St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-18
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81. Johnsbury, Vt, Friday, May 1s. 1888.
While temperance people are not
disposed to look with complacency on
the license system, it is a gratifying in
dication that in cities and towns in the
west, where licenses are granted, there
is a disposition to fix the price for
granting them at a high figure, which
j. more consistent with the claims of
license men for their system.
"Thc mcanest man" lives in Haver-
hill. Mass. He bought some hay of
ncighbor on sunday, representing that
his horse would suffer for want of it
before Monday, and then prosecuted
him for selling hay on Sunday. Such
mcanncss rs that Is deserving of pun
ishmcut 10y living at the Tcwksbury
almshousc, which, according to all ac-
counts. is about the worst punishment
that could lie inflicted upon him.
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struck a taking vein of newspaper
humor in his bad Boy" sketches, and
it is said that they yield him a larger
yearly income than Emerson realized
during his entire life. They are great
" exaggerated sketches of improbable
occurrences, contain not one useful or
helpful idea, and are in marked con
traSt to Burdcttc's humor or Lewis
Rrnthcr Gardeners Limckiln philosO-
ply.
The sale of the New York World
make, a radical change in the tone of
that paper on the tariff question.
While Mr.. Pulitzer is not an extreme
protcctinnist. the World will no longer
hc an advocate of free trade, which it
couspicuously has been for years past.
The Louisville Couricr-Journal will
lose an able colleague in this change of
front on the tariff question, but Wat
tcrson is accustomed to being the under
dog in the fight.
Joaquin Miller has written a GRO
nance" which relates the story of his
early marriage to "Ninnc MYRTLE" the
arrangement. the divorce, and finally
her death, for the San Francisco Chron-
icle. Which is a mean and unprinci-
Piled thing to do, now that his wife is
dead and powcrlcSS to speak, if need
be-. in her own defense. Better it
would he for the alleged ''poet of the
SicrIas" to let his domestic affairs pass
into oblivion, than To trade upon them
for the satisfaction of Il prurient pub
lie and the filling of his pockets with
gold.
The New York Legislative session
ended with quarrel between the Til
den and Tammany factions. Grover
Cleveland and Tilden following have
commenced to wage war on John Kel !
~ and the sachcms and braves of Tam
many hall, and announce their deter |
mination to keep them out of the next
..t,t. convention EolI,- j. cLor,,od
with defeating Lucius Robinson for
governor and General Hancock for |
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entertain strong hopes, through the de
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elected president nro fem of tbe son
ate. and it Ina, been rrported that Sen
ator EdmundS would Withdraw at the
opening of the next Congress in favor
ot Senator Anthony as president uro
tenn of the senate. senator Antbopv's
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