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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-12-24

gan slide is now being built. This
slide is to be illuminated at night and
ice boating and horse racing will be
held on the lake. Snowshoe races are
to be introduced. Main street has al
ready been given up to coasting on
''traverse sleds."
She was beautiful young lady as
she rode up Beacon street, past the
Congregational house in kind of dog
cart, with the reins in hand, and both
she and the young man by her side
looked as happy as happy could be.
The same lap robe protected them both
frsm the cold, and they sat as close as
any loving couple, but we don't think
they were engaged, for he was her at
tendant, and colored. But if young
ladies can tolerate cOlored servant in
such close contact, why may not edu-
Gated, well-behaved and well-dressed
cOlOred people be tolerated in your
pew and other public places, whether
North or South, and no fuss made
about itq-[Boston Congregationalist
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Harvard glee club gave a con-
cert Friday night in Portland, and af
terward paraded the streets singing.
One of the boys whose name is not
given, insultingly addressed a young
woman on the sidewalk, who was
walking with another woman and a
man named Swain. Swain took the
woman to a safe place, and with a
heavy club walked up to the young
man and felled him with terrible
blow on the head. The boy was knock
ed senseless, and had big cash cut in
his cheek. He was taken to Boston by
his companions. His wounds are not
fatal.
Mr.. Moody is meeting with success
in his work at Brooklyn. On Wednes
day evening he addressed an audience
of 1900 young men, in the hall of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
Mr.. Sankey is with him.
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ANECDOTE OF JOSH BILLINGS.

A story is told of the humorist being
thrown on one occasion among batch
of students i'm country town near
New Haven. He was tramping along
with arusty yellow dog, and entered
freshments. A group of the Yale lads
Glanced to be there on q frOlic, and
Immediately interviewed Billings,
whom they evidently mistOOk for a
farmer. They inquired with affected
interest after the health of his wife
and children, and Josh, with counter
feited simplicity, gave them a graphic
account of his family and farm.
"Of course you belong to the
church 7" asked one of the boys.
eyes, the Lord be praised, and my
father and grandfather before me-"
"Now, l suppose yen would not tell
a lie," said one of the students.
"NOt for the world"
"What will you take for that dog -
pointing to JOsh's cur, which was
crouching beneath his chair"
81 won't take $40 for that dog"
"Twenty dollars Why, he's not
worth twenty cents"
81 assure you L would not take $40
for him."
"COme, my FRIEND" said the student,
who, with his companions, was bent
on having some fun with the old man.
"NOw, you say you won't tell lie for
the world. Let me see if you will not
do it for $50. Pll give you $40 for
your dog"
''I'll not take it,"
"You will not 7 Here let me see if
this will not tempt you to lie," added
the student, producing small bag of
half-dOllars, which he built up into
small piles OH the table. Josh was
sitting by the table with his hat in
his hand, apparently uneoncerned.
"There," added the student, "there
are $40, all in silver; l will give you
that for the animal" Josh quietly
raised his hat to the edge of the table,
and ,as.quick as thought, scraped all the
money into it except one half-dOllar,
and then exclaimed
81 won't take your $40. Nineteen
and half is as much as that dog is
worth he is your property !"
A tremendous shout from his fellow
students clearly showed the would be
wag that he was completely sold, and
that he need not look for sympathy
from that quarter, SO he good natured-
ly acknowledged himself beaten.
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her life, ssYou may bring me "a hun

her life, "You may bring me hun
dred." Il
She noticed on replying, that sur
prised expression covered the face of
the servant, about which she only mem
tally questioned, and took up foreign
paper while the man was leaving the
room.
Some time passed, the lady wonder
ing at the delay, when knock came
at the door and in walked five men
bearing trays half filed with plates
containing oysters on the half shell,
lemons, crackers, water, napkins, etc.
A single glance at the first tray ex-
planned to the lady the surprise she had
noticed on the face of the servant who
had answered the bell but not ques-
ton was asked nor word spoken.
The plates, glasses, ETC., were arrang-
ed OH the various tables i'm the room,
and the lady was left alone with her
feast.
She realized that she had inviting
ly played a joke on herself, which she
determined no one i'm the hotel should
know. Her feast ended, and she won
dered how in the world she cOuld dis
pose of the dozens of oysters left there
untouched. In moment more she
opened the window and one by one,
took the oysters at the end of her fork
and threw them out as far as she
could in all directions, till each shell
was emptied. Another knock was
heard and answered. The walters
again entered, found the lady alone at
the table, reading as before, and not a
vestige of an oyster in sight. The
look of surprise which met the lady as
she glanced at the faces of the servants
was ample compensation in every re-
spect for the mistake she had made.
She has often told the story since, and
assures her friends that she can never
forget nor cease to enjoy her first feast
of New York oysters.
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PEARLS AND PEARL FISHING.

M. G.. BouchOn- Brandeley has pub
lished some interesting details respect
ing the pearl fisheries of Tahiti, which
he has been officially Investigating at
the request of the French government.
France possesses, he says, in the arch
ipelagO of Tuamotu the vastest pearl
fishery in the world. OF its eighty is
lands all but four or. five yield pearls
He points out the curious fact that,
while the locality. is a French depen-
dency, the harvest of the pearl fishery
goes chiefly to America, Germany and
England, to be bought again by the
French jewelers., who are credited
with using the greatest and finest part
of the pearls that come to the markets
of Europe. This is said to be even
truer with respect to nacre, or mother
Of-pearl, which is chiefly employed in
the manufactures of France and chiefly
bought in England. The best mother
of-pearl is said to come from Tahiti,
and the consumption has been so large
that the banks are diminishing and be-
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Mo SIlrnrise HerA.

Mr.. Edmunds's refusal to accept the
presidency of the senate does not sur
prise his Vermont friends who had pre-
viously been made acquainted with his
views on the subject. Before going OH
to Washington for the winter, the sen
atOr repeatedly said to these friends
that he did not wish the Office, and
that his place for the coming session
was on the floor of the senate, to look
after and advocate important public
measures, the charge of which he had
undertaken.- BrattlebOrO Phoenix.
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ARepublican President.

Comment on the Presidents mes
sage from all sources sums up in this
that it is an exceedingly good Repub-
lican document. The New York Trib-
une, which of late has dropped its pet
ty way of carping at everything that
the President says or does, APPLY says
of the message that it is much to the
Presidents credit that sit is best and
most worthy of commentator just
where his party is worst and it's in
fluence most to be feared."- Brattle-
bOrO Phenix.
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coming poorer. M. Bouchon- Brande-
ley thinks that this threatened extinc-
ton can be averted by judicious meth
DDS of oy ster- culture, and that the es-
adjustment of stations for that purpose
would render the Tahitan lagoons
more prosperous and productive in the
future than in the past. Pearl-diving
is the sole industry of the natives. and
it is an occupation in which the men,
women and children all Join. 1t is a
difficult and dangerous trade. and the
sharks sometimes kill and sometimes
horribly mutilate' the adventurous div
ers. Now and then a disaster of this
kind causes a panic and the fishers
strike work, but before the superior
force of hunger even terror gives way
and fishing is resumed. On other &C
counts diving is dangerous avocatiOn,
and frequently results in paralysis at a
certain-or rather uncertain-age. Nor
is the dangerous and disagreeable ma
ture of the calling made more endur-
able by ample gains. NJ. BouchOn-
Brandeley claims for the Tahitans the
distinction of being the best pearl div
ers in the world but five francs q day
is the usual remuneration paid to them
by the employers, and but few of the
divers are their own masters. After
the tolls of the day the divers open the
oysters they have gathered. The en-
ployers take care to be present at this
operation, for although the costume of
the diver is too rudimentary to admit
of pocket the pearl fisher has been
known to swallow the fruit of his ar
duous research. M. BouchOn- Brande
ley advocates government supervision
of the pearl fisheries, chiefly from a
desire to see it's profits more exclusive
ly in French hands. For the same rea-
son he calls for the establishment of a
pearl market in some French port, and
for the formation of a syndicate of the
great merchants of pearl and mother
Of pearl.
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FOR SALE.

Four nice Spring Pigs to dress about 2OOlbs each
at &C. dressed Nice Home Tried Lard at Toe. par.
ties TO furnish their own tubs. Also nice three
years old colt, and yoke of Devon twO-year old
postal at st. Johnsbury Centre, vt.
2ltf T. p ALLEN
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MORE MEN WANTED,

To energetic and successful statesmen we will
give steady work and good wages from November
until April. Enclose stamp and write for terms to
E. B. RICHARDSON s. CO, Ksnadesaga Nurseries
t25 Geneva, n. Y.
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EASY EXAMPLES

For the class of investors who own U. S. Bonds.
$1,000 4per cent bond sells to-day for S237 so The
income is $40 per year about % per cent. if held
until maturity
With the above can be procured, cash S37. so and
$1,000 in per cent. Secured Mortgage Bonds yield
ing SS4 income per year. 80 ~
Holders of U. s. Bonds should improve the pres
ent favorable market to secure the high premium
and invest in securities that provide for payment
of full amount invested.
Careful examination of Kansas per cent loans
is invited. Interest coupons payable semi annual
ly) are checks on New York Bank, on day of matu-
rty and can be cashed at any Bank or Store in the
United States. Government Bonds received at
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
in exchange for per cent Real Estate Bonds at
par Call send for circulars giving strong refer
ences. Write to some of them yourself.
WILLIAM s. STREETER.
St. Johnsbury. VT, Oct 26, 1885.
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DRY WOOD.

12 inch Maple, just right to burn in a Coal cook
stove.
16 inch Maple, for Cooking stove open Fire
Place.
1s inch Coarse, for large stove or Furnace.
Have just built New Wood Shed rear Depot
and can furnish wood at short notice If you don t
see me, order through any job Man you run across.
Parties ordering Onehalf or whole load will be
allowed so cents per cord discount
Also, Breeding Pen and triOs Rose Comb
White LeghOrns For Sale Cheap
1896 CHAS. s. Fl HASTINGS.
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MAKE HENS IA

1t is a well known fact that most of the Horse al
Cattle Powder sold i'll this country is WORTHLESS
that Sheridan's Condition Powder is absOutelypI'
and very valuable. Nothing On Earth Will Ma
Hens Lay like Sheridan's Condition Powder. Do
one teaspOOntul to each pint of food. Sold eve
where, or sent by mail for % cts in stamps. VI
furnish it in 2a Id. cans price 81. By mail 81 /
Six cans $500, express paid. Very valuable Giro
lars Free. ( IL dec 81
L S. JOHNSON & CO., BOSTON, MASSI
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AdministratorsJu Justice Writs

Justices Record in Criminal Cases and other
new blanks for lawyers justices andbusiness men,
at CALIFORNIAN OFFICE.
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A GOOD LINE
HOLIDAY
GOODS
RANDALL'S
DRUG STORE.
w z ARE
NOT GOING AWAY !
Neither do we advertise to
Sell Out every year.
BUT THIS WE Do.

ANCiClIOI uO VIC duf Cl IIoC W
Sell Out every year.
BUT THIS WE DO.
We sell goods as cheap as the
cheapest. We WANT MONEY
and will MATCH the prices of
ANY FIRM in St. Johnsbury.
Come and See what You can do.
Mems Pant, $1.00
Mems all wool pant, LIS
Mems Suits, S. and $S
Mems Overcoats, Sc and S.
Boys Suits, a .sHs 3 Pa sas 1880 & 81
Boys Long Pant, 75c and 85c
Boys Suit, knee pants,
$2.75, 800 $50
Boys Knee Pants,
45c, 75c, Soc and 81
Mems Scotch Caps, SOC
Boys Caps, - 25c
Mems Hats, soc, 75c, 81 81
Entire Stock at Bottom Prices
MOORE & HARVEY,
Railroad Street, st. Johnsbury. VT
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WANTED AT ONCE.

100 LIVE ENERGETIC MEN.
To introduce entirely invention. An ar
ticle of universal use in every house THE
HOUSEWIVES FRIEND" Address with stamp
at once to Z. l.. ROBERTS, General Agent for VT.
1928 Box All, Montpelier. Vt.
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HOrace's Gap, Jeff. Co.

The weather is decidedly summer
ish just now.
Mrs. B. F. Wageley is again going
about after tedious illness.
Mr.. John A. Wagely is happy, tax
ing care of his first daughter.
The 17-year locusts, or as some
Latin -tongued fellow calls them, the
cicoda, are beginning to make "the
air with music ring"
Mrs. Jacob v. Evans has been very
i'll with material fever, but is now
slowly convalescing. Dr. Jas. Logic
is her attending physician.
The cut-worms are getting entirely
too intimate with the young corn,
and some of our young men have
been on rather too familiar terms
with the old corn. Sock.
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Considerable uneasiness, SAYS the
Baltimore american, is felt in some
of our rural neighborhoods at the
appearance of the seventeen-year To-
Gusts. There is something mysteri-
Gus in the sudden swarms of these
creatures at intervals of seventeen
years, each bearing on his wings the
mysterious w, which superstition
calls a sign of war. They came in
1885, again in 1851, again in 1858,
and now again they are due. In
1851 the credulous said that the w
predicted the Crimean war, in 1868
the Franco-Prussian war. The wings
show w in one direction and an NJ
on the other wing. Accordingly,
we have the war in Madagascar, in
Manitoba, the war with the Mahdi-
each one of which has an M in it.
The ingenious may twist out a num-
Der of other condolences like these.
Yet these mysterious insect visi-
tors are not the true locusts, but are
harvest flies of less destructive hab-
its. They do not devour vegetation,
for the strange reason that they have
little or no digestive organs. They
do all their eating while in the grub
or larvae state under ground, sucking
the juices of the roots of plants and
trees. When they come above ground
cast off their grub skin and appear
as complete insects, their sole Office
in life is to perpetuate their species.
The males live buta short while, the
females only so long as to enable
them to deposit their eggs. The in
jury that is done to trees is by the
deposit of the eggs in little notches
which the female cuts in the tender
twigs. These twigs die, and after
hanging dead on the trees for while
drop off, and the young larvae gets
safely in the ground, where he lives
for his long term of years. The lar
vac are destroyed in vast numbers by
ants and by insectivorous birds.
The visitation, therefore, is not a
very serious one. 1t is not like the
cut-worm or the army-worm or the
grasshoppers. They do not ordina-
rily injure the crops materially. The
damage they do to the trees is very
like pruning, and the trees are dis
figured for while by dead twigs,
but not permanently injured.
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Murdered by Chicken Thieves

Monday morning about o'clock
Mr.. Daniel Hollinger and his son
John, residing about three miles east
of Waynesboro, Franklin county,
were awakened by noise in the di-
rection of the barn which stood but
short distance from the house.
Aiming themselves, father and son
proceeded to the barn, the former
remaining upon the outside in front
of the building, and the son proceed
ing to investigate the source Of the
noise. He advanced but short dis
lance in the darkness when he was
shot twice through the body, one of
the balls entering his heart and re-
sulting in instant death. An alarm
was given and further search made,
but his murderers were not detected.
1t is supposed that party of chick
en- thieves were in the barn and that
John Hollinger identified them. He
discharged one load from his revol-
yer at the unknown murderers. A
jury of inquest was held and q ver-
dict of murder rendered, in accor-
dance with the facts as they could
be learned. Deceased was single
man, twenty-seven years of age. He
was held in high esteem by large
circle of acquaintance. The affair
created considerable commotion in
Waynesboro on Monday and great
efforts will be made to bring the
murderers to justice.-Hagerstoacn
Globe.
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pleted The last pension appropriation bin
contains a clause which will reduce the
force for the next fiscal year about one hum
dred and fifty.
The two night doorkeepers at tho execu-
tive mansion were dismissed and MessrA
Hyer, OF Albany, N. Y, and Justin, Of
Buffalo, N. n, appointed in their places
WASHINGTON, June 3.--The postmaster
general appointed postmasters as follows:
David J. Eastbarn, Fowler, Ind, vice George
w. Mellish resigned; John L. Excl, Clear
Lake, Wis, vice A. d. Eldridge resigned; G.
Peoples, Maysville, KY, vice NJ. G. Hutch
ins resigned.
WASHINGTON, June c.--The president has
appointed Judge Isaac r. Maynard, Of New
York, TO be second comptroller Of the treas
ury, to succeed Mr. Upton, resigned. Mr.
r. O. Graves has assumed charge Of tho
bureau Of engraving and printing, and
Cashier Whilpley has taken charge Of the :
office OF the assistant
WASHINGTON, june 2.--The president has
appointed Robert A. Howard, of Arkansas
to be assistant attorney general
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r. W. REYNOLDS SUICIDES.
The Late Ex-Auditor Of the Treasury Kills
Himself in st. Louis.

The Late Ex-Auditor Of the Treasury Kills
Himself in st. Louis.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, June 3.-R NJ Reynolds,
late first auditor Of the United States treas
ury, has killed himself at the Southern
Hotel Mr.. Reynolds either jumped or fell
over the railing on the third story. into the
air shaft. He struck the marble floor Of the
rotunda with a crash that was heard all over
the hotel He was picked up quite dead by
the front Office clerk. His skull was frac-
tured and one of his legs was shattered.
A visit was made to Reynolds room and
disclosed the fact that it was full Of gas, al
though the stop-cock was turned, hence the
theory is held in the hotel that it must be
suicide and that after the failure to asphyx-
late himself he took the terrible dive to the
marble floor below.
Mr.. Reynolds had made a careful toilet
He has been in st. Louis since Saturday
stopping with G. H. Albers, but left that
gentleman's house and put up at the hotel
He was in excellent spirits when last seen
alive and no motive can be suggested for his
lf-killing. He was on his way to Kansas
to buy lands. He left the United States
treasury only a couple Of weeks ago. He
was about sixty years of age and fine look
ing, healthy man.
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Hedgesvi1le.

Arrivals, Miss Leila Slyer, Wash
ington, D. c.; Mrs. Emma Speck,
Springfield, O.; Mrs. Downey, G. H.
Wolfes and Lewis Dugan, of Martins
burg; Mrs. Kymes, Shepherdstown.
DIR. T. J. Harley, an old and re
spected citizen Of this village, has
been long suffering from heart disease
with little improvement.
The public schools, after a prolong-
ed session of arduous work for the
attendants have all closed.
Mr.. James T. Slaughter has in
course of erection new residence on
the old site, which will add much to
the appearance of that portion of the
city.
A jeweler from Hancock is doing
thriving business in our midst in
the general repair of watches, clocks,
chronometers, etc.
A large increase to our population
is expected with the opening of the
Episcopal strawberry festival, which
begins on the evening of the 18th
inst.
Rev. J. r. Pardew, Of the M. e.
church, is absent on the summer va
cation visiting his parents, who reside
in Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday evening last, of consul
mption, Mr.. Samuel Pitzer, interment
in Hedgesville cemetery.
The community Landed his moral
worth and religious zeal during life,
and we trust that his triumphant
death may ever heighten our aspira-
tions and enlighten the song of our
pilgrimage until the rays of hope,
which gid the distant horizon, shall
have melted into the glory of perfect
day; and the joys which now thrill
our hearts have swelled into the rap
lures of the redeemed, and the glor-
ious shout echo through the eternal
palace-Home.
For who would live Away, away from
his God;
Away from yon heaven that blissful
abode,
Where the rivers of pleasure flow Ger
the bright plains,
And the noontide of glory eternally
reigns!
Where the saints of all ages in harmony
meet
Their Savior and brethren transported to
greet,
While the anthems of rapture unceasing-
lyroll,
And the smile OF the Loid is the feast of
the soul. REPORTERS
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Glengary Items.

Well, who is "Greeny," any how ?
is a question that we hear frequently.
Gentlemen, that is just what we
would like to know. We are not
prepared to answer that question our
g Ives.
Corn is starting finely, but the fes-
tive cut worms are going for it.
The cut-worms are not nearly so bad
here as they are just on the other
side of the mountain. Over there a
gentleman found Is cut-worms
around one cabbage plant, and lady
found 80 of the varments about a
single polk stalk. We can't COM
pete with any such results. Our
soil is not productive enough.
GREENY.
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Miss Sallie Trussell is visiting her
grandparents.
The gardens look nice and green
since the recent rain.
Miss Fannie Burns, from Mt. Zion,
paid us a short visit last week.
Mrs. Betsy Strider, who is quite an
old lady, was visiting Mrs. Chas.
Payne last week.
The roads have been very much
improved by last weeks working, un-
der Mr.. G. o. Payne the new super
visor.
Several of the Darkesville boys at
tended the Festival on Saturday
night, and from all appearances they
were terribly mashed"
Miss Matte Kyner returned home
from Shippensburg last Saturday,
where she has been for the past nine
months attending school. VALE.
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and the foolish distinction of class
in society is more distinctly drawn
and would be aristocratic manner of
exclusiveness witnessed, than in any
community with which am famil-
lar / report one male dismissed
cured, one female dismissed on Bond,
no admissions and no deaths Num-
Der under treatment 675. General
health good and many improving
mentally. Fine rains during past
week and Vegetation growing rapid
ly p. G..