St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-01-07
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Cleveland is now said by his friends
to be out of the presidential race. 1t
may be different later on.
Speaker Crisp continues too i'll to
attend to his duties, and McMiIlin
of Tennessee has been elected speaker
pro tenn.
The ST. Adams Messenger begins
the new year with a new dress and
an improved makeup, besides being
four columns larger.
Florida thinks she has found
| bonanza in a recently discovered
deposit of mineral phosphate, the
value of which is beyond compare
Senator" Hill of New York has
heard from a Western senator, who
severely criticises Hills position on
the silver question. The ex-gov-
errors lot in the United Sta ties senate
may not be happy one.
The mercantile failures throughout
the year 1891 III the United States
are said to have been much more
numerous than for any year since
1857, though the total liabilities
show little change.
In speaking of Senator Proctor's
speech in Phila delphia the Fair Haven
Era says that Senator Proctor be-
longs not so much to Vermont now
as he does to the nation. and the one
is rapidly becoming as proud of him
as the other.
The Boston Journal thinks it is no
wonder that Speaker Crisp took to
his bed as soon as his committees
were announced; for he was prob
ably safer there than he would have
been out among his democratic as
SOciateS.
A rather decided grunt of dissatis-
faction comes up from the Charleston
News and Courier, to this effect:
I'VE cannot congratu late Speaker
Crisp on his committees, and we can
not congratulate the country or the
democratic party on Speaker Crisp"
There is a curiosity quietly slowed
away in a house in Keene, N. H.,
in the shape of what is believed to be
the first reed or cabinet organ ever
made in this country, and perhaps in
the world 1t was made in 1929 by
Joseph Foster, who evolved it as
result of experimenting on his fathers
blacksmith bellows.
A Richford dispatch Of the 4th inst
indicates a sincere yearning for snow
on the part of the business men of
that section, which is distinctive ely a
manufacturing and lumber country
The sight of few flakes Of snow
sets the Richford people agog. for
business thereabouts has been suffer
ing for lack of the beautiful
1t seems that the gerrymander can
work both ways. and now that the
republicans have the Ohio legislature
they have introduced a bill TO re-
district the state for representation
in congress 50 that they will have Il
members and the democrats four.
Gov. Flower OF New York urges The
democratic legislature to rcdistrict
that state
The Barton Monitor comes out
with the new year in eight-page
form, sensibly falling into line with
other weeklies in the state Thenew
Monitor, we are sure, will meet with
a cordial reception among it's CON
stituents. The eight page form is
certainly more convenient for the
readers. and affords the publisher
room to give the public all the read
ing matter they care for as well, as to
accommodate the advertising rush
which is inevitable during a part of
the year. Both Editor Blake and his
subscribers will enjoy the change.
The Monitor is good local paper
and is succeeding finely
The DIR. Graves murder trial at
Denver, Col, which has attracted a
great deal of attention for some days
past, was concluded on the I'd inst
by verdict against the doctor, of
murder in the first degree The
crime for which the doctor was tried
was comprising the death of Mrs
Barnaby, a wealthy woman at Den
yer, of whose will Dr. Graves had been
appointed sole executor without
bonds. A bottle of poisoned whisky
was sent to Mrs. Barnaby, and, being
partaken Of, caused her death. The
defence claimed that the bottle had