St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-08-27

right" Superintendent Jackson tele-
graphed to Evansville, Ind, and re-
ceived in reply Il request that the boy
be forwarded, which he was.
The Christian Uuion editorially says
1t is high time that the newspapers
should rebuke the unhealthy curiosity
about criminals under sentence of death
by refusing to publish long accounts of
their last hours. For two weeks before
an execution the unhappy man who is
to endure the supreme penalty of the
law is paraded before the community
as if he were martyr calmly prepar-
ing for an heroic death. The reports
which fill the newspapers are always
narrowing and often repulsive to per-
sons of any sensibility. This whole
matter of the treatment of persons
about to be hung needs a thorough
overhauling in the interest of morality
and decency. The kindest and most
considerate treatment of such men is
to shield them from public inquisitive-
ness. If sincere repentance character
ICES their last hours it is a thing to re-
jOice in, but to make show of a spir-
itual reformation under the awful
shadow of an ignOminious death is to
invite disbelief in its genuineness.
The Democratic majority in Alabama
has reached 10000, and they are still
counting.
The National Democratic Committee
has urged Gen. Butler to run for Gov
ernor in Massachusetts in order to help
the Hancock ticket, and there is a fair
prospect that he will acquiesce.
The Hon. Alexander HI. Stephens is
reported to be in better health than for
years past. He can now sit Oh a hotel
piazza at the seaside without paper
weights on his coat tails Brooklyn
Union-Argus.
The place where Major Haggerty
was not cheered by his Democratic
brethren was where he remarked that
his principles are the same now as when
he belonged to the Republican party
vt. Phoenix.
''Parties who have forgiven such men
E. j. Phelps."- Montpelier Argus.
One has reformed the other hasn't
burlington Clipper.
Philadelphia Record General Han
cock says "the bayonet is not a fit in
strument for collecting the votes of
freemen." They seem to have so many
votes down in Alabama as to suggest
the fitness of a six-tined pitchfork to
collect them.
Wednesday evening, Judge Morrison
of Chicago addressed a republican
meeting at st. Albans. He is an Irish
republican and has been instrumental
in organizing a good many Irish repub-
lican clubs. People who heard him in
Burlington say he is 'immense" as a
speaker, being thoroughly posted, elo-
quent, witty, and having all the Irish
enthusiasm that adds so much to efforts
in behalf of a just cause.
Two more carloads of Spanish meri-
no sheep, S4 head, have been sent
from Middlebury to Corpus Christi,
Texas.
The venerable Gen. John w. Phelps
of Brattleboro accepts a nomination for
the presidency at the hands of the ma
tional anti-Masonic society. Gen.
Phelps AYERS that the corruption in ma
tional politics is traceable to Freema-
ry.
The firing of a cannon at an Indian
apolis republican campaign rally so af-
fected sick young woman that she
died few days afterward, and Chair
men Brown and Hawkins of the demo-
cratic and republican county commit
tees have signed an agreement to pay
for no more cannonading during the
campaign.
A skeptic, who was trying to confuse
a Christian colored man by the contra
dictory passages in the Bible, asked
how it could be that we were in the
Spirit and the Spirit in us, received
this reply "Oh, dar's no puzzle bout
dat. It's like dat poker. Iput's it in
de fire till it gets red-hot. Now, de
poker's in de fire, an de fires in de
poker" A profound theologian could
not have made better reply.