Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
Notes and Notions.

| CHICAGO talks OF drinking herself out OF
debt by the Moifet system, and the number
OF philosophical citizens who evinoe dis
position to take right hold now is simply
astounding.
TnE Republicans are reported as holding
their own in municipal elections in New
York, while the Greekback and Working
Mems party seem to be cutting into the
democratic ranks.
MEssRs. MooDY AND SANKEY began a
two-weeks meeting at the Boston tabernacle
last Sabbath 1t will be their last appear
ance in Boston, aud probably in New Eng
land, for some time.
The New York World says Mr.. Conkliug
is preparing a speech in arraignment of the
| President, and after it is delivered thinks the
support of the administration will be reduced
to the two Senators from Massachusetts,.
IT doesn't look exactly peaceful when the
English government has ordered eight hun
bred torpedoes and three hundred tons of
bayonet steel, and appointed Lord Napier
|
seley chief of staff.
NoBoDY ever expected to see the Chisolm
murderers punished by the Mississippi courts,
and there will be no surprise at the an.
nonncement that their cases have been post
poned and the criminals released on five
thousand dollars bail apiece.
DIR. REYNOLDS has been carrying on very
vigorous red-ribbon campaign in Chicago the
last two months, and forty-fve thousand have
signed the pledge. The movement has been
carried on very wisely, and the liquor-dealers
confess that they feel is effects seriously.
THE House committee on ways and means
are busily engaged in amending and modify
ing the proposed new tariff bill, which does
not meet with very general favor throughout
the country. Anti-tariff demonstrations were
made in some parts of the country last week.
ADvIcEs from Kansas and other Western
states report that the immigration for the
past week has been unparalleled in the
history of the West. At Atchison, Kansas,
on single day last week, over twelve hun
bred immigrants arrived, destined for the
interior of that state.
THE Springfield Republican says, " There
ought to have been string of old abolition
lists along Pennsylvania avenue at Washing
ton the other day, when a white man and a
niger each representative of the state OF
Mississippi in the national Senate, walked
from the Capitol arm in arm"
II the condition of Virginia's finances is
not speedily improved it will not be Cover
nor Holidays fault lie wants the General
Assembly to increase the rate of taxation
to impose special stamp tax and to tax
church property. If this advice is followed
considerable wind ought to be raised.
The House committee on public building,
will recommend that two hundred and forty
five thousand dollars be appropriated fol
the construction of a National Museum al
Washington, after the plan OF that at tn,
Centennial Exhibition, to cover two acres oil
ground, and the entire collection to be OF
one floor.
The college hazing scrape in Princeton, N
j., has ended in the expulsion of eleven Of
the leading spirits aud the suspension of a,
many more. The trouble had at one tim,
acquired almost the "dgnity" of riot
The vigorous measures adopted by the fac
ulty will have the effect of putting stop t
the practice at Princeton.
COLONEL HIGGINsoN, one of the early
abolitionists, has spent fortnight IN South
Carolina, and talked over matters with many
leading Republicans and especially with tn,
colored people. He finds them generally
agreed that the President has done the best
thing, and reports considerable confdenc,
that the Republican party can be rebuilt il
the South on sound basis.
A MONTHS coinage of silver three million
dollars, will weigh twenty tons. One ton O
coined silver passes for about one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in bullion, be
fore the passage of the silver bill, it wa
worth about one hundred and thirty-fiv'
thousand dollars. The gain of course come
W Ine government pul IHdl uOtSl lIdh'
the act any more just to its creditors.
THE Senate has not yet acted upon thu
appointment of Alanson w. Beard as tn
new Collector of Boston, except to lay tn
matter over for another week. 1t is sal,
that Ben. Butler is doing all in his power t.
defeat the confirmation of this man who wa
| m md hot ha Loft 20
gentleman is raking up everything he pos
sibly can to urge against his nominate,
successor.
AN earnest movement is being made Il
induce the Massachusetts legislature TO es
tablish Soldiers Home. A petition ha
been circulated which only legal voters ar
allowed TO sign, and early in the week NOR
than fifteen thousand names were upon il
The amount asked for is 100000. No NOR
worthy object has asked for an appropria
ton, and it would be doing about the cor
siderate and consistent thing to grant it.
, The Shanghai News says the bigote
celestials have made an utter end of tn
3 celebrated Woosung railway-the rails an
g ties having been torn up and the rol
! ing stock taken to pieces and sent on
! of the country 1t adds, "What will bt
: come of the road itself is at present III
. known but probably the pillow and the spad
= WILL in a few weeks, etface all that now r.
. mains of the first railway introduced int
D China, the bridges being, perhaps retaine
4 for the accommodation f-wheelbarrows. -
!. COUNT SCLoPIs.-Our dispatches repol
q the death of this distinguished Italian al
= thor iurist and diplomat. Count Sclopis
N best known to Americans as a member
the famous Geneva Tribunal, having bee
!. appointed by the King of Italy under the r
" quest which the Treaty of Washington pr
vided should be made. II was great hone
done him by his sovereign, for the tribune
n was a delicate and important experiment,
e the success of which it might be said Il
4. whole civilized world had an interest, an
lie that success was dependent on the talel
8. and learning, no less than on the diplomat
N tact, of the men who might compose IL
h, body. Count Sclopis was chosen presiden
10 and the successful and harmonious condu
o. of the deliberations of the tribunal were