Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-09-05
Notes and Comments.

GOVERNOR BLUE JEANS WILLIAMS does
not forget his friends. lie has just par
doned out of the Indiana pepitentiary the
repeaters who helped elect him last October.
MANY of our exchanges forget that this is
an "off year" in Vermont. There is no
state election in this state this year. The
only September elections this year are those
OF California on the 5th and of Maine on
the 10TH
IT is understood that one of the questions
put to all applicants for life insurance in
Mississippi is as follows. Are you rup-
tured, subject to heart disease, of an apoplec-
tic habit, Republican,, or in any other
manner likely to die suddenly 2"
Tnn duties are solemnly prescribed for
Southern representatives in the next Con
gress by the Vicksburg (Mss.) Herald,
namely, cooperation with conservative Re
pubicans in behalf of the President, and
pushing the Southern Pacific railroad
scheme.
A BLUE pigeon with red legs lighted on a
steam tug on July Goth, about eight miles
from Seaham harbor, England. Attached
to its leg was piece of paper signed " Will
liam Stocker, Quebec. Sent up at fifteen
minutes past twelve o'clock" The bird APP
peared to be very tired and hungry, and is
supposed to have crossed the Atlantic.
The pretence of democratic conventions
and newspapers that the Presidents civil
service policy is ga tribute to democratic
principles seems ludicrous enough when
we remember that General jackson was the
father of the spoils system, which it is the
object of that policy to uproot, and when we
call to mind what the democratic party is
actually doing at this moment, wherever it
is in power.
THE "workingmen" of Massachusetts,, as
they style themselves, talk of nominating
Wendell Phillips as their candidate for
Governor. They run him for the same
place several years ago, only to find how un.
popular he was. If they want to try the
same experiment again, probably no one will
be found to object. Mr.. Phillips, by his unwise
and erratic course of late years, has eifectually
destroyed all the chance he ever had of 10
litical promotion. The only work he ever
did was with his tongue.
THE friends of sobriety and purity have
cause for rejoicing in view of the widespread
impetus which has been impaired to the
cause of temperance in the last few months
The most encouraging feature of the revival
is seen in the prominence given to mora
and religious influence as means of re-
forming drunkards and breaking up the
dram-shops. If any man needs to have God
working in him to will and to do of his
good pleasure" and to deliver him from
the power of an evil habit, surely it is he
who is slave to his appetite for strong
drink.
The friends of the administration il
Maine are breaking away from Blaine's leat
and compelling him to tack ship in the face
of adverse winds. Several of the county Re
publican conventions have spoken out il
favor of the Presidents policy and Blaine
has found it a difficult job, requiring all thu
tact of which he is master, to prevent the
calling of another state convention. lie ha
got to take his choice between supporting
the administration and reIinquishing hii
position as leader of the Republicans of tn,
| Pine Tree state.
WE notice that Rev. n. G. Clark, Score
tary of the American Board, writes the New
York Observer that, with two or three excep
tons, the work of the missionaries has no
been interrupted by the war. In Easter
Turkey only the northern part has been dis
turbed, while more interest than usual ha
been manifested in other parts of all tn
missions of the board in Turkey. Tn
Turkish authorities have been very careful
to do everything in their power to protec
missionary families, and have also warne,
the Moslem population, though the mosques
to forbear all violence and ill-treatinent tc
ward the Christians.
those who watch the signs OF the time
at the South can see plainly enough that
party is gradually forming there to oppos
the bourbonism of that sectional party o
equal rights and loyalty to the Union. Fo
instance, here is what the Richmond (Va.
State has the courage 10 say "The demo
Gratis at the North are deeply dyed in boul
bonism They have lost sight of every liy
ing issue, and bound themselves hand an,
foot to the carcass of the dead past The
are monomaniacs on this subject, and it i
useless to argue with such madmen but W
regret to see that some of our Southern
papers and politicians have become tainte,
with the same sort of insanity. which if
becomes confirmed, can only lead to poitca
| DEATH"