Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-02-24
Editorial Notes.


vain lie not only drank deep at the foun-
tain Of Yankee pleasure, but he has got
favorable report ON the reciprocity treaty he
came to push along. And the Senate will
probably ratify it.
SENATOR FRFuNGnUYsEN, member Of
the Senate committee on Pacific railroads.
has given notice that no subsidies viii be
reported from that committee This has
put flea in Tom SCOTS ear, aud he has
gone home disgusted. This is good news
for taxpayers.
TuE editor Of the Commercial Hcrdid, Of
San Francisco, advocates corporal punish
ment as substitute for imprisonment for
small offences. lie asks "Why should the
culprit who obtains living by preying upon
the community be made the supported guest
Of that community"
Tur National Grange late m session at
Charleston, S. C., has adopted resolutions rec
6mmcndmg consultation with the Centennial
directors with a view of securing a proper
display Of agricultural products at the ex-
position, urging that government aid be ok
tended to the Texas Pacific railroad, and re-
questing Congress to repeal all laws taxing
tobacco.
UNCLE SAM, it seems. Is getting out of
pocket money, and Congress is looking
about for ways and means to give him a
fresh supply. tisproposed to take it mostly
ont of the tobacco smokers and whiskcy
drinkers, and this is about right If people
will indulge in luxurics they must expect to
pay for them
II is said that the investigations ordered
by the present Congress will cost five hun
bred thousand dollars. That is to say. the
people must pay half million to find out
how many rogues they have sent TO Congress
1t would be cheaper to pay little more at
tention to this matter and find them ont be
fore sending them there.
SENATOR GonpoN, Of Georgia, adyertises
his intention Of inviting Wendell Phillips to
visit the South to make a report OF his jour
ney when he returns North. Such visits are
of little worth, as they are necessarily one
sided, the places visited being by that very
fact placed ON their good behavior Mr.
Gordon would do better to invite Mr.. Phil
lips to stump the South in the interest of
Mr. Summers civil rights bill.
WIN. 5. King has written a very saucy and
ungentlemanly letter to the Minnesota legis-
lature, in response to the resolution request
ing him to explain his connection with the
Pacific Mail business, or resign as member
elect of the next Congress. King denies the
right Of the legislature TO inquire into his
private affairs, to undertake to ccnsurc or to
demand his resignation. lie denounces as a
legislative lie the ASSUMPTION that he had done
anything wrong.
THE citizens Of Georgetown and that
part of the District of Columbia lying west
Of Rock Creek are holding public meetings,
with view Of petitioning Congress to be re-
troceded to the state of Maryland. The pc
tition recites that they are, by reason Of their
immediate contguity to the seat of the ma
tional government, subjected to heavy taxes,
without corresponding benefits and for these
and other reasons beg for favorable consid-
Grafton of their request
Mn. FRED. DOUGLASS, in a recent letter.
counsels his race not to despair in regard to
getting their full political and civil rights.
but to appeal to the senseof right in men, to
Congress, to the President to Fanueil Hall
and Cooper Institute, and to every other
source Of moral and intellectual power
The final triumph will come he says, and
through the same influences and the same
political party through which we have
reached our present political status"
Mr.. EvARrs is Of the opinion that the
Beecher trial will not be concluded before
May and Mr.. Tracy is quoted as saying that
it will extend into the summer Mr. Beech
cr's examination will undoubtedly occupy as
much time as Tilton's, and be equally ex-
haustiye and analytical in its character. It
will probably be a month yet before Mr.
Beecher will be called upon to testify and
long before that the trial may break down
from one of a dozen causes, which menace it
with a sudden and inglorious termination.
THERE is a division of counsel in the
Kansas legislature as to what had best be
done in relieving the necessities Of destitute |
people in the stricken districts Of the state |
The lIousewants to appropriate about $780,
OOO all told, and the Senate has plan |
whereby supplies will be issued and pay
ment taken in interest-bearing notes. 1t is |
thought the House bill cannot pass the SEN
ate, nor the Senate bin the House; and both |
refer more to the relief of stock and the pro-
yiding of seed for next summers crops than
to feeding settlers direct.
TnE opinion of the President that unless
Congress takes action in relation to Arkan- |
sas, other southern states will be initiating |
its example in calling constitutional conven- |
tions to oyerturn the reconstructed oonstitu- |
tions, is based on the reports from several |
Southern states Of attempts made in this di- |
rection, which were only checked by the
discretion Of the democrats in Congress, who |
prefer that such movements shall be post |
poned until after the next Presidential cleo
ton. The first thing to do is to make sure
of getting power after that constitutional |
changes will be in order.
a SINGULAR suit is now ON trial at New |
York, brought by woman who married for |
money, and didn't get it. Jennie Young,
aged twenty-three married Daniel S. Young, |
widower of ffty-eight years, with the UNI
derstanding that he was possessed Of $780, |
600 in real estate, She had ascertaned this |
to be the actual fact three days prior to the
wedding, but afterwards learned that Young, |
just before marrying her, had conveyed all |
his property to his two daughters by his first |
wife. Mrs. Young sues to set aside the CON |
veyance as fraud ON her, depriying her of |
her inchoate right of dover.
An Englishman has invented plan for
keeping water-pipes from bursting in cold |
weather, which certainly reads very well.
The philosophy of the pipes bursting as ev-
erybody knows is that, as the water freezes,
it expands, and as the pipe, of course, can't
"give," it finally bursts the Englishman,
therefore, proposes to pass through the pipe
a small India rubber tube of such size that
. ln 4. "a :.