St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-02-10
Personal and Political.

John B. Cough is said to be serious
ly i'll of neuralgia of the stomach.
The political conundrum of the mo-
ment is an interesting one: Has Mr..
Blaine more to hope from his enemies
than President Arthur has to hope
from his friends ~ New York World.
The latest aesthetic movement" on
record was when the Harvard fresh
men waded home through the deep
snow from Oscar Wilde's lecture in
their ulsters and knee-breeches, their
unprotected calves shivering in the
cold.
The Tammany Democrats, who have
been at swords-points with the "regu-
lars" in the New York Legislature, have
concluded to play the lamb and lie
down with the lion. Whether the lion
will dispose of the lamb as in the ia
bile is question for the future.
While the Post Office Appropriation
bill was under consideration in the
House, only two men had the cheek to
defend the star route policy-Messrs.
King of Louisiana and Hooker of Mis-
sissippi, both Democrats.
When the legal wife of George @.
Cannon was dying, she telegraphed to
her husband to stay in Washington,
and of course he stayed. She was the
mother of IL children and died at the
age of 46, three wives besides having
shared her husband in the later fading
years of her life.
''He will be provided for at an early
day" says Il Washington cOrrespOn-
dent of "A prominent ice-seeker.
Why should man who can earn his
own bread put himself in position
where the words employed TO express
incapacity to care for himself can be
applied to him?
Senator HOar of Massachusetts gave
"A dinner party at Washington the other
day which the gOssips say cost him
one thousand dollars As there were
but thirty guests, any one good at fig
ures can ascertain the actual cost per
capita. Who would not be Con-
gressman-or at least Congressman
guest
Rev. Edward W. Glover was fatally
crushed by the cars at New Haven one
night last week. He was a freight
brakeman, and it was only after his
death, by letters found in his pocket,
that his identity was discovered. He
was a graduate of Columbia college,
and was formerly settled over the Bap-
fist church at Walton, n. Y.
A Chicago special states that the
new collector of that port has dismiss
ed nearly every emplOye who was
known to be opposed to the nOmina-
ton of Gen. Grant. There may be no
truth in the report; but it may be safe
ly remarked that such a policy will
make the President ten enemies where
it will gain him one friend.
Personal and pertinent journalism by
the Iowa State Register: The editor
of the Davenport Gazette is in Wash
ington working as a lobbyist and reg
ularly drawing his salary as postmas-
ter at Davenport without doing any
thing to earn it, and writing gaudy ar
ticles about the kind of men who ought
to be appointed to federal offices. A
man who is Il professional lobbyist, and
who plies that trade in Washington
while holding sinecure office in Iowa,
is a dOwny customer as a writer on re-
form.
The medal of one of the noted 1906"
Mr.. David Monot of Philadelphia, will
have to be sent to him, as just now he
has a pressing engagement with the
state of Pennsylvania which he cannot
throw up. As a "worker" he tempered
with an election return and became
the victim of an uninstructed jury and
an Old-fashioned judge. To borrow
the language of Representative Robin
son, he sis pining in a bastile," com
monty called penitentiary.- Boston
journal.
Rev. DIR. Henry w. Bellows, who