St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-22
Editorial Notes.

by snow balling each other.
Col. Cash is running for Congress in
South Carolina. He is also candi-
date in a good many northern districts.
President Arthur rode into Newport,
K. l., in an express wagon. Quite
difference from the magnificent equip
page in which he rides in Washington.
Republicans in Missouri are dissatis-
fled with the greenback-republican CO.
alition and they hold convention this
week to nominate an opposition ticket.
Gen. Sherman believes there are IA
great many good people in Washing
ton. Possibly the general is right, but
they seem to be in a hopeless minor
ity.
Speaker Keifer thinks the most the
democrats can do is to elect six of the
twenty-one congressman in Ohio. The
other fifteen he believes will be repub-
licans.
If the temperature is any indication
VI us tldldChtl Dt' i>puiS N'hiS 'hN
nearest to being the internal abode of
any place in the United States at mid
night on Thursday.
Thus far seven members of the forty
eighth Congress have been chosen-all
republicans. They will represent
Maine, Vermont and Oregon. A good
beginning for the next House.
The ''Peerless" is the title of col
lection of songs for singing classes,
institutes, academies and schools, by
W. O. Perkins, and published by Oliver
Ditson & Co., Boston. Price IS cents.
Mr.. Frye says of the Maine election
"Our victory will give much encour-
agement to the republicans all over
the country, and very likely will be
! the means of majority in the next
house.
The Burlington Clipper wonders il
the CdIedOnian has learned that roll
ing Stone gathers no moss. We art
quite content to leave the gathering OF
that product to such moss-backs as the
Clipper man.
The New Hampshire greenbacker.
and the democrats held state conven-
tons Wednesday. The democrats
nominated Martin V. b. Edgerly fOl
governor and the greenbackers John F
Woodbury..
Governor-elec Robbie of Maine say
one of the first of his official acts vii
be to nominate Judge Libbey to fill thu
vacant seat Oh the bench of the su
preme court caused by Gov. Plaisted'
refusal to reappoint him.
In the midst of a political speech IL
Georgia IL few days since Alexander II
Stephens paused and said, lyon vii
excuse me in my weakness for takin:
little pure JeffersOnian DemOcra
= cy,'n after which he drank from Il vial
The democratic Boston Post ia
cetiously says &: ga defeated candi
l date for representative in Vernon
f town proposes to contest the election
e of his democratic competitor. A re
. publican who would do that in Vernon
must be pretty tough customer"
2 Gov. St. John of Kansas says : 9Th
t republicans have morality, sObriety
= law and order and God Almighty o
their side, while the democrats al
leagued with drunkenness, rOwdyisn
{ Sabbath breaking, profanity and tn
T devil"
. The lines are being drawn. A stat
: anti-prohibition convention held
d Omaha, Neb., resolved against vOtin
II for prohibition candidates, and requi1
II ing all candidates who receive the SUI
+ port of the convention to give pledg
e to work against prohibition.
l. In the ninth congressional district
e Virginia there are five candidates
7. the field, classed as independent den
Ii ocrat, independent readiuster, Mahor
l. readiuster, straight republican and il
/ dependent republican. Most anybOd
re ought to be suited with a candidate
, that district.
p The Boston Herald wickedly say:
lie at is related that when Joseph Coo
vi was a boy he took a pile of books o
into the fields and became so absOrb'
that he forgot to come home to Dime
Joseph is now on his way back to BO
is ton. Won't somebody send him son
le books ? Perhaps if the pile is b
1t enough he may forget to come back
IN The platform of the New Hampshi
nt republicans supports President Arthu
in administration, endorses prOtectiO
of favors encouragement of commerce al
es shipbuilding, approves the river a
m harbor veto, demands faithful exec
he ton of the prohibitory law, and fave
in national aid for education, fixed teri
h. of Office and appointments based up
he fitness.
lis Samuel w. Hale of Keene, the non
.rs nee of the New Hampshire republica
in for governor, is about fifty years {
Isl and one of the most successful busin'
NJ men in the state. He is a furnitu
NO manufacturer, but his wealth, estim
,e- ed at "A million dollars, was accum
he lated chiefly by stock speculate
M mining and railroading. He has be
ed a member of the Legislature and of
AS governors council, and he was ais
he delegate to the Chicago convention
,rs 1850. One reason for his selection v
- lis residenne In Cheshire conn