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to it with amazing alacrity.
Kansas is the banner republican
state of the United States, her majori
ty for Harrison being over 80,0H).
Hurrah for Kansas !
The Pitkiu bill polled a strong vote.
Fifty-seven votes from a Vermont leg
islature is not bad. Montpelier
Watchman.
That depends. The friends of tem
perance and of prohibition think it is
bad enough when 57 members of a
Vermont legislature can be found who
are willing to stand up and be counted
for license, particularly when more
than half of the members so voting are
republicans. No one anticipated the
passage of a license bill by this legis
lature, but it seems to us that the vote
is significant as showing that license is
growing in favor in this state, or rath
er, that real temperance sentiment is
on the decline. The Montpelier Watch
man has failed in its efforts to secure
the passage of a license law, but it has
succeeded to the extent of its influence
in weakening the hold that the present
prohibitory law already has on the peo
ple. Every member from Caledonia
county save one (Mr. Moiilton of New
ark, who did not vote at all) voted
against the bill, to their credit be it
said.
Thanksrivlii"r.
The readers of the Caledonian can
not make a better use of five or ten
minutes on this, Thanksgiving morn
ing, than to sit down in some quiet
corner and take account of stock of the
gains and losses of the year. Do not
be niggardly in reckoning up tho bles
sings of the past 12 months and do
not overestimate the sorrows that have
come to you. lie honest with your
self and with jour God and you will
find that you have more cause for
genuine thanksgiving than you have
been wont to think. One day of genu
ine, hearty giving of thanks will make
a better man of you all the coming
year, and will do you more real good
than all the big dinners you can eat.
Vermont an Expensive Liuxury.
The usual acts making provision for
the support of Vermont state govern
ment furnish little comfort for those
who would see taxation reduced. The
bills provide for a tax of 20 cents on
the dollar, as against 12 ceuts two
years ago. The total amount appro
priated this session is $1,1 50,' NX)
against $835,000 last session. The ap
propriations are as follows: First, to
pay the debentures of the lieutenant
governor, senate and house and the
contingent expenses of general assem
bly is $70,000, the corresponding ap
propriation iu 1380 was $60,000; 2nd,
$450,000 for the fiscal year of 1883-69,
and $450,000 for the fiscal year lSdO-90,
as compared with $350,000 in each case
last session j 3rd, $30,000 for the fiscal
years 1833-81 and 1889-90, for paying
the interest on the bonds and other
debts of the state, against $25,000 two
years ago; 4th, $00,000 for the same
period for paying the expenses of the
penal institutions of the state against
$50,000 two years ago. There is con
siderable talk about Vermont's de
creasing population, decaying indus
tries, etc., etc., but Vermont keeps
pace with any other New England
state in constantly increasing expenses,
whether she has anything to show for
it or cot. 1
The Railroad Commission.
It will be seen by reference to legis
lative notes that Gov. Dillingham has
appointed the Railroad Commissioners
for the next two years, re-appointing
Messrs. Pingree and Fletcher and giv
ing the third place to Ex-Gov. Orms
bee, as was understood among those
who had the "inside" at Montpelier
some weeks ago. This looks as though
it was the plan to put on one new man
each session. It also looks as though
it might be a sort of pension for the
retiring governor which is all right
provided the governor is a good man
for the place.
The bill presented to the legislature
two years ago providing for a railroad
commission and defining its duties,
was believed to be of value to the peo
ple of this state. It was intended to
stand between and help the people in
their relations with the great corpora
tions which control legislatures and
make governors and judges. Before
the bill became a law it was emascu
lated of much of its value. The com
missioners provided for by law and
appointed by the governor have served
two years. Their record is before the
people. Friends of the law who ex
pected that this commission was to
equalize freight charges and be an ar
biter between the people and the rail
roads, have discovered that the com
mission is an ally of the railroads and
not a guardian of the people. That in
stead of doing duties which the fram
ers of the law expected, their principal
work has been acting as coroner's jury
on the bodies of employes and others
killed by the railroads. While this is
important work, it is hardly worth
paying three men eight dollars a day
each and clerk hire for doing.
A bill was before the Legislature
this fall to reduce the pay of the rail
road commissioners from eight dollars
a day to six dollars aud expenses. It
was reported on favorably by the com
mittee. When it came up for discus
sion, Mr. Walbridge of Concord had
the temerity to suggest that as Ver
mont was emphatically an agricultural
state, the farming interests were as
important as those of any other class;
yet the commissioners of agriculture
received but two dollars a day. He
thought on that basis six dollars a day
was a liberal sum for the railroad
commissioners. But he was soon an
nihilated by the ready wit of Lawyer
Piouty aud the ponderous logic aud
tones of Gov. Proctor, and on a rising
vote the bill was refused a third read
ing. As now constituted the railroad com
mission does not amount to a "Han
nah Cook," save to the commissioners.
To be sure it might be of value, but
until a thorough -going, practical busi
ness mechanic is put upon the board it
will not be, and perhaps not then. As
now operated it is simply a soft place
for some politicians, without the least
reference to any qualifications for the
place.
If it is the settled policy of the state
to perpetuate the railroad commision,
the commissioners should be elected
by the legislature and not appointed
by the governor. Until then the law
will amount to little more than the
pensioning of political favorites at the
expense of the state without regard to
their fitneBS for the position.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Tho Hon. John James Ingalls, re
publican senator from Kansas and
president of the United States senate,
thus voices his opinion of civil service
reform in a letter to the New York In
dependent :
If there will be "more than 40,000
democrats in office on the 4th of March
next" about which I know nothing,
they should all be removed before tho
going down of the sun on that day,
and more than 40,000 republicans ap
pointed in their stead: What the at
titude of the administration will be, I
have neither opinion nor information.
If tho Hon. John James Ingalls has
his way he will be a large contributor
to democratic success in 1892. Much
more iu sympathy with advanced re
publican thought is tho position taken
by John D.Long iu the same paper, that
"the country may look and is entitled
to look to see President Harrison do
all that can be done to promote the
efficiency and independence of the civ
il service."
As evidence that Mr. Ingalls is not
in sympathy with the incoming ad
ministration on this point, and that
Mr. Long is right in his statement as
to what the couutry is entitled to ex
pect, we quote the following from Gen
Harrison's letter of acceptance :
The civil service law should have
the aid of a friendly interpretation and
be faithfully and vigorously enforced.
All appointments under it should be
absolutely free from partisan consider
ations aud influence. . . . Further
legislation extending the reform to
other branches of the service, to which
it is applicable, would receive my ap
proval. . . . Only the interests of
the public service should suggest re
moval from office. ... It will be
my sincere purpose, if elected, to ad
vance the reform.
As though this were not enough
here comes the Indianapolis Journal,
which is considered to be a Harrison
organ, with an editorial article which
is regarded as very significant in high
republican circles. The article in
question appeared in the issue of the
23d.
The "clean sweepers," the Journal
says, "should not be unreasonable in
their demands on the next administra
tion. . . . The more unreasonable
the demands aud expectations in this
regard the greater the liability to dis
appointment. ... The republican
party is fully committed by its plat
form pledges to civil service reform,
and General Harrison has declared
himself in fnll sympathy with it. The
republican party is pledged to use
discriminations in removals from of
fice, as well as in appointments there
to, aud to use both primarily for the
public welfore rather than for suppos
ed party advantage. The civil service
law must be obeyed."
In the light of these statemeuts and
utterances would it not be well for the
horde of hungry office seekers who
are already getting ready for the fray
to stop a moment and do some hard
thinking. That there are inefficient
men holding public positions, who
ought in the interests of civil service
and every other reform to be removed,
there is no doubt ; but that there are
some efficient officers, who, though
democrats, are serving the country
both intelligently and faithfully is also
true. The unceremonious removal of
this latter class before sundown on the
4th of March might please Mr. Ingalls,
but it certainly would not be iu the in
terest of genuine civil service reform
or of good government. The nation is
to be congratulated that it is Gen.
Harrison and not Mr. Ingalls who oc
cupies the presidential chair.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Harper's Bazar loses none of its at
tractiveness as the years go by and a
rich literary feast is promised for 1889
as the prospectus in another column
shows.
Vermont's official vote for president
as shown by complete returns from all
the towns is : Harrison, 45,192 ; Cleve
land, 10,788 ; Fisk, 1459 ; republican
plurality, 28,404.
There have been heavy frosts in the
fever-stricken districts of Florida and
telegraphic dispatches from the South
say that it is now safe to travel in any
part of Florida.
Scribuer's magazine though young
in years has already won for itself an
enviable position in the magazine
world. It has evidently come to stay.
See prospectus elsewhere.
W. II. II. Murray, in response to an
invitation from a number of the prom
inent citizens of Boston, has consented
to deliver a lecture iu Boston on the
general subject of our international re
lations with Canada. Mr. Murray se
lects Dec. 13 as the date and "Conti
nental Unity" as his subject.
Mr. Powderly had everything his
own way at the general assembly of
the Knights of Labor at Indianapolis
last week, and was re-elected to his
position at the head of the order. After
Iiia re-election, Mr. Powderly took the
floor and stated that, although his sal
ary had been left at $5000, he would
accept only $3000, and at the end of
his term the order could do what they
pleased with the balance.
THE LEGISLATURE.
What is Being Done In Montpelier.
In accordance with the recommenda
tion of the joint committee on fiual ad
journment, of which Mr. Hazen was a
member, the legislature adjourns this
(Wednesday) morning. These last
days of the session have been busy
ones and some important measures
have been passed and others rejected.
The school law controversy was
brought to an end Thursday by the
passage of the school bill 129 to 94,
Caledonia representatives voting for
the measuie with but one or two ex
ceptions. Considerable opposition was
developed finally, the chief objection
urged being that the bill provides that
towns now using the town system may
abolish it by a majority vote at the
annual meeting, but does not allow the
towns, which so desire, to adopt the
system. An attempt to amend the bill
in this particular failed. The salary
of the state superintendent was cut
from $2000 to $ 1500.
The educational bill went back to
the house from the senate Monday with
proposals of amendment which, in the
main, were agreed to. As amended
the state superintendent of education
is to be elected by the general assem
bly and receive a salary of $2000 per
year. The school bill before Wednes
day morning will doubtless become a
law.
Tho bill appropriating $20,000 to
assist in building a bridge between
Grand Isle and North Hero "passed by
a single vote, 109 to 108.
An appropriation of $100,000 has
been made for building a state iusaue
asylum.
The vote on the highway bill was
very close, the measure being killed by
a vote of 115 to 113.
The bill appropriating $0000 an
nually to the university of Vermont
was passed unanimously, with amend
ments. Tho money is to be expended
for two purposes specified in the bill,
$3000 is to bo used in securing compe
tent instruction in the industrial arts
and $2400 in paying the tuition of 30
studeuts, one of whom is to be appoint
ed by each senator in the general as
sembly.
Representative Mann's bill to estab
lish a bureau of immigration aud farm
statistics has passed the senate, the
bill was amended by reducing the
number of commissioners from three to
to one, and raising the salary from $3
to $5 a day and expenses.
The Pitkins' license bill was defeat
ed in the houso Friday 149 to 57,
Some forty republicans voted for the
bill. The prohibitory law has been
tinkered more or less but has not been
materially changed.
The following bills have become
laws : An act to incorporate the Mari
time Canal company of Nicaragua; an
act fixing the standard weight of a
bushel of salt at 70 pounds; an act
making the fiscal year to end June 30;
an act incorporating the Vermont so
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals
Appointments by the Governor.
Governor Dillingham has made the
following appointments:
Supervisors of insane, Homer Good
hue of Westminoter, Russell S. John
son of Concord and Chester M. Ferrin
of Essex.
Directors of state prison and house
of correction, W. H. H. Bingham of
btowe and John V. Cramtou of Rut
laud. Railroad commissioners : Samuel E.
Pingree, E. J. Ormsbee aud T. C.
Fletcher.
Board of agriculture : W. W. Cooke
of Burlington, William Chapin of Mid
dlesex, Marvin W. Davis of Westmin
ster, Homer W. Vail of Pomfret, Rollin
C. bmitli of Pittsford and Edgar N.
Bissell of Shorehara.
Carl Schurz arrived in
New York
from Hamburg Saturday.
What Killed the Suffrage Bill.
Miss Laura Moore, secretary of the
state woman's suffrage association,
thus explains the cause of the over
whelming defeat of the woman's suf
frage bill in the house :
The bill presented this year provid
ed that women who pay taxes shall
have the right to vote in town meet
ings. At no former sessions has there
been so much time devoted to its con
sideration. In addition to hearings
before committee and a public hearing
in Representative Hall, one whole day
was devoted to debate on the passage
of the bill. Unanswerable arguments
were ably presented by. Messrs. Marsh
of Woodstock, Ballard of Burliugton,
Mann of Wilmington and South worth
of Middletown Springs. The opposi
tion made no attempt to answer the
arguments presented, but resorted to
the usual methods of defeating justice.
Sentimeutal eulogies on women, sar
casm, attempts at low wit, and false
representations concerning the number
of petitioners. When the vote was taken
yeas and nays were called for and the
remarkable vote of 192 opposed, to 37
in favor, was the result. One error
has since been corrected which makes
the number 38 in favor. Several things
helped :
1st. The votes of men naturally op
posed to the principle of equal rights,
the born or educated tyrants.
2ud. Votes of men who represent
the interests of the liquor traffic, and
all bad men, as these have reason to
fear the ballot in the hands of woman.
3d. Small men, those who fear to
compete with women, intellectually.
But no oue supposes any such number
of one or all of these classes found
their way into the Legislature, at one
sessiou. No, the overshadowing rea
son for the defeat was openly present
ed in the debate and everywhere in
private stated to be this "if women
had the right to vote they would vote
with the prohibition party and thus
injure the republican party." The
spirit that burned aud hung in effigy
the men who voted as conscience dic
tated in 1834 now appears in Vermont
Legislature, and men sworn to fidelity
and occupying the dignified position
of legislators, make use of their de
puted authority, to take revenge upon
the women engaged iu temperance
work, by this denial of the principles
for which the forefathers fought and
died iu the war of the Revolution, and
all women in the state are refused the
right to represent their taxes. Whith
er are we tending?
"God is not dead ; nor doth lie sleep,
The Wrong shall fail,
The KigUt prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men."
LAURA MOORE.
VERMONT NEWS.
George M. Frye, who has been well
known to the travelling public as clerk
at the 1 rotter house, Bradford, and
lately at the Memphremagog house,
Newport, has bought and taken poses
siou of the Wells River house.
Mrs. Robert Owens of North Poult-
ney, gave birth last week to four chil
dren, two boys and two girls. They
are all healthy and are all doing well
at last accounts. Her next oldest child
is 11 mouths. She has a total of 12
children, the oldest being 10 years old.
The nine-year-old son of Fred Hitch
cock was killed Monday by the falling
of a tree at Morristown. Tho boy went
into the woods to carry dinner to
his father, who was chopping, and as a
tree was about to fall the boy was told
to run, but he ran the wrong way aud
was instantly killed by the descending
tree.
Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, who
has been elected president of the Cen
tury club, to succeed the late Court-
laudt Palmer is a native of Montpelier,
a son or the late Hon. Daniel 1'.
Thompson, the novelist, author of
"The Green Mountaiu Boys," "May
Martin or tho Money Diggers," etc.
He was a page in the Vermont senate
iu 1802 and 1303. He graduated at
Amherst college, read law and was ad
mitted to the bar and settled in the
practice of his profession in New York
city iu 1870.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A Great Storm.
The snow storm that was so slight
an affair in northern Vermont Sunday
nijrlit prevailed with great fury in
lower New England and New York
Along the New England coast greal
damage was done to 8liiminr. l no
storm was terrific in Portland Harbor
where it proved one of the most de
structive storms known tor years
Vessels caught on the New York lakes
were tossed about indiscriminately
Telegraph wires were broken down
train service interferred with in some
instances. It is impossible to estimate
the money loss.
1 he full effect of the great storm be
comes terribly apparent as further iu-
tormatiou is received. It was on the
sea that the greatest havoc was done
and the coast of Massachusetts is
strewn, with wrecks. Worse still, the
loss of human life has been appalling
and simply unprecedented in such
connection. There have been storms
in recent yeers winch did far more
damage to property, but it will belong
remembered as one of the most tern
bly destructive in its effect on shipping
which ever visited our New England
coast. The indications are that its
record of casualties will be worse even
than that of the dreadful blizzard of
last March, and the probability is that
the story of the storm's savage work
among our shipping is not yet halt
told. For days to come there is, un
happily, reason to expect that the col
urn ns of the New England newspapers
will continue to contain accouuts of
Buffering aud disaster.
Sumner C. Foster committed suicide
at the Fabyan House Thursday by
shooting. He was bookkeeper and had
been missing since September G. He
was partially deranged.
Ex-Senator Rollins of New Hamp
shire fell in a fit on the streets of Bos
ton last week. Though somewhat
better he is still under treatment at
the city hospital iu Boston.
The License Bill.
Burlington Fret Press.
It needed little knowledge of the
temper of our people and of their repre
seutativesat Montpelier, to predict the
fate of the licence bill. However im
perfectly the existing law is euforced
in some places, it everywhere puts the
selling of liquor for any purpose except
the proper ones recognized by law, un
der a ban ; and drives it out of sight.
Our people are not, and will not be in
tins generation, ready lor a change
which would permit open saloons aud
bars, in the larger towns, and offer
open temptation to the men who are
fighting against their appetite for
drink, and to young men whose habits
are in process of formation. With the
entire democratic vote of the House,
the bill obtained republican votes
enough to give it oue vote in four.
Of course the arguments urged Tor high
license in states where there is little
or no restriction of the traffic, have no
force in Vermont. In them high
license is a restriction ; here it would
be a relaxation of wholesome restraint.
LOCAL AND TOWN NEWS.
New England Still to the Front.
W. J. Connell, Esq., of Omaha,
whose nomination for Congress after a
close contest was mentioned in Sep
tember, was elected by a plurality of
3,407 over his democratic opponent.
In view of the tact that the district
trom wnicu lie was elected, two years
ago gave the democratic candidate for
Congress over 7,000m ajority, this may
be properly called a political revolu
tion, says the Omaha Bee. Mr. Cou
nell's constituency, comprising 00,057
voters, numbers not less than 305,000
people. This is one of the largest con
stituencies any man has ever repre
sented iu the lower house of Congross.
Mr. Connell is a native New Englaud-
er and married a Vermont lady, the
daughter of Mrs. A. G. Chadwick of
this place. Ho is a young man and the
above record is sufficient evidence of
his ability. The Omaha Bee says edi
torially that, while he has always been
a staunch republican, he believes in
curbing the power of monopoly, and
will favor such measures as will ame
lioiate the condition of the laboring
man and give the producer relief from
oppressive burdens.
We wish there were many more men
like Mr. Conuell iu Congress as well as
out of it.
Senator Rates on Tobacco.
The senate had a lively debate on
the bill to prohibit the sale or gift of
tobacco to minors last week in which
Senator Bates of this county took a
conspicuous part. The bill prevents
the sale and gift of tobacco to persons
under 10 years of age. Senator Bates
moved to amend so as to prohibit the
sale of tobacco in any of its forms to
any person, an amendment that was
unfortunately lost. Then Senator
Bates moved to amend by making the
limit 21 instead of 10, which was also
lost. Then, after having taken such a
remarkably advanced position on the
question, he voted against the bill,
which passed, however, 18 to 12. The
Journal quotes Senator Bates assaying
during the discussion that no legisla
tion on this subject would be success
ful until the fathers set the example to
their sons and gave up the use of the
weed themselves. He was not in fa
vor of making laws for the children
which the parents could not live up to,
nor of prohibiting the former to do
things which the latter were every day
declaring by their actions to be right.
Senator Bates' remarks on this sub
ject ought to have some weight for there
isn't a more inveterate smoker in Cal
edonia county.
BARNET.
Au auction will bo held on Friday,
Dec. 7th of the personal property of
Mrs. J. II. Clement's estate. Ora Bish
op is auctioneer. The sale coutinues
through the week and embraces a large
amount of household furniture.
Little Joe is a rosy-posey, curly
headed, pretty little boy not yet four
years old. He eulogized the parson's
cat and we meekly enquired his name.
"Lizzie Jane," was the ready reply, "I
named him for Dick aud mo." Not long
since he advised a neighbor to kill a
refractory hen, so she could have
soino hen pork.
EAST BURKE.
Miss Tillie Lowell is at home having
vacation.
Miss Katie Stafford is at home to
spend Thauksgiving.
Alvah Gibson contemplates moving
to R. R. Street, St. Johnsbury.
Mrs. Stoddard has been worse since
receiving news of the death of her sis
ter, Mrs. Taft of Sutton.
Mrs. J. E. Farrow receivod the sad
news of the death of her oldest brother
of typhoid fever in England last week.
AU desiring a singiug school this
winter are requested to meet in the
hall at Parker's hotel Saturday eveuing.
WEST CONCORD.
Dr. Jewell was called last Wednes
day to the residence of his father's
family on account of the death of his
father.
The ladies of the M. E. society of
West Concord will hold their annual
fair on Wednesday, Dec. 5, with appro
priate entertainment, oyster supper,
ice cream, etc. All aro invited to come
and aid the ladies in a good cause.
IIAKDWICK.
Mrs. Wakefield, mother of Abel
Wakefield, died the 20th., in -her 7Gth
year.
E. D. Pingree of the Standard Granite
company has returned from Maryland
where ho has been erecting a soldier's
monument.
The proposed railroad to the Buck
Lake quarry begins to look like a
reality. The surveyors have been at
work from a point below Smith's cross
ing. Ira Shattuck and C. S. Cobb are both
mentioned for republican postmasters
and both have buildings suitable for
government quarters. If there has got
to be a chauge from the present effi
cient incumbent a good many would
like to have the office in Cobb's block.
KAST IIAKDWICK.
Otis Ilovey was at homo over Sun
day. Fred Noble has been spending a few
days at home.
Kev. E. E. lingers preached iu Mont
pelier last Sunday.
Hunt & Babbitt have just received
110 bbls. Lake apples which are very
good stock.
ThankRcrivinc services will be held
in tho Baptist church at 11 o'clock.
Sermon by Dr. Hulbert.
School begins her next Monday with
Mr. JNewton and Mia uradiey as
teachers. Miss Millie Adgate teaches
at Greensboro this winter.
The selectmen have opened a road
leading from the depot past A. I.
Cummings1 new shop aud coining on
to the main road just above the Stev
ens barns.
The village Improvement society
will hold their fair the second week in
December. Those having articles for
the fair are requested to leave them
with Mrs. G. L. Johnson.
J. C. Chandler was thrown from a
load of hay one day last week and se
verely injured, lhey were binding
the load when the binder broke, he
was thrown and fell about ten feet
striking on the frozen ground.
IiYNDONVIIiIiK.
Mr. McClary is in town this week
buying maple sugar. lie pays eight
cents for stirred, no tub sugar wanted.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Pillsbury, C. H.
Hawkins and Thomas Sharp intend to
go to California the middle of Decem
ber. Joe Morrill, 55, died last Monday of
pneumonia, after a few days illness.
He leaves a wife, five children and an
aged mother in destitute circum
stances. Two non-resident roughs made an
unprovoked assault on engineer B. T.
Webb iu the railroad yard here Satur
day night. -It wasn't 30 seconds bo
fore they wished they hadn't. Webb
held his lantern in one hand and did
the business with the other.
LYNDON CENTRE.
The Ephriam Carpeuter place was
sold at auction last week to D. O. Cur
rier for $450.
At the prize speaking of the junior
class at the Institute on Tuesday even
ing, there were ten contestants who
had beeu selected from the 20 who had
spoken on previous evenings. The
prize for gentlemen was taken by
Elwyn G. Campbell of Lyndon Centre
and that for ladies by Miss Mary Mc
Dermaid of West Charleston, Royal
Howe of Lyndon ville and Miss Mary
Rowell of East Albany. Rev. C. S.
Perkins, Prof's Howe aud Bunker were
the committee of award.
PEACH AM.
Mrs. Bunker is spending the closing
days of the legislature at the capital.
Wo notice Sheriff West on the road
a good deal lately, but as he keeps his
business well to himself as a good
sheriff should, we are unable to make
items out of him.
Peacham W. C. T. U. held a parlor
meeting at Mrs. Clara Bailey's last
Thursday. The musical entertainment
by Prof. Erhl and his pupils was very
enjoyable, aud a good sum was re
ceived for the temperance temple.
In the fever stricken house, C. E.
Sargeant is still very sick, also his
daughter Nellie. Cora and Martin are
recovering. Among the other sick ones
in town, Mrs. Cowles is still very fee
ble, Mrs. Gale and R. B. Shaw are con
valesceut, aud Mrs. James Shaw is as
comfortable as cau be expected with a
broken hip.
RYEGATE.
Josie Cochran and Mary Beattie, who
have been at school in Moutpelier, are
home on a vacation. Wilson Beattie
has returned from a trip to Boston.
The farmers' meeting was quite well
attended and the topic "Does high
farming pay 1" was discussed by sev
eral members ot the club, the drift of
the argument being that high farming
did pay and low farming did not. A
farmers' sociable was held this week at
the house of Albert Hall.
Communion service was held at the
Reformed church last Sabbath, and on
Monday followiug the members extend
ed a call to Rev. Pinkerton, who has
been supplying for a few weeks. This
congregation has beeu without a pastor
for some time and their anxiety to set
tle a pastor is manifested by their hon
oring with a call all the young minis
ters who come as supplies.
ST. JOHNSBURY CENTRE.
Miss Zilla E. Stiles, the preceptress
of the New Hampton institution, at
Fairfax, has returned to her homo for
a week's vacation, when she will go
back for the winter term, accompanied
by her mother. A line from Fairfax
states that she has won "golden
opinions" as a teacher, especially in
reading, and that all her classes in the
two days' public oral examination re
flected much credit on her work.
Lord Sackville and his family sailed
for France Saturday.
uoi. uaniei iamout, private secre
tary to President Cleveland, has accept
ed a position in one of tho lanre life
insurance companies in New York, it
is said, and will devote
March to that business.
himself after
it isn't so bad to be disappointed in
lovo as in marriage.
Uoston Courier
Wanted,
A young protestant woman to help in the care of
children, the youngest two years old, and to do the
lighter part ot housework in a small family. M
be fond of children aud obliging. Beat of referen
ces required. Address D., Hanover,
78-79 JS'ew Hampshire.
LYNDON INSTITUTE.
WINTER TERM begins Tuesday, Dec. 11. 1888
The COMMERCIAL COLLKGK ranks among the
first of its class. The new ART ROOM is an im
portaut addition. Send to tho Principal or Secre
tary lor circular.
I. "W. SANBORN, Sec'y.
Lyndonville, "Vt., Nov. 28, 1888. 79-81
E. W. ROYCE, M. D.
V ill open an office at the Avenue House, St
Johusbury, Deo, 5, for a short time. 79-80
The Time Table
Issued yearly by
OLD FATHER TIME
Is now in the hands of the
printer. From now until "89"
the Sachet Powder
market will be active. We
offer a fine rrade. Also a
new line of Chamois.
SMITH & WALKER'S,
STANDARD DRUG STORE,
109 Eastern Avenue.
Ciiai'diau Notice.
TATE OF VERMONT, Cai.rdonia District, ss
In Probate Court, held at St. Johnsbury, in
said District, on til"
23d day of November, A. D.
Albro F. Nichols guardian of Edward S. Burns,
a minor, makes npplicat.wn to said Court for license
to sell the following described real estate ot his
said ward, to wit: being an undivided interest in
the north section of liauk Block, so called. Biiuated
on Main street in the village of St. Johnsbury, Vt.
formerly occupied tor a clothing store by Lyrnin
B. At wood, now deceased. Representing that
sale thereof, for the purpose of putting the pro
ceeds of such sale at interest or investing the
same in stocks or real estate, would be uencncial to
said ward :
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court, tbat said
application be referred to a session thereof, to be
held at the Probate Office, in said St. Johnsbury,
on the 15tb day of December, A. D. 1888, for hear
ing and decision thereon ; and it is further ordered
that all persons interested be notified hereof, by
publication of notice of said application and order
thereon, three weeks successively in The Caledo
nian, printed at St. Johnsbury, before said time of
bearing, that they may appear at said time ana
place, and, if they see cause, object thereto.
By the Court, Attest,
79-81 WALTER P. SMITH, Judga.
Notice or Probate of Will.
LUCY W. TAFT'S ESTATE.
STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia Dibtbict, sb
In Probate Court held at the Probate Otbce in
St. Johnsbury, within and for said district, on the
irtth. day of November, A. D. 188.
An instrument purporting to be the last Will
and Testament of Lucy W. Taft bite of Sutton in
said distriot. deceased, being presented to Court
by Harlow Esterbrooks, one of the Executors
therein named, for Probate :
It is ordered bv said Court, that all persons
concerned therein be notified to appear at a session
ot said Court to be holden at the Probate Otbce
in St. Johnsbnry, on the 15th day of December
A. D. 1888, and snow cause, if any they may have
against the Probate of said Will; for which
Daruuso it is further ordered, that a copy of the
record of this order be published three weeks suc
cessively iu the Caledonian, printed at St.
Johnsbury, previous to said time appointed for
bearing.
uy the uonrt, Attest,
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
A true Copy of Record, Attest,
70-ei WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
Christmas is flomtiGi
Come early and inspect onr holiday goods.
Finest ever in St. Johnsbnry. Easels, framed
Pastelles and other lectures, permanent porcelain
Pastelles and Cabinet Photo Holders.
Everyone ordering a dozen eabiuet photographs
before the Holidays will receive a handsome
CHRISTMAS SOUVENIR.
Studio open Wednesday aud Saturday evenings.
DICKERMAN & COOPER
t dec US Photographers.
BARGAINS
IS
HANDKERCHIEFS
AT
MRS. HELEN F. CARPENTER'S,
77 Eastern Ave., St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Dec. 1. 79-81
BUSINESS !
We are preparing for cold
weather and are selling the
best Dress Goods and Trim
mings, Plushes, Velvets, etc.,
we have ever opened.
Our cloaks, Seal Plush Gar
ments, Shawls, Blankets, Com
forters, Flannels, Underwear,
Hoiserv and Gloves are at
prices sure to please you.
For anvthinjr in drv jroods
come to our store,
G. A. WHITCHER.
75 R. R. Street, St. Johnsbury, VL
October
and November
Are the Montkg to bay Your
KIP BOOTS FOR WINTER.
I have a very larre Stock
now in Store. All kinds and
prices,
branches
now.
My Stock in all
never so
large
as
J. W. Hanson's Quaker
Shoe, all warranted.
flPThe Tariff is off on
prices.
O. S. ABBOTT.
67 Railroad Street, St. Johnsbury.
FLOUR
Retailed at Wholesale Prices
FOR CASH
For 30 days at L. D. STILES,
St. Johnsbury Centre.
7 PER CENT
GUARANTEED
FIRST MORTCACES.
COUPON NOTES. Interest payable semi
annually in New York, Philadelphia or Uoston.
I'rompt payment ot both Principal aud Interest
guaranteed by
The English & American Mortage Co.. Li,
KANSAS CITY. KANSAS.
Subscribed and pai 1-up capital 120,000.
Descriptive pamphlet on application. 177-601
GEO. E. GROW, manager, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.
St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Foreign Exchange Department.
Exchange on Messrs. Baring Bros. & Co., Loo
don, issued tor any amount, payable in all the
PRINCIPAL CITIES OF EOUOPE.
Safe Investments.
A limited amoiiut of Town of Concord Ksfond
ins Bonds, for sale at Merchants National Bank
St. Johnsbury Vt.
W. o. s i K&KiCU, Cashier
Choice Investments on Cable and Rap
id Transit Lanes.
CflAS. H. SAGE & CO., Iteal Estate and Loans.
Koom 14, 1646 Arapahoe St., .Denver, Col.
KKFEKINCKS BT PERMISSION :
Col. Franklin Fairbanks, President Ssale Works,
St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
Wm. S. Strseter, Cashier Merchants Nat. Bank,
St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
Col. J. J. Estey, Organ Manf., Brattleboro, Vt.,
K. C. Morse, Esq., 13V E. lath St., New York City..
K. K. McBurney. Esq.. 40 E. 23d St.. N. Y. Citv..
And others throughout the U. S. and Canada.
You may not want to send
your money West to lend; but
why not know how lending is
done here with all the safe
guards that can be thrown
around the business, sale-
guards that reach around the
world r
Send for pamphlet.
The Kansas City InTeatment Company,
Kansas City, Missouri ; or
First National Jtaak, St. Johnsbnry, VI.
Florida Oranges.
I have now crowing and ripening on my "Jessa
mine" Orange U rove at Pomona. Putnam County,
Florida, 70 miles from Jacksonville,
From 300 to 500 Boxes of as Good
Oranges as eyercame
out of Florida.
I waat to sell them in this vicinity, and in order
to do so shall have to sell as low as any one. I
have begun to receive them, and expect to contin
ue to receive them from now to next April. They
will be lor sale at onr store on Eastern Avenue,
E. T. & H. K. I DEI. by the box, half box, doaen
or single orange. Tho QUALITY this year is
reported to be VERY GOOD.
The standard box is twelve inches square and
3d inches long. The number ot oranges in a box
varies from 128 to 2"25, according to sise of oranges
No Other Fruit Good for Invalids
as Oranges.
HORACE K. IDE.
KXl'ECT TO HAVE SOME LEMONS.
LECTIOIJ IVER!
WE CAN NOW ATTEND TO
BUSINESS.
We are filling up with a.
fine assortment of Holiday and
Staple Goods.
Our Fountain Pens and
Gold Pens are equal to any in
the market. Every pen war
ranted 5 years and Prices rea
sonable. St. Johnsbury Illustrated.
A few left. Prices reduced to
$2.25 each. The last call.
Secure one quickly.
F. O.CLARK.
SIGN OF THE BOOK,
81 Eastern Avenue,
St. Johnsbury.
FALL AND WINTER
MILLINERY
Stock second to none in this
vicinity.
All Latest Style Shapes,
Trimmed Bonnets,
Trimmed Hats.
Rich Ribbons, Feathers and Feather
Trimmings.
Our Stock of Ribbons is
first class in style and quality.
COLLARS, CUFFS, HANDKERCHIEFS.
Nice
Assortment
Goods.
and fine
STAMPING
And Stamped Linen Goods.
All goods now on exhibition
and we invite inspection, feel-
confident we can suit in
style and prices.
MISS E. J. ROBBINS.
No. 43, Main Street.
75-3
osted
Oi tlie Price of Watte?
If not call on
T. C- SPENCER,
49 Railroad Street, St. Johnsbury, Vt
Lost
A promissory note for the ram of $150, payable to
E. II. Patch or bearer, in installments, bearing
date, Stau nard, Vt., October S, 1888, and signed
by A. II. Chase. All persona are hereby warned
not to purchase said note of any finder thereof or
pay the same to any person except the undersign
ed. Dated at St. Jonasbury, Vt., this 20th dav of
NoT.mber, A. !., lBb. . H PATCH. 7o
Are Vou P