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

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st. Johnsbury, VT. Friday. Sept. 10, 1882.
The greatest battle of the campaign
was fought in Egypt on Wednesday
morning. Arabi's forces were surpris-
ed and routed, losing forty guns, three
thousand prisoners and two thousand
killed. The English loss was two
hundred, and many of their officers
were shot by Arabi's sharpshooters.
There is a candid and instructive ar
ticle copied elsewhere from the Boston
journal on "the machine and political
organization" which the readers will
he glad to peruse. 1t is a complete
answer to the assertion that political
party must necessarily be run as IA ma
chine, and is all the more valuable for
the reason that the journal is party
paper and has never been accused of
being an independent crank. The
world "do move"
Gen. GrOut disclaims instigating or
sanctioning in any manner the bolt in
this district by which his name was
used against Judge Poland; and not
only that, he told everybody he saw
before election, and wrote many letters,
positively forbidding the use of his
name. We thought last week from
the general character of the bolt that
the General was a party to it, but are
now convinced he was not 1t was the
work of Over-zealous friends.
The unreliable dispatches sent the
associated press from White River
Junction on the Vermont election, es-
pecially on the result i'll the second
congressional district, have been of a
nature calculated to create doubt as to
future dispatches from that source.
In subtracting the agent made an error
of eight or ten hundred, by which
Judge POland's majority was made to
appear only $40, which was sent broad
east throughout the country. The
Springfield Republican refers to the
agent as ''thc literary blacksmith"
Arthur Ropes, the "cyclOne" editor
of the Montpelier Waterman, gets it
right and left. The Argus calls him
the budding Thurlow Weed" while
the Woodstock Standard remarks as
follows: "The political cyclone
struck Montpelier with great force,
rolling up majority against Poland of
l73 in total vote of 57S. Berlin, just
across the river, was in the edge of the
clone and gave majority of l40
against Poland in total vote of l67.
Now if there is any term more express
sive in the science of political high
winds, let us know what it is"
The industrial fair, opened at Boston
last week, was not half ready opening
day, and is not yet complete by any
means. Workmen are busy night and
day putting i'll machinery and other
exhibits, and by next week it will be
III fair working order and make "A very
prescntable show. Some of the most
interesting things to be seen last week
were the heliOtype process of printing
pictures, carpet weaving, the North
Carolina exhibit of ores and woods -
very extensive-the art gallery, and
innumcrable inventions in mechanic
arts. 1t is well worth Il days time.
Shortly after the adjournment of the
Malley trial and the acquittal of the
Mallcys and Blanche Douglass it was
announced that Blanche was to re-
nOunce her old associations and lead
different life. A correspondent of
a trunk bearing Blanches name being
carried to that part of Bleecker street,
New York, infamous for concert sa-
looms and all varieties of vice. 1t is
claimed that Blanche is to open a
house the nature of which, if true, is
not a difficult matter to guess, where
wine, etc. will be for sale. 1t requires
time to whten "soiled dove"
The CdledOnidn rubs off the harsh
edge considerably, i'll giving election
returns for Caledonia county, by put
ting CIRCUITS votes in under the head of
scattering Barton Monitor.
Don't shoot again we come down
The fact was we had too high an opin-
ion of Gen. Grout to think he would
allow his name to he used, but thought
perhaps both he and Dillingham;, and
perhaps others, would have some over
Jealous but indiscreet friends who
would insist on voting for them and
il seems they had. So we thought
that scattering would just about
cover the whole business. You see
our mantle of charity flor GrOuD is
large.
The Maine Election.