St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-04-16

that Col. Fuller is to be one of the next
Senators from Windham county, and
Col. Hooker town represeutative-ifh he
can.-The st. Adams Messenger says
that ex-Gov. Stewart of Middlebury
will be a candidate for Congressman
JOyce's seat in the LIST Vermont district.
Possibly there is meat in this idea. II
Mr.. Edmunds should happen to be
"called up higher" to the presidency or
supreme court, Gov. Smith would
make himself practically sure of his
succession i'll the Senate if his formida-
BILE rival could thus he jerked out of
the way, by an election to the lower
house of Congress- Brattleboro Re-
former.
The Springfield Republican has ac-
tually spoken good word for Gov.
Proctor OF Vermont. For dozen years
it has been one of the missions to be-
rate Vermont republicanism and repub-
licans.-[ Boston Journal.
Letter to the Republican from the White River
| junction Conventional
Col. Mead, delegate to Chicago from
the I'd district, was Grant man a few
months ago, but now he says he is fully
convinced that Gen. Grants nomina-
ton would imperi the success of the
party at the polls, and he is thorough
believer in Senator Edmund's ability to
carry the election. He is not Grant
man, but an Edmunds man. Mr.. Bel
den, the other delegate, is an anti
Grant man, stronger anti-Grant man
than his substitute, Mr.. Rankin, and an
enthusiastic Edmunds man. The anti
Grant sentiment is growing stronger in
the southeastern part of the state, and
there are a large number of leading
men who say that if Grant is nominated
they will probably vote for him, but it
will he with extreme reluctance, and
the number of men who SHY they do not
want him to be president again is very
large.
It's altogether probable that Copart-
ner Finley intended that $1,000 letter
to Congressman Splinger's wife as an
other one of Moses danger signals.
1t is about as certain as nything ex-
cept death and taxes, that if Gen.
Grant is nOminated-as we believe he
is tolerably certain to be-the scratch
ers of New York and PENNSYLVANIA will
organize a very formidable bolt aud
put another ticket in the field. That
tiiC CiCtlIOll III lluen.
st. Adams Messenger.
The chief reason why men are ready
to buy mining stocks is their ignorance
of the fact that mining has never been
paying business in itself ANY man
who is worth listening to in California
will say that the vast fortunes, or the
moderate profits, that mining men have
made III that state, or in Nevada, came
not from the gold and silver ever
found but from trading in mining
stocks, from selling them to men, wo-
men and children all over the United
States. All the earnings of hordes of
labOring men and women, the savings
of mechanics and clerks, the profits of
farmers and small traders, the fees of
lawyers and physicians, and the sala-
RES OF clergymen that have been pour
ed into this minin9-stoek sink and lost
would far outweigh every dollar of sill
yer and gold that has ever been honest
ly found in working mines. This is
why there are such hordes of begging.
half-starving men and women in the
sand-lOts and all over California. Most
of them have earned money enough to
be well off to-day, and lost it on min
ing stocks. The habit of hoping to live
by the rise in such stocks has killed ont
their wills to work, it has Slapped their
souls of courage to face IA fair, iudustri-
Gus mode OF life, and sunk them into
the wrecks of men and women that they
are.-Spr. Republican.
LosT:-On the way from Washington,
valuable paper, signed George F. Ed
MINDS, declining TO run for the pres
idency and going in heartily for Grant.
A handsome reward will be paid for its
recovery and no questions asked. APP
ply at the offices of the New York Tri-
bune and Times, or of the Boston Tray
eller and Advertiser.-Spr. Republican,
Senator Voorhees, says that he can
not proceed with the exodus investiga-
ton "because there is an offensive odOr
about the southern negro witness that
makes him sick.n Mr.. Voorhees, be-
came sick when the witness Adams of
Louisiana, recited Il long list of brutal
Outrages and murders in that state,
covering period of ten years.
WON'T VOTE FOR GRANT.
Only yesterday gentleman occupy
ing an important position in northern
New Hampshire wrote us that two lead
ing Republican business men of his
town would under no circumstances
vote for a third term. The gentleman
who writes us, himself holding an influ-
entail position, emphatically declares
that he cannot vote for third term.
Similar cases have come to our knOwl-
edge from many towns in the state
There are so many of them, in fact,
that we make the generalization with
an nnnfiInnna
cry town in the state wherein there are
90 Republican voters.-NdShua IeLe-
graph.
QUERY SUGGESTED BY TATROis
CHARGE.
For what reason are murderers on
the gallows usually asked if they have
ANY thing to say" and then given free
license to say what and as much as they
please Is it courtesy, as if nothing
should be done on such an interesting
occasion, without Il speech from the
party chiefly concerned ; Is it to con-
cede II last right or privilege to the con-
demned, us il he had not already been
favored with every possible Opportuni-
ty for indicating himself? Hardly
would these be accounted good reasons
for such practice. Is it the humane
desire that they may say something
consoling to friends, Or useful to others
Very likely but in@this there may be
more disappointment and mischief than
satisfaction and benefit. Men may lie !
and abuse others on the drop and in
open view of death, as they do when at
large. The gallows makes no assassin
a saint; and bare words, there, are of
as little worth rs in any spot. A muir