Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-04
Editorial Notes.

BUT very few girl-babies will this year be
named " Elizabeth" unless at the cntreaties
OF some mutual friend
Ar the Episcopal convention all the Yer.
mont delegates, clerical and lay, voted in
favor Of confirming the Rev DIR. Seymour
as Bishop Of Illinois.
THr survey Of ship canal from Fort
Edward 10 Whitehall has been completed by
Colonel Fuller and 6. Thompson Hall, Of the
state engineers office at Albany.
Tnr establishment of "court Of arbitra-
ton" ia New York city, win do much to
usher in that good time when the demand
Of the times. for speedicr and better justice,
will be- met.
Tnr wondrous glory Of the autumn, this
year, has kept many painters lingering among
the mountains and by the watercourse.
watching tho ilcetug glories OF nature and
transferring them to permanent and tangi-
BILE form ON canvass or in the sketching
book
SUNDAY morning saw the first snow storm
Of the season in the north part Of the state,
though none fell at Montpelier St. Adams
reports a fall Of two inches, and the hills
around Lake Memphremagog were well
whitened. The first snow last year, in Yer.
mont. was on October 20th
BECAUSE the daughter OF Gen. Sherman
is a Catholic and was recently married ac-
cording to the rites of the Romish church, a
religious journal smells danger it is said, to
the country, in having her father at the head
of the army The gallant soldier marches
to a different sec than the Pope directs, and
carries no flag besides the stars and stripes.
On. GEORGE G.. SHArrucE. of Boston, in
a defence Of Hitualism. in the Episcopal con-
yenton. at New York made thi, illustra-
tion: As to the decoration of the Lords
table il a rich man might hc allowed to deck
his table with silver, lights and flowers. and
have servants in gorgeous liveries, why
should the Lord, table be mean and bare 80
The Chicago Times give, am encouraging
account of the condition of business affairs
in that city. some spectators have been
crushed in the grain corners but there has
not been a single mercantile failure for
months. The fall trade In all department,
is unusually good. and more goods have been
sold for cash than ever before. Money is
plenty and goes a-beggng for borrowers.
Ir is not easy to realize the terrific power
of a tropical cyclone from any description
however vivid But the brief statement
that in the one which lately swept oven
Eastern Asia, two thousand lives arr sup
posed to have been lost in a single district
will give some idea Of its terrible nature
Even prairie tornado must yield in de
structiye majesty to an agent Of anuihilatior
so potent "a, that.
Is arecent speech, Mr.. Alexander II. Ste
phcns said he supposed he had saved the
lives of more negroes than amy other mar
in the state Of Georgia. lie mentioned 9
particular instance-in which hc had been tn,
instrument under Providence, of saving
thirty-Gve of his colored brcthen from an ok
cited mob at Sparta Oneof the thirty-fye
he added, was at that moment unnn.
against him for Congress. 1t doesn't pay t.
save the lives ofnegroes.
We think the Mobile gentleman of colo
hit the nail on the head when he said, in re
ply TO the question why it was that tn
southern people We're constantly growing
poorer: Afore the war the white gentle
men tended to the politics. and the nigger
worked. Consequence was crops was goot
and white folks had money plenty. Nova
days the white gentlemen and the niger an
both gone crazy on politics. don't neither %
'em do no work and consequence is, ain
either of EN- got 'nough to buy corn bread.
THE Rutland Globe rcpublishes Presiden
Buckhams admirable address before tn,
Vermont Dairymen's Association, and say
of it editorially: Its simple and chaste styl'
and familiar treatment Of the subject IL
worthy of attention 1t is among the hes
utterances upon n Vermont topic that ha
been presented since Rev Dr. Lords ADM
rable address on Vermont before the IIistori
cal Society. We commend the perusa O
the address TO all om readers as OF a charac
ter that elevates and strengthens, iufusinl
higher ideas and nobler aims into tn
minds and hearts Of the people.