Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-06-04
Notes and Comments.


Turkey wakes up from her slumbers
once in great while, just to let the world
know she is not quite dead. She recently
reused herself sufficiently to protest against
the Acheeuese war, tho Sultan having sent
bis dsapproval Of the pending contest to
the Hague. She is nodding again, however.
In the recent case of smuggling charg.
ed against VIM. +. Weld & Co., Of Boston,
which was settled by compromise Of the
s39s,000 exacted as penalties, the govern
ment getting one.half, had about sl03,O3O
the informers s96,5l5, and the collector,
naval officer aud surveyor Of the port, whose
duty was almost entirely q passive one,
about s32 900 each. Comment is unncc-
essary.
Gen. CANDY died poor. His private
charities, it is said, we're absolutely with.
out stint, and his widow was left with moth.
ing but pension Of thirty dollars month.
An Oregon newspaper states that Mr.. j.
b. Montgomery, contractor on the
Northern Pacific railway, learning this fact,
collected from the leading citizens Of Port
land in three hours purse of s., 400 in
gold, and presented it to Mrs. Candy.
More damages are reported by the
freshets in the St. Lawrence river. Vast
quantities Of logs are running out, and
there is great excitement in the lumber
trade The river has cut now channel
for itself near the Grass Village carrying
away Baptist's water mills and destroying
much property. Three persons were drown
ed Wednesday, and the body Of child
was found under cliff near Quebec, mashed
to a jelly,
After a long period Of quasi.udepend-
ence the people Of Prince Edward Island,
through their Legislature, have voted unan-
imously to accept the terms Of union with
the Dominion Of Canada So now, we be.
lieve, all the Provinces on the Northeast.
ern British peninsula, including Canada
aud the adjoining islands, arc embraced in
the New Dominion. LISA large territory,
and as well established, independent repub.
lie will some day, no doubt, become a high.
y respectable power on earth.
Il
Lively times may be expected in Roch-
ester, n. Y, next month when Miss Susan
b. Anthony aud her ten associates are 10
be tried for illegal voting. The women
have secured the best legal talent to plead
their justification under the later amend.
ments to the constitution Of the United
States. Miss Susan has also marshaled
the propcrty-bolding women of that city
for resistance to the tax-colector, under the
old revolutionary war cry Of mo taxation
without representation" They are cult.
waiting the growth Of their fugernals.
-Ex. Gov. Jewell, Of Connecticut, ac
cep,s the Russian mission and will start fol
st. Petersburg about the Goth Of June
His appointment has been received with
general satisfaction, and we may consider
ourselves fortunate in having so capable {
man to represent us at the Court Of th,
Gar. He has had no diplomatic expert
ence, to be sure, but he is a gentleman o
good sense, and has capacity for public at
fairs, born out of an active and successful
life, which will fit him to discharge his Of
fetal duties creditably and pleasantly.
The Supreme Court of California ha
decided that promissory notes are not tax
able property within the meaning Of tn
} State Constitution. 1t has been the prac
tice, in that State, as in this, to tax mort
cages and other evidence of debt, thus tax
! ing debt instead of property, or in othe
words, taxing what man does not own, a
: well as what he does. Under this ruling
: San Francisco paper remarks that the Stat
cannot collect revenue from the same sun
dozen times over, because it has bee
loaned successfully to dozen individual.
The assessor must tax the dollars in tn
hands Of the last holder.
1t is melancholy news to break t
the public, but they do say there is going t
be an extremely hot summer. 1t is one O
the compensations of nature that a back
ward spring is generally succeeded by a
unusually hot summer, on the make-up-for
! lost.time principle. Such season woul
be likely to breed pestilence, and the mora
of the representation is therefore two-fold
: to buy an unusually large stock of line
clothes, and to clean away from huma
abodes all malaria. breeding accumulation
: The appearance thus early of cholera 0
New Orleans and yellow fever at Ne
: York, emphasizes this warning.
Boston has had another sharp expt
rieuce of the facilities for an extensive col
v migration presented by the narrow stree
!, and insubstantial character Of the ne
a buildings of its commercial quarter. Star
:, ing, as is believed, in the varnish-room {
a q furniture factory, the fire of Frida
consumed in few hours over a millio
!. dollars worth of property. The Mansar
il roof is not charged with propagating II
ERE this time, but it is pretty clear thu
4 had the buildings not presented many il
"a yiting openings for the flames they couI
= not, even with the aid of strong win
have done so much damage in so short
- time.
10 1t was tolerably difficult TO tell whet
err George Francis Train was insane or n
before the court undertook to settle Il
r, question, and now ii is about as hard a c
+ nundrum as we know of. lie has be,
l. successfully decided by various tribuna
v to be sane, insane and sane again. "
N pays your money and takes your choic
le We should not blame the pagan Dictate
IF himself for getting little mixed on 4
ID question. Most people will admit, howe
le er, that the courts which have had this mt