St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-09
Note and Comment.

The coat cut for Hiram Atkins by
the Rutland Herald just fitted him, as
every one can see in last weeks Argus.
1t makes no difference whether Atkins
pens the stuff himself or allows it done
by the dirty blackguard who does his
editorial work-it is skunk journal
ism" all the same.
Kansas City has the booming fever
again. The city covers four square
miles and claims 10000 people and is
proposing to take in Ia more miles of
surrounding prairie to accommodate a
hoped for population of 5OO,0OO
The action of the Woman's Christian
temperance union in Ohio, looking to
the defeat of republican candidates for
the legislature who favor taxation of
the liquor traffic instead of prohibition,
is making the Western republican or
gans nervous, and they call the union
"a democratic side-shOw" All the
signs point to close fight for the con-
troll of the next Ohio Legislature.
Prof Egleston of the school of mines
in Columbia college says that the ODE
lisk in Central Park at New York is
disintegrating at such a rate that it
will be beyond repair in 10 years. Gen
di Cesnola says the same thing. The
London twin of this Egyptian trophy
has been given IA coat of silica, but DI
CesnOla would like to see ours put I'M
der cover, suggesting that it be placed
in the center of the great hall of the
Metropolitan museum. This would
cost $40, 900.
The 6. A. K. encampment at Port
land deserves and is receiving praise
for distinctly refusing to sanction the
proposition to pay all soldiers of the
war, no matter what their health or
financial condition, a pension of So II
month. The effort to secure the en-
dOrsement of the G.. A. K. for this pen
sion grab had its origin with the claim
agents at Washington. The passage
of this bill would take not far from a
hundred million dollars year out of
the federal treasury in addition to pres
ent large annual payments on pension
accounts. 1t is estimated that a mill
| lion able bodied Union veterans sur
vive to-day. The scheme was strong
| " urged at the last session of congress.
Mrs. Lucille Yseult Dudley, recently
acquitted at New York, on the ground
of insanity, of felOnious assault in
shooting O'DOnOvan Rosa, has been
committed to the Middletown insane
asylum. She was quite willing to go,
though all through her trial she pro-
tested that she was not insane.
The last UOuucUuiouu ius;eI.t,..~
enacted law prohibiting noisy dem
constructions on the night of July 3D.,
which bad its first practical trial last
week Friday, aud the peaceful citizen
was able to sleep without disturbance
| from the fish horn, the cannon and the
fire. cracker. About 30 persons were
arrested at Bridgeport for violating
this law. The feeling against Judge
Slade, it's author, is very bitter among
certain classes.
| While the number of business fail
nres for the first half of this year is
larger than for the same period last
wear, the liabilities are three tifths
less.
Joseph G. Mackin, as the result of a
re- trial for the Chicago election frauds,
has been sentenced to five years in
state prison for perjury.
Judge Aldrich of the Massachusetts
superior court decided last week that
the ministers who preached on Boston
common without license from the
city council were in the wrong. He
said that if the city had the right to
MASS the ordinance prohibiting ad-
dresses IN the common without a Ii
cehse, then e'~rv citizen, and every
| Christian citizen especially, ought to
obey the law. The questions in the
case did not involve the right of speech
or the right of preaching the gospel.
| The judge ruled that the city had the
| right to pass the ordinance, and that
neglect to publish it in the newspapers
did not make it invalid. This decision
was rendered in the case against Rev.
w. F. Davis, who appeals to the supreme
court. The like case against Rev. Ii. L.
Hastings was continued to await the
decision in Mr.. Davis's case. DR.. A.
j. GOrdOn's fine has been paid by the
Y. NJ. c. A, as part of the arrangement
for the associations future preaching
under permit. The case against the
SalvatiOnists is dropped, they agree
ing to respect the ordinance in future.
The MOrmOns are thoroughly en-
FILTERED by the polygamy prosecutions
which have of late been successfully