Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-01-26
Editorial Notes.

that seaside hotels are always in most dan
ger Of Are when unoccupied. We seldom
hear Of their burning down during the sum
mer months.
DEMOCRATIC members of Congress from
Texas are not disposed to join in the effort
to cut down the army. They would rather
see it enlarged, and every soldier belonging
10 il stationed on the Rio Grande.
A WAsuTSGroN special to the New York
Tribune says President Grant has formally
sgnifed to Senator Conkling and others that
he has decided not to be a candidate for the
Presidency, and has pledged himself not to
accept nomination.
A srArIsrfcfAS afirms that over eighty
millions of people in this country use tobacco
In some form or other. As we have but
forty millions, including men, women and
children, the statement needs confirmation
before it will do to "swsar by"
Tnf cruptions of Mount Vesuvius, which
is again active, amounted, according to the
historians, to nineteen from the first TO the
seventeenth century, when twenty-three were
recorded. In the eighteenth century twenty
three took place, and in the present century
there have already been twenty-five, or one
every three years.
MANY British manufacturers and other
employers have lately changed pay day from
Saturday to Monday, fer the sake of the
workmen, many of whom have been in the
habit Of squandering their wages in dissipa-
ton on Sunday. A similar change is talked
of in New England.
\ MIcmGAN ex-soldier writes to the
Grand Rapids Eagle, that it was pretty hard
to be an Andersonvile prisoner, but that in
his widest dreams it never occurred to him
that the men who ruled his prison would one
day be defending their Infamous conduct in
the very halls of the nation he was suffering
TO save.
The Congressional Library at Washing.
ton, contains two hundred and ninety-three
thousand i've hundred and seven volumes,
and new volumes are being added at the rate
of one thousand five hundred per week.
What to do with this enormous accumula-
ton of books, will very soon have become a
question Of some Importance,
THE efforts Of Western states to legislate
railroads into low tariffs, has not been an
entire success. Indeed, it has resulted in
litigation and vexation, without any com
pensating benefits. Governor Ludington, Of
Wisconsin, advises the legislature of that
state to repeal what is known as the Potter
Law, since it impairs the credit of the state
The democratic representatives at Wash.
ington, "bounced the servants of the
House with indiscreet as well as unbecom.
ing haste. Honorable members find great
difficulty in procuring documents and sta
tionery, when needed, and democratic as
well as Republican curses follow the awk-
ward squad along the aisles and pursue them
into the corridors.
A New YORK Conkling organ having pos
itively asserted that the Vermont delegation
will support their candidate in the national
convention, the Rutland Herald retorts that
"the Vermont delegation will endeavor to
secure the nomination of candidate that
eau be elected. Leading men in different
parts of the state assure us that it is useles.
to talk about Conkling or Morton either a,
candidates this year"
The Austrian note, which will he pre-
sented to the Sultan with the unanimou,
support of the European powers, advises tn,
establishment of the equality of all religious
denominations, revision of the system
taxation, and changes in the administration
Of justice, especially the acceptance of tn,
evidence of Christians in court The not,
proposes the establishment of a commission
composed of equal numbers Of Christian
and Turks, as an effective guarantee of tn
reforms.
JAMES b. BECK, who was nominated TO
the United States Senate, by the Kentuck,
democrats, is Scotchman, born in Dunn
frieshire in 1922, graduated as lawyer a
Pennsylvania University in Kentucky, it
1916. He was member of Congress from
Kentucky, from 1867 to 1875, and gained TIN
reputation of a skillful debater and a pru
dent politician. His enemies say that he i
merely shrewd politician, and not a goo(
legislator. He was one Of the unsuccessful
candidates when Mr.. McCreery was electe,
to the Senate in 1878.