Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-02-23
Notes and Comments.

Eft Bdff0Ui D.U., ihlllks Mr. iIofu WIS MS
taken in saying that this Female Suffrage
movement was " sometimes found in low COM
pany."
"A large immigration from Europe, the
coming season, is anticipated. Thousands of
frugal and industrious but half-starved Eng.
fish mechanics will be among the newcomers.
Unless there is an improvement in business
some Of them will find it difficult to obtain
work.
A recent writer throws out this consol-
ing reflection No man is ever left so poor
in opportunities that he docs not see the face
Of some truth as it passes by his place Of
business and invites him out upon Gods
highway"
"A man has been expelled from the
Methodist church, in Barre Mass, for I'M
Kind and censorous language aud treatment
towards his brethren Of the church, Some
churches would be thin if that rule was
vigorously enforced
"A soldiers widow in Leavenworth lately
employed claim agent to collect the 500
bounty due her husband She then bad to
hire another lawyer to collect the money Of
the claim agent, and a third to collect what
was left, Of the second She finally got S27,
the balance of the 500 going to the three
lawyers.
The House Committee on intoxicating
Liquors Of the Massachusetts Legislature has
reported license bin suppressing public bars
and tipping shops, and allowing innkeepers
and yictualers to sell liquor to their guests to
be drank on the premises, and grocers, apotho-
carries, sc, to sell liquor not to be drank on
the premises, with fees from 500 to $1,000.
The Christian Register Unitarian re-
joces that the New York Independent has
placed itself squarcly upon the Liberal Chris
tianplatforu; and the Cougregatonalist Or
thodox) also reioices that the Independent
thus openly processes what it has long taught
though pretending to be evangelical. So all
parties appear to be pleased with the present
position Of affairs.
The Supreme court Of Ohio has decided
in favor Of the Bible in the public schools,
and made a perpetual injunction restraining
the execution of the vote Of the school board
Of Cincinnati forbidding the reading of the
Bible or the singing Of sacred songs in the
schools Of that city. Judge Hogan, in his
decision, held that the provisions of the con-
sttutou recognize Christianity, and acknowl-
edge that religion and morality are necessary
to good governments that the State uses reli-
gon as a means to promote good government,
and therefore, that the exclusion Of all reli-
gous instruction from the public schools is
contrary to the bill Of rights.
Mississippi has been admitted to the
Union again. with the same conditions i'm
posed as in the case Of Virginia a motion to
admit her without conditions being defeated
in the Senate, by a small majority. The
House bill passed the Senate soon after. SO
we shall soon see a negro Senator in the seat
vacated nine years ago by Jefferson Davis.
Texas is now the only State waiting at the
door Of Congress, though Georgia has not got
her Senators and Representatives quite in
order to take their seats
AT a special term of the Supreme Court
III Brooklyn, N. Y, Wednesday, Judge Pratt
presiding, the recent decision Of Chief Justice
Chase holding that the principal and interest
OF all contracts made prior to the passage of
the legal tender act of 1862, are payable in
gold, was practically applied in the case of
johnson Lake against Alfred Doubleday and
others. The plaintiff sued to foreclose a
mortgage for $4,000, dated July l, 1857, and
Judge Pratt decided in favor of the plaintiff,
ordering both principal and interest to be paid
in gold or its equivalent in greenbacks.
"A traveller who accompanied Dr. Living
stone in some of his early explorations in
Southern Africa says he was once before ac-
cused by the natives Of being wizard and
sorcerer, but escaped through the representa-
tons Of his interpreters, who told the people
that he was their friend, and was engaged in
endeavoring to suppress the Portuguese slave
trade,
A new naturalization law is passing
through Congress. The law give the control
Of naturalization to the United States courts
exclusively, as fought to; fixes the period of
probation after an alien has given notice of
his intention to become a citizen, at three
years. and PROVIDE that no naturalized cit-
zen can vote within SIX months of the compile.
ton of his papers. The bill, which is the
work Of Judge Davis, of New York, has
been carefully drawn and thoroughly scrutin-
lied by members of Congress interested in it,
and it is believed it will be a complete bar to
the naturalization frauds that have been so
common Of late years.
1t has just been discovered at the United
States sub-treasury at New York that the
nickel five cent pieces are being extensively
counterieited. The genuine coin being so
poor itself, it seems-not to have entered any,
body's head till a day or two ago that it
could be counterleited; but it is now said
that from SO to $40 of " the queer" are
daily presented at the sub-treasury for re-
demption. The coin is generally lighter than
the genuine, the color inclnes more to the
yellow, owing to the presence of zinc, and
the motto A" In God we trust" is much
larger on the counterfeit than on the genuine
coin The mint officials at Philadelphia pro.
nounce the counterfeit very dangerous one,
and well calculated to deceive.
"A good feature in Washington society
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