St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-10-19

parts were taken by Revs. A. Z. WASH
burne of Syracuse, N. Y, A. w. Hazen
of Middletown, CT, and w. S. Hazen of
Northfeld.
The Ohio Democrats rose above par
ty, that's fact, but it was the wrong
party.
Young Mr.. Blaine has been elected
president of the Memorial Dining Hall
Association, at Harvard. The associa-
ton has about $50 members.
The Western Democrat says the par
ty must hencefOrth be solid against re-
sumption. The Eastern Democrat doesn't
say amen. He merely ''tinks DAM"
A chair broke down with Joseph III.
Stevens of Woburn, Mass, the other
night, tipping over table lamp upon
him, and burning him mortally.
The Richmond Enquirer has changed
hands and will no longer abuse the pres
ident. The Lynchburg News is now
the only irreconcilable paper left in
Virginia.
The fall of the rain in India will be
heard with grateful hearts all around
the world. There will be no famine
next year in Northern India, at least,
and this is good news to all mankind.
There is always an unfailing cOnsola-
ton in Democratic victory. A little
success always upsets the party and
makes a series of first-class blunders Oh
its part inevitable. A mere taste of
Democratic rule always turns the coun-
try's stomach.
George William Curtis is reported to
be disinclined to accept his invitation
to speak at Boston during the campaign.
The republican state committee sent
special messenger to urge him to come,
and the Boston city committee Joined
in the request.
Senator Il. w. Ferry of Michigan, is
nearly restored to his usual health and
| vigor. His brother, E. P. Ferry, has
| been under medical treatment in Cana
da, and is reported to have entirely re-
covered from what threatened to prove
a serious mental malady.
| Several Democratic newspapers hast
en- to announce the demise of the Re-
publican party, and are anxious to hold
the funeral without delay. 1t is easy
enough to appoint the funeral, but it is
another thing to prepare the corpse.
The Republican party is too patriotic
to think of dying so long as the Democ-
racy survives to make mischief.
A large communistic meeting was
held at Williamsburg, N. Y, Friday
night at which the speakers, both Ger
man and American, claimed that the
time had come for the wOrkingmen to
assert themselves. Both political par
ties were denounced as we'll as the
ppaoi1ant on6 10
hang Boss Tweed was well received.
Senator Morton made arrangements
to have special reports of the Ohio cleo
ton brought to his bedside on Tuesday
night. He stood the dispatches pretty
well till midnight, when he declared
the news was enough to drive them all
crazy, and discharged the messenger
with the adjuratlon s'For Gods sake,
don't bring me any more such reports
tonight ~
The latest explanation of Nast's with
drawal is that he sent to the Harpers
picture representing the reception of
Prof. Lowell, our minister to Spain,
and quoting some lines written by Low
ell which would be offensive to the
Spanish people. George William Cur
tbs advised that the picture be declined.
Mast said if it did not appear, he would
never furnish another, and so we sup
pose the world will have to try to get
along without him.
The following corporate members of
the A. B. c. F. NJ, were elected from
Vermont: Matthew H. Buckham, d.
D., Burlington; Geo. L. Walker, ID. D.,
BrattlebOrO Rev. James Gibson John
son, Rutland; Rev. Henry Fairbanks,
st. Johnsbury; c. B. Hubert, D. D..
Middlebury Hon. Horace Fairbanks,
st. Johnsbury.
Did Abraham Lincoln foreshadow
the Southern policy of President HAYES
when he said "Though passion may
have strained it must not break our
bonds of affection. The mystic cords
of memory stretching from every bat
tle-field, and every patriot grave to
every living heart and hearthstone all
over this broad land, will yet swell the
chorus of the Union when again touched
as surely they will be, by the better
angels OF our nature"
An exchange gives this warning which
cannot be repeated too often ssBe care
full how you sign any document present.
ed by stranger. A worthy farmer
-AOo :" uutlCo uOTt, WAS re- |
Gently surprised that he had uncon-
sciously ordered twenty straw cutters,
which he was obliged to pay for. He
thought he was simply signing a recon-
mendation.n
The workmen engaged in repairing
the front of the Florence Cathedral re-
Gently, in removing a thick coating of |
plaster at one of the corners of the
building, made the discovery of seven
marble statues, pronounced by connois-
seurs to be of the best period of Greek
art.
The mining excitement seems to be
spreading in New Hampshire. The
Gardner mountain mining company.
with 100000 capital, has been formed
to work copper mine at Littleton, and
one with 8 l,000,000 is to be formed 10
work the White Ledge gold mine at
Sandwich, whose citizens are all dream
ing of fabulous wealth in their farms.
Parsen Newman writes to Senator
Morton ''Yoor devotion to principle.
your eminent abilities, your powerful
leadership, inspired the wish that YOU
might be spared the Republic. You are
the last of the heroic statesmen who
stood firm in the hour of the nations
peril, and who to-day connect the glo-
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