Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-23
Notes and Notions.

The President OPPORTUNITY cites the au-
thority of Washington, jefferson, Madison,
Marshall and Mason, for sound money Such
names ought to count for something with
honest and intelligent men.
SECRETARY McCRARY is jubilant over
the Ohio victory He says "if in the very
agonies of resumption, as IL were, Ohio can
be carried against its postponement, it fore
shadows that the party which advocates
honest money is to be popular wit the
great masses of the people,"
VIRGINIA is experiencing already the ef-
fects of her refusal to pay her honest debts.
Her credit is so poor even with her own
banks that she is unable to borrow two hun
dred thousand dollars to pay her school
teachers. Thus quickly do the seeds of dis.
honesty come to the bitter fruitage.
TIE obstreperous Blanton Duncan, of
Louisville, who is a greenback candidate
for Congress, is travelling about his district
with a wagon which is equipped with a
desk, small cannon, and some locomotive
headlights. When he reaches place where
he wishes to speak he shoots off his cannon
and then his mouth.
| o. the 2lst of November, 1876. Mr.. Man
ton Marble telegraphed from Tallahassee to
General j. B. Gordon at Columbia: ave
shall put Uncle Sammy through, and end
the reign of thieves" Mr.. Marble failed,
through no fault of his own; but let him
not be Respondent. We shall put Uncle
Sammy through Tribune
THE seven hundred and fifty awards which
the American exhibits have received at Paris
ought to inspire greater pride in home in
dustry and give an impulse to enterprise in
the export trade. To have won larger
proportion of awards than any other nation,
despite the drawbacks under which our dis
play was made, shows that American indus.
tries are making rapid strides in excellence
as well as in diversity.
A BRTGHT-EYED, goden-hairei little boy
of four arrived at Chicago last week. Round
his neck was a ribbon, TO which was at
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acknowledgement the Orphan to San
Francisco. Howard Association, New Or
leans" The child was the last survivor of
the family of Mr.. Henry Z. Wilcox, promi-
nent merchant of New Orleans; his father
and mother and four brothers and sisters
had died of yellow fever. The ladies of the
| Palmer House cared for him and petted
him, aud in the afternoon the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad managers forwarded
the orphan on the second stage of his jour
ney of three thousand miles,
Dunn, BARLOW & Co., of New York, re-
port the number OF failures of people engaged
in mercantile business for the third quarter
of 1878 at twenty-eight hundred and fifty
three against eighteen hundred and sixteen
the same quarter last year, and the liabili-
ties S66,000,000, against Si2,000,000 in the
same period of 1877; for the first nine
months Of 1878, failures eight thousand six
hundred and seventy-eight against six thou
sand five hundred End sixty-fve for the same
period in 1877; liabilities for the first nine
months of 1878 are Sl97,OOO,OOO, against
/ Sill 100000 for the nine months of 1877
The agency considers that the number OF
actual failures was not so large as might
have been expected among seven hundred
thousand traders reported in business.
The union of the Butterflies and the Fam
euil Hall democrats, which was announced
the other day, has come to an untimely end
At meeting of the two committees to fix
up ticket for the printer, both parties in
sisted upon having the names of their can
didates put upon it, and after high old
fight the meeting broke up without reach
ing any agreement. The prospects of two
democratic Congressional anddates--Dean
and Morse-are blighted in consequence.
Mr.. Dean is the member who took the seat
which the democratic House of Represen
tatives stole for him, and sweet will be the
revenge of the people if he is sent to meet
Patterson of Colorado. The Butler fight
with the democrats can hardly fail to cost
them both dearly in the city of Boston.
THE Springfield Republican says; "The
haste with which Chicago was rebuilt after
its great fire, and the growth of its manu-
featuring industries during the last few
years, have attracted workmen there from
other quarters in great numbers, but, though
there has been this tendency to overstock
the labor market, the Tribune has made
weeks dligent inquiry without discovering
people really suffering because they could
not get work. Nobody is starving in the
city, and practically all who are capable OF
working, and willing to work for living
wages, are employed,-day laborers at 81
aud Sl12t, and skilled workmen at from