Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-01-04
Notes and Comments.

I
Tho only Republicans elected to the Sen
ate Of Georgia are two eolorcd gentlemen.
They are genuine " Black Republicans" and
no mistake We hope they will be found
well up to the hard work that will be required
Of them.
Compulsory systems Of instruction exist
in both Sweden and Norway, so thorough aud
severe as to provide even for the separation
Of parents and children by law, when this is
considered necessary to secure proper training
Of the child
Congress will assemble again on the 4lh
Of January. 1t will have just sixty days of
ire but only City Of those days will be work
ing days,-so it will have to work sharp to
complete the business on hand, even should
the next Congress meet on the 4th Of March.
The Italian Parliament has put through
the bin providing for the trausferonco Of the
capital of Italy from Florence to Rome. Il
went through the Chamber Of Deputies by a
vote Of 1872 to IS. The translercncc is to
take place within six months from the 23l Of
December, or by the 23d Of June, 1871.
1t is stated that the President will prob
ably appoint Frederick Douglass as one Of
the Commissioners to San Domingo. A much
worse appointment, considering the character
of the questions involved, might be made.
We doubt not all the appointments will be
such as to command confidence.
-Ex-Prcssidcut johnson complains that
during the late immortal war, as he calls it,
the robcs carried of nearIyaIl his books and
papers and even his tailor's shears, that he
priced highly from having used them so long
lie says that since the war many Of his books
have been returned but those shears and his
sign, &C. A. johnson, Tailor have never
turned up.
The wife Of a manufacturer in an inland
town, whose daughter was about to be mar
ried, sent notice to her friends, requesting
that if they intended to make wedding pres.
ents Of silver ware, they would send money
instead, as She was about to visit New York,
and would prefer to buy the articles herself,
for it would be so nice to have the things
match, you know"
After the FIRST Of January there ought
to be some abatement in the prices Of tea,
coffee, sugar and spices. On that day re-
ductiou takes place of fifteen cents pound
in the duty on sugar, and two cents pound
in the duty on coffee On spices there will
be large reduction, and also a considerable
addition to the free list this last mainly in
the special interest Of the manufacturers.
The Mount Gents tunnel under the Alps,
connecting Switzerland with Italy is expected
to be finished this week. This work was
commenced six years ago, and the entire
length Of the tunnel is seven and three-quar.
ter miles. The highway over Mount Gems is
the one travelled by Napoleon and his army
in 1894 The highest point OF the Alps at
this pass is $500 feet above the Mediterra-
mean Sea. It is the region Of eternal snow
Old Nap has pa. forth another pamphlet,
to show that he didn't do it, aud that the fall |
Of France is due to anybody rather than her
late lord and master The amount of it is
this, that he claims all the good Of his reign
for himself while he puts all the evil of it
upon others. This is a very good way to get
rid Of responsibility, and belongs to the
Observation-Disclosures mode of settling
things
All manufacturing establishments erected
after the 10Th day Of November, 1869, and
all such as were in process Of construction,
gether with the machinery for operating
the same, and its capital when the amount Is
not less than one thousand dollars, are exempt
from taxation for the term Of five years by a
law of the last Legislature. There was never
a more favorable time for the introduction Of
manufactures into the State than now.
Rev Dr. Eggleston from Chicago, who
has for some time been connected with The
editorial department Of the independent, is t.
be the successor of both Oliver johnson anC
Theodore Titon in it. lie is a man Of liberia
but o thodox religious views and generou
impulses and his presence will probably b
detected by the accession of mild eyangeli
cal favor to the editorial page while tn
herctical writer's will sport free, as heretofore
under their names in other parts Of the paper
Rev Thomas X Beecher, of Elmir'
said something unpleasant about II. b. Smith
Congressman elect from that district. Smit
remarked TO him that those statements wor
conspicuously inexact. Beecher exclaimed
"Do you want to get up a quarrel with tn
Beechcr family?" No, sir" said Smitl
obut | want to know if you intend to get u
a fight with the Smith family? ?" And peac
was made between these two great divisions c
the human race,
Minnesota papers tell sad story Of
little girl and boy who wandered away froI
the house Of their father in Morrison county
in that State, and subsequently were ioun
dead by the Indians The boy lay on hi
back, having apparently died without muc
suffering The girl had taken her rings fror
her ears and wrapping them with lock c
her hair in small piece of cloth, had pu
the little parcel in her pocket, and then lai
down and died from cold, hunger and expo
sure.
G Richmond is unfortunate. The burnn
n of the Spottswood House, on Christmas, is on
% Of the saddest incidents Of the time, leadin
as it did to the loss of many lives under tn
n most horriiying circumstances. This is til
ls third severe misfortune that has fallen upo
e. Richmond this year, and it is hoped that no
BIS her misiortuncs are over. "War, food, an
n. fire have proved uponn the beoutifnl c;t