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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02
What the Liquor Dealers Want.
Rsu. J. Ed,card Wright of Montpelier.

The law an utter failures Ask the
liquor sellers themselves. They, al
most to IA man, want such laws repeal
ed. Witness the recent Brewers con-
gress, in which high license instead of
prohibition was advocated as far more
conducive to their interests, land their
interests are in the line of increased
sales). Witness the national conven-
ton of liquor dealers just held in Chi
cago, assailing prohibition and prohi-
bitiOnists in it's resolutions, and en-
dorsing the license system. These
men are not blind. They know what
diminishes their trade and profits I;
and their words and deeds encourage
us still to withhold any endorsement
of license. What they want, we do
not want.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02
Even Chandler VIII Not Approve.
Washillgton Dispatch to Boston Herald


The true story of the insult offered
to Mr.. Edmunds by Mr.. Blaine, told
by gentlemen who were at the Arthur
mansion at the time, is as follows /:
When Mr.. Blaine was admitted at the
front door, ex- Marshal McMichael was
coming down stairs, and surprising the
parlOr to be empty, escorted him there.
The two had scarcely entered the door,
when McMichael, who knew we'll the
feeling between the two New England
leaders, started with surprise, seeing
Mr.. Edmunds and Charles E. Miller
sitting not four feet distant. 1t was
impossible to withdraw, and McMichael
exclaimed, Gentlemen, Mr.. Blaine I"
Mr.. Miller and Mr.. Edmunds arose
from their seats, and the latter extend
ed his hand to the eX- secretary, who
refused it and turned away. Not a
word was spoken on either side, and
Mr.. Edmunds took the insult with his
usual GOODNESS, reseating himself and
continuing his conversation with Mr..
Miller, just as if it had not been in
terrupted. A few minutes after Mr..
Edmunds asked the privilege of seeing
the remains, and was quietly conduct
ed to the upper room in which they
lay. Then he was received by Mrs.
McElrOy in the library, on the same
floor, and while he was there Mr.. Nc
Michael escorted Mr.. Blaine, at the lat
ter's request, to the death chamber.
Upon his return to the hotel Mr.. Blaine
sent for VIM. E. Chandler, to whom, in
the presence of Gen. Sherman, he re-
lated the circumstance, and was quite
surprised to learn that they did not
approve of his conduct. Both Mr..
Chandler and Gen. Sherman, on the
contrary, expressed an adverse opin-
ion very emphatically, and Mr.. Blaine
would not like to have their words re-
Deate6
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02
And They Don't Know 1t.
GYoo1l fold G0zoffo

The president saw fit in his Cam
bridge speech to comment upon the
ghoulish glee with which certain news
papers desecrate "every sacred rela-
ton of private life," and true to their
instinct those papers are now redoub-
ling their efforts to make it uncomfOrta-
ble for the chief magistrate of the ma
ton. But they injure themselves more
than any one else.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02

Our selections for the coming for all the
departments and take pleasure announcing
has it been good fortune show such desirable stylish
goods as at the present time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02

On the Rolling Deep. First Pas
senger-"Weli, old boy, what's up
this afternoon ~ Second Passenger
"All but the soup."1[ Life.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02
PATENTS.
r. IL. EDDY

No. 10 State Street, opposite Kilby Street BostoL
Secures patents in the United States; also i
Great Britain, France and other foreign countries
Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished Inv
remitting one dollar. Assignments recorded AZ
Washington. No agency in the United States nos.
seSSeS superior facilities for obtaining Patents or
aeertatntng the pGtentabitity of intentions r.. II
EDDY, Solicitor of Patents
TESTING NIALS.
regard Mr.. Eddy one Of the most successful
and capable practitioners with whom | have had
official intercourse. CHAS. MASON
Commissioner of Patents
Inventors cannot employ a person more trnst
worthy or more capable of securing for them an
early and favorable consideration at the Patent Of
dce."-EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner of
Patents "a
Boston October 49, 1876
X. ID. EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir you procured for
me, IN 1910, my first patent. Since then YOU have
acted for and advised me in hundreds of cases and
procured many patents, reissues and extensions
nave occasionally employed the best agencies in
New YORK, Philadelphia and Washington but
stlIl give yO4 almost the whole of my business in
your line and advise others to employ you.
Yours truly GEORGE DRAPER
Boston, Jan. /. testify
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.

The prominent shades this Browns Blues AM
Green's which shown great variety of combinations
introducing many beautiful coorngs and effects We have
elegant line of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02

Black and Coored Dress goods in all the latest
ranging in price from SOC to 81. so per yard.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-02
vELvETS and SILKS.

Fancy Vevets constitute the principal trimming for dress
goods this We have ELEGANT STOCK in all the
and leading shades Prices from 75c So 90 per yd
New stock of Black and Colored
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

ings of men with their employers, it has
been the boast of the Southern press and
people that there are fewer strikes and less
trouble in the manufactures and on the
railroads of the South than of the North
The Northern laborers who are now congre-
gated at Richmond are beginning to under
stand why this is so. The negro, not yet
risen above the degradations and humilia-
tons of slavery, has never been able to COM
mand the wages of white man. The old
Slave State wages range from fifty cents to
dollar day lower than in the North. This
is due somewhat to the exhausted condition
of the South; but there is beginning of in
dustrial prosperity in Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee and Virginia; and with this pros
perity the wages of the negro come forward
as a question for the earnest consideration
of Northern laborers. Unquestionably at
the present time the negro receives poorer
wages in the South, simply because he is a
negro, and because he or his ancestors have
been tied to slavery and are supposed to get
along with less of the comforts of life than
white man. If this is to continue, every
bound of industrial activity in the South will
be menace to labor in the North; every
factory or foundry that is opened in Geor-
gia and Alabama will be bringing so much
degraded labor into direct competition with
the men who work in similar establish
ments in the North. The delegates at Rich
mond are seeing this, and they will go home
fully alive to the fact that the relations of
the negro to the white aristocracy must be
changed, and that he must have the equality
which the laws and the constitution seek to
provide for him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13
TIE THESIS soYcoIIERs.

The case of the Thesis boycotters, whose
sentence Gov. Hill has just committed has
become historical Thesis, the keeper of a
New York concert garden, was boycOtted be-
cause of some trouble with his musicians
The boycotters not only endeavored to ruin
his business, but extorted money from him.
They were arrested for conspiracy, convict
ed and sent to prison, being the first boycott
tiers ever punished in New York State and
among, If not quite, the first in the whole
country. At the time the conviction made a
great stir among the laboring pepole of New
York city. Ehret, brewer, who was one of
the jury to find a verdict according to the ev-
idence, was himself boycotted. Saloon keep
ers were forbidden to sell his beer, which
was very popular brand; and the excite
ment over this was as great or greater than
over the original boycott ON Thesis. Since
then strong pressure has been brought to
bear on Governor Hill by the laboring class
es of New York city to secure the pardon Of
the boycotters and there has oeenconsiderable
agitation for repeal of the law that made
the conviction possible Henry George, III
his campaign as workingman's candidate,
has spoken in denunciation of the imprison-
ment of THESIS prosecutors, and DR..
Aveling, the English Socialist who is now
lecturing in this country, has taken the same
ground In his public addresses. Governor
Hilfs action comes suspiciously near the
election in New York city, although the rea-
sons which he gives for it are good The
men were not aware that they were violating
the law, they are poor and have families de-
pending upon them, and their punishment
has doubtless been sufficient. The main
object OF the prosecution, after all, was to
show the turbulent people of New York that
there was law of the State which prohibit
ed such conspiracies,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13
WAGES AT THE SOUTH.

The sojourn of the Knights of Labor in
Richmond is likely to have one result which
was not contemplated when the convention
was arranged. While Knights from the North
and especially the Northwest have found
themselves brought in contact with negro
Knights. who have gathered from all parts
Of the old slave States, and the former have
become, perhaps for the first time, thorough
ly aware of the lot of the dusky laborers who
have toiled on without complaint while the
whole North has resounded with the bicker-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

Two important centennial years are ap-
preaching. In 1889 it will be a hundred
years from the adoption of the constitution ;
and in 1892 it will be four hundred years
from the discovery of America by Columbus.
Last July the Senate appointed a committee
of seven members to consider the expediency
of celebrating these events properly at the
national capital. Meanwhile a Board of
Promotion is taking steps to have a constitu-
tional centennial celebration, to be partici-
pated in by the sixteen American Republics
at Washington in 1889, and a worlds exposi-
ton in 1892. A permanent exposition of the
three Americas atour national capital is al
SO contemplated. By a resolution of the
Board of Promotion the Governors Of the 46
States and Territories, the mayors of all cit
les containing population of $4,000 and up
wards, the Presidents and Secretaries of
Boards of Trade and other commercial or
and the Regent and Vice Regents of the La
dies Mount Vernon Association of the I'm
ion, were appointed assistants eJ oficiO. From
thirty-seven States and Territories responses
have been received, promising aid and SYM
pathy. From Maine the Governor of the
State, the Mayor of Portland, the States
Vice Regent of the Mount Vernon Associa-
ton and officers of the Boards of Trade of
Portland, Bangor and Bath have responded
to the invitation. Foreign diplomats, also,
are said to be interested; and if half that is
promised is done, Washington will have the
biggest celebration yet
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

London Socialists boast that they can put
one hundred thousand armed men into the
streets, and that thousands Of their followers
are drilling regularly. Experience in this
country shows that Socialist boasts need to
be scaled down considerably more than two
thirds; the little of truth that is then lett
may be pondered with care. Chicago's ex-
perience shows that these fellows, though
few. are very deperate
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

Judging by the Bulgarian elections itwould
have been much better for Russian influence
in that country if Kaulbars had been kept
out of it, The Russian party are making
no show that amounts to anything, and the
government is having things all its own way.
In the present temper of the people it is by
no means improbable. Prince Alexander
will be elected to the throne and thus Russia
openly defied
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

The nomination of Abram Hewitt for
mayor by Tammany shows that the leaders
of that organization appreciate the import
ance of the coming electica and the neces-
sity of making at least show of virtue. No
exception can be taken to Mr.. Hewitt on the
score of ability or responsibility. He is as
good as Mr.. Cooper whom the County De-
mocracy supported and better than Mr..
Grace. If he accepts the nomination the
County Democracy is going to have hard
work to discover any good reason for refus-
ing to unite on him,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

The adjutant at West Point has found that
since 1912 but eight per cent. of the cadets
appointed to the academy have been the
sons of army or navy officers. II is evident
that the military aristocracy so much talked
of by some parsimonious Congressman will
not be an hereditary one at apy rate.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 10.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun
cations. The name and address of the writer are
IA all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pub
cation but as a guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13
Il IL IlMEDs
Boston Transcript.

We have certainly fallen on evil times
when five Andover professors are to be tried
ON charges of heresy. But it is satisfactory
to know that they cannot be burned at the
stake for hefesy, as Servetus was at Geneva
A. d. 1858, because his belief did not agree
with John Calvin's thirty-eight articles. In
the present trial the accused will have plen-
ty of sympathizers. The most singular
thing in this whole matter is that Andover
should ever have become o. nursery for pro-
grcssise ideas in theology.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

The Argus appears anxious to revive the
memory of that most disgraceful episode in
the history of the Maine Democracy-the
count-out of 1880. What is the matterP
Does Somebody want vindicatiOn?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13
PUBLIC NOTICE.
Taxation Of Timber and Grass on the
Reserved Lands Of the State.
A
STATE OF MAINE

COUNCIL CHAMBER, |
Augusta, Sepl. 1887.
In compliance with the following resolve passed
by the Legislature of 1885, viz:
Resolved, That the Governor and Council are
hereby required to m axe valuation of the timber
and grass on the reserved lands in the several
townships and tracts OF land, in the State, where
said timber and grass have been sold and con
vey by deed, with all other interests conveyed
hereby. Said valuation 10 be made for the pur-
pose of taxation.v
The undersigned, committee of the Executive
Council, to whom said resolve has been referred,
hereby give notice that they will be in session at
the Council Chamber, Augusta, commencing Mon
day, Nov. 1st 1886, at 10 o'clock a. IN to hear
all parties interested in the timber and grass on
said lands, before the fixing OF the valuation as
required by said Resolve.
A schedule of said lands has been deposited in
the Office of the Secretary of State for examna-
ton. -
JOSEPH A. LOCKE,)
s. c. HATCH, Committee
LAMBERT SANDS.
oct7 d3W&W4W41
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

The New York Sun seems to have incon-
testibly proved that the river alleged to have
been discovered by Lieut.. Schwatka in
Alaska and by him named Jones River in
honor of Mr.. George Jones of the New. York
Times, under whose patronage he made his
explorations, was known to the ancients The
Sun found the river laid down with tolera-
bic accuracy on map a century old,it found
it also on the United States photographic
survey chart and finally it shows it to its
readers laid down on Russian map pub
lished in 1S49 with such accuracy that there
is no room for doubt that it is the identical
river that Schwatka alleges that he discov-
cred. Evidently Mr.. Jones is not to be i'm
mortalized by having his name connected
with this river. AS for Schwatka, all the dis
coyeries he made in Alaska might have been
made at very much less trouble and expense
by investing few dollars in charts and
maps.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

II anyone yet believes that woman's in
tellect is inferior to mans when it comes to
mastering the studies of a college course,
the result of two years study at Colby Uni
versity may enlighten him. Four junior
parts are usually allowed to the four students
who have taken the highest rank for the
first two years. This year only six of the
junior class are women, but the latter have
captured three of the four parasitic Greek,
Latin and French. Ordinarily there is one
English part: but this year, perhaps to re-
ieve the utter loneliness of the only boy who
succeeded in getting anywhere near the girls
in rank, another English part was created.
So by the grace of the Faculty the score is
but to 2 against the boys.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13
EIGHT HOURS NOT ENOUGH.
Alhanv Tnr,pnoI

No man has ever risen in life and attained
any prominence or influence who has been
career of the successful American is a record
of the triumphs and achievements of hard.
unceasing toll. The leaders in this country
have not been eight-hour men, and they
never will be-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13

The story is going the rounds that Prince
Bismarck, while stopping at railway sta
tion in Saxony addressed porter by whose
side stood little boy-'Is that your son?"
Eyes, your excellency," was the answer.
"Have you any more?" -Four, your excel
lency." THAT is well. They will make
good folders. God bless them!' But if
Bismarck keeps on as he is going those
young Saxons will come to America, engage
in some peaceful occupation, vote the Re
publican ticket and become useful and hon
est members Of society instead of wasting
their time in preparing to fight the French.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-13
CURRENT COM m EMIT.
A STRIKING REFLECTION.
Chinaoo Infer Ocean

The most striking thing concerning the an
archist trial is that men who defy and curse
and seek to destroy the law should claim
protection from it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-03
IlgallS'S PrODheCy.

Young, it seems, got it easily. Han
backs organ at Beloit, the Gazette,
claimed last week that Young did not
want the delegates for himself beyond a
complimentary vote, but that he wanted
to let Heron have them. May be this is
correct. One thing is dead certain
Young will see that Hanback, don't get
them Wa-Keeney World.
When will the Republican papers of
this district learn that it is of the utmost
indifference what the Beloit Gazette has
to say? Senator ingalls, told the truth in
his speech in the senate, when he said
that "a Republican who holds position
under Cleveland gives a support to the
Democratic administration, and soon will
become an enfeebled, an emasculated
Republican" This is the ailment of the
Beloit Gazette, and Ingalls's prophecy is
an accomplished fact in this instance
Beloit Courier.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-03
The Farmer and The Editor,
English Exchange.

English Exchange.
"Seems to me you don't have nothin'
ter d." said an American farmer, walk
ing into the sanctnm of the editor the
other day. "Well, I have worked on a
farm good deal of my life, and regard
editing a so-called humorous paper as
harder work than blowing corn" the
editor replied. "Oh, shucksT exclaimed
the farmer; 'if didn't have nothin' to do
but sit round and write little, and shear
good deal, I tell ye I'd be havin' a
mighty easy time" 'Tn tell you what
I'll do" said the editor; "Tl plough corn
day for you, if you'll write two columns
to-day for me-" "Done," cried the
the farmer. "And I'll bet you 500 you
can't write two columns to-day" "Done
agin. And I'll bet you $40 more you
can't plough as much as ye orter." "Tn
take you," the editor replied. "What am
I to write abouty' "Oh!anything, SO it's
funny. Remember, now, Mr.. Farmer,
you are to do the writing yourself. The
matter must be strictly original" 'tNev-
er mind me, Mr.. Editor. But look ye,
you have to do good job O corn-plough-
in. Do it just like I would" '.An
right" The editor went to the farm and
set good hand, whom he had hired on
on the way, at work blowing corn. The
farmer wrote headline, which read,
"Killin' 'tater-bugs," before the editor
was out of hearing. In the evening the
editor came into his sanetum blithe and
cheerful, The farmer sat at the desk,
vexed and worried into anger. "How do
you feel?" asked the editor. "Used up.
Hardest days work ever done, and two
lines ter show for it." Sure enough,
there was but one line beyond the head
line. That line read, "Killin' 'tater-bugs
is funny" "Then I've won the wager?'
eyes. But I reckon I've won t'other
un?" mo, sir, I have won both. have
ploughed several acres of corn, and done
it well, and I've written my two columns
besides" "Creation! How'd ye do it?''
"Just like you would I hired a man to
do the ploughing, and I sat in the shade,
but wrote while I sat there, and did
not sleep as you do. Fork over the S4O."
The farmer paid for bis information, but
the lesson was well learned, and as he
went out, he said, stranger, I wouldn't
be an editor if I could. 1t looks mighty
easy, but, by Jerusalem, it amt near 30
easy as sitting down an watchin' the man
plough corn. Pm fool, an yer kin say
it in yer paper, ef yer want to-"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-03

the least interested, and yet but for them
mutton would be so low in price that
it would not pay to dress sheep and put
them in the market. They would not
bring the cost of transportation.
There has grown up in this country,
in towns, and among country people, q
propensity to eat nothing but beef. The
farmers themselves do not eat more than
one-third the pork they used to, and not
fourth of the mutton. They never ate
enough mutton, and now they do not, as
class, eat any. The men who own and
breed sheep do not eat mutton. They
will pay twice, and more than likely three
times, as much for Texas beef as they
would have to for mutton, and four times
as much as their own mutton would cost
them. Charlton is quite sheep town,
and I venture to say more sheep are eaten
on the Kirby Homestead every year than
in the whole town.
Our country butcher last year killed
and peddled in the surrounding country,
among the farmers and the hamlets, fifty
beef cattle, and could only get rid of five
sheep.
There are hundreds of sheep owned in
the town There used to be thousandsl
and every one of these sheep owners are
blowing congress for the low price of
wool, and lamenting the poor prospects
for keeping sheep. The butcher says he
"cannot sell mutton, as the people all
want beef" Right here there should be
a serious consideration of this subject
Either the mutton is such that the people
will not eat it, or the notions and tastes
of people are so strongly against it that
they will pay almost as much again for
inferior beef. If the appetites or notions
of the people could be changed, and the
mutton improved so that the demand for
it would be increased in proportion to
it's cheapness and healthfulness, there
would be substantial and paying basis
for sheep husbandry, Notwithstanding
the low prices of the feeces.