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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20
Election Of State Officers.

The day of days for the various candidates
and their friends has come and gone, and
some of them at least have learned the full
force of the old couplet concerning the
"best laid plans O. mice and men," etc. On
the whole, we think the Joint Assembly ex-
hibited an exceptional degree of wisdom and
good judgment in their choice, and furnished
the strongest possible evidence that the best
interests of the state were paramount to all
personal considerations. The officers elected
are as follows; the details of their respective
votes being found in the legislative pro-
ceedings
GEORGE NICHOLS, Secretary Of State
f. II. POWELL, auditor Of accounts.
T. c. PH1SNEY, .Sergeont-dt-Arms.
JAS. S. PECK, Adj't and Inspector General
l.. G. KINGSLEY, Qudrternlaster- General
EDWARD CoNANT, State S,lpt Of Schools
!. G. BuTTERFIEID Judge AdUocdte Gent
The compliment of unanimous election,
with no competitor, was as usual awarded
DIR. Nichols-the custom having become
fxe by long usage The election of Sena-
tor Powell as Auditor of Accounts, on the
first ballot, was especially gratifying to those
who know the good qualities in which he
greatly abounds, and his especial fitness for
this particular office. We feel warranted in
saying that the people of the state will not
find their confidence misplaced, but that,
while he guards the public interest with an
eagle eye, public and private convenience
will also be consulted, and the true ideal of
public servant will be realized in one who
serves the state best by serving its people
best. The reelection of Mr.. Phinney was
also well merited, and especially gratifying
under the circumstances. As usual, General
Peck, with all his admitted fighting quail
ties, failed to stir up an opponent with
whom to measure swords. General Kingsley
suffered under the disadvantage of being
confined at home upon his back, and still
having to contend with a capable and worthy
competitor; but his splendid record pulled
him through. The endorsement bestowed
upon Secretary Conant has been well earned
by his untiring labors to elevate and i'm
prove our system of education. All in all,
the people of the state may well congratulate
their servants upon this days doings.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20
Another Worlds Fair.

The next worlds fair is already announced
and although far removed from the direct
highway Of the worlds travel, yet the novelty
of journey to Australia TO attend an exhi-
bition will be some compensation. The date
Of the great event is fixed for 1880, with
Melbourne as the place. Melbourne is a
metropolis of quarter of million of people,
is well built and amply provided with hotel
and other accommodations. The climate is
agreeable and the citizens wide-awske and
energetic. Besides Australia the colonies of
New South Wales, Queensland South Aus
tralia and West Australia, as well as the
islands of New Zealand and Tasmania, will
take an active part in the show. The growth
which has taken place in these colonies is
remarkable. In 1895 there was not so much
as log cabin in the colony of Victoria.
Now the population numbers nearly one mil.
lion. The total value of the Australian
product of gold since 1851, the date OF the
first discoveries, reaches the enormous sum
of six hundred million dollars. Victoria has
nearly thousand miles of railroads, has
good schools and is well supplied with
churches. The inhabitants enjoy high de-
gree of freedom, being at liberty to entertain
whatever opinions they please and to push
individual enterprise to the farthest limit.
The annual imports of Melbourne reach six
ty-five million dollars. If all the colonies
take hold of the enterprise with the spirit
which it is expected they will manifest, the
exhibition promises TO be marked success
so far as its direct bearing upon the progress
of the colonies is concerned. OF course the
attendance will necessarily be quite limited,
but the display of useful inventions and the
bringing into prominence the vast resources
of those extensive Southern regions cannot
fail of accomplishing much good. Our own
country will be especially interested in the
exhibition, since it will afford unexampled
opportunities to extend our commerce in
that direction.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20
No Third Party in 1850.


We think the New York Sun expresses a
good deal of probable truth when it says
"All the calculations and speculatons in
regard to the choice of President devolving
upon the next House of Representatives are
vain and useless. II is remote possibility,
of course, and therefore may be taken into
the general account, like any other contin-
gency. But il can now he confidently az.
sumed from the result of the recent cleo
tions, that there will be no third party
worthy of the name, in serious sense, in
1880. A faction of greenbackers and other
extremists, whose notions about finance and
government are wild and visionary, may
exist but IL will be utterly powerless as a
political factor. OF the eight and half
millions of votes cast in 1876, the green
hackers poled less than eighty two thou
sand, and the prohibitionists less than ten
thousand, or, together, little over ninety
thousand votes 1t is true, the greenback
craze had not so fully developed at that
time as IL has recently. But all its capac-
ity and all its strength were put forth in
the late elections, to the surprise not only of
the leaders of that movement but of both
Republicans and democrats, who, in Penn
sylvania and in other states, had conceded
them numbers which the event showed they
did not possess. Like the grasshoppers in
the field they made good deal of noise
but when the votes came TO be counted,
there was a very beggarly reckoning. The
inevitable tendency now, for the disaffected
elements of the two old parties, which
crystalliZed under these new names, chiefly
on account of the prevailing distress, and
from a vague idea that cheap money to
be procured in some mysterious way would
relieve it, is TO unite with one or the other,
and thus produce a material result When
the official figures in all the states are OBJ
tanned, it will be found, as was seen in the
Ohio election, that very large reserve vote
exists which the democratic and Republi-
can managers will do well to regard as the
controlling force in the Presidential cleo.
ton. The contest in 1880 will be a square,
front to front, up and down struggle between
the two old parties for ascendency. Both
sides are on their good behavior, and the
country will watch with interest their &C.
tions in the next two years.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

A Coop HiT.-Mrs. Agnes d. jerks, the
remarkable lady that appeared as witness
before the Potter Committee, has written
Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, letter in re
ply to a reference to her and denying his
assertion that she has been rewarded by a
position in the Treasury Department. She
denies that she holds or has sought such a
position. To Hills remark that the Pres-
dent had rewarded crime" the caustic
woman makes the following remark, which
Others will appreciate, if the Georgia Sena-
tor does not: 81 fully concur with you that
'crime is now rewarded the position of
United States Senator which you occupy to-
day demonstrates the fact. Think you I'M
der any other government in Christendom
such men as you and some of your compeers,
with your traitorous records of the past,
would be allowed voice in the council
halls of the nation you sought to destroy !?
Such noble clemency on the part of gov
eminent is unparalleled in the annals of his
tory. Truly we live in an epoch of politi-
cal materiaism when crime is rewarded,
and you have received rich guerdon.'
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

Mr.. MARBLE, if there be any such person
still living, will be interested in the state
ment which comes now from Mr.. Cow
gill of the Florida Returning Board. Mr..
Mr.. Marble made propositions to buy, but
found no member of the Returning Board
ready to sell. And this is the upshot OF the
recent revelatons Tilden's agents made
every effort to buy vote in the disputed
states; they did not secure such vote and
the conclusion is, that while they were ready
and eager to bride, the Republican officials
would not be bribed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

A HIGH HAND.-The programme by
which the democrats will figure up major
country. Where the cheating has not been
completed by the democratic canvassers, the
House will finish it, There seems little
doubt that two seats in North Carolina land
three, if Martin is not seated), three in South
Carolina, one each in Virginia, Georgia and
Florida, and two in Louisiana will be stolen
from Republicans who were elected and
given to democrats who were not elected.
What makes this contemplated and prob
able outrage still more heinous, is the fact
that bulldozing and terrorism DISTINGUISHED
the bulk of the Republican vote to start
with.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

NORMAN b. JUDI, who died in Chicago
few days ago, was one of Abraham Lincoln's
earliest friends, mapped out the celebrated
debates between Lincoln and Douglas, helped
to bring Illinois to the front in the anti
slavery fight, and urged Lincoln's nomina-
ton for the Presidency, which, as chairman
of the Illinois delegation in the Chicago
convention of 1860, he proposed. The spirit
which he threw into his canvass for Lincoln
carried everything before it. lie wrought
combinations, he prepared for an overwhelm-
ing demonstration when Lincoln's name was
proposed, and the nomination seemed like
the fiat of the whole assembly.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

PARIS AwARDs.-The total number of
awards accorded to each nation at the Ex-
hibition is given by the Paris Liberte but
of course the silver and bronze medals and
honorable mentions argue quantity rather
than quality. The best criterion of the lat
ter, assuming that the judges have been
fairly accurate, or that internationally their
mistakes neutralize each other, is the num-
Der of grand prizes and gold medals. OF
these, France carried off 1854 England aud
her colonies, 1863; Austria Hungary, 252 {;
Belgium, 1S1; Spain, 167 Italy, l57 /;
United States, l45; Russia, 1913; Switzer-
land, Sc; Holland 70 Sweden and Norway,
20; the French colonies, 81 Denmark, 81 ;
Greece, II. As TO the distinctions of all
kinds, France, of course, stands first, with
1860; Spain and her colonies coming next,
with $500; England and her colonies third,
with 2,455 and Austria fourth, with l,77O.
The Spanish aggregate exceeds the English
by reason of IA larger number of minor
awards-viz; $40 bronze medals and 964
honorable mentions, as compared with 779
and 6i7.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

recent elections must peculiarly gratifying
to the national administration. The Presi.
dent, Schurz, Sherman and Evarts have all
made earnest speeches upon finance, and
some of them have been the ablest exposi-
tions OF hard money doctrines and the COM
pletest exposures of soft money fa'lacies
that have appeared in the fall campaign
Secretary Sherman of course will resume at
the time fixed by law, and it is probable
that we shall hear little more about fiat
money,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

The "dime restaurants have become so
popular in New York city that frst-class
restaurant-keepers have been compelled to
annex cheap lunch to their establishments.
A very large eating-house on Broadway has
front and back entrances. A cup Of coffee
and a roll through the front door are twenty
cents. In the rear, apparently the same ar
ticles are ten cents. Roast beef-front,
thirty-fve; back, fifteen and so through
the whole bill of fare. The most extraor-
binary thing about it is that the patrons Of
the cheap lunch are prominent merchants
aud wellto-do business men.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20
trust the ammunition aimed at Mr.. b. will not
thus recoil on the author A CITIZEN
VFRsUIRR. November 18th.

NERsHlRE, November 10th, 1873
Mess,s. Editors Being occasional caller
upon the inhabitants of Vershire, made a call
there few days ago in the midst of the most
exciting times witnessed for number of years
caused by the circulation of petition to change
the name of the town. Therefore deem it my
duty to give few facts in reference to the town
Twenty-Five years ago this town had two stores,
doing business Of ten or fifteen thousand dol
lars year, good starch mill and a tavern Now
it has only two stores doing business OF not more
than five or six thousand year, and besides
there is no tavern or starch mill. Some twenty
five farms that were then occupied for farming
purposes are now used for back pasturing. am
now speaking Of the northern part of the town.
It's true that much OF the wood has been cut off
but the man that suffered his wood cut off has
received his pay for it. Looking these facts fully
in the face, what is the paramount business of
the town, aud where is 1t done Is there any sem
sible man in town but what will say it is mining?
Now will travel to the southern part of the
town, to that little village called Ely. Twenty
five years ago the writer worked at the mines
Then T. Pollard and Colonel Chase employed only
some twenty-five men and boys all told There
was no furnace-the building now used as fur
mace, or a small part OF it, was then used as a
workhouse. Now this place is village of over
two thousand inhabitants, with eight OF ten
boarding houses, two churches, steam saw mill
the largest store in Orange county, a meat mar
ket, two livery stables, etc, and the largest
smelling works in the state. These improvements
are due to the money and enterprise of one man.
The same man has bought out the Corinth mines
and connected the two. Is it wrong that an eff
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

THE honest sentiment of the North in
both parties is in favor of fair play, and if
the Southern people are foolish enough to
continue their course of wholesale ntimi-
dation and Acknowledgement of the Repub-
lican vote of the South, they place the sue
cess of the Republican party in the next
Presidential question beyond peradventure.
A solid North will confront solid South,
and the result will not be doubtful.-Hart-
ford Courant.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

The Memphis telegraphers stood by one
another and died at their posts like heroes
during the weeks OF plague. Out of twenty
FIVE men employed in the service eleven
have died. nine recovered and five escaped,
but inasmuch as there were several new
corners, only one man has had the good for
tune to hold his ground from first to last.
This man was Putnam, and many long
night while the fever was raging he was the
only man in the operating room. The
manager, the operators and clerks went
down one after another until he was the only
man left to cope with the enormous press Of
business.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

THERE is presented to the people of the
United States very simple but very i'm
portant question. Shall one.half of the coun-
try continue to resist the fundamental law,
and deprive its citizens of their highest po-
litical right The South has presented
this plain ISSUE The constitution of the
United States is in the South of no more
force than so much brown paper. This
question is to be answered.-Propidence
Journal
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

"WHAT do you think will be the result of
the new departure Gf there is a new depar-
ture) of the administration in dealing with
the South ;" "Most salutary," was the re-
ply. 81 think the South itself will see its
errors and correct them. 1t will, believe,
find out that "solid South is danger
Gus even to itself, when secured by disfran-
chising freedmen. 1t will, believe, after
learning the lesson, be ready to grant equal
rights to all."-Fred Douglass.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

i"H i"'es' iihPoru''iohs are sui maze up OF
'"o eA'reme Shapes 'he close cottage bonnet
anu Nise' uiessy novelty, WIN harihs 'front.'
,.' IS ,nuen'eu III point IN 'he nidule'ih genuine
""rie o'uaft style
ECONOMICAL mothers are putting colored dresses
on their girls earlier than was formerly the Gus
tom, and the furnishing houses are supplying
most useful and cunning little garments. Very
dark colors are selected, though few OF the SOM
bre brown suits Cnce so fashionable are now seen.
There are great many gray wool dresses, but
they are invariably frightened with one of the
new red shades Garnet is in especial favor when
combined with pale blue, and there are various
bright contrasts. The paids are very much used
In small bars OF green with blue, and these inva-
riably have many gay bows of ribbon, some of
the loops being dark green with garnet, or else
navy blue with cardinal. The gray suits are OF
rough cainels hair mixed with corduroy and
pped with red SILK Dark green dresses have
pin dots or specs OF red and OF pale blue, and are
"''eu WV" e'eon sun '"'eu VIZ" ie'. 'o"ee'y
" u'esS sio"n Is "'."ou' SUNNI snh' o' coior III
D,isn' i'u vi o'ue '"'hs' great many re'ers
Vi 'o''e. "' "'eu' espeoH'iis oi 'ne ioNeiy ofo-
are III very s"iaii nsures representing thy
se'is' leaves owes, or sn'ai' mower, sueh as
'"o iorse'ne-no'' inese fe'efs are often orna-
"0"''a WI" ~" Vi buttons oes,ue winch are
an, =, - ~ r,r'-7' N'N
chosen thov ,,,ns, Sa ,ho soo, hr,,,', ,ta, No.
,roat dooI -, rod In u. ,ha -
are also ver,, rich
s,,u,r srv,vs
The simplest way OF making up these wooden
dresses for very small girls is in A Gabrielle shane
fastened behind and finished off around the hot.
tom with a kilt-pleating. the head Of which il
covered by a sash OF folded silk; the sash masses
all around the figure far down below the hips is
sewed there permanently, and fastened with a
large knot or loop and ends behind This is a
useful dress IN small piaids' and II for general
wear the sash should also be OF wool Down the
middle oil the front are three or Tour bows-the
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

Count upon every Northwestern state
also Except poor Indiana) to vote for an
"honest money" and "honest politics :"
Republican for President when the time
comes. As regards poor Indiana, she is SO
completely in the hands of the Philistines
of demagogism that nothing short OF Re
publican Samson can tear her away from
them. Popular Ignorance is what's the mat
ter with her.-Chieaqo journal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

DisTRIcr-ATToRNEY Leonard, OF Louisi-
ana, is in Washington, and tells shocking
story of democratic outrages in his state,
both before and on election day. 1t is one
of the vagaries of Louisiana politics that the
man who is called upon this year as Uuited
States district-attoruey TO prosecute dem
ocrats for outrages upon Republicans is the
same who only four years ago was himself
white-league leader aud an open advocate OF
assassinating Republicans.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

CLEAN JoB.-The Tribune's whole cipher
campaign was admirably planned and exc
cuted. In the preliminaries, in the APP
proaches, in the heavy broadsides, and in
the pursuit of the flying foe, it has been as
skillfully handled in journalistic sense as
it has been effective politically Two CAPT.
tai after-strokes have followed the main
work. The first was the proof that Pelton
was the man who went to Baltimore to take
the eighty thousand dollars to Smith Weed.
The second was the Marble facsimiles which
fasten the Florida dispatches upon luckless
"Moses." There is no escape for them.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

The members of the Chicago board of
trade INDUCED in one of their periodical
riots few days ago, in the course OF which
two hundred hats were sacrificed to their
love of innocent sport The directors, how
ever, who seem to have got out of patience
with this sort of thing, suspended dozen
members for twenty-four hours, and it hap
pening to be the turn of the month one man
lost S140O by not being able to be in the hall
the president, who refused to let him undergo
his sentence of suspension on another day.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

The ROAD TO VICTORY is clear enough.
We must nominate man for President who
can carry Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. These
three states, together with Oregon and the
Southern states, will give us more than
majority of the electoral votes, and we can
carry them all with anything like proper
management We must leave New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut out of the
calculation. The old combination which
secured Tilden's nomination is broken, and
the next democratic candidate will be chos-
en- from the West.-Springer of Illinois,
DenncrnL
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

Mrs, HAYES hasn't compromised on the
wine question, as some of the Washington
gossips have been reporting. No liquor Of
any kind will be served at White House
dinners the coming season, with the single
exception Of the annual dinner to the
diplomatic corps which Secretary Evarts
chooses, and even then there will be no wine
glasses before the President and Mrs. Hayes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

GOVERNOR MCCLELLAN, of New Jersey,
has issued the most practical Thanksgiving
proclamation to date. lie recommends the
people to remember that their Southern
brethren still need help, and make the an
niversary an occasion for contributions TO
assist those who are yet suffering from the
effects of the pestilence,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

AT the late town meeting in Hanover, N.
H., the faculty and students of Dartmouth
College led in an effort to prohibit the sale
of lager beer in the town of Hanover, ac-
cording to a provision passed by the last
legislature of the state authorizing it. They
were successful by a large majority. The
vote prohibiting the sale was considerate
one-by ballot-at the motion of President
Bartlett.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20

ONr of the oldest requests ever heard OF
is that made by Alexander McGill, of Allie
ghauy City, Pa, who leaves 100000 to the
democracy, provided there are no relatives
in Ireland after those in this country have
had life use of it. The President ia to be
the custodian Of the money, il he is demo
crat, but If not, it is to remain on deposit
until democratic chief magistrate is in
augurated.