St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-02-23
PERSONAL MENTION.

ing the week in Boston.
John Hicks and family, who left this
place for Minneapolis year ago, are
on their way East.
Charles F. Ramsay of Waitsfeld
made his old home at st. JOhnsbury a
call one day last week.
w. G. Bean of the Boston & Lowell
office has beer temporarily transferred
to WOOdsviile where he is assisting Mr..
Stowell
Mrs. F. B. Phelps of Sullivan, N.
H., formerly of st. Johnsbury East, is
still an invalid and has been confined
to her room since last October.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Nelson have
reached National City, California, and
are reported in pretty good health
with the "climate" all they could wish
for
George M. Gray and wife of Gates
Centre, Kansas, are on their way
East. Mr.. Gray has sold ont his in
terests in Kansas and will probably
locate In the East.
Oscar l.. Whitelaw, former clerk in
c. c. Bingham's drug store, is treas
urer of the New England society of ST.
Louis, one of the strongest of the New
England organizations of the West.
Mrs. Hull Curtis Benton, formerly of
st. Johnsbury, but who is now living
with her daughter in Chicago, sustain
ed bad fracture of one arm by falling
in her room not long since.
Asa S. Livingston started for Cali
fornia this morning. He goes by the
Southern Pacific route and expects to
be gone until April Is. He is accom-
panied by his niece, Flora l.. Hyde
of Hartford, Conn.
Ex-Gov. Fairbanks and Rev. Edward
t. Fairbanks were present at the Sec
ond biennial dinner of the Phillips, An
dover, Alumni association at the Par
ker house, Boston, last week. Gov.
Fairbanks was elected one of the vice
presidents of the association.
At a little gathering of family friends
at Gilmore II. Ide's one day last week,
there were five persons 81 years old,
and four of them were women who
were all born in the month of February
Two of these were the mothers of Mr.
and Mrs. Ide.
Col. Higginson's Lecture.
Col. Il. w. Higginson delivered his
lecture on the "AristOcracy of the dol
lar" in the Y. M. G.. A. course Tuesday
evening. His subject simplified was
the aristocracy of wealth, considering
first the disadvantages. and next the
advantages of this new aristocracy
Like all of Col. Higginson's work il
was n scholarly and finished produc.
ton. Unfortunately the speaker had
not recovered from the illness tha
compelled him earlier i'm the season tt
delay filling this engagement until the
present time, and had not fully recov
ed the use of his voice. The audience
overlooked this, however, and CAV.
him good attention.
Those who thought that Col. Hig
ginson was little ''slow," (and they
are not greatly to be blamed, perhaps
as he has been obliged to cancel most
count of sickness that has affected hi.
throat and made him at times altogeth
er unable to speak) may like to know
that his record is quite a remove from
anything "slow" or "tame" In 1876:
he was indicted for murder and woul,
have been hanged in all prObabilit,
but for flaw in the indictment. Th,
circumstances were these: He was on,
of the leaders in the great anti-slaver
movement and in 1853 headed ban
of men that attacked the Boston cOur
house for the purpose of liberatin
Anthony Burns, fugitive slave i
custody of the u. S. marshal. In til
free fight that followed, one of th
marshal's men was killed and Mr.. Hig
ginson, who had received a sabre Gu
in the face meanwhile, was indicted fO
murder as above stated. Later on il
, 1856, he was one of the hardest fighter
in the Kansas border ruffian times an
in the late civil war raised regim ent
and commanded II cOlOred regiment i
active service, fighting until compelle
to leave the service because of wound
. received. All this aside from the lit
erary work which has really given hil
his reputation, a reputation any ma
might be proud of.
From Southern California.
: A private letter from a we'll know
f resident of Southern California give
q some hints abOut one phase of the Ca
n ifornia boom which people who thin
8 of going there will do well to remen
h ber. He writes: "One word abot
: the back country, i. @. acre propert
q improved, or not. 1t is all too high
# price for one to buy and work and g
e any better return on investment ths
q farmers do in Vermont, only that wol
f can be carried on here every month
r. the year and with more comfort than
IF New England. But it is significal
e fact that there are as many fruit farm
for sale in proportion to the who
number, as there are farms in Called
!, MIA county. 1 have talked with a gre
: many ranchers and they say they Ina
+ had enough of 1.-THE same as farme
do with yOu-and | think this san
condition holds good all over the We,