Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-06
Notes and Notions.

entities MIN W place IN tne treasury Lee
partment, but Secretary Sherman can't see it,
The Emperor of Japan has given, through
Neapolitan artist to execute portrait of
President Hayes.
SENATOR HoAR's definition Of the fat
dollar is "A thing which it is no gain to
get, no loss to lose, and which even a China
man will not touch"
The President has signed the commission
of Halbert E. Paine, of Wisconsin, to be
commissioner OF patents, vice Ellis Spear, re-
signed, and he enters upon his duties at once.
NEW WORKERS are already talking about
an international exhibition in that city in
1880, the centennial of the establishment of
constitutional government in the United
States.
Tue Memphis (Tenn.) Apaidnche has re-
turned to its full size, after having pluckily
weathered the yellow fever though dwarfed
to half sheet of yellow fever news by the
extremity of the epidemic.
The recent course of events in the South
demonstrates beyond question the existence
of a settled purpose among the Southern
people to secure a solid democratic repre-
sentation in Congress, and to WELD the tire.
mendous power thus gained in furtherance
| of schemes for their local material and po-
litical ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
LORD BEAcoNsFiELD was attacked by an
| epileptic fit after the last meeting of the
cabinet. lie was compelled to remain for
several hours in watiug.room before it was
considered safe to transfer him to his car
riage. A bulletin Tuesday announced that
he was better, aud cabinet meeting was
called in consequence of his illness.
IT is to be hoped, for the benefit alike of
insurers and insured, that every attempt at
reduction of premiums upon life policies
may succeed. Nine-tenths of the people
who should insure their lives regard exist
ing rates as prohibitory, and of the remain
ing tenth the thousands of policies that
lapse every year tell similar story.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has rendered
decision of interest to all dwellers in cities,
that city cannot by ordinance compel a
citizen to remove snow from sidewalk in
front of his premises, any more than to re-
move distractions from the middle of the
street. the interest that he has therein being
only the interest common to all citizens.
THE Financial Chronicle of New Yorl,
prints the market price of the bank stocks
of about twenty different cities. 1t lists
three hundred and twenty banks. Of these
only ninety-six are quoted above par. With
so shrunk that the shareholders cannot get
back even the money they put in. Aud
these are the bloated monopolies."
THE Idaho legislature four years ago Of
fered bounty of two cents pair for rabbit
ears, in view of the fact that the count y
was overrun with these animals. The result
i'll one county is shown by the huge sacksfu
of rabbit ears, representing nineteen thou
sand nine hundred aud sxty-eight rabbits
which now lie in the office of the county
commissioners, who are at loss how to
dispose of them.
| THE men who are sowing the wind il
South Carolina will yet reap the whirlwind
The law abiding portion of the Union will
not endure everything. Already the out
RACES upon the political rights of the ma
jority in that state have aroused an indigna
ton which will tell against the democratic
party at the coming election, and will tel
with still greater force at future elections
-Providence Journal
THOMAS ID. MEssLER, assistant presiden
of the Fort Wayne railroad three years prio
to 1869, testified in the income suit agains
Samuel j. Tilden, at Pittsburg, Penn, re
Gently, that during that time Tilden received
dividends from his investment in the Law
renee branch $4,000, and in addition $500
year from each of the mortgages for ACTIN
as trustee. Messler also testified to the gen
uiueness of Tilden's signature to receil
for $4,000.
THE brain-pan will always beat the muscl
in the struggle; the dominant mind in Louis
lana has naturally won. This, however, i
not to be deplored if the two races shal
unite in wholesome industrial partnership
was 10th after my expenditure of effort il
1876 to see Packard constrained to retire
but have ceased to deplore it; the sui
stantial result had to come soon at best, eve
if by different method. Marshal Phi
Kin Of Louisiana.
Mr.. MOODY has begun his Baltimore NEE
ings, which are being held in the Noun
Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal church
an edifce capable of holding TWENTY-FIVE
hundred aud fly people, with standing an
sitting room all occupied. Arrangement
have been made for afternoon and evenin
meetings, and it looks like regular eau
paign, as a choir of one hundred singers hs
been organized aud there is talk of gettin
Sankey back from England to help his oil
yoke-telow.
( TIE annual report of the COMMISSIONS
4 of Pensions shows that the aggregate sa,
= ing in the pension bureau for the last yei
in reduced payments for salaries and redu
| ton in the number of agencies was SiS2
3 l72; adding slS0,050 for 1877, the aggr
/ gate saving for the two years in these item
r alone has been 1862 .222. On the 3Oth
( June, 1878, there were two hundred twent
4 three thousand nine hundred and ninet
e eight pensioners on the rolls, reduction
$ two thousand six hundred and forty-fve du
It ing the year.
: The Springfield Republican, speaking
the late discussion of the woman suffral
business by our Legislature, observes tn
'the reform moves slowly in Vermont, b
u the debate showed that more men in h
Green Mountain state are yearly gettil
L their eyes open to the absurdity of the o
q theory that woman /, consttutionally un
l. for the ballot" Perhaps those members
u the fair sex who were disappointed by Il
q result of the aforesaid discussion can fl
~ some consolation in what the Republic
'e says as to their future prospects.
" IuAvE been recently good deal in Broo
y, Ign. The Tilton and Beecher scandal
over by general consent. 1t wrought.inju
~ in character aud pocket to every pers