Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-15
Notes and Comments.

making their influence felt in politics at the
West and South.
THE President has signifed his intention
of making general Southern tour during |
the Christmas holidays, visiting the seaboard
cities en- route to New Orleans, and return |
ing to Washington by the way of jackson,
Nashville and Knoxville
GENERAL GRANT writes as follows to a
not fall into any financial falacy, such as
currency initiation, making silver a legal
tender, or the like, to bring about partial re-
pudiation aud national disgrace"
THE first political result of the strikes
was the election at Louisville, Kentucky, on
Monday, of five workingmen's candidates
to the Legislature over the regular demo
cratic nominees, the new party securing all
but two of the city's representation.
The treasurer of the centennial board of
finance announces a dividend, payable Sep
TENDER 9TH, of one dollar and seventy-fve
cents on each ten-dollar share of the stock
that is, of seventeen and half per cent
The share coming to the state of Vermont
will be very small.
Now that the Republican party of the state
has disbanded, the Columbus (Nliss.) Inder
shamelessly says that {" the causes which JUS
titled the fraud and violence heretofore at
tending elections" no longer exist, and that
" the purity of the ballot must be restored,
and the citizen protected in his suffrage"
SENATOR MORRILL, gave Mr.. Blaines fol-
lowers in the Maine convention an argument
which they could not answer, when he said,
in speaking in favor of Governor Chamber
lan's resolution endorsing the administra-
ton "Talk about President Hayes recog-
nizing Packard Gen. Grant refused to do the
same and there was no fuss made about it."
THE President has issued proclamation
forbidding, under heavy penalties, the sale
of arms and ammunition to Indians within
the limits of the United States. President
Grant was obliged to issue a similar pro-
clamation of warning, and this latest mes
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that United States troops in the Northwest
are fighting Indians armed by mercenary
white men.
GENERAL CAMros, the Spanish general in
Cuba, is discouraged, He says it takes five
hundred Spanish soldiers to look after ten
Cuban insurgents, and fifty thousand more
men must be sent out, if the rebellion is to
be subdued The government, he thinks,
should either send men enough to put down
the insurrection, or concede the independ-
ence of the colony; so they are raising more
troops in Spain.
Ir is said that there will be magnificent
wheat crop in Minnesota this year. 1t will
be ready for reapng in ten days, and will
be the largest and finest crop ever known in
that state. 1t is estimated at thirty million
bushels. Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas
as to be hardly worth marketing, and the
peach crop in southwest Missouri is so large
that the farmers do not know what they are
to do with it, Some reports say that the
peach crop is large in quantity and poor in
quality
SOME English papers comment on the late
{" American strike in rather sneering terms,
as one who should say, See what comes
of the freedom of a republic" 1t would be
only natural in reply to cite some of the dis
astrous labor strikes in England longer in
duration and more destructive of life than
any which have occurred in America and
to remark that the ringleaders, and major
ity of the rank and file of the now subsiding
mob in the coal regions, were of British
BIRTH and in no way an outgrowth of Amer
lean institutions.
IT is remarkable that the frightful ac.
cident at Oceanport, New Jersey, did not
cause large loss of life. Three cars of q
New Jersey Central train were plunged down
an embankment into water three feet deep
The train was proceeding across a draw
bridge, and for some reason the rails were
not in place. and it was thrown from the
track. Nearly forty people were injured
and in some cases, probably, there will b,
fatal results, But, judging from the account
; of the affair, il is wonder that so many
escaped instant death.
TnE extremist Republicans of Ohio hay,
begun an organization in opposition to thu
administration. A meeting was held at Co
lunbus on Thursday night of last week, a
which the Southern policy was bitterly de
nounced, as also that portion of the Repub
lican state platform which endorses Presi
dent Hayes. A committee was appointed t.
confer with Republicans of similar view
= throughout the state to decide upon wha
! course to pursue in the present campaign
= The leader of the unwse movement in &c
/, nmbus is Congressman John Beatty, an eS
general, who was one of the Hayes worker
at the Cincinnati convention.