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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
Prohibition State Convention.

A prohibition state convention is
called, to assemble in the city hall at
Burlington, on Wednesday, July 81 at
III o'clock a. M, for the purpose of
further organizing the prohibition par
ty in this state and to nominate a full
prohibition party ticket to be voted
for at the coming state election. All
persons, including ladies, are invited
to attend and participate in such con-
yention who believe in the total pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic. Hon.
John b. Finch, chairman of the prohi-
bition national committee, and the
leading exponent of his party, will be
one of the speakers. This is mass
convention. Round trip tickets (half
fare) can be secured any where in the
state, and return check given at the
convention.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
LYNDON CENTRE

Rev. C. S. Perkins has gone to Maine
on IA short vacation.
In the death of Ezra Perry the town
loses one of its best citizens. He was
for several years one of the selectmen
of the town, and has held other Offices
of trust. He was universally esteemed
and hOnOred as an honest man. He
never married and has made his home
with his sister, Mrs. Holton, for many
years. A sister, Mrs. Alfred Baldwin,
survived him but three days.
A. A. Smith of Newark has moved
into Mrs. Sherburne's house.
The plank sidewalk is to be cOntin-
ued from the pOstOffice to the north
end of Main street.
During the past week there have
been burials at the cemetery here on
five successive days.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15

that feed the Passumpsic and Moose
rivers were almost dry, and the main
river at this place was so nearly dried
up that the pump stopped for want of
water to run the wheel and village OF
some 1000 people, with all its bust
ness interests, would have been COM
pletely at the mercy of the flames had
q fire broken out either Monday or
Tuesday of last week. 1t has been dem
onstrated again and again that this sud-
den and great lack of water in these
mountain streams is owing to the cut
ting off of the trees on the lands which
feed them. 1t is time this disastrous
business was stopped and Lawmakers
cannot begin any too soon to frame
laws to that end.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
Blaine Master of the Republican Situa.
ton.

If the situation does not change in a
very marked degree, Mr.. Blaine will
be the candidate of the republican par
ty in 1888. All of the signs and all of
the talk of the leading republicans
point that way. The republicans who
do not like him fear his nomination,
and those who like him devOutly hope
as they have never hoped before.
There is absolutely no one in sight on
the republican horizon but Mr.. Blaine.
He has IL prominence that it would be
foolish to deny or to attempt to ignore.
AS simple private citizen of the state
of Maine his utterances attract now
more attention than would those of
any official at Washington, except per-
haps the president. Certainly no MEM
Der of the cabinet has anything like
his command upon the popular atten-
ton. No member of the senate or of
the house is so great an object of inter-
est. If Mr.. Blaine were to revisit
Washington to-day L am certain that
his every movement at the capital
would be as carefully scrutinized and
noted as are Mr.. Cleveland's acts This
enormous interest in Mr.. Blaine is a
fact carefully noted by the politicians.
They see that he was never less out of
politics than at the present time. They
see every paragraph written about him
copied from Maine to California, and
have studied the effect of the Portland
speech of Citizen Blaine, which was
cabled to the London papers only to
become a general topic of European
discussion. They cOncede that Mr..
Blaine to-day is the master of the re-
publican situation. If he is not re-
nominated in 1888 no one who is OPP
posed to him can be- Correspond
ence N. Y. World.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
TEMPERANCE POLITICS.

From all we can learn, we judge that
the third party prOhibitionists. would
not accept even strictly enforced pro
hibition from the republican party
No reform will be palatable to them il
they cannot boss it themselves
springfield Union.
Perhaps so. But about all the re-
publican party is giving us in this Sec
ton of the country is worked up into
resolutions. The woods, and the
streets, too, are full of good republi-
cans, in the political and in the best
sense of the term, who are beginning
to sicken of the present state of things.
They don't care who chooses the job
indeed, they would much rather that
the republican party would do it, but,
party or no party, the time is fast
drawing near when the most cOnser-
vative of them will refuse to vote for
men who do not represent them ;
they will refuse to vote for men to
enforce temperance laws whose sym
pathies are not with the temperance
movement.
That the republican party will face
this question squarely and undertake
this work in earnest is q cOnsummatiOn
devOutly to be wished. If the party is
not ready to do this it might as well
declare its position and be done with it.
AprOpOs to this discussion the Rutland
Herald sums up the situation in the
following striking manner, specially
noteworthy as coming from a stalwart
republican paper:
The great body of the republican
party is made up of men who favor
temperance, but in varying degrees of
intensity. They realize, as matter of
practical politics, that the party has
got to do enough on this subject to sat
isfy the bulk of st. Johns followers, or
he will continue to defeat the party as
lie did two years ago. In short, the
party must declare against free rum,
demand public restriction and control
and press it as far as public sentiment
will sustain, or the party is doomed.
Now this is the situation. The ques-
ton cannot be ignored, it will not be
put off, it is depicting the party. But
it is believed that thousands who in
cline to a third party will greatly pre-
fer to remain republicans if the party
will face to the front on this question
and that other thousands will come
back to it if it really engages to do
something in earnest.
This statement of the case is fair
and candid, and all right as far as it
goes. 1t means movement and move
ment in the right direction. 1t is evil
dent that the thinking men of the par
ty are waking up to a sense of the sit
uation. The passing of resolutions,
merely, will not cover the Herald's de-
mands nor the demands of temperance
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15

presented, hearing July 13. David
Halls case, Barnet, insane, inquisition
of lunacy, warrant of commitment to
insane asylum. Walter Brooks estate,
and Margaret Brooks estate, both of
Barnet, w. w. Brooks appointed ad
ministrator. Cynthia F. Douglass es-
tate, Peacham, and J. HI. Magoon's
estate, Hardwick, settlement of adj
ministration. Rosetta M. Kittredge's
estate, Walden, insane, and Mary L.
Childs' estate, Burke, licenses granted
to sell real estate. S. F. Shattuck's
estate, Wheelock, will presented, hear
ing July 80. Amasa Knapp's estate,
Lyndon, appraisers inventory returned
and accepted.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
LOCAL AND TOWN NEWS.
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS.


Three new Monuments have been
erected in the cemetery this week, one
at DR.. GOOdelPs grave, one in the JON
athan Moulton and one in j. F. En-
ersOn's lot. The most elaborate of the
three is the MOultOn mOnumant erect
ed by G. c., son of the late iona.
Moulton. The base is of Barre gran
tie, the monument proper is of white
marble and stands 10 or IL feet high.
The die is square with columns cut on
either corner while life size figure of
Hope surmounts the whole. 1t is from
the marble works of o. M. Wentworth
of Boston. The monument stands near
the Fletcher lot and is very fine and
attractive piece of work.
j. F. Emerson has put on his lot a
marble monument standing six or eight
feet high with an urn on top. 1t is
from the works of~O. P. Bennett of
this place, is neat and attractive in de-
sign and an ornament to the lot.
The stone that marks the grave of DR..
GoddelI could hardly be more apprO-
pirate either in form or in the inscrip-
ton which tells the story of his life.
1t is plain but heavy tablet of pure
white Italian marble, with no fancy Or
namentation whatever. On the face of
the stone is this inscription: aeon
STAINS l.. Goodell. Born in Calais, VT,
March Is, 1880. Entered into rest at
st. Louis, Mo-, Feb. l, 1886. Pastor of
South Congregational church, New
Britain, Conn.,, l3 years, 10 mo. Pas
tor of Pilgrim Congregational church,
st. Louis, Mo-, ID years, 2 mos" Be-
meath this inscription is the text that
has become so familiar as the last
words spoken by DR.. GOOdell "Bless
ed are they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of
life, and may enter in through the
gates into the city" On the reverse
of the stone is the single word "GOod
ell" in raised letters. This stone is al
so from the marble works of o. M.
Wentworth, Boston, and is credit to
the firm.
The most notable of recent improve
ments in the cemetery is the work
that has been done in and about Gov.
FairbaDks's lot. The granite curling
about the inside lot has been re-cut
a new granite curbing encircles the en-
tire lot while new sOds have been laid
in the outer lot, the trees have been
trimmed and the surroundings gener
ally improved.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
Concerning Neighborhood Meetings.

The New York Independent says of
Prof. Fairbanks's canvass of Vermont
churches and church gOers:
A very interesting fact gathered
from the Rev. Henry Fairbanks's can
vass of "A towns of Vermont, is that
one third of the population of the state
live more than two miles from any
meeting house, and that of these very
few attend church. Their children go
to school, for the school is brought to
them, but they do not go to church.
We presume a result of this careful
study of the statistics of church atten-
dance will be a strong effort to estab-
lish neighborhOOd meetings in the out
lying districts, and so to carry the Cos
pei to those who do not care to go
three miles for it. 1t is not enough for
the church to say "come ;" it must go
to those who do not care to come.
Another result of Prof. Fairbanks
work should be to encourage those who
have for long time been engaged in
supporting neighbOrhOod meetings,
and to urge others who have not been
over active to take hold of the work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15

colt, with carriage, harness and all
equipments, and his son is driving the
team to Boston by easy stages. When
that colt gets a years more age the
Traveller man won't take any mans
dust-unless he has a faster horse.
Rev. Mr.. Winch occupied the pulpit
at the Congregational church last Sab
bath in the absence of Rev. Mr.. Darling.
The strawberry social at the MethO-
dist church parlors was we'll attended
and proved quite success financially
Mrs. A. w. Fisher and daughter OF
Washington, d. c., will spend the sum-
mer in town.
P. t. Walker has just completed
very extensive repairs upon his dwell
ing house.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
steadily. He had slight relapse, but
has regained the lost ground.


1t will cost the city of Boston $1,000
extra to pay off the city employees on
the new weekly payment plan. In re-
Spouse to notices sent to those work
ing on salaries as to their preferment
in the matter a decided preference was
expressed in favor of the old policy of
monthly payments.
Mrs. u. G. Wallace of Ind. Superin-
tendeut of Franchise department in
national w. C. T. U. comes to Yer
mont in September for series of lee
lures. This lady is the widow of Da-
vid Wallace for four years governor OF
Ind. and the mother of Gen. Lew Wal
lace, the author of "Ben-Hur." Mrs.
Wallace is an able and eloquent speak
er and is styled the Deborah" of the
national w. C. t. U.
The senate commerce committee re-
ported unfavOrably the nomination OF
Capt. H. F. Beecher, son of Rev. Hen
~ Ward Beecher, to be collector OF
the port at Port Townsend, Washing
ton territory. The charges preferred
against the younger Beecher are that
he appropriated to his own use funds
entrusted to him for others, that he
was unpopular with the people OF
the territory and that he was dude,
too airy in manner to suit the JeffersO-
MAN simplicity of Port Townsend.
Speaking of gas metres there is SIM
ply no sort of use in trying to eOmpre-
bend their devious workings. The
price of gas in New York was reduced
by legislative enactment to $l.25 pei
1000 feet, and for while the people
were happy. But now that the first Of
July gas bills are coming in, they are
dazed, distracted, cOnvulsed, mad
The bills are bigger than ever. The
metres have run so fast as to more thar
counterfeit the reduction in price. Al
the Grand Central hotel they were
charged for "a 900 feet more of gas dur.
ing June than during the same month
last year, when business was mucl
heavier.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
McINDOES FALLS.

The Bridgman family are spending
the summer with Mrs. Bridgman's
mother, Mrs. Gleason.
Mrs. DR.. Gleason and daughter Car
rie arrived at the Island Side one day
last week.
Mr.. Monteith's son and daughter
with their families arrived Tuesday of
last week and will spend their vacation
here.
Thomas Stapleton, who has been
laid up so long with a broken thigh, is
able to get out as far as the postoffice.
Mike Carrigan's broken leg is fast on
the way to recovery.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
LYNDON.

About so of the relatives and friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Drown met at their
residence last week Wednesday even
ing to celebrate the Doth anniversary
of their marriage. Valuable presents
were left including an extension table,
silverware, table linen, a glass lem
Onade set and an abundance of flow
ers. The presentation speech was
made by j. NJ. Weeks and prayer was
offered by Rev. F. NJ. Roberts. A
poem was read, commemorative of the
event by Mrs. G. Drown and the even :
ing was much enjoyed by all.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
Probate of Will.

CTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DIsTRIcT IS
- In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
St Johnsbury, within and for said district on the
18th day of July. A ID. 1886.
An instrument purporting to be the last Will and
Testament of Samuel =. Shattuek, late OF
WheelOek in said district, deceased being pre-
Executor therein named for Probate:
1t is ordered by said Court, that all persons
concerned therein be notified to appear at session
of said Court to be holden at the Probate Office
in ST. JOhnsbury, on the 30th day of July,
aG,inst ths Probate of aid viii f r~y d,
purpose it is further ordered that a copy of the
record of this order be published three weeks sue
eessively in the CALIFORNIAN, printed at st.
previous to said time appointed for
hearing.
BY the Court, Attest,
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
A true copy of Record Attest,
5557 WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
Commissioners, Notice.

A LBERT j. STEVENS ESTATE.
IA The subscribers having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District OF
Caledonia, Commissioners to receive, examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of Albert j. Stevens late OF
Hardwick, in said District deceased, represented
nsolvent and the term of six months from the 18th
day of June, 1886, being allowed by said Court to
the creditors of said deceased to exhibit and prove
their respective claims before Give notice
that we will attend to the duties of our appoint
ment at the dwelling house Of Julia Stevens, in
Hardwick in said district on the 18th day of Aug.
and 18th day of Dec. next, at o'clock in the
afternoon, on each of said days.
ORRIN PAINE,
55-57 WILLIAM ID. BRONSON Noinni rs-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
A Growing Hen.


A st. Johnsbury family on Summer
street enjoys the luxury of being
awakened these summer mornings by
the lusty growing of hen. A year
ago this hen, so say the neighbors, be-
longed to roosterless family. She
was "set" on a dozen eggs and in the
course of time became the mother of a
fine brood of chicks. So keenly did
this hen, her sisters and her fatherless
children, feel the absence of lord and
master that she betOOk herself to strut
ting about and growing, while the rest
of the family seemed content with
coming thus near to having a man
about the hen house. Last spring for
a season a veritable rooster joined the
company and then this hen mOdestly
gave mp her growing and was as dOcile
as any of her mates. But few weeks
ago this rooster was killed and now the
accommodating hen has resumed her
old vocation and makes Summer street
fairly ring with her morning crowings.
Fortunately there are no whistling
girls over that way so this masculine
hen is travelling Oh to her bad end
alone.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
Bleeding at the Nose.

The best remedy for bleeding at the
nose, as given by DR.. Gleason at one
of his lectures, is in the vigorous mo-
ton of the jaws as if in the act of chew
ing. In the case of a child wad OF
paper should be inserted to chew ii
hard. 1t is the motion of the Jaws
that stops the flow of blood. This
remedy is SO simple that many will
feel inclined to laugh at it, but it has
never been known to fail in single
instance, even in the severest cases.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
WEST CONCORD.

Ethan N. May has sold his dwelling
house to VIM. Richardson for $500. II
is to be occupied by j. Hull.
S. E. GrOut has sold the HOlbrook
house, so-called, to E. N. May for $3.50
DR.. Jewell has returned from Sara
tOga.
DIR. johnson and wife intend to start
on a visiting tour the last of this
month. They will take in the great
West and California.
A. P. Davis Camp "a Sons of Veter-
ans will be inspected by the division
inspector on Saturday evening. All
members of the G.. A. r. are requested
to be present.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
RARNET.

Mrs. Julia Brown has purchased the
brick house owned by Mrs. Alex.
Brock, and is about to move in.
Mrs. Albert Flanders and four child
rem, from Pawtucket, R. L., are visiting
at her fathers.
Miss Helen Gilfillan, having recent
ly graduated at Pawtucket, is spend
ing the summer at home.
A party from this place are out
camping at FrancOnia Notch.
Mrs. Moses Burbank is dangerously
i'll.
Both mills have shut down on ac-
count of low water.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15

After the esteemed Argus and the
esteemed Clipper have relieved their
over burdened minds they may note
the fact that the Caledonian never
"endOrsed" or "vouched for" either
Mr.. Bates or Mr.. Bunker in relation to
their position on the Edmunds question
and that we do not propose to do so.
Weexpressedt the opinion that when the
senatorial question came up they would
be found on the right i. g., the Ed
munds side and we hold that opinion
still
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
Circus Poster Journa1ism.

Readers of Boston newspapers can
now be certain of finding staring and
revolving cuts for patent medicine ad-
vertisements with every issue, usually
occupying the best place in the sheet.
Each firm strives to Guido its rival, and
the result is sad Generalization. The
differ ence between Journalism" and
something worse than the circus pos
ter really ought to be more marked.
Certainly nothing could be more often
sive than the present state of things
springfield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
He Should Take the Hint.

Public opinion is pretty we'll united
on the proposition that Garland must
go. But Garland has received occa-
sional intimations of the trend of pub
lie opinion before, and yet he has not
gone. The question is: How often
must he be sat upon and stepped upon
and knocked around before he can
take a hint Kansas City Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
PROBATE COURT.

Following is a report of the bust
ness done at the probate office during
the past week:
Alice NJ. Porter's estate, st. Johns
bury, George Ranney appointed guar
dian. w. L. Marshall's estate, Burke,
administrators inventory returned and
accepted. III. III. Prouty's estate, Lyn-
don, Margaret Prouty appointed adj
ministratrix. Galusha j. Bundy's es-
tate, Lyndon, administration account
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
LYNDONVILLE.

Both of the banks have declared a
semi dividend of two per cent.
The "Alerts" were prepared to show
the "Creepers" of st. Johnsbury how
to play ball last Saturday but the rain
prevented the game.
The Odd Fellows hold their first
meeting in their new hall this week.
C. p. Chase is making extensive re-
pairs on the house he recently bought
of Judge Baxter.
Fire caught in one of the r. R.
wOOdsheds last Thursday, but was ex-
tinguished with slight damage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
killing the Goose.

The repetition of the suicidal policy
of killing the goose that laid the gold
en- egg was never better illustrated
than by the destruction of forests
about the head waters of our New
England streams. This was so plain
to the people of Caledonia county the
pastweek that he who ran might read.
After very short drouth, unusually
early in the season, the large brooks
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
WEST BURKE.

j. P. Otis has gone to Topeka, Kan.
AS the village boys were playing
ball few nights ago Fred Parker was
accidentally hit with the ball, breaking
his nose.
Charlie Chappell has taken an in
FAINT child five months old by the name
of Sawyer from East Burke.
Eta Dean who has been very sick
with canker rash, is now improving.
Simon Bartlett has gone to Peaks
Island. Maine,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15
PEACHAM.

Mrs. G.. A. Bunker attended the
teachers convention at Bar HarbOr last
week.
Miss Mary Bailey has returned from
her school in Massachusetts.
DIR. Blanchard is to give lecture on
tree planting, on Thursday evening,
under the auspices of the Village I'M
prOvement association.
The Guys have moved into their new
house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Bailey of Hard
wick spent Sunday in town.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15

This time it is A. o. Brewster a we'll
known Boston lawyer who has gone
wrong. One of his victims let him
have $4,000 to invest upon promise of
five per cent. per month interest. This
particular victim will have little SYM
pathy. The receiver of five per cent.
per month interest is as bad as any
other thief.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-07-15

The senate committee on the Judicial
ry Monday agreed to report back the
railroad attorney bill, a majority of the
committee consenting to a favorable
report. The bill has been materially
amended in the committee, but not inn
proved. 1t was one of those cases
where well enough should have been
let alone