Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-09-17
Notes and Comments.

0y ballot, on the nrst MOnuay III OctOouIi
whether they will in future he content to
have Hartford their sole capital or not.
1t is estimated that emigration, in the
past twcnty.soven years, has drained Ger
many Of 100000 Of her population, Of
whom 100000 were adults liable to milf
tary service.
Elk. President Andy johnson is about
to visit Washington in pursuit ofdocumcuts
to subsiantio,e his repeated assertion that
he knew nothing of appeals for clemonoy in
the case Of Mrs Surratt.
Rev Mr. Murray, of Boston, denies
that be killed a deer du:iug the Summer.
But the Providence journal reioius that
Mr.. Murray was the head Of a largo party
in the Adironjacks which party killed and
Mr. Murray aiding ten deer. And
in the killing the law Of the State Of New
York was violated
The Boston Jo,vHai saws the nomiua-
ton Of Mayor Pierce in the Third Con
rressional District made vacant by the
death Of the llte William Whiting, will be
nearly unanimous, aud his election will, Of
course, follow Congress will gain an
efficient, heightened member, anl Boston
will lose a most excellent Mayor
Governor Powers, Of Mississippi re-
Gently gave his autograph to a lady who
requested it at a Republican meeting in
Macon, and it was made to do duty as the
signature to a pardon for young man
serving out term in the pouitcntiary, son
of tho autograph seeker, who succeeded in
getting him out Of the way before her trick
was discovered
The Vermont State Sunday School
secretary reports the statistics Of 500 sun.
day Schools, comprising Go5o teaeber- and
lG, 400 scholars, an aggregate of III per
cent of the population of the towns report
ing. OF the $1,000 children aud youth
from five to twenty years Of age in the
state not lar from o0'''n''' are '00'u 10
the Sunday School.
Count Selopis, the President Of the
Geneva Tribunal has written letter ae-
ccpting The testimonial presented him by
the United States Government He say.
he rcloices at having been enabled TO CON
tribute to work Of great paelfcation, and
sreaks Of the two countries concerned 10
the result as having set an example which
he hopes will bear its fruit in future.
-Bowles Brothers * Company propose
TO raise the money to pay OIL their cred
TORS in full, by issuing four per cent five
year bonds to the amount Of million dol
lars. They claim that the business value
Of the house covers its liabilities more than
six to one, if ouly their assets can be re.
leased from the bankruptcy courts boy th'
consent Of creditors to receive these bond.
in payment Of the sums due them.
The ease with which France has paid
the installmeuts Of the German indemnity
as they became due, has asionished ih'
world. The last installmeut Of five mil
lizards will be paid in October. But there
is very simple explanation Of the fact
1t Is estimated that the French people
yearly save in money, over and above al
their expenses, 2,o0O,0oo,0Oo francs o
s4OO'00ooOo. A nation whose citizen
lay by every year this enormous surplus
must have great vitality
Human life is not considered by tn,
average American as sufficiently sacrcd tc
Justify even small pesuniary expendiiur,
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sometimes dsarranee the most careful
plans has come TO light regarding the Rio
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The s. Louis Republican, the old
time dispenser of Democratic doctrines in
that city has joined the Chicago Times
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