Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-07
Notes and Notions.
SOMEBODY has remarked to Grant that he
may be candidate for President again when
he comes back, and got this reply, If I
thought that, would not 20 back at ALL"

oOMEBODN mas remarked 10 brHnb lnHb lie
may be candidate for President again when
he comes back, and got this reply, "If
thought that, would not go back at ALL"
The French five per cent. bonds are sell
ing in London for FIVE per cent. more than
our five per cent. bonds. The reason as
signed for the higher price of the French is
the dstrust of American honesty.
The Cincinnati Commercial learns that
Russell Young, vino has been writing the
interviews with General Grant which are
being published in the New York Herald,
does not venture to send them till they have
been submitted to the ex-president
In all this fraud business the greatest dis
appointment of the New York Sun has had
was that Major Burke, who was supposed
to know all about it, could not give any evil
dence in support of the alleged conspiracy.
THE Southern Democratic newspapers are
reviving the talk about dividing Texas so as
to get two more Democratic Senators. If
the Democrats get the next Congress and
administration we shall probably hear more
on the subject.
SPEAKING of the letter of Governor Hayes
to Secretary Sherman recently made public,
the Cincinnati Commercial says; This is a
fair sample of that which he said and wrote
during the period in which the Presidency
was in dispute. There are many such letters"
THE impositions practiced upon visitors
at the Paris hotels have had the effect to
drive the crowd away from the higher priced
establishments. Many people have gone to
places of summer resort out of the great city,
but large numbers of new arrivals prevent
any diminution of the crowd at the EXPOSE
ton, which is in every respect a grand success.
IN the last five months the subscription to
the four per cent. loan has been Sll3,000,-
600. OF this more than third had been
taken in small lots by personal investors.
This is good evidence of the credit of the
government and the confidence of the people
in the loan. 1t will take good deal of demo
cratic mal-admnistratio to affect either.
PERHAPS the hardest blow that Potter and
Butler have received was in the testimony
of Congressman Ellis, who was called before
the Potter committee to prove bargain
between the friends of the administration
and the friends of the Nichols government,
at the celebrated Wormley's Hotel confer
ences, and said, l." | would say emphatically
that there was no bargain
THERE is growing feeling in every
healthy community against journals which
make it their special object to minister to a
perverted taste by seeking out and serving
up in a seductive form disgusting scandals
and licentious revelations There is good
reason to believe that the clean newspaper is
more highly priced to-day than it was four
or five years since.-BoSton Journal.
AN official dispatch from Colonel Schweit-
ger, at Ringold barracks, near Brownsville,
states that General Escobedo was captured
July Goth, near Cutaro Genegns in the state
of Coahuila. He was sick at the time and
concealed at hacienda, the owner of which
was threatened with death unless he revealed
Escobedo's hiding place; and Escobedo to
save the man surrendered himself.
KANSAS has been well advertised and is
now reaping the benefits that always follow
udicious advertising The land sales of
The state of Kansas from January to MAY
amounted to nearly $4,000 000-nearly ten
times as much as for the corresponding pc.
Rod of 1877. The Kansas journals estimate
that, in addition to the amount derived from
land sales, the immigrants took into the
state fully s25,000,0O0.
PRESIDENT HAYES, the Governor of Ohio
wrote to Senator Sherman at New Orleans
A fair election would have given us about
forty electoral votes at the South-at least
that many. But we are not to allow our
friends to defeat one outrage and fraud by
another There must be nothing crooked
on our part. Let Mr. Tilden have the place
by violence, intimidation and fraud. rather
than undertake to prevent it by means that
will not bear the severest scrutiny"
The way the army bill works is shown by
affairs on the plains. Recently detach
ment of troops, detailed to pursue certain
raiders, were obliged to return, on finding
that they were white men aud not Indians
Under the astute legislation of the last Con
| gress the soldiers cannot be used as a posse
comitaius, and the most they can do in such
4 case as the above is to watch the move
ments of the raiders and report Meanwhile
Of course, the raiding goes on unchecked.