St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-03-03

world would he much healthier, hap
pier and better, and one of the most
common pleas in eXtcnuatiOn of muir
der would he removed from the courts.
But Il certain kind of ''refOrmcrs"
would prefer world chrOnically dis
eased to one not prOtesscdly moral, ac
cording to their peculiar ideas of NOR
ality.
WHY is THIS THUSP
What makes it Il criminal proceeding
for a woman to don mans garments
One woman who has worn the attire of
the other sex in New York for some
years-serving in restaurant as Il
waiter, i'll a-grocery as clerk, i'll n small
factory as confidential clerk and col
lectOr-has Just been arrested and sen-
fenced to Imprisonment on BlackwclFs
island for six months. Now this is
nothing else than an outrage. The
testimony given showed that, while the
girl in mans garb had drank at the
bar and smoked with other fellows,
she had never been compromised in
anything lower, and had always done
her work and paid her way. When
she WAS arraigned, her only plea was
that she could get better places and
wages as man than as woman.
This is no doubt true plea, and it is
abOminable to subject such a person to
the stigma of crime when she has done
no moral wrong. 1t is a point (among
many) where the statutes need such
amendatory provisions as will regard
somehow the motives of the person ar
raigned.-[Springfield Republican.
WOE TO THE "THREE HUNDRED AND
SIX.n
This brass medal business is, rightly,
covering the notorious BOG with ridi-
cule; they deserve all they are get
ting.
Who are the BOO? They were 3O6
members of the Chicago Convention
who had determined to support Gen.
Grant for Il third term. They had II
right to do that. They had a right to
stand for the nomination of any one
they chose the King of the Sand
wich Islands, for instance. There is
no law forbidding any number of men,
whether they are citizens or not, to
nominate anybOdy-the inhabitant of
an insane asylum if they prefer him
to any office in the country.
But the BOG never came before the
people. They were beaten in the con-
vention. Is that anything to he boast
full about Is it not heaping ridiculc
on themselves to celebrate their absurd
miscalculatiOn of public opinion and
party opinion by dinners and medals
This is evidently what the third term
/ leaders think fnT ,,f fhnt,
present at the Albany dinner, and we
do not hear that any one of them is
taking part in this distribution of
medals.
Our advice to the BOG is to "sing
small" They were beaten at Chicago,
and deserved to be beaten. They
stood together in their defeat, but
surely it is no great glory to them that
they did not run away. We have nn
doubt that all this dinner and medal
nonsense is thoroughly distasteful to
General Grant, to Mr.. Conkling, to
President Arthur and to the Others
who foOlishly became leaders in the
third term movement last year. These
gentlemen have long ago seen that
they blundered, and it cannot he pleas
ant to them to have their blunder aud
defeat brought once more cOnspicu-
ously before the public, to cause re-
newed ridicule.- n. Y. Herald.
SPEAKING RIGHT OUT.
Judge Poland once represented thi,
district in congress and occupied q
commanding position in the house
His brilliant record, in the light of his
tory, after the campaign passions anC
prejudices have died ont, stands on
sharp and clear. He was opposed by
the press and defeated in 1874. w,
opposed him then, but we are free t,
admit that we made a mistake, and til,
district made a mistake. Judge Po
land ought to have been kept in Con
gress.- Randolph Herald.