Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-02
Notes and Notions.

up milk ticket when he is thirsty as drink
quart of milk. So long as the ticket is
good for the milk it suits him just as we'll.
--Buriington Hopteye.
SINCE the first of May last the govern
ment has called in for cancellation eighty
millions of its fve-twenty six per cent.
bonds paying for them with the proceeds of
the new four per cent. bonds--thus effect.
ing saving of Sl,6O0,O00 in interest an
nually. The demand for the new four per
cent. bonds is as strong and active as ever.
THE Nebraska democrats followed the ex.
ample of their party in Massachusetts and
| New York and had an excited and heated
| convention. The soft money men carried
the day on the resolutions and succeeded in
nominating their candidates, who are al.
ready on the greenback ticket This would
doubtless wipe out the democratic party in
| Nebraska.
In A WRITTEN speech at Salem in Sep
tember 1868, when accepting the Repubi-
can nomination for congress in the Essex
| district, General Butler said: "No one
more heartily than do can cry God speed
the time when the greenback and gold shall
| be convertible and reconvertibe." That
| time is now near at hand and General But
Ter is doing all he can to postpone it.
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT has sue
ceeded in saving in the collection of Gus
toms for the fiscal year 1873 the sum of
S730,s26. This saving is not due to any
reduction of appropriations by the demo
cratic Congress, but it is an economy within
the appropriations. 1t is considered by the
customs authorities one of the greatest tri-
umphs of the present treasury administra-
| ton.
THE Canadians never listened to better or
more noticeable speeches than those Just
| delivered by Lord Dufferin, the retiring
Governor-G General. On the many occasions
upon which he has recently been called to
speak he has expressed himself with
beauty and force rarely surpassed. The adj
vice given to the Canadians is of the high
est moment to their happiness and prosper
ty, and cannot fail to leave lasting im.
| preston.
THERE seems no doubt that the Tlden
men had narrow but honest majority of
the delegates to the New York democratic
state convention at Syracuse last week,
which Tammany cheated them ont of by
promising the delegation from st. Lawrence
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didate for judge if they would desert Til
den. The st. Lawrence men kept their
word, but Tammany couldn't deliver the
judgeship.
SOME of the sovereign states =" of the
South are making demands, through their
| legislatures and governors, for the rebel
archives on file at Washington. The mo-
tive is apparent A good many Southern
claims have been defeated by the use of
these documents. In fact such effective
use has frequently been made of them in
saving money to the treasury that the solid
South " is alarmed for fear its revenues in
that direction will be cut off, and hence
wants to make way with the evidence For
tunately, however, we have a Secretary of
War who refuses to give them up.
MINDREADING has finally resulted in
something practical in Indiana. d. o.
| Spencer, prominent newspaper man of
Bloomington, has used his power in this di-
rection to recover large sum stolen last
March from an old couple named Harmon,
at Stamford, Ind, finding S906 at first; and
again, after working nearly the whole night
| discovering 1867 more and bundle of mu-
| tilated currency whose value is not yet de-
termined. Mr.. Spencer has. recently de-
| tected other crimes by his subtle power, and
| so much confidence is felt in his ability that
he has been employed to work up a number
of important cases at the West, in one of
which 100000 is at stake, at Paducah
| Kentucky.
WHEN the currency was inflated between
1860 and 1865 the price of everything con
sumed by the working man doubled, at least,
while the wages of unskilled labor advanced
only forty per cent, and of skilled labor only
| sixty per cent. so that every working man
was robbed of from forty to sixty per cent
of his wages. The only thing that could
| justify the infection of this hardship upon
the poor was that which justified taking
their sons away from their labor, and haz-
arding their lives-that is, the war We
have no more right to repeat this diminution
of the peoples means of livelihood than we
have to take million of young men away
| from their business, and set them TO work
in the service of the government.
| 81 MET GENERAL GRANT several times,
but did not find him specially elated over
his brilliant receptions in Europe. He
seems to take great delight in talking about
his Egyptian trip. AS for a third term, he
thought little about it. A great sentiment
has sprung up among Americans abroad for
the election of Grant third term. He was
thought to be the only man who would re-
store confidence to affairs at Washington.
Great disgust was manifested over the de-
alterations of the last Congress- and every
body was rejoiced when it had adjourned.
The Potter investigating committee is
watched closely by Americans abroad, and
men of both parties say the whole thing is
a failure. "-President White Of Cornell.
WEATHER PRoPHECIEs.-The fools are
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