Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-27
Notes and Notions.


IT has been neck-and-neck between the
United States mints and the counterfeiters,
as to which should be ahead in the manu-
facture of the new silver dollar.
THE Hartford Post says that letter from
personal friend Of James Gordon Bennett
makes the statement that that gentleman will
in person accompany the Pandora expedition
in her trip TO the North Pole.
HEREToFoRE the amount of commerce be-
tween the United States and Cuba has been
nearly four hundred million dollars per an.
mum, and peace on the island now being one
of the probabilities, 1t is expected that on
its realization a large increase of these
figures may be looked for the present year.
Dip the last national Republican conven.
ton mean anything when it defined the con-
stitutional duties of the several branches of
government, and then said, I" the best inter-
ests of the public service demand that these
distinctions be respected, that the Senators
and Representatives who may be judges and
accusers, should not dictate appointments
to office ?"
JERE BLACK and Montgomery Blair are re-
ported to have fallen out since the publca-
ton of the McGarrahan letters. Blair AYERS
his ability to prove that Black, when At
torney-General, was paid fifteen thousand
dollars to assist McGarrahan. The feeling
is very bitter and both parties threaten dis
closures. We are glad that these gentlemen
have found something more popular to do than
Matching conspiracies to Gust the President.
Rev. Dir. SroRRs has just given two mas
terly lectures in Brooklyn on Turkey and
Russia, with special consideration of the
questions raised by the present war. The
addresses showed in every sentence the
fruit of careful preparation, and yet he
spoke, as is his habit now, without note
and for two hours each time held a vast
audience spell-bound by his eloquence. DR..
Storrs holds that the interests of civilization
and Christianity require the termination of
Turkish rule in Europe.
ESTIMATING the population of the United
States at forty million, the total circulating
medum-gold, silver and greenbacks-at
Sl,l00,000,000, and the true value of real
and personal property at S30500 100000,
the communistic idea of an equal division
would give each person S27,50 in money and
S762.5O in property. The amount of money
for each person is greater than in most
European countries. In France, apparently
the richest country in Europe, and certainly
the one least affected by the hard times, the
circulating medium amounts to only about
fifteen dollars per person.
From Calcutta news comes of the recent
famine in India, from which it is estimated
two millions have died from starvation The
government spent in relief work and charity
nearly thirty million dollars, and the con-
tributions which came chiefly from England
and Australia were two million five hundred
thousand dollars more. 1t is now considered
that the famine is at an end, as the new
crops which have been gathered are coming
in and are safe from damage. Nevertheless
many living skeletons are still to be seen in
the cities, and at the last advces hundreds
were lying unable to move by the roadsides
ACCORDING to Senator Edmunds there is
no legal obstacle to prevent women from
practicing law before the supreme court of
the United States, as well as all other United
States courts. These courts make their own
rules in regard to the admission of attorneys,
and can admit women as well as men at their
discretion 1t vas on this ground that a
bill admitting women to practice before the
supreme court was rejected by the Senate
on Monday of last week, Senator Edmunds
showing that such bill would be discrim-
nation in favor of women, as it would COM
pei the court to admit them when it was not
bound to admit men.