St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-08-18
Editorial Notes.


Massachusetts will be bottled by the
hero of Fort Fisher.
AS a natural result of the arrears OF
pensions act, $50 additional clerks are
needed in the war department, and fol
these clerkships there are already Ovel
two thousand applicants, who are
perfectly willing to be assessed by Jay
Hubbell.
In New York city there has been an
increase of over S6,OOO,OO0 in the saw
ings banks deposits for the past six
months.
Ex-senator Thurman is reported to
have said that the democrats in Con-
gress have reminded him of "a flock OF
sheep without a leader" Precisely
and their great need is of modern
Moses who will lead them into the
promised land of official "pap."
The session of Congress just closed
has been exceeded in the past by only
six sessions, the longest one closing
Sept. 30, 1850, resulting in what are
known as "the compromise measures
of 1850" The past session will be re-
membered by the really little that was
accomplished and the demagoguical
act of the last week.
The negroes are coming forward in
spiritual as well as in political fields
The first colored Baptist church in
western Pennsylvania has been built
and dedicated.
The New Orleans Picayune INDUCES
in the following rhetorical flight over
the passage of the river and harbOr bill
over the presidents veto: "The Con
gress of the United States has, so to
speak, sat down on the president. The
whole nation will say amen Out
through the plains of Illinois, beyond
the Rocky mountains, beside the Pa
cific, by the shores of the great lakes
on west to the Columbia and down to
the buried cities of Arizona, amid the
cypress swamps of Louisiana, among
the everglades of Florida, wherever
the gulf waves sound or the Atlantic
rOars, is heard the reverberation of the
echo of applause that followed the vote
over the veto"
The wheat harvest in Minnesota will
be the largest ever known, reaching
the grand total of 38, 325, 762 bushels
on an acreage of 2,472, 889, an increase
over last year of nearly seven million
bushels.
State Senator DAILY of New York
himself a democrat, gives the trouble
with the democratic party in nutshell
when he says the democratic party has
been a party of expediency for many
years, that it has had no fixed policy
or principles, but has been fighting, az
HOratiO Seymour says, old mems quar-.
rels.
Elections will take place next mOntl
as follows: In Arkansas on the 4th
in Vermont on the 5th, and in Maine
on the 18th.
There is lady in Providence, r. L.
who would not have much difficulty in
singing like a nightingale. Her name
is Nightingale.
A special to the Boston Herald
speaks of RobesOn's chances for cleo.
ton to Congress as rather slim. New
Jersey republicans might elect more
creditable representative.
The Boston Herald, which likes t.
lead, wants a new party organized Oh
the civil service issue. Civil service
is a good thing, but the trouble i;
that politicians believe more in it be.
fore than after election.
The New York Sun with its charac-
teristic terseness, puts up the follow
ing ticket for 1884: For president
Chester Allan Arthur of New York
for vice-president, John James In
gals of Kansas; platform, no Robe
son, no RObbing!
There is disposition in Boston, the
Herald discovers, to run Oliver Ames
as reform candidate for Congress
against Mr.. Harris. Oliver is a son OF
Cakes Ames, of credit mobilier no.
toriety.
At the Massachusetts prohibition
convention, two hundred delegates OF
both sexes were present. The women
ache to help hold the reins on the pub
! lie nag.