Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-13
Editorial Notes.

MIR. BEEcHER drew a great crowd at the
Bethel fair last week He will do the same
at st. Johnsbury. The secret of his success
at these fairs is said to lie in the fact that he
never alludes to agriculture.
FRANCES L. LoRD, of Portland, who has
been for so many years the teacher of Latin
at Nassar College has been elected Professor
of Latin at Wellesley College This is the
second professor Maine has given to Wei
lesley.
TnF new four and one-half per cent bonds
are being rapidly prepared at the Treasury
Department, and Tuesday next the first in-
stallment, to the amount of about ten mil
lions of dollars will be turned over to the
Register for issue.
The meeting of the Hay Fever Associa-
ton at Bethlehem n. H., Monday Of last
week, was decided success. Interesting
remarks were made by Judge Goodrich, Of
Chicago Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, J. II.
Ward, of Louisville, and Others
ONE of the most sensible items in the new
postal law, and one which everybody will
appreciate, is that which allows a person to
write his or her name on the wrapper or on
the paper aud also the word from" to let
the party receiving it know whom it is from,
without violating the law.
TIE six powers have united in informing
the Porte that Servia and Montenegro desire
an armstice, and offering them good offices
in the way of mediation. England has de
clared that il Turkeys refusal lie ads to
armed Intervention by Russia, the Porte
must not reckon on British aid
The famous Emma mine was sold at Salt
Lake last week, at auction, on an execution
in favor OF the New York Loan and In
demnty Company c. G.. Lincoln, r. W.
Parks cashier, was the purchaser. Price,
one hundred and forty-four thousand one
hundred and ninety-fcur dollars.
The Tribune has an elaborate article show
ing that the reduction in prices paid for the
various kinds OF labor in New York, includ.
ing both men and women, mechanics, clerks
aud house servants, has declined since 1870,
from ten to thirty per cent, and that there
has been corresponding reduction in most
OF the necessaries of life.
JosErH SMITH, JR., son of the founder of
the Mormon Church, is preaching in Cali
fornia. lie denies the headship of Brigham
Young. lie says that he has from twelve
thousand to fifteen thousand followers, and
that the headquarters of the reformed church
are at Plano, Ill. lie repudiates polygamy
and also 4" blood atonement."
ISRAEL WAsHnURN, who died at Liver
more, Me-, on Friday, aged nearly ninety
three, was the father of a famous family.
Israel, the Oldest, is Ex-Governor of Maine (;
Elhu, the second, is minister at Paris; C. c..
the third, served ten years in Congress, and
is Ex-Governor of Wisconsin; fourth has,
for long time, been minister 10 Paraguay
another is prominent in Minnesota politics,
while two Others are less known citizens of
Maine,
Ar Pennington, n H., on the site of
Viee-PresideLt Henry Wilson's birthplace,
there has been placed large bowlder from
aneighboring mountain, weighing some ten
or twelve TONS on which is the following in
scription Henry Wilson, Vice President
United States America, born here Feb
ruary 10, 1912" This monument has been
erected at the expense of Martin L. Hayes,
prominent shoe manufacturer of Farming
ton, who gave Mr. Wilson deed of the land
where his father lived, and whore Mr.. vii
son passed his early DAYS,