St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-03-26

| The Detroit Post and Tribune has
discovered by postal card that its sub
scribers are almost unanimOusly Blaine
men. The post is "a Grant organ at
heart, but is struck with the earnestness
of the protest against Grants nomina-
ton among Michigan republicans.
Governor Garcelon's sublime uncon-
seriousness of the tricks which his COun
Gil were playing with the returns is
equalled only by Mr.. Tilden's pertina-
ciOus ignorance of the cipher dispatch
es. Tilden said his nephew did it, and
GarcelOn says his Council did it.
The movement in behalf of Edmunds
for the presidency does not yet take the
oolsterous proportions of a "boom" but
has the sedate movement of a tranquil
meadow stream that may increase in
volume and force after Wash
ingtOn Star.
Prof. Felix Adler told his New York
audience, Sunday, that the most potent
safeguard against an empire in this
country was the newspaper. He says
any purpose to curtail the liberties of
the people would be discovered and
thwarted by the newspapers, long be-
All along the line in the South, ex-
cept in Georgia, there is lively protest
against Mr.. Tilden's candidacy. Dem
ocrats in Mississippi express the opin-
ion that Grant or Blaine can carry the
State against Tilden.
Representative Horn of Michigan was
asked while making speech Thursday
if he was in the army during the war.
"NO," was his quick retOrt, 81 was in
Ohio. The fact is there were so many
rascally Democrats in the rear of our
army that some of the best men in the
State had to stay at home to take care
of them"
A man named Chase of New Fairfield
was recently bitten by dog and is now
dying of hydrophobia.
The Massachusetts press association
will make an excursion to Washington
and Richmond, leaving Boston April %.
Levi w. Skinner of Littleton, N. H.,
jumped from car Oh trestle at Alder
brook Oh Wednesday, to escape being
crushed by logs which he was unload
ing, and died of his hurts the next day.
Carol D. Wright, chief of the bureau
of labor statistics, says that "paid
agents of English manufacturers are at
this moment at work in New England
with the sole purpose of melting strikes
among our operatives"
E. Spencer Walker 16 years old, son
of the late Capt. E. A. Walker of the ma
Wy, committed suicide by shooting at
Newton, Mass, being Respondent be-
cause absence from school had put him
behind in his studies.
Eggs are worth SIG per dozen at
Yankee Fork, Cal.
Harvard college has received 49,
100000 in requests in the last three
years.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern, the pedes-
trian, is said to have been adopted by
rich Boston couple.
The treasury department announces
the existence of counterfeit 500 bills
on three New England and two Penn
sylvania banks.
1t is understood that William H.
Vanderbilt is really the person bringing
the AleXandrian obelisk to New York,
and will pay $4,000 when the shaft is
set up.
1t is now stated that the ineome-tax
suit of Tilden will come up for final tri-
al in April. The claim is made that
the artful dodger cannot escape from
the newly discovered evidence.
An Ohio woman dreamed that she
saw her husband kissing a certain
neighbours wife, and she awoke and
struck him across the face and broke
his nose