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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-09

KINDNESS TO ANIMALs.-Van Amburgh
could handle his lions and tigers with i'm
punity. No animal will fail to respond
to kindness and uniform good treatment.
And especially will the noble horse re-
spect and confide in and faithfully serve q
master who deals gently and kindly with
him. We have ourselves taken spirited
Morgan mare which had been rudely hand
led and become entirely unmanageble
through harsh treatment, and appealing to
her intelligence and respecting her needs,
in three weeks, made her entirely safe and
reliable for wife and children, and all who
would treat her kindly and handle her
gently, and we have, after five years, seen
the same mare resume her old vicious
habits when again under the control of
one who resorted to arbitrary or brutal
treatment. Always appeal to the better
instincts of the horse, the mule, the OK, the
COW, as we'll as the dog and other domes.
tic animals, and they will never become
vicious or unmanageable-S Tropical.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-09
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Unreasonable.

We utterly fail to see how there could
have been any disappointment in regard to
the decision Of the Electoral Commission
in the case of Oregon. To us the case APP
pears to have been much the plainest and
simplest of all the questioned states. Cronin
was not elected and had no shadow of right
to certificate of election. If he had re-
manned with the other members Of the
college, presented the Governors certificate
which he held, and insisted on voting with
them, the case might have been somewhat
complicated. But he did not remain with
them. He left them, concealed the certif
cate entirely, and extemporized an electoral
college of his own. Thereupon, Cronin
having left, and Dr. Watts having re-
signed, the regularly elected college filled
the vacancy, and voted for President and
Vice-President. This was the only lawful
college of electors in Oregon and we do
not well see how this could fail to be the
decision of the Electoral Commission. If
Cronin had been lawfully member of the
college, his withdrawal from it would have
created vacancy But he was not law
fully member of it, and the supposition
that his extemporized bogus concern could
be recognized as the true electoral college of
Oregon is preposterous beyond conception.
The truth is, Cronn and his associates
readily espoused the trick, as per orders from
Gramercy Park, but bungled in carrying it
into execution.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Items OF Interest.

GOVERNOR NEwBoLD, of Iowa, must be favor
lite among the printers of that state. After
taking the oath of office, he delivered an inaug-
ural address as follows: "Pll do the best can"
A CHICAGO dispatch says that a combination Of
the distillers of the entire country, embracing
nearly every important establishment has been
formed for mutual protection and for pooling
their earnings.
THE London Telegraph says that the amount
OF national debt repaid already by the Gov
eminent OF the United States since the war,
"puts TO shame all that England has done in the
same way for the last century or more"
THE highest temperature on the summit of Mt.
Washington in January was twenty-eight de
grees above zero, and the coolest thirty-six de
grees below The highest velocity of the wind
was one hundred and twenty miles an hour, at
which time the mercury was fifteen degrees be-
low zero.
A PETITION has been placed at the Board OF
Trade rooms in New York requesting Congress to
pass the bill appropriatng fifty thousand dollars
for the establishment OF colony northward in
the Arctic regions, according to Captain How
gates plan, SO that successful explorations may
be attempted, and the discovery of the North
Pole attained.
The wool-growers Of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
West Virginia and Pennsylvania, at a meeting at
Cincinnati last week, decided to erect a capa-
cious store-house at Steubenville, Ohio, for the
purpose of storing their product and asserting it,
before placing it upon the market, They are
grangers, and will dispose of their stock directly
to the manufacturers
SPECIAL Agent Stuart, Of the post-ollce depart
ment, who has been at Chicago several days look
ing into the accounts of the post-oiiice has dis
covered that General Macarthur, postmaster, is a
defauter to the amount of thrty-eighL thousand
dollars. The fact was ascerained Saturday,
whereupon General Macarthur teegraphed his
resignation TO the postmaster-general, and then
went into voluntary bankruptcy. 1t is believed
that his bondsmen are also bankrupt
Born the Wisconsin and Minnesota Legisla-
lures are trying TO kill strong school book rings
ia their states, and IRE discussing bills limiting
the frequency OF changes. In Wisconsin, school
books cost some four HI ndred and fifty thousand
dollars year, and twenty-five thousand children
are kept from the schoolN because Of the high
cost OF books, 1t h said
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

WILL TILDES APPEAL "A prominent
New York democrat informs the Boston Post
that Mr.. Tilden, though very guarded in his
expressions, is averse to the policy of delay
and believes that the appeal of the demo.
cratic party from the tribunal to the country
should be taken in another form. He init
mates that some time in May Mr.. Tilden
would submit to the Supreme Court the
question of jurisdiction in the matter of
quo pardnto directed to Hayes in order to
put the entire court upon the record as the
five judges in the tribunal have been already.
If the court decides to take jurisdiction, the
next step will be a proceeding to cite Hayes
to show cause why he should not vacate
the Presidential office, which if sustained by
the court, would open the case for the intro
duction of evidence; in short, to take an APP
peal from the tribunal to the full bench of the
court. This appeal will involve construc-
ton by the court of the electoral bill, and
will raise the question whether the decision
to exclude evidence was the proper construc-
ton of the bill itself and Of the constitution.
The case, in any or all of its stages will place
the question of sustaining or reversing the
action of the tribunal fairly before the full
bench of the Supreme Court.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Widen Speaks bitterly.

10 Hon, Francis Kernon. WoeLino,on n
CA telegram 10 the associated nre.,
published his morning. states that a bar,
monions agreement has been brought ahont
between the senate committee Of Which Won
are a member and a committee of the Uo1se
by which il has been decided not 10 90 into
an examination of INV bank on the one
hand or the accounts Of the chairman of the
Republican national committee ON the other
hand | repudiate any such agreement and
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Stay In Vermont.

A correspondent of the Rutland Globe
writing from Nevada says "Vermont is
good enough for me. | have always thought
so, and have not changed my mind. A
thousand dollars will bring forty acres of
land at Mr.. HOLSTERS lowest figure. Posi-
bly, habitable building could be erected
for another thousand but it would not com
pare with the house on some one hundred
acre farms | wot of in Vermont which, with
barns, fences, ETC., can be bought for two
thousand dollars. On this supposed forty
acre farm you must raise grain or some
special crop, as raisins, peaches, castor beans,
lnseed or something of the kind. There is
no money in raising beef, mutton or wool
unless you have ranch of several hundred
acres, which you can fence with two or three
men on horseback slight improvement over
the dog fence on which shiftless farmers
East sometimes depend. In butter making
there is some money, but it is hard work for
poor pay at best. have in mind a farm at
home which was sold four years ago for eight
hundred dollars. There are seventy acres
of land, house and two barns. Now
you may build as good a house as YOU can
for one thousand dollars on one of those
fortv.acre California farms hurr nm tho
two harms nm tho Eostorr o;obt hnndrod
dollar farm and ,;ve ma INV cbo;co st;nr
lating that | shall go upon the farm and
1.-Two and will cboooe tho E,storn f.ru
voI,od ot e;ob, b,,drod do,,.rs Ioss tho oos,
If two b,r,s in rres.rercs 10 ,ho far,, and
bouse in Ca,iforr;, which hovo cost two
tbousond dollars Tbere Won oor hid do
Co., 30 drnnah.. ,,;,ho,,t hu;Ia;a 49,.
oos,,v o,nols ond ,ho ,,;aon,;o son,honv
pao;Go rai,road doos no, s,ond raad,, 30 a,,.I
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

McCary, Of Iowa, are good material for Attorney
General. Mr. Kasson has made brilliant record
IN tho present House and as he voluntarily re-
tired from the field his talents should be recog-
hized and made available under the new order Of
things The Pacific coast a making a strong bid
Tor the seefetaryshp Of the Interior, as their in-
.creS's arc moro closely identified with that
of"nch OF the government than any other, and
hN-'overnor Mccormick and Senator Sargent are
both pressed for the place. The Navy Depart
ment, It Is thought will go to Eugene Hale or to
VIM T.. Chandler. Alongside Of the Cabinet
places in Importance rs an office 10 be filled. il
the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench made
by the election Of Justice Davis 10 the Senate
There is great difference Of opinion in regard to
who will be given this very important position
The names Of Senator Cbristancy, General lIris-
tow, Senator Howe and Stanley Matthews, are
most prominently mentioned butnothing is known
as to who stands the best chance
II is quite probable that the present members Of
the Cabinet will remain for short time after the
new President comes in, that he may have an op-
portunty OF giving some time TO the selection of
the persons who are to he his advisers 1t is
stated that Postmaster General Tyner is quite
certain TO be continued in his present position ont
of regard to Senator Morton, while another rumor,
believed by many, is that Mr.. Kasson will be APP
pointed ut once. lie was at one time an assistant
in that department aud thoroughly understands
its workings
The coming week promises to be very excit-
ing one in Washington, and the hotels are already
very full.
PERSONAL
George c. Shepard, Esq. Of Montpelier, Hon
NJ. ;, Colburn of Manchester, Colonel George W
Hooker of Bennington, and b. b. Smaley, Esq.
of Burlington, have been in this city during the
present week SnI
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

A FATAL MIsTAKE.--We notice by the
st. Paul papers that the people of Minnesota
are still discussing the reputation of GER
tain bonds issued by that state. These bonds
were issued some eighteen years ago, in aid
Of certain railroads and they were secured
by mortgage on "all the lands franchises,
and other property of the companies" and
there was, also, an absolute conveyance To
the state, by each company, of two hundred
and forty sections of land. The railroad
companies failed, and, under the mortgage,
the state took possession of everything they
had, And then came the reputation. The
state refused to pay either interest or princi.
pal of the bonds and, after time, turned
over to new companies all the property taken
under the mortgage. The bonds in question
are regular state bonds they were bought
as state bonds by those who hold them il
was easy to sell them, because there was
trust in the good faith of Minnesota but
for more than seventeen years, the state has
steadily refused to pay anything. Among
the people, however, there is a consciousness
of wrong doing, which keeps the matter
alive, and may, at length, constrain the leg
isature to deal justly by these wronged bond
holders.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

"REFoRM AUGMENTATION Hayes run
down to his family home at Fremont the other
day, when his old neighbors gathered round
and drew from him little familiar talk
Among several pleasant things, wholly I'M
mixed with politics, he said; In the event
of remaining among you for the next two or
three years, will attend the next pioneer
meeting and bring bundle of letters and
notes, many of which am constantly re-
ceiving, such as curiously-drawn sketches of
knives, daggers and revolvers, but have not
lost much sleep from any of them yet. One
of the most amusing was received this week.
1t was a knife about two feet long, one edge
hacked like saw, probably for saving the
bones, the other side for cutting the flesh
This was wrapped in several thicknesses of
paper, and inside was a note, as follows ::
"This is the knife with which the editor of
the Capitol was to assassinate you with, as
you went from the White House to the
Capitol. 1t was taken from his pants leg,
when he was asleep"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Consistency n Jewel.

The democrats have claimed that the Elec-
toral Commission should go behind the state
returns of votes for Presidential electors, and
investigate all the methods and proceedings
OF the state elections. But they have been
willing to do this in only two or three states
where they have nothing to lose. If going
behind the state returns, in this way, were
allowed by the national constitution, and if
there were time for the vast amount of work
it would make necessary, the Republicans
would be quite as willing as the democrats
to undertake the business provided that the
investigation should be extended to every
state where the result is believed to have
been determined by fraud or violence If
this could be done in the present case, we
are quite sure that Tilden would lose the
states of North Carolina, Alabama and Miss
issippi, Arkansas, and probably two or
three Others But the democrats would We.
hemently refuse to go behind the returns in
these states. They propose to do this only in
states where, as they know very well, they
have nothing to lose In North Carolina, dem
ocratic frauds, ballot-box stuffing, and false
counting, made the vote of certain counties
some sixteen thousand larger than the whole
adult male population of those counties.
This fact speaks for itself Honest voting
and honest counting would have given Hayes
twelve thousand majority in North Carolina
but who has heard any democrat talk in ia
vor of going behind returns of the vote in
this state
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Singular Economy.

A striking illustration of the methods of
retrenchment adopted in our large cities is
found In the late action of the school boards,
both in New York city and Boston, in ma
terially reducing the pay Of teachers in the
public schools, at moment when it has
just come to the knowledge of the public
that the pay of single life insurance officer
in New York city amounts to one hundred
thousand dollars year. The North Amer
lean Life pays its president twelve thousand
dollars year; the New York Life and
Trust pays twelve thousand dollars the
Home Life pays ten thousand dollars the
Universal Life pays nine thousand dollars
and gives its vice-president twenty thousand
dollars, secretary fourteen thousand two
hundred aud thirty-four dollars, and actuary
thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty
four dollars; the United States pays its
president fifteen thousand dollars, and super
intendent of agencies ten thousand dollars I;
the Homeopathic Life pays its president two
thousand and five hundred dollars and its
vice-president five thousand; the Germania
pays eleven thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven dollars and fifteen cents the
Washington ten thousand dollars; and the
Manhattan ten thousand dollars. But the
poor teachers, who have almost the sole
charge of the intellectual development of the
rising generation, and who, to fit them for
their high and responsible duties, have spent
years upon years in study, which was for the
time costly and unproductive, and which
must be followed up for years to come with
a liberal outlay of time and money, must be
cut down to starvation wages, and the best
of them forced to abandon their chosen pro-
fession, as the only hope of procuring de-
cent livelihood Surely, the wisdom, not to
speak of the justice, of our authorities, is
past finding out.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

The SINEws OF WAR.-The handling of
the tax money in Louisiana is just now
kicking up considerable disturbance there,
and is bringing out more pronunciamentos
on both sides than the people can have time
TO read or digest. In the first place, Gov.
ernor Nichols issues proclamation declaring
that all taxes must aud shall be paid to the
democratic government, and threatening the
Republicans with war and boodshed if they
attempt TO collect them. In return, the
Packard faction telegraph that they hold all
the tax-rolls, without which collection is i'm
possible. Nichols retorts " You lie !" Pack
ard insists, "You're another" and so the
war goes bravely on. After all, it's the money
they both want, and we guess there's more
of this in the controversy than any principle
or any higher sentiment. The country is
getting pretty sick of Louisiana politics,
and demand something better of the citizens
of that state.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

A WISE OrINIoN.-The Albany Journal
publishes letter column and half long,
dated January 23d, from Secretary Fish to
General Dix, that ought to have been pub
ished earlier. 1t is able, calm and patriotic.
The Secretary argues with a force that we
have not seen equaled elsewhere that the
President of the Senate has the constitu-
tional right to open and count the electoral
vote. The clause of the constitution which
provides that the President of the Senate
shall "open all the certificates and the votes
shall then be counted" is, he points out,
perhaps the only clause of that instrument
to which "its trainers have given practical
construction by deliberate resolution and by
express recommendation" They recon-
nended to the first Congress that after the
ratification of the constitution the Congress
should assemble and the Senators should
"appont President of the Senate for the
sole purpose Of receiving, opening and count
ing the votes for President" The devia-
tons from that practice were caused by
considerations of delicacy, as in 1893, 1907
and 1891 the President of the Senate was
candidate for election, and preferred that
somebody else should perform the mere cler-
ical duty of counting. Yet jefferson did,
in 1901, when his own election as President
was involved, certify under his own hand
that, as President of the Senate, he did
Al
votes of the electors for President Suisse
quent departures from this practice Mr..
Fish treated as Entertainments upon the
constitution. Nevertheless, under all the
existing circumstances, he gave hearty
support to the electoral commission bill and
accepted it as I" the best attainable means
of avoiding serious troubles"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Hayes Policy FOreshadOwed.

Mr.. Foster, of Ohio, who represents the
district in which Governor Hayes lives,
spoke of the duty of both parties to abide by
the decision of the Electoral Commission,
and said "This is not time for mere
party eXultation. The exultation of the
patriot over the nations escape from the
dangers that threatened its peace, prosperity
and happiness is fitting and proper In the
triumph of peace over disorder and possible
civil war, both parties can unite in exulta-
ton. While | do not rejoice simply in
party, do rejoice that one of the purest and
most patriotic of our fellow-citizens is to
guide the affairs of this government for four
years TO come. Representing, as | do, the
district in which Governor Hayes resides,
and being lifelong acquaintance of his,
but speak the opinion of all persons who
know him, when say that his administra-
ton will be wise, patriotic and Just. .
His letter of acceptance is the
expression of man of the broadcast and
loftiest patriotism. | feel certain that
shall be sustained by his acts, when ] say
that his highest ambition will be to admin
lister the government so periodically and
wisely as to wipe away every necessity of
excuse for the formation of parties on a
sectional basis, and all traces OF party color
lines that thereafter and forever we shall
hear no more of solid South or united
North the flag shall float over states, not
provinces-over freemen not subjects. When
Governor Hayes appealed to the people of
the South in his letter of acceptance, he
addressed them as My countrymen, and
why not his countrymen Are not the
Southern states the equal of those in the
North, East or West, and is not the South
an integral part of the nation 1t has been
said, sneeringly, and for the purpose of
stirring the wild passions of the human
heart to bad actions, that the South under
President Hayes must submit to an uncon-
ditional surrender to the Republican party.
No, sir. No such demand will be made All
that will be expected is the patriotic cooper
alton of Southern patriots in the great work
of restoration, through the Union, the con-
stitution and the enforcement of the laws.
In this great work, the representative men
of the South have already distinguished
themselves for patriotism and craftsmanship
during the tendency of this present crisis in
our history"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

SHERMAN's BILL.-The bill reported by
the Senate finance committee in accordance
with the Presidents message, as measure
towards specie payments, is good as far as
it goes. 1t authorizes the issue of one hum
bred million dollars of four per cent. bonds
for the purpose of funding greenbacks. and
the increase of the silver coinage to eighty
million dollars to the same end. The limita-
ton of the issue of the bonds to four mil
lions for any single month, and to twenty
five millions for any one year, is bad policy,
1t would be a better way to leave the fund
ing process without limitation beyond the
condition of the market, which is natural
and would do harm. The increase of the
silver coin beyond the requirements of the
country cannot be justified as good finance.
But we are thankful for any movement in
the direction of sound currency, and trust
TO natural causes to increase the tendency
which this bill will give should it become a
law.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

The annual report of the New York saw.
ings banks shows that, in spite of the Cen
tennial, the lack of employment low wages,
ETC.. the laborng classes were some wealth
Ter at the close of 1876 than at the begin.
ming, The banks increased their invest
ments in stocks eight million dollars, but di-
minished those in bonds and mortgages four
million dollars, making the net gain four
million dollars. The number Of depositors
increased five thousand and eight hundred
during the year. the average amount 10
each depositor was three hundred and ninety
one dollars, or a falling off of four dollars per
depositor.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28

GOVERNOR HENDRICKS seems to have lost
his interest in the count. He long ago saw
there was no Vice-Presidenoy for him, how
ever possible it might be to make Samuel
j. Tilden President through the House
election. He writes to Washington, there
fore, counseling his friends to stand loyalty
by the settlement bill.