St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-08-26
Personal and Political.


will reach New York late i'll September.
Ex-President Hayes is going to Eng
land, and will be the guest of Mr..
PulestOn, NJ. P.
j. G. Holland intends to write a new
novel this fall. We venture to say it
will be worth reading.
Capt. Henry has gone to Ohio in or
der to accompany Garfield's mother to
Washington should the President die.
Jay Cooke, of New York, is said to
he looking carefully after the welfare
of a woman who lost all her money by
his failure in 1873, and was made hope
lessly insane thereby.
Hartmann, the alleged Russian
nihilist and car slayer, is trying to be
naturalized in New York. Better ex-
cuse him from being a citizen of this
country we have enough of that ilk
here now.
Alexander H. Stephens is engaged i'll
writing a book in reply to jeff Davis
late book on the Southern Confederacy.
1t will be interesting to see what Jeff7s
vice-president will have to say in re-
ply to him.
France is rejoicing over a grand Re
publican success in the late election,
and the overwhelming defeat of the
BOnapartists, who seem to have devel-
Oped very little strength after all.
Among the notables elected by the Re-
publicans are ministers Ferry and
| Cookery.
Governor Roberts of Texas, the gen.
tleman distinguished chiefly for refus-
ing to order prayers for the President,
is sixty years old. He has gray hair,
beard and mustache, and very dark
eyebrows. He dresses in well-wOrIl
suit of black, and smokes a corn cob
pipe.
The Herald prints interviews with
w. H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Chaun-
cy Depew and Judge Hilton, in which
each one scouts the idea of panic il
case the President should die, and all
of them consider that Vice President
Arthur would become a President OF
great ability, honest, able, conserva-
tive and worthy the confidence of the
people.
Judge Tourgee was said to be oppos-
ed to the publication of his SECOND
book, "Bricks Without Straw" so sOor
after the first. But his wife urged him
and he yielded. To punish her he
gave her the copyright of the book
Her first quarters dividend WIS S12,-
600. With this sum she bought resi-
dence on Lake Chautauqua, where the
Judge says he is permitted to board.
David A. Wells says that the con.
stitution of the United States stands il
the way of civil service reform. That
may be; but Mr.. Wells is old enough
to remember when the constitution
was denounced as the safeguard o
slavery. And yet slavery has Ions
ceased to exist. Paper constitution.
are made for a nation, and not nation
for paper constitutions New YOrl
Graphic.
Miss Frances E. Willard writes t.
the White Mountain Echo suggesting
that ''The Haystack" be renamed Mt
Garfield in honor of the President
"whOse face was set toward the Whit,
hills on the morning of his attempted
assassination" "Perhaps," she adds
"there is a vacancy his hOnored nam,
might appropriately fill in the 'presi
Dental range which bears aloft thos,
of some accidentally great men, bu
surely he is entitled, by the grandeur
of his character, the height of his char
acter, the height of his fortitude, an,
the depth of the peoples love of him
to the apotheosis of these everlastin!
hills ~