Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-20
Notes and Comments.

Tilden has not only killed himself politically
but buried the democratic party, by his
plaintive speech at the Manhattan club.
THE practice of appointing literary men
to diplomatic positions began with Presi-
dent Madison in 1911, who sent Joel Barlow
something of poet in his time, and who
wrote the Vision of Columbus AS min
lister TO France.
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS evidently fears
that Hayes will do so well that the people
will like him. IIe insists that no democrat
should be alured from his party even If the
present administration should do nothing he
could complain of.
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS is touched by Mr..
Tilden's unhealthy appearance, and one of
his last remarks before sailing was, al am
glad that am not so feeble as Mr.. Tilden.'
Mr.. Tilden, on the other hand, through see
ing no marked signs of decay in Mr. Hen
bricks, insists that he "never felt better in all
my life"
Mr.. DEGREES, the public printer, says
that If he had known how great was the
distress among the poorer classes in Wash
ington, he would never have taken office.
He is besieged morning, noon and night
with people telling the most piteous tales of
starvation and want, and pleading for some
thing to do.
LADY STIRLING maxwell, better known
as the Hon. Mrs. Norton, is dead She was
married on the LIST of March last to Sir
William Stirling Maxwell, Baronet member
OF Parliament for Perthshire Bride. At the
time she was seventy years of age, and con-
fined to her chair with rheumatism. Sir
William Maxwell was fifty years of age.
THE list of appointments for the con-
solidated pension agencies is not yet com
pleted, but it is believed to be the intention
of the President TO bestow them upon those
pension agents who have made the best civil
service records and have the highest per-
sonal character, or who other things being
equal, have the longest unexpired commits
sions.
The strike of ship-builders in England
throws twenty-five thousand work men out
of employment, cuts off the means of sup.
port Of seventy thousand persons, and sus.
ponds the construction of iron ships at all
the principal yards. This is serious mat
ter alike for the strikers, the suffering mem
bers of their families aud the shipping
interests.
THE investigation into the matter of the
killing of an alleged British subject by the
Kemper county (Mississippi) assassins, leave:
some doubt as to whether he was entitled tC
British protection or not. 1t appears thai
while he never voted he performed many
other acts of citizenship, and was "obtru
sive in his defense of his friend Chisholm
on the day of the barbarous massacre.
CALIFORNIA papers have for some time
been earnestly advising laborers and ad
venturers not to come West. Arizona jour
mails give similar counsel, and say that i'm
migration to that territory is overdone
Scores of penniless men are rushing int
the territory, hoping to realize fortunes by
mining discoveries, or, in the event of fail
ure, to earn a subsistence by their labor, ant
are disappointed
THE amount paid by the city of New
York to the lawyers who have conducted tn,
Tammany ring prosecutions is about two hun
bred and thirty thousand dollars, although
Charles O'Conor, who has done the bulk o.
the work, has never asked or received any
pay at all. 1t is limited that the real reason
why the ring thieves are now allowed to com
promise is that the appropriation for paying
the prosecuting attorneys is about exhausted
THERE are many colleges here and ther,
in this country, and many institutions fol
the pursuit of scientific knowledge, but the
most novel OF all is one that has chartered {
steamer and, with a corps of eighteen teach
ers, will start, the coming October, on {
scientific expedition round the world, TO b,
completed in two years. 1t is to be called
the Woodruff Scientific Expedition, and in
cludes upon the faculty both sexes, and botl
male and female students will be allowed it
advantages. A result beneficial to science
and rich in advantages to the student is ex
pected to be attained
THERE is a cool, not to say cheeky, indi
vidual in New York, who claims to be al
agent of Cuba and says ii he can only have
the Cuban patriotic army reinforced b,
twenty thousand Americans, they can "ut
terly destroy the Spanish forces in Cuba
He proposes to supplement the American
force by one of fifteen thousand Cubans. liz
might as well ask the Americans to ire,
Cuba and be done with it, for that is wha
his request amounts to. The fifteen thou
sand Cubans would be of little importanc,
TO the twenty thousand Americans, wht
could sweep the Island clear of its Spanish
lppressors in single campaign.