Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-17
Notes and Notions.

THREE more counties in his district have
passed resolutions indorsing Aleck Stephens,
and chosen delegates instructed TO support
his denomination.
In an earnest article the Cleveland Leader
speaks of the unmistakable drifting of the
popular sentiment toward the nomination OF
Grant by the Republicans in 1880.
LITTLE PM SHERIDAN is personally to
direct operations against the Indians in
Montana. Relatives friends and acquaint-
ances are respectfully invited to attend their
funeral without further invitation.
WHEN there is a general rising against
the old slave-holding Bourbons, who think
they have divine right to rule, and that
the masses are their born vassals, there will
be some prospect of the regeneration of the
South, but not till then.-PhRddelphid Press.
THAT better day is soon coming for
those who have wool to sell may be expected
with reasonable degree of confidence. The
Boston market last week showed more ac-
tivity than at any time since January last
the total sales were more than three million
pounds.
THE Potter committee has got the fatal
evidence at last It has learned that when
somebody said the democrats were trying to
buy an elector in Louisiana, Zach Chandler
answered, q don't think they can beat u.s."
That is almost as damning as the fact that
John Sherman really laughed down in New
Orleans
VINO would have believed, last week. when
painting with the heat like young robin,
the statement of Professor Proctor that the
earth was then in apogee, or at the farthest
limit of its orbit from the sun, and over
three thousand miles farther away than she
will be next December
JUDGE BRADLEY T. JOHNSON argues, in
an elaborate paper in the american Lar Re
Uiew for July, that the states of the Union
can be compelled by judgment of the ma
tional Supreme Court, supported by the force
of the Union, to pay their debts when they
have practically repudiated them.
UNDER the sublime name of " Protector
of the Public Law of Europe" England has
slipped in upon PROSTATE Turkey and bagged
three-fourths of the plumber. Beaconsfield
should be made duke at once, and also be
induced to buckle the garter around his at
tenuated legs.-Louisville Courier.Journal.
THE entire amount of gold in the world
at present is estimated at S7,000,000,000 in
value in United States coinage. This i'm
mense sum is hardly comprehensive to the
mind, but if it were put in solid mass il
would measure only seventeen feet high
twenty-eight feet wide and fifty-six feet long
The Republican party achieved its mos
gratifying victory for many months on the
Fourth of July. That must hereafter be &
red-letter day in its history; for on that day
Ben. Butler, in a speech at Newburyport, for
mally read himself out of its ranks, ant
fully identified himself with the new ma
tional or workingmen's party.-Utica Herald
HUGH HASTINGS says his antagonism t.
Tilden began in his youth when from tn
window of Erastus Corning's store, in AL
bany, saw old Moses Tilden and his sol
come into town to sell herbs, and that bo
Sam was pointed out to me as the chap VIII
sold Job Gould, the herb doctor, grated tuI
nips for horse-radish. ! think Sam Tilde
has been selling turnips for horse-radsh eve
since"
I'M Of 10
and when the tramps threatened to extern
the raid which they began in Ohio an
Indiana into that state, he promptly issue
: the necessary instructions to sheriffs an
arresting all such outlaws. The Governor
of Ohio and Indiana are democrats, and tn
farmers are left to battle with the raidin
tramps as best they may.
II Secretary Sherman should say pos
lively that he did not write the " Sherma
letter." that would end the controversy.
he should say he did write it, and justif
by explaining that it was written under tn
impression that man who had done hi
- political duty and was thereby in danger q
o the hands of the bull-dozers, deserved n
, ward that would satisfy all those who thin
ours is "the best civil service in the world
= The great cotton strike in England ha
b virtually come to an end, and the net result
f have been figured up. 1t is found that, il
+ Guiding women and children, the total su
L ferers number more than three hundre
8 thousand. The loss of wages in the mir
|. weeks of the strike is estimated at five mi
|. lion dollars. As to the mill-owners, IL
S strike emptied their warehouses and a.
r. vanced the price of their fabrics. The:
n facts suggest their own comments.
J. JEFFERSON DAVIS, not having expose
d himself to be shot in the war, and not havin
d been hung for treason by too merciful go
IS eminent he failed to destroy, appears now
2 the advocate of the secession principles fl
IS which his deluded followers fought. II
o speech at Mississippi City was as mischievol
?, as he dare make it, but will no doubt cor
y mend him to the secession and extren
10 state rights democrats of the North.
d has never done anything since he escape
'e the gallows to foster good will betwet
1t North and South.