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Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-01-07
Wanted.

A Colored engineer, one who is
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can get a position by applying to this
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Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-01-07

Seneator Sherman in his great speech
on the presidents message in the SEN
ate Wednesday, punctured that re-
markable document as full of holes as
the bottom of seive.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-01-07
Notice..

The members Of the Y. M. S. C. are
hereby notified to meet at their rooms
next Tuesday evening. Business of
importance.
G. A. MASON, Pres.
w. BROWN, Sec.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-01-07
Card Of Thanks.

Mrs. Willis Gilbert desires hereby to
return thanks to the friends of her
deceased husband for their generous
assistance in her hour of need and es-
pecially to Mr.. G. Waldron.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-01-07
Grand total profit.


chairman, in behalf of the committee,
presented to Carlos H. Williams, treas
urer of the board of trustees, a check.
The hectic sociable held some weeks
previous to the fair Melted 1882, this
amount and 40 cents more was used in
procuring material for the fair. The
secretary, Miss Oracle Johnson, rend-
cred an itemized report of each booth,
prize, ETC., which has been compared
and adopted by the ladies of the vari-
GUS committees, and also rendered in
behalf of the chairman of the fair and
other chairmen a detailed list of ex-
penses, all of which we have carefully
overlooked and find it to be correct in
every particular. We therefore wish.
through the columns of the APPEAL, to
thank the ladies for $9l6.4O. and also,
for having conducted in the name of st.
James A. NJ. E. church, what all pro-
nounce to be one of the most creditable
and successful fairs ever given in the
Northwest. The whole effort was
characterized by the utmost harmony
and good feeling. All of the committees
feel pleased with their success, all of
the contestants are perfectly satisfied
and express, in warm tones, their ap-
probation of the fairness shown in the
distribution of prizes. Each contestant
was given something. Two mink over
coats, three ladies' watches, etc., etc.
The official board in conjunction with
the trustees, are arranging for some
time in the near future, to give a liter
airy and musical entertainment and ban
quet in honor Of the ladies of the COM
mittee. A list of the various COM
mittees will appear in another issue al
so further reports from from ontstand-
ing reports.
Booth No. | has So yet outstanding
which will soon be reported.
]. NJ. HENDERSON, pastor.
T. III. LYLEs,
r. TAYLOR,
d. HARDIN, Trustees.
g. III. WILLIAMS.
VIM. QUEEN.
Ed. PARKER.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-01-07

TIE event of the new year was an in
formal gathering at the residence of
Mrs. M. D. Pettis OIL Temperance street
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
ALMOST ANOTHER BRADFORD
DISASTER.

The through express from Montreal
to Boston on Friday, which passes ST..
Johnsbury at 2.30 p. M, drawn by the
Passumpsic locomotive Hubbard Hast
ings, of which Edward Loaither of
WOodsville is engineer, and E. j..
Davis of Plymouth, fireman, met with
an accident at East Concord, which
was most unaccountable escape from
IA terrible catastrophe and loss of life.
The train, in charge of Conductor c..
Il. Bean of Newport, was about 30 min
utes late, but not going faster than
usual, some Is OF 90 miles an hour.
At East Concord there is side track
on either side of the main line below
the station, the one on the left leading
to freight house some 20 or 30 rods
below the depot the one on the right,
which is close beside the main line,
was occupied by Il loaded coal train.
When the train was within IL rod or so
of the switch, the fiange of the wheel
on the forward truck of the locomotive
on the fireman's side broke. The en-
gineer Immediately reversed and set
the air brake, but by this time the en-
CINE had reached the switch, and there,
with the tender, jumped the rails and
followed down the siding. The break
ing of the engine from the train set the
air brake, but the passenger cars kept
down the main track till they reached
the frog, when they also left the rails,
but kept on till they reached the
freight house, when they stopped up
right. The freight house is some 10 or
IL feet away from the siding and A feet
above it. The engine when it reached
the end of the freight house, broke
from the tender, turned at right angles,
jumped up the bank, and rolled over
upon it's side into and across the end
of the freight house, complete wreck
of wood and iron. The tender kept on
down the track, turned completely end
for end, and stopped. From out of the
debris the fireman dragged himself,
and assisted the engineer, who had re-
manned in the cab till thrown from it.
The engineer suffered cuts upon the
hand and head, and severe bruises, but
nothing, probably, but what he will
recover from. The train contained
about so passengers. They were bad
ly shaken, though none received inju
ries. The cars remained standing up
right though derailed. The forward
end of the baggage car and platform
were pretty badly smashed, and the
platform and steps of the second class
passenger were badly broken but be-
You'd bad wrenching and the natural
results of a severe shaking, the other
cars were apparently uninjured. Had
the wheel broken when the train was
under full speed, the loss of life must
have been great.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
Bringing the Young Man to the Point

A story comes from over the water
of some good advice which Rev. DR..
Moore, once the pastor of the Central
Christian church, Cincinnati, gave not
long ago to young lady, member Of
his London congregation. The young
lady is an orphan and was in love with
one young man while she was courted
by another. The young man she low
ed had shown her attention for several
years, but no word of sentiment had
ever passed between them. Finally
the young man who had steadily court
ed her for months proposed matrimOny.
Putting the sutton off, in desperate
straits she went to DR.. Moore.
''Did you say the young man yon
love had shown you some attention 2"
asked DR.. Moore. "I'll tell you what
to do. Just sit down and ask his ad-
vice. Tell him the fact that you are
an orphan, with no one to counsel,
leads you to come to him for help.
Tell him frankly of the young mans
proposal and of your hesitancy about
accepting husband, and then tell me
the result"
In a few days the young lady ap-
peared at the doctors side as happy as
a meadow lark in June. She had writ
ten the letter the doctor had advised,
and us quickly us a train could travel
an answer came.
"Don't accept; I'll see you to-mor-
row."
And he did see her on the morrow,
when he confessed his love and said he
had never avowed it before because he
was waiting till his income would war
rant the discussion of matrimony.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
Mrs. ID. 4. Morrison.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
Continued Misrepresentation.
National Temperance Advocate.

The New York Sun is still grossly
disappearing the effect of the pro-
hibitory laws of Maine. 1t says "the
working of the prohibitOry system in
Maine is farcial and unsatisfactory to
the last degree" 1t points to Bangor,
where the shops are not entirely closed
as an illustration of the entire state
But this is grossly unfair. In three
fourths of the state there is not an
open saloon not distillery or brew
cry in the entire state. There is a
cloud of peachable witnesses to
the benefit of prohibition in the state
This may be and undoubtedly is Gun
satisfactory" to the Sun, but it is quite
satisfactory to all true prohibitionists.
The fact that in two or three cities the
traffic has not been entirely driven out,
but flaunts it's black flag defiantly, does
not prove anything against the bene-
fetal effects of the law elsewhere. But
the fact that the success of prohibition
in other parts of the state. in Georgia,
in Iowa, Kansas, and other prohibition
stronglIOlds, is almost entirely sup
pressed i'm all the New York daily
papers, shows the power of the liquor
traffic. The people are beginning to
discount the position of the metropoli-
tan papers, and look elsewhere for the
true statement of affairs as to the
workings of the law. The Sun ought
to lie the first to give the true light OH
the question.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
SQUIBS.

No beer, no demonstrations no dem
onstrations, no speeches no speeches,
no yawpers no yawpers, no anarchists.
The figures of this year, 1888, resem-
bic three big girls and a dude as they
spread themselves across the pave
ment on fine afternoon.-[W Williams
port Sun Banner.
Friend Ito happy father) -"Hello,
Jones, let me congratulate you. hear
you have a new boy at your house."
Happy father-"By George! can You
hear him all this distance 2"
Father Rascom-'I do wish the
thrashing machine would come around
this way" Johnny RascOm-"Oh, pa,
that reminds Teacher wanted me to
tell you he was comm to our house to
board next week."
Omaha mother-Where is Mr. Nice
fellow Lovely daughter (stting alonel
-"GOne home" "HOme It's only s
O'clock" "Yes-he asked me to to
marry him, and-and | said mo- and
and he went right otf-bOo hoo hoo ~
-[Omaha World.
Countryman Ito hotel clerk II reck-
on you'll have to give me another
room, mister. Clerk WHATS the mat
ter with the one you have2 Country
man-The sign says, "Don't blow out
the gas" an, b'gosh, can't sleep with
all that light in the room.-[New York
Sun.
A Hartford youngster goes to church
where the concluding amen of the par
sons prayer is sung by the choir. The
other night after he had said his pray
ers, he produced harmonica from be-
meath his pillow and astonishcd his
mother by blowing blast where the
amen came in, remarking: "That's
the way we do in church."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
DAKOTA'S DEAD.
The story of Suffering and Death No
Half Told.


Dispatches from Nebraska City dated
Jan. 81 bring sad reports of the results
of the Dakota blizzard Judge j. F.
Kinney, agent of the Yankton Sioux
Indian agency in Dakota, arrived there
after being nine days on the road.
Five days were necessary for the party
ing the FIVE days was 400 below zero
most of the time. The judge says the
loss of life in Dakota has been greatly
underestimated, as the Dakota papers
have tried to cover it up. He describes
the scene which took place on board
the cars. The coal was running low.
The passengers were crowded into
one car, trying to keep warm. Two
babies persisted. The men discarded
all the outer garments they could spare
and gave them to the ladies and child
rem. Finding these not enough, they
brought mail sacks from the postal car
and wrapped the children up in them.
While at one station in BOnhomme
county 10 frozen bodies were brought
into the depot in one day. In the same
county the list of dead will reach fully
I60. The reports made at YanktOn
of the loss of life throughout the terri
tory figure up 1000. The northern and
central parts of the territory have not
been heard from fully. The judge
named number of curious incidents
relating to the wanderings of people
who went out in the storm. Mrs.
Browning of Turner county went from
her house to the stable, a distance of
100 feet, and her body was recovered
Sunday, seven miles from home. Chas.
Dollinger, farmer of Turner county,
persisted seven feet from his house.
A woman, name unknown, of the same
county, went out to care for her chick
ems, and was found two miles from her
house. Roads from the agency to
Yankton are lined with dead cattle,
many farmers lOsingsall they had. One
man lost over 100 head. The loss of
stock cannot be estimated. 2. L..
Clark and wife of Yankton county
were driving toward Yankton when
the blizzard struck them. The horses
refused to proceed, and were turned
loose. Mr.. Clark took strap and
fastened one end to Mrs. Clark and the
other end to himself, and, turning their
backs to the wind, wandered at ran
dom. They came to a haystack, into
night. In the morning Mr.. Clark
crawled out and proceeded to IL house /;
he was obliged to crawl on his hands
and knees, as his clothes were frozen
stiff. He reached the house and pro-
cured assistance to go after Mrs. Clark.
She was dead when found. William
Reiswag and hired man, living near
Trip, were found frozen to death
within few feet of the stable, to which
they had gone to care for stock. Joshua
Taylor and two sons, near Scotland,
started to water their stock before the
storm came up. Their bodies have not
yet been found. Judge Kinney has re-
ceived word from the agency, and he
says, while large number of Indians
were out hunting and hauling wood
none are missing. The judge was ac-
companied all through the scenes of
suffering by his wife. Both were
slightly frozen about the hands and
feet
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
A STORY OF LINCOLN.
Boston Herald.

Gen. Charles l.. Williams, an init
mate friend of President Lincoln, no
ticed woman go by his Office window,
day after day, her shabby dress getting
more shabby, her sweet, refined face
more sad and worn, her step more
weary, her looks more Responding, un-
til his good heart was touched, and he
made inquiries to- learn who she was
His friend said I. "Why, General, she
is q Mrs. WadswOrth, from Vermont
She has boy in the army, little fell
low of thirteen, who ran away to join
He is now across the river, on the Po-
tomac. She has lost two sons in the
battle of Bull Run, and this boy is her
last. She is u poor widow and she is
trying to get the boy discharged. She
went to the secretary, but he stuck his
thumbs in his vest arm holes and re-
marked:
"'Madam, am glad we have him.
That's just what boys are good for !"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26

She has given it up, and is going home
in despair"
"NO! by the gods! she is not going
home in despairm exclaimed Gen.
Williams. "Bring her to my office.
will authenticate her story and 1 will
place 1t before the president myself J"
Gen. Williams went to the White
House, and told the story to Mr.. Lin
coin. That strange, hOmely face, full
OF grief and humor, pathos and fun,
steadfastness, will, patience, sweetness
"a face unlike that of any man who
has graced the world with SO great a
spirit before or since-softened and
grew tender as mothers. Without a
word he signed an order for the child's
discharge, and then said, simply {:
'Bring them to me-"
That evening when the boy had been
brought to Washington, clothed in cit
liens dress and united with his mother,
Gen. Williams accompanied them to
the executive mansion. Falling on
her knees at sight of Mr.. Lincoln, the
poor woman would have bathed his
feet with her grateful tears, but he
gently raised her TO her feet, saying:
MADAM, kneel only to your God.
You have a right to your boy You
have given two sons to your country.
Take your youngest back to your
heart. Have you any money, madam,
to go home with 2"
81 have enough to take me to New
York" she uttered, falteringly. "There
| think friends will help me-"
'NO-here !" and he pressed 500
note into her hand. "And as for you,
Won runaway yOunpster - he said
cheerfully, ego home and stay there.
And remember! if ever catch you in
the army again, will give you such
whipping as you never had in your
life God bless you both !" he added,
reverently, patting the boyish curls,
"and God speed"
L wonder if that mother is living to-
day! | wonder if that boy grew to be
"a man, feeling that he was crowned by
the gentle touch of Abraham Lincoln
upon his brow
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
"Where did you get 'em 7" asked

"Where did you get 'em Z" asked
Freddy.
"And see herer" continued Oily.
bobbing up for an instant, to show the
hood that covered her yellow hair, and
touching it Significantly with her fin
ger.
"where did you get 'em Z" repeated
Freddy.
"My pa worked and bought 'em and
brought 'em home, and they didn't get
i'm nobody's BARREL" exclaimed billy,
with great pride and little regard foI
grammar. Then she pressed her face
against the fence for prolonged in
terview.
"You see the tillenium has come to
our house."
"The what 2" questioned bewildered
Freddy.
"The billenium," said billy compla-
Gently cit means good times. Any
how, that's what ma called it, and L
guess she knows. 1t was just this way,
Freddy Burr. When you told me Mr..
to his store, in a barrel, l just went
me and TOddles."
LOU uIuu u. cACldlnou nOTTluCu
Freddy.
"Did, tool" declared billy, with an
emphatic nod. "Well, he wouldn't
give me one of 'em, and he was just as
cross as anything. So, then, my pa
got up from the stove and walked
home with us. He didn't scOld bit
he just sat down before the fire, this
way, and thinked, and thinked, and
thinked. At last he put his hand in
one pocket, but there wasn't anything
there and then he put it in the other,
and found ten cents, and he went out
and bought some meat for supper.
Then, when ma came home, he talked
to her, and they both cried-I don't
know what for, less it was cause we
couldn't get the things out of that old
barrel. And ma Rugged and kissed
me most to death that night.
"Well, my pa got some work the
next day, and brought home some
money and now he has found place
to work every day. He bought all
these things, and he says his little boy
and girl shall have things like other
folks. So, now you'll know what the
billenium means, Freddy Burr, when
anybody asks you; and you can tell
'em Dilly Keene 'splained it to YOU"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
Willard announces That Mrs.
subscribed 500 for a Mrs.
A Brave Soldier.

Gen. A. B. Underwood, for 81 years
surveyor of the port of Boston, died in
that city, Jan. IA of pneumonia, after
four days illness. He was one of the
bravest fighters Massachusetts sent to
the war for the Union, and has been
an efficient civil officer since his return
at the end of the war, crippled for life
by wounds received in the battle of
Wauhatchie. He was practcing at
Newton at the outbreak of the war,
and entered the I'd regiment under
Gen. George H. Gordon as captain in
May, 1861, being promoted through
various grades to colonelcy and
leading the regiment bravely at Chan
ccllorsville and Gettysburg. The 33d
was shortly after ordered to join the
Army of the Cumberland, and took
part in the battle of Wauhatchie, at
the foot of Lookout mountain, October
%. Here in a desperate charge at night
up the hill, almost inaccessible Oy day
light, in which the rigade to which
his command was attached routed the
rebels at the point of the bayOnet, Col.
Underwood was terribly wounded.
His right thigh was shattered near the
body, and it was thought he could not
live. A comrade thus describes the
scene: -
Having gotten him into an unoccu
pied, wretched old house, half mile
away, entirely destitute of comforts,
faint, helpless and bleeding, with
scarce ray of hope to comfort his sad
hearted comrades, they bolstered him
up on a wretched old bed unfit for Il
dog, raising his limbs as high as posi-
ble to suppress the blood. When they
had done all they could | turned to
him and said: Colonel, this seems a
hard fate that fellow should leave all
the comforts of u New England home,
and come away down here to be shot
in the night in the woods by these
wretched rebels" | shall never forget
his answer. Opening his languid eyes,
pale and haggard, he said: chaplain,
this is what came for. [ thought it
all over before enlisted. | have ex-
pected and am prepared for such
result, and if the salvation of my
country call for the sacrifice of my
life, am ready to render it,"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-26
THE CONNECTICUT RIVER CLAIM
For the First Steamboat.
Springfield Republican.

Mrs Mary Mann died at Fairlee,
Thursday, Jan. 10, at the advanced
age of I02 years and two months.
Among the "reminiscences of her life is
the account of her mothers experiences
in connection with steamboating on
thee Connecticut river before Robert
Fulton gave his discovery to the
world. Mrs. Mann's mother was the
wife of Jonathan Mason, one of the
early settlers of Lyme, n. H. Mrs.
Mason, at the age of 10, during her
bridal tour, took Il ride on a little
"dug- out" boat propelled by steam.
The death of Mrs. Mann is a reminder
of the fact that the Connecticut river
contests with the Hudson the honor of
first bearing a steamboat upon its
waters. Those who have looked into
the matter have no doubt of the jus
tice of this claim, and the assertion has
gone uncOntradicted for many years
that Robert Fulton got his first notion
of the practicability of steam naviga-
ton from a Connecticut river boatnan.
1t was in 1898 that the experiments of
Fulton and Livingstone began TO at
tract attention but not only the testi
mOny of Mrs. Mason but of many 9th
ers show that Capt. Samuel MOrey of
Oxford, n. H., succeeded in prOpelling
a boat by steam between Oxford and
Fairlee, in 1893. In 1858 Rev. Cyrus
Mann, whom we take to be the hus-
band of Mrs. Mary Mann, gave an ac-
count in Boston paper of Capt. Mo-
rey's experiments, which he himself
saw when boy. The story of the
Morey invention is this After he had
satisfied himself of the possibility of
steam navigation, Capt. Morey con
suited Prof. Silliman of Yale college,
and, being encouraged to continue his
experiments, he built rude affair, and
astonished the people on both banks
by stemming the current at very
creditablc rate of speed. Morey then
made model, took it to New York
and exhibited it TO both Fulton and
Livingstone, who offered him 100000
if he would perfect his invention and
change the engine from the bow to the
centre of the boat. MOrey returned to
his home, and after spending a good
deal of money met the conditions, and
again turned up in New York but he
was treated with the greatest GOODNESS.
Livingstone secured his monopoly of
steam navigation in 1898 from the
New York legislature, and Fulton Sc
cured his patent after that. MOrey
complained until the day of his death
of the great injustice done him, and
the public. not knowing the facts,
shOwered Its i'oaOIs upon Fulton.