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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

The Weber quartet of Boston has
been engaged by the seniors to assist
the Cadet band at commencement
Prof. E. D. Sanborn has returned from
New York somewhat improved in
health. Prof. l.. A. Butterfield of Bos-
ton is giving instruction in elOcutiOn
to commencement and prize speakers.
Henry Ballard of Burlington, deliv-
cred the Memorial-day address.-The
second floor of Reed hall, now occu-
pied by the library, is to be altered
into rooms for students.-The junior
class held their class supper at Bur-
lingtOD, Monday. The class nine play
ed the Vermont university team of
that place.--Charles w. Spaulding of
Chicago, graduate of the class of 1868
in the Chandler scientific school, is to
offer two prizes of SIS and $40 to the
members of the senior class of the
Chandler department who shall pro-
duce the best specimens of mechanical
drawing, attention being paid to origi
nality of design.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04

The st. Adams Messenger gives this
instance illustrating the power of cleo
tricity to stimulate the action of the
heart, which occurred in that place on
Monday. A 3 ears-old child was by
mistake given dose of morphine, and
was so affected by it as to be apparent
ly beyond help. A doctor was called,
but to all appearances the child was
dead, except that there was an almost
perceptible beat of the heart. An APP
plicatiOn of electricity was made and
continued for four hours, at the end of
which time resuscitation was complete
and the child lives. During the pro-
cess of restoration, if the poles of the
battery were withdrawn, the activity
of the heart would subside, and it is
evident that but for the use of electro
city death would have ensued.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04

The case of state VS.. Arthur Scott of
North Adams, and J. S. Selfridge of
Salem, Mass, for jumping hotel bill
at Bellows Falls was tried recently.
They were fined S45, and paid at once.
The same parties were tried for the
Burlington and Windsor postoffice rob-
berry.
Henry Ward Beecher will be y
years old this month. He was called
to the passionate of Plymouth church,
in lS47.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04

a live toad was found imbedded
hard and fast in the clay four feet from
the surface, by men digging a post
hole near the Methodist church at Rut-
land last week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04

George l.. Spear, who has been APP
pointed internal revenue collector for
Vermont, will have the appointing of
four deputy collectors, whose salaries
are about 5000 year each.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04

The popular idea that malaria is
confined to low-lying districts is erro-
neOus. In Italy it rises to the height
of 400 to 500 feet, in California 1000
feet, along the Appalachian chain 5000
feet, in the West Indies 400 to 1900
feet, and in India 1000 feet. On the
Andes it is sometimes found at an alti-
tude of j 900 feet.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04

Thomas Garfield, a brother of the
late President, is enjoying life on a
Michigan farm. He has not appeared
in public since the late presidents flu
neral.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04
Vermont News.

The next regular reunion of the 9Th
regiment Vermont volunteers, will be
held at Montpelier, on Thursday June
Is, 1885, afternoon and evening. This
meeting is called at this time to make
arrangements for the excursion to the
Shenandoah valley.
There is some dissatisfaction in the
town of Troy with the appointment of
b. F. Hammond as postmaster there.
1t is alleged that Hammond left the
republican party only short time be-
fore the presidential election and has
been a resident of the town less than
two years.
Among the fourth class postmasters
commissioned, Vermont has the fol-
lowing John r. Priest, East Walling-
ford Patrick H. Dolan, Centre Rut-
land Joseph Battell, Bread Loaf Inn,
Ripton j. Sturgess Potter, GrotOn
Pond Benjamin r. Beal, South Barre,
and Charles A. Williamson, Sharon.
Recently, while H. c. Reed of West
field, and others, were mending fence
in the woods, fire caught from their
pipes and burned up some 60 rods of
fence, and their clothing that they left
where they commenced work in the
morning.
Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, d. D., has re-
signed the presidency of Middlebury
college because of advanced age, and
will terminate his five years cOnnec-
ton with the institution this month.
His successor has not yet been fixed
upon.
The earnings of the Central Yer
mont for 1884 were 50, 80, 272, and the
operating expenses $2,O60, 030; after
paying interest and other fixed charges
there is a balance of $l62, $50 in the
treasury.
The Rutland road has directed its
counsel to file exceptions in the Page
suit and take steps to have the case
tried in the supreme court.
The soldiers monument at Mortified
is in position. The whole height of the
monument is twenty-three feet; it bears
the name of three hundred and thirty
three men who fell in the rebellion, and
will be surmOunted by brass eagle.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04

Four ex-judges of the Rutland cOun
ty court have died the past year-Sen-
eca NJ. Dorr, Daniel Crofoot, Martin
G. Rowe and Bradley Fish.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-04

The Postmaster General has award
ed to the American Bank Note cOmpa-
ny of New York the contract for fur
nishing postage stamps for the next
four years at SOL ,5I6 per annum for
the ordinary stamps and 52442 for pos
tage due and other issues of stamps,
making total of $I03,957 per annum.
The prices paid for ordinary stamps
under the new contract will be 600
cents per thousand as against GIG
cents under the present contract.
Nearly four billion stamps are requir-
ed annually.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01
considerable writing for his brothers. paper

considerable writing for his brothers. paper,
for which work he had natural taste, and
in which it is said he developed considerable
force and ability. However, Decatur did not
suit for "a permanent location, and
SO in 1867 he made a fit north
westward and located at Owatonna,
Steele county, where he has since resided.
Here he at once took a leading position at the
bar OF the county, and being something OF a
politician it resulted that he was soon taken
up by his party and elected county attorney,
the duties of which Office he performed so
acceptably and ably that he was continued in
it for twelve years. Last fall he broke away
from that rut and secured the nomination
and election to the house of the legislature.
Though entirely new to legislative work
Speaker Gibbs had evidently great confidence
in his general and working ability, having
appointed him to the craftsmanship of the COM
mittee on education and also to the judiciary
and railroad committees. These are all i'm
portant committees, and the two latter have
been specially hard-worked committees
at this session. Mr.. Burlingame's
ticularly important and laborious from the
fact of his being the only lawyer upon it. In
consequence the delicate work devolved
upon him of passing upon the various legal
points involved in the measures considered,
more especially the committees own bill,
the general arrangement of which he had
also to supervise 1t will thus be seen that
Mr.. Burlingame's first legislative experience
has been very far removed from a holi-
day season. It will also be readily conceived
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01

dicate especially favorable surroundings.
Rather their lives seem but the counterparts
of thousands of their fellow-men who, by
the benefits offered by our republican form
of government-by this great American Re-
public, ''the shrine of each patriots devo-
ton, the land of the free and the home Of
the brave.''
The present Minnesota house of the legis-
lature is often designated ''the granger
house'' from the fact that large proportion
reaper, and also because very many o. them
were selected and elected especially for the
influence it was thought they would WELD in
the enactment of legislation for the removal
of certain burdens under which it was alleged
that class were unnecessarily suffering
Prominent in this class is Mr.. Charles Can
ing of Norman county, representing also the
counties of Polk, Kittson, Marshall and Bel
trami, being the northwestern representative
district in the state, and situated in the far
famed Red river valley. Mr.. Canning is a
well-to-do farmer, his total landed pos
sessions consisting Of 200 acres, of which
500 acres are in his home farm, Que of the
most valuable in the valley of the Red. Mr.
Canning is of Irish birth, though his charac-
teristics of speech and stubbornness, or, to put
it mildly, conviction of belief and determn-
alton, are pronouncedly Scotch. Still, this
| characteristic is not surprising, as his birth
place is Derry or Londonderry, that province
of Mother England noted for the PATRIOTS IN
and valor of its citizens; characteristics most
remarkably exhibited in 1889 when the gates
Of the city of Londonderry were closed
against James H., the siege being main
tanned for 105 days, during which the garri-
! son of 1000 men was reduced to 3, 200, and
the survivors were reduced to eating their
! horses, dogs and tallow and salted hide
This was the stock from which Mr.. Canning
sprung and those who know him intlmately V
viii not require an affidavit of actual per
formance to make them believe him capable
Of like determination and sacrifices
in a cause he believed just His present
term in the legislature is his first political
experience. In fact, be has always held
aloof from politics, and he is only in the
/ legislature now because his fellow farmers
knew that he was well informed upon the
questions at issue between them and the cor
porations, and also because they believed
him both capable aud honest.
Coming to the legislature to remedy a
grievance, he threw his whole soul into the
work, his special effort being as a member
of the grain aud warehouse committee to
formulate a warehouse and grain inspection
law that should drive out the present monop-
oily and give the people = free market and
equal aud reasonable railroad rates. Having
pronounced views on these matters, Mr..
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01
WHEN AND WHERE BORN,

Henry II. Sibley was born at Detroit, Mich
in 1911; received an academical education,
having given two years to the classics; studied
law for time, but gave it up for more stir
ring life, and at the age of II commenced mer-
camille pursuits at Sault Ste. Marie; entered
the employ of the American Fur company at
Mackinac in 1929, where he remained FIVE
years; was admitted as partner in the fur
company in 1894, having charge of the trade
above Lake Pepin, headquarters at
Mendoza; arrived at that place
Nov. Z, 1884, or fifty-one years ago,
making the distance of about 800 miles, on
horseback, there being but one single, soil
tary habitation on the way. In 1886 he
erected at Mendoza the first private stone
dwelling in Minnesota, and in 1913 married
Miss Sarah J. Steele, sister of the late Frank
lin Steele Of Fort Smelling.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01
Ven Who Are Respected Throughout
the Length and Breadth Of
Minnesota.
\. W. Kittson and II. H. Sibley the
Oldest and Best Known Settlers
in the State.
ecedents--Seryiees Rendered the State
and Community.
Lives--Nobility of Their Characters
Traits and Peculiarities.
N. W. K1rrsoS-rHE OLDEST SETTLER.

NJ
The man above ali others living, who can
pre-eminently claim the oldest residence in
this region, is Commodore Norman W. Kilt
son, who, born in 1914, has already reached
the ripe age of II years. He is a man who
has had remarkable career, and over fifty
years Of this career have been spent in this
section, not always in st. Paul, but either at
Fort Smelling or near by, so that he can justly
rank all others in the claims Of his friends,
except Maj. Joseph R. Brown, as the oldest
settler in this region. Mr.. Kittson arrived
at Fort Smelling in the year 1884, 1fty-one
years ago. Joseph R. Brown arrived at Fort
Smelling in 1919, sixty-six years ago. H.
NJ. Rice arrived in Fort Smelling in 1889, or
forty-six years ago. Mr.. Rice outranks Mr..
Kittsou as a continuous resident of st. Paul,
as Kittson did not come here TO reside per-
manently, until 1854, yet dealing with the
man who has lived near st. Paul, if not con-
stantly in the city, for ffty-one years,
accord to him the front rank as the Oldest
settler.
WHEN BORN AND EARLY LIFE.
Mr.. kittson is a native of Lower Canada,
and grandson Of Alexander Henry, who
explored this whole upper country in the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01
OFFICES HELD.

OtFICES HELD.
He was appointed justice of the peace in
1888, or AZ years ago, being probably the
first civil officer in what is now known as
Minnesota, then part of Iowa; was about
this time appointed first captain Of the first
Iowa cavalry; in 1S4S was elected delegate
to congress from what was designated Wis
consn territory, with the understanding that
he would urge the organization of Mime
sofa territory, which he did with entire sue
cess, for the bill passed in 1S49, and tha /
fall he was elected delegate to congress from
Minnesota for two years, and reelected in
1850, serving four years in all; wrote many
articles for the Eastern press on the climate,
advantages and resources of Minnesota, and
by personal exertions did much towards ad-
vancing the interests OF the territory; was
elected a member of the Minnesota legisla-
turc from Dakota county in 1855; served as
a member and president of the Democratic
wing of the constitutional convention :;
elected
FIRST GOVERNOR OF THE STATE
in the fall Of 1857; was inaugurated in
1858; retired in 1860; in 1862 was ap-
pointed command er of the forces raised to
quell the Sioux outbreak; subdued the In
dians; restored $50 white prisoners; secured
1000 Indians, 400 Of whom were tried and
3S of whom were hung in 1862; was commits
stoned brigader general; in 1863 headed an
expedition to DEVILS lake and the Missouri
river, for the purpose OF routing and driving
away the hostile foe from our frontier; sew
eral battles took place in which his command
was successful, and this expedition virtually
put an end to ali future Indian wars; in 1865
Gen. Sibley was commissioned major gen
eral ''for efficient and meritorious servIces;"
vas relieved Of his command
in 1866; appointed on a COM
mission to negotiate treaties with
hostile Sioux; in 1871 was member of the
legislature from West st. Paul; was presi-
dent Of the state normal board; regent of the
state university; member for short time
of the board of Indian commissioners; presi-
dent of the st. Paul Gas company; director
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01
SOME MORE STATESMEN.
Another Batch of Minnesota Repre-
sentatives Presented For Globe
Readers Inspection.
With Some SagaciOus Surmises as to
the Causes of Their Political Ad-
vancement Thrown in.
st. Paul and Minneapolis Capture the Beauty
Prizes, With Owatonna Good
Third.
An UnpOlitieal But Polite Granger From
the Red River, and Rum Halter
From Redwood.

"The clerk will call the roll!'' 81. NJ.
Burlingame!n
''Here!''
rs. P. Snidern
''Here!n
''W. D. Cornishl''
''Here!''
80. B. TurreIE'
'Herer'
"Charles Canning!"
"Here!"
A quorum having answered to their names
the GLOBE will now call them up in order
and briefly review their lives for the purpose
of noting the steps by which they have risen
to their present position in the lower house
of the Minnesota legislature, and in the gen.
eral walks of life. The showings present
little of strange incident, neither do they in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01

Canning has exercised commanding fnHu-
enee in the legislation Of the house on these
subjects, aud that his course viii meet the
desires sud expectations Of his constituents
Is undoubtei- he stands nearly OF cutie six
feet in height, has warn, ford complex
ion. auburn hair inclined 20 curl, fun whisk-
ers. rather light on the sides, aud uustaehe,
OF the same color as his hair. He came TO
America in 1896. locating in Boston, where
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01

Continued on Seventh Page.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01

limit for legislative session, with a com
pensation limit Of $3.50 10 each member,
which viii undoubtedly become Law. Nr.
Ar. Tu-rell Is scarcely ever absent from his
seat during z session, and, being very vigi-
lant, bills with 'tEoodchuck'' have bad
time getting through without the house being
fully informed as 70 what is intended. While
tins watching the general interests Of the
state, Mr. Terrell never loses sight Of the
needs Of his immediate constituents, aud
hence il Is more than probable be viii Be
two years hence II he 50 elects.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-01

His early pioneer life, his early travels, his
early deeds, his early efforts in the cause of
right, his early influence, his early and per-
sistent noble example, his early devotion to
the state he has so ably and SO faithfully
served, all attest the in trinsic worth of the
once governor, the once member of congress,
the once brave soldier and the now honored
civilian. Just half century has passed
since young Sibley entered upon his untried
life in the wilds of the West, and what scenes
OF activity, of dangers, of hardships, of mar
row escapes, of heroic deeds, of months Of
usefulness crowd into those fifty feeting
years! Then young, buoyant, brave,
gallant, ardent, ambitious, he stepped boldly
TO the front, and intelligently moulded the
elements that have eliminated in great
state; and now, in his serene and declining
years, he looks out from the chambers of
memory and travels back again over the path
he trod long ago. Aud so the wheel of time
goes on; men pass off the stage of life as
new generations spring into existence; but
the state will continue to live, and with it the
name of its early 5enefactor-Gen. Henry
Hastings Sibley.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-11
BRIGHT BITS.

A DEL LcATE little girl, just returned from
farm where she had been sent to spend the
summer for her health, said: THE pump out
there gives milk" NIt does?" asked the
can, and looked in it and saw nothing but
milk."-PUcb.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER Ito Dakota grocer
Anything else you think OPP
Grocer-"I guess that's all this time
of soap?"
Grocer-"rve never kept it. You might add
TO the order couple Of boxes of soap for a
sample, and I'll see how it takes. "-Nea0 York
Sun.
SHE was wading across the mud on Wood
ward avenue when a butcher cart came
along and splashed her from bonnet to shoes.
A pedestrian who witnessed the accident
pulled out his handkerchief and said:
BEG pardon, but let me wipe some of it
20. thanks" she replied, ''but never mind
the mud. If you feel it a duty to do some
ming IN the case please mention some of the
leading ouss- words now in use"'
81 HAVE travelled good deal in my time"
remarked an elderly man. II have been in
railway accidents, explosions, battles, the
cfaters OF volcanoes, Kansas cyclones and At
Tican simOons. but never. no, never. did
nave my breath knocked out Of me and my
senses so completely dazed az they were few
minutes ago" "HOw did it happen?" "Why.
| gave the sleeping-c car porter a quarter and
asked Tor Fifteen cents change. The look he
gave me made me seasick. Chicago Herald.
TICKLE FASHION,
Oh, hcKle fashion, pitiless art thou;
Thou causest tears down damasK cheeks to
rush.
Thy ban is on the sealskin sacque. and nov
The proper thing for thee is sealskin plush
And the tar and gentle maiden
Is taken all aback
VINO meant TO shine this winter
In her glossy sealsKin sacque.
A w az hau a MI
Ere from our grasp it slips.
And the cup OF JOY is shivered
As we lift it to our lips.-BOston Courier.
THE cold wind made the windows rattle.
and the hrelghps glow was indeed most ac-
ceptable. They gathered about its warmth
giving rays, these two. and unused. and oc-
casionally said something.
''DO you think, Miss Eugenia, that we are
going TO have a cold winter"
II don't know, but pa said IL would be cold
day for you If you didn't show some signs of
setting into business
did he thought" Then that's what he
meant when he looked so queer because l
wouldn't lend him a nifty" -HGrtI0rG Post.
CRIMSON TIPPED
She has sunny, golden hair.
She Is eXquisitely fair.
And her eyes OF blue are gorgeous in their
lustre.
While her lips are ruby bright,
AND her teeth are peary white;
And, in fact, she, as a beauty. is a buster.
But, despite her charms so rare,
And her fascinating air,
And the knowledge that of them all men are
She in life no pleasure finds,
For the frosty autumn winds
Tint her lovely nose with red when she goes
walking. -GoodGH's Sun.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-11
PERSONAL.

PRESIDENT GARRETT, of the Baltimore and
OHIO Company, is said To work more hours
than any employe on the rolls.
GEN. LEw WALLACE. ex-Minister TO
Turkey, arrived in New York Wednesday in
the steamship Aurania from Liverpool.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS is in fair phys
ical health, despite the mental disorder from
whlcI he has suffered for several years.
o. o. sTEALEY, the Washington correspond
ent OF the LOuisvilie CoUri sr-,i0uraaL has
been appointed clerk to Speaker Carlisle.
WILLIAM J. ARKELL, business manager Of
the A bany F0eHlng Journal, denies the state.
ment that he "a 20 start new illustrated
paper in New York.
UNDER the spell OF a recent sermon from
Bishop Warren. Of Colorado, Jacob Hash, Of
that state. recently subscribed $4,000 TO the
Methodist University Of Denver.
SENATOR EpMUNDs keeps four horses in his
stable. He lives quietly but eNpensively
When he first entered the chamber II il said
he was worth less than S50,000, but his wealth
now Is placed at S50O,OOO.
QUEEN NATALIE of servia recently pur-
chased forty sewing machines OF American
make, and set sCamstTesses at work on them
In the palace at Belgrade. making garment,
which she cut out with her own hands for the
Servlan troops.
IN PROF. ANGRLIs nearly completed nor
trait OF the Queen, her majesty l. Represented
In her royal robes and crown standing on n
throne. while the rich folds Of The purple train
fan gracefully down the steps. She Is also
decorated with the garter.
BILL NYE. the humorist, and wife were
thrown from their buggy at Hudson, Wis, a
few evenings since, and had q narrow escape
from serious injury. Mrs. Nye escaped I'M
hurt, but MIR. Nye suffered a painful bruise OF
the same lex which was broken in tine cyclone
OF last fall.
tbs WIFE OF Gen. Sheridan was born in an
adobe house 40 Albuquerque, n. NJ. The
house In which she first saw the light con
tained one small grated window, a mud
chimney In the corner and heavy door hung
ON wooden hinges. Mai. Rucker. her father,
WAS quartermaster of that military post al
the time, and the infantle years OF Mrs
sheridan were passed amid the rude scenes
of q frontier army camp.
Miss LOUIE HOWARD il the "angel" OF Bur-
lington. W. She has given the Howard Relief
Association $4,000 ana part Of he Exchange
block She has al-o assisted several Young
men in the high school and In college. severai
now depending on her charity. Her home
has always been most hOspltahle one and
their names are hundreds that have enjoyed
her aenerositY. Size ~ now conhucd q her
room. only waiting for the end, being Of frail
constitution.