Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-02-06
Editorial Notes.
Mr.. BRrsTow declines the proffeped New
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NIT DhISIoW ueClllleS bne pTOheftu NeW
York dinner.
MIR. CoNKLINGs continued silence on the
silver question attracts growing attention
and suspicion.
THE Wood tariff bill reduces the present
duty on cotton goods about forty per cent.
New York merchants are not pleased with IT,.
From the Boston Journal. "About every
democrat in Congress, outside Of a score
from the East, appears to be intent upon in
juring the public credit in some way"
JUDGE CLIFFORD has so far conquered his
repugnance to recognizing the result of the
sided, that he consented to be one of the
guests at the Presidents state dinner Tues.
day evening.
Mr.. NoRDHoFr telegraphs from Wash
ington; "All rumors that the President will
not veto the Bland bill If IL should be sent
to him are false. 1t is the belief in admin
istration circles that the Bland bill will pass,
will be vetoed, and will not be passed over
the veto"
UNITED STATES bonds fell in London and
New York from three-fourths TO one per
cent. in single day after the passage OF the
Matthews resolution. As these bonds amount
to one billion seven hundred million dollars,
this fall would be equal to seventeen million
dollars at the rate of one per cent. on all.
GENERAL BANKS says that he was recently
told by AN officer of a leading insurance COM
pany that there has been of late wonderful
increase of very destructive fires, and he
added: sour companies do not care to
thoroughly investigate the cause, but it is a
fact that the warehouses and establishments
of solvent firms are seldom destroyed by fire."
In response to petition from a religious
society against the silver bill Ben Butler had
the Scriptures read from the Speakers desk
denouncing the money-changers in the TEN.
pie. Nobody on the other side seems to have
thought it worth while TO have also read
from the desk the passage in jeremiah which
tells how the bowls, and the caldrons, and the
candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups"
the "captain of the guard" took away.
SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, wrote to a
hard money and resumption meeting held at
Atlanta on Monday night of last week al
have no desire or ambition but to serve the
position to the best of my abilities but no
amount of clamor, abuse or Islander. foreign
or domestic, from either thoughtless or de-
signing people, can drive me one inch from
the discharge of what know is my duty"
THE silver measure is popular now be-
cause it sounds like cheating the bond
not. 1t will end in cheating ourselves, and
they who are most forward in this debase-
ment of money and public faith now will be
the loudest to cry for the undoing of their
work. after it shall have inflicted great dam
age on every interest in the country, and
added greatly to the burden of public and
private debt Cincinnati Gazette.
THE new King of Italy, Humbert l., it is
said, is no lover of France. His only son
and heir, the Prince of Naples, was taught
from his cradle to speak English and Ger
man. This royal sou is now eight years old
and does not yet know word of French
The new Queen Margaret was brought up
to love an Notwithstanding lady, Mrs. G. p
Marsh, wife of the United States Minister
to Italy. "Carrie," Mrs. Marshs niece,
was her playmate in childhood and her
friend in girlhood.
The special insurance commission in Con.
necticut has completed its work, which
seems to have been done pretty thoroughly
and reports that the Etna, Connecticut Mu-
tual, Connecticut General, Hartford Life
aud Annuity, Phoenix and Travellers COM
panies are not only solvent, but financially
sound, and under the management of officers
and directors of large experience sound
Judgment aud unhlenished character--in
short, " entitled to the entire confidence of
policy-holders and the public"
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL KEY has written
letter in which he reviews the political and
social changes produced by the war, in which
he says 81 believe we have reached that
condition and that state of public opinion
in the South where that people, including
both races, can be implicitly trusted with
the Just, peaceful and orderly government of
their own affairs. | firmly believe that no
portion of our population will be more, or
even so much, benefited by the Presidents
Southern policy as the colored people"