Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-09
Notes and Notions.

work easier. "Next spring" he said, al
shall go out in the morning, stick placard
J bearing the words, This is a days work.
on the fence, and then fold my hands"
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND says in his
queer way, al do not believe man in sight
will be the next President of the United
States. believe il will be some wildwood
David, lost on Jessie's farm, without per
fume on his dry hair until Amounted to be
king. The cry of the travelling creation is
for something fresh.'
The Nebraska democrats followed the ex-
ample of their party in Massachusetts and
New York and had an excited and heated
convention. The soft money men carried
the day on the resolutions and succeeded in
nominating their candidates, who are al
ready on the greenback ticket. This would
doubtless wipe out the democratic party in
Nebraska.
The Middlebury Register complains that
addison county is not represented among
the officers and assistants appointed at the
Capitol. This is rather slight upon the
strongest Republican county in the state"
The Register is mistaken. Addison county
has several representatives among the state
officers and assistants, and the Register has
probably discovered its mistake ere this.
An idea of the desolation which prevails
in the afflicted city of Memphis may be
formed from the fact that out of popula-
ton OF sixty thousand only about twenty
five hundred whites and six thousand blacks
less than one-sixth of the whoe-remain
within the city limits; and yet out of this
small number of people hundred have
been dying daily. This gives an appalling
death rate of over one per cent. day,
which, if applied in New York, would pro.
duce ten thousand deaths day.
HOWEVER earnestly may have besought
you to be faithful to your native land and
to estimate at its proper value your birth
right as Englishmen, it is with almost equal
persistence that | would exhort you to cul-
tivate the most friendly and cordial relations
with the great American people. A nober
nation people more generous or more hos
pitable, does not exist. To have learned to
understand and appreciate them | esteem as
not the least Of the many advantages | have
gained by coming to Canada.-Lord Duferin
at Toronto.
The reasons for the removal of Collector
Arthur from the custom house at New York
are already stated in the official report of
the examining commission, just now made |
public. 1t is therein clearly shown that the
government has been defrauded out of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars by reason of |
the inefficient and dishonest administration |
of the office. If the report had been given |
to the public when the removal was made
the administration would have escaped a |
good deal of undeserved censure. It is prob |
able that Senator Conkling will now con- |
sent to new appointment.
President Lincoln possessed immense
muscular strength, of which General Viee |
gives this instance: One morning, on board |
ship, he saw an axe in socket on the |
bulwarks, and, taking it up, held it at arms |
length at the extremity of the heve with |
his thumb and forefnger, continuing to hold |
it there for a number of minutes. The |
most powerful sailors on board tried in vain
to initiate him. Judge SWEET, of Chicago,
who was an intimate friend of Mr. Lincoln, |
says that he has seen him dash into a crowd |
where two powerful men were fighting, and |
taking each by the collar, hold them out at |
arms length in the most helpless aud ridicu-
lous position.
SEE plainly before us, gentlemen strug- |
gle worthy of the Republican party. see
on one hand the simple, honest faith of Re-
publicans, of Americans, of honest men
and see opposed to it motley hoot setiI-
cred from every quarter moved by thou
sand springs, preaching the oldest, the most
disorganizing theories-theories that lay the |
axe at the very foundations of human society |
| see all those theories, all those tendencies |
of that mad mob, from the highest and those
who mean most honestly down to the lowest |
and those who mean an absolute and violent |
reconstruction of society," budding this mo-
ment under the mingled banner of the green
back and the democratic party.-Georg
William Curtis.
The State of Kansas estimates her popu-
lation at seven hundred and fifty thou
sand. quarter of a century ago there
was no such community as Kansas. Then
came the territory, and with it the his
toric struggle of the Kansas and Nebraska
bill, for the proposition was to admit both
at once. Pending this contest, in which
Douglas, then in the Senate, appeared as the
compromise champion, the most shameful
outrages were perpetrated upon the settlers
from the free states, buildings being burned
and ballot-boYes stuffed and seized by mobs,
made up of border-rutians raiders from Mis-.
souri, and other slave states. These acts of
violence had their apologists in both branches
of Congress. 1t was in this contest that
Senator Summers great speech which pro-
voked the assault of Brooks was made oc.
cupying the debating time of two days.
The struggle for freedom in Kansas would
for the time have been defeated, but for the
infusion of New England blood, in its early
settlement. Emigrant aid societies organ.
lied in Massachusetts, and the appeals of
free press aided nightly in the grand result.
WISE WoRDs.-ln recent talk with the
boatmen at Alexandria Bay, on the st. Law
renee liver, DR.. Holland, the author said
I" | neither drink wine nor give it to my
guest. Strong drink is the curse of the
country and the age. Sixty thousand men