St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-05
Note and Comment.

Note and Comment.
President Cleveland's cabinet is an
uounccd as follows:
Thomas F. Bayard Of Delaware, sec
rotary of state.
Daniel Manning of New York, secre-
tary of the treasury.
l.. Q. c. Lamar of Mississippi, secre-
tary of the interior
Augustus IL. Garland of Arkansas,
attorney general.
William f. Villas of Wisconsin, post
master general.
William c. Whitney of New York,
secretary of the navy.
William G.. EndicOtt of Massachu
sets, secretary of war.
1t is generally admitted that the presi-
dent has chosen wisely. His counsel
lors are all reckoned as able and men
of integrity. 1t will be noticed that
two of these men are from strong re-
publican states, and that one of these
(Vilas) is a native of Vermont.
We have not heard the praises OF
the republican party sung better OF
more truthfully than in an article else
where published from the Boston Her
aId-one of the most thoroughly out
and out independent papers low pub
lished.
Warren Gibbs of Burlington has
purchased and taken possession of the
st. Adams Daily and Weekly Messen-
Ger. -. w. Dixon, who has been edi-
tor for some years past, retires. Mr.
Dixon is IA gentleman, and an easy,
facile writer. He has made the Mes
senger a clean paper, free from person
aIitics and the degrading style of jour
nalsm too common now.
.Iewis Il Bole, editors and publish
ers.r stands mt the head of a neatly
printed paper called the Saturday
/ Evening News of West st. Paul. 1t
must he William NJ. Bole, son of Rev.
John Bole of West Barnet. Young
/ Role learned his trade in The CaledO-
nian office, married Sarah f. Dow, one
of its compositOrs, and together they
are now helping make the West as
good morally as it is great physically ;
for William was one of the best boys
( this Office ever gave to the world.
Some think that Kendall & Whit
ney'S seeds are the only ones that grow.
7 This is probably not true, but it is true
that Kendall 4 Whitney's seeds have
acquired a reputation that ensures a
second trial wherever they have had
the first.
If every paper was as honest with its
readers us is the Sunday school Times,
there would be fewer humbug adver-
tisements printed. Many advertise
ments are inserted when the publishers
are morally certain that they are en-
couragiug fraud but the almighty
dollar 81 closures their moral percep-
tions that they become partners in a
uefariOus business. The paper above
referred to keeps the following notice
standing in prominent place: ''The
Sunday School Times intends to admit
only advertisements that are trust
worthy. Should, however, an adver-
tisement of party not i'll good stand
ing be inadvertently inserted, the pub
fishers will refund to subscribers any
money that they lose thereby"
1t is said that fully 1000 Vermonters
will join the emigration to Dakota be-
fore fall, as the result of the movement
being organized by the Windsor,
Orange and Washington county vete-
rams. II this proves true there will be
the sickest lot of emigrants in Dakota
before another March that the West
ever saw.
Prof. William II. Brewer of the
Sheffield scientific school of Yale col
lege read paper before the Boston
society of arts, on cholera, in which he
asserted that he believes that we are
able To cope with the cholera, and only
wishes that the Atlantic cities were as
sure of successfully combating diph-
liberia. which he thinks is more to be
dreaded than cholera.
Miss Mary Fletcher who died at
Burlington the gath ult, was one of
the founders of the Fletcher Free Lii
brary. and the founder Of the Mary
Fletcher Hospital. Her gift. of S75,-
600 for the grounds and building, and
of SI25 900 for the endowment of the
hospital, constituted the largest bene-
faction ever made TO the public IN our
state, and will keep her name in per-
petnal and cherished memory. She al
SO left $1,000 to her faithful man of
all work, Michael Kelley. Miss Fetch
er was neiee of Col. Frederick Fletcher
Of st. Johnsbury.