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

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from the law school.
THE public debt according TO the coming
May statement will be shown to have been
reduced last month six million five hundred
thousand dollars, and for the past eleven
months thirty-five million dollars.
Ex-GovERNoR PACKARD, of Louisiana, is
reported to be dangerously ill., his disease be-
ing congestive chill. His case is consid-
cred so serious by the doctors that he is for
hidden to receive visitors, messages or letters.
IT is said, and it is probably true, that
since the establishment of the patent office,
there have been issued in this country pat
ents for more than eight thousand different
kinds of churns. But not one of them will
go without elbow-grease.
CAPTAIN THOMAS CRApo sailed, accom-
panied by his wife, from New Bedford, Mass,
for London, May 2Sth, in sail-boat twenty
feet long over all, by less than seven feet
wide. 1t is such foolhardy enterprise as
should have been prevented.
EXCEPT Lincoln, who was shot at fifty
six, and Polk, who died at fifty-four, not one
in the list of Presidents (Grant of course ex-
cepted) failed to reach sixty.five, while
jefferson, Madison, both the Adamses and
Van Buren, passed four-score.
THE New York custom-house commission
recommend the discharge of two hundred
and forty-six employees. They say that if
the hours of labor be extended and more
care be taken to secure efficient men, the
work can be done by four-ffths of the pres
ent force.
THE Cincinnati Commercial suggests that
it would be a noble thing if ten thousand
patriotic women should subscribe one dollar
each for the erection of monument to poor
Cornelia Chisholm, in commemoration of
her self-sacrifcing devotion in the face of
shot-guns and assassns.
In the British House of Commons, Thurs
day, Lord Elcho urged the government to
prepare for the eventualities of the present
war, and Claiborne Hardy, secretary OF
war, said that although the government
maintains its forces on a peace footing, ii
has not overlooked any possible contingency
SOMEBODY sensibly suggests that in place
of scattering cut flowers over the graves Of
the heroes, it would be much better to plant
hardy flower stocks on the lots, and thus
create perennial bloom. The idea wa.
carried out last week in Philadelphia, where
a rosebush was planted over each grave of 9
dead soldier.
EXTRAORDINARY precautions have beer
taken relative to the Cars journey AL
ready the trains usually used for impe
rial journeys have twice passed along th'
Galician railway, all the windows being
closely curtained. Each time it was be
lieved that the Car had passed. Twelve
regiments of horse guards will be sent on il
advance by twenty-four separate trains.
The Philadelphia Times reports that par
ties supposed to have been concerned in tn,
abduction of Charlie Ross are negotiating
for the ten thousand dollars reward Offered
by Mr.. Barnum, and if matters can be so ar
ranged as to secure their immunity, the,
promise after the payment of the reward t.
return the boy before the first of July next
the third anniversary of his disappearance
TINE passes. Roger A. Pryor, once prom
inent as a chivarous defender of the South
ern policy, near fighting duel on the sub
iect with brother congressman, Mr.. Potter
of Wisconsin, and afterward rebel general
delivered the memorial address before tn
Grand Army in Brooklyn, n. Y, on tn
Both ult., the first confederate to perform
this service in the North. His sentiment
we're in most things admirable.
A BERLIN dispatch says that the Gar
willing to undertake the chief command O
the Russian army, as Emperor William di
of the German in the Franco-German wal
Danube will be crossed the day after tn
Cars arrival on its banks, probably June II
Rumors of endeavors to bring about pacifi
arrangements before an important battle ha
taken place deserve little credit. The
are certainly propagated for the benefit @
stock jobbers.
THE water rates for grain transportatio
from the West have declined to the loves
points ever known. Corn has been take
at two cents per bushel from Chicago
Buffalo, and the canal rate from Buffalo {
New York is down to four and half cent
These are from thirty to forty per cen
lower than any previously made. The rat
by rail from Chicago to New York remain
at thirty cents per hundred pounds for grail
which is about seventeen cents a bushe
No wonder at the report that the canals al
diverting freights from the railroads.
THE loss of the City of San Francisco
. the Pacific Ocean, well out at sea, on ii
regular course, and shortly after the takin
. of observations, is now explained, and ma
: urally, on the hypothesis that the earthquake
of May 10Th, which caused the great it'd
wave, had thrown up new reef in the pat
of the vessel. When the very bottom of ii
ocean comes up to smite Wall street stocl
it is time for the financial gamblers to yiel
[ the market entirely to the cairvoyant an
! spirtuaistic operators, who are said, by IL
= way, to be yearly growing more numeror
( on " the street."
THE vulnerability of great naval vesse
on their top and bottom is curiously illu
trated by the loss of the Turkish monte
Lufti Djelil, fortnight ago. This was
two-turreted vessel, armed with nine-inC
guns, and heavily armored to point fly
feet below the water line. She was d.
signed of course to resist horizontal broaC
side fire, but Russian battery turned its gul
up at high elevation, and by good mat
ematics dropped projectiles on her deck
which went clean through the bottom of Il
vessel, and probably into her boilers, to
sinking her in five minutes.
r THE New York Tribune hits the ma
y squarely on the head when it says that :"
|. is the business of church when a minist
is accused to try him; let the investigate
be searching and the punishment swift al
= stern. But it is not just nor decent to i
t vite the whole world to prurient gossip al
r the wagging of unlicensed women's tongue
n or the reply of these so-called men of Go
g often still more unlicensed and foul. II b