Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
Notes and Notions.



democratic party.
AFTER a short and fitfu fever Of life, the
greenback party will sleep well.
lT was not necessary for Butler now to prom
Use to keep quiet-dead men always do that.
THAT tidal wave of blood which Kearney
foretold in case Butter was not elected,
hasn't started out Oh its holy mission yet.
IT marks some progress in Louisiana when
the white democrats are willing to make
fusion tickets aud put black men on them
for share of the offices.
RosooE CoNKLING's compliments to James
G. Blaine and would be like little assist
ance from New York to carry his own
state 2-Sprinqfeid Republican.
WASHINGTON Republicans are greatly
elated over the victory, and think it will ex-
ert powerful influence for good over the
members of the present Congress.
WONDER if the South Carolina democrats
don't feel little ashamed, after all, at get
ting Legislature of over one hundred and
fifty members with only three Republicans
in it ?
The county of Decatur, Indiana, has
elected young blind man, Mr.. John @.
Donnell, to the state legislature. He re-
ceved the unanimous support of the Re-
pubicans.
THE cipher sensation is exploded. Mr..
Marble was in Florida paying Mr.. Tilden's
income tax, and the money mentioned in the
dispatches was to be devoted to that object.
Chicago Times (Giem).
New York will have good deal to do
with making the next President, and New
York is Republican. Will it be Senator
Roscoe Conklng, or will he name the man ?
indianapolis Journal.
Mr. Edison is so far recovered from his
illness that he is again hard at work, look
ing sadly pale, thin and worn. He is in
defatigably industrious, and can tire out the
sturdiest of his workmen, who are also very
busy at present.
THE alabama plan " is simpler than
the South Carolina PLAN" but just as eff.
fective. They allow the colored Republ-
cans to vote, but refuse to let them super
wise the counting. You vote and we'll
count" is the way they put it.
EX-GovERNoR STEARNs, of Florida, de-
clares that the cipher kilograms bear every
evidence of being genuine and of being cor
la taI H.. . k., "a -.
the current of events, as he remembers them,
exactly, and in fact they explain many things
which he did not before understand.
THE Freedmen's All Society held its
tenth anniversary Monday night, the fourth
instant. Its financial condition is very ia
vorable. Bishop IIazen, of Georgia, made
a speech stating that if the troops had not
been removed from the South the colored
men would have deposited a million ballots
for the Union.
OK Sunday last snow fell over nearly the
entire area of Austria, and was very heavy
at Vienna. Railroad and telegraph COM
munications have been seriously interrupted
10y the blocking of the lines and the prostra-
ton OF telegraph poles. Much damage was
caused in the capital by the snow, which
fell to depth of several feet.
One of the best campaign caricatures this
year is published in Boston. 1t represents
Butler as a stabeman, endeavoring to catch
the colt, Labor" In the left hand is a
wooden measure filled with promises"
"blarney" and "chaff." The bride is held
concealed behind his back, and Kearney, in
the form of a small bulldog, stands between
the stableman's heavily-booted feet. Under
the picture are Hosea Bigelow's lines:
"Tain't KNOWN kind of cattle
That is ketched with moldy corn"
Mr.. MOODY is laboring at Baltimore.
Chief among the evils in the churches, he
said in sermon last week, are church
choirs-ungodly men and women who hap
pen TO have good voices, and often drunken
organists Mr.. Moody denounced the methods
employed in raising money by church fairs.
Lotteries, voting and rafiles were encouraged.
The young men now, instead of going to
low gambling den, could go to Gods church
and gamble. Actually at one church fair
the sum of twenty-five cents was charged for
the privilege of kissing the handsomest
young woman in the church-presumably to
help the work of God.
A CORRESPONDENT of Cincinnati paper
tells good story at the expense of Rev. ID.
r. Mitchell, candidate for governor on the
greenback ticket in Kansas. Not long ago
he was making a political speech of the first
order when he advocated an exclusive paper
currency, and derided gold and silver as
"twin relics of barbarism." A few nights
after he was preaching at camp-meeting,
and described the Celestial City as set forth
in Revelation-its gates OF silver and pre-
cious stones and streets paved with gold
when an unregenerated darkey shouted out !;
Stop dar, Brudder Mitchell No gold and
silver in dat place deys twin relics of bar
barism ~
THE people of the Southern States should
remember that, if they wish to retain the
sympathy and friendship of the people of
the North who have commended for the APP
plication to them of the broadest doctrine
of state rights, everything like force and in
timidation in the securing of votes for any
one party must be discountenanced and put
down. Should the Southern people go too
far in these efforts to create solid South"
the rule of which shall all be in single
party-a white mans government-where
Republicans and black men shall be ostra-
cized or their rights infringed, the Northern
sentiment will not sustain them. Summary
measures will be again demanded by pow.
erful combination of parties or of states, in
opposition to which " solid South would
contend in vain.-Bosi0n Herald.
SERVED HIM RIGHT.-An uncommonly
daring blackmailer has come to grief in
Boston. He sent letter to Mr.. n. p, Good
now, well known dealer, threatening death
unless Mr., Goodnow should meet him in the
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