Arno' "
mtudl, impio,iup and vtl np unt ma few dn}a.