Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-03-11
Notes and Comments.

Susan b. Anthony Is reporteu as say
ing the female suffrage cause Is not in so
promising a condition as it was FIVE years
ago. She has herself partly to thank for it.
The Rochester, IN. W Inspectors ar.
rested for receiving Susan b. Anthony's
vote, were bailed out of Jail, Monday. The
two who are Republicans we're nominated
by their party for reelection to the same
offices, and elected,
The Indians at Red Cloud Agency
and the surrounding resorts appear to have
delayed their threatened scalping campaign
for time. General Sheridan believes,
however, that as soon as the grass grows
there will be something stronger than prayers
and good intentions needed to preserve the
hair of the farmers on the border settle.
ments.
The Boston Grange, having refused to
disband at the order Of the National
Grange, has passed resolutions declaring
itself an independent body and now claims
to be a National Grange itself. A declar-
alton of principles has been adopted, mate
rally the same as those Of other Oranges,
and meeting is to be held at Springfield,
for the purpose of completing its organ
ization.
The taxes Of the Southern states, it is
said, have for several years more than
equalled the profits of capital invested in
industrial pursuits. And yet the lavish
expenditures which were in vogue before
the war seem to be still the order Of the
day. The habits of improvidence which
slavery encouraged must give place to more
consistent ideas before the South will realize
her capabilities.
An Ohio mathematician has discovered
that man dies from the use of alcohol
every seven minutes, and that those who
have died from its effects during the last
fifty years would bridge the American con-
tinent from ocean to ocean, allowing three
feet for each body And yet there are
people who favor the unrestricted traffic in
this terrible poison and the making habitual
its use as beverage!
The largest diamond ever imported
into this country, weighing in its rough
state thirty carats, has just been success
fully cut, after FIVE months labor, and was
placed on exhibition at Delmonico's, New
York. 1t lost about thirty-three per cent
in cutting, and is now valued at about $40,
600. 1t is the property Of a Philadelphia
3 gentleman, and was found in the Soutl
African diamond fields
Investigation is the order of the day
at present in Washington. The custom
house system Of seizures, and ex.specia
agent Jayne, the honor of General Howard
the condition of the District of Columbia
aud the cause of the failure of the Firs
'' National Bank Of Washington, are all t
. be investigated this week, With so mar
investigations we should hope some degre
of publication might be reached.
If any memorial can have weight wit
:, Congress, the one presented by Clarkso
Potter, of New York, against any increas
Of currency, ought to. This represente
s474 100000 of capital, and its oppositio
=. to any further issue of irredeemabe pape
n well shows what the solid interests Of tn
country want. A withdrawal of the e,
!. cess Of currency now in circulation, and
II determination to issue no more, is the d,
d mand of thinking people, and it shoul
10 be complied with.
c. The Centennial project was virtual
ID defeated, Friday, so far as the Senate
lie concerned. The whole matter was referre
k to the Committee on Appropriations, an,
p. as that committee is understood to be o.
Of posed to the project, it is not probable that II
of bill will ever be resurrected from its gray
" in the pigeon holes Of the committee room
IN The next move of the friends Of the Cei
lie tcnnal will probably be to endeayor to il
le fuence the House Committee on Appropr
IN ations to fayorably consider the matte
st The feelings Of the Philadelphians, whiC
have been at fever heat for several week
must have sunk some degrees below ger