Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
Notes and Notions.

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= democratic majorities given to the oficial
!, responsible for the shortage.
4 IGNATIUs DoNNELLY, of Minnesota, prob
: ably the most pestilential demagogue thai
this country ever produced, has joined the
Nationals, and will be nominated by them
for Congress. II there is broken politician
one rejected by all other parties, who is not
in the National organization, we have yet to
hear of him.
THERE seems to be chance for SQUAD
BILE over Mr.. Kimpton, the former carpet
bag treasurer of South Carolina. One thing
regarding his transaction in that state needs
explanation, and that is, how he could, as he
says, get the state into debt to him SlS0,0O0
in three or four years, on salary of about
$4,000 per annum.
Mr. BLAINE is going to speak for Repub-
licanism in North Carolina. That is good
leadership and sound patriotism. The eyes
and hearts of the Republicans of the whole
land will go with him. Other representa-
tive men ought to go into the South. 1t
might not carry any districts in that sec ion
but it would test the Southern spirit and
give light to the whole country.
lN commenting on the dangers to be APP
pretended from the new political move.
ments the Utica Herald says "The hour
has again come for the Republican party to
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national honor which is once more the best
security for industry and production, and to
fight the good fight of sound principles and
of strict integrity, whatever may be the com.
binations against it."
WHILE Russia has won substantial ad.
vantages in the late war, they have been OBJ.
tanned at fearful cost. Besides the thou
sands and tens of thousands that persisted
on the battlefield, disease has been and still
is, making dread havoc among her soldiers.
Late cable reports state that there are now
fifteen thousand on the sick list in Bulgaria
alone. Another sick roll in Roumela is
even more than this, while the mortality list
has been frightful
MORE and more of the Confederate leaders
to the front Joe johnson is plainly going
to Congress from the second Virginia dis.
trct. Now that the Bounding Banning is
to be left at home, if the Democrats secure
the majority of the House, johnson can be
made chairman of the military committee
Then we shall witness the spectacle of Sher.
man, the commander of the Union army, de-
pendant upon the legislation of the confede-
rate who surrendered to him.
IT would be an excellent thing if some
Christian missionaries were sent to the OF.
tawa district in Canada, where the Catho.
lies and Protestants are in cat-and.dog
fight, and acting generally like pack of
savages. They are doing more to bring re-
ligion into reproach than all the infidels
and scoffers of the world. What is that
Christianity good for that permits its sub
jects to indulge the most malignant passions
and to murder each other for their opinions?
They mean business down in New Hamp-
shire in the matter of carrying out the
tramp law. The Keene Sentinel says that
the Mayor of that city has promptly APP
pointed constables TO serve under the act,
and caused printed copies of the law to be
posted in all parts OF the city, the effect Of
which action has been, thus far, to entirely |
relieve that locality of the tramp nuisance |
only one of the fraternity having been seen |
there for some time past If the authorities in |
all cities and towns in the state are as prompt |
and decided in their action, New Hampshire |
will have solved the tramp problem.
SEVERAL of the New York papers have
given currency to the statement that three
or four of the heaviest Wall street operators
are in very tight place, and Jay Gould and
Keene, the Californian, are particularly
mentioned. Keene, it is said, will 90 back
to California to recuperate. OF Gould, the
reports are conflicting, but there is a bitter
fight going on between him and Vanderbilt,
and the condition of the market regarding
several of the leading speculative stocks in
which Gould is heavily interested is such
that panic or anything approaching it
would place him in a position from which he
would find it difficult to extricate himself.
RECENT investigations show that more
money is paid for beer in almost every
large city than for bread in New York
competent authorities set down the amount
as not far from S30,000,O00 per annum. As
at present carried on the manufacture OF
beer is very profitable to the brewers, and
there are many instances given of their sud
den acquisition of immense fortune in the
brewing business in few years. George
Ehret, of New York, began with $4,000 ten
years ago, and he is now worth 81 100000
Jacob Hoffman, who began with $1,000 at
John Kress, who began brewing in his wfe's
wash kettle, without cent, died about a
year ago worth over half a million.
THE Philadelphia Press says We want
more farmers and less trying to live off those
who farm. The true intent and meaning
of going on the land is not so much to have
something to sell as to have something to
eat If a man make thousand pair of boots
and nobody buys them, he is in bad way;
he starves. But if he raises thousand
bushels of wheat and finds no buyers, he is
still at least safe in having something to eat
himself. When there is an over-stock of
agricultural produce, the raiser can eat as
much as ever and raise less to sell when
there is an overplus of manufactured goods
some of the mechanics must go on the land
There are millions of acres in our country
waiting for people TO come and till them.
There need be no business suffering to any
great extent if people who can will go and
till it,"
THE Cleveland Herald says 1.-THE New
York Tribune is doing the country service
by putting before it some definite informa-
tion about the amount of Southern war
claims already presented in Congress. The
total already aggregates the enormous sum
of s35O,OOO,OO0. This is only beginning
however, for reasonable prospect of getting
payment would develop countless horde of
fresh claimants, until the innumerable army
moving upon the treasury included every
man who had fence rail burned by Union
soldiers or who missed a obiokan from, b;s |