Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-03-24
Editorial Notes.

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10y members Of the forty-third congress-
TnF emigration to this country, via New
York, for the month Of February 1875, was
four thousand eight hundred aud seventy
six, against four thousand two hundred and
twenty-five for February, 1874. This looks
as if the tide is again turned toward this
country.
A piGL that means death to grog-. hops is
before the Illinois House. 1t provides that
any person who shall sell Intoxicating liquors
manufactured in any other way than with
the still and worm, or containing any poison
Gus Ingredients or substances shall 90 1.-THE
peniteutiary and remain there five years.
TnE centennial commission, having re-
cciyed q government appropriation Of $780,
| 600 are now in the position of Oliver Twist
and greedily demand more The phiadcl-
phia Telegram modestly asks for 81, 100000
as an additional gift. and this, too, at a time
when taxes are to be increased to supply the
government with funds requisite for its
maintenance.
Tnr Boston G.oje announces that the gov
emor Of Massachusetts has decided not 10
interfere with the sentence OF Jesse Fome-
roy, the boy fend. but permit the law to
''e7 us 'o'''V' '''' Nv '"' ''o''''' ,',''
''', wy '''''u ~" '''", ''''''''"' P'''.'
sentiment will be slow to believe that he is
strictly sane ana ''''' hanging Is O"' proper
way ~ "''i''N' VI '''''
IuuRLow WEED successful in ms lredic-
ton made m ISL that civil service reform
would oe a failure mo-" predicts the early
failure OF the civil rights bill. lie declares
that 1t VIII bring nothing but di'aprom'-
',i'''' Az" ''N"''o' 10 '''' ''''''" men, "'''
una, "'''' " IT," "oo''',' attempts To enforce
IT, '''''SS wiz '''',' ","'' J." ,''' WV way
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In Is reported that great excitement exists
IN Salt Lake CITY over the imprisonment OF
Brigham Young, who was sentenced to one
day in jail and fine OF 500 Tor contempt
OF court in neslecting to pay the attorneys
fees in the divorce suit brought 10y Ann
E''@" \ u''l",eI' says 'n' P'ol'e' was
'soo,.'u 10 u'' Ja'' ny a' ''''''''S' 0'''V'"' st
VI 'i'.'"onS' i"e -'t"N' '"e ''u''' OF
s"n' Is ''''''s o''' VIII" ''S''
Misery loves company and it is pleasant
to read that We have not had all the cold
weather on this side OF the ocean. Dr. DE
Haas, the American Consul at Jerusalem,
sends the information that for the first time
known TO the present inhabitants the cold
weather was So severe as to form ice. The
Arabs, having never seen ice before, were
completely puzzled and couldnot understand
""hy water should change INTO glass
PRoF. DoNALpsoN contemplates balloon
voyage from New York to London next ar
tumn, the expenses to be paid 10y William X.
Belknap, OF Cincinnati, George /. Bruce. of
New York city, Nathaniel Gray lladaway,
Of London, and Naricsse Prlletier Of Paris.
These gentlemen are to provide $4,000 for
the expenses and give the Professor $4,000
if he makes the trip from New York to Lon
don within forty-eight hours, or $4,000 if
he takes seventy-two hours.
ENGLISH capitalists are not entirely desti-
tute Of confidence in American securities.
\ few weeks ago, in the London market, the
Lehigh Valley Company asked for s},00o,OO0
and the Delaware Hudson Company for
s2,O00000. aud very cautious and con.erv-
alive correspondent writes that the applica-
tons sent in for the stock will probably
amount TO at least four times the aggregate
sum required. This evidence OF foreign
credit must have a most beneficial effect in
stimulating American enterprise, which has
been very much depressed since the panic.
A WAsnlNGroN dispatch announces that
the secretary Of the treasury has decided tc
return to the old m ,thol Of redeeming mu
, tiated United States currency under which
a deduction was made proportionate to the
portion OF the notes missing The change
will take effect ON the first proximo. The
p old system was changed by Secretary Bout
p well, who established the system Low in op
t Grafton, under which three-iitths or more OF
t a note is redeemed for its full value, while
-
e unless proof is presented that the missing
= portions are entirely destroyed
! Tnr question Of Pinchback's admission t.
) the Senate has been postponed to the next
, session. Referring to the discussion anc
Z treatment of the question in the Senate, tn,
Tribune i. constrained to say that 18th,
greater weight OF legal ability Is on the Re
+ publican side" The great speeches on the
, law Of the case, and against Pinchback, were
{ confessedly male, not by democrats but by
! Republicans. There were no arguments on
. the democratic sile, equal to those Of Sen
, ator Carpenter last year, or Senators Chris
) tiancy, Ferry and Edmunds, this year tC
) say nothing about the arguments in the aihr
5 native.
TmE twelfth annual report of the trustee.
of the Manchester Agricultural College, al
Amherst, shows another year of prosperity
There were thirteen graduates in 1874. and
there are now two resident graduates at the