St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-06-25

TelOIces at Mr. GIaustOne ) uecisiOn,
aud says that no title could add to his
fame or enhance the enthusiastic devo-
ton of lis countless admirers.
Last Saturday Victoria had reigned
over Great Britain and Ireland for a
period of Is years, a length of time
which has been exceeded only by three
of England's kings, viz, Henry Ill,
who reigned SO years; Edward Ill,
who reigned 30 years, and George Ill,
whose reign lasted for nearly 90 years.
The queen is also the oldest reIgning
European monarch with three excep
Emperor of Germany, who
is 80 years of age the King of Neither
lands, Is years, aud the King of Den
mark, 81 years.
The bill before the Massachusetts,
legislature for exempting ex-soldiers
from the provisions of the civil service
examinations, was finally defeated last
week in the Senate. 1t was supported
by some of the members avowedly up
on the ground that it was a blow at
the civil service law and the defenders
of the law have succeeded in killing
the bill, though no doubt part of the
vote for the bill was really from disin
sympathy for the soldier.
Baccalaureate sermons were preach
ed last Sunday by Prest. Bartlett at
Prest. Porter at Yale, DIR.
Beach at Wesleyan university, Rev.
DR.. S. G. Brown at BOwdoin, Rev. DR..
c. II. Hall of Brooklyn at Trinity,
Prest. Cheney at Bates, Rev. o. p. Gift
ford of Boston at Wellesley, while DR..
Howard NJ. Crosby of New York ad-
dressed the Y. NJ. c. A. at Dartmouth.
OF the lS pOstmasters appointed by
President Arthur just previous to the
expiration of his term, but who were
not commissioned for lack of time, the
have been issued to II,
by President Cleveland.
The ''third cOstliest building in the
world" is the New York state capitol.
Started under Il legislative limitation
of 81 ,0OO, 900, it has already cost nearly
81 900, 900, or more than the national
capitol building at Washington. Six
or seven millions more will be required
to finish it, and it will then be i'll adapt
ed to the purpose for which it was de-
the result of constructing public build
ings by political rather than business
methods.
1t may not be generally known that
assaults on women in Maryland may
he punished by logging on the bare
back. A recent issue of the Baltimore
Sun has accounts of the sentences of
Wife heater Pyers to Is lashes and
and the appeal of Meyers from
IL sentence of 20 lashes and ~ months
for similar Offense. Another wife
beaten got off without any lashes, and
still fourth, Polish peddIer, was ac-
quilted.
The editor of the New York Free
man, the cOlored mans journal, says he
never supported the democratic par
ty he has "spOken well of President
not because he is "a demo-
crat, but because he has done some
things as president which deserved to
be well spoken Of" He is also "Dot a
republican dummy, to be hauled around
and snubbed and blackguarded by such
impudent and INSCRIPTIONS politicians
rs managed the last national republi-
can campaign"
The practicability of keeping politics
and the civil service separate, without
loss of interest by the people in gov
affairs is illustrated by En-
glish politics. In commenting on the
recent change of parties caused by the
Gladstone defeat, Harper's Weekly
says: "There is one view of the sitna-
lion in England which is worth re-
parties are as thoroughly
and party spirit is as warm
there as here, and party government is
as absolute. Now complete change
IF administration has taken place in
change as total as that in
the United States last March. Yet
there is not postmaster nor "a customs
officer in the kingdom who trembles.
Probably not hundred changes in the
civil service will be made. Yet the
election will be as interesting and as
warmly contested as any that takes
place in this country. The experience
If England shows the inetfable absurd
ty of the theory that nobody in this
country would care for politics, or turn
,ut to vote at an election, if the fate of
every messenger-b boy and coal-heaver
lud scrubbing woman in the public
service did not depend upon a party /
change of administration"
The Case of Waite
The BrattlebOrO papers are very Sc
we're upon Silas NJ. Waite, the alleged
fOrger and bank breaker and rObber