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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

Words Of Warning.

The following which we copy from the
Sunday-sclool Times, though designed for
New Years day, is appropriate for every
day in the year awe rejoice, while we
trembe, in the thought that the approach
ing New Year will find so many in the
ranks of the reformed who were drinking
men year ago. Some of them, since they
signed the pledge, have been through des-
perate, daily struggle with the old appetite,
which no one can appreciate who has not
fought the same fight. II takes all their
strength to pass a saloon, even yet. The
mere thought of touching their lips to the
cup awakens a craving that is almost ire
sistible. 1t is a terrible thing for woman
to add her social influence in the same
direction. But every lady who sets wine on
her sideboard on New Years day is liable,
is likely, to tempt some such man to take
the one false step that will plunge him over
the precipice. If this is the result may God
forgive her--there will be some heart-broken
wife, or mother or sister who never will.
"But it is a scarcely less terrible thing to
tempt any man TO drink-when nerves are
so unstrung and tastes so morbid, and the
love of liquor so easily kindled as in our
feversh American life We may rs well
assume that no man is safe who drinks "a
single glass of liquor. He is pushing his
boat into the rapids above Niagara. No one
knows whether his head will be cool enough
and his arms strong enough to withstand
the sweeping current.
"Women are the chief victims of this aw-
full curse and crime of intemperance. Theirs
is the great, sad company of silent sufferers,
of whose woes happier people know so little.
1t is when bride from whose ears the we'd
ding congratulations have scarce died out,
who has all the pleasures that mere wealth
and social position can give, takes her own
life rather than live the wife of drunkard,
that we get momentary glimpse of this
great undercurrent of sorrow and shame
caused by drink. Women, too, in these days
are doing more than men, in the way of or
gained effort, to promote the cause of tenn
perance 1t is double treason, then, t.
their sex, when women so heedessly, so
needlessly, lend the influence of their New
Years hospitality to add to that sorrow and
to undo this good work.
"This is an old appeal, a trite exhorta-
ton. But it must needs be repeated, year
by year, until this vicious custom disappears,
bars aud saloon counters and the treating
of men by women at New Years tsblcs, go
out of fashion, two strong positions will
have been carried in this war upon intem.
perance."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

THE TIDE TuRNING.-The price of cotton
goods in England has become so low that
the manufacturers have asked the weavers
tn consent to five per cent. reduction on
their wages. The latter refuse, and urge
the mill owners, instead, to diminish pro-
duction by reducing the hours of labor,
hoping thu, to raise the price of goods. To
this the London Stdnddrd, in remarkably
able and well considered article, replies that
such policy might have proved efficacious
years ago, when England controlled the cot
ton market of the world, but that it is too late
now since the United States can produce a.
good cloths at as low prices. If the English
stop producing, therefore, the only result
will be to hand the trade over to the United
States. This is most significant admis-
sion The .Smnddrd further tells the manu-.
facturers that their only hope is in the pro-
duction of better aud cheaper goods, and
that if they fail to d. this they must expect
to see their foreign market growing less
every wear,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

THE MoDocs.-A Texas paper is informed
by gentleman who has just returned from
a tour through the Indian territory, that the
once murderous Modoc, have advanced rap
idly toward civilization since being placed
on their reservation by the government in
1873 They own four thousand acres of
good land, on which they have built com
Portable houses and have fenced in and have
under cultivation over eight acres of land to
each person in the colony. They had one
hundred and twenty acres of wheat, one
hundred and seventy-ive of corn, two hun
dred and thirty-'ix head of cattle, and cut
one hundred aud forty tons Of hay. Besides,
they have plenty of poultry, etc. Fifty nine
of their children attend school. After this
year, they will he able TO get along without
assistance OF any kind from the govern
ment This is certainly a very gratifying
evidence of the capacity of the Indian for
the pursuits of civilized life.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

SPIRIT OF SLAvERy.-A strange scene
was witnessed in Kemper county, Missis-
sippi, few days ago, at the hanging of
negro named Walter Riley, for the murder
Of John w. Gully, whose death was made
the pretext for the massacre of Judge CHS
holm aud his family last winter Riry's
guilt was proved beyond doubt and h.
confessed it. but there was great anxiety
among the people of the neighhorhood that
he should impicate Judge Chisholm in the
murder. When he took his place upon the
scaffold the spectators urged him 10 confess
that Chisholm instigated the murder. H..
refused, protesting that he alone was guilty.
For more than an hour he was detained, with
the rope around his reck, while the crowd
besought him to confess, telling him it was
his duty to relieve the community of the
great doubt and anxiety that weighed upon
it. But he resisted all opportunities, say
ing 4" can't go before God with lie in
my mouth II any white man had anything
To do with the murder don't know it,"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02
The Condition OF Plevna.

Reports of the condition of Plevpa at the
time of its capture are shocking, almost
beyond belief Famished dogs were feeding
on the corpses of the dead and the still living
wounded. The hows of the brutes as they
tore the flesh of the dead, or crunched bones
between their teeth, the cries and groans of
the wounded as they vainly struggled with
the dogs, might be heard for miles around.
and made the soul sick. Birds were pecking
at skulls, hopping from body to body with
beaks and plumage besmeared with human
blood, and screaming with fiendish delight
The dogs fought among themselves, and bird
struggled with bird for possession of
morsel of human flesh, aud most indescriba-
BILE horrors prevailed. In one house alone
thirty-seven dead and fifty-three wounded
Turks were found, some of the former half
decomposed aud putrid, aud the wounded in
a condition that can he more easily imagined
than described. Some of the wounded were
able to crawl about and clutched at odd
morsels of food found in the hands of the
utdu, ueNOuTllp IL WIFI ltNtTlSH dNlulIy. DuI
thousands were utterly helpless, aud awaited
death or succor with listless fatalisin
Eighteen hgndred prisoners were huddled
together on the banks of the Vid, and the
horrors of their position eqnalled those OF
the plague. The living and dead were piled
together promiscuously in heaps like wood
aud carted away. There were only three
carts available for this work, and the coh
fusion was indescrbable.
1t is generally believed at Bucharest that
Osman Pasha will be tried by a military
court for the slaughter of the Russian
wounded after the battle of July 3lst, the
fight before the Grivica redoubt September
llth aud several other minor engagements.
Discoveries made by the Russians since
occupying Plevna, information gained from
Turkish officers, and above all the absence
of all Russian prisoners, although several
hundred were captured during all the EN-
gagements, leaves no reasonable doubt that
the Turks were guilty of deeds which will
render Osman's name forever infamous. Os-
man has arrived at Bucharest.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

TILL THE SOIL.-The abandoned lands in
Massachusetts, increased four hundred and
seventeen thousand six hundred and forty
four acres from 1865 to 1873, and the food
imports of the state are now over one mil
lion dollars yearly, where twenty years ago
food enough was raised to supply home con
sumption. In that time there has been
large increase in population, but its ten
dency has been mainly toward the cities
Of late, however, the hard times and the
difficulty in finding employment in the
crowded business centres has driven many
men back to the country homes which they
had left, and less farms have been aban
doned Taking the whole ten years to-
gether, however, the record is bad one
and it is full time that it was turned in the
opposite direction. Farms were never be-.
fore offered so cheapy, aud they present
scores of advantages which cannot be found
at the West. Agricultural prosperity must
lie at the basis of all prosperity and the
sooner the abandoned farms of New Eng
land are again brought under cultivation, the
better it will be for all the interests of the
country.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02
War on the President.


Leans. lie asserts that Mr.. Hayes only re-
ceived the electoral vote of South Carolina
and Louisiana upon the pledge that he would
stand by the Packard and Chamberlain gov
ernments. Afterwards, when the case was
before the electoral commission, the demo,
Gratis, to save something out of the wreck,
threatened to flibuster and delay the count,
until bargain was consummated, by which,
in return for their allowing the count to be
made, Mr.. Hayes agreed to withdraw the
troops and recognize Hampton aud Nichols.
The particulars of this bargain Mr.. Chan
der gives as follows Senator Sherman Wis.,
tied Ohio, and consulted Governor Hayes.
Mr.. Henry Wattersop, a democratic mem
Der and nephew of Mr.. Stanley Matthews,
acted as gobetween and on the one side
Messrs. Matthews, Charles Foster, John
Sherman and James A. Garfield, and on the
other l.. Q. c. Lamar, John b. Gordon, L.
j. Ellis, Randall Gibson, +. A. Burke and
John Young Brown agreed to the terms.
This bargain, Mr.. Chandler asserts, was car
ried out, contrary to the dictates of wisdom
and honor, and by the aid of the Louisiana
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

DYING OUT.-The physical future of the
colored race in the South is one of the most
interesting and important problems of the
times. Mr.. II, v Redfeld, who became so
well-known last year as a Southern CORE
spondent, has been making special study of
some of its phases, aud more particularly OF
the comparative mortality among the whites
and blacks. The absence of statistics in the
country districts prevented any comprr-
hensive and conclusive comparison, but in
the cities the death.rate among the blacks is
twice as great as among the whites. Charles
ton, for example has population of about
$500 almost equally divided between the
two races. The total number of deaths for
ten months was l,4Sl; but, instead of being
divided equally. like the population, 1929 OF
the l,isl were blacks aud only 1852 whites.
The same ratio runs through all the other
cities. 1t indicates that the disproportion
between the two races will steadily increase.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

PENNY WIsE.-Ihe folly of our legisla-
ture last fall in refusing to vote the thirty
and thirty-fve per cent tax asked for by
the State Treasurer, and cutting the tax
down to twenty-five and thirty per cent, be-
comes apparent, when it is known at the
end of the first five months of the present
fiscal year, there is less than ten thousand
dollars in the hands of the treasurer out of
the amount of two hundred seventy-fve
thousand nine hundred aud one dollars raised
on the tax list, The treasurer will be com
PEELED to borrow to meet current liabilities
for the next seven months, and the state
will have the interest to pay. This penny
wise and pound-foolish business was never
better exenpli6ed than by the last legs-
lature.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

REDUCING THE ARMY.-Those who think
that we have more soldiers than we need.
and that our troops lead sort of holiday
life, will be a little surprised, perhaps, to
find that in the last two years our Indian army
has lost more officers and men, in proportion
to the numbers engaged than any army in
modern times, not even excepting the pres
eut bloody conflicts between the Turks and
Russians. Their campaigning, too, is OF
the most toilsome and exhausting kind, and
at present both men and animals are com.
pletely worn out. A big Indian war l.,
thought to be probable next summer, Sitting
Bull having returned, and there is great lack
of men, horses and means of transportation
with which to meet the onset OF the savages.
A few more men at the right place might
quite likely prevent any on break at all, so
that economy, as well as proper regard for
the protection of the frontier aud the safety
of the troops, requires that the Indian army
be strengthened at once.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

TnE encouraging feature of the National
Convention of the Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance Union, held recently in Chicago
was the great interest manifested in temper.
ance work among the children and youth
especially in the Sunday-schools of our land
The report of the committee on such work
was unanimously adopted. II recommended
the appointment of state superintendents /;
that the quarterly Sunday be a temperance
day that the concert exercise prepared by
Miss Lucia Kimball for the schools of Chi.
cago be adopted, and she requested 10
prepare three other lessons TO supply the
quarterly Sundays of 1878.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

The MURPHY MovEMENT.-TheS Spring
field Republican says the local results OF the
Murphy temperance movement so far foot
up over six thousand signers TO the pledge
two thousand five hundred at North Adams,
one thousand five hundred at Pittsfeld, one
thousand at liolyoke, six hundred at South
Adams, aud five hundred and thirty at
Chicopee. And the number is growing
nightly Successful Murphy movements are
in progress all over the West four thou
sand five hundred have signed the pledge at
Hannibal, Mo-, and over three thou ,and two
hundred donned the blue ribbon at Des
Moines, la, one evening last week
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

PROPOSED AMENDMENT Senator Cock.
rell, of Missouri, is preparing an amendment
to the constitution declaring that no pen
sion or compensation of any kind shall be
granted to rebel soldiers, their widows or
descendantsi that no compensation shall be
paid for damages 10y either federal or CON
federate soldiers in the rebel states and the
third clause prohibiting secession. This is
said to be a stroke OF policy on the part of
the democrats, to take the Southern question
wholly out of the next Presidential election
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

THE crop statistics for 1877 have been
made up at Washington, and the figures bear
out the statement heretofore made through
the press, that the yield of cereals surpasses
anything ever before known in the history
of the country. The harvest of wheat
reached three hundred and sixty million
bushels--tifty million bushels in excess of
any former year. The corn crop aggregates
one billion three hundred million bushels.
After making the most liberal provision for
the home demand there will remain one
hundred and ten million bushels of wheat
for export.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

DoUBTED.-The Rutland Herald says
+" So far as there is any difference between
the President and our Vermont Senators, We
believe that nine-tenths of the Republicans
of Vermont are with their Senator's" We
have seen no tangible evidence of difference
between our Senators aud the President,
save that they joined in the Conkling raid
upon the Presidents New York nominees
in which theory we believe nine tenths OF
the Republicans of Vermont are with the
President, Instead of the Senators.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

How do the working-men like the idea of
an enormous issue OF silver dollars, worth
about ninety cents in greenbacks With
these dollars they will be paid on Saturday
night, ii the silver bill passes Aud when
they go to stores to make their purchases
they will fluid that it will take about dol
lar aud ten cents in silver to buy what now
sells for one dollar in greenbacks. The sill
yer bill will cut ten per cent OF the wages
of the working-men everywhere. There is
no way of lodging it,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

In case of democratic success in 1880, the
South will be most conspicuous contribu
tor to it. Nay, without her votes, such a
triumph, at the present outlook, would be
impossible Under such circumstances, it is
quite natural that she should demand and
receive a very handsome share of the public
patronage, from which, to the detriment of
the whole country she has been SO long de
barred.-dugisid, ia, Chronicle.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

Nun IN THE WEsr.-Dispatche indicate
that the West is one vast sea of mud. The
weather is most unreasonable, and serious
results have already begun to be realized,
in damage to the grain crop in the bins, the
impossibility OF getting to market with
meats aud other provisions, and the general
interruption Of commercial operations. Sin
gularly, though, no mention is made of any
unusual sickness hence we infer that the
public health is good We are having re-
markable weather in this section, too-fog
mornings, sunshine afternoons, and a gen
eral clear case OF summer lingering in the
lap of winter. This is unreasonable, but
to the poor blessing
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

"OH, Lord give them common SENSE"
WAS the feryent petition of the Rev. Morton
dexter in New Bedford, last Sunday. lie
was praying for the members of the Forty
fifth Congress.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

The CoLoREp RACE,-Fred Douglass
says "rhe very best thing the white peo-
pie can do for us is to stop doing for us, and
leave us to do for ourselves. | have told the
politicians so everywhere. They have done
so much for us that they have nearly undone
us. II we can't live honestly by our own
labor, then we ought to die. The question
with us is, will we work as hard for our.
selves as we once did for our masters If
we don't we shall go to the wall for liberty
is as essentially state of hard work as
slavery is of disgraceiul sloth. 1t is only by
hard labor that we can ever catch up with
the white race, and by initiating their vir-
tues instead of their vices Emigration is a
delusion and sham. The white race is
everywhere on the face of the globe, and we
could not get away from them if we would
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02
socIAL AZ roIlrIcAL aos.Ir.

On Monday night, the last of the year, the
President and Mrs Hayes are to celebrate at the
Executive Mansion their silver wedding The
persons invited are confined to those only who
we're present ut the ceremony twenty five years
ago. The event will he conducted without osten-
t,tion, and no presents will be received,
Had W. T. Chambers claim to Cabinet posi-
ton been recognized by the President when pre-
scented months ago, we should not now hear the
wall which is waited to the New Hampshire Re
publicans on the Christmas air
Since his return from New York the President
Is more fully convinced than ever that his course
Is right, aud that II Is commended by the great
mass of the people lie will not be driven out of the
Republican party or oOe,ced into the democracy
Mrs Chisholm, the widow of Judge Chisholm,
Who was killed In Mississippi, has arrived here 10
take position in the Treasury Department,
Senator Edmunds il searching for health along
the coast Of South Carolina lie travelled by way
of the Dismal swamp Canal
Mrs Adds, wife Of Judge Adds, with her daugh-
ter Is in the city. en- route Ia Florida.
IL is proved that Simon Cameron paid the widow
Oliver one Thousand dollars hush money.
senator Patterson, OF South Carolina, is slowly
improving under care nj nr jed. baxter. son
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

TINS IMPERIAL PAGopA TIA COMPANY sell the
At nhoiesIle prices.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-02

~ well as the political headq Of the ma
ton. Its work is done quietly but effectively.
Though it makes no loud clamor to attract the
populace, it, influence is felt in all the scientific
circles of the world To Professor Joseph Henry,
the secretary and director Of the institute, the
principal honor is due This distinguished scientist
and physicist has become known, through merit
alone, rs one Of the ablest men Of his profession
in the world without his clear conception Of the
true aim Of the institution az the time Of its or
ganization, aud his constant and intelligent labors
for thirty years toward that end, Smithson's be
quest might have been entirely diverted from it,
proper course and have become merely local and
inconsiderable In its influence