St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28

able record of able service in the SEN
ate and the cabinet. He was one of
the principle advocates of President
JOhnson's Impeachment, and was a
member of the electoral commission
which seated President Hayes in 1877.
Politically he was republican of the
"stalwart" type. He was an able law
yer, and a man of unquestioned lnteg-
rity of purpose and action. Mr.. Ere
linghuysen was nominated by Presi-
dent Grant as minister to England and
unanimously confirmed, but declined
the honor, preferring to remain in the
senate.
The Boston and Albany railroad was
indicted at Springfield, Mass, last
Thursday, for running Sunday trains.
The Englishman's boast that the sun
never sets on the Queens dOminiOns is
familiar. The citizen of the United
States is entitled to make the same
claim for his country. San Francisco,
generally supposed to be the western
gate of the United States, is really
midway of our dominion the most
distant Aleutian island, off our Alas
kan possessions, being as far west of
San Francisco as EastpOrt, Maine, is
east. Hence" says a writer on the
subject, "the sun never sets in our
country. When the sun is giving its
goodnight kiss to our west-mOst isle
on the confines of Behring's sea, it is
also flooding the fields and forests of
Maine with its morning light"
Important to married men Justice
Miller of the supreme court has decid-
ed that the proper person to whom to
deliver telegraph dispatch to bust
ness man, when he is out of town, is to
his wife at home. The case came up
in Des MOines, la. Welker Given was
offered a well-paid editorial position
by telegraph. He was not in the city,
the dispatch was left with his wife,
and was not forwarded until the place
had been filled. The delay was caused
because Mrs. Given didn't know her
husbands whereabouts, although the
clerks at his Office did. In his wrath
Given sued the telegraph company for
damages, but Justice Miller holds that
the delivery was right, and says the
moral is that linen should be on very
confidential terms with their wives, D
and "A very sound moral it is.
The strange story Is current that the
family of the late Secretary Freling
huysen make no secret of the fact that
his first serious illness was due to AGO.
mite that in some unaccOuntable way
was bottled with the mineral water he
says that there was enough left in the
bottle to kill four men.
Victor Hugo, the most notable man
in France, the great poet, dramatist,
novelist and apostle of freedom, died
last Friday at the ripe age of 80 years.
Among all his works ''Les Miserables"
stands forth as the greatest, as it is al
so one of the half-dOzen greatest nov
els i'll the world. He left a request
that his body should be conveyed to
the grave in a "pauper hearse," with
out any religious rites. A fund has
been started for national monument
to the dead poet.
"Thief'' isn't a pretty sounding
word, but it is the right name for a
man who takes newspaper and re-
fuses to pay for it. A New York pa
per has begun suit against several de-
linquent subscribers under the United
States postal laws, which say: ''The
taking of a newspaper and refusal to
pay for the same renders person liza
BILE to criminal prosecution as a thief,
and the person guilty of the same can
be punished as if he had stolen goods
to the amount of subscriptions"
POundmaker, Riel's ally, has surren-
dered, virtually ending the Riel rebel
lion. The Dominion has spent about
$3,000,O0O and $50 men have been
killed on both sides and nearly 400
wounded.
The cases of Mackin and Gallagher,
the men who changed the ballots in
the box in a Chicago ward at the last !
presidential election, will go to the |
United States supreme court.
Blind for 46 years, and yet one of
the happiest of men So reads an
obituary notice in the Passumpsic |
items in this paper. Perhaps happi- |
ness depends less upon circumstances
than most of us think.
Mr.. Villas seems to have the notion
in his head that there is "A democratic !
and republican way of handling the |
mails. Would the manager of an ex-
press company be likely to adopt that
theory p BOstOn Herald.