St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-01-06
Personal and Political.

Personal and Political.
The Tribune thinks nothing but
choking will stop Guiteau's mouth"
1t will take some pretty hard choking
to do it.
Twenty states will get through
the winter without additional law
making.
Postmaster General Howe thought
the Chicago convention committed a
blunder when it nominated Garfield.
Most people think Arthur made blum
der when he nominated Howe to pO-
sition, the details of which Howe
knows nothing about.
Another big cotton mill is to be add
ed to the tiOurishing industries of Au-
gusta, Ga. The party of protection is
growing at the South, also the party
that cares more for business than for
politics.
The Manchester On. H. Mirror and
American calls President Arthur Just
perfect, and is mad that anybody has
the poor taste to differ.
Mrs. Edmunds, the wife of the Sena-
tor, is an artist possessing much taste
and skill. Both Mrs. Bayard and Mrs.
PendletOn are exceedingly accomplish
ed in music.
OF the Vermont Representatives, Mr..
Joyce is chairman of the committee on
pension bOunties and back pay and a
member of the committees on invalid
pensions and on the alcoholic liquor
traffic. General Circuit is member of
the committees on territories and on
expenditures on public buildings; and
Mr.. Tyler is member of the commit
tee on education and labor.
Senator Edmunds wants congress to
make law making man with more
than one wife liable to fine and impris-
onment. This is meant especially for
the MormOns. Brigham Young would
have felt bad if he had known that a
senator from his native state was going
to crowd his church that way st.
Adams Messenger.
Eighteen hundred and eighty one
has been a veto year. Its principal
business has been to undo whatever
was done in 1880, to unsettle whatever
was settled, and to veto the bright
hopes which a year of rare prosperity
and political triumph had enkindled. =
New York Tribune.
The Springfield Republican calls the
last pension act a disgrace, and queries
GLOW could the Congress of the United
States pass such an act of folly as the
bill paying the arrears of pensions, in
accordance with which 1900, 900 has
been paid out of the treasury and which
President Arthur says in his message
will require S235 100000 to pay the
claims already filed under it ?"
There were BOG now there are 305 !;
Dave Mouatt, owing to circumstances
over which he had no control, has gone
to the penitentiary. But Flanagan is
still at large Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
Every administration has its honey
moon. 1t is that period at its begin
ming when everybody is disposed to
put the most favorable construction
upon all its acts, and when enthusiastic
newspaper writer's decorate it with all
sorts of superior faculties and states
manlike purpOses.-[N New York Even
ing Post.
Chauncey |. Filley has gone home to
st. Louis, where he says that Arthur
sis n type of a grade higher than Gar
field" ready to harmonic the party
and take the assistant Democrats"
into party fellowship if they will be-
have themselves. He greatly admires
the dignity now resident in the White
House.
DR.. BoyntOn, who is taking a rest in
Topeka, Kan, says he never made any
charges during the Presidents illness.
He had been his physician in Ohio, and
had, at the request of the President,
attended Mrs. Garfield during her ill
ness at the White House. When he
left Gen. Garfield sent him a check for
$1,000, which he Immediately returned,
with the explanation that he visited
Washington as friend, and did not
desire any remuneration for his servi-
ces. In regard to DIR. Bliss, he says no
physician ever labOred more earnestly,
and that he and his associates deserve
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