Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-05-14
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ment was almost continually in democratic
hands.
1t is said that the surviving members
Of President Lincolns cabinet viii sign
card to be prepared by Montgomery Blair,
denying some Of Mr.. Adams statements in
his eulogy Of Seward Chief Justice Chase
would have signed it had be lived.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that where life iusur.
ance policy has been assigned to secure a
creditor, in case Of the death Of he person
to whom the policy was issued, the creditor,
on the payment of said policy, can only
retain the actual amount of money due
him from the deceased.
The amended liquor law in Nassachu-
sets went into effect last week By amend.
nIents passed during the present SESSION of
the Legislature, the right to permit the
sale of ale, porter, lager beer aud strong
beer within the limits is taken away from
the cities and towns Of that state, and il is
now penal oifensc for any one except
agents authorized By law, to sell any spirit.
uous or malt liquors in other than oriqi.
nal packages.
Sir Bartle Frere has succeeded in max.
ing treaty with the Sultan at Muscaf, in
which the latter undertakes to forbid the
importation Of slaves, and declares free all
negroes and other bondsmen hereafter ar.
irving in the territory of Oman. BY the
provisions Of this treaty he likewise agrees
to put down all public slave marts, and any
one who may be proved to have imported
slaves will be amonable to the law.
The Indian commissioners have unani.
mously adopted a report asserting the sue
cess of the peace policy, and that The No.
doc massacre is to be charged not to this
policy but to the dishonorable and shame
less treatment to which the Indians had
been subjected previously. All is yet quiet
at the lava beds A commissioner will be
sent to the Sioux and other Indians in south.
western Dakota, to negotiate with them for
the abandonment of their privilege TO hunt
outside their reservations.
The Farmers Cheap Transportation
Convention held at New York, Wednesday,
evidently means business 1t has some
very able men in it, aud its opposition to
railroad monopolies is set forth in some
very pointed resolutions. The object Of
the association, as declared by the constitu-
ton adopted, is TO secure the cheapening
and equalization Of railroad transportation
rates throughout the United States. A sub.
ordinate association in each state is also
provided for. Josiah Quincy of Boston is
permanent president
The tea market in New York is greatly
depressed aud several heavy failures in that
line are reported. All grades have declined
from 10 to 90 per cent in value. Oolongs
have fallen off most, the losses on these
qualities averaging from 80 to so per cent,
with an immense stock, sufficient for eighteen
months business, still on hand. Many
dealers have suspended importatious, and
will endeavor by this means to average their
losses over longer time, so that they may be
sustained without entire suspension of bust
ness.
1t is said the late James Brooks made
a will just before his death in which he
left his one-half interest in the New York
Express to his son, one hundred thousand
dollars in Pacific railroad land bonds to his
wife, sixty-seven thousand dollars in rail-
road bonds and his real estate in Washing.
ton to his unmarried daughter, and other
legacles in bonds and stock. 1t occurs to
us that Mr.. Brooks was possessed of a very
large amount Of Pacific railroad bonds and
kindred securities, if his hands we're per.
fectly clean, as his brother of the EXPIRES,
claims.
The Supreme Court of Massachusett,
has recently decided that telegraph com
panies are not responsible for errors il
transmitting messages unless the same ar,
repeated in accordance with the printed
regulations of the company. But tn,
courts of Illinois in recent decisions, hole
that the telegraphs have no right to charg,
one price for doing the work at all, and ar
extra price for doing it correctly. They
hold that correctness is the very essence Of
the contract of the Telegraph Company
and cannot legally be separated from it ant
charged as an extra accommodation.
The English papers are deploring thu
large emigration to this country. They
say the indications point to greater exc
dus this year, than for many years before
The drain is extending to classes which
have not heretofore participated in thu
movement. The Liverpool Post says
The large proportion of English agricul
tural lsborers now emigrating is an uuusu
al feature, and the arrangements of thu
leading steamship companies for the ensu
ing two months include the deportation o
small colonies of farm laborers and arti
sans from the south Of England" Ameri
ca is the FL Dorado of the toiling, VIII,
seek better fortune, and happily there i
plenty Of room.
1t is pity that 10 State offerin,
such fair inducements to farmers as Texas
there is no better security for life and pro
perty. 1t is estimated that 100 COWS
worth 81 900, will in ten years be increase,
there to 5000, aud be worth $4,000
Pasturage is illimitable, and =" when ha,
is wanted the grasses cure themselves. -
The Platte Valley alone has 1000 ,00C
acres Of rich lands, the temperature /
moderate, the water good and abundant
and the Texas Pacific railroad will reacl
Fort Worth next wear Yet in snit,