Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-03-05
Notes and Comments.

! IL rs worked VIVA as great iacllityi anu
will polish as handsomely under proper
manipulation RS the best eyer caiscllcd in
Italy.
The executive committee Of the Union
Pacific railroad has decided that no free
passes over the road will hereafter be print
ed or issued. THY have applications for
over three thousand for this year, many Of
them being in the interest Of Senators and
members Of Congress and other officials.
AT the Inauguration yesterday Pres.
idlnt Grant occupied the chair in which
Washington sat when be was Grst inaugu-
ra.ed. 1t belongs to the mother Of w. II.
/ g. Waddell, who was marshal Of the South.
err District of New York under the Jack
son administration, and who resides 10
Westchcster county, n. Y. 1t is an arm
chair, is Of mahogany, substantially con-
strucied, with an opeu-tramed back, and
tho representation Of two crosses in the
scroll work.
That most illjuigel effort Of New
York clcrgymen and others, to obtain
commutation Of Fosters sentence, has met
with failure. Gov. Dix, as in the case Of
Gatincy, declines to interfere on such pure
ly sentimental grounds as his petitioners
urged. The preparations for Fosters ex.
ccu'ion are going forward, the customary
watch has been set over him to prevent es.
cape or suicide, and he will certainly be
hung on Friday Of thi. week.
"A fire broke out Thursday morning
in six-story block, situated at the corner
Of Hanover and blackstone streets. Boston.
occupied by Hammett & Co aud others
The walls fell in an hour anerthc Gre com.
menced. Three frcmeu were taken out
dead, and nine others wounded 4 girl
named Mary Moore jumped from the third
story window, and will probably die. Its
feared there are some more Gremen buried
in the ruins The fire was confined TO the
building where it originated. The charrod
remains Of two young women we're subse.
qucntly found in the ruins.
The House, Saturday adopted an
amendment fixing the salaries Of members
OF Congress at $4,000, without mileage or
other perqnisiies; the salary Of the Pres.
idont at $4,000; Vice President, $4,000;
Chief Justice s10,50O; Associate Justices
Supreme Court, $4,000; Cabinet officers
$4,000; Assistant Cabinet officers, $4,000
Speaker Of the House, $4,000. This is
reduction of ;he salaries Of Senators aud
Representatives Of $1,000 from the Senate
amendment, We are happy to state that
every member from Vermont voted against
this increase of pay
--Bsmark's lInesss is attributed to pois.
oned letters, and the story has plausi.
bic air, because his wife, who opened his
letters, by way Of helping him, also is sick
Bot the story sounds like those Psychological
tales thlt were common 10 the sixteenth
ccutury, when persons were killed by pois.
oned posies' or poisoned gloves, or poisoned
epstles, or poisoned pins, and so forth
One ought to inhale the odor Of many pos.
oned letters, before dying through the nose.
The German statesman should soak his let.
tiers in the sharpest Of vinegar, before open.
! ing them, aud so Gu; off the hopes Of bis
enemies, instead Of being cut of by those
enemies
The new Spanish " Cabinet crisis is
over. The Assembly ha, again elected a
government, constituting it substantially as
when the Republic was first proclaimed
Figucras remains President Of the Coun.
ell, and CASTELAR, is continued in charge of
the foreign rotations Tetuan becomes
Minister Of Finance, in place Of Figuerola,
and several changes are made in the lesser
positions. The new Cabinet is more thor.
onghIy Republican than that which it su.
percedes, aud which was made BY com.
bination between the Republicans and the
Radicals. Whether this will, in the end.
command greater strength, remains to be
seen.
The japanese have way Of 5 ttliug
accounts, when they become delaulters to
the Government, that it would be Danger
Gus to introduce in this country. A Japan
csc merchant of Yokohama was recently
found to have become indebted to the Gov.
eminent 100000, for non-payment Of du.
ties and other financial Irregularities. lie
did not abscond or propose to compromise,
as our delaulters do, bat having made out
statement Of his liabilities aud left it at
the war cihce, he repaired to his house and
committed hari kari. The officers on ar.
irving at the house found the work duly
finished, relieving them of the necessity of
further proceedings. Japan would hardly
be healthy country for our fancy Gnan.
ciers,
The counsel for Mrs. Lucy Fisk,
widow aud executiix Of James Fisk, has
made motion in the United States Circuit
Court for an injunction to restrain the
Credit Mobilier from dissoying its organi.
cation until time has been given for judi
cial determination of Mrs. Fisk's claim as
Der husbands executrix against that organ.
izaiion. This suit was commenced by Fisk
in 1865. The counsel for defence claimed
that Fisk obtained shares 10 dispute illegal.
y, surreptitlously y, and has not in any event
any claim against the organization. Judge
Blatchlord, before whom the motion wa,
made, last week granted an injunction
restraining the Credit Mobilier from TAX.
Ing any proceedings for dissolution or fol
appointment of receiver until decision il
the case shall be rendered by the court.
Speaker Blaine on Saturday volun
tarily surrendered the advance in the sala
AIRY Of bis tfiice voted to him for the pas
two years. If the House had been actu
ated by similar sense of delicacy, not tC