Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-30


The announcement is unofIicially made
that President Hayes will fix upon Novem-
Der 2S as the day for National Thanksgiving.
IT seems TO be generally conceded that
the T'ribune's cipher exposure was the best
piece Of journalistic work ever done in the
course of American politics.
n is even limited in Washington that the
democratic national committee will take
an early opportunity to cast oil and disown
Samuel j. Tilden and all his belongings.
CHAIRMAN POTTER has always acted as
though he felt disguised with the investiga-
ton business, and is said to have made the
remark that he felt all along as if he "was
treading on rotten eggs"
The North desires to have the bloody
shirt" buried But it cannot be done il
South Carolina and Mississippi and other
states insist upon blocking the way to the
cemetery. Boston Aduertiser.
The campaign in Massachusetts is max
ing sad havoc of Buffers chances. Every
the signs fail he will be beaten most glori-
ously on the 9th of November.
THIS is the whole story of the democratic
gerrymander in Ohio: Nine Republican
Congressman received 30,79l majority;
eleven democratic Congressman received
1890 majority. Net Republican gain by
democratic rascality, ll,0ll.
By the late trouble in Louisiana seven
colored men lost their lives. 1t is the same
old story. The Republicans are ten times
as numerous as the democrats, but they have
been warned not to organize or they would
see trouble. No white men were killed.
Edison is a smart fellow, but there is one
thing he never has invented and never will
and that is way for man to work him
self to death and keep alive at one and the
same tine. The result is that the great in
ventor is now seriously ill.-RepuJiican.
The New York Sun, the fercest fraud
shrieker" in the country, admits the Re-
publicans will elect seventy-fve of the one
hundred and twenty-eight members of the
New York Assembly this year. The signs
of the time have become manifest even to
Charles A. Dana.--Ihdcd Journal.
LARGE party of Chicago merchants has
been organized to visit Mexico, and plans
for trade with South America are under
consideration. 1t is now announced that
there is talk of a steamship line to England,
to run from Montreal in summer and Port.
land in winter, TO carry grain and cattle.
The Bellows Falls Times is rather in.
clined to find fault with the Senate for the
promptness with which it put quietus on
the bill to reduce the number of Judges 1t
has hopes that the Senate will yet make up
for this action somewhere during the ses-
sion, but it certainly looks as if the first
score was against the people,"
Two young ladies in Wrentham, Mass,
Miss Lizzie j. Halves and Miss Mary B.
George, have shown their devotion to Repub-
lican principles by riding over the town and
leaving with every family therein copies OF
Schurz's speech, Endicott's letters, Gar
fields speech, and other campaign docu.
ments. We shall look for large Republi-
can gain 10 Wrentham.
THE announcement of Sir Stafford North
cote that war may yet arise in connection
with the eastern question is invested with
much gravity, whether it is based on dis
trust of Russia or is intended as political
stratagem. In either case the declaration
betokens the return of that state of suspense
and alarm which is little better than ac-
tual war.
EVEN jeff Davis is overcome by the
Northern contributions for the yellow fevel
sufferers, and writes a New York friend :"The
noble generosity OF the Northern people in
this day of our extreme aifliction has been
felt with deep gratitude and has done NOR
for the determination of which many idly
pirate than would many volumes of rhetori-
cal assurance"
HERE is a capital hit at the anti-resump-
tionists from Gen. Hawley's recent speech at
| Hartford al once read of man who
started to walk around pond. He got three
fourths Of the way, and looking at his watch,
thought it so near dinner time that he could
not finish his walk in season, so he hurried
back the way he came. If he is living he
will be found advocating the repeal of the
resumption act"
lT appears that Tilden lost the Presidency
| ha of, fn.i t,.,io
Every time his agents closed bargain with
the returning board in one Southern state he
insisted upon waiting to hear from negotia-
tions in some other before sending the money.
Quite like frugal rural dame cheapeniug
calico in half dozen stores and finally los.
ing her bargain because she can't decide
which is the most economical. Paul
Pioneer Press.
II is now officially known that the
awards to American exhibitors at the French
Exhibition number seven hundred and fifty,
namely; Ten grand prizes, thirty diplomas
of honor, one hundred and thirty-four gold
medals, two hundred silver medals, two
hundred and twenty bronze medals aud one
hundred and ffty-six honorable mentions,
The aggregate is larger in proportion to the
number of exhibitors than any other nation
represented at this exhibition gets.
SENATOR MITCHELL, of Oregon, was in-
terviewed Wednesday last in relation TO the
cipher dispatches. He says they were Or
dered to be boxed and shipped to heWestern
Union Telegraph Company How they came
into the possession of the Tribune is mys-
terry TO him. The Senator also says that if
the Senate had sustained him in compelling
Tiden 70 produce mis- bank account, he could
have shown that the latter paid out between
sl,0O0,00O and 100000 for campaign
purposes.
THREE months ago the Republican party
believed itself doomed to defeat to-day its
shrewdest chiefs believe victory in their
grasp the best proof of which is that they
no longer talk of General Grant as their can.
didate in 1880. To great extent the folly
of the democrats in surrendering so generally
to the imitation craze is the cause of this
change; to which, however, must be added
the recent brutal interference with the Re-
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