Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-04-16
Notes and Comments.

Tho Minnesota Legislature mas passeu
/ law providing that all vendors Of intoxi-
eating liquors in that State shall be requir-
ed to pay an additional license fee of $40,
which money is to go for the foundation aud
support Of an asylum for inebriates. Per-
sons selling liquor without license are made
liable to fine aud imprisonment.
1t is announced that the FIVE missions
Of the United States 10 Central America
will on the first OF July next be cousolid.
ated into one, and that the five ministers
who now serve their country at an expense
OF $1,000 year each, in gold, will be re.
called, and succeeded by single new min.
lister at $4,000 a year
Secretary Richardson stated Monday
to gentleman prominent in New York
financial circles, that thus far all the ap.
pcals for relief of the money market have
come from gold spectators and gamblers.
He thinks that the present rise in gold is
solely due to the tricks and manipulaions
of Wall street operators, aud is not true
index Of business affairs and prospects.
The Pope is suffering frou ailments
serious in themselves, but justifying the
grayest apprehensious when coming upon an
old man Of eighty years Some anxiety is
felt lest he should not see bis eightieth birth.
day, May 10; and to him, to whom the al
ready unprecedented length Of his pouii6.
cate is such matter Of pride, it would
doubtless be felt as a great affection if he
should not live out the 9th year Of his
reign, which would conclude in the following
month.
While there is so much amentation in
this country over the alleged failure Of civil
service reform, which was simply a system
Of competitive examination, 1t is interesting
to know that 10 England the singular spec
tacle may now be seen Of the opponents Of
the administration opposing competitive ex-
aminations, and insisting that filter appoint
ments can be made by their political ad-
yersaries than by independent non-political
boards.
The estimate for the present fiscal
year Of the receipts from the tax on dis
titled and malt liquors and tobacco was
placed at s75 100000 Two months and
twenty days remain Of the fiscal year and
yet the actual revenue from these sources
to date is ss3,00O,000. In the general
total the receipts fJom other sources will
exceed the estimate by many millions
The indications are, therefore that the in
ternal revenue will quite equal that for
the fiscal year Of 1871 and 1872, if it does
not exceed it, notwithstanding the reduced
taxation.
- The Madrid correspondent Of the
TriJuae says the ranks Of the army are
Republican to the core, but the officers have
the political leanings Of the class from
which they are taken, aud favor mon.
archy, consequently there is no sympathy
between the two branches Of the service
and the former are fretting under the itch
of mutiny. The writer thinks that if the
government would discharge the officer.
and make rapid promotions from the ranks
an army Of enthusiasm would be formed
before which Carlism would vanish for.
ever.
New Haven has been anxious to be.
come the sole capital of Connecticut
Something Of her quarrel with Hartford
and Hartford influences grew out of thi,
ambition. But the city of Elms is taking
a very poor way to secure her object. He
politicians, in defeating regular Republican
candidates, are simply arraying all the res
Of the State against them and their city
and are rendering the best service they
can to their rival Of Hartford In clos
State it requires only small vote to ruin
but large vote to rule aud while thes
Hessaus may defeat the ticket, they cannot
accomplish their own objects.
The scheme for the annexation Of Yves
Florida to Georgia has taken definite shap
in the Legislature of the latter state o.
March Dist, the select committee on tn
acquisition Of West Florida reported bill
aPpropriating 100000 eight per cent
coupon bonds to be made payable to tn
authorities Of Florida as compensation 70
all that part of their territory lying Yves
Of the Chattahoocbee and Alphabetical
rivers, and authorizing the appointment c
a committee Of three to make the propose
to the government Of Florida. The repor
was fayorably received, and it is not unlike
ly that the already extensive territory c
Georgia will soon be increased by the al
nexation of the Oveted section.