St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-14
Note and Comment.

The Boston Journal remarks that
the Morrison tariff bill seems designed
to let in deluge of foreign manutac-
tured goods just when our markets are
most crowded by our own.
Gov. Sherman of Iowa warns Presi-
dent Arthur that, "shOuld he approve
this Porter bill with his signature, he
can expect nothing from our people"
Noting the admission of thirty-tive
Young lawyers to the Massachusetts
bar last week, the Boston Journal says
sin it's present conditions law presents
a field only for Il grim struggle for the
survival of the fittest."
The Springfield Republican calls the
attention of Matthew Arnold to an i'm
pOrtant point III the City of Columbus
testimony. Andrew F. Pitman, stew
ard, testities that when the steamer
struck and he was warned to get up
and save himself al stayed to put on
clean shirt"
Sure enough. A woman who came
into Amherst from neighbOring town
and whose horse was frightened by the
blowing of students horns the other
day inquired III gentle tones of citi-
izen why the authorities didn't care for
those braying animals.
illustrated carnival number, 1000
edition proving insufficient to meet the
demand. A posse of police had to he
called iii to protect the Star office from
the mob of buyers Monday.
The Boston Traveller, naturally an
admirer of President Arthur, has been
polling the preferences of members of
the Legislature as to the republican
presidential candidate. 1t finds 81
men for Edmunds, 81 for Arthur, 4 for
Gen. Sherman, 3 for Blaine and | each
for Senator Sherman and Gen. Logan.
A prominent piano manufacturer of
New York says that the square piano
is rapidly going out of use, that the
Steinways make them no more, and
that in few years they will be as rare
as the oldfashioned spinning wheel
now is. The upright piano is now the
thing where one has not room enough
for grand.
Messrs. Hiram Sibley & Co, of ROch-
ester. n. Y, and Chicago, H., will send,
free of charge on application, to any of
our readers, book in which is de
scribed all the tested new and standard
varieties of vegetable, flower and field
seeds, which is well worth sending for
and reading carefully.
The Lewiston Journal thinks Maine
will adopt a constitutional amendment
for prohibition by large majority.
The etfusive readiness of congress
to make any appropriation asked for
by the Mississippi improvement asso-
citation is a symptom of the approach
of presidential election Cincinnati
Commercial.
There is no need to wave the bloody
shirt as long as the congressional in
vestigating committee dares not hold
its session in COpiah county, Miss,
but must go to New Orleans to be out
of reach of the shot guns.
Conclusive proof of the longevity of
our ancestors is afforded by the rolls
of the pension Office. On these are
now borne the names of 1881 surviv-
ing soldiers and sailors of the war of
1872, and 81 $50 widows Long may
they wave : Burlington Free Press.
Ex-Gov. Washburn of Greenfield,
Mass, has been interviewed by New
York reporter Oh presidential politics
and says: eve should very much
like to see Senator Edmunds nomi-
mated, OF some strong, able, safe man
like him. If we cannot get such a
man we shall try and be satisfied with
the best the convention can give us"
Thus the Montpelier Freeman, in
allusion to the tax-dodging charge
against Frederick Billings "Perhaps
this objection, which is that of wicked,
democrats, so far as we have seen, is
not intended solely to hit Mr.. Billings.
but other good and large republicans.
like Senators Morrill, and Edmunds.
Judge Royce, ex-GOv. Smith aud others
who were backward in coming forward
with their returns"
Not impossible by any means.-For
president, George F. Edmunds of Yer
mont 4; for vice-president, Robert I.
Lincoln of Illinois. Platform Union
of the East and the West; cool Yankee
intellect combined with warm Hoosier
heart virtue from. Lake Champlain.
reinforced by yigor from Lake Michi-
gan the republican party not for a
day but for all time electoral frauds
whenever necessity requires New
York Sun.