Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-10
'URNAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1878
Notes and Notions.

THE New York Sun announces that Mrs.
Tilden has capitulated to her mother and
her husband, and that the reunited pair are
going to Europe
SENATOR JONES, the father Of the silver
crowd, is credited with saying that it is use
less to waste time repeating the resumption
act, since resumption will be an established
fact before the date arrives.
The Geneva (Wisconsin) Herald declares
that Senator Howe "has dug his own polit-
ical grave SO deep that when Gabriel blows
his horn there will have to be an exploring
expedition formed to find the Senator"
SOME Washington correspondents think
that Senator .Edmunds' severe language about
the lobby will lead to Congressional inves-
tigation of The manner in which the railroad
companies operate around the two houses.
LARKiN G. MEAD has designed a monu-
ment to the late Oliver p. Morton-a shaft
rising from base and sub-base, and bear
ing at hight of one hundred and fifteen
feet a statue of Morton, heroic size, in the
attitude of speaking. Cost 100000.
THE venerable Rev DIR. Stephen II. Tying
last Sunday preached his farewell sermon to
his congregation. DIR. Tying retires on a
salary Of $4,000 as rector emeritus His
reason for retiring is his failing health. He
was seventy eight years old on March LIST.
REPRESENTATIVE Beverly Douglas, of
Virginia, whose drunken rowdyism in the
HOUSE of Representatives the other day was
Ational Scandal, has done works meet for
repentance in introducing bill to remove a
bar from the mouth of a creek in his district.
OVER eight thousand disabled Union SOL
diers were cared for at the various =" sol
diers' homes last year, or over a thousand
more than during 1876. The total average
cost of keeping each man during the year
was Sl25, or 500 less than the preceding year.
Mr.. BLAINE, we fancy, will go into the
next Republican convention backed by the
solid vote of his sister-in-law. He may be
reinforced by part of the Maine delegation,
even though his own town, Augusta, has
just gone democratic for the first time in
ten years. Chicago Tribune.
THE Springfield Republican thinks that no
week since the Inauguration has done more
to establish the hold of President Hayes upon
the country than that just passed. Accord
ing to the Republican the President has been
gaining in popular esteem for the past year
so fast that it makes ones head swim 10
think of it.
THE fifteenth annual commencement OF
the New York Medical College for women
took place last week. The address of the
evening was delivered by the Hon. Stewart
L. Woodford. There were twenty-six grad
yates, prominent among whom was Miss
Kate Stanton, of Providence, who few
years ago achieved fame on the lecture plat
form, and Mrs. Rev. w. II. II. Murray.
Henry WARD BEEcHER's brother Jane:
preached in Plymouth church, Sunday OF
last week, the pastor being off on a lectur
ing tour, aud said 81 preach at home in q
little school-house in the wilderness. We
have a little cabinet organ, and | play il
myself, because we have no other organst
| am also sexton and usher. play simple
tunes to the glory of God, and the rough
backwoods peoplejoin in singing the hymns
| don't know anything about hell but
know great deal about heaven"
WOMEN will not be given the ballot it
Massachusetts, this year Unusual effort.
were put forth by its advocates, but the Sen
ate was even less favorable than in 1877
The public rather than legislatures shoulC
be petitioned upon this subject. Just a
soon as the popular feeling is ripe for i
there will be no farther difficulty. Convinc,
the wives and mothers, and the husband
and fathers can't resist. Their Indifference
doesn't argue that they consider themselves il
a very critical condition without the ballot.
The Tribune figures up the amount callet
for from the United States Treasury, b,
bills for jobs and Improvements in tn
Southern States, introduced in Congress
since the holiday recess down to March 18th
at not less than S42,O00,O00. At least $50
100000 was asked for before the recess
From the assembling of Congress, therefore
until March 18th, bills and resolutions hav
been introduced in the Senate and Hous
calling for at least Sl92,O00,000 to secur
public Improvements in the South. This lis
does not include any private claims.