St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-01-19

The Boston democrats have recon-
mended Henry l.. Nelson, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Boston
Post, as the democratic civil service
commissioner.
The Springfield Republican and the
Boston Transcript and Advertiser have
been added to the list of papers that
Butler has ordered to be discontinued.
This makes a saving of about S35 to
the state, a great step in the onward
march of reform.
1t is thought General Grant will ac-
cept the presidency of the National Ri
fle association. The general is one who
would not refuse the presidency of
anything.
The Boston Post is printing extracts
from democratic papers which ridicule
the governors presidential aspirations.
The Post says it means to fulfill its
promise to Butler to furnish him inter
esting reading.
The prospectus of the Boston Tray
eller, in another column, tells its own
story. 1t is a reliable paper in its
news departments, and devOtes much
attention to literary and art matters
that are neglected by some of its daily
contemporaries.
General Sherman declares he is not,
and never will be, candidate for any
office, and desires now to pass the eve
ming of his life in comparative ease and
repose. "Surely, in this land of free
DOM" he says, "that much can be con-
coded to an old soldier"
Gov. Begole of Michigan, who was
elected by combination of democrats
and greenbackers, appoints only demo-
Gratis to office, whereat the greenback
ers are very indignant. They want
their share of the "pap."
Scion Chase in Them Steers INDUCES
in the following lament: "The green
back party has clasped hands with the
bourbon democracy of the north and
with carpet-bag republication in the
south until i'll the judgment of most all
of the people of the country it has
found the sleep that knows no wax
ing"
Once in while an editor dies and
leaves a large sum of money to his rel
atives, but it does not happen often.
Joseph Sailer, for many years financial
editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, has
died at the age of seventy-four years,
leaving S3OO,OOO.
Gov. Butler has risen to explain to Il
Globe reporter in regard to discontinue
ing the sending of papers to the State
house at the state expense. He says
he found the state was paying 800 for
newspapers for the executive, and he
cut them all off with the exception of
three, retaining the democratic Globe,
the republican Traveller and the indie
pendent Herald, for their reports of
whatever was said or done in the leg
islature.
The sexes are pretty evenly divided
in France, as are the married men and
women. According to the last census,
France has population of 81 900, 900,
of which $3.50, 900 are males and 49,
100000 are females, the number of
married men being 100000, and of
married women, 7,503,000. Probably
the war with Germany had much to do
in this equalization.
1t is reported that parties with conf
dence and money and little experience
are talking of establishing democratic
papers in two different localities in
this state. Vernon is poor soil for
democracy, and its republicanism is as
pronounced as its weather.
John Kelly endorses Mayor Edison.
Now Edison may be happy.
The late fires are likely to cause an
Over-hauling of hotels with poor fire
precautions but all efforts cannot
give back the lives of the Newhall-
house victims. But its repetition, how
If incendiaries would only prosecute
their hellish work in the summer, those
burned out would enjoy the fun a great
deal more than they do with the Their
mOmeter below zero.
The man who made no New Years
resolutions can now look his diary in
the face without blushing.
Bluntness and impudence of speech
is no more plain heartedness than milk
is butter.
The liar can trust others no more
than others can trust him.
Say what they please, ''Honesty is
the best policy has made many
truthful man.
If Congress held its sessions up here
in Vermont, the members would make
less frequent visits to the cloak rooms.
What fun A few days ago boy
gagged himself because he failed in
the attempt to break into safe. Now
there are those who intimate that the
st. Louis girl abducted herself Very
likely there are "A lot of girls who will
have to do it if they are ever abducted.
Plaisted has become an editor. He
will have lot of old scores to wipe
out.
The civil-service reform is an Ohio
graft, yet the Ohio man is nowhere
near exhausted.
No matter how old paper becomes,
it never gets beyond wearing dresses.