St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
Note and Comment.

petence and happiness to all Omaha
Herald.
To be an honest man or a truth tell
ing journal it is not absolutely necessa-
~ to he DemOcTat.- Philadelphia
Times (lud.)
The brave, heroic, liberty loving Nj
hilists struck down the despOtic repre-
sentative of eastern tyranny and Oppres-
SION Fall River Herald.
The agile, courageous, murky and
oleaginous Office devil ought to fan that
editors head with stuffed club
Taunton Gazette.
Nothing stronger than coffee is set
down i'll the bill of fare of the Schurz
dinner at Boston, which accounts, per
haps, for the temperate and clear-head-
ed character of the speeches. The eX-
ample of the White House under the
administration of Mrs. Hayes may have
had something to do with it Portland
Advertiser.
The nomination of Mr.. Chandler is
not we'll received outside of the circle of
Mr.. Blaine's immediate supporters. In
criticism of it people say that it is not
becoming to take for sOlicitor-generala
man who has been for years intimately
connected with most of the heavy lobby
jobs before Congress and the depart
ments, and has had little law practice
besides Washington Special to BOs-
ton Advertiser.
Mr.. Schurz's administration of Indian
affairs was stained by illegality, oppres-
sion, cruelty and bad faith. All the
champagne of the Boston dinner will
not wash out these stains Worcester
Spy.
Bill Chambers compliments to those
New Hampshire republicans who dub
bed him "a political tramp."-[Spring-
field Republican.
The Joy with which Senator Malone
has been received into the Republican
ranks in the Senate seems, considering
that he is Il repudiator, or "readjuster,"
as it is euphemistically called, of the
state debt, little scandalOus, IN view
of the horror caused in the best Repub-
lican minds by the alliance of the Dem
ocrats with the Greenbackers.-LI The
Nation.
Even the New York Times must ad-
nit that Blaine and the New York Trib-
! ullt IldNt SOlliC WIN bhN liz
administration.
Gen. John L. Swift has been review
ing Chancellor Crosby, at Lowell. He
said LAS in the dark and bloody days
of civil strife the worst foes to loyalty
we've peace-men who gave aid and COM
fort to the enemy by denouncing Il
rigorous prosecution of the war, so to-
day, the most conspicuous foes to uni
versal sobriety are those learned, moral,
respectable Christian leaders who calm
ly criticise. and coldly condemn a radi-
cal war on the crime of iDtemperance.
A correspondent of the Waterman
SAYS that Vermont has but few offices
in Washington and is likely to lose
what she has. Vermont is sure anyway
and needs nothing, and when there Is {
cheap consulship floating around some
newspaper correspondent who has MOI
been in the state for years gObbles it up
Mr.. Blaine generally takes the bull
by the horns, says the Chicago Journal
but now he has the pig by the ear.
"By hOeing his own row." says tho
New Orleans Picayune, "MahOne gets
at the head of the senate committee oil
agriculture"
1ne lesSon '" an ~ taDn;,,,
GU ~ -, ~
narue " onn sd ~ mart with in thi
IL re- ID ony nossihI,
" 10y $50 800 ..'rha I,,,,. nf tba tronS
o,roSSnr 10 hard - is writ as one of the
eternal verities in human action
concord Monitor.
Tho man who bovls because Presi
dent Garfield actually kissed his owl
eiobtv-vear-old mother and his wife a.
soon ms he was ipauCurated, must be ;
brute without one redeeming feature o
bum.nitv mr. decencv. Yet the New
Yorl, Nation nermits .such n bloOdles
;n,LooiIa +o yant bis stnniditv in its col
,,,ns There is No democratic name
~ tIo oor,tr,- mot yonId have n,inte,
sucb an attack -GAkron BEACON.
IT. .t; .aoNo ho
90 ,r.' fo,,,ottoO ILL ;tS ontLor
Po"eaIj,, 49, ao 10, ordar No has
G;a - tam. and an borester If i
nnwritten but reads in effect: "Sena
TORS of the riobt stripe will please cal
/ at the White House, and if they dom
; see what they want, ask for it, Chi
cago Times.
} Tha truo inwordpass of the Ponc
,ror in Roston il leaking ont. Tn
clans do not care ANYTHING about tn
Poncas Init one marty wants Pierce an,
the ether Long for governor.
VINO starteu the ruihcr th1C t!iGIe
, next fall i? Heaven fol- bid, says the 81
f Albans Messenger.
The reasons AGAINST an extra sessio
of Congross which were clear and con