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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-08
Men to Look Ont For.

We propose tn begin to publish list Of per
sons who though often requested pay their bill
at this office, persist in a neglect to do so We dc
not propose to give much space time Ia this class
and those who are looking for extended hiogra
ply will be disappointed is too short for thai
and space too dear-but we do intend I" LET tn,
groser the butcher the baker and the clother know
the names Of some people who do not try To pay
their bills Tor a who cheats the printer vii
cheat anybody else when he gets q chance. and tbs
business should be put an their guard
IoraI 0rus.
Warren EstabrOoks II the latest
addition to the telephone exchange.
-Alvah Harvey has sold building
lot on Cliff street to Widow V. NJ
Jones.
William Higgins is about putting
up fine large barn on the home farm
"A mile east of this village.
w. j. Bray has taken Music hal
to rebuild for some over Sl3 800, The
work to he completed in six months.
&C. 5. Forbes, st. Alhans," wa.
the modest signature on the st. Johns
bury house register Friday.
Mrs Esther Hutchinson, one OF
our oldest residents, is very i'll of pneu-
monia and her friends are very anxious
as to the result.
Mrs. A. c. Mitchell has returned
to st. JoIInsbury and resides with hel
daughter, Mrs. Foster stevens, at til,
Centre.
Nearly all the April and May
showers this year have been dust.
good rain threatened this morning
and would be very welcome.
The high wind and water o.
Friday night caused a twenty five
rod washout on the PassumPsic rail-
road above Newport.
A new postotfice has just been cs-
tablished at Damon's Crossing, Essex
county. 1t is supplied from North
Concord. five and one-half miles south.
John BarstOw of Hartford theo-
logical seminary formerly mt the acad-
envy here-will supply at the Congre-
gatiOnal church at Island Pond again
this summer as last.
w. NJ. Bell has finished his work
with Z. T. u II. X. Idle and has
taken Cross < Bradley's bread cart
ii. A. Beerworth succeeds Mr.. Bell
with the Ide's.
Hannah Eastman, who has been
living with her aunt, Mrs. Henry w
Jones, for the past two years and at
tending the academy, started for hel
home at San Francisco yesterday.
st. Johnsbury democrats are gen
orally sorry that the state convention
is to be held at Montpelier, as the!
wanted to run over to Burlington anG
get ii breath of fresh country air.
jerry Drew has leased his Belle
yue house at Newport for three year
10 f. J. Wood of ClarcmOnt, who ha'
had good many years of experience
in the hotel business.
The young people of st. Andrew
church will give an entertainment Il
the town hall the 10th, comprising til
comedies, Trough Diamond" and tin
sketch, "Use of the weed"
S. l.. & J. f. Moore have bougl
Mrs. A. l.. lde's house just north q
the South church for $500. Mrs. Id
holds the right of possession To Sept
|, when the new owners will make al
.teTatiOns.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Mcdonald wei
happily surprised yesterday, the tent
anniversary of their marriage, by
number of friends coming in to cele
brate the event. Among the present
were "A swinging lamp, a decorated tc
set, etc.
Hotel changes seem to be numel
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
A Regular Man.

[From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.I
Some time ago in New Hampshire
an old patriarch of 95 winters was
gathered to his fathers, and couple of
temperance elders from Massachusetts
city happening to hear of the circum
stances, and thinking it good oppor-
tunitv to pick up facts for venerable
example waited upon his surviving
relative, q hardened old farmer, who
was found in his shirt-sleeves leaning
over a fiverail fence thoughtfully chew
ing a wheat-straw.
"We called to ask you some questions
about your grandfather. He must have
been a remarkable man"
"Yaas-iess so, he was very reg lar
mani"
"Ah, very temperate in his habits, I
suppose
"Yaas, he gently got up 'baout in
summer n in winter, and alters took
a glass of Jamaky rum first thing fore
dom his chores.
What did he use stimulants %
"Hey?"
"Was he addicted to alcoholic bever-
ages ?"
NO, he wasn't an eddicated man, but
he alters took a little more Jamaky
and smoked a pipe just after breakfast
he was a very reglar man, was gram
sir"
"Weu, I suppose a little liquor
might have been required at his old
age"
Eyes, so gran'sir often said, and his
leven o'clock was horn of rum an
molasses, tho he gently took a little
clear sperrit after it jes before settin'
down ter dinner"
"What, and did not all this dram
drinking affect his health?"
"Lor' bless yer, no, but l used to tell
him he oughten TO drink mug of cider
at dinner, but he said pipe of niger
head-terbaccer arter dinner an his 4
o'clock grog an little gin an sugar
afore supper set him all right"
Great heavens Why thought you
said your grandfather was very regu-
lar man."
"Reg'lar? SO he was reg'lar as q
clock, and when he'd had horn or two
| arter supper, and was settin' afore the
fire over night-cap of old Jamaky
smoking hls pipe, my gran father"
Hang your grandfather The old
| man must have been preserved I'D alco
hol and tobacco or he would never have
lived so long"-and the elders with
drew, satisfied that they had neither 6
remarkable illustration nor frightful ex
| ample to suit their purpose.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
POLITICAL

JOHN NJ. HILL was chosen as the Dem
ocratic candidote for governor of New
Hampshire at the state convention at
Concord on the 10th.
The Massachusetts Prohibitionists
met in state conversion at Boston on
the 10th and nominated J. Fl. Seelys of
Amherst College, for governor.
The Prohibitionists of New Hamp-
shire have placed placed Larkin D. Ma
son in nomination for the governor
ship.
The Connecticut Greenbackers on
the 10th chose James L. Curtis as their
candidate for governor.
Col. A. B. JETMoRE has declined the
nomination for governor of Kansas at
the hands of the Prohibitionists.
RICHARD NJ LA TOILETTE was nomi-
mated on the second ballot by the Re-
publicans of the Third Wisconsin Dis
trict at their convention at Dodgeville.
THE Republicans of Missouri, in state
convention at Jefferson City, on the 9th,
passed a resolution endorsing Hon.
Nicholas Ford as sion candidate for
governor, and left me balance of the
state ticket in the hands of the central
committee.
The Democrats of the Fifth Iowa
district nominated Benjamin Frederick.
The Democratic convention of the
First Michigan District renominated
VIM. G. Maybury by acclamation.
The election in Maine on the Sth
inst, resulted in plurality for the Re-
publican ticket of about 1900. All
the Republican congressman were elect
ed and the state legislature is claimed
to be strongly Republican.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
CRIMINAL.

AT Walhngford, Conn, on the 18th
a colored fugitive from justice named
Johnson killed his wife and man
named Jackson with an axe.
A LOCAL desperate, known as Black
Tom, entered the bank at Eldred, Pa.
just after banking hours on the 18th,
and, covering the cashier with a revolv-
er, helped himself to about $25,0OO and
walked out.
AN old lady of 20, named Hughes,
living in EIba, Wis, was called out OF
her house on the 10Th and fatally shot
by unknown parties.
THE butchery of the Taylor family
and the sale of their bodies to he Ohio
Medical College is recalled by the an
nouncement of the hanging of one of
the murderers, Benjamin Johnson (col-
ored) at Cincinnati on the 18th
JOHN R. SHEPARD, prominent in
Cleveland retail business circles, hanged
himself in the garret OF his residence
on the 18th.
AT Brownsville, Tex. John Rosas, a
convict who had just been released af
ter serving five-year sentence, started
out on the 10Th to kill the sheriff who
had arrested him and all Of the wit
nesses in his trial. The sheriff when
attacked changed Rosas' programme
suddenly by perforating him with three
rifle bullets, causing instant death
TIE body of William Wales, night
watchman at the office of the Augusta
tGa.) Street railroad, was found in the
superintendent's room, almost burned
to crisp. The old man had been killed
by burglars, who, aferr saturating the
place with kerosens, set ii on fire.
Large pools of blood stopped the flames
J. H. SoUIER, a Washington banker,
cut his throat on the 11th. He was
financially embarrassed.
The keeper of a boarding house at
Cairo, Ill, named Mahoney, suicided
on the 10th inst, for some unknown
cause.
A POLICEMAN named Fowler was shot
dead in Washington on the 9Th by q
colored member of the chain gang
named Langster.
4 MILWAUKEE butcher, named Jacob
| Buehler, hanged himself on the 10th
| inst.
OK the 9th inst, Matt. Orton was ar
rested at Arkansas City, Ark, charged
with causing the fire of the previous
| day. Immediately after his arrest he
was taken by mob and lynched.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
Western HOmespun.

It is no use, says the Boston Tran
script, for an Eastern man to try to tell
a big story when there is Western
man about. when l was young
man, said Col. B., "we lived in Illinois.
The farm had been well wooded, and
the stumps were pretty thick. But we
put the corn in among them and man
aged to raise fair crop. The next sea-
son I did my share of the plowing. We
had 'sulky' plough, and sat in the
seat and managed the horses, four as
handsome bays as ever a man drew rein
over. One day l found a stump right In
my way. / hated to back out, so just
said word to the team, and, il you'll
believe it, they just walked that plow
right through that stump as though it
had been cheese" Not a soul expressed
surprise. But Maj. S. who had been
a quiet listener, remarked quietly ITS
curious, but | had similar experience
myself once. My mother always made
our clothes in those days, as well as
the cloth they were made of. The old
lady was awful proud of her nomespun
said it was the strongest cloth III the
state. One day | had just plowed
through a white oak stump in the way
you speak of, colonel But it was a
little too quick for me. 1t came to-
gether before | was out of the way, and
nipped the seat OF my trousers, felt
mean, can tell you, but I put the
string on the ponies, and, If you believe
it, they just snaked that stump out,
roots and all. Something had to give,
Won know"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
SENATOR FDMUNDS.
The Defeat of the Democratic Party the
One Paramount Need.
burlington VT special.

burlington VT special
The most notable rally of the week in Yer
mont took place here to-day, in the City Hall,
which was packed to oyerflOwing The speak
ers were Congressman Horr, of Michigan, and
Congressman Stewart of Vermont Senator Ed
munds presided at the meeting, and spoke as
follows:
Gentlemen: thank you for the compliment
implied in selecting to preside on this inter
esting occasion. As you have come here to lis
ten 10 distinguished gentlemen who have not
the felicity OF residing in Burlington, and some
of them not even the comfort and safety OF liv-
ing in Vermont, the pole star of sound politics,
it would be both ungraCious and cruel IL me to
occupy the time that has been devoted to our
guests must say, however that a very close
study and observation of the professions and
practices of the Democratic party in Congress
and in the country, that the generous conf
dence of my fellow-citizens has enabled me to
make for long period, has demonstrated to my
mind that the safety and welfare OF the people
of the United States continue to demand
its exclusion from power. Whatever doubts or
difficulties may embarrass our countrymeu,
here or elsewhere in the United States, IL seems
to me that in the present attitude of political
affairs the defeat of the Democratic party is
need fairly paramount to any other. | recog-
nize fully the liberty OF belief. of opinion, and
of action that belongs 10 citizenship. 1t is
fundamental part of our creed, and none of US
ca fail to feel the great responsi hility that
suits from that freedom. Under such response
biltty, and looking at every aspect of the public
veal the people of the State of Vermont are
again to express their opinions of the princi-
pies, the methods, and the purposes of the Dem
ocTatic party. II has been wrong tor more than
a quarter of a century. and, fear, will continue
so for a long time to come. In the recent peri
ods. when ii had control of one or the other of
the houses Of Congress- il demonstrated its un-
fitness for government in respect TO nearly all
the important measures it proposed or resisted,
and every succeeding year seems to decorate ii
with new folly. But must return to the duty
/ stated at the outset l have the pleasure OF
presenting to you Congressman Horr, OF Michi
gan.
The condition of Senator Edmunds private
business. and the i'll health of his family, have
consLired to retire him from publicity this sum-
mer He is at present closely engaged IN prep
aration for the trial of an important telephone
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
A Real Live Dragon.
From the London Evening News.l


If st. George We're to revisit the
earth. he would find his only enemy
ready to try issues with him in the far
north. The Swedish historian, DR..
Hytten Cavallias, solemnly assures the
world, through a paper which he has
read before the Stockholm Academy of
Sciences, that he is convinced that the
old draken or lindorn, our dragon of
legend, is not yet extinct. He bases
this fantastic belief upon the testimony
of twenty reports in which reputable
peasant farmers of the province of Sma-
land give evidence that they have seen
the monster with their own eyes, and in
some cases have come near to an actual
fight with him. On comparison of
their testimony it appears that the
modern dragon is from eighteen to
twenty feet in length; its body is about
the thickness of stout mans, its belly
yellow; it lives in rocky clefts and
always in the neighborhood of water, so
that it is probably amphibious. DR..
Cavallias regrets that he is not a suf-
ficiently competent zoologist to deter
mine as to the objective value of these
reports and he urges his co-academi-
clans not to reject the evidence on a
priori grounds, but to institute closer re-
searches. He offers, himself, consider
able sum for the production of the
dead corpus delicti. The Stockholm
Dagbladet learns that all the twenty
witnesses are credible and sober-mind-
ed men, but thinks that a fuller re-
search is more likely to enrich psyche
logical than geological science.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
FOREIGN.

THE British government has shipped
10000 pounds of dynamite to Egypt, to
be used in making the Nile navigable
for the Gordon relief party.
CHOLERA is making great strides in
Italy. The daily bulletin of the 18th,
reports 1,00O fresh cases and All deaths
in twenty-four hours. In Naples alone
there were 6S7 deaths in two days.
An unknown American gentleman
was killed by the cars at Nordman,
Prussian Saxony, on the 18th His
wife, who was present, went into con-
vulsions.
DISPATCHES from Hong Kong, China
of the 14th report frightful flood in
sections of Japan. The floods lasted
four days. Whole towns were covered
with water to depth of sixty feet. It
is believed that 10000 people lost their
lives.
A REPORT under date of the 18th
states that the crew of the Dutch ship
Nero, wrecked Oh the Island of Su-
matra, have at last been released from
slavery by the rajah of the province.
NJ. Jean Augustin, the eminent French
chemist is dead.
TYPHOID fever has broken out among
the English soldiers at Cairo, Egypt.
THE Earl of Dufferin has been ap-
pointed viceroy of India.
The trial of Maria Kaliushina, for
attempting to murder Col Katensby at
Odessa, was concluded on the 10th,
ending in a sentence to twenty years of
penal servitude.
CHOLERA advices Of the 10th report
LOCO cases in Naples, with 365 deaths
III twenty-four hours, making 1,1O0
deaths in the city thus far.
Two men were wounded on the En-
glish gunboat Zephyr, on the Sth inst,
by shots fired from the forts at Kin
Pal, China. The Zephyr was mistaken
for a French vessel.
CHINA's official declaration of war was
made public on the 9th inst.
A FAMINE is reported to be imminent
on the coast of Labrador.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
WISCONSIN SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1884,

MAHLoN RUNYoN, president of the col
lapsed bank at New Brunswick, N. j.,
committed suicide on the Sth inst, by
cutting his throat He was implicated
in the Irregularities of Hill, the cashier.
A depositor named arroll has also
ended his life, which makes three TRACE
dies growing out of the big steal.
In row between the Wilson and
Thomburg families, at the house of the
former, Ft. Wayne, Ind, on the 9th,
the heads of both families were fatally
hurt.
WILLIAM LYLE, reporter on the
Times, got into quarrel at Illinois Fair
grounds, Chicago, with George Griege,
an engineer on the North Western road,
on the Sth inst, the result of which was
the stabbing of the latter in such man
ner that he will die.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
Economy in an Imperial Household.
TFrom London Truth


Some particulars of the German EN-
peror's establishment at Gastein, show
that although the hotelkeepers have
nothing to complain of, yet the imperial
household is managed very economical
ly. Of the fifty-four rooms occupied
by the Emperor and his suite, thirty
four are at the Badeschloss, ten at
Straublinger's, and ten at the Schwaig-
erhaus. For these fifty-four rooms the
court treasury pays the sum of f166
lbs 4d week. Besides early breakfast,
the Emperor takes two meals-dejeuner
at eleven or twelve, dinner between
five and six, to which some ten or
twelve people are generally invited.
The menu consists of soup, fish, two en-
trees, roti. pudding, confectionery, and
fruit. For this dinner the landlord is
paid II forins cover without wine.
The imperial menage brings the wine
for the Emperor's own use from Berlin.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20

three died from the disease while on
the voyage from Cuba.
A STEAMER arrived in New York on
the 10th inst, with 500 Mormon con-
verts on board for Utah.
The directors of the collapsed Ma
tional Bank of New Brunswick, \. j.,
have officially announced that the bank
will resume business, and that every one
will be paid in full.
UPPER crust society in New York
was thrown into commissions on the 9th
by the announcement that Miss Victo-
ria, Oldest daughter of Count" Morosini,
had eloped with Ernest J. Smelling,
her fathers coachman.
OVER 10000 children attended the
Illinois state fair at Chicago on the 9th
inst.
FREDERICK G.. LINTz, a prominent
citizen of Sheboygan, Wis, was found
dead in bed on the morning of the 9th
inst. Heart disease.
THE fourteenth anniversary of the
Knights of Pythias in Wisconsin was
celebrated at Milwaukee on the 9th by
a parade and banquet.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
GENERAL.

AT Bridgeport, W. Va, on the night
of the 18th a band of masked men de
molished the only saloon in the place,
throwing the liquors into the street.
The failures in the United States and
Canada, for the week ending on the
18th number 800.
The firm OF Stafford & Co., of Fall
River and Providence, failed on the
18th. The firm owned large number
of cotton mills, and owed about
S400, 600.
THE Germania Iron Manufacturing
Company of Ashland, Wis, was in
porated On the 11th, with 100000
ital.
THE heat in New York on the 10th
was the cause of nine deaths in Belle
vue Hospital.
THE bark Anita Owen arrived at the
New York quara ntine station on the
1lth, with yellow fever on board. The
entire crew, with the exception ot
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
$500 A YEAR.

less on the field. He was taken prison
er and confined in Libby Prison and at
Tuscaloosa, Ala, the whole period of
imprisonment being ngtwenty-two months.
The bullet still remained in his head.
No effort was ever made to remove it.
A few days ago, while at work ON his
hands and knees in his coal-bin, his
right nasal cavity became obstructed, as
he supposed by particle of coal. He
closed the left nostril, and blowing hard
several times, was delighted to find in
his handkerchief the bullet which he
had carried in his head for more than
twenty three years. A collector of curl
osities offered him $3.50 for it, but he
refused the offer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
TawhaiO and Irving Bishop.
From London Truth J

fTNn IpuuDl lfutb.l
A truly remarkable story is told in
the French papers of King Tawhaio and
the enterprislng Irving Bishop. The
king was requested to think of an article,
and he selected a mother-of-pearl but
ton, which he proceeded to hide in the
presence of his attendants, but during
the absence of Bishop. Bishop then re-
turned to the room, and, taking the
hand of one OF Tawhaio's suite, en-
deavored TO discover where the article
was concealed. After considerable
trouble he announced that it was hidden
in the Kings mouth but this Tawhaio
stoutly denied. Bishop insisted tnat it
was there, but the King presently sub
mitted to have his mouth opened and
investigated. The button was not there
for the dusky monarch, rather than be
defeated, had swallowed it
THIS is to be the great cider year in
Pennsylvapie,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
He Blew a Rebel Bullet From His Nose.

The Jersey City Evening Journal
published lately an interesting story
about one of its carriers, Bushrod
Vaughn, now living in Greenville. At
the outbreak OF the Rebellion MIR.
Vaughn belonged to Company d. Sew
enty-first n. Y. S. NJ In the first battle
of Bull Run he received bullet wound
below the left eve, and wss left sense
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20

A VERY pretty lambrequin for shelf
is made OF dark felt, with squares of
plush or of velvet put on at regular in
tervals On the edge, which is straight,
brass crescents are placed with small
tassels tied into them. This shelf can
be still further ornamented by placing
on it three japanese mats with half of
the round mat on the shelf and half
hanging over. Put one mat on each
end and one in the center.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
EVEN TN9,
CONNECTIONS

AT GREEN BAY-With Chicago & Y. W. R'y
to and from OCONTO. MARINETTE, NIENOM-
INEE, CRYSTAL FALLS, FLOIENCE, ESCA-
NABA, NEGAUNEE, ISHPEMING, MAR
QUETTE, HOUGHrON. L'ANSE, and all
points in the iron and copper region, also AP
PLETON. MENASHA, NEENAH, OSHKOSH,
FOND DU LAC, MILWAUKEE,, CHICAGO
and all points south and east
With Milwaukee s. Northern Railway for MIL
WAUKEE and all points north and south on
that line.
AT NEW LOND0N-Wtth Milwaukee, Lake
Shore & Western Railway to and from al,
points on that road.
ATGRAND RAPIDS-with Wisconsin Division
OF the Chicago. Milwaukee s. st. Paul R'Y.
AT MERRILLAN-With Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis s. Omaha Railway to and from
EAU CLAIRE, CHIPPEWA FALLS, ME-
NOMONEE, Wis. HUDSON. SALTWATER,
ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS. and all points
beyond
AT WINONA AND LA CBOSSE-wlth G. b
n. w. R'y and c., NJ. s. St. P. R'y to and
from REDWING, HASTINGS, ST. PAUL
MINNEAPOLIS, and all points in MINNIE
sofa, DAKOTA, IOWA AND NEBRASKA
DURING season of navigation, with steamers
for all points NORTH and SOUTH on MISSIS-
SIPPI RIVER