Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-28
Notes and Notions.

CAN these be very hard times-can coun- |
try be very hard up"-which consumes
fifty million gallons of whiskey, ten million
barrels of beer, and two thousand million
cigars in single year?
The Springfield Republican calls attention
to its statement, that the South has not for
twenty years been so tranquil as since Mr..
Hayes Inauguration, and it thinks the future
historian will regard the fact with wonder,
IT would not be strange if the democratic
frauds in Missouri, by which the treasury
ha, been made bankrupt, should result in
bringing the state under Republican control.
At any rate, it is to hoped the Republicans
will elect their full share of Congressman.
The agricultural machinery of the United
States has taken eight of the eleven prizes
for exceptional merit, at the Paris EXPOSE
ton, and the agricultural exhibit has re-
ceived the diploma of honor To the educa-
tional exhibit of this country the gold medal
has been awarded.
An enthusiastic greenbacker of Stark
county, Ohio, while waiting for supper at a
wayside inn, dwelt upon the advantages of
paper money, and was much surprised on
entering the dining to find upon his
table only table cloth, napkin and plate
| in which was a card, "This is Supper"
The Howard Association, which is doing
such noble work in the South, is not as some
suppose recent organization got up to deal
with the existing emergency. 1t was Or
ganized a quarter of century ago, and has
done an incaculable amount of good in the
past. Its nurses and members are now do
ing subimely heroic work.
BISMARCK has plainly intimated to the
| Porte that the conditions of the treaty of
Berlin must be adhered to and complied
with, or he shall try to ascertain the reason
why, which is kindly reminder OF the
terms of the bargain, and of the necessity
which compels the Sultan to abide by them,
and which it will be all the better for him
| TO do if he would save for himself the very
little that is left OF his territory in Europe.
SPAIN appears to be in earnest in trying
|
peace was proclaimed. Her actions towards
the island are marked by spirit OF liberal
ty that was hardly expected from that
country, and show that counsels in accor'
lance with the spirit of the age prevail at
Madrid. The last act raising the state of
siege, declared in 1874, which restores the
oca civil magistrates to power, is long
tep in the right direction
A NEW secret society known as the
knights of. Labor" comprising over $780,
100 members, with newspaper organ, aud
ocal organizations scattered all over the
country, has been discovered to have an ex-
md support impecunious strikers Charles
IL. Litchman, of Marblehead, Mass, who
vas an attentive follower OF Kearney during
mis- absurd eastern splurge, is the Grand
Secretary of the organization.
CONGRESSMAN Foster, the next friend to
President Hayes, made speech in Spring
ied, Ohio, Saturday night, in which he ia
vored specie resumption, and said the Pres
lent's motives were right, but his policy wa
, failure, and its character questionable
Foster said that the Presidents policy has
lost him the sympathy of the great mass Of
mis- party. The President had conscien
1 tiously done his duty, as he saw it, and ne
matter whether conventions Endorsed him Of
, not. No man will rejoice more than he owe
Republican success, north or south.