St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-09
Note and Comment.

President Cleveland very properly
indefinitely postpOnes his receptions
while the great commander is dying.
Because Postmaster Pearson of New
York was re-appOinted it is no ways
certain that Postmaster Tobey of Bos-
ton will be. The two offices have been
managed very differently.
The relations between England and
Russia still continue threatening. Mr..
Gladstone is said to expect peaceful
settlement. English preparations for
war still continue, however.
William Burns, aged Ga, promi-
nent Lancaster man, died Thursday.
He was a member of the legislature
several times and was delegate to the
democratic national convention in
1860.
George Bancroft, the historian, has
given $4,000 to found a scholarship
in memory of his parents in the city of
Worcester. George was one of thir-
teen children, all born in Worcester
His father was Unitarian minister.
Grover Cleveland means business
He reappOints Postmaster Pearson of
New York city, lifelong republican,
because he did his work unexceptiOn-
ally. He suspends the postmaster at
Rome, n. Y, also a republican, be-
cause of his neglect of public duty.
Some gossip who might be in better
business has spread a report over the
country that Mrs. Garfield was soon to
marry Pennsylvania clergyman. The
report is declared to be utterly false
by Mrs. Garfield, who feels greatly
panied and insulted by the rumOr.
About 1000 people witnessed the
marriage of Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb to
Count Magri at the church of the Holy
Trinity in New York, Monday. The
bride is 81 inches high and weighs 80
pounds. The groom is 80 years old,
81 inches high and weighs 60 pounds.
The couple sail for Italy in May.
Moody and Sankey begin series of
meetings at Pittsburg to-day. Their
success in Kansas city was quite
marked Henry Varley, the evange-
list, has raised the ire of the people in
Augusta, Georgia, by the indiscreet
way in which he has spoken of the
former shareholders.
The American express company are
selling money orders from all the Of
fees of the company throughout the
country, and payable at $500 places.
Receipts are given and the money re-
funded if the order is lost. The rates
for these orders are given in advertis-
ing columns.
The "ad." of w. ID. Lane, florist and
scotsman at Middlebury, appears in
this paper.
The report telegraphed North that
Jefferson Davis was in a dying cOndi-
ton appears to have been considerably
Overdrawn. He has been sick at Beau
vOir in Mississippi with rheumatism,
complicated by the breaking out of a
wound in the foot received in the Mex
lean war but he is not failing in gem
eral health.
At the election April |, Rhode Island
elected Geo. p. WetmOre of Newport
governor, together with the rest of the
republican state ticket. Rev. Mahlon
Van Horne, the first cOlOred man ever
elected to the Rhode Island legislature,
was chosen in Newport. Pawtucket
adopted n city charter.
In the first month of the new admin
istration the president sent l73 nOmi-
nations to the senate, of which $50
were confirmed, two rejected and IL
pigeOn-holed.
The "party" that was recognized by
Mr.. Cleveland in the denomination of
Mr.. Pearson was Mr.. Cleveland him
self Philadelphia Record.