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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
A Busy Congressman.

General GrOut has evidently started
in for another busy season in the
house of representatives. Last week
he introduced his bill for the election
of forth class pOstmasters by the peo-
pie in the towns where the post Office
is situated. This bill meets with a
very cordial reception at the hands of
the press, papers like the Phoenix de-
claring that "this is decidedly the best
move made, in the right direction,
since the enactment of the civil service
law" while the st. Adams Messenger
declares it an honest and intelligent
move in the right direction of real civ
il service reform and the BrattlebOro
Reformer thinks that Mr.. GrOut has
got hold of the true democratic princi-
pie. Mr.. GrOut has also in preparation
a bill to place duty upon milk sugar.
This is new industry recently start
ed at Burlington. Mr.. Circuit proposes
to tax the impOrtations which come
mainly from Switzerland five cents per
pound for the crude and ten cents per
pound for the refined. Mr.. Grout will
also introduce a bill, to grant to Union
soldiers who were confined in Ander-
sonville 81 for every thirty days of
their confinement.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
GREENSRORO,

Only one stone is run at the grist
mill.
Miss Rena Goodrich is visiting her
sister in Glover.
An adopted sister of Mrs. S. KnOwl-
ton from California is visiting her.
The Old Folks concert and band sup
per was well attended by our young
people.
Two of G.. LOvejoy's men are camp
ing in the woods. All are cutting and
hauling cedar for the mill.
R. E. Crane, a much respected citi-
zen, aged rs years, was found dead in
his barn on Friday, Dec. IL, probably
from apoplexy or heart disease. He
was in usual health and went to the
barn after having carried a grand
daughter to school, to put up his
horse. About noon some of the family
went to the barn and found him lying
dead. The death is a great shock to
to the community and falls terribly
hard on his aged companion, who is
Frustrated from the effects of it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
Warlike Preparations.

The news from over the water is not
very appropriate to the joyous Christ
mas season, and not what lovers OF
peace and good will toward men could
wish. The French government is
bending all its energies to place the
armament of France in the completest
manner possible, the state manufac-
tories of arms and ammunition being
worked to their utmost capacity. 1t is
reported from Rome that Italy is arm
ing. Advices from Berlin state that
Germany is increasing her troops in
Alsace- Lorraine, while Bulgaria, Tur-
key and the other powers in that vi
cinity are in a chronic state of uneasi-
mass
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
ArOIIsing to Danger.
Ra,fIo9ld Ho1oI1

A Bennington young man has been
found dead in a liquor saloon. The
physicians were in doubt as to wheth-
er death was caused by malforma-
ton of internal organs or by liquor,
but as liquor was found in his stomach
and kidneys, Drs. Jennings and Pratt
thought there could be no doubt. This
and some other circumstances lead Mr..
T. G.. Potter to offer to be one of sixty
to make unrelenting war upon the six
ty saloons, and he asks "Who will rise
up against the evil doors 2" We should
say the states attorney and the town
grand jurors would if they felt that ju-
ries would convict. There ought to be
no need of vigilance committees in
Vermont. Officers are what the peo-
pie make them. If there were an ev-
cry day public sentiment against the
saloon, the saloon would have to go.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
Farmers

Ought to take lively interest in the
forthcoming dairymen's meeting in st.
JOhnsbury next month. We are as
sured by Mr.. Tinkham that no efforts
will be spared to make this the best
exhibit and the most profitable meet
ing of the kind ever held in the state.
The purpose is to make the meetings
thoroughly practical, and so helpful
that no farmer can afford to miss them.
Let the subject be talked up through
out this and adjacent counties and let
every farmer and dairyman do some
thing to insure its success.
The meeting of the board of agricul-
ture for Essex county is in session to-
day at West Concord. These meetings
have been very successful where they
have been held.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
Divorce in Vermont.

Rev. S. w. Dixie of ROyaltOn, the
apostle of divorce reform, says that
Vermont has the best record on di-
vOrces in New England. Mr.. Dixie re-
fers to the law passed in 1884 requir-
ing all libels for divorce to be filed at
the term of court preceding the one in
which they are heard, which insures a
delay of six months. This law works
well, serving to delay hasty action on
the part of DISCONTINUED couples. From
POP divorces in 1884 the record fell to
"a in 1885. The law is such that great
publicity is secured in the trial of di-
vorce cases, the states attorney being
obliged to appear in all suits in behalf
of the state. Mr.. Dixie says that the
town clerks have become more careful
in issuing certificates of marriage and
the ministers are more particular in
persons who have been divorced. He
notes, also, that in Vermont and New
Hampshire the most divorces in pro-
portion to marriages occur not in the
counties that contain the largest towns
and cities nor on the borders of New
York and Canada, but among the scat
tered rural population "where the
conserving forces of the better church
es and better social customs are less
generally felt and where the sense of
membership in society is less Keen"
Still, the feeling prevails that there is
large opportunity for reform even in
Vermont.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
The Cold Facts.--Win the Warming be
Heededf
The Ne.O YORK Tndependent.

The NeaO York Independent.
We admire Senator Etlmunds for the
frankness of that letter. He is no hyp-
ocrite. Believing that Mr.. Blaine's
record was questionable, he could not
affirm that it was spotless. He had
the same trust in the republican party
that we have always had, and believ-
ed that the interests of the country
would be better subserved under it's
guidance than under democratic rule !;
and yet he could not raise his finger
to point to the. party candidate as a
worthy and honest man. His perplexi-
ty was that under which thousands of
republicans labOred. They did not
trust their candidate, and they could
not trust the opposing party. When
the election day came, some voted one
way, some another way, and some not
at all and the result of it all was that
Mr.. Blaine was defeated. We are now
approaching the time when, apparent
ly, the same dilemma is to confront a
large part of the republican party. The
party can never unite OH Mr.. Blaine.
A portion of the party has already
been alienated; but it may return If
high minded honest man be put in
nomination, whose record no man can
question. But if the majority of the
party shall continue with logged stub
bOrnness to butt against the wall, that
majority of the party will certainly be
whitfield down until it represents a
hopeless minority of the voters of the
land.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
Temperance Text Books.

Governor Ormsbee has appointed
under the temperance text book act
Messrs. William p. Dillingham; of Wa
terbury, u. NJ. Mansur of Brighton and
A. b. Valentine of Bennington. Per-
haps it is enough to say of this COM
mittee that it is satisfactory to the la
dies who were foremost in securing the
passage of the text book bill, and that
these gentlemen have been staunch
friends of the movement from the first.
This committee will meet representa-
tives of the various publishing houses
having temperance text books which
they wish introduced, next Tuesday at
Burlington. The following day the
question will be decided and selection
made.
That the people may become famil-
lar with the law and its purposes, Mrs.
j. l.. Perkins, president of the VT. w.
C.. #. u, has issued a circular urging
that meetings be held throughout the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
The California Exodus.

The exodus of VermOnters to Cali
fornia is not greatly to be wondered
at. The temperate climate attracts,
and the desire for a change is often too
strong to be overcome. 1t is well,
however, to remember that all is not
gold that glitters. George Cary Egg
gleston writes home to the New York
Commercial Advertiser from Los An
geles that the present boom in south
ern California, which has blown Los
Angeles into city of $4,000 inhabi-
tants in few months, has the fimsi-
est of supports-the hope of a steady
influx of cOnsumptives from the East.
He believes that that part of the world
has fine future, but that it will have
to succeed collapse. The same is
true of other growing sections. Those
who go there to settle, to take Califor-
MIA for better, for worse, who prepare
for the dropping down that must inev-
itably follow the present boom, who
accept the fact that no portion of the
country has immunity from the downs
as we'll as the ups of business and ev-
cry day life,-these will find homes
wherever they may happen ODE. But
the others, those who go West with
the idea that permanent success can be
gained there without the same effort
that would, perhaps, gain it in New
England, they are doomed to disap-
pointment sooner or later. We cOun-
sci thoughtful consideration on the
fever before taking the steps that lead
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23

was only a small attendance at the
singing school. There will be another
next Saturday night.
Mrs. Eta (JeDkins) Humphrey is
visiting her sister Mrs. Fred Corliss.-
Milton Drew and wife of Berlin, VT,
are visiting relatives in town.
The evening being stormy there was
not as large attendance at the dOna-
ton as usual. The receipts above all
expenses were a little over $40.
A five year old daughter of Mrs,
Horace Drown died last week of diph-
liberia, and a young lady working fol
Jesse Hunter died with it Monday
morning.-Elva Frasier, who has been
attending school at Lyndon, came
home Friday sick with diphtheria.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
TO THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE DIS

TO THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE DIS
TRICT OF CALEDONIA.
George p. Blair Administrator with will an
neXed upon the estate of Peter Buchanan, late of
Barnet, in said district deceased testate respect
fully represents, that the said testatOr did in his
life time, enter into a certain contract in writing
bearing date the 18th day of February, A. d. 1888
to and with one Edmund H. Buchanan of Wash
ingtCn, in the county of Marshall and state of
Iowa, by which contract the said testatOr for and
in consideration of certain payments and conditions
therein specified to be made and performed by the
said Edmund III, Buchanan, agreed to deed to him
the said Edmund Ell. Buchanan the following de-
scribed premises and tract of land stuates in the
county of Marshall and state of Iowa. to wit: the
north half of the northwest quarter, and the
north halt of the south half of the northwest quar-
ter of section number fifteen, township eighty
three range number nineteen, containing one hun.
dred and twenty acres more or less, and being the
same premises decided the said Peter Buchanan by
Cassius w. Norton by his deed dated November
18th, A. ID. 1870, which said contract was at the
decease of the said Peter Buchanan on his part
and still is unexecuted. Wherefore the said Geo.
p. Blair, administrator with will annexed as
aforesaid prays the said court, to grant unt to him
liberty and authority to deed said land, according
to the terms of said contract, agreeably to the
statute in such case made and provided.
Dated at st Johnsbury, this goth day Of Deem
Administrator with will annexed
CTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT, IS
- In Probate Court, holden at the Probate Office,
in St Johnsbury, in said district the Goth day
1t is ordered by said court that the foregoing APP
pcatiOn be referred to the 9Th day of January a.
D., 1887, at the Probate Office in St Johnsbury, for
hearing and decision thereon and it is further
ordered that all persons interested be notified
hereof by publication of said application together
with this order thereon, three weeks successfully
in the Caledonian, newspaper printed at St.
JOhnsbury aforesaid, before said time of hearing
that they may appear and show cause if any they
may have, why the liberty and authority request
1880 WALTER P. SMITH. Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23

Christmas trees at the Methodist
church Friday evening.
Jessie Kent is no better but rather
worse, so that her father has been again
called home.
A. E. Judevine, A. t. Way and
Adams PhilbrOok are in attendance at
the county court at st. JOhnsbury.
A town meeting is called for Dec.
30 to raise money to meet the town
expenses and pay slice of the rail-
road debt.
M. E. Tucker is laying the steam
piping for his new dry house, man
from the Lane Mfg. Co.'S works at
Montpelier is doing the work.
A. j. Kittridge again occupies the
rooms in the basement of the Edwards
& Dawson block. Ase has concluded
that Hardwick may be just as good a
place to ''dO business" as Barre.
The grand army post here propose
to have two or three entertainments
this winter to commence with public
installation of officers and other exer-
cises at the regular meeting in JAN
uary.
Elder L. c. McKinstry will give bis
illustrated lectures on "RedemptiOn
through the Blood of Christ" at the
Advent church next Sunday. 1--WE
wonder who the Elder will use as an
illustratiOn.)
A small party of friends were hos
pitably entertained Tuesday evening
at the house of the Misses Bridgman.
Conversation went on so briskly that it
was late before any one thought of
breaking up. The great attraction OF
the evening, however, was the reading
by Miss Iona Bridgman, which receiv-
ed the hearty applause of everyone
present.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23

state to discuss it. Where temperance
unions are established the meetings
will be conducted under their super
vision where there are no unions the
order of Good Templars will take the
matter in charge. AS the nOn-enfOrce-
ment of this law will deprive the dis
tricts of their public school money,
Everybody is interested to understand
the law, and every effort should be
made to make the proposed meetings
successful.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23

The salvation army will hold SER
vice at the town hall Monday evening
at o'clock.
Christmas services will be held by
both societies; that of the Methodist
upon Friday evening and the Univer-
salist on Saturday evening.
The Grand Army post are rehearsing
for dramatic entertainment in which
they expect to please the public. No
tice will be given hereafter.
Frank Hull has traded his house in
West Concord to David w. Hubbard
for one of his tenement houses, the
Joslin house, so called. He also has
the storage house near his shop which
is very handy and convenient for him.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
A Rare Offer.
This May Interest You.

We will send the Caledonian and Man
chester Mirror and Farmer to any address
in Caledonia or Essex Counties one year
for sails. and to any post Office in the U
s. for s2.25; payment in advance. This
applies to both old and new subscribers
who pay a full year in advance.
The Mirror and Farmer is a large eight
page paper and is especially valuable to
Farmers and Grand Army men,
Don't pay 50 for an agricultural paper
but subscribe for the best local paper and
get with it a good agricultural paper for
less than one dollar. Cash must accompa-
ny orders. G. N. STONE & co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
PASSUMPSIC.

John Witty has been visiting friends
in Weirs, N. H., the past week, his
place on the railroad being filed by
Henry Pardee.
On account of the continued illness
of his daughter, Mrs. A. H. Coruth.
Mr.. Dexter has decided not to return
to Florida at present.
Robert Morse having completed his
job on the A. B. Woods place has gone
to WOOdsville where he has quite a
contract with the B. G.. 81 M. railroad,
Mr.. Morse employing a number of men,
among the number being Frank Rash
and John Annis of this place.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
Annual Village Meeting

The inhabitants of the village of st. Johnsbury
who are legal voters in said village are hereby no
titled and Iwarned to meet at the Town Hail. il
said village on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5th
1887 at o'clock in the afternoon, to act upon the
following articles viz:
Article 1. To elect all necessary officers for the
year ensuing to wit: A President Clerk, Treas
urer, Collector of Taxes, five Trustees seven Fire
Wardens, and three Auditors
Article 2. To if the village will vote to raise
money on the grand list of said village to defray
the current expenses and pay the present ndebt
edness of the village
Article 3. To transact any other business which
can be legally done at said meeting.
DENNIS K. MAY, Clerk of Village.
st. JOhnsbury, VT, Dec. %, 1886. 1890
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
A Pleasant Word.

The st. Johnsbury Caledonian, which
is brim full of prosperity, as it deserves
to be, "points with pride" to all it's ad-
vertising columns, without IL cut in
them. This shows not only excellent
taste on the part of the advertisers but
shrewdness also, for they thus COM
pliment the readers, whose patronage
they seek, by treating their under
standing as having got beyond the ne
cessity of an object lesson. Good clean
type, "mixed with brains," makes the
most successful advertising compound
i'm the world.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
VERMONT NEWS.
A Singular Wedding.

Quite an unusual occurrence took
place in our village last evening, it be-
ing the occasion of the marriage of
Miss May Field, we'll known to a large
circle of friends. She has been engag-
ed for some time to G. M. Brady of this
place the wedding was to have taken
place last evening, and all the arrange
ments were made, the bridal trOusseau
ordered, and numerous plans mapped
out for large gathering of relatives
and friends. Nearly three months ago
Miss Field was thrown from her car
rage, and has been confined to her
bed ever since. For the past few days
it has been evident that the wedding
could not take place as arranged. Miss
Field, though suffering greatly, de-
clared her purpose to let nothing in
terfere with the marriage, though un-
able to leave her bed. The bride was
arrayed in Il negtigee dress of pale blue
satin and white lace, and only the
nearest relatives were present. New
port Express, Dec. 81.
Vermont's War Claims.
In connection with the war claim of
the state of Vermont against the gov
eminent for 500, 800, the secretary of
the treasury Has GrdnSinlIIou 10 cOn-
gress letters from the chief of ordnance
alleging an Indebtedness on the part of
that state to the government of $543, =
$50 OH account of army and navy
equipments furnished by the govern
ment during the late war for the pro-
lection of its frontiers.
j. III. AbbOtt's steam saw mill in
Langrove was burned last week.
A post office has been established at
East Peacham, with E. d. SOmers as
postmaster, and the Office at South
Peacham has been discontinued.
Last Sunday the Unitarian church at
Windsor, was reorganized, and the
pastor christenedit GAIL Souls Church"
Ten persons were baptized and Is re-
ceived fellowship.
A Mcdonald boy, living on Canal
street in Bellows Falls, had three fin
gers nearly cut off from one hand last
week, by the blow from an axe, in the
hands of companion with whom he
was playing.
A two-Ounce, curved uphOlster's
needle, thrown from the third story
window of S. S. TOwner & Sons fur
niture establishment at Montpelier
last week, struck Frank Hall in the
corner of the left eye and stuck firmly.
The eyeball was slightly scratched and
the unfortunate fellows face swelled
rapidly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23

After the clerk had pulled down ev-
erything in the store without satisfy
ing his customer, woman, she asked
him if there was anything else he had
not shown her. ayes, ma'am," he
said, "the cellar; but if you wish it
| will have that brought up and shown
to YOu."- Lowell Citizen.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
Notice in Insolvency.

STATE OF VERMONT, To-. e 1.,---
District of Caledonia, IS. Oo"r' vi inSoiNehoy'
In the matter of David B. Nickerson of Kirby
in said District InsOlvent Debtor.
Notice is hereby given that the second and third
meetings of the Creditors of said Insolvent Debtor
will be held at the Probate Office in St Johnsbury
in said district, the Sd day of JAM A d. 1881
at ten o'clock in the forenoon for the purposes set
forth in sections 1s45 1s48 and 1867 of the Revised
Laws of Vermont
Also, that E. w. Church, Assignee of said in.
solvent debtors estate, has filed in said Court his
accounts preparatory to final dividend to the cred
itors of said estate.
By order of the Court
1919 Attest WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23

H. Holten, Jr., fell while going down
cellar and broke his knee pan.
The Woodsville NJ. E. Sunday school
render a Christmas cantata Friday
night. After the cantata there will be a
tree. Admission free. Exercises COM
mence at Z p. m.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23

Mrs. VIM. Young returned from
California last week.
The Davenport store is closed.
Pierce, the jeweler, works at his rooms
in the Baxter house.
The cornet band will have Christ
mas promenade concert next Saturday
evening at Music hall.
Christmas trees at the Methodist and
Congregational churches on Friday
evening, and at the Universalist hall
on Saturday evening.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23

Judge Gresham evidently doesn't
intend to let the presidential bee, that
is said to be in his hat, disturb him
much. ALLOW me to assure yOu," he
writes friend, "that am out of pol
itics, with no desire whatever to again
enter upon political career. | never
expect nor do wish, to hold another
political Office"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-12-23
Presentation of Account.

CTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT SIS
- In Pr obate Court held at the Probate Office in
St. JOhnsbury, in said district, the sd day OF
Dec, A. ID. 1896.
Daniel K Wakefield, administrator upon the
estate of Hiram Hail. late of Danville, in said
district deceased, presents his administration ac-
count for examination and allowance and
makes application for decree of distribution and
partition of the estate of said deceased.
WhereupOn, it is ordered by said Court that said
account and said application be referred to session
thereof, TO be held at the Probate Office in said
1897 for hearing and decision thereon: and it is
further ordered that notice hereof be given to all
persons interested by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the CaledOnian a
newspaper published at St JOhnsbury, previous
to said time appointed for hearing, that they may
appear at said time and place, and show cause, II
any they may have why said account should not
be allowed aud such decree made.
By the Court, Attest,
7e 20 WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.