Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-03-31
Editorial Notes.

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branches Of the Pennsylvania Legislature.
SEVERAL towns in New Hampshire voted
at the last election upon the question of re-
funding money paid 10 the town by individ.
uals for substitutes in the late war, and the
proposal was voted down in every case
TmE first United States silver dollar was
coined in 1904 From 1905 to 1880 inclu-
sive, no silver dollars were coined, except
about one thousand patterns in 1886. Silver
dollar. have been struck every year since.
IT is stated by experts who have made
the cause Of fires speciality, that twenty
five per cent of the fires recorded are Of in
cendiary origin At first thought this would
seem to be an exaggcration, but facts, say
the detectives and Underwriters agents, war
rant the assertion.
In consequence of recent appeal made by
Minister Washbume to the deputies and
principal merchants Of Paris, acommittee Of
patrons has been formed TO make arrange
ments for the participation of France in the
Philadelphia centennial. A lineal descend
ant Of Lafayette will be among the delegates
JuDoE lIoAR is credited with saying that
he is glad to be out of public life, and once
more a sovereign instead Of servant The
Judge, first and last, has held many import
ant commissions, state and federal, but not
one of them, we believe, was ever sought by
himself Indeed, we have heard him say
that he never held an Office which was de-
sired.
THAT there is possible limit to endurance
Of newspaper SANDER and obscenity is shown
by the action of the grand jury in the find
ing of four criminal indictments against
Wilbur f. Storey, editor and proprietor of
the Chicago Times. Three Of the true bills
thus far found are for libel of individuals,
and the fourth is for the publication of a
grossly obscene article.
THE European nations are now getting in
terested about our centennial. The German
and Austrian parlaments have Just decided
to appropriate funds toward the representa-
ton Of their industries at the exhibition,
while in France board composed Of some
of the most prominent men of the nation,
has been assigned to make preparations for
representation.
The public debt of France now stands at
00,000,00O, and the interest is over $685.
100000, being considerably the largest which
is paid ON any public debt in the world
M nthar Europao, couutr,. o.,,,l1 ,,,.tas,.
such burden as easily and the New York
World claims that American women and
wine-drinkers pay it, in the immense call
upon France for her costly goods.
CAPTAIN LULL, of the. United States
navy, is theoretically pushing the survey
across the lsthmus of Panama. The line
so far as the work has been undertaken, has
given satisfaction, and favorable opinions in
crease as the work proceeds. When last
spoken with, Capt. Lull expressed himself
much gratiiied with the result so far lie
found that a more plentiful supply Of water
could be had than was anticipated.
TENNESSEE farmer, who has emigrated
to Texa', has solved for himself the South
ern labor problem by the employment of
Mexicans as laborers. In letter 10 Ten
nessee Journal he says that the new hands.
while slower than negroes, do their work
much more efficiently; that they are steady
and industrious, and that the cotton raised
and picked by them commands higher
price in the market than that grown by
negroes.
WASHINGTON corresl ondent thus writes
Of the society bellies of the national capitol .
=" 1t may seem invidious to say it, yet It's
true that the faces Of very many Of the young
ladies in society here are ugly before their
time. Months of increasing dissipation,
round dances, late suppers, nights turned
into day, all tell their story in the havoc they
make with the fresh tints and outlines of
youth and in the glance of innocence which
should be the young souls inalicnable birth
right"
IT is very unfortunate for the good name
OF Massachusetts that the burial of Senator
Sumner should have been turned into a pc
cuniary job, and that various parties should
have got their hands into the treasury under
pretext of paying honor to that upright
man. Twenty-nine thousand dollars, it
seems, is what the funeral cost the state of
Massachusetts,, in addition to nearly five
thousand spent by the Senate of the United
States.
Those lobbyists of the express companies
were wondrous shrewd fellows, and they
took in Father IIamlin and the rest of EN-
as easily as a city-bred rascal takes in a con
fiding rustic Now it seems all the govern
ment departments are to suffer by the change
in the postal rates on third class matter.
Their years allowances for official stamps
were based on the old rate of one cent for
every two ounces, and now, under the double
rate, they will be exhausted in six months,
and the express companies must be employed
A SENATORIAL party, writes Washington
correspondent, intend, Immediately after the
close of the executive session, to take trip
TO Northern Mexico, to visit the rich mining
districts, with a view to making investments
there. The party consists of Senators Cam
eron, of Pennsylvania, Morton, of Indiana,
Clayton OF Arkansas, Gordon, of Georgia,
Ransom, of North Carolina, Oglesby, of Hi
nois, Dennis, of Maryland, Sargent, of Cali
fomia, Stevenson, of Kentucky, and Conk-
ling, of New York, and several large capital
lists from eastern cities
The popularity of boat racing in England
appears to increase rather than diminish.
The crowds which gathered to witness the
race between the Oxford and Cambridge
crews were unPrecedentedly large. These
university races were established in 1920,
and Oxford has won two more than half the
races since that time. For the last five years
the Cambridge crews have won, and the Ok
ford crews had won nine successive victories
just previous. The interest increases every
year, and the enthusiasm of the supporters
of Oxford when her crew brought the blue
to the front this year was almost unbounded.
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