Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-23
Editorial Notes.

TRANSIENT newspapers can now go through
the mails at one cent for each two ounces /;
and the name Of the sender, or Of the article
enclosed, may be written on the package.
A copy Of the WArcHMANo or CHRoNIcLr re-
quires a one-cent stamp.
WE are to be exceptionally favored this
fall in the matter Of fruit, Though in some
parts Of the country special crops are re-
ported below the average, the deficiency
will be more than made good by the UMPIRE
cedented yield in other sections.
NEW York has lost in a great measure
the monopoly Of the tea market, which it
held up to the opening Of the Pacific rail
roads and the establishment of the Pacific
mail lines TO Japan Now San Francisco
has become an important mart for the dis
trbution Of teas.
The Coagregaionaiia well says Every
man who thinks that he is showing himself
generous and liberal by feeling table walters
and chamber girls during his summer vaoa-
ton, is helping forward on this side of the
water a custom which is one OF the chief
nuisances of foreign travel"
DuRrNo the late session there were intro.
duced in the House Of Representatives four
thousand one hundred and five bills and one
hundred and sixty-four joint resolutions,
making a total of five thousand one hundred
fifty bills and one hundred eighty resolu.
tions OF this number about one hundred
and forty public acts, one hundred thirty
private acts, thirteen public joint resolutions,
and five private resolutions, have become laws.
PEACHES are plenty. Eleven carloads
came into Boston over one line in two DAYS,
last week. There arrived in Boston, the
other day, twenty-one carloads Of peaches
by the through line, and three or four Of
melons and peaches by the Norwich line,
which is the greatest amount received ga one
day so far this season. The price varied
from fifty cents to one dollar and fifty cents
per basket, while fancy fruit brought much
larger prices
The number Of mills stopped in New
I England is reported in the Boston 1drer-
tiser at over one million spndles aud the ad-
ditions in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
with more 10 be heard from in Rhode Island
and Connecticut at two hundred thousand,
or twelve and a half per cent. Of the usual
production. The spindles stopped are one
half on print cloths, and represent product
Of fifty-fve thousand pieces week Com
pared with the returns for previous years
the present production is said to be less
than would have been sufficient for any sea.
son since 1872.
THE increase in the indebtedness of ou
towns aud cities during the past five years
exhibits an alarming degree Of extravaganza
in liabilities Of this kind A statement
shows that sixty-four municipalities had il
1870 an aggregate Indebtedness Of two hun
dred and seveuty-eight million six hundreC
thousand dollars. In 1886 the aggregat,
had grown 10 six hundred and forty million
eight hundred thousand dollars, showing an
increase Of three hundred and sixty-tw,
million two hundred thousand dollars, or al
the rate OF one hundred and thirty per cent
within period Of fyeor six years.
The rapid establishment Of cotton mill
at the South is creating something ike
revolution in the business, more seriousl
felt in New England than anywhere els,
The failure of the Atlantic mills Iawrenc,
and its reorganization with sinking car
ital, is largely due to the competition Of TIA
Southern manufactures. The Lawrenc
mills have made heretofore standard brow
cottous. 1t has been evident for some tim
that manufacturing was on the increase i
the South, and also well understood that tn
goods there would at first, as in New Eng
land. be OF the more common grades, sue
goods demanding less capital to manufa
ture, and less skilled labor,