Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-11-14
Notes and Comments.

SENATOR INGALLS, has prepared bill
which provides that the regular session of
Congress shall begin on the first Monday in
November, instead of the first Monday in De
cember, as usual.
TnE President has suggested to the heads
of the departments a reduction of their esti-
mates of appropriations for the next fiscal
year, aud the war department has cut down
its figures ten million dollars.
ToURTrLLorE TNMAN, one hundred years
old the 18th of June, voted the Republican
ticket at the polls in Milford, Tuesday of
last week Three rousing cheers were given
for him when he deposited his ballot.
An Oshkosh ('vis) genius solves the re-
sumption problem as follows As gold is
only worth three per centum premium, let
the government stick a three-cent postage
stamp on each dollar bill and resumption is
complete.
THE bank of New Caledonia has failed
for two million francs. New Caledonia is
some ten thousand miles from the United
States, but still there is no doubt that the
failure is the result of Sherman's contrac-
ton policy.
IT is said that Sitting Bulls future home
is to be on Red Deer river where he aud his
band will be guarded by Canadian police
The troublesome savage promises obedience
IN thp EanuIiang ant mt
hatred towards Americans.
The Mobile (Ala) Register says that the
South is now prospecting because the war
taught Southern men to save money and to
live on less money than formerly, and be-
cause white labor and white energy are res
directing and revivifying the South.
REPORTS from Washington say that the
administration is particularly grateful with
the result in Massachusetts. and regards it as
a square approval of the Presidents efforts
to allay all sectional feeling, to restore har-
mony to all sections of the country, and to
improve the civil service
THE Boston municipal election next
month promises to bring lively contest.
Mayor Prince was renominated by the dem
ocrats, Wednesday night, but the slender
plurality CASTOR received in the city on
Tuesday shows that an independent move
ment for man like Henry l.. Pierce can de
feat him.
THE New York World (democratic) says
"On the whole the survey of the field leaves
it clear that all over the country there is a
general and genuine approval of President
Hayes policy, though curiously enough
both the friends and the foes of the admin
istration seem to be tangled in the lines
If both parties
THE result in New Jersey puts General
Mcclellan on the track as Presidential
aspirant. The democratic boat is so full al
the present time that it is likely to be much
crowded before 1850. In the East there are
Randall, Mcclellan, Bayard and Tilden
while the West presents Hendricks, Thur
man and Pendleton.
THERE could hardly be more sigma
illustration of the natural results of demo
cratic rule than is furnished in the appoint
ment as the successor of Oliver p Morton il
the United States Senate of that blatant
demagogue Daniel w. Voorhees,. He was
copperhead of the very worst kind during tn,
war, and a revler of Abraham Lincoln.
FROM the Worcester Gazette: Massachu
sets takes the lead and the other states will
follow. From this time forward the polio,
of the President will grow stronger montl
by month. His enemies and detractors vii
subside one after another, accepting the in
evitable. The young men of the countr,
will come forward to his support, and TIN
masses of the people will arise aud maxi
themselves heard Hayes may well fee
happy to-day. He has gained great, de
cisive victory.
LAY in a good stock of wood. Professo
Piazzi Smith, the astronomer royal of Scot
land, predicts that we are going to have al
unusually cold winter. lie says that thre
great heat waves from without have strucl
this part of the earth, and "unless som
very complete alteration in the weather is +
occur" the next such visitation may b
looked for the year after next, or Whereabouts
But this is not ALI the heat wave is pre-
coded by cold wave, and this is due at tn
end of the present year.
Is examining old documents in the trea,
ury department for the purpose of preparin
complete financial history of the govern
ment, Captain Bailey of the warrant ofiic
General Washington of his accounts wit
the federal government during the entir
period of the revolutionary struggle. 1t
the original voucher filed by the father q
his country on the settlement of his accoun
and includes a large number of private e,
penses, which, after reflection, he concluded
would be proper to charge to the government
THE New York Evening Post says
Parker Pillsbury, William Lloyd Garrison
and Wendell Phillips, in the recently pull
lished words of the first named, are the las
of the old abolitionists" Garrison an
and Phillips oppose the President, aud Pill'
bury supports him. The President ther,
fore is sustained by one.third of the abol
tonists. He is sustained by at leas
two-thirds of all other citizens. Adding tn
one-third to the two-thirds, we have thre,
thirds-which is near enough to unanimit
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