Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-06-07
JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1876
Editorial Notes.
IT is said that the postal service loses a
million year by the washing and re-employ.
ment Of postage stamps.

II is said that the postal service loses a
million year 10y the washing and re-employ.
ment Of postage stamps.
lIENpmcKs, of Indiana, don'twant to be a
candidate for President this year. lie don't
like the prospect. lie is wise.
TnE ack.balling of Secretary Brstow,
by the New York Union League Club, has
hurt the club a good deal more than the
Secretary.
CmcAGo is making strong effort to
arrange for the extension of her city bonds,
nearly all of which have fallen due, with no
prospect for their payment.
TnE Senate shows a disposition to pass
the bill cutting down the Presidents salary
10 twenty-five thousand dollars. over the
veto Yet there are still a number Of gem
tlemen willing to take the place.
THr House of Representatives, after re-
fusiDg TO abolish the letter carrier system in
small cities, virtually abolished it by re-
fusiug the necessary appropriation. Another
vote was adverse to the fast mail trains.
Tue Centennial commission in Philadel-
phia has reelected General IIawley its Pres
dent; and this may be considered as set
Ting the question Of Sunday opening, for he
has declared that he would resign il the FIX
hibition were opened on Sunday.
THE New York Tribune urges everybody
to go to see the Centennial, even if they
would have TO sacrifice large part of their
years earnings and time 10 do so. Moreover,
it says: 1t is not a chance likely to occur
again IN a middle-aged mans or woman's
life"
THr massacre of party Of forty-nine
Black Hills gold hunters from Cincinnati,
by the Indians, is the most shocking act of
barbarity that has occurred on the plains
for long time. The party was surprised and
butchered in the horrible manner peculiar 10
savages.
PARAGUAY is in a most deplorable condi-
ton. Misrule and revolution have resulted
in famine prices for staple articles of food,
and the country is being rapidly depopu-
lated, some of the inhabitants going South
to the Argentine Republic, and others seeking
refuge in Brazil.
Ar recent temperance reform meeting
at the City Hall, Portsmouth, forty mem
bers OF the City Guards, in full uniform,
led by Captain Jacob IIaddock, headed by
the drum corps, filed up to the secretary S
table and signed the pledge, amid the deaf
ening applause of the large audience present.
REruRNING miners who have been seek
ing their fortunes in the Black Hills give
dolefnl accounts of the uncertainty of the
mining and the certainty of Indian attacks.
Scores of miners have been killed by the In.
dams, who are constantly lowering about,
and who attack nearly every party between
Cheyenne aud Custer City.
WlNsLow's prospects for release become
every day less fatterng. The government
has asked the court to remand him again
until the letters Of Secretary Fish can be
carefully considered. The ablest of the
English journals think that the case ought
to bee referred to the courts, instead of being
disposed of by the law officers of the gov
ernment.
THr new Sultan of Turkey was born
September 81, 1910, and is now thirty five
He enters on troublesome administration
for it is reported that Servia, Greece, Rou
mania aud Montenegro have concluded al
offensive and defensive alliance against tn,
| imperial government, and will make tn,
cause of herzegovina their own The END
of the Turkish empire in Europe is evidently
close at hand.
TnE appointment of MI. pierrepont to the
court of st. James is well received, and i.
doubtless as appropriate as any that could
be made. The last incumbent hailing from
the West New York was entitled to the 20
sition on presenting proper name. Mr.
Pierrepont is possessed Of sufficient means tc
be able TO take the office, and his rank in
the legal profession and among scholars is
very respectable
DR. LANAHAN's memorial Ia the Method
list General Conference, charging insolvency
on the Western Book Concern has beer
looked into, and the Concern found 10 be al
right and satisfactory. The committee rec
ommend 10 the conference that the memo
rialsts be censured. The committee did a
sensible thing, and the conference ought tc
adopt its recommendation. Dr. Lanahan /.
anuisance aud ought to be abated.
Tnr great depression in the manufactur
ing interests of the Eastern States has de
moralzed the California wool market. Wool
is lower in price than it has been since the
settlement of the state, and unsheared sheep
have sold as low as one dollar per head
The condition of the California wool market
is marked instance of the dependence that
one section of the country oftentimes has
upon another for its welfare in special d.
rection.