Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-11
Editorial Notes.

The ravages of the rinderpest in England
will dispose the people to still more decided
preference for American beef.
BUSINESS is steadily on the increase in the
patent office the receipts for March being
seventy-four thousand seven hundred and for.
tytwo dollars and ninety-fve cents-twelve
thousand dollars more than for February, and
twenty thousand dollars more than for Jan
uary last
You can hear from your Black Hills friends
three times week now, if they can find
money enough to pay the postage, and think
it worth while striking you for loan. The
department has placed tri-weekly mail on
the route to the Black Hills, for the express
convenience of these people.
GEoReIAs cotton manufacturing interests
seem looming up. Northern capitalists are
investing money there quite literally. A
new cotton mill will soon be established at
Augusta, which will run twenty thousand
spindles, and another on the Powder Mills
tract, with sixty thousand spindles.
THF shares of twenty-five mining compa-
MES of the Comstock lode fell in San Fran
cisco, during the thirty one days of March,
between one dollar and thirty-fve dollars a
share. The total depreciation was twenty
million sixty thousand aud one hundred
dollars. This is even more PERCEPTIONS de
cline than Wall street felt. It is relief to
turn from such figures to the record that
strawberries are unusually fine, selling at
thirty-five cents pound.
GOVERNOR CULLoM, of Illinois, has de-
cided to make public all applications for
pardon, with the names of the signers. 1t
has been the custom in pardoning criminals
the most quiet manner possible. 1t is ex-
pected that the rule which has been now
adopted will cause men to hesitate to sign
requests to let criminals loose upon the com
munity until they have informed themselves
whether the pardon asked for is deserved.
WITHIN month a million and a half
dollars worth of silver has been sent from
England to New York. The cause of this flow
is said to be that dealers who have been ship
ping silver to China are buying in London,
where the price has become low, on account
of the large sales made by the German gov
eminent. 1t is not believed that the price
of silver will decline much. This is be-
cauua II 10 hol;avad tbaf tho prod,ofion IF
American mines is decreasing, and that the
reports of new bonauzas are merely stock
jobbing devices.
OUR readers may expect to hear of the
death of Pope Plus TX. any day. He is now
past the first half of his ninth decade and
were he man of the most vigorous vitality
he could not expect to live much longer in
the ordinary course of nature. The proba-
bilties of life at eighty-fve are very slender
to any man. and they are rendered still slen-
derer to the Pope by very serious symptoms
of which the telegraph reports daily. These
rapidly recurring syncopes are exceedingly
dangerous features, and cannot long be with
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the grave through the natural debility of
old age.
AN intelligent and observant correspond
ent of the New York Tribune, who has been
taking notes in South Carolina, says that
the negroes are the working.men of the
state. The whites have an antipathy for
manual labor. and all the rough work, both
on farms and in the Cities as well as large
part of that involving mechanical skill, is
performed by negroes. Though the colored
people have shown good deal of industry,
they are not over thrifty, and are too ready
to accept life on the easiest terms The
whites regard themselves as the superior
race beyond all doubt, and the negroes as
created for mental duties.