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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
e. G. CARDIGAN
Dies Suddenly out in Colorado.

E. G.. Carrigan was born 81 years ago
at Quebec. He came to Woodstock
when nine years of age, and entered
the Union army in 1868 ut the age OF
IL as drummer boy, and served
through the war. He learned to read
and write after the war, supported
himself and his sister and entered
Dartmouth. At the time he went to
the front he gave fictitious age in
order to go, but was in reality the
young est man who enlisted from Yer
mont.
Mr.. Carrigan graduated from Dart
mouth in II. His college course was
marked by great executive ability and
! he has always been an active worker
in the interests of the alumni associa-
ton of that institution, having been its
secretary for the last few years. Hard
| ly a Dartmouth graduate but knew
him.
After graduation he spent three years
in doing various work, doing great
deal of newspaper writing for various
papers. As he told the writer a very
short time ago che was awaiting his
opportunity at that time" This OPP
pOrtunity came to him in the head
mastership of the Evening High School
which position he held for five years,
resigning in the fall of SO.
Perhaps the way he attracted his
first general notoriety was by his at
tempt to save Phair, the Vermont
murderer, from the gallows, by trying
to prove an alibi. He was not success
full, but everybody in Vermont admir-
ed his persistence in the matter.
He was appointed to the state board
of education by Gov. Butler, and was
confirmed under a suspension of the
rules by the council, for a term of eight
years.
Mr.. Carrigan was instrumental in
getting through the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts large number of bills i'll
the interest of education. He was 4
delegate from the state to the inter
state educational convention in Ken
lucky in 1888.
He was not married, but had acquir-
ed handsome property, by his own
efforts, after paying off his own debts
for getting through college and help
ing several students since then to go
through Dartmouth, which college
gave him an honorary degree in 1888
Mr.. Carrigan had more personal &C
quaintances than any man of his age
in New England, and his death will
cause regret everywhere.
At the time of his death he was trav-
elling in the West in connection with
| the famous Hoyt will case, in which he
was junior counsel with Gen. Butler.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Morton.

Mrs. Harrison, the wife of the Presi-
dent elect, is thus described by an ex-
uberant correspondent: "She is small,
probably not more than feet 2, and
has plump figure. Her dimpled fin
gers display her marriage ring and
three diamonds. Her sleeves were
tight and plain, showing the outlines
of finely moulded arm, and enamelled
gold bracelets clasped the fair wrists.
Her eyes are large and soft brown,
and her hair contrasts beautifully
being gray. Her mouth is the right
size for beauty. She wears a soft,
fluffy bang and her hair coiled low on
her neck"
Of Mrs. Morton the same CORES
pondent says: "She is handsome
undeniably handsome. She is about )
feet 6 inches in height. She would be
little too heavy for girl-although
there are many girls as heavy-but she
has a tapering waist and beautifully
moulded neck and arms. Her eyes are
large, blush gray and very expressive.
Her complexion is a healthy white.
She can boast of her nose, and her
mouth is exquisitely aristocratic. Her
lips are curved and full, and every
smile awakens the most bewitching
dimples have almost ever seen. AL
though Mrs. Morton's face has not one
wrinkle, and her years scarcely seem
to warrant it, her hair looked quite
gray in the dimly lighted room. Gray
hair is always an attraction, even when
combined with youthful face. 1t
was dressed very neatly, twisted to
the crown of the head and there rested
in heavy, smooth coils, met by wavy
fringe on the forehead"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
quarter away.

quarter away.
Alice Alden. the district school
teacher, was just putting the last
stitches to blue checked bingham
gown that she was making when Lu-
rama rushed in like hazel-eyed whirl-
wind.
"Quick !" she cried "Kindle up the
fire! Set the tablet Your father-in-
law is comingw
"My father-in law !" cried Miss AL
den, aghast.
"In the stage!" explained Lurana,
breathlessly, "To take you by sur
prise, and there's no telling how soon
he will be here"
And then, as we'll as she could, she
explained this unexpected mbination
of circumstances.
wish to deceive anybody. l can't
cook. l never learned how"
"Fiddlesticks ~ cried Lurana. "It
men will make such geese of themsel-
YES, we may just as well meet them on
their own ground. 1t would be just as
reasonable for you to refuse Victor be-
cause he hasn't learned the black
smiths trade or can't preach sermon.
Wouldn't it, now"
"There's something in that" hest
tated Alice.
"Of course there is" said Lurana
1t was nine o'clock at night when
Colonel Jones rejOined his friend Rich
mOnd at the HemlOck Hill Hotel. Out
side the whip-pOor- wills sung, the
pine woods exhaled perfume. Within,
the Colonel rejOiced with an exceeding
great joy.
'1t's all right" said he. "All as
right as possible. | walked directly in
upon her, and there she was preparing
supper. Such brOiled chickens l never
tasted and the coffee was superb.
There was blackberry pie that melted
in my mouth, and home biscuits fit for
Il kingw
''Isn't that rather an elaborate spread
for one person inquired Mr.. Rich
mond little incredulously.
ooh, l believe there was some other
young women to be with her, but she
turned shy and wouldn't come in at
the last. But she's the prettiest girl
you ever saw, Richmond"
''The other young woman ?"
"POoh, nonsense! You know what
| mean-Miss Alden, herself. And l
think my son Victor is the luckiest fell
low out. I've invited her to come to
New York and spend her next vaca-
ton with my wife and myself, and
don't care how soon they fix the we'd
ding day"
And the colonel's face beamed all
over.
"Have 1 done right, Victor ?" the
school ma'am asked her lover the next
time she saw him.
"Right OF course you have" cried
Victor Jones. "And l shall feel CRATE
full to Lurana Hopkins all the rest of
my life"
''But 1 do mean to go over to the
Hopkins farm every day and take a
lesson in cooking until / can justify
your fathers good opinion" declared
Miss Alden.
"You're near enough to perfection to
justify any ones good opinion now,"
said Victor, who, as may easily be
perceived, was very much in love.
"And only think" cried Lurana,
who danced in at that moment, call
this good has been wrought by Aunt
Roxanna's ear trumpet"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Mrs. CIeveIand's Grit.
Washington Despatch to II. Herald.

Oesp1tct ~. l..
Nobody could have got an interview
with Mrs. Cleveland today, even if the
election had gone the way she wanted
it, but lady who was invited to hear
the election returns at the White House
last night says that there was no more
nervousness displayed by Mrs. Cleve-
land than by any other lady in the
group. All were deeply interested,
and the rest of them did not attempt
to control feminine impatience when
it became evident that the revelations
of the evening were not going to be
entirely happy. But Mrs. Cleveland
was '.true grit" all through. She chat
ted and laughed and entered into the
discussion over Miss Endicott's ap-
preaching marriage as if that were the
uppermost subject in her mind. One
lady in the company said: "Well,
some of our friends will be making
square corners now": and when the
others looked up in amazement Mrs.
Cleveland broke out in laugh and
said : "Well, my dear Mrs. Blank,
won't you be one of them9"
AS the evening wore on, the ladies,
with true womanly sympathy, began
to get all possible comfort out of the
situation, and endeavOred to buoy up
the hopes of the men. They all separ-
ated half hour after midnight and
went home with the certainty of de-
feat. Mrs. Cleveland and her mother
were brave and smiling to the last, and
neither showed by the least word their
great disappointment.
Mrs. Cleveland intends making her
last winter in the White House the
most memorable of her career there.
She will have lots of friends to stay
with her from time to time, and she
will vary the beaten track of official
inequalities by a number of less for
NAL events which she will arrange for
the pleasure of her guests. AS long as
the Indian summer lasts the President
and Mrs. Cleveland will remain at
their country place, but they intend to
spend pleasant winter at the White
House.
A lady very intimate with Mrs.
Cleveland said today "She is not the
disappointed woman that people sup
pose. She has had enough tiattery to
turn any ordinary woman silly, but it
has not affected her particle, and you
will find that she is just the woman to
show all kinds of thoughtful little
courtesies to the family who will sue
coed her at the White House. Really,
she feels the defeat more for the Presi
dents ambitions than for her own sake.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Where the Mistake Was.

If President Cleveland has not been
reelected he has no reason to be
ashamed of the part he has borne in
the campaign. He has, rs one demo-
cratic statesman said, ''turned the
whole country into debating society"
and elevated American politics to a
point of dignity and real utility far be-
yond their previous status. A dispO-
sitiOn is manifested here and there to
blame Cleveland for the defeat which
seems to have Overtaken his party.
This is wrong and ungenerous. Mr.
Cleveland's mistake, if he made one,
was in being too much the statesman,
too little the politician. That is not Il
mistake for which his party has right
to blame him.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Sorry to Lose MIR. Phelps.

Though we believe that President
Cleveland's internal policy and his ad-
ministratiOn more remarkable for ca
pacity and uprightness than anything
to which republicans can point i'll re-
cent years, we cannot profess regret at
an event which may be regarded as an
appropriate penalty for his discredita-
BILE subservience to the meanest infiu-
ences of American politics and his cul-
pable neglect of the decencies of inter
national intercourse. We are sincere
ly sorry that the change of govern
ment involves the retirement of Minis
ter Phelps, who has performed his du-
ties with marked ability and adroit-
ness and has won our esteem and
friendship
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Didn't Know what They Were Talking
About.
Near TorE Herald
NeeU York HerdL

The democrats were beaten mainly
because they undertook in presiden
tial year to spring a question on the
people about which they had avoided
instructing the people in the previous
years. That was to drill their recruits
in the face of the enemy. 1t was this
against which the Herald took the lib
erty to warn them a year ago, and for
this kindly warning we got only curses
and impertinent rebuke. The repub-
lican speakers were always well train
ed and knew what to say. Their dem
Ocratic opponents in the country dis
tricts were Oftenest put on the defen-
sive and did not know how to argue
the question or meet the republican at
lacks
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15

Cornelius Vanderbilt recently bought
at auction for $4,000 lot of land
hardly a quarter-acre in extent. 1t
fronts 100 feet on Fifth avenue and in
cludes the corner of Fifty eighth street.
Good judges value the lot at 100000.
Spencer G. Prime and Charles o.
Bartlett of Upper Jay, in Essex coun-
ty, shot fine buck near Wilmington
village recently
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Mrs. Harrison and Her Family.

Llteroieao in the Ne,o York World
"Will you tell me of your girlhood
days ~
eyes, they were my happy ones.
she said, feelingly. 81 was born in
Oxford, o. My father, DIR. John W.
Scott, was professor of the Miami Uni
versity ut the time of my birth, and
was afterwards president of the female
college in the same town, which posi-
ton he held at the time of my mar
riage. | received my education at the
seminary and was a happy girl. We
village girls were very simple in oul
wants then. We had driving and
sleighing parties, but we did not
dance. 1t was considered great sin
there, but we managed to have just as
much fun without. We would put on
our newly starched calico dresses and
sunbOnnets, and we were grand and
content. Isn't it wonderful how the
lives of girls have changed 2 Imagine
any girl during her graduating year
wearing a sunbOnnet, yet we all did so
and were proud of them when newly
Numbered"
"Where did you meet General Har-
rison 2"
Az OAIOIu no WAS Il SGuuonU al
the university and | at the seminary
We were friends and we were gradual
ed the same year. When he was &c
years old and | almost that we were
married. So we started in life young
and we have never been sorry.
care your parents living 2"
"My father, who will be 80 years old
in January, is living in Washington
with my widowed sister, Mrs. Russell
Lord. l have also brother living"
81 have a son in Montana. He is
married to the daughter of Senator
Saunders, the old war governor. My
son has cattle ranch and is somewhat
of journalist. He has one child, Mar
tisser, a little daughter. l have a
daughter, Mrs. Mary-we call her
Mamie Mckee. She lives here with
us, and her husband is tradesman in
boot and shoe house in this city
They were married when Mr.. Harrison
was in Washington, so we had them
take charge of the house for us, and
since our return they have lived with
us. My daughter has two children,
Benjamin Harrison Mckee, Is years
old, who is the ninth Benjamin Harri-
son directly down, and the baby, Mary
Lodge Mckee, who is but weeks old,
but is jolly, plump little fairy"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
The PresIdent-EIect.
ROsfoD Herald

Gen. Harrison has borne himself
with a sense of propriety in this cam
paign that gives good reason to augur
favorably of his success in the presi-
dency. Personally, no purer man has
entered this office. He has had the
reputation in earlier life of being some
what extreme in his partisanship, but
this quality has not been Extensively
prominent in his late campaign
speeches. There is reason to believe
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
What Has Been Learned.

The democrats proposed "a cam
paign of educatiOn," and there is not
the least doubt that the people have
been educated to notable extent.
They have learned enough not to trust
a person as reformer who picks out
such men as Thompson and Higgins as
chief instruments in the work. They
have learned enough not to call Il bill
a measure of "moderate tariff reform, "
which English manufacturers shout
over as a free trade triumph. They
have learned that a prohibitiOnist who
works to help the rum shops is not the
best friend in the world of temperance.
Let us all be thankful that so much
has been learned.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
A Great Educator.

There is a great deal of complaint
made every four years of the excite
ment, the disturbance to business, the
waste of time and money and all the
disagreeable features of presidential
election, but il is worth all it costs in
the political education of the people
and the stirring up of thought on great
questions of national policy, which
would otherwise hardly penetrate
through the crust of daily associations
and interests, until they were forced
on the attention by some national ca
lamity. In other words, it is better to
have quadrennial fever than cen
tennial earthquake.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15

How President Cleveland Took Defeat.
Interview in Nea0 York Herald.
"You desire to learn, you say, to
what cause l attribute our loss of New
York. answer frankly that 1 do not
know. 1 should say, that it was main
ly because the other party had the
most votes. l am not Indifferent as to
the result. l look upon the situation
from a practical and common sense
standpoint. 1t is not a personal matter.
1t is not proper to speak of it either as
my victory or defeat. 1t was a contest
between two great parties battling for
the supremacy of certain well-defined
principles. One party has won and
the other has lost-that is all there is
to it. L have not the slightest doubt
of Governor Hills absolute good faith
and honesty in the canvass. Nothing
has ever occurred to interrupt our
kindly relations since we ran on the
ticket together as Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor. Mrs. Cleveland feels
about it just as | do. You know the
defeat brings it's compensations. We
shall now have some time to ourselves
and can live more as other folks do.
My future movements are as yet wholly
unsettled"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15

Mary Ann Irvine, of Sioux Falls,
Dakota, a notorious and miserly char
acter who lived amid horribly filthy
surroundings, has just died. After her
death search among her effects re-
vealed deeds, mortgages, notes, bonds,
and cash amounting in the aggregate
to S35. 600.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Cast Down, but not Destroyed!
SprinqfeLd RepubLican.

At this writing it looks like defeat
"a severe and injurious defeat. Let
us frankly face and measure the disas-
ter. The country has lost the best
president it has had for many years.
1t has lost him when his work was but
half done. The democratic party has
been beaten when for the first time
since its early days it was distinctly
identified with great popular reform.
The republican party has come back
into power, still dominated by its most
unfit man, and victorious through its
mOneyed interest. We shall not make
light of such a national misfortune as
this
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15

Lady-And what does your father
dof Little girl-Oh, papa is doctor
Lady-Indeed | suppose he practices
great deal, does he not? Little girl
On, no. He doesn't practice any
more. He knows how now Harper's
Young People.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Another Explanation
n. IL Eanna LII

Mr. Harrison has been elected and
Mr.. Cleveland defeated in the state of
New York by the treachery of David
B. Hill and his followers, by the un-
American part of the Irish vote, and
by money
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Victory and Responsibility.
n. Y. Post, Ind.

The victOrs in Tuesdays contest can
no more stand still than the vanquish-
ed. The responsibility for the nation
al finances will, after the 4th of March
next, rest with the republican party.
The surplus will stare Mr.. Harrison in
the face, just as it now stares Mr..
Cleveland. 1t must be got rid of, eth
er by reduced taxation or by extrava
giant appropriations.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Defeat With Honor.

In losing his reelection as President
of the United States, Mr.. Cleveland
paid that sort of penalty which is com
monty exacted from a man who is
ahead of his times. There can be no
question that had it not been for his
tariff reform message to Congress last
December he would have been his own
successor, and it is equally beyond
question that the possibility of defeat
on this score must have been in his
mind when he penned that manly and
Justly famous document.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
AFTER-ELECTION SUGGESTIONS

Christian Union.
But now the election is over, what
are you going to do about your more
| important interests ? More important
interests Are there any more impOr-
tant interests than those which depend
on the determination of the National
policy for four years to come, perhaps
! for a much longer time ? Certainly
there are. Your business is more i'm
pOrtant to you, and on the whole more
important to the country, than your
particular share in determining the
Presidential election. You are fOrtu-
nate if your business has suffered no
hindrance during the past six weeks.
Forget your defeat, forget the exalta-
ton of your triumph, in taking up
with new energy your business duties.
You are wise if the excitements of the
last six weeks have not made you mar
row, short lighted, blind to the defects
of your own party or the virtues of
your opponents. Open your eyes a
little wider. If your party has tri-
umphed, join with others as independ-
ent as yourself in watching it (the best
of parties will bear watching when in
power), and in criticising it when it
falls short of it's brave promises. If
your party has been defeated, join with
others as independent as yourselves in
commenting whatever is good and
true in the public course of the victori-
Gus party. Strengthen virtue, attack
vice, wherever you see it. Your
church has not found political cam
paign conducive to church work. 1t is
hard to maintain prayer-meeting
with political club as rival across
the street; or to be devotional in the
prayer meeting room with drum and
fife and a torchlight procession in the
street outside. Put little of that en-
thusiasm which you have been giving
to politics into church activity. Put
down yonr week evening meeting as a
standing engagement. Bring into your
week evening meeting something of
the vigOr, the interest, the ready ex-
preston you have been carrying into
political discussions. But there are
other ways of serving your fellow-men
than either politics or the church.
Look out for them. You made some
beginning of 1888? How much have
practice You have two months left
-OHc-SiACH vi CIiO year. 1IO" IHuCH
can you do in those two months ? One
secret, we might almost say the secret,
of great achievements in life is the
habit, when one thing is done, of turn
ing the back upon it and taking up the
next thing to be done. Your political
duties for this fall are done-let us as
sumo well done. To spend time in
either vain regrets of vain congratula-
tiOns is idle. What is the next thing
i'll order to be done for yourself7 for
your family9 for humanity? When
you have read these questions, stop,
take that scrap of paper out of your
pocket, and write down the answer.
1t will give definiteness to your next
endeavOr. Then take up that duty
and fulfill it. Do you know what that
means2 1t means that every duty is
an opportunity. And you are to fill
your opportunity to it's full.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15

Over 100000 has been put into
building improvements at Denver,
Col, during the past year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
Neither Regrets or Rejoicing.

Cleveland's half-hearted paltering
with demagogism and craftsmanship
simultaneously caused him to lose his
reputation abroad as well as to forfeit
the confidence of a great uncontamina
ted non-poIitical body of American
citizens, who could sweep the Irish
from the ballot boxes if they pleased.
At the same time we have little cause
to rejoice over the triumph of the re-
publicans. The possible effects of
HarrisOn's success on the foreign rela-
tiOns of America cannot be regarded
as favorable. We have no reason to
either regret or rejoice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15

that he is conscious of the dignity of
the great position he is to fill, and of
it's claims upon craftsmanship in the
man elected to hold it. There are the
best of opportunities to win fame and
high estimation by proper mindful
ness of what is called for in this re-
spect.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-11-15
The Burden Lifted.
Providence Journal.

Men who have been carrying the
country on their shoulders can now
rub them and apply a little liniment.