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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

The PRESIDENT SUsTAINED.-The recep-
ton of the President at New York, during
the past week, is matter of congratulation
by all who have the interests of the country
at heart. Especially is it gratifying that he
was so warmly received at the banquet of
the Chamber of Commerce, which he at
tended by special invitation. The complex
ion of this association is tinged by men of
both political parties, who represent the
sound business strength and brains of New
York. 1t was, then, an assembly of no par
tisan kind, and the words uttered do not
SAVIOR of partisan spirit. At the banquet
the President was very enthusiastically re-
ceived, and his few remarks in response to
a toast warmly applauded. The admiration
was represented farther in remarks by Sec
retaries Evarts and Schurz, the former dis
cussing the commerce of the country, and
the latter giving his idea of perfected civil
service. About three hundred were present
at this assembly, including many from
abroad. Ex-Governor Tilden and Governor
Robinson received invitations, but the i'm
macuate characters of these gentlemen
feared contamination from the presence of
Hayes, and they failed to appear on account
OF pressing business engagements.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

ERA OF Coop CHARACTERIZATION Hayes
has received the following invitation from
Tennessee The people of Chattanooga, with
out regard to party lines, hereby invite you
to attend the decoration of the graves of the
federal dead, in the national cemetery near
this city, by the late soldiers of both armies,
on the Both instant, and also the same day
to a dinner at the Stanton House, this city,
given to commemorate this union of the
blue and gray, and to decorate the graves of
our dead, with liberty, peace and prosperity
inaugurated by the Southern policy and a
new South. Extensive preparations are be-
ing made by ex-confederates to assist on the
OCCASION and some of the most prominent
men in the country will be present and par
ticipate in the exercises.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23
New Books Received.

A WINTER STORY. BY Miss Peard Boston
Roberts Brothers,-This is charming tale, ele-
gantly gotten up, and will well repay the time
spent in its perusal We notice new feature in
this book--a neat ribbon for book mark the
ribbon being just the color of the binding A
novel and convenient idea. From somewhat
hasty look through the story, have concluded
that it is tale of genuine interest, which any one
who buys and reads may determine for himself
THE WINE BIBBERs' TEMPERANCE SOCIETY,".
Boston; Lee & Shepard. 1t is an undsputed fact
that one OF the most difficult things in the world is
to inaugurate and maintain the interest in a Tenn
perance Society. This book is the history of an
imaginary temperance club, in which not only
Temperance men" tetotallers," etc, paTtici-
pated, but also the rum-sellers and tipplers, 1t
describes a novel experiment in the way of Re-
form Clubs. A club was formed, which every one
was invited to join But signing the pledge was
not necessary before admission or membership
could be gained, This club was formed precisely
like church. Those who had signed the pledge
corresponded TO the church members; and those
who didn't to the society The club met once
week for the debate, etc, and both sides of the
case were presented Each member paid one dol
lar a year on the principle that "we value only
what we pay for" aud altogether they formed a
very successful and selfsustainh,g Temperance
Society.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

FIRE CRACKERs.-The statistical bureau
OF the National Board of Underwriters, of
which Mr., Charles A. Jenney, formerly of
this village, is the courteous and competent
secretary, has prepared an ordinance forbid
ding the use or manufacture of fire crack
ers, which 1t strenuously urges all cities and
villages to adopt. The loss occasioned by
fire from the use of these seemingly limo
cent vehicles for the expression of the pat
riotic sentiments of the youth of the period
is almost beyond comprehension. The ordi-
nance provides that no person shall cast,
throw or fire any squib, rocket, cracker,
torpedo, grenade or other combustible fire
works or explosive preparation, under a
penalty of five dollars for each offence. II
further provides that no person shall sell
any of the lovely articles named, save in the
original package as imported under penalty
of ten dollars. We are at a loss to see why
dealer should be let off with fine of two
dollars, while the small boy who yields to
temptation must pay five. We need only
add, in order TO rouse the sumbering lion in
the breast of the small boy aud set it to howl
ing fierce protest, that the underwriters
speak of the Chinese cracker, whose function
has always been supposed to be the express
sion OF pure patriotism, as "a dangerous
enemy to our commercial and financial pros
perity," This clearly is fiat treason. Let
the small boy make the most of IT,,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

THE NATIONAL LIFE Insurance Com
rANY.-There is probably not a policy
holder in this sterling company who has
had for moment any doubt as to its entire
solvency and judicious management. Yet
much has been said of late in relation to
life insurance companies and their manage
ment, that we are glad to see the officers of
the company have decided to make pub
lie statement of their affairs, which will be
found in another column. Those parties
who have been fortunate enough to procure
insurance in this company may rest assured
that every interest of theirs will be carefully
and honestly guarded, and that there is not
the slightest danger that this company is Oh
the way to join the long line of imprudently
managed and bankrupt concerns of this
character who have already been wrecked
or are in any danger of such a catastrophe.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

CUSTER AND HIS BRAvEs.-A New York
Times Washington special dispatch says
that General Sheridan proposes % send an
expedition to the scene of General Clusters
fight with Sitting Bull, to remove the re-
mains of the gallant dead and give them a
burial with proper military honors at such
point as may be designated by the war de-
partment General Crittenden, whose son
fell in the fight, objects to the removal, and
has written letter asking that the remains
of the heroic band be permitted to rest where
they are now inferred, that they may signal
ze for all time the spot where they so no.
bly, fell. 1t is understood that Sheridan has
selected the scene of the Custer massacre as
the site of one of the two additional military
posts authorized by Congress in the Yellow
stone valley, that it shall be named Fort
Custer, and it is probable that the spot
where Clusters troops fell and are buried
will be preserved as a cemetery.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

An UNNATURAL FATHER.-A very strange
case has come before the police at Moscow,
Russia. A few months ago peasant, with
his wife and four children, was travelling in
sleigh along the banks of the Pruth, when
they were pursued by a pack of wolves.
The peasant urged on the horses as much as
he could, but soon perceived the horrible fact
that the wolves were fast gaining upon them.
At the moment when the sleigh was sur
rounded by the ravening beasts, the man
seized one of the children, threw it among
them, and while the wolves were strug-
Cling over their prey he FASTENED on his
horses and gained ground. Four times the
wolves came up with the fugitives, and four
times the horrible sacrifice was completed.
At last the peasant and his wife arrived at
nearest village, leaving behind them the
bones of their four children. In the bitter
ness of her despair the mother informed
against her husband, but the judges, consid-
ering that if the peasant had not resigned
himself to the horrible sacrifice he would
not only have lost his children, but also his
wife, acquitted the prisoner.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

A frightful tale Of fresh slaughter of Chris
tians by Moslems at Turtukai, on the Dan
ube, opposite Oltenitza, has been reported
by the correspondent of New York jour
nal. The transaction has doubtless received
material application to suit the demands
of the sensational newspapers of the day,
especially wherein it describes the brutal
slaughter of thousands of men, and asserts
that the screams of outraged women and
children were heard miles across the river
But we want to say in reference to this
whether it has any foundation in fact or not
that something like this might be expected
as the result of a holy war;" The bloody
"holiness will not be all Oh one side If
it is distinctly believed that the object of
the war is the damage of the Moslem faith,
then the fanatical Mosems will be quite
likely to attack and slaughter Christians
whenever they have an opportunity, and the
barbarous scenes that nearly always are the
Accomplishments of the pillage of town
will be re-enacted.
Ever since it became apparent that Rus
STA was bent upon bringing about war
with her old enemy, and that to great ex-
tent, she was hiding her real motive under
the speoious guise of protecting the perse-
cuted Christians, it was easy to see that the
old fires of persecution and slaughter would
inevitably be re-kindled. For the war was Ger.
tain to arouse throughout the East the old
Moslem fanaticism, and to awake the hatred
of the Christians which has been slumber.
ing for some time, but which can no doubt
flame up as intensely as the hatred of a
genuine crusader for the Moslem. Since
the Crimeau war the antipathies of creeds
and the hatred of races have been somewhat
softening in all Turkey people have, it was
thought, taken the first step in a hopeful
cvilization-that is, tolerance of each 9th.
er's creed. They have been learning to live
together in peace. At Erzeroum, for exam
pie according to the reports of returned
missionaries who have visited Vermont dur
ing the past year, the mosque and the Greek
church, the Armenian and the Roman Cath.
Ole and the Protestant stand side by side
and in this reign Of liberation has sprung
up bright hope of true Christian civil.
cation.
There could not have been, in short, a
more inopportune time for proclaiming a
crusade of cross against crescent. Its only
effect can be to revive the waning hatred OF
the Christian. We take it that it is not ex.
pected TO exterminate the Moslems-tht
most numerous religious body in the world
we believe-and surely they can never be
converted by the sword. If we hear of mas
sacres of and outrages upon Christians il
unprotected places, it is what we have only
too much reason to expect. And, while W,
curse the barbarity of the halfcivilized peo
pie who commit them, we must lay them a
the door of the so-called Christian powe
which has wantonly, and we believe evel
under false pretences, raised the whirlwind
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23
Political J0ttings.

PRESIDENT HAYES has faith in more
things than the success of his Southern pol
icy. He believes in a revival of the business
interests of the country.
Mr.. BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, writes
that he is candidate for Speaker, and that
he has seventy votes to start with. They
comprise the flibusters.
No wonder Hendricks feels cross. He
has not only lost the Vice-presidency, but
sixty-ive thousand dollars in western gold
mine.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, the confederate
secretary of state, is one of the most popular
lawyers in London, and has an income of
over one hundred thousand dollars year.
DANIEL II. CHAMBERLAIN, ex Governor of
South Carolina, was sworn by Chief.Justice
Davis in the general term as an attorney
and counsel of the New York bar recently.
IT is suggested in Tennessee that General
N. B. Forrest, General b. F. Cheatam, and
General John B. Gordon be invited to be
present at the decoration of the grave of
federal dead at Chattanooga on the Both.
As the result of the investigation into the
Cincinnati election frauds, Judge Cox, Re
publican, takes the seat on the bench of the
| Supreme Court of Hamilton county, in the
place of Harmon, democrat, elected by the
votes of reporters.
A RESOLUTION offered at Baltimore We'd
nesday evening of last week, that a suit
able floral memorial be placed over the
graves of the confederate dead, was rejected
by the Grand Army of the Republic by a
vote of sixty to twelve.
SECRETARY SHERMAN, in a recent letter,
says that he feels quite sure that the good
opinion of the friends of the Presidents
Southern policy will be justified by its sue
cess, and by the benefits it will confer upon
both white and black Republicans.
THE election of Justice Willard to be
chief justice of the supreme court of South
Carolina is a triumph for Governor Hamp-
ton over the irreconcilable democrats led by
Senator Gary Justice Willard is Repub-
lican, but has won the esteem of both par
ties in South Carolina by his upright de-
cisions.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23
Letter from Illinois.

Dixon, ILL.,, May l6 1877.
Messrs. Editors:--I think | promised to write
you what thought of leaving the green hills Of
Vermont and emigrating West. | will try and
answer that question II You will give me space in
your paper. You will find me very wandering,
and perhaps shall exhaust your patience II so,
please replenish your waste-basket with my man
uscript am not one Of those one-idea persons
who can no beauty in anything or any place
but within the narrow circle of which they move;
neither do believe the all-wise Creator placed
all the good things in one place, and all the bad
in another, That Illinois has a richer soil than
Vermont one can doubt who has any knowl-
edge of the two sections; but we have drawbacks
here as well as with you. In the first place it is
too monotonous. You can travel for days and
weeks and not know by the scenery around you
that you had gone out of your own immediate
neighborhood. There Is no inspiration in it,
have often thought II could look up and see
those old familiar faces of Mansfield Cancels
Hump, or even old Knox, it would add much to
my enjoyment of this section. | suppose you
could spare a few Of your most conspicuous ones,
but to take those that are interviewer into your
history would be an irreparable loss. Without
those grand old sentinels you would cease 10 be
Vermont. When your wayward sons look back
to the home of their youth, after remembering
the graves of our fathers and the sacred tombs of
our loved ones, and then giving few thoughts to
the few who yet remember us, we then lift up
our thoughts with pride to those grand old endur-
ing monuments OF natures handiwork. They are
the richest jewels in her diadem.
Illinois is not only too monotonous, but a large
portion of 1t is too fiat. Millions OF dollars must
be expended in draining before that difficulty will
be removed. Tiles are being introduced and ex-
perimented with. The only objection can see to
them is that they will be liable to fill up with
mud; but speak not from experience. Those
who live ON the swamp lands are called swamp
al gels by their more fortunate neighbors. II they
are angels, they must be fallen angels, and must
have fallen some distance At any rate, they are
deeply stuck in the mud. Our German and Irish
population take as readily to these lands as a
young duck to "A mi-pond. suppose they come
from the boys and ferns of the Old World,
and would not feel at home unless they lived
among lizards and cawtish. | do not know as
You have any Of these ingenious little creatures in
Vermont, 1t is difficult for me to describe them.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

The COMING QUEsTIoN.-Every day
brings to us fresh proof that the evil of in
temperance is the next great subject with
which the American people will grapple,
and that the field is rapidly ripening for the
harvest The Cincinnati papers contain re
ports from all parts of Ohio, and even from
adjacent states, showing that a total absti-
nence movement not much less than the
"crusade of last year is under way. " Red
ribbon societies are being organized in
great numbers, usually in connection with
churches, although in many instances the
leaders are lawyers, who are by no means re-
ligious. The members wear knots of red
ribbon in their button-holes as badges of al
legiance, and intense earnestness is mani
tested. Several Congressman, most of the
clergymen, and, indeed, a large proportion
of the prominent men of Ohio, make
speeches and aid in forming societies. The
pledge in use covers beer and cider, as well
as stronger beverages, and is for life. The
starting of this fresh agitation is said to be
due 10 Murphy, the reformed drunkard, who
has met with astonishing success in his
own and other states as a total abstinence
revivalist. lie 10 now holding meetings in
Philadelphia.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

SUBMISSIVE lNDIANs.-General Sheridan
telegraphS the department that the North
ern Cheyenne tribe of Indians are anxious
to be removed TO the Indian territory, and
that the removal can be made with an
officer and twelve men. There are many
reasons why the government would be bet
ter of with these northern savages where
they may be reached sooner than they can
where they are at present. in case of re-
currence of their outbreaks, which have be-
come almost as regular as the season. The
Sioux and Cheyenne nations have for years
been the bitterest enemies of the whites
and single war with the latter tribe cost
the government forty million dollars. 1t
was in the campaign against the Cheyennes,
that Custer did brilliant and effective SER
vice, the famous Waohita raid being one of
the series conducted by him. Once upon
the new reservation, their history of warfare
and robbery will be ended But there are
people who will not envy the officer and
twelve men" who are to conduct the re-
moyal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

HARD TIMES IN RUSSIA letter from
st. Petersburg says that the distress among
the lower classes in Russia is daily increas-
ing. The commercial crisis, which caused
the failure of numerous banking and mer
camille houses, has been followed by an in
dustrial crisis; some of the largest factories
have been closed, and thousands of men and
women are out of work. In st. Petersburg
and its vicinity no fewer than ninety thou
sand artisans depend on the government or
private benevolence for the means of exist
ence, and at Moscow, the centre of Russian
industry, forty thousand workmen have been
reduced to beggary-to say nothing of the
multitude of clerks who have lost their EN-
ployment in consequence of the closing of
banks and merchants offices. The distress
has been much increased by the foundations
which occurred in various parts of the EN-
pire last month.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-23

Pool SELLING IN ILLINoIs.-See the eff
feet of setting good example. New York
passes bill prohibiting pool selling and the
consequence is that Illinois makes up her
mind that she must do likewise. They play
such an immense amount of base ball in
Chicago that the illinois bill contains a
clause specially directed at those who prof
fer pools on the great American game. The
colored preacher down South who preached
against chicken stealing, remarked that his
sermon "cast gloom over the entire con
gregation." We are afraid that this base
ball clause in the Illinois pool bill will have a
similar depressing effect upon the rising
population of Chicago.