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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-07
Washington Territory.

SPOKANE FALLS CIV. IT,, May 6th.-
Young Dempsey, claiming the lightweight
championship of California, has challenged
Billy Lynn Burke, of Idaho, bare knuckles
tor any amount, at any place, the fight tc
come off within a week.
Jerry Flowers (colored) challenges
Thomas FRAZIER for $500 a side He say.
he will knock him out in ten rounds OF
forfeit the mocey.
The Republicans and Democrats both
hold Conventions here tomorrow to nom
mate delegates to the Constitution Al Con
vention..
Paul F. Mohr, Chief Engineer of the s.
l.. s. and Z. Construction Company, says
the company has increased their capital tt
So, 600, which is being rapidly sub.
scribed in New York. Work will com.
mence with force of several Thousand
men on June LIST.
San Rafael Election.
SAN RAFAEL, May 6th.-The town cleo
ton held to-day was the liveliest in it,
history. There were two tickets in the
field, one proposed by the Iroquis Club and
Club ticket was elected with but one excep
ton. The following were elected Trustees
Callille Grosjia, Henry G. Gieske, NJ. ]
Mulhorn, Jacob Short and John Sheehy
Clerk and Assessor, Charles L. MalIon;
Treasurer, r. w. Johnson; Marshal and
Collector, James Watson. This was The
hardest fight in the history of San Rafael
Both tickets were being we'll canvassed anG
the result was very close. -Four hundred
and fifty votes were polled and the ma
iorities were very small.
Trial Trip OF the Charleston.
VALLEJO, May 6th.-The tug Monterey
left the navy yard this afternoon, carrying
as passengers the Naval Board representing
the Government ON the trial trip of the
cruiser Charleston, which will take place
tomorrow morning at o'clock. Tit
Board consists of Commodore Benham
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-07

PREJUDICE and ignorance have given way
to Simmons Liver Regulator. 1t has stood
the test.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
VERMONT NEWS.

E. w. Odds store, Bowles' hote1
and James Currier's house were burn
ed at Norwich Wednesday.
An interesting trial has been going
on for some days past before Judge
Tyler at Bra ttleboro, over a set OF
false teeth. The suit was brought
by DR.. Woodbury. against Dan Bros
nahan, who refused to pay for the
teeth on the ground of their not be-
ing satisfactory. The judge award
ed the plaintiff $3.50 damages and
costs of suit
E. X. Hard, administrator of the
estate of the late Andrew Wheeler OF
Fitchburg, has sued the Central Yer
mont railroad for $4,000 as the re-
suit of'the death of the deceased from
injuries sustained in the Hartford ac-
cident about 1 1 months after it's oc-
currence. The railroad settled with
Mr.. Wheeler for his personal loss but
this suit is brought for the benefit OF
the next of kin.
These particulars have been re-
ceived in regard to the fatal accident
a t kinney's mill in Marshfeld, Dec.
II: The saw rig had been going on
ly about 10 minutes, when the heavy
balance wheel burst from the result
of a sand crank or flaw, the pieces
striking and instantly killing Frank
Dale and Sewell Brown who were
loading wood into a cart some - or
IA feet away, both being hit by two
pieces in their head and backs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19

1868, Il can have little doubt that
my writing has been in the main too
hard for many | should have been
pleased to communicate with; but
never designedly tried to puzzle Peo-
pie, as some of my critics have sup
posed. On the other hand, | never
pretended to offer such literature as
should be a substitute for cigar or
game of dominoes to an idle man:
So perhaps, on the whole, | get my
deserts, and something over-not a
crowd but a few l value more" Mr..
Browning repeated this thought on
his death bed when he said he was
satisfied with the way his poems had
been received. His latest volume,
consisting of 80 poems, with the title
of "Asolando," was issued on the
day of his death. In 1916, Mr..
Browning married Elizabeth Barrett,
herself a poet of no mean order,
whose writings are more popular
than those of her distinguished hus-
band. Mrs Browning died in 1861.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
A NOTABLE BANQUET.

Over 400 business men of New
England attended the annual ban
quet of the Boston Merchants as
ISOLATION at the Hotel VendOme last
Thursday evening. Ex-President
Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie, Henry
w. Grady of Georgia, and Hon. w.
L. Putnam of Maine, were the special
guests of the evening, and all these
gentlemen made speeches at the ban
quet Ex-President Cleveland made
strong plea for ballot reform.
Editor Henry w. Grady of the At
lanta Constitution gave an eloquent
address on the race problem. Mr..
Grady drew a pleasant picture of the
material prosperity and prospects of
the negroes, the cordial relations
between them and their white
neighborsin regard to industrial and
social matters, and the benevolent
and protecting attitude of the former
masters. But-the negro vote can
never control in the South. This is
the ultimatum.
Answering the question of the
Presidents message, when will
the black man cast a free ballot ?"
Mr. Grady replies: "When ignorance
anywhere is not dominated by the
will of the intelligent. When the
laborer anywhere casts a vote I'M
hindered by his boss. When the vote
of the poor anywhere is not infu-
enced by the power of the rich.
When the strong and the steadfast
do not everywhere control the suf
frage of the weak and helpless-then,
and not till then will the ballot of
the negro be free"
After handsome tribute to New
England Mr.. Grady raised the fol-
lowing prayer for Vermont demo-
Gratis:
Il believe the best product of her
New England's) present life is the
procession of II, 900 Vermont demo-
Gratis that for twenty-five years, I'M
diminished by death, unrecruited by
birth or conversion, have marched
over their rugged hills, cast their
democratic ballots and gone back
home to pray for their unregenerate
neighbors, and awake to read the
record of26, 900 republican majority.
May the God of the helpless and the
heroic help them, and may their
sturdy tribe increase"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
MILD WEATHER ACCOUNTED FOR.

The Caledonian has scarcely dared
publish the new theory of the hydro
graphers of the navy, accounting for
the milder winters in New England,
for fear that some dread cold snap
would knock all these fine theories
higher than a kite. But the way
December has served us up to the
present writing is encouraging, and
it is well to know that scientific men
Law the mildness to the nearer ap-
proach of the gulf stream. The gulf
stream has changed its course so as
to approach the New England coast
one hundred and fifty miles nearer
than formerly. This great river of
warm water flowing from the Gulf
of Mexico and the Caribbean sea,
past the capes of Florida and thence
northeastward across the Atlantic,
past the British isles, is supposed to
account for the comparatively mild
climate of those islands, whose lati-
tade is the same as that of the ice
bound coast ofLabrador, as the great
Pacific current of like character gives
to the state of Washington, in the
latitude of Quebec, a climate like
that of North Carolina.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
THE CRONIN MURDER TRIAL.

One of the most remarkable muir
der trials in many respects of the
present century was brought to a
close in Chicago Monday in the find
ing of three men guilty of murder in
the first degree with sentence of life
imprisonment and fourth one as
accessory gets three years in prison.
The newspapers of the country
have been filled with proceedings of
the Cronin murder trial for months
indeed they have been so full and the
trial has lasted SO long that many
know little about it. Briefly the case
is this Members of the Clan-na-Gael,
a secret society of Irishmen, conspired
to take the life of DR.. Patrick Cronin
of Chicago, upon the ground that he
was British spy. Early last spring
DR.. Cronin disappeared. Later his
dead body was found in a sewer.
The authorities of the city went at
the matter with commendable zeal,
and before very long Daniel Cough
lin, police detective in the employ
of the city, Patrick O'Sullivan, an
ice-man, Martin Burke, loafer and
John kunze were arrested for this
cold-blooded, premeditated assas-
sination. Ever since the last week
in August this case has been on trial
counting the weeks it took to secure
q Jury Every effort has been made
to defeat justice, but without avail
unless one considers the fact that
they are not all to hang, a defeat of
justice. States Attorney LOngeneck-
er rand the Judge did their whole duty
The jury hung out over 70 hours,
standing II to one for conviction.
Finally there was compromise,
thus saving the necks of these scoun-
drels, giving Coughlin, O'Sullivan
and Burke life sentences, and Kunze
three years i'll prison.
1t must be admitted that under the
circumstances Chicago justice is not
to be despised. Many an Eastern
city would not have done as we'll
1t is believed that there are at least
four more cOnspirators who are inn
plicated in that foul murder and
there is hope of more arrests.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19

The Swedish colony that is going
to settle in Northern Vermont come
from Springfield, Mass. and the land
is located in Essex county, right on
the Canadian border. Five Spring
field Swedes have each bought 50
acres Mr.. MAMMAL of MAMMAL &
Co., the promoters of the enterprise,
is going over to Norway himself the
first week i'll January to bring a col
Ony over, and the firm will this week
send a Swedish agent from Spring
field to Sweden for the same purpose.
Mannall & Co, now control a tract
of $1,000 acres of land. all of which
is said to be the finest quality of farm
land
In connection with the death of
Oliver Johnson it is interesting to
know that the 10 mot ~ men who
organized the New England anti
slavery society, the first of its kind
in this country, January l, 1882,
were Samuel E. Sewall, David Lee
Child, Ellis Gray Loring, William
Lloyd Garrison, Isaac Knapp, Oliver
Johnson, Robert B. Hall, Isaac Child,
John Cults Smith, Joshua Coffin.
Mr.. Johnson was one of those who
framed the constitution of the sOci-
ETY., and the first meeting of all the
II men who formed it was held De-
cember 10, 1881, so that Johnson
died within one day of the anniver
sary of decisive date i'll his life.
John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet,
celebrated his SD birthday at Ames-
bury, Mass, Tuesday. Though his
evesight and hearing are failing the
good old man says: Il feel that |
have been blessed far beyond my de-
serving l am grateful to the divine
Providence, and | TRANQUILITY wait the
close of life which has been longer
and, on the whole, happier than l
had reason to expect, although far
different from that which | dreamed
of in my youth He has begun a
poem on the theme of Columbus
discovery OF America, and four or
five verses are composed already,
but he is leisurely in his task, and it
is likely that he may not complete it
before 1892. Mr.. Whittier has an
unnumbered host of friends who have
been helped by his writings.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
LOCAL NOTICES.

Remember that L. F. Gaskill is
headquarters for confectionery. We
have been there and know for our
selves.
Bagley was SO busy he did not
get time to change his adj, but he is
well supplied with footwear for the
holiday trade all the same
The average woman of society APP
preciates the comforts of a perfect
toilet table. There has been on ex-
hibition this week at the warerooms
of Paine's Furniture Co, 4S Canal
street, Boston, an exquisite design
in the form of an eighteenth century
toilet table, which has been greatly
admired. The price is only $35.
1t is unquestionably true economy
to buy the best rubber footwear
made. Any company who makes
that kind certainly should be given a
fair test. The Wales GOODYEAR Co.
are making a great bid for your trade
in the way of quality.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
TNDERGROUND WIRES.

Prof Richard T. Ely cleverly re-
butts the argument against under
ground wires by writing in the
Christian Union of how it is done in
Europe:
AS l visited and passed through
city after city, | noticed that no
telegraph poles in any city, not even
the smallest, dishgured the streets
and endangered the lives of the fire
men while obstructing their work
with street wires Here is marked
superiority over our cities, for even
in our greatest city, New York,
telegraph poles still advertise to all
the world corporate domination
among us In Europe no difficulty
is found in burying wires, and other
wise getting them off the streets.
Wires run out of London for twenty
miles and more underground, and in
Germany wires run underground for
even hundreds of miles. We can say
to those who supply electric services
of one kind and another to us,
Either you proclaim your own in
competency or you tell falsehOOds
when you say that electric wires
cannot be buried" Where electric
services are rendered by government
no difficulty seems to be experienced
in removing wires from streets.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
NOTE. AND COMMENT.

Little Marshall P. Wilder is talking
of going on the dramatic stage, but
he can hardly hope to stand very
high in the profession, observes the
Boston Herald.
The December returns of prices OF
farm products to the department OF
agriculture are lower than ever be-
fore Farmers are having pretty
close times now, but it's a long road
that has no turn.
Chief Justice Fullers remark that
"the people should support the gov
eminent, and not the government
the people" is very concise way OF
putting a truth that is in danger OF
being overlooked.
The Boston Herald has done no
BILE work in getting a fund for the re-
lief of the families of the Boston fire
men who persisted in the fire on
Thanksgiving day About $4,000
has already been received. Let such
good work 90 on.
Under our republican form of gov
eminent any citizen can reach the
highest office in the land. Three
months ago Iceman Turner was re-
ceiving $12 a week for driving an ice
cart in New York He has recently
been elected to Congress and will re-
ceive salary of 500 a week.
After struggling through Secre-
tary WINDOWS annual report the
Christian Union finds that 1.-The most
gratifying portion of the report is its
conclusion, in which Mr. Window
gives civil service reform, and the
character of the officers it furnishes
for the government, the heartiest en-
dorsement which has yet come from
the present administration.
Nellie Bly, met with five days de-
lay in Ceylon In her race around the
world in rs days. BY the new SEIZED
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
THE BRATTLEBORO POST OFFICE

The case of the BrattlebOro post
office has been brought to the front
again by an attempt to secure the
appointment of a new postmaster.
The case is briefly this: Soon after
the election of President Harrison a
petition was circulated to have the
present Brattleboro postmaster re-
tanned. The names on the petition
represented more than three-fourths
of all the voters and more than four
fifths of all the republican voters do
ing business at that post office; and
the signatures represent at least
nine-tenths of all the business done
at the office. These figures are from
the Phoenix, a staunch republican
newspaper.
This petition was sent on to Wash
ington and matters have remained
in statu quo until a week or two
ago, when Col. Hooker appeared be-
fore the Vermont delegation at Wash
ngton in behalf of the appointment
of Lieut.. Harmon for the Brattleboro
office This has naturally stirred up
the very large majority of Brattlebo-
reans who asked to have the civil
service rules, the republican platform
and President Harrison's letter of ac-
ceptance adhered to in the retention
of Postmaster ChildS.
We neglected to mention that
Capt. Childs, the present postmaster,
is democrat and that Lieut. Han
non is a republican. 1t cannot be,
however, that either the President
or the Vermont delegation in Con-
gress will disregard the expressed
wishes of nine-tenthS of the patrons
of the Brattleboro post office for par
tisan reasons, and the Phoenix very
properly asserts that ION this show
ing the signers of Capt. Child's petit
ton can well afford to stand firm,
and place the final responsibility in
the matter where it belongs-on our
senator's and representative in Con
gress and the President
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19

Kabo, Kabo, Kabo---that sounds
like an African name.
It means a corset bone" that
can't be broken---if it can't be
broken, it doesn't stick into you
so it means a bone" of comfort,
not of contention.
It means corset bone" that
doesn't kink--if it doesn't kink,
the corset can't roll up in the mid
die as eorsets are apt to do---so it
means a "bone" that stays where
you put it.
1t isn't "bone" at all, but Ka-
BIO, Kabo, Kabo; and Kabo means
a corset you wear a week or two
or three, till you make up your
mind about it, and then come back
to us and get your money, if you'd
rather have money than Kabo.
We have a primer on corsets for
you at the store. 34-5
F. A. CARTER.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
DEATH OF ROBERT BROWNING.

Robert Browning, the greatest
of modern English poets, died of
pneumonia in Venice last Thursday
night. All students of literature will
sincerely mourn the death of the
man whom Richard Grant White
called 1.-THE intellectual phenomenon
of the last half-century. His pro-
found intellectual style often made
his writings obscure and few of his
poems are popular. Those stirring
lyrics, "Herve Riel'' and How they
brought the good news from Client
to AK" are familiar to every school
boy, but his finest productions have
had few admirers and readers In re-
ply to a charge of obscurity of style,
Mr. Browning wrote a friend in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19

ule she ought to reach Hong Kong,
Dec. %; Yokohoma, Jan. Z; San
Francisco, Jan. %; New York, Jan.
%. She left New York Nov. 13.
Miss Bisland, who is going around
the world in the opposite direction,
to beat Nellie Bly's record may make
it interesting for her yet. A practical
feature of this race will be to awaken
interest in European and other coun-
tries in facilities for more rapid and
comfortable transit. The foreign
journals have already begun discuss
ing the tri p and it is not unlikely
that good results will follow.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
The PreSidentS Message.

The message will not awaken party
enthusiasm, and it does not indicate
leadership. tits plain and detailed
account of the national situation,
but it is the story of a faithful clerk
rather than of a statesman. But,
none the less, its picture of peace and
prosperity at the close of the centen-
NAL year is very gratifying, and
leaves only the wish that the nation
al honesty, intelligence, and courage
may be such as to deal wisely with
the grave problems which even peace
and prosperity present. Harper's
Weekly
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Killed on the Railroad Track

Harry Glidden and Eta Durgin of
Dover, N. H., while walking on the
track Friday heard an engine COM
ing Gildden cried Here comes a
train" and pushed her to one side,
while he jumped to the other He
was hit on his right side, but was
not much hurt, while she was struck
on her right side and her body torn
to pieces, death being instantaneous
The family is stricken with grief, the
mother being made insane.
Funeral of Oliver Johnson
The funeral Of Oliver Johnson was
held Friday at New York, at the
Unitarian church of the Messiah
The pastor, Rev. Robert Collyer, and
Rev. ]. w. Chadwick, pastor of the
Second Unitarian church of Brooklyn,
oficiated. Rev. Mr.. Chadwick in an
address of some length paid an
eloquent tribute to the life and
character ofthe dead man. Rev. Mr..
COllyer made a brief address, eloquent
in praise of the dead man, whom he
described as his dear friend for 35
years The pall-bearers were the
four sons of William Lloyd Garrison.
The burial took place at Longwood,
Pa, Saturday, and the sermon was
preached by Rev. Robert Collyer.
Murder of Siberian ExiIes.
Reports have reached London of
massacre of Siberian eXiles who hav-
ing heS1tated, contrary to orders, III
regard to the withdrawal of a petit
ton, were attacked by police and
soldiers. Six were shot dead, includ-
ing young woman, and nine were
wounded. The preteXt for the at
tack was that the petition was of a
rebellious character. A court mar
tial condemned three of the survivors
to death, and the others to long
terms of Imprisonment. One of the
wounded was carried to the gallOws
on bed. When the moose had been
adjusted, the bed was removed.
Friends of the victims declare this to
be the worst case in Siberian records.
Jefferson Davis mustered Abraham
Lincoln into the service of the United
States in the Black Hawk war in
1881.
Patrick Sullivan was instantly
killed in New York Saturday by re-
ceiving an electric shock from the
dynamo i'll the Manhattan electric
light works.
DR.. E. E. Higbee, state supt. of the
Pennsylvania schools, is dead. He
was a native of Vermont, a graduate
of the University at Burlington, and
had been state superintendent of
public schools of Pennsylvania for
over eight years.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
ANNUAL VILLAGE MEETING,

The inhabitants of the village of st. Johns
bury, who are legal voters in said village, are
hereby notified and warned to meet at the
Court Room, in the Court House in said vii
1age, on Wednesday, January 1 A. ID. 1890,
at one O'Clock in the afternoon, to act upon
the following articles, viz:
ARTICLE L. To elect all necessary officers
for the year ensuing, to wit President
Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, five
Trustees. seven Fire Wardens and three
Auditors.
ARTICLE II. To see if the village will vote
to raise money the Grand List of said vii
1age to defray the current expenses and pay
the inStallment and interest the funded
debt coming due in 800.
ARTICLE III. To what the voters will
do, or authorize the Trustees to do, in regard
to lighting the streets of said village by
electricity for the year to come.
ARTICLE ". To transact any other bust
ness that can legally be done at said meeting
JNO. c. CLARK, Clerk of the Village.
St. Johnsbury, Vt, Dec. II, 1889. 34-5
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
THE ICE BUSINESS.

1 am preparing for the winter campaign
and intend to put in one thousand cords of
ice-enough to last for at least twelve m onths
without any danger of failure of supply.
Last year the supply failed to hold out, but
it was not my fault, as bought the stock of
my predecessor in the business, and therefore
could not fairly be held responsible for its
shortage. Next year ice will be ample in
quantity and excellent in quality, and the
prices will be reasonable. l solicit the orders
of old and new customers, and guarantee
satisfaction. JOSEPH CLOUTIER.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-19
To the Newly Welded in 1890.

The CaIedonian is offered free to newly
welded couples for one year from date of
marriage. The conditions are that either
bride groom, or both, be a resident of Cal
edonia or Essex counties, that a notice of
the marriage be sent the CALIFORNIAN for pub
LEGATION, together with a request for the pa
per under this offer. and 10 cents to cover
postage This offer will stand good from
Dec 1st instant, until further notice.