Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-04-14
Editorial Notes.

punishment and reform Names are being
named political bosses are being dethroned,
and the local Tweeds pointed out and vigor-
ously denounced.
Rents have declined in Brooklyn from
ten 10 twenty per cent, both in her business
property and private dwellings. This looks
as though the moral people were moving
away from the great American scandal city,
and leaving so many houses tenantlcss, that
landlords have been obliged to lower rents
in order to attract other residents.
TnE new temperance law of Ohio prevents
the town councils from prohibiting the sale
of wine, cider and beer, thus recognizing by
law the distinction between spurious and
fermented liquors. twill be borne in mind
that the constitution of Ohio prohibits the
mussaipalities from licensing the sale Of
liquor they may prohibit the sale to any
extent.
THE New York Ecening Posts financial
editor notices, sale to one of the shrewdest
and most conservative banks of the city of a
line Of four months dry goods paper mAount-
ing 10 100000, at six to seven per cent, and
argues from il that men having the best
facilities for posting themselves feel conf
dent that trade is sound, and that the spring
business win be at least satisfactory.
Thar strikes are disastrous to the work.
ing classes has been fully exemplifed at Fall
River, Mass. The employees have lost $780,
600 in wages, and $4,000 have been CON
hibuted TO their support by Trades Unions.
The suspension Of work has not proved to
the disadvantage Of the mill owners and
there would have been no strike if little
practical common sense had prevailed.
"ApMRAL SE>mEs does not favor the
centennial lie recently wrote to Governor
Houston, Of Texas, advising him to dis
courage any attempt for the representation
Of that state at the exhibition, and now a
letter Of his is printed, in which he claims
that the invitation to Alabama is an insult
to that state. lie is evidently mad because
his political disabilities have not been re-
moved.
CANADA proposes to spend about 100000
in having its industries properly represented
at Philadelphia next year. and there is a new
plan under consideration to have prelim.
mary industrial exhibition at Montreal, from
which shall be sent to Philadelphia only the
best articles. Articles sent to Montreal fol-
this exhibition will be cared for by the gov
eminent, and those selected will be forwarded
to Philadelphia by the government
The execution of negro murderer, in
North Carolina, has been postponed for a
very singular reason. There are no officer,
to perform the disagreeable duty, the sheriff
and other county officers liable to be called
upon having resigned. The ostensible req
son for this action is that the execution
should have taken place in another county
The victim undoubtedly feels greatly obliged
to the punctlious officers who have thus
given him a new lease Of life.
A NEW religious sect has started into ex
istence in Charlestown, Mass. which isgain
ing converts chiefly among Scandnavians,
Its tenets are vegetarianism and mortifca
ton of the flesh. When new converts do
notreadily enter into the practice of the teach
ing Of this religion, they are terribly beaten
by those who are died-in-the-wool of faith
/ and the civil courts have been called upon
to redress, aad in future prevent the bodily
chastisement of backsliders
THE British people are becoming weary O
supporting their larga standing armies. Mr.
lawson recently delivered an address upor
the subject to the House Of Commons
wherein he stated that Great Britain desired
peace with all nations and such diplomatic
policy as would tend to secure it. lie there
fore moved a certain reduction Of the presen
standing army, whose maintenance during
the past year cost the nation sll,G77 900, o.
S73,3s5,000. This motion, however, was lost
An English inventor claims TO have per
fected a propelling system for carriages OF
the prdeiple Of clock work. He says tina
all practical difficulties have been removed
and that the carriages labor under only
Slight amount of friction. He also claim
the power to move a car of five tons, requir
ing force Of seven hundred and twenty
two pounds, on the periphery of the sprinl
barrel. The springs are TO be wound up a
intervals by stationery engines, and the car
riages are to be run on rails.
RECENT rains ON the Pacific coast hav
placed the early sown grain beyond mucl
injury from any future drouth, and there i
promise of an extraordinary yield of gran
and grass. The San Francisco Bulletin, OF
the presumption that it is to be good farm
| ing year, estimates that the wheat crop o
that section will reach forty-fve million
bushels wine, fifteen million gallons, ant
wool, fifty million pounds and that the tota
agricultural products of the year will GROVE
hard on the value of slO0,0000O0.
EITHER quiet win be promptly restored il
the coal regions, or collision be pre-
cpitated. In view Of the reig r'N s'' q
in several Of the counties, GoiFEcrliAR =
has felt compelled to issue a proclama..e.
commanding the rioters to dispense to thei
homes, and also calling upon the sheriffs o
secure the necessary military aid at once T.
preserve order and to protect the lives AM
property of the citizens. The Governors 10
structions are being executed with all posi-
BILE despatch, and it is likely the regin o
terror aud lawlessness among the miners vii
speedily terminate.
The Sioux Indian chiefs will be in Wash
ington within short time to enter into nc
gotiations for the release of the Black Hill
country. In the meantime, the geoogist
are on their way to that region to ascertain
the value OF its mineral deposits. But tn
excitement in regard to that supposed ne'
Eldorado Is already abating. Traders AM
transportation companies have oyersbot Tn
mark, and reaction has set in. However
miners, gold hunters and Adventures, vii
have but short time to wait TO determin
whether they shall push out for the Blacl
Hills or remain away.
The French government recently under
took to purchase ten thousand horses il
| sonfharn Earmanv A9 there is n ey,oa