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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-02-28
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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-02-28

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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-02-28

Alaska is larger than all the
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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-02-28

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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-02-28
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE Of MAILS

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and p m.
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Az mails close 30 minutes before departure.
registered letters and packages should DO
presented cue hcur before departure Of mails.
Omoe open on Sundays from : 70 10 n. IN
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
Meade of COpiah.

Meade, the Mississippi murderer,
whose appointment as postmaster ut
Hazlehurst President Cleveland revOk-
ed, is justifying the presidents action
by attempting to justify his own course
at the time ''Print" Matthews was shot
down at the polls because he dared go
aud vote as he believed to be right.
Meade admits that he rode at the head
of the brass band which led the seven
ty-hve armed men who came into town
to intimidate all who dared vote any
thing but the democratic ticket. He
also defends the resolutions passed,
one at which expressly stated that Gin
the opinion of this meeting it is nee
essary to the safety of society O. and
the welfare of all races and classes in
this country that the Matthews family
keep out of politics in Copiah county"
It should he to President Cleveland's
credit that he bounced this murderous
rulfian. 1t would be lasting disgrace
to have such a man in the government
employ.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

great trees rolling and tumbling like so
many jackstraws, while rocks of many
tons in weight were pitching about like
pebbles. As one now stands by the
remains of the Stanley house the tor
tuOus course of the slide Is seen to the
mountains summit, DETECTED from a
straight line by the conformation of
the declivity. Itlooks like the trail of
a huge serpent, deeply cut in places
and again broadly spread. Its course
was through dense forest of heavy
timber, and on each side and around ut
our feet are scattered the giants of the
forest, stripped, broken and covered
with mud, transformed in an instant
from the leaf-crowned beauty of this
morning to these black and shapeless
logs. The bottom of the slide is about
mile from jefferson railway station
the whole slide is of course visible
across the valley from Jefferson Hill,
and several persons there saw it come
down, while its roar was heard for
miles" Thousands of people have
visited the scene of the slide, and il
will probably be a great attraction
during the season.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
The Press Mems Meeting.

Some incidents aud features of the
annual meeting of the members of the
Vermont press, fully reported else
where, deserve especial mention. With
out any obligation, and without any
expectation SO far as many were con-
cerned. the members of the craft at
Brattleboro planned and carried out a
royal entertainment. In this they were
heartily seconded by leading citizens
of the place, who took honest pride in
showing visitors their beautiful town
with its famous educational and hu-
name institutions. The local crafts
men were also fortunate i'll having an
old newspaper man among them who
could preside with such dignity and
grace as did the Hon. b. d. Harris.
1t could not have escaped the notice
of most of the association gathered at
Brattleboro, how much such an excel
lent and well-equipped hotel rs the
Brooks House adds to town. Mr..
Brooks made fortune and then came
back to bis native town and invested
$50, 900 in this hotel. 1t is a mOnu-
ment to his generosity which all the
travelling world can see and appre-
ciate. Nor is Mr. Brooks the only ben
efactor in BrattlebOre. Mr.. Geo. h..
CrOwell, the modest man and publish
er of that excellent paper, the House
Ill haS
his own town without stint. May he
find many imitatOrs, not only in the
clean and pure paper he prints, but in
his public benefactiOns.
Passing from BrattIebOro to Block
Island, the men of the press found IA
home for a day and night in an ele-
CANT hotel-the Ocean Niew-on II most
charming spot. Here too nothing was
left undOne for their comfort and pleas
ure. 1t is quaint old town and has
much of especial interest to landsmen.
1t was here that some of the party
found Mr.. Andrew K. Elliot, Il former
student at the st. JOhnsbury academy.
Mr.. Elliot is superintendent of some
government work now going on at the
island. At the present time he is ex-
tending the breakwater, large and
important work, and one for which he
is especially fitted.
One little incident of the trip left a
regret. The association invited and
expected Governor Pingree as one of
its guests. The governor was down
by the sea taking little rest and when
the company were to be at Block Is
land, as he supposed, he went thither
only to find himself alone, full week
before the rest of the excursiOnists. In
order partially to atone for this mis-
take the governor by invitation joined
the Massachusetts press excursion last
Saturday to Martha's Vineyard, which
was perhaps the next best thing to be-
ing with the Vermont editors.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
The Story of the Dolphin.

On July %, 1888, Messrs. John
Roach Il Son contracted TO build for
our government the dispatch boat
Dolphin. One of the first duties of the
present secretary of the navy, Mr..
Whitney, was to examine the newly
made boat To see whether the terms of
the contract had been complied with.
The committee appointed by the sec
Rotary, after repeated trials with the
boat, and under the most favorable
circumstances, reported that she lack
eel the required speed, fifteen knots
per hour, and was faulty in cOnstruc-
ton. This Immediately raised the
question whether the government was
obliged To accept the boat. or whether
the blame did not fall on the builders
as failing to keep up to their specified
contract. To decide the matter Mr..
Whitney appealed tn the attorney gen
eral, Mr.. Garland, and he has Just de-
eided that the government is not oblig-
ed to accept a boat that failed to at
tain its promised speed and is faulty
both IN specifications aud building.
In reply tO the report of the examin-
ing committee, Mr.. john Roach claim
cd that the contract mentioned no
speed aud he followed ont explicitly
the specifications of the naval advisory
board, and was responsible only for
the quality of the material and the
character of the work. Whether this
be true or not, it is amusing to see the
eX-secretary of the navy, Mr.. Chand-
Ter, "bObbing up sereneiy" in defense
Of Mr. Roach, and inslnuating that
Mr.. Whitney's dissatisfaction with the
boat has political significance.
The facts brought to light in this in
terestihg case show very cORclusively
that our government came very near
buying disabled ship, which like
most of the ships of orr navy, spend
more time in the docks being repaired
and rebuilt than in active service. III
Mr.. Roach abides by the decision of
the attorney general and keeps the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
PeachaDn.

Rev. Annie Fl. Shaw lectured in the
town hall Tuesday evening subject,
Woman Suffrage. The lecture was
lightly attended but was pronounced
fine by those who went in spite of the
rain.
Geo. Sanborn returned Friday from
his North Carolina home.
The literary entertainment Friday
evening was very good, but was dis
turbed by some young fellows outside
who had imbibed too freely.
Summer boarders are beginning to
arrive "frome We crowded cityes."
Mrs. F. d. Bliss left Tuesday morn
ing for Massachusetts to spend a few
weeks with friends.
Stoddard Martin left Monday morn
ing for his home in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Janet Bachop Gilfillan died at
her residence ut Peacham Hollow on
Thursday, July Q. Janet Bachop was
born in Barnet JAN, 1908, afterwards
removed to Ryegate, where she was
married to Robert Gilfillan in 1925.
Removed again to the Thaddeus Stew
ems place in Peacham and next to
the Hollow. She was attended during
her sickness by her only son, Hon. j.
b. Glfillan, NJ. c., of Minneapolis,
MINI. She was buried on Friday at
the Barnet Centre church-yard, of
which church she had long been II
member.
York, the Marshfield policeman, was
here last Monday by Deputy
Brown. He was taken on his way be
twaan hare and MarShfiald
A. b. Farnum 81 Son are doing
greater amount of carriage work than
ever before. They are live and en-
terprising firm and we are glad to note
their prosperity.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
The Bad Barlow.

The Burlington Free press says that
a meeting of bank officials was held in
that city on Friday as result of the
connection created by tile cOmptroller's
recent instructions to Receiver Hendee
To bring suits against delinquent stock
holders of the Vermont National Bank.
of ST. Adams. The institutions inter
ested are the National banks of St.
Johnsbury, Passumpsic savings bank,
National bank of Nergennes, the First
National bank of Brandon, the Nation
al bank Of Middlebury, and the Bel
lows Falls savings institution. The
banks, upon receiving notice of the ac-
ton of the comptroller of currency.
exhibited a strong tendency 10 resist
the collection of the assessment, and
this meeting was held to decide the
question whether such resistance
should be made. Among those present
were Hon. l.. Z. Poland, of the First
National, of St. JOhnsbury; w. S.
Streeter, of the Merchants National of
st. Johnsbuiy y. y. Fletcher, of the
National of Middlebury c. r. Sprague,
of the First National of Brandon, and
George |. Briggs, of the First National
of Brandon: Hon. Stewart l.. Wood
ford of Brooklyn, attorney for the
banks, was also present ut the confer
euce. which was held in one of the
back parl0rs of the Van Ness House
AS would naturally be expected, great
reticence was maintained by TIE mem
bers of the conference at its conclusion
rs TO what action had been taken, bnt
it leaked out that it had been deter
mined to resist the enforcement of the
assessment. -.
1t will be remembered that the stock
held by these banks was transferred to
them by Bradley Barlow as collateral
security for the loans effected by him
to carry on his Canadian railroad enter
prise. The stock is held as follows {:
st, Albans Trust company, $50 shares :;
First National bank, St J0bnsbury,
300 shares Merchants National, St.
JOhnshury, 300 shares; National bank
of Vergennes, First National Of Bran
don, National bank of Middlebury,
Baxter National of Rutland and the
Bellows Falls Savings Institution, 100
shares each Passumpsic Savings bank,
St. Johnsbury, $50 shares. The estate
of Horace Stewart holds 200 shares as
collateral security for money loaned,
but it is claimed the transfer of these
shares was never perfected, and that
the estate is not liable for any assess
ments levied. A. .. Brainerd also
holds $50 shares of stock. The above
named banks and individuals, includ-
ing the Stewart estate, hold 1880 shares
out of II total of 1000 shares of stock,
the balance, consisting of 40 shares,
being held by several parties in small
blocks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
Greensboro.

Jacob Lovejoy has had very poor
health since the first of spring. He
spent some weeks with sister in
Hartland hoping change would be
beneficial but there is little improve
ment.
City boarders are here to enjoy our
hill town and lake scenery.-W. Goss
and c. Baker are taking hoarders.
Misses LOvejoy and Goodrich have
gone to the White Mountains and Miss
Addie Melvin to Mt. Mansfield house
to tlO table work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
McIndoes Falls.

On Thursday of last week this viii
lage was visited by the severest gale
known for many years. Que tree was
blown down in [. NJ. Smiths yard, one
front of the Finly house, two i'll w. IL.
Gilchrist's yard, and three apple trees
at Mr.. Mason's. Mr.. Humans barn
was moved six inches from its founda-
tons. DIR. Gleason's barn on the
Island was moved bodily some seven
feet north and nearly broken in two.
E. H. Stone of St. Johnsbury has the
job of putting it to rights.
Tom Stapeton was taken Tuesday
afternoon with bilious fever and
threatened with pneumonia.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
Walden.

On the third page of this paper is ii
historical sketch of this town, which
will be found of interest.
Enoch Osgood is building new
shed. g. T. Eastman has shingled one
side of Iris barn.
The hay crop will he better than
was expected before the rain, as. large
a yield perhaps as in common years in
this locality.
Mrs. A. f. Dutton recently had sew
eral large wens removed from her
head, the successful operation being
performed by DR.. Wiswall of Cabot.
Ia the severe gale aud shower of
Thursday last, Geo. Stevens hOuse was
struck by lightning, passing down the
chimney and thence outward through
the parlor without mjuring the in.
mates. ......-. go.
Mrs. Chamberlain arrived last week
from Haverhill, Mass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
RYegate.

One side of the roof of Harvey
Brooks barn was blown away last
Thursday, also II moving machine
pole broken. Doors were blown off at
NJ. H. Gibson's and other damage done.
The hay crop is to be much better
than was anticipated. Sam Gleason,
foreman at Beattie's place, says they
will have at least 80 tons more hay
than they eXDected.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
Monroe.

No particular damage was done at
Monroe plain by the storm of Thurs
day. Ed. Emery's barn on one OF the
Islands at the upper part of the town
was blown down. At Nathan Bottoms
about one third of one side of the barn
roof was stripped completely off. Mrs.
SherbOrn Lang had just hung ont a
large washing and before she could
get to it the lines were completely
stripped and the clothing lay in the
road covered with mud. Damage was
also done to some buildings in the
south part of the town.
Newton Lang is slowly but steadily
improving.
Chas. Smiths little boy had mar
row escape from death by cramp sun
day evening. Wet feet from playing
in the river was the cause.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

Dolphin, and refunds all the money ne
has received in the process of her con-
struction, there is a very fair prospect
of having in the near future the nucleus
of navy which shall neither be the
laughing stock of other nations nor
disgrace to orr own government.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
Wells River

Mr.. Joy started for New York on
Friday last. He is fearful that he has
a cancer and goes to consult physi-
clan there.
The remains of the Rev. John Chal-
mers were brought back to this his ma
ciated at the services Mr.. Chalmers
eyinced great energy in his early
struggle for an education, and many
hearts are saddened that one who
could and would work SO well should
be SO soon cut off.
Miss Maggie Leslie has returned from
Boston, where she has been taking les
sons in vocal music.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

Some of the alleged republican news
papers are still dividing their energies
between making up faces at President
Cleveland's sister and abusing st.
John. Such dlivel as the following
from the Cincinnati Commercial, once
a leading republican newspaper, re-
coils ON the paper rs well us the party
for which it speaks: "The fraud st.
John is one of the haIf-dozen cranks
and hoodlums, fools aud spite workers
and blatherOus lunkheads who feel
that they are of Importance because
their INSCRIPTIONS and unseemly COM
bination defeated Blaine
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

The Pail Mall Gazette, a leading
London newspaper, made intense ex-
citement last week by publishing facts
gathered after careful investigation,
showing alarming moral rOrteDness in
English society, the accusations in
volving the nobility and aristocracy of
the land. The sale of the paper was
forbidden, but that only tended to in-
crease its sales.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
4th Of JULY

And every other day you will
find me at home and ready and
willing to sell you a good bill
of goods for as little money as
anyone in Vermont. Come
and get your aying tools, Paris
green, fruit cans, and
OTHER SEAS0RABLE GOODS.
as well as the 1901 other arti-
Giles which are always in season
My store is filed with goods
and everything will be sold at
lowest living price and salts
faction guaranteed every time
or money will be refunded.
What Can BE Fairer ?
intend always to keep on
hand a good assortment of
everything needed to eat, drink
or wear and invite everybody
to call and see goods, compare
myprices with others and then
buy where you can buy cheap
est, quality considered. Call
or write for prices on anything
you may need. Thanking all
my customers for their liberal
patronage thus far remain,
YOURS TRULY,
E. E. WOODS.
Passumpsic VT.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

An unusually hearty observance OF
the Fourth in the Southern states is
noted this year. The Southern papers
say that after the war little disposition
was shown to celebrate, but since 1876
the old feeling has been gradually re-
turning, and it was Cleveland's cleo
ton that finally set the patriotic flame
ahlaZe.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

Gen. Grant unexpectedly recovered
the nse of his voice last Sunday, to the
delight of his friends, but it is not
thought this indicates any permanent
Improvement in his case. No other
remarkable change is reported in his
condition the past week. On Friday
he had AN affecting interview with ex-
Confederate General 5. b. Buckner, his
fellow-student ut West Point, and who
was captured by Grant at Fort Donel-
son.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
General News.
THE HAY CROP.

The Boston Journal has been tignr-
ing out the hay crop prospects IN
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
The outlook is generally unfavorable.
Phe Vermont estimate is for crop
not exceeding $4,000 tons. or OO,O00
tons less than last year. The average
crop of the state since 1873 has been
4 100000. Winter killing, drought,
white grub, grasshoppers and white
daises have done the mischief. The
Maine estimate is for 963, 900 tons, a
loss of about fifteen per cent, as COM
pared with the largest crop; New
Hampshire, 40l 900 tons as against
Az 900 in 1884 and 63l 900 in 1888.
A SHOCKING DROWNING ACCIDENT.
AS the result of heavy wind and
rain storm on Lake MinnetOnka, near
Minneapolis. Mimi, last Sunday. the
steam pleasure yacht "Minnie Cook"
was capsized and ten lives lost, COM
prising all on board. These included
EN- Mayor Rand, aged 56, Mrs. Rand,
Mary Rand their daughter, Harvey
Rand their son, Frank Rand II nephew
j. Il. Caykendaie aged 81, Mrs. Cay
kendale, Katie Caykendale. Engineer
George Mcdonald and Robert Hussey
employed on the yacht.
WHOLESALE CHILD BURNING.
An Atlanta, Ca, despatch says that
Mrs. Susie. Williams, II widow, locked
her three children up while she went
to il field to work Monday. On her
return she found her house burned TO
the ground and nothing left of her
children but the charred remains A
similar case also occurred in Gwinnett
county, two children being burned to
death. In the state within the past
six months forty little ones lost their
lives in the same manner.
Fire at Belfast, Me-, Sunday morn
ing burned to death two men and 81
horses and badly injured a third man.
The pecuniary loss was about S50,000
A catamount WAS heard near the
TrenOr meadows the other day in
Wnodford, and shortly after two
year old steer was found to have been
quite devoured by the monster.
There is a rumor abroad that Frank
lin Fairbanks of St. JohnsburV and a
brother of the ex-governor proposes.
when the time comes, to enter the field
for the lieutenant governorship regard
less of Ide's aspirations for the same
place and notwithstanding the fact
that they both reside in St. Johnsbury
If the rumor, which appears to come
from a reliable source, has any fOunda-
ton in fact, and if Mr.. Fairbanks has
fully determined to compete for that
office. he will make a pretty formidable
candidate, while the ambition of some
others in that event will he summarily
disposed of. = BrattleborO letter in
Springfield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

The Montpelier Waterman and the
Argus are now busily engaged IN Civ
ing each other taffy. They are both
endeavoring to convince their readers
that the belligerent attitude they
have assumed that "knOck- chip
oif-my shoulder" - '..just step-Onmy-
ccat-taip' talk, which has filed their
columns for months, was all i'll play.
What their readers think about it has
not yet transpired.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

Alfred Cochran, farmer of Fairfax,
aged 81, while driving cows to pasture
early Monday morning, had varicose
vein in his leg burst, and bled TO death
before he could reach the house, though
lac was only short distance away.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
The Tatedunian,

The opening of the state reservation,
or free park, at Niagara Falls, took
place yesterday with imposing ceremo-
tance and assures protection from van
dals and grabbers of one of the grand
est things on the continent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16

Judge Powers of Worthwhile has fol-
lowed ex-Gov. Proctor and Congress
man Stewart in denying the newspa-
per report of few weeks ago that he
aspired to succeed Senator Edmunds in
congress. Gov. Smith and Judge Po-
land, who were mentioned in the same
connection, remain to be heard from.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-16
PLAIN & FANCY GROCERIES

The only place in town
where you can get the celebrat-
ed 'Lilly White" Flour. 1t is
the best. Also, have several
other choice brands at low
prices.