St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
Personal and Political.


led $4,000 in a mine.
Cabinet rumors are quiet now, but
the music will begin soon.
Emperor William of Germany has
been quite i'll.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has
been compelled, on account of her mar
riage, to give up her half share in the
Bank of England but she has several
millions left for rainy day.
TO Chester A. Arthur-If you should
happen to be shot, my boy, don't, for
heavens sake, send for Bliss Elmira
Free Press.
The next "crank" who fires at Gui-
teau, and misses, should be hanged Oh
the spot. Somehow the devil seems to
monopolize the good marksmen.- Bos
ton Pilot.
Henry Ward Beecher characterizes
the Guiteau trial AS 1.-the spectacle of
an imbecile judge at one end of the
bench and a vagrant fool at the other"
The Reverend gentleman is a tritle
rough on Judge Cox, but about right
AS to Guiteau.
Col. Hooker of BrattleborO, the Yer
mont statesman who used to tell the
reporters how the Garfield campaign
was getting along, is candidate for
sergeant alarms of the House of Rep
resentatives. George is bright and
first rate story teller Springfield Re
publican.
| Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has an in
come of $1,000 year-which does not
look as though she was hard pressed
for funds, as has been lately alleged.
The Boston Herald thinks that in an
ordinary homicide such a character as
Guiteau would be found insane by an
verage jury.
The ladies of the Philadelphia Silk
Culture Association have received suf-
licient raw silk from cOcOOns raised
during the summer to weave into a
dress, which is to be presented to Mrs.
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said to be equal to the best Italian.
1t will be manufactured at Paterson,
n. j.
A Democrat in the New York Sun
wishes "tO live to see his party in con-
troll of the Federal government" and
calls upon ''S. j. Tilden to seize the
reins once more and drive the chariot
of Democracy to victory" This is
simply an indirect declaration of a
mans wish to live to be older than any
man ever was.-[ Boston Journal.
Insanity shows itself in sudden
freaks but here is a man claiming the
cover of insanity who, during a whole
month, pursues man with the single
purpose of numbering him i Ex-
change.
President Garfield's memory is to be
honored in London by the founding of
a home for working girls, to be called
Garfield House." A lady has given
$3.50 to a committee for this purpose
1t looks as if Boston was to elect an
Independent" for mayor "a man
whom both parties can vote for. "May
his tribe increase"
The promised vigorous prosecu-
ton" of the Star Route thieves is likely
to result in driving them all on a run
past the yawning penitentiary doors.
There seems a slim chance for housing
any one of them.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Is there no judicial authority to COM
pei an audience attending the trial of
the murderer of the president of the
United States to conduct itself other
wise than if it were grinning and gig
Cling at circus One would suppose
from reading the reports that Guiteau
was a distinguished clown, or one of
the new school of humorous preachers,
joking with the Deity, and throwing a
delighted audience into constant laugh
ter New York Tribune.
For the Garfield monument at Cleve-
land, sos, 900 has been raised, S44 800
in the city, and the rest of the state is
rather slow to give the rest of the
5000 00O renuired