Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-16
Notes and Notions.

cry. Gramercy park did 1t with Its little
cipher dispatch hatchet.-Republican.
DURING Conkliugs speech at Ithaca,
voice asked, allow is Rutherford B. Hayes2"
Mr.. Conkling answered, Oh, l am not his
keeper"
w. T. THoRNE, who was in 1874 ex-
PEELED from the North Carolina Legislature
for denying the existence of a God, is now a
candidate for Congress.
THE granite eagle overthe main entrance
to the New York post Office is the handiwork
of Mr.. Thomas II. Murch, who lately de-
feated Mr.. Hale for Congress.
ALBUMS NANCE, the Republican nominee
for Governor of Nebraska, is the first native
of Greece who was ever nominated for so
high an Office in this country.
The study of politics is to be introduced
into the Providence, R. l., high school by
compulsory extemporaneous debates once
week on subjects of state and national gov
eminent.
BLAINE went to Iowa and made four
speeches; the Republicans lost two Con-
gressmen. Schurz went to Cincinnati and
made one speech the Republicans gained
both the city districts.
THE news from the yellow fever districts
is still gloomy and discouraging. In Louisi-
ana the country districts as well as the city
are suffering severely and no changes for the
better are reported at the other infected
districts.
THE greenbackers did great deal of
blowing out in Colorado, but they came out
of the little end of the horn when the votes
were counted They could only muster
one thousand out of total of thirty-fve
thousand.
IT seems that Blackstone is the name of
Tilden's horse which he rides in Central
park, and Marbles parting and angry taunt
to saddle Blackstone" referred to the fact
that the rider would have plenty of time for
recreation.
DURING the past years the Presbyterians of
New York city have subscribed the magnif-
cent sum of more than four hundred thou
sand dollars toward the liquidation of their
church indebtedness. This is good ex.
ample for the other denominations.
THE Missouri Republicans place them
selves on a hard-money platform, and de-
clare their indebtedness tor the promised
return to better times to the " firmness,
honesty and purity of the present admins
tration of the national government"
NEVER before was known such a multi.
plicity Of Congressional candidates as the
present CANVASS has developed. There are
two hundred and ninety-three representa-
tive districts in the country, and over eight
hundred candidates have been put in the
field.
DR.. O'DoNNELL loaded wagon with
Chinese lepers, in San Francisco, and exhib-
tied them in the streets as proof of his
previous assertions that the leprosy was
common in that city. He was arrested, but
justice discharged him. He declared that
he could fill the court room with lepers in
two hours.
ELECTIONS were held in one hundred and
sixty-four towns in Connecticut. The Cor.
ant has official returns from one hundred
and thirty-six, classified politically as fol-
lows Republican, forty-seven; democratic,
forty-four; divided twenty-five. The green
back votes in the state will approximate five
thousand.
IT is stated and it is likely enough, that
Turkey says she cannot carry out the re-
forms England demands, unless England
will pay for them by advancing thirty mil.
lions of dollars on the revenue of Cyprus
This propping up of Turkey has cost Eng
land a frightfully long bill, and bids fair to
cost much more.
NIsFoRTUNEs never come singly. The
same day that the Tribune printed those
cipher dispatches the new<democratic state
committee of New York met and elected
Editor William Purcell of the Rochester
Union and Advertiser, an anti-Tilden man,
as chairman by vote of seventeen to four
teen.-Sprinafeid Republican.
GENERAL SHERMAN says that the only way
the Indians will reach civilization is through
their own efforts. All external efforts, by
means of agents and missionaries, seem
wasted. The prospect of civilizing them is
no tvery encouraging Some few remnants
of tribes may get to scratching the grounda
little in years to come, but warriors will pre-
fer to die, rather than work in the oorn-feld
WHEN Mr.. Thurman read of the perform
ance in Marquette, where Tilden's lawyers
stole the books of his mining company to
keep the truth about that income tax bust