St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-01-14
Note and Comment.

Ir6SluenU hayes mas TWO 'udy uSH-
ers" at $l400 year, and enc "night
usher" at $1,000 year. There are a
good many college professors and thou
sands of clergymen who receive less.
Gen. Garfield should remember that
if Conkling and the other stalwarts
'elected" him, they only did the boun-
den duty to which they pledged them
selves in advance and before the nOmi
nation. 1t is only independents, as is
well known, who ever hesitate about
supporting the regular candidate.
We say what we know when we as
sure our readers that if there shall in
the future be any but kindly relations
between Gen. Garfield and Senator
COmkling it will be for some cause
which does not now exist, and which
neither now foresees.- Washington Re
publican.
| sometimes think of myself as man
going to prison. You have heard the
advice given to Il man who has been
convicted of Il crime, to go to prison
and bear maufully the punishment for
his offense, to obey all the rules of the
prison, aud when his term expires to
come back home and olive it down.
am going to see if | can obey all the
rules of the presidency, and then come
back home and olive it down Gar
field.
The American Architect says of the
Buffalo fire resulting in the death-we
are seriously tempted to say murder
of nearly score of persons: We
should like to suggest to owners and
architects of stores and manufactures
where men, women and children are
kept Mt work in the fourth and fifth sto-
ries, that the next time they pass such
building they should stop a moment
and try to imagine their sons and
daughters throwing themselves from
the upper windows in the hope of
catching the telegraph wires as their
sole chance of escape from frightful
death, which boy did at this fire. All
the 30 deaths at this fire were caused
| by lack of some cheap, rough means of
escape from the upper stories,
Free Press: New York cannot do
better than to send William A. Wheel
err to the United States Senate, nor as
well. Mr. Wheeler is an able, honest,
brOadminded, progressive statesman,
and his hands are clean.
The Vermont Chronicle alludes re-
prOvingly to the lottery conducted in
/ part 10y members of the Legislature, at
the recent fair of the Capital Guard"
at Montpelier, and asks: Does not
this disregard of the sentiment of the
people and of the law of the land by
those who sit in the legislative seat and
are the representatives of the law and
the authority of the State, make them
obnoxious to the reprOach of the apOs-
tie against the heather at Rome whose
knowledge and profession were better
than their practice "Thou therefore
which teachest another, teachest thou
not thyself?n There can be little ques-
ton of that. The statute forbids lot
teries as much at fairs as anywhere
else and lawmakers should be law
Obeyers.
Springfield Republican: The New
| York Truth wipes himself as clean as
may be at this late date of the MOrey
| forgery in an open letter to Gen. Gar
! field announcing that the letter has
been traced to its source and found to
| be forged. This information the pub
fishers of the Truth say has been for
some time in their hands, but was with
held, as they were advised that the
ends of justice might be impeded by
its publication but the evidence is now
complete, fixing the guilt of forgery
upon certain parties who are to be
'made known in a court of justice"
Mr.. Barnum and hts associates have
not day to lose in following the exam
pie of Truth or remaining individually
responsible for a forgery which their
Endorsement gave all the vitality it ev
er possessed and while an acknowl-
edgement is only fair to him, their
prompt resignation Immediately after
would he only fair to the democratic
party which they disgraced.