St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-15
Editorial Notes.

10 nee 10 Jne mountains ana take up
their abode.
Seaside and mountain travel begins
to languish with the near approach of
cool weather.
General Butler has returned from his
maritime expedition and the Halifax
ians breathe freer.
Burke once wrote Better to be
despised for too anxious apprehensiOns
than ruined by too confident a securi-
ty." He must have had stock in
savings bank.
Andrews, Ind, has brass band
composed of fourteen young ladies. A
crusty bachelor says women are good
on wind.
Henry Ward Beecher recently pro-
claimed his belief in probation after
death, and now graduate of Andover
has been rejected as a candidate for
settlement over an orthodox church in
Wayland because he rather believed
mankind had chance by probation
after this life. Strange things are
coming to pass in religion as in poll
tics.
Governor Long of Massachusetts is
quite felicitous and happy speaker.
In his speech at the New England fair
at Worcester on Governors day, he re-
GREETED that there were no more COVER
nors present. Maine" he said, sis
having a protracted cattle-show of its
own; Vermont has Just closed one with
some doubt as to the award of some of
the premiums"
Gen. Butler has been chosen dele
gate to the Massachusetts democratic
convention from Lowell, and the ap-
pOintment of committee to wait upon
him and inform him of his nomination
for governor will be quite unneces-
sary.
1t is now Officially" reported that
President Arthur will be married this
fall, and the lady is the same one who
it is said has been the recipient at diff
ferent watering places of the choicest
flowers from the White House conser-
vatories. But Arthur cannot marry all
the ladies to whom he has been en-
gagged any more than the unfortunate
scholar who is the victim of female
Vaccinations in the play of "PrOfes-
sOr."
Jay Gould has an immense influence.
1t is said that he controls 100000, 600
of corporation capital, 1900 employees,
and more than half of the public Off
cials in Missouri. He controls the
New York World and Tribune and
railroad stock without limit. 1t is
questionable to what extent the inter
ests of Jay Gould and of the people
may be identical.
The Boston Herald thinks that Pres
ident Arthur, after his nautical exper-
fence, ought to know better how to
sail the ship of state.
The Worcester Spy is so earnest in
its advocacy and defense of Senator
Hoar that it is called "Hoar's home or
gan" The Springfield Republican
says it ''calls names with the reckless
ness and vehemence of fish-wOman,"
and reads it this lesson "Softly, VEN
cradle neighbOr. Go lay your throb-
bling head on the bosom of mother
earth and get back your honest old
self again. The sun will continue to
the just and the unjust even if the peo-
pie of Massachusetts conclude to be
true to themselves and condemn at
Worcester man who helped rebuke
the president of the United States for
being right"
Ex-GOv. Pinchbeck of Louisiana
takes the same view of the political is
sues as did Flanagan in the Chicago
convention. When asked what great
issue divided the parties i'll the south,
that clear-headed politician promptly
responded, "offices."
At the Illinois democratic conven-
ton Rev. DR.. GOss, an Old-time Bap-
fist minister, made prayer, following
the "Amen" of which there was per-
feet storm of applause, and many hats
were thrown toward the ceiling. 1t
was as follows: 80, Lord, we beseech
thee to save us from the devil. O,
Lord God, we beseech thee to save us
from star route and other thieves upon
the public treasury. o, Lord God AL
mighty, we pray thee to save us from
republicanism. For Christ's sake.
Amen" There was faith, now.
Congressman Jay Hubbell has been
defeated in contest for denomination
in the eleventh Michigan district. The
assessment business is what did the
work.
The delinquent employees of the
Charleston navy-yard have received
another circular from Jay Hubbell.
The sharp contest in New Hamp-
shire between Samuel w. Hale and
Moody Currier for the gubernatOrial
nomination resulted at the state con-
vention on Tuesday in the nomination
of Hale on the fourth ballot.
A special despatch to Boston Herald
announces that Samuel j. Tilden has
been attacked by a disorder of the
nerves, preliminary to sOftening OF
) the brain, and that his physicians say
that he may live several months and
he may die within a week, but that his