St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-22
Note and Comment.
A classmate of President Garfield
saws the latter is above personal bitter

A classmate of President Garfield
SAYS the latter is above personal bitter
ness.
Justice Clifford, of the L. S. Supreme
Court, is suffering from gangrene in
the foot and is not expected to live.
Not less than seven boys have died
in Baltimore alone of lockjaw, caused
by injuries received from toy pistols
on the Fourth of July. This fact
ought to bring this destructive toy into
general condemnation.
The valedictorian at Yale this year
was Jew, the student who ranked
next to him was Il Dutclman, and the
first prize for excellence i'll defamation
was won by Chinaman. Where was
the Yankee all this while
; The President wants to know if the
great public eye is still on him.
Bless his heart, it always has been, or
he wouldn't be President. 1t Is on him
now more than ever, with Il fixed and
fond gaze Philadelphia Press.
.FThe reduction of the interest on
the bonds, the vigorous and unsparing
pursuit of the postal robbers, the clean,
business-lille way of the Administra-
ton, have greatly commended it to
public confidence. y Harper's Weekly.
Events have shown Mr.. COnkling to
be IA hollow fraud, inspired by no prin-
ciple but sellishness, and worshipping
no God but ambition. There is a ire
mendOus lesson in the downfall of Boss
Conkling. Not even the St. Louis
GlObe-DemOcrat is left to do him hon
Or Springfield Republican.
Vicksburgh Miss Herald ''No
President since the war has so gained
on the good feeling of the Southern
people as President Garfield. While
he belongs to ii party that is not popu-
lar in the South, it is admitted on all
hands that he is acting justly and fair
ly by this section, and is anxious to
secure the commentator of the South
ern people"
A real live Italian Brigand is the
latest sensation in New York. Besides
murder, robbery and other petty
crimes, he INDUCED himself during his
career i'll Italy in the pleasant pastime
of cutting off the ears of his captives
and sending them to the friends of the
victim as a gentle reminder that lib
eral ransom must be paid to secure "A
release. The Italian government, un-
able to appreciate the humOr of his
proceedings, demand his surrender to
their disappointing officials.
The fight that ex-senator Conkling
continues to make for the chair in the
Senate that he deserted is without pub
lie excuse, and must be taken to mean
personal meanness and malice. COnk-
ling is receiving less than one-third of
the Republican votes in the Legislature,
while the conference nominee has lack
ed but nine votes of an election. If
the President lives, Conkling will be
one of the smallest of the once upon Il
time great men of America. If the
President dies, he will be the bore and
burden of Arthur; and, under all cir
cumstances, he has lost the respect of
the American people Cincinnati
Commercial.
In the present sad case the South
feels an unselfsh sorrow. and we have
ourselves been surprised at the univcr-
salty of feeling existing even among
the least ''reconstructed' of our people.
1t is possible now for President Gar
field to say with full heart and honest
manly emotion, LET lis have peace. =
And we will have it-peace within all
our borders. The South will meet the
North more than half way toward this
contamination so devoutly to be wish
ed Columbia Is. c. Register.