Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-19
Notes and Notions.

Notes and Notions.
THE European Congress met on Thursday
| in Berlin and elected Prince Bismarck to pre-
side. 1t is too early to predict the result of
| its deliberations.
GENERAL JOHN c. Fremont, being in a
pecuniary embarrassment, has been rendered
the Governorship Of Arizona Territory, and
has accepted the same. The salary is $4,000.
McLrN says Manton Marble tried to bride
him and Marble says he didn't. The demo-
crates want to believe Marble and yet don't
want to discredit McLin. So there they are.
THE question as to the time for choosing
a Senator by the New Hampshire legislature
to succeed Mr. Wadleigh has been settled
June, 1870, having been agreed upon as the
proper date.
The chaplain of the democratic House of
Representatives performed the dedicatory
services at Arlington, Va, Thursday of last
week, at the decoration of the graves of the
confederate dead.
VINO furnished that 100000 that was
offered to Judge Levisse if he would cast
his vote for Tilden ? That is what Potter's
vestigating ominittee.-C Cincinnati Gazette.
The Japan Herald says the Japanese are
manufacturing boots for sale in the United
States from leather imported into Japan
from this country. The trade is of recent
origin, but has already attained considera-
BILE proportions.
THE income bill was killed in the House
on Saturday. 1t did not have great deal
of life, and the principal interest that at
tached to it was in the character that the
demagogue had tried to give it of a raid by
the "poor man upon the capitalist"
BROOKLYN ladies are circulating a paper
for signatures binding themselves not to
patronize A. T. Stewards store for five
years, on account of Judge Hilton's uncom-
plimentary allusion TO their sex in connec-
ton with the closing of the Women's Hotel
IT is one of the singular condolences of
the time that Alexander IL. Stephens, who is
now a target for democratic spite on account
of his brave and manly stand against the
conspirators, was equally unpopular with
the same people in 1860, when he opposed
secession.
WHERE Mr.. Matthews was wrong was in
not refusing to hold any communication
with Anderson or Darrall after they had be-
gun TO threaten. He should have seen at
once that they were attempting to black
mail him. He did at the last, and then
told Anderson TO do his Palladium
STANLEY MATTHEWS has a friend in the
Cincinnati Gazette, which says " The prose-
cutors will find that Matthews has blood in
him; that he has pluck, and that he has
ability, and if he does not turn the tables
upon them before he gets through, those
who know him best will be greatly disap-
pointed"
THE question having been raised in the
Matthews committee, whether it would be
proper to sit on Sunday, Senator IIoar settled
highest authority; (which of you shall
have an ass or an OK fallen into pit and
will not straightway pull him out on the
Sabbath day 2"'
WHILE watching the fish-hatching pro-
cess at Havre de Grace, Md, the other day,
President Hayes remarked that if there was
| anything which should convince a person of
the existence and universally of God, it
was this wonderful and practical exhibition
of the immutabe laws which govern the
least of his creatures.
LEvIssE stated in his testimony Thurs
day that Asher, the man who approached
him with Tilden's bride, endeavored to put
it on high moral grounds That is, Levisse
was to make speech in the electoral col
lege, taking the ground that he was not
elected, and believed Tilden elected, and by
that means he was, as Asher put it, to make
himself " immortal"
We fear the good Bishop Potter failed to
impress upon his son Clarkson, when he was
young, the following homely maxims; Never
bite off more than you can chew. Never
grab more than you can draw out of the bag
Never take on more load than the horse can
pull. Never take more land than your pillow
will turn. Never twist the tail of balky
mule. Never smell the bait of a steel trap
Indianapolis Journal.
PROMINENT Republicans, visiting states
men and others, appear to have been Oh
terms of intimacy with Anderson when
they ought to have discovered that he was
rascal. Prominent democrats have had still
more intimate relations with him since il
has been demonstrated that he was shame
less perjurer. This is about the sum tota
Of what has been proved by Mr.. Tilden's in
vestigation as far as it has gone Tribune
TuE death of William Cullen Bryant a
the advanced age of eighty-four calls to min,
the longevity that is characteristic of mel
: of letters, and also the fact that many o
those whose names are held most dear nov
are already far on for any but the literary life
Thus Mr.. Emerson is seventy-fiy years old
Mr.. Longfellow is seventy-one; Mr. Whit
! ter will be seyentyone next December, AM
: Mr.. Tennyson is sixty-nine. They are all o
them still vigorous and active, and iron
!. each the world has heard something neN
! within a short time