Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-16
Editorial Notes.


The Philadelphia reception to President
Hayes Thursday evening, was notable for
the absence of the professional politicians.
No wines or liquors were served, In Difference
to Mrs. Hayes views, though she was not
present
FRED DOUGLASS, marshal Of Washington,
lectured in Baltimore the other evening" on
Washington city, representing it as an aris-
tocratic and corrupt place-whereat the
good people OF the metropolis are very mad,
and are demanding Douglass removal.
THE Eastern newspapers are commenting
upon the rush there is among young men for
wives from girls who are earning their own
living as clerks or saeswomen. One store
in Temple Place, New York, has lost sixty
six of its lady clerks, by marriage, in seven
years.
THE verdict of the coroner's jury on the
New York postofTice accident attributes the
disaster to improper and insufficient con-
struction, owing to the incompetency of A.
b. Mullet, the supervising architect in charge
at the time the roof was designed, and his
local employees.
Ex-SuRGEoN-GENERALH AMMoND's daugh-
ter was married at Washington last week,
and the wise old gentleman took the occasion
to throw his influence against the " unphysio-
logical and barbarous custom of bridal
tours, and the newly-rnarried couple were left
in quiet at their own home
THE Grand Army of the Republic, De
partment of Massachusetts,, will appeal on
Decoration Day to the people of the various
cities and towns in that state for means with
which to provide home within its borders
for veteran soldiers disabled and doomed to
poverty by wounds and disease.
SOUTHWESTERN Texas is filed with a
aourishing German population. 1t is said
that the inhabitants of the state have doubled
their numbers since 1870; that they now
number two million, and that il census
were taken they would be entitled to an in.
crease of ten votes in the electoral college.
The leading summer resorts have given
out that the prices will be lower than last
year, as they certainly ought to be- Sara.
toga, Lake George, Long Branch, Newport
and West Point are named, but not the
amount of reduction or the destined rates
But probably there will be considerable
cheapening.
The committee to arrange for the coming
reunion of the Army of the Potomac il
Providence have decided 70 invite Genera
Sherman to deliver the oration and Bayarc
Taylor the poem. The reunion exercise.
will be held in Music Hall, and the Ameri
can Band of Providence, has been engaged
for the day and evening.
, The talk of reducing the army to tel
, thousand men, or to five thousand men, o.
to any number less than what it is at pres
ent, is simply nonsense. If we are to pre-
along with man less than we have. If w
are to make any reduction, it would be bet
ter to abolish the whole military establish
, ment, and have done with it.
TURKEY is nearly encrcled by war, and i
r obliged to face all ways with her armies. Ii
addition to the Russians on the Danube b
the north, there are the hostile Herzegovir
5 ians, Bosnians aud Montenegrins on tn
west, threatened instruction among tn
S Greeks to the south, and the Asiatic Ru.
t sian army on the east Ages of msgoverr
5 ment and wrongs in all quarters, are nov
| seeking redress.
: The decrease of the public debt to tn
extent of four million three hundred an
nineteen thousand five hundred and min
dollars, during the month of April, making
total reduction of twenty-nine million eight
y thousand five hundred and twenty-seven do
; lars since July LIST, 1S76-indicates SOM
thing of the results of Republican manag
y ment. Such figures it is that make sa
for four and one-half per cent. governmer
!, bonds, in place of six per cents.
FRIDAY was the opening day of the Pc
manent Exhibition at Philadelphia. A lare
assemblage of people were attracted to ii
" city, and it was indeed gala day. Wit
the ceremonies, the decoration OF the Gil
Hayes, ex-President Grant, several membe
" OF the Cabinet, distinguished officers of tt
', army and navy, and civilian guests, it WI
marked reminder of the glories of u
. Centennial Exhibition of last year.
. PRESIDENT HAYES attended the annu
dinner of the New York Chamber of Cor
meyce on Monday of last week, and unveile
e the statue of Ftz Greene Ealleck, in Centr
" Park, on Tuesday. Ex-Governor Tilden W,
IT invited to the banquet. The President
e clined an invitation of the Board of TraC
j. of Boston, to visit that city during the pre-
y ent month, because public business will NJ
j. allow him to protract the time which he vi
d spend in Philadelphia and New York.
"" GEORGIA has just passed constitution
= amendment regulating nearly eight milliC
dollars bonds issued some years ago by Il
Bullock government, doubtless with mu,
IL corruption and fraud, but with the usu
o appearance of honesty, so that innocent pr
g ties purchased them in good faith. 1t seer
n to have been an open question with Il
Georgians whether they or the bondholde
l. should suffer from the rascality OF the sta
: government and they have concluded tn
~ the bondholders must stand the loss II
- vote on the question was very light.
al IT is surmised at the capital that Sir +
10 ward Thornton, who for ten years has
er ably and acceptably discharged the duti
v of British minister at Washington, has be-
i'll recalled for the purpose of accepting the a
re pointment of Ambassador from his natl
TX country to Spain. During his residence
er the capital of the nation he has won Il
It. good opinion of all the officials of succ'
n. sive administrations who have had acquair
ance or business with him, aud it will
well for both countries if another diploma
20 list so able and discreet as he has been CT
"a be found to ill his place.
-. ANXIETY regarding the "Ciy of Br,
-. sells is now dispeled by the arrival of d
# sister steamer, City of Richmond" at Ne
, York. This ship spoke the Brussels
as sea on Tuesday of last week, with brok
= shaft, making her way under Sail-all W
and the shin doing well. The Richmon(