Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-04
Notes and Notions.

is no permanent relief until frost comes.
There is, therefore, fair prospect that 1t
will be rampant for six weeks yet.
DON PEDRO visited the Mississippi jetties
of Captain Eads while he was in the United
States and now sends him pressing invita-
ton TO come to Brazil aud remove the OBJ
sructions from its navigable rivers.
The greenback papers have a very ephem.
eral existence. A Chicago correspondent Of
the Troy Times says that about forty papers
have recently started and died as greenback
papers in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan.
These papers attain sudden and largely
gratuitous circulation and then collapse.
statement made by the Treasury De-
partment shows that the amount of standard
silver dollars coined up to the 10th of August
was sll ,472 800; amount on hand, Sl0,079,-
iS7. 1t thus appears that Sl,3S3,0l3 has
been placed in the channels of circulation.
The demand for the dollars is slowly but
steadily on the increase
ACKNOWLEDGMENT DEvENs has adj
dressed note to the acting Secretary of
the Treasury, giving his decision that the
tax upon capital employed in the business
of banking beyond the average amount in
We ted in United States bonds, should be
reckoned on the par value Of such stock, and
not upon its market value
"YEs," says she, after protracted meet
ing, " | am done with the pomps and vanities
of this world, and going right home to give
my best bonnet to my sister" This is how
Gen. Butler feels about those dreadful United
States bonds. He won't have anything to
do with em, but has invested few thou
sands for volunteer soldiers.
IT is encouraging to be told that, in spite
of the general ruin wrought to Republican
ism in the South by carpet-bag knaveries
the Republicans of North Carolina are
strong enough in the Legislature to hold the
balance of power between the two factions
of the Democratic party. We only hope
they will exercise their power honorably
and wisely.
IT was decreed by the Berlin Congress
Austria as her share of Turkey. These
provinces, however, don't care for Austrias
paternal care, and are bound they won't have
it. Hence the fighting that is now going on
in that quarter. The Austrian army of oc-
cupation is being resisted at every step by
insurgent bands who fight with unwecome
audacity.
Mr.. Edison has carried off the govern
ment prize for inventions at the French Ex-
position. The carbon telephone, the quadru-
pick telegraph instrument, the photograph
him the award of the grand prize. 1t is a
matter of pride to every citizen of the United
States that this honor has been won by Mr..
Edison, who has well earned the distinction
thus acquired.
The d" on.eyed lepers of San Fran
CISCO as Kearney calls them, are reported
as numbering thirty-two thousand. Seven
thousand of these Chinese are servants, and
five thousand cigar makers. Only two
thousand of the thirty-two belong to the
other sex. Kearney and his party in Cali
fornia have undertaken something of a job
To deport thirty thousand males from single
California city.
The immense movement of the grain of
the West to the Eastern market, will in a
very short time be the means of putting into
general circulation lot of the locked up
capital belonging to the bloated bondholders.
rhe thousands of dollars that the honest
workingmen of the country will receive as
the result of their labors will furnish the
b st kind of arguments against the windy
doctrine of the stamped nothing" party.
The latest thing in the way of political
| argument is a section of artillery sent from
Memphis to Arkansas, to be used in the
ate of Tennessee and the borrowers have
oppressed their determination to carry the
| lection, no matter what odds may be
| rainst them A good deal has been said
pt lHe - sHOl-Bun dibuineHti duu us tlect
"a elections, but the use of artillery has not
| hitherto been reported, and the result of the
rial of the new persuader will be awaited
| with considerable iuterest.-St. Paul Press.
The silver conference has dissolved with.
| out any visible result. No measures were
| adopted, and the conference was hardly dis.
,sed to do more than hear what tn Amer.
cans had to say. The conference marks the
| inst protest, however, against the now dom.
| itant sway of monometallsm, and affords
he first international recognition of the
'eril of the demonstration of silver, the
ointment against further decentralization
| ing, we are told, overwhelming" 1t will
| lldoubtedly furnish the impulse to new
forces and movements in opposition to that
llicy. The magnitude of the problem will
% more generally recognized, discussion
AID instruction will go further We shall
hlve to conclude that we can get along
,ithout silver entirely, and be prepared to
zee permanent and perhaps constant de-
inc, unless some change is brought about
natural or political causes.
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