Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-25
Notes and Comments.

Mass, for twenty-five cents, and at Dedham
for one dollar per barrel It is becoming
popular tipple.
THE discussions in prominent papers re-
specting the political situation in the coun-
try only serve to show that politics are very
much mixed at the present time.
STANLEY is making his way into the in
terror of Africa. lie win soon be lost in the
jungle, and then out goes another Living
stone expedition from the New York Herald
office to hunt up Stanley.
BErcnEn is quoted as saying that Ben
Butler "aways makes so many blunders,
and creates so much prejudice against bis
own case, that rather like the idea of hay
ing him ON the other side"
Tnr new Washington democratic organ
has not yet appeared but a score of them is
promised. The spirit is high, but funds are
low The loose change of the democracy
seems to have been exhausted in the cleo
tons.
PRINTING Mrs Stoves True Story of
Lady Byron's Life cost the atlantic MontRly
a great many subscribers, one report says
nine thousand It was the worst blunder
that either the author or the magazine has
ever made.
Go BACK on the wings of Imagination to
such year as 1850, says the Cincinnati
Commercial, and think of the danger of be-
ing then denounced as a maniac for saying
that in 1874 South Carolina would vote the
Republican ticket, and Massachusetts, the
democratic.
A new feature in the system Of Harvard
College is a course Of lectures delivered in
French Professor Beecher will lecture on
the French comedy in the seventeenth cen
tury, every Saturday evening during this
academic year.
The New York correspondent Of the Bos-
ton Journal says that while Tweed lives hand
somely in prison, his family occupy an ele-
giant mansion, with grounds of sufficient
magnitude and beauty to satisfy an English
lord" The ladies enjoy a fine turnout, and
e" Mrs Tweed is the observed Of all observ-
ers as she drives up to tho Episcopal church
on Sundays"
CRITICISM Of Republican mistakes by Re
publican newspapers, is both duty and
privilege. But systematic depreciation of
the party, its measures, and its tendencies,
by journals claiming to support it, is fatal
to the party, as well as treachery in the
journals themselves. 1t is such Brutus like
stabbing as this that has brought the party
where it is.
HARrER's Monthly Magazine begins its fif-
tieth volume with henumber for December,
with brilliant table of contents What a
career Of merited success this monthly has
had Its present circulation is 10000
every month, and no number contains line
that is not designed by its publishers for
the innocent entertainment and positive inn
provement of society.
THE Boston Herald hopes the democrats
win pass the civil rights bill. The man who
hoped to gather grapes of thoms and figs Of
thistes had a better prospect of the fruition
of his hopes than the Herald has. Why,
man, it was to defeat this that the demo-
cratic uarty was put into power. Even so
good epublican-democrats as those sent to
Congress from Massachusetts would scout
the idea Of voting for the civil rights bill
AMONG the curiosities of railroad freights
may be mentioned the fact that merchandise
may now be shipped from st. Louis to New
Xorl- ait,s tbaroa I,- utnor,or Co. H.,
cisco ria the lsthmus for less money than
direct from that city by rail Thus freight
is carried more than double the distance it
would have to tavel TO reach its destination
by the Union Pacific railroad, and not with
standing this, the shipper saves eighty cents
per hundred pounds in freight charges.
The Providence Journal very candidly
and justly says; While party lines are by
no means drawn upon the financial question,
and although among the champions on both
sides are prominent men of each party, still
it is plain that the strength of a sound cur
rency is mainly with the Republicans, and
the strength Of initiation mainly with the
democrats" We think this is very fair
statement Of the case. Mr.. Anthony under
stands the facts both as Senator and as an
editor.
The trial of the civil suit of Theodore
Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher is set
down for the sth Of December. The crimi-
nal suits will in all probability go over UNI
til next year, and should the civil suit re-
suit unfayorably to Mr. Beecher, of course
we shall never hear Of the criminal charges
again. The civil suit gives ample latitude
for the introduction Of evidence, admitting
the letters of Mr. Beecher. and the statements