Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
Notes and Comments.

lHh OecrebhIy Vi bne iTeaSury pIOhipibS
district attorneys hereafter receiving over
four thousand dollars annually in fees.
PRESIDENT HAYES shows good sense in
refusing to have anything to do with a
special administration organ in Washington
SIxTy-Two persons were detected in rob-
berry and other criminal violations of the
postal laws during May, nearly all officers of
the department.
FIVE hundred employees in the bureau of
engraving and printing at Washington have
been discharged, and still the work is said
to be done better than before.
THE Widcome bridge over the Avon at
Bath, England, broke down on Thursday
forenoon last, when between one and two
hundred people were on it, and about a
dozen people were killed and fifty-one in
jured, some fatally.
THE work of reduction still goes forward
with encouraging steadiness. Attorney
General Devens has addressed a circular
letter to United States District Attorneys, di.
recting them to cut down their expenses, in
some cases by Diminishing attendants, and in
others by reducing salaries.
| THERE is to be dinner to Hendricks in
New York this week. 1t is thought that
Governor Tilden will be "hungry" on that
occasion. So will Charles Francis Adams,
Speaker Randall, Senators Herman and Bay
ard Ex-Governor Hoffman of New York
Parker of New Jersey, Governor Bede OF
New Jersey, Ex-Governor Seymour and Judge
Black.
PROFESSOR LANGsToN, the accomplished
colored orator who visited Vermont during
the last Presidential campaign, has pub
lished a letter to his colored felowctizen.
in which he assures them that the intention
of President Hayes administration toward
them is to help them in every possible way
He gives this as the result of special inter
view with the President.
THE Pope's Jubilee is a matter of merel,
personal interest and does not affect TIN
church or the world. Its chief importance
is in increasing handsomely the credit &C
count of Plus TX, or his successor, with hi
London bankers. Mrs. General Sherman
has succeeded in collecting about two hun
dred thousand dollars for the good, but in
credibly conceited old man.
IT was reported to the Young Mems Chri:
tian Association Convention at Louisville
KY, last week, that when the internationa
committee began its work in the South Their
were but two associations, while now ther
are one hundred and sixty-two with stron
state organizations. subscriptions for tn
work of the committee amounting to owe
five thousand dollars were pledged.
WILLIAM II. SMITH, the general agent c
the Western Associated Press, has bee
offered and is about to decline the collecto
ship of the port of Chicago. Mr.. Smith
when a colonel in the field wrote the lettt
declaring that any nan who should ask
furlough at such time to go home to ele
tioneer for Congress ought to be scalped.
II the evidence he will now bring TO
ward should lead the grand jury to indie
Brigham Young he would have to be a
that he had ordered the murder of the EN-
grants, or had permitted it, he would ha,
to be hanged. Why not We cannot Sc
that Brigham Young, if he should turn OF
to be murderer, would be any better tina
any other murderer.
THE direct cable company sent the new
of the result of the Derby race in Englau
to its offices in New York, and thence to tt
, Office of the associated press, in just fort
five seconds from the time when the messal
4 was filed in the London office. The new
. was published here and reached many tho
n sands OF readers before it was known oil
p mile from where the race took place. We
: lily these are days of progress, and wonde
+ never cease.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ISSUE
$ regulations under which the baggage of pa
!, sengers entering the United States fro
|
y trail Vermont and Southeastern railroa
t will be examined by the United States i
n spectors of customs at Montreal, instead
n at the first port of arrival in the Unit
C States, and the delay of passenger trains
Rouses Point, st. Adams and Newport W
be obvated.
l. A CoLoRED cadet has at last succeeded
I graduating from West Point. His fello
6 students held no association with him duril
the four years course, so that his experien
IS cannot have been an altogether pleasant OIL
J. but they didn't brutally abuse him, as the
q predecessors did the last youth of color at t
institution, the unfortunate cadet Smii
s. The Young man stood high in his class a
y consequently has an option as to the arm
T. the service in which he will serve, and
IT chosen the aristocratic branch of the caval