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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-21
New York General Markets.

NEW YORK, septem Der il ops-Moder.
ately active, firm Coffee-Options opened
steady, firm; light business firm ca bles
Is Is; October, II 65 "a 1878; Novemb Der,
12.l0912 Is; December. II 35@E.70. Spot
Rio, quiet, firm, fair cargoes, at 15za. Sugar
Raw, quiet firm fair refining, 81 centri-
fugal, 90 test ca refined, strong. Copper
Dull, shade higher; Lake, 17.70. Lead
Firm, active; domestic, s. Tin-Firm, t.ifle
stronger; straits, % 30
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-21
Chicago Liye secok.

CHICAGO. september 20.
Csttle-Receipts, 1900; dull; 10 to Is
lower; beeves, 900 g s SO; steers. $40 @475;
stockers and feeders, l.sO % $40; Texas
and Indian steers, 2.40 q 400; western
rangers, 2.75 @ 90.
Hogs-Receipts, 1900; irregular; mixed,
6 90 @ 600; heavy, SIS @6 IS. light, $40 @
6. So.
sheep-Receipts, 5000; steady: natives. 2. IS
@ 40; westerns, 3. 2093. 65; Texas, 60@3. 40.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-21
Petroleu

NEW YORK, September 0.-Petroleum
opened firm at "a, but became heavy after
the first sales and declined steadily during
the day until near the close, when q slight
recovery occurred, and the market closed
steady at 9216.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-21
LOCAL MARKETS.
WROLEsALE.)

SALT LAKE CITY, September 20. 1885
Corrected Daily by Sears d Lfadte.)
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-21
Afternoon Railroad Stocks
Chicago Produce Market.

= O1uCO uIHKh
CHICAGO. Septemb Der 20.
Commencing to-day the board of trade
will have one session lasting till LIS in
stead of two sessions as heretofore
Wheat-Stronger; cash, $50; October, 90;
December, 92k; May, 9555s.
Corn-steady; cash, 49,; October. 427s;
December, 375s; May, 3S1s.
Oats - Steady; cash, "a; October, 241g;
December. PAS: May, p Lilo.
Barley-Nominal
Pork--N eak, lower; cash October, "A 573a;
November. 13 971z % IA.
Lard-Easy; cash-October, 1910; No
vember, 9 60.
AFTERNOON.
Rye-Dull; 81.
Barley-Nominal
Whisky-20.
Bulk NJ eats-Unchanged.
Short Ribs-S 50GS. S21S.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-21
California Fruit Sales.

CHICAGO, September 2O-Montgomery &
Company sold four cars of fruit Prices bet
ter for desirable peaches; dead ripe sold
lower.
Grapes-Muscats, 95 o. e5; Tokay, .45@
2 rs: Firran, l.75 o. 20: Emperor, 20.
salway Peaches-60 @ so.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-21

GET rid of that tired feeling as quick
as possible. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla,
which gives strength. good appetite,
and health. Is.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
Senator Edmund's Test.

A Washington despatch says: Sen
tor Edmunds was in his seat when a
card was handed to him. The square
piece of paper which lay before the
senatOr-for it could scarcely be called
ii card-bore the name, "Willis Howe
The letters were angular and awk-
wardly scrawled. 1t was apparently
the work of a boy or half grown lad.
The senator arose from his seat, and
crossing the corridor entered the mar
BILE room, where his visitor awaited
him. He found the latter in CONVEX
does he want? 2" queried the sena-
tor, gruffly, addressing the clerk:
ale wants some money to take him
home. He says he lives in Vermont"
''What did you say your name was R''
asked the Senator, studying the char
acters on the card.
"Willis Howe" was the boys reply.
"But how do | know that you live
in Vermont7 You might come from
Texas, for all that | know"
81 can only assure you that | speak
the truth, senator. | have no way of
proving it. My home is in the village
Of"
On, lC Is, Is lGF' salu tue senator
grimly. "Well, I've visited in that
place number of times. | suppose
you know every body there, don't
YOU Z"
The boy replied that the people he
didn't know were not worth knowing.
"Well, them" said the Senator, "tell
me the name of the fat old man who
pebbles milk about town ,"
"He isn't fat and he isn't DID," ans
wered the youngster doggedly. ellis
name is Skinny Eccles."
The faintest sort of smile lit up
the Vermont senator's stern features.
Turning to his clerk he said "Give
him the money. There's no doubling
the boys honesty" and then he added
with a chuckle as he turned to re-
enter the chamber, ''Skinny Eccles
Well, well. | haven't thought of him
before in a dozen years.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
HOW TO REDUCE THE SURPLUS
Illustrated BY Little Story.
Rosfon Transcrirf

Boston Transcript.
The Listener has nothing to do Will
politics, but he supposes that he car
safely be reminded of story by a po
| litical incident. Senator Sherman
seems 10 think that the way to reduce
the surplus is to reduce it and in pre-
senting this extremely simple program
he not only recalls the case of Chris
tian in Doubling castle, who languish-
ed in torment under the horrible tyr
anny of the Giant Despair until he al
at once bethonght him that he had the
kew of the outside door in his inside
pocket, but recalls to the listeners rec
objection thrilling incident that was
related to him by its actual hero.
81 had been suffering for some time, y
said the narrator of the story, "from a
sort of nervous exhaustion, which,
without greatly reducing my bodily
strength, left ME in state of paraly-
sis of the will and extreme and con-
slant WEAKNESS. One day | had got
into the bathtub, and had sank into a
sort of agreeable stupOr, allowing the
hot water to run slowly, raising the
temperature moment by moment, and
all the time adding to the sense of dull
physical delight that | was in. | had
not slept for more than forty eight
hours and, as you may imagine, this
condition of delicious repOse soon had
its natural effect III putting me to
sleep. And the hot water was slowly
and steadily running all the time.
shall never know how long | slept it
may have been no more than two min
utes, but it seemed to me when | final
L. fao ft,l tlnt |
was being boiled alive, that / must
have been asleep an hour, and that
during that time the temperature of
the water had risen to at least the boil
ing point. | knew perfectly well that
| was being slowly boiled to death,
and perhaps not SO very slowly, either.
My first impulse was to cry for help.
opened my lips to shrek, but my voice
seemed as if paralyzed in my throat.
| cuOld not utter single sound What
was | to do7 | could see the boiling
water slowly, noiselessly, pouring in.
My agony was becoming most intense.
My head was on fire, my senses reeled,
my memory set up a frightful dance of
torturing "Reminiscences felt even a
certain pleasure when | became aware
that L was fainting then it would be
all over.
"But suddenly my sinking senses
seemed to rally. | opened my eyes
again, and all at once this thought
came into my head:
"'Why not get out of the tub y"
81 had not thought of that before. l
sprang up with mighty bound, and
landed on my feet in the middle of the
room. The steam fairly drifted in
clouds from the surface of the water in
the bathtub. Sick and faint as was
| could not restrain myself from laugh
ing one long, maniacal laugh. And
assure you, my dear boy, you are the
first man to whom | have ever related
this dreadful incident since the day of
its occurrence"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
ALLEGED HuMoR.

Instructive gratitude.-Maud, (al
aristoeratic child): "How pretty ant
clever YOU are mother! Pm so glal
you married into our family J"
Next summer the Concord school o.
Philosophy will discuss whether mar
shall have his beard or his face shaved
-(New Orleans Picayune.
A correspondent asks "if it is reall J
| true that Job was troubled with boils.'
There can he no doubt that he was il
he had them.-[ Binghampton Repub-
lican.
A strange thing: Jones-Strange
thing, Mirandy every time you draw
breath somebody dies. Mrs. Jones
Well, | amt going to stop breathing
on that account.-[TexasS iftings.
John Dumpsey went into a railroad
restaurant the other day, and startled
his father by asking: Pa, what are
these men standing up to eat for
Have they been spanked
An IrisIlman, seeing vessel very
heavily laden and scarcely above the
waters edge, exclaimed :-"Upon my
sowl, if the river was but little
higher, | do believe the ship would
go to the bOttom."-[ Washington
Critic.
A little girl read composition be-
fore the minister. The subject was
"a cow" She wove in this compli-
mentary sentence: GA COW is the
religion"
+ He Gust introduced) -"What very
homely man that gentleman near the
piano is, Mrs. Hobson." Mrs. HObsOn -
"Isn't he /! That is Mr.. HobsOn." He
(equal to the Occasion)-"Oh, indeed !
How true it is, Mrs. Hobson. that the
hOmely men always get the prettiest
wives"
Rubinstein, when in Leipzig, was
one day visited by very pretty girl,
who asked permission to play for him.
After her somewhat doubtful perform
ance she arose and asked the great
master, who was smiling ironically !:
"What shall | do 2" "Get married"
was Rubinstein's laconic answer, given
in tone of conviction.
"What is the standing army of the
United States z" asked the teacher. at
are the men," replied the smart bad
boy who only came in last term, "whO
hang on to the straps in the street
cars" And the principal sat up that
night until the moon went down, try
ing to decide whether he should mark
that boy zero, minus, and lick him, or
10 plus, and give him toy pistol
[Burdette.
Mormon elder Ito shoe dealer)-I
want to get pair of shoes for my wife.
Shoe dealer-Yes, sir. What number,
please Mormon elder-Seventeen
Shoe dealer-SeventeenR Great Brig
ham, sir, we haven't shoes that
Target Mormon elder (sternly-rm
not speaking of the number of the
shoe, sir, but of the number of the
wife, NewYork Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
A HantheIn.

A sailor who had visited cathedral
and had heard some very fine music,
was descanting particularly upon AL
anthem which gave him much pleasure.
His shipmate listened for time and
then said: 81 say, Bill, what's han
them ~ "What" replied Bill, "dOn't
you mean to say you don't know what
hanthem is 2" "Not me-" "Well,
then, I'll tell yer. If was to tell yer,
ERE, Bill, give me that 'andspike,
that wouldn't be hanthem. But was
| to say, Bill, Bill, Bill, give give, me,
give me that. Bill give me, give me
that hand, give me the hand handspike
spike spike. Bill, give, give me that,
that, hand, handspike, hand, hand
spike, spike, spike, spike. Ahmen, ah-
men. Observation-Disclosures, spike
ALI men, why, that would be a han
themn
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
The Unloaded Gun Goes off Again.
Greenfield Gazstte Jan

Il Greenfield Gazette. Jan. 9.
III Didn't know it was loaded" has
gain resulted in one of the saddest
tragedies OH record in North Brook field
Dis time in the family of Eugene A.
farrer. About 9 a. M, Tuesday, the
|t,yO children, a little girl of nearly
bur years, and IA smaller brother u year
Did, caught sight of a revolver in Il bu-
eau drawer. Their inquiries about it
{ ed the mother to take it out and into
The kitchen, where she was showing ii
Do bOarder, and suppOsing it not
Epaded, she drew the hammer back
khile the children stood directly be-
.bre her. 1t escaped her grasp, and "A
=epOrt followed. The little girl, Flor
nee fell at her mothers feet, the bull
et having penetrated the head from
4 he front to back. Medical aid was
summoned and the bullet taken out.
.All efforts to calm the morther were
iunavailing, and fears of her reason are
entertained. 1t appears that Mr.. Far
rer loaded it during the previous night
in his sleep.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
Not Like the Books.
Detroit Free Press.


"James," he began us the clerk en-
tered the private office, ''the new year
is close at hand"
eyes, sir.n
elbow long have you been with us ~
"Twenty years, SIT"
"Ah Twenty years. You came in
from the country with all your worldly
possessions tied up in II cotton hand
kerchief."
81 did, sir.''
"You left home determined to
achieve success"
eyes, sir"
"YOu believed that honesty and in
tegrity would be rewarded, and that
faithful service would meet its re-
ward"
That's the way | reasoned sir"
"Ah | remember the morning you
applied for situation. liked your
looks and the way You talked"
Thanks, sir"
"Now, james, my partner goes out
with the new year. I've been thinking
of you"
"Of your long and faithful services
ayes, sir.n
And I'm going to reward you. I'm
glad it's in my power to do so. | shall
commence the new year alone"
EXACTLY"
"Witl limited capital
"Ah ~
"And it will therefore be necessary
tO reduce all salaries. On all the 9TH
ers | shall make IA cut of Is per cent
Owing to Your long and faithful ser
vices, | shall make the cut in yOur case
only 10. That's all, james, and hope
you will try and get down half an hour
earlier in the morning, and also bc "a
little more economical with the gas and
| fuel"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
WHAT TWO OLD BOYS DID.

The melt who think that the soil OF
Vermont is sterile, and will not repay
Cultivation, do not know. In an adj
7lresS delivered ut the Vermont Board
5bf Agriculture meeting at Richmond,
December 30, by Hon. William Chaplin
bf Middlesex, member of the board e,
was the following instructive and in
feresting passage:
fBut | wish to cite one or two in
Btances of good farming near home. UP
bn the hills, one and one-half miles
west of the state house at Montpelier,
there was an old pasture of some thirty
pr forty acres. 1t was much like othe T
bid hill pastures-cOvered with stones,
stumps, some lodges and bearing fair
crop of the usual pasture grasses, some
brakes and weeds. About ten years
ago the owner Colonel Elisha Payne
ewett, began to improve this land by
Rigging out the stones and stumps,
blowing, cultivating, manuring liber-
4lly and reseeding. He has now got
bver about One-half of it, and so well
Rnd thoroughly has he done it that the
past season he cut from thirty to forty
IONS of choice hay at two cuttings
ad quite a field of pOtatOes-all Oh
ess than twenty acres. Adjoining
#his is the farm of Hon. Homer Wal
ice HeatOn. This a few years age
Las one of those run down, neglected
deserted farms, with tumble do WI
buildings, looking like the 'abomina-
lion of desolation' and standing where
e ought not Now all is changed, tidy
buildings, well drained and cultivated
;elds and everything apparently pleas
bit and prosperous. Possibly, Square
leatOn does not farm it quite as well
Is Colonel Jewett, but then he is not
Is old, being only seventy-six, while
Hewett is in his eighty-seventh year
am heartily glad these boys of the
lid school have been able to set sc
bright an example for the boys of this
Generation. If you call this fancy
hrming, | can only say | wish there
was more of it. If more of our retired
merchants, lawyers, bankers and CAPT
<taIists would spend some of their sur
plus in this way, giving employment
Ind pay to poorer men who need it, il
Guild greatly hasten that happy time
when none shall be for the party
81 But all shall be for the state;
~ When the rich man shall help the poor man,
And the poor shall love the great
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
German Press Censorship.

They have reduced censorship il
Germany to Il very fine point--in fact
to an exclamation point. The HofeI
Tagblatt recently announced thai
ii decoration had been "conferred
upon Count Won Holstein !" The ex-
clamation point was inserted by mis-
stake in place of Il period, but the
authorities took it in earnest as a
mark of derisOn or sarcasm, seized the
whole edition of the paper and opened
suit against the editor for atrocious
libel. Such thing in this country
would make us kick or laugh, accord
ing to circumstances.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
A WORD TO THE GIRLS.

ii Girls, whatever else you may do, dc
bot marry a man who drinks intoxi-
Eating liquors. Young men addicted to
kaking a glass now and then will,
doubtless, laugh at you ifyOu call their
Aabit a vice, or hint that it is anywise
dangerous. They assure you in a
Iprdly way that they know what they
re about. They wonder what you
1ake them for Haven't they control
Enough over themselves to take a
sDcial glass, now and then, and stop
here Why, you talk as though they
~ere common drunkards! And so
hey are liable to become. There Is no
9slfety in playing with poison. He who
touches pitch must be defiled. The
Rrst glass makes room for the second.
The appetite for strong drink grows
Rith what it is fed upon. The man
Tho drinks a glass of brandy or whisky
kb-day will want another tomorrow.
"a he is not strong enough to abstain
<fOm the first glass, how is he to put
Away the seconds Young woman, be-
Fare of him Shun him as you would
ane infected with the plague! Oh,
s pung girls, fair and pure and loving,
blink of what lies before you'll Think
ID the moral contamination, the miser-
hble degradation, which hangs around
the drunkard, and fOrswear the young
nan who drinksl Smile no more up
IN the deadly sin of wine-drinking
born it, Never give its practice your
1sAnctiOn in ever so remote Il degree
Ole, that the women of our nation
fOuld turn their face, as one woman,
entirely from the man who drinks
On, that the mother would close the
ElpOrs of their houses against the wine
thinking young man as against the
seper, and let society understand that
20 embryo drankard will be received
- honOred and respected into its ranksi
Eall us radical or fanatical, if you will
lit matters not we are bound to the
5}elief, born with us, that no man is
zAfe who takes the first glass of liquor.
kor, if he takes the first glass, he may
ant the second; but, if he never
Akes the first, he cannot take the sec
ind. Again we say to you, young
bills, bewarel No matter how hand
|spme, OF fascinating, or wealthy, II man
Day be-if he drinks, turn away from
Jim, and save yourself from becoming
hat most miserable of all wOmen-a
hmm |, ard1s -yifaf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
An Early Start.

A Harrison, (Me.) farmer got up the
other morning, made a fire, fed and
MIXED his cows, and his wife had
breakfast ready, before either of them
discovered that they had made a mis-
take in reading the face of the clock
and that it was then only little after
one O'clock. They didn't go back for
another nap, but kept on with the
cllurning, dish washing, etc, and had
the days work abont done before any
of their neighbors were up.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
Probate of Will.

CTATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT SIS.
= In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. Johnsbury, within and for said district the
10th day of January, A. D. 1888
An instrument purpOrting to be the last Will and
Testament of James Hunt late of St Johnsbury
by Jacob G. Hovey, the Executor therein
named, for Probate:
1t is ordered by said Court, that all persons
concerned therein be notified to appear at a session
of said Court to be holden at the Probate Office
in ST. Johnsbury, the 18th day of January
A. D. 1889 and show cause, if any they may haya
against the Probate of said Will for WHICH
purpose it is further ordered, that a copy of the
record of this order be published three weeks sue
cessively in the Caledonan, printed at ST.
JOhnsbury, previous to said time appointed for
hearing.
BY the Court, Attest,
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge,
true copy of Record Attest,
1895 WALTER p. SMITH Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
Desirable Residence For Sale.

1 will sell my house Webster st. in St. Johns
bury. 1t contains IL besides bath ROOM halls
pantry, closets, and all modern cclveniences. 1t
Is new and was built 'pon honor and not 'sto
SELL" Good furnace, barn and shed, with spacious
grounds. 3Otf HENRY @. BATES.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
Farm for Sale.

One-fourth mile outside the village limits of ST
Johnsbury, at the head of Pleasant ST., within the
village school district containing one hundred and
fifty acres, cutting seventy-fve tons of hay, and
very productive for wheat, oats, and all crops
grown in northern Vermont. a thrifty wood lot
of fifteen acres. Well watered, with good water
ed and in all respects desirable place for resi-
dence and for profitable farming; A portion OF
the purchase money remain if desired.
RICHARD w. PEA BODY.
June 20, 1887. Aft
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19

DIR. j. III. Jones of Windsor, grand
patriarch of Vermont, has been ap.
pointed assistant surgeon, with rank
OF lieutenant colonel, on the staff o.
Lieut.. Gen. j. C.. Underwood of the
PatriarclIs Militant.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
FOR SALE.

established over thirty years; only the
Plain A first class chance for live party to
obtain an established business cheap. Possession
given January 1st, 1888. Reason for selling, am
going South. GEO NJ. WILLIAMS.
ST. Johnsbury, VT, Dec. 20, 1887. soft
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
Desirable Property for Sale.

offer for sale my residence at the head of Main
Street House large. convenient, beautifully To-
Gated, and in a splendid neighborhOod. Good barn
Lot half an acre, giving good garden.
also offer tor sale my farm consisting of thirty
acres of good land tilage and pasture, tillage in
high state of cultivation and less than quarter
of mile from the village.
l want an immediate customer for either, will
sell cheap enough to make Investment an obi ect
/ mean business
Intend to remove to California car
sell and settle up my affairs. Please examine;
property will speak for itself.
w. II. PRESTON.
St JOhnsbury, March p, 1887
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19
State Normal School, johnson, vt.

The school for teachers. Terms of 20 weeks
each begin the first Tuesday of Sept. and the sec
ond Tuesday of Feb. Free scholarship. Send for
catalogue. 1 jul %
All. CAMPBELL, A M, Principal
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19

For Sale by all druggists. Price s1.O0 bottle,
six bottles for $500. Send to
DIR. 4. ). HUTCHINSON g. CO..
oct Apr. SO EgOsBURGH FALLS, VT, u. s. A.
for circulars testimonials and Treatise on
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-19

For sale by all Druggists. Prices IS cts. per
box; boxes for IS cts; sent by mail, postage
free, on receipt of price. DIR. J. FL. Schenck &
Son, Philadelphia 34as