Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
Notes and Comments.

from Europe as many trunks as they were
won't Custom-house officers are required
to examine everything, and they do.
MroHIGAN'ended her fiscal year October
LIST, with six hundred and nine thousand
seven hundred and seventy-one dollars in the
treasury, after paying all the state expenses
of the year.
MANY New York merchants and bankers
who have been interviewed on the subject
desire an unconditional repeal of the bank
rupt law, while large class would prefer a
radical amendment
THE election in Colorado having been
held, and woman suffrage defeated, Miss
Susan B. Anthony is announced to deliver
in Denver her lecture entitled, "Woman
Wants Work, not the Ballot"
THE town of Holyoke, Mass, is to set the
example some time this week of a public
meeting of citizens, no regard being had for
political association, to indorse the Presi-
dents policy as IL is set forth in the Repub-
lican state platform.
THE Charleston, South Carolina, Ne,0s
says I" II we wish our children to believe
as we believe, to know as we know, that the
South fought for principle and right, and
not for expediency and gain, we must use
Southern books in our schools"
A MEETING of citizens of all political
parties is called in Hartford, Conn, to take
measures to prevent fraudulent voting in
that city. It is believed that fully one thou
sand fraudulent democratic ballots were
poled at the recent municipal election.
THE Yale College faculty have voted not
to permit the Thanksgiving jubilee of the
students, which has of late years grown to be
an entertainment of considerable magni-
tude. The immoral tone of the last years
festival is given as the cause of the decision.
The Springfield Republican names as
among the three issues in Massachusetts
Shall the experiment with the license sys-
TEN be longer continued, or prohibition at
once resumed ? And shall Massachusetts,
ndorse President Hayes and tell him to go
ahead ?"
CoNKLING, since feeling the rebound OF
the Rochester convention, is " roaring gently
like sucking dove He didn't attack the
administration-O no, not he He is really
friend and wants it to succeed. Of course
how stupid in anybody to misunderstood the
great Senator
IT is stated that the pensioners of the late
civil war deprived of pensions from March
3 1865 to June 6, 1866, have appointed a
committee to enforce their claims upon Con
gress. We believe that the period named is
not covered by any of the several laws
passed by Congress since the war.
GENERAL GRANT perpetrated joke when
returning thanks for the honor conferred
upon him by the citizens of Glasgow in pre-
senting him with the freedom of the city
He said al find that am being made SC
much a citizen of Scotland that it will be
come serious question where | shall &c
to vote"
THE women connected with the various
Christian Temperance Unions of the coun
try are to hold National Convention al
Chicago, October oath to 9th, to deliberate
in regard to this gigantic evil, the mother o.
crime and misery, and to take measures fol
carrying on the temperance crusade. Ma,
they have multitude of the workers pres
ent, and may they have wisdom and yea
proportionate to their numbers.
DIpHTHERIA has become, next to consump
ton, the most fatal disease in New England
The vital statistics of Massachusetts, jus
published, for the year 1876, show that j
now occupies the second place in the list o
fatality, whereas no longer ago than 1872 it
place was the nineteenth. Last year tw,
thousand six hundred and ten persons diet
of it in Massachusetts, and five thousan'
three hundred and twenty-seven of con
sumption.
FRED DOUGLASS talks to his race in tn
following sensible way; The question witt
us is, will we work as hard for ourselves a
will go to the wall, for liberty is as essen
TALLY state of hard work as slavery is o
disgraceful sloth 1t is only by hard labo
that we can ever catch up with the whit
race, and by initiating their virtues instea'
of their vices. Emigration is dellsiol
and sham. The whole race is everywher
on the face of the globe and we could no
get away from them if we would