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RONDS ISSUED BANK OFFICERS,
CLERKS,
CONTRACTORS,
ATM MODERATE EXECUTORS,
TRUSTEES,
IRECEIVERS,
TERMS FOB ADMINISTRATORS,
lGUARDIANS, &C., NC
JAMES BOND, President.
JOHN #. STONE, Scc'y and Treas.
JOHN HUBNER,
JOSHUA HORNER,
Vice Presidents.
HON. JNO. K. COwAN,
Counsel.
es-For rates &C., apply to ]. Royston Sitter,
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SyRETY BONDS

SURETY RoN DS
OF EVERY KIND
UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY.
Home Onice-S w Cor. German and Cal
vert streets, Baltic, Md
sfockhoIders Liability 5OO,OOO.OO
Total Resources $1,000. 100000
Hon FRANK BROWN, President, Governor
of Maryland from 1892 to 1895.
JOUN r. BLAND First Vice Pres, and Gen1.
manager Sec'y Merchants and Mfg. Association
from 1880 to 1886.
J. KEMP BARTLETT, JR., Second Nice-PreSldent
ALEXANDER PAYsON KNAPP, Secretary.
TOWNSEND SCOTT, Treasurer, Bankers estab-
iiShed $50.
GEO. w. TRUITT, Superintendent OF agents.
Hon IsIDOR RAYNER, General Counsel.
MARTIN LEHMAYER. WIN. b RAYNEK, Assist
ants to General Counsel.
Deposited with the Treasurer of the state OF
Maryland for security of all Bondholders
Sl00,OOO.OO.
GIVES SECURITY FOR
Executors, Administrators, Trustees, Recetv-
ers. Officers of Banks, Officers of CORPORATIONS,
Officers of Lodges and Societies, Contractors,
Clerks, Messengers, Conductors, Motormen and
all other employees.
ETGuarantecs the fu!tllment OF Contracts.
WALTER w. PRESTON,
Agent and Attorney for Hartford Co.
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NOTICE..

On May 9th. 1897, the Board OF Control and
Review ordered the Clerk to enter reduction
OF 20 per cent on all land with n valuation
above So an acre, in the entire county. and To
proceed at once, commencing with the first dis
trict and continue in the order completed
by the assessors, with the exceptions of quar-
res, railroad lands, telegraph, telephone and
oil pipe lines lie
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THE STAR OF HOPF.

l Hlt lOSl III
hope and gone to
my fathers 10 die, -
said Mrs. MOLE
EVANS, of NOHUd,
Co1peH Co., zElIS.
1 gaze birth 10 a
baby Il year ago, the
5th Of June last, "
he adds, and
seemed ~ do v"rv
well fol = OF Q days,
ard tilcu ! began to
feel very bad. MY
feet began to swell.
my stomach was all
wrong and | seemed
to suffer with every
thing that could be
borne. | was i'll Oed
< months and there
was not a day that it
seemed | could lave.
We had the best
d octors that our
country afforded. I
Was 4 5 K { lie ton.
Every one that saw
me thought that l
would never get
well. | had palDita-
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Fertilizer Licenses.

Geo, J. Finney, Clerk to County Commission
ers, in account with the Fertilizer Law OF
Hartford County:
May, 1896.
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The Henry Watson Aid Society,"

An Auxiliary Committee of the Henry Wat
son Childrens' Aid Society has been formed i'll
Bel Air. The duties of this Committee are
First to look after children who are proper OBJ
iects of charity: ID, to find homes in the coun-
ty for children under the care of the Society
Full information upon application to
REV. X. A. CASTLEMAN, Secretary, or
VIM H. HARLAN, President. 24Ie
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stops to take on Passengers for Baltimore
C stops to let off passengers.
Peninsula express, south, 1870 A. M.-week
days.
Additional Express trains leave Hayre de
Grace for Baltimore and Washington, on week
days 1.o7, LAG, 5.29 A. M, 6.12, 7.54, 9.I3P.M.
On Sunday, 1.07, 1.46, 500. AM, 6.12, 9.13
P. III.
J. K. WOOD,
J. B. HUTCHINSON,
Genn Manager
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Vim, vigor and victory; these are the char
acteristics of De Wits Little Early Risers, the
famous little pills for constipation, biliousness
and all stomach and liver troubles.
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES.
P, V, & B, R, R, TIME TABLE,

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j. B. HUTCHINSON.
GEM Manager.
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Baggage called for and checked from hotels
and residences by Union Transfer Co. on or
ders left Mt Ticket Offices, n. W. Cor Calvert
and Baltimore SITS, $50 5. Broadway Mt. Roy
al Station or Camden Station.
W. NJ. GREENE, Cen Manager.
D. b. MARTIN, Mgr. Pass. Traffic.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10

40 delegates. The Second meeting by
delegates was llled at Dorset, July "a.
1776. Thirty.one towns on the west
s de were represent, d by A delegates and
eleven towns on the east side by eleven
delegates. At this meeting measures
were taken for their defence. AT an adj
journed meeting at Westminster on the
east side, Jan. is, 1777, they voted unan-
imously on the following resolutions:
THAT New Hampshire's grants OF right
ought to be and is hereby declared for
ever, hereafter to be considered sepa-
rate, Tree and independent jurisdiction or
state by name and forever to be called,
known and distinguished by the name Of
New Connecticut" When they were vir-
tually declaring war against New York
it was a well-known tact that Gen. Bur
goyne was marching from the lake to de
stroy some possessions at Bennington
While they were exerting every effort IN
unison with New York TO meet the com
mon enemy they took measures to deiend
themselves against New York by appoint
ing vigilance committee in every town
ship and organizing small band against
any encroachment New York might make.
New York sent officers and bands of So
diers to subject them to their laws and
regulations and raids were made by clti-
zens OF New York to kidnap citizens OF
this territory on which bounty was
offered by the state OF New York by TAX
ing inoffensive citizens out OF their beds
and in their night clothes running them
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10
License to Sell Real Estate.


STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, IS.
In Probate Court, holden at the Probate office
in st. Johnsbury, ON the 21st day of August.
A. ID. 1897:
Edward p. Allen, administrator upon the
estate of Warren Roberts. late of st. Johns.
bury, in said district, deceased. makes appli.
cation to said court for license to sell the
whole OF the real estate of said deceased, con.
sisting OF one hundred acres of land, mo or
less, with dwelling house and outbulldngs
thereon situate In st. Johnsbury, aforesaid.
representing to said Court that IL would be
bent fetal to the heirs and all persons inter
ested In the estate Of said deceased to sell
the whole of the real estate OF said deceased
as aforesaid, and convert the same into
money; and also brings Herewith into Court
the consent and appreciation in writing to
the granting OF such license, of all the heirs
to said estate residing in this state.
Whereupon it is ordered by said court
that said application come under considera.
ton and be heard on the 1th day OF Septem.
ber, A. ID. 1897, at the Probate Office In St
Johnsbury; and, 1t is further ordered, that
all persons interested be notified hereof by
publication of notice of this application and
order thereon, three weeks successfully in
the Caledonan. newspaper printed at St,
Johnsbury, before said time Of hearing, that
they may appear at said time and place, and
If they see cause, object thereto.
BY the Court Attest.
WALTER =, SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10

the difficulties between the two states.
There were only IL towns north OF New
bury on which this tax was levied-Rye-
gate. Barnet, Lunenburg. Guildhall,
Maidstone, st. Johnsbury, Lyndon, Dan.
vile. Walden, Peacham, Cabot and
Greensboro. The next year Waterford
paid state tax. The first permanent
settlement was made in 1887, except the
settlement made by James Adams, and
the town was organized into township
May 6, 1875. The first town clerk was
Selah How. Samuel Fletcher was the
first constable, and the seectmen were,
Peter Sylvester David Pike and Nehe-
miah Hadey.
The cause of the delay Of the organiza.
ton after the grant was received was
that the territory on the east was
claimed by New HAMPSHIRE some so
townships on the south by Massachu
sets; on the west by New York, and the
whole by Great Britain. The people Of
this territory assisted the 13 colonies in
throwing off the British yoke. They
went hand in hand with New Hampshire
and New York in the revolution, and did
more in accordance to numbers than any
one of the 10 colonies.
No state in the union was settled with
so hardy set of men as the territory
now Vermont. They were tenacious Of
their rights, willing to make great sacri
fees to obtain them peacefully if they
could if not, they did not hesitate to
risk their lives and fortunes, They did
not consider themselves subject to any
power OF less magnitude than to the
supreme power OF the great Jehovah. No
class or body of men were ever put into
so trying circumstances. and no class
ever carried hem out SO successfully.
New Hampshire declared thu If rights to
the territory by issuing grants on the
west side OF the mountains the same as
on the east, and the state or territory
was fast being settled by New Hamp-
shire grantees on these grants. New
York did the same by issuing grants on
both sides OF the mountain nearly all OF
what is now Caledonia county had been
granted by New York to citizens of that
state. Their officers were instructed TO
force their rights by ejecling the settlers
under the New Hampshire grants, or
making them pay the second time for
their rights, or move out Under this
tyrannical usage their blood boiled II
their veins. small company OF the New
Hampshire grantees on the west side o
the mountains had an informal gather
ing at Dorset Bennington county, to TAXI
into consideration the injustice and tyr
amy of the New York grantees over thu
New Hampshire. The sentiment of thai
meeting was to sustain their rights
peacefully if they could Ifthat failed, t.
support them by force Of arms. The.
called a second meeting at Dorset, Jan
16, 1776. by delegates. Thirty-on
towns were represented by 40 delegates
, At this meeting they pledged themselve
at the risk OF their lives and property t.
defend by arms the 10 colonies agains
the hostile attempt of the British. Thi
, declaration received the signature Of tn
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10
BOSTON & MAINE R. R,
PAssUMPsIC DIVISION
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, JUNE 81, '97
Trains Leave ~. J Ohnsbury.

SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, JUNE 81, '97.
Trains Leave ~. , ohnsbury.
GOING SOUTH.
For Concord, Manchester, Nashua. Lowell
and Boston via White River Junction.
1910 and $50 a. m arriving at Boston
$40 a. m. and 4.30 pm.
For Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Lowell
and Boston via Wells River and Plymouth,
lao a. m. daily, 8 Sc, 9.45 a. m and 2.34
p. m. Arriving at Boston, g. 10 a m, 80,
AS and sop. m.
For White River Junction, Bellows Falls,
Northampton, Springfield, Hartford, New
Haven and New York, 1910 8 Sc and
9.45 a. m.
For Newbury, Bradford, Norwich and " hite
River junction. 12.+0 and $3.50 a. m. and
600p. m.
For Passumpsic, Barnet and Mc1ndoes
$50 a. M, 600 pm.
For Wells River, 1910. LAO, $3.50 and 9.45
a. m. 2.34 and 90 p. m.
For Montpelier, 9.45 a. m, 2.34 p. m.
For Littleton, $50 a. m, 2.34 and GOO
GOING NORTH.
For Lyndonvlle and Newport, 2.2O. 3.15
and 1915 a. M, 3.13, 4.27 and 1856 p. m
For West Burke, Barton and Barton Land
ing 3.15 and 10.45 a. M, 3.13 APT and
1856 p. m.
For Stanstead and Derby Line, Massawippi
North Hatley, Lennoxville and Sherbrooke
3.15 and 1O.45 a. M, APT and 1856 p. m.
For Quebec via Sherbrooke and Grand Trunl
Ry., 3.15 a. m. and Z SO p. m.
For Quebec via Sherbrooke and Quebec Cen
trail Ry., 3.15 a: m and 7.o6 p M.
For Montreal via Sherbrooke and Crane
Trunk Ry., 3.15 a. m and 1855 p. m.
For Montreal via Newport and Canadian
Pacific Ry., 2.20 a. m. tdaily), 3.13 p. m.
d.. FLANDERS,
Gen. Pass. and Tkt. Agt
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10
Commissioners Notice.

ISABEL IN, W ANDEN'S rs n u.
The subscribers, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the district
of Caledonia, commissioners to receive. ex.
anime and adjust all claims and demands OF all
persons against the estate OF Isabel N. War
den, late of Peacham. in said district, de-
ceased, and the term of six months from the
oath day of August, 1897, being allowed
by said Court to the creditors ofsaid deceased
to exhibit and prove their respective claims
before us: Give notice that we will attend
to the duties of our appointment at the
house of the late Isabel N Warden, in
Peacham, in said district, on the cath day Of
September. 1897, and the 22d day OF Febru-
airy, 1898, next. at O'Clock in the afternoon,
on each of said days.
ANDREW c. RICHIE,
GILBERT BLAIR,
ommissioners.
August 81, A. ID. 1897.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10
Probate of Will.
EMILY r. HOSMER'S ESTATE.

EMILY Is. HOSMER'S ESTATE.
STATE oFv ERMoNT District ofC aledonia.s SIS.
In Probate Court, held at the Probate once
in St. Johnsbury, within and for said district,
on the 23d day of August. A. d. 1897:
An instrument purporting to be the last
will and testament of Emily B. Hosmer, late
of st. Johnsbury. in said district, deceased
being presented to Court by Abel 2, Hosmer
the executor therein named, for probate:
1t is ordered by said court that all persons
concerned therein be notified to appear at
session of said court, to be held at the Pro,
bate office in St. Johnsbury on the 9TH day Of
September, A. d. 1897, and show cause, il any
they may have, against the probate of said
will; Tor which purpose 1t is further or
dercd that copy of the record of this order
be published three weeks successfully in the
Caledonian, printed at St. Johnsbury, previ-
Gus to said time appointed for hearing.
BY the Court, Attest,
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
true copy of record, Attest,
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10
Presentation of Account.

BETSEY III. CHEESEMAN'S ESTATE.
STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, IS.
In Probate Court, held at the probate Office
in St. Johnsbury, in said district on the 30th
day of August, A. ID. 1897.
Charles ingalls,, administrator upon the
estate OF Betsey n. Crossman, late OF Shelf
field in said district deceased. presents his
administration account for examination and
allowance, and makes application for decree
OF distribution and partition of the estate OF
said deceased.
Whereupon, it is ordered by said court,
that said account and said application
be referred to a session thereof to he held
at the Probate Office in said st. Johnsbury,
on the 18th day of September, A. D., 1897,
for hearing and decision thereon: And 1t fur
Their ordered that notice hereof be given to all
persons interested, by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the Caledonian, a
newspaper published at St. Johnsbury. previ.
Gus to said time appointed for hearing, that
they may appear al said time and place, and
show cause, If any they may have, why said
account should not be allowed and such decree
made.
BY the Court, Attest:
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10
NINTH ANNUAL
OLD FASHIONED FAIR
AT LYNDONvlLLE,
Sept. 22 and %, 1897.
Probate of Will.

JACOB G. HOVEY'S ESTATE.
STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, SIS.
In Probate Court, held at the Probate office
in st. Johnsbury, within and for said district,
on the Goth day of August, A. ID. 1897.
An instrument purporting to be thelast will
and testament of Jacob G Hovey, late. oil
ST. Johnsbury, in said district, deceased, being
presented to court by Marcus ]. Hovey, one
Of the executors 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 held at the Pro
bate office in St. Johnsbury. on the ! TIL
day of September, A. d. 1897. and show
ause. il any they may have against the pro
bate of said WILL for which purpose it is
further ordered that copy of the record Of
this order be published three weeks success
svely in the CALIFORNIAN, printed at ST.
Johnsbury. previous to said time appointed
for hearing.
BY the Court, Attest:
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
A true copy of record, Attest:
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10
ST, JOHNSBURY AND
LAKECHAMPLAIN R. R.
Summer Arrangement, June 81. 1897.
Trims Leave ~. J 0hnsbury.


Trains Leave ~. J ohnsbury.
GOING WEST.
For Danville, Hardwick, Worthwhile, Cam
bridge Junction, Burlington, st. Adams
and Rutland 100 a. m. and 500 p. m.
For Danville, West Danville, Walden, Green's
boro, East Hardwick, Hardwick, Morris.
vile, Hyde Park, 7.3o a. M, $50 and
500 p. m
For Johnson, Cambridge Junction, Burng.
ton, Fletcher, Fairfield, Sheldon, Highgate
and Swanton, 7.30 a. M. and 500 p. m.
For Stanbridge, St. Johns, and Montreal via
East Swanton, 73O a. m. and $50 p IN.
GOING EAST.
For East st. Johnsbury, North Concord.
Miles Pond and Lunenburg. 200 and 700
a. M, PAS, 4.45 (mixed) and sos (mixed)
p. IN. -
For Whitefield, Fabyans. Crawfords. Glen,
North Conway, Fryeburg, Portland,
Brunswick, Lewiston, Augusta. Waterville,
Bangor and st. John, 200 and 100 am,
and 2.45 p. m,
For Boston via North Conway, 200 and
700 a. M.
Supt Gen. Pass. Agt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10

Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. % cents,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-09-10
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.

Thi ough the White Mountains
To Lancaster, Colebrook, North Conway,
Boston, Portland lewiston. Bangor, Bar
Harbor and st. John.
LOCAL TIME TABLE-ON AND AFTER
July l.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-23

ssS A 9 Il and tender spot, very pain
ful to the touch, is located exactly
where the incision must be made to find
the appendix"
These are the three plain symptoms
which have been found in thousands of
cases with scarcely a variation.
Thus it is that many sudden deaths
occur to persons in robust health. They
are thought to have a collie, or a YER
tigo, when the truth is, that miserable
II useless little organ, the appendix,
has met with some kind of an accident
II clogs the whole machine. Perhaps
1t has only become wrapped in the tiny
web that gives it its small blood sup
! ply. but this is sufficient to stifie it; it
is wanting in the power of vital resis-
lance and withers away, emitting the
poison of death into the most delicate
part of the system.
While all this is a familiar as the A
B G to the medical profession, little or
nothing has been done to popularize
this knowledge. Even some of the less
advanced practitioners are either too
ignorant or toe lazy and Indifferent to
get at the true facts and the result is
that many are suffering and still more
dying from something that might be
cured.
Appendicitis usually occurs between
the ages of 10 and 80 years. 1t is ex-
1t is much more frequent among males
ose ages. 1t is much more frequent
1T is extremely rare agove or below
tremely rare above or below those ages.
than females, the proportion in all
countries being 20 per cent females to
80 per cent males.
The cause for this difference is of
very recent discovery and is not even.
known generally among the medical
profession. DR.. Clado, a French sur
geon n investigator, sought an ex-
PLANTATION of the comparative immu-
nifty of the female sex from the malady
and discovered that the appendix in
woman has an extra blood vessel-that
does not exist in man. This discovery
was hailed with delight by the surgical
world. 1t was not only a bit of new
knowledge of infinite value, but was ali
additional proof of the theory that the
collapse Of the appendix is always due
to its want Of vital resistance. In>man
1t has no blood supply except from
the minute veins of the web that holds
it in place. and in woman it has an
other and more abundant SURGE of sup
ply.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-23
Increases in Population.

A cry interesting memorandum is
sued by the British board Of trade
shows that, while the population of the
United Kingdom has increased $780,
GOO in a quarter Of a century, France
has only increased 2;2O0, 900, and this
is a declining ratio, while Britain's is,
at any rate recently, in a risir j, ratio.
Germany has increased II 600, Coz, and
recently in a rising ratio, while the
United States have grown by 81. 900
600, all through in a rising ratio. Be
tween 1876 and 1891 the urban popula-
ton Of France changed it's proportion
of the whole population from PA to
37.4 per cent, and as to Germany the
figures are ever more remarkable, for
her urban population grew from Sc
to AZ per cent of the whole, and in the
United States a similar tendency is
visible.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-04-23
PREHISTORIC
Devices on Pebbles Indicate Mans Ear
ly Attempts at Writing.

~ attempts at Writing.
Did the prehistoric man write on
flat pebbles? This question greatly
agitates a Frenchman who recently
explored a remarkable tunnel-like cave
near the river Arise, in the department
OF Ariege, says the New York World.
These pebbles formed a layer between
two other deposits upon the floor Of
the cave, the layer beneath them con-
tanning bone harpoons and needles. tes-
tifying to the habitation of the cave
by the prehistoric reindeer hunters of
southern France. while in the toDmost
deposit the presence of man was indi-
Gated by the discovery of polished
stone axes and other implements. The
pebbles We're apparently taken from the
bed OF the river Arise and painted with
red iron ore by dWellers in the cave
where they have now been found. The
first impulse is to regard the markings
as meaningless signs, but a classitica-
ton of them brings the conviction that
they indicate a distinct phase of pre-
historic culture. Many of the stones
are marked with bands Of red. the num-
Der of bands ranging from one to eight,
but never exceeding the latter num-
Der. Many other stones have spots
painted on them, and the suggestion is
that the figure 8 is represented by one
spot, two 9s. or Is, by two spots, and
SO on, the system of notation being
based upon. 9s. From some devices
found IN other stones and closely re-
sembling letters OF the Greek alphabet,
NJ. Ed Piette, the explorer, concludes
that our prehistoric ancestors had
reached quite a degree of culture. At
any rate, he is convinced that the
signs represent carly attempts of man
to create a system OF notation and ex-
press his thoughts in writing.