Tuesday, January 11, 1887
A second explosion occurred at the factory above Maine Mill of the Clinton Powder Co., organized Dec., 1884, Works removed soon afterwards

Wednesday January 12, 1887
 At the age of nearly 92, Benjamin Calkin, Elizabethtown's last survivor of the battle of Plattsburgh, died and was buried in the Calkin cemetery, Pleasant Valley (Elizabethtown).

Friday, January 14, 1887

The Strong building in Burlington, occupied by Y.M.C.A. destroyed by fire.

Thursday, March 31, 1887

 In Albany, N.Y., died John Godfrey Saxe, a poet of the Champlain valley, journalist and lecture.  His best known humorous poems include "Rhyme of the Rail," "The Proud Miss McBride," etc. He published "Progress," Humorous and Satirical Poems," "The Money King and Other Poems," "Fables and Legends," "Leisure-Day Rhymes," etc.
    "O, terribly proud was Miss MacBride
    The very personification of Pride,
    As she minced along in Fashion's tide,
    Adown Broadway, -on the proper side, -"
Mr. Saxe was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Vermont in 1859 and 1860.

Monday, March 15, 1887

Died Wendell Lansing, founder in 1839 at Keeseville, N.Y., of the Essex County Republican. Not being able conscientiously to publish the Republican  on a radical anti-slavery basis, his political principles being in advance of his party, he sold out.  But in 1854 he returned to newspaper work and started the Northern Standard which, after the election of Lincoln, was merged with the Republican.

Friday, July 15, 1887

The new Stevens House, Lake Placid, capable of accommodating 350 guests, was opened to the public, just two months after the first structure had been leveled to the ground by an Adirondack cyclone.

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