Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-08-11
Editorial Notes.

constituents VINO loat inc Wliiloni hut nv |
bankers
Ex-PErsipENr JOHNSON had a Fremont |
ton Of death. A few days ago he said al
am winding up my personal affairs wish
to be my own executor have had bad |
feeling in my head, which makes me fear
apoplexy, and a man liable to that never
knows how suddenly he may be cut Of"
AnnANcBMENrs have been made to bring
Chicago within twenty-six hours Of New |
York, 10y mail, and further reduction to |
twenty-four hours is anticipated Chicago |
will look upon New York as her Atlantic
suburb, and then she'll insist upon having San
Francisco as her Pacific port-her Prnus,
or Ostia, on the great Western Ocean.
ArroRSfY-GENERAL PfERroNr says that
he has not, since he has occupied his present
position, received any account Of ku.klux
outrages. The applications for pardon are
not so numerous as heretofore, the circular
issued some months since ON that subject
being more rigid in It's requirements than
the former ones.
PEor. BAIRD OF the Smithsonian institu-
ton at Washington, United States fish com
missioner, is hard at work at Woods Hole,
Mass, with n forccof about forty specialists,
assistants and students A large laboratory
TO accommodate over twenty professors and
students has been arranged, with aquaria and
other accessories to study, and important re-
suits are expected from the observations.
II seems the Dutch are still carrying ON
that war against the Atohincse in Java,
which is now two years old, and no nearer
an end than before The Atchincse fight
like devils, and seem able to fully hold their
own against the Dutch, whose losses b. dis
ease exceed that by the bullet Of the enemy.
The Dutch armyis about to be- reinforced,
with a view to final effort to storm the
Atchnesc Notifications.
GENERAL EAroN, Of the Bureau Of Edn-
cation, states that, comparing the statistics
of 1873 with those Of 1874, it appears that
the attendance Of pupils in academies and
preparatory schools in 1871 was exceeded by
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thousand FIVE hundred. The attendance in
scientific and agricultural colleges decreased
seventeen hundreds in colleges for women,
twelve hundred. The total gifts and lega-
cies for the benefit of education, amounted
nearly to six millions of dollars in 1874, as
against eleven and quartermllionsf for 1873.
INrLA1IoNfsrs should remember that too
much of good thing is oftentimes more in
furious than too little. Death from gluttony
is as bad as death from starvation. That
medium we have now reached. We have
enough paper money for all business purpo-
SEES. What we now want is, not more paper
money, but better paper money. This we
can get not 10y initiation, nor by contraction,
but by gradual return to specie payments.
This reached AS it sooi. viii be, if common
sense prevails-our paper currency will be
yitalized, and in value, made the equivalent
of gold.
= lr is estimated that the South lost s36Sl,-
100000 in consequence Of the rebellion. be
sides all the loss that followed from four
= years devotion to fighting and all the loss
that ha, since taken place through the yio-
lent changes made in Southern life. Well,
it was her own work, for there was no earthly
power that could have injured her, had she
remained quiet in IsGO-Gl Were it posi-
bic to get at the precise loss Of the South
through her rebellion, probably it would be
found that ten thousand millions OF dollars
" would hardly cover it. Rebellion is a costly
thing in these days
As instance of Chinese superstition oc
cured recently in Nevada The drowning
boldt river has led the Chinese Of Whine
mu Ca to believe that he was pulled into th
water by the spirit Of some white man O
Indian. So confident are they that such wa
the case, that they have inquired OF seyera
persons if a representative Of one or tn
other OF those races had not been browne,
in the same place some years ago, and vii
not believe that such was not the case NJ
Chinaman will go into the river at tina
" point for some time.
"BuRLEIGu," in his letter to the Bostoi
Journal, relates the following story Of Nh
Graves, colored minister of New York
r. He was slave Of Robert Toombs, and wa
/ made free by the proclamation. lie has jus
i made visit to Bunker Hill, Under tn
e shadow of the granite column the old maj
O stood bareheaded, called his own name, an
a.. I ID. I
e by the grace of God aud the proclamation
h of the martyr President" There was not
If little sarcastic humor in all this, combine
# with the grotesque love for the dramatic $
t inherent in the negro character
T. One of the important features Of our ex
'e port trade is the shipment of cotton good
Is to England II is fact that America
d made bleached goods are now cheaper tina
rs those of any other country, and this circun
10 stance has led to the shipment of such good
ar TO England. There has been no materia
reduction in the same kind of goods in til
British market, and hence the difference
Is in favor of our goods. The first invoice G
Il. bleached goods shipped to England cam
u from several Of the Maine mills, and til
y quality of the goods is claimed to be 81
~ perior to that of British manufacture.
:, The passage by the British and Frenc
Parliaments of the Channel Tunnel bill
;. was a necessary preliminary to the begir
= ming of a work which, from its intenations
= character, needed the regulation Of bot
:. governments. There seems no doubt of tn
: success of this undertaking, which, on tn
50 score of personal comfort, as well as of bus
ness advantages, will be Of vast benef
N Notwithstanding Holmes amusing fixing G
:. the millennium at the date of the passag
of the first locomotive through the Hoosa,
the completion of that structure, like that G
n the Mont Gents, has done for the land wha
le the Channel Tunnel will do for the water.
m A STORY is published in New York tbs
is Donaldson, the balloonist, is not dead. TIL
st statement is based on private letter while
10 was received by w. f. Harding, of Ne,
he York, from gentleman living in Michigan
s This letter asserts that the writer soxv No,