St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29
Personal and Political.

President Hayes, it is said. granted
more pardons than any of his prede
cessors, with the exception, perhaps,
of Johnson.
Senator Jones of Florida has been
sadly afflicted Within few months
he has lost his wife, son and an only
sister.
\ cabinet officer is reported rs say
ing that if Garfield died and Arthur
was sworn in, the cabinet would resign
at the earliest moment.
Ex-NiceiPrcsident Wheeler has made
another gift of $500 to the Malone On.
" schools, for distribution among stu
dents making the greatest improve
ment.
Gen. Sherman has been late for din
ner but once in thirty-one years
his wife says.
Senator David Davis intends to re-
tire to private life mt the end of his
present term. Senator COnkling didn't
wait till the end of his term. He re-
tired before he meant to.
William Walter Phelps, our new
Minister to Austria, speaks French flu
emily and is already quite popular at
Court.
According to the latest figures the
Republicans will have IA majority of
about 30 in the next national House.
That does away with the pretcXt that
electing congressman Lapham and
Miller as senators would give the
House to the Democrats.
The surgeons tclcgraphcd Gen. II.
A. Barnum of New York to come to
Washington for personal examination.
Gen. Barnum has an open wound
through the body, received ut Malvern
Hill July |, 1862, and wears a rubber
drainage tube through the track of the
ball, passing through the left ilium.
The President does not like farinac-
eous food. The other morning while
Mrs. Garfield sat by his bedside read
ing ont the headings of the important
telegraphic news, she announced, "Sit-
ting Bull is starving The President,
intcrrupting her, said: "Well, send
him my dish of oatmeal. | have no
use for it."
They're not betting very heavy on
the success of Ohio's Democratic gu
bernatorial candidate. a citizen of
Springfield, candidate Bookwalter's
home, offers six separate bets of $500
each, making $1,000 in all, that the can
didate will carry neither his own ward,
his own township, his own city, his
own country, his own Congressional
district, nor the state.
The Presidents good humor does not
seem to he lessencd by his weakness.
Urging his wife to go riding before the
sun was too hot the other morning, he
added with faint smile: Il would
90 with you if | didn't have so much
! business to attend to. You will excuse
me, ! am sure
Speaker Randall is of the opinion
that the shooting of President Garfield
will, upon his recovery, tend to cement
the various sections of the country,
and if Garfeld's Administration he a
success it will be almost certain that
he will he renominated i'll 1884. and al
most impossible to defeat his re-elec-
lion.
Enoch Long, prominent anti
slavery man who was wounded in de-
Tending LOvejOy's printing office at Al
ton. H., from the attacks of ii mob dur
ing the memorable slavery riots, died
recently, aged 81. He was native
of New Hampshire, went to Illinois IN
1914. and was one of the founders OF
Presbyterianism in the state.
President Herrick of the Universal
life insurance company, just failed
told the clerk at his hotel, after the
failure was announced, to "tell the re.
porters, when they call, that | have
nothing to say about this business ant
will not talk to them about it. | shall
be gone until IL or II o'clock tonight
and when | get back | shall probably
I be so drunk that | can't talk Will
them The amazing humor of thii
2 was probably less apparent to Mr.. Her
rick when he saw it cOnspicuOusly pub
= lished i'll the New York papers the mex
morning with pleasant references Il
f his personal habits.
) One of Garfield's classmates told thi
5 story at prayer-meeting in Williams