Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-25
Notes and Notions.


SENATOR LAMAR has introduced bill ap-
propriating s2sOOOO as perpetual fund for
the education of the blind.
CoNKLING is represented as saying that
the people in every section seem determined
to have Grant in 1880, and is rejoiced at it.
Mr.. BLAINE has never made speech
which has been in fuller sympathy with
popular sentiment at the North.-Hdrtford
Courdnt.
SENATOR BLAINE is said 10 be busy col
hcting newspaper evidence and letters from
the South to facilitate the work of his in
vestigating committee.
New ORLEANS having recovered from the
yellow fever is now to be subjected to the
Potter committee. Relief subscriptions are
therefore again in order.-NeD York World.
SOME democrats in Congress now say, in
order to avoid inquiry into the cipher dis
patches, that Tilden is private person, and
Congress has therefore no right to look into
his affairs.
BUSINESS men in various parts OF the
country are urging their Congressman to
People find sending silver through the mails
a great nuisance.
THE latest indications from Wisconsin
are that Hon. +. Reyes has the inside track
for the United States Senatorship. The
county papers in seventeen counties declare
for him. and Senator Howe's friends declare
that he is their second choice.
Ex.GovERNoR STEARNs of Florida gives
an encouraging account of the political and
social condition of that state. He says that
ninety-fve per cent. of the negro population
is intensely Republican, and that mmigra-
ton is beginning TO set in steadily.
THEY are beginning to suspect at Wash
where, that the clamor for making trade dol
lars legal tender comes from spectators
who want to get one hundred cents for a
coin whose bullion value is only eighty-ive
cents.
THERE is more fighting in the British
Parliament over the Afghan affair than
there is at the seat of war Northumberland
ing the desperate onslaughts of the Liber-
ais the present outlook is that the govern
ment will be sustained and Beaconsfeld
continue to rule Britannia.
OK Friday last was concluded the long
trial of the case against General Sheridan,
sued for the value of property on Louisi-
ana plantation, of which it was claimed he
had by military force wrongfully deprived
the rightful possessor and the jury gave
verdict in favor of the General.
THE electric light is used with splendid
effect in the Paris Hippodrome. A room
occupied by ten thousand people is finely
lighted up by only five burners. At this
rate gas will soon be obliged to hide its di-
minished head. 1t would take but few
burners to illumine whole city.
THE country will be greatly relieved to
learn that the committee on ways and means
has decided not to tinker with the tariff this
session. Manufacturers aud merchants can
now go on making arrangements for the fu-
ture, without fear of the marring interior
ence of the alleged statesmen of the lower
house.
GENERAL GRANT is going to Ireland just
previous to his departure for India. The
New York Herald says, " 1t is to be hoped
that he will be allowed an opportunity to
kiss the blarney stone for lack of blarney
was at the bottom of many of the complaints
that were made against him while he was
President"
A CALL has been issued by the members
of the executive committee of the national
of the representatives of the party at Boston,
on January I'd, for the purpose of perfecting
plans for a systematic organization of the
party, etc. General Butler has signified his
intention of being present.
Mr.. BLAINE speaks with the warmth of
conviction and with a vivid perception OF
the bearing of his subject upon the rights
and interests of the American people. lie
wastes no words, INDUCES in no florid rhet.
oric, but with wealth of facts and illustra
tions shows how the pretensions set up by
the Southern democracy imperil the just in
huence of other states in the making OF
laws and the administration of government
-New York Times.
JUDGE HILToN's trouble with regard to
the closing of the Woman's Hotel does mol
seem to be over. At meeting last Thurs
day of the New York Woman's Suffrage
Society, the report of the committee ap
pointed last June to investigate the facts OF
the case, was presented, and discussion
ensued upon the question of legal means OF
redress against Judge Hilton. A public
meeting for the consideration of the subject
is to be held some time during the present
month
ROBERT STEPHENSON, of New York, day
or two ago begged to be excused from serv
ing as a juror, because, being member O.
the Reformed Presbyterian Church, he coulC
not, by its tenets conscientiously act as al
executive officer of government whose con
stitution "did not acknowledge God as tn
authority of national existence, and the source
of all civil power and authority, Christ a
the ruler of nations, and the Bible as tn
foundation of law and the supreme rule TO
the conduct of nations" He was excused.
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