Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-06-25
Notes and Notions.


Hugo, the white man has made the negro a
man, and in the twentieth century Europe
will make Africa world.
BAYARD very neatly calls Hayes "a har-
assing, hostile and an obstinate execu-
tive" He is all of that when Mr.. Bayard
and his party associates attempt to put up a
job on him.
THE Oklahoma Southern States editor and
proprietor was the orator of the day at the
recent meeting Of the Mississippi Press As
ISOLATION. This shows how well esteemed
his utterances are in his own section.
UTICA On. W Herald: "The truth Of
the matter is that never since Louisiana was
purchased by the United States has it been
fit sister for the rest of the American
states. Long before the war there was the
same scandal about election frauds there
that there has been since reconstruction.
Under any political party, with its mixed
population of creoles, French, Spanish,
negroes and whites, its condition since the
war was certain to have been akin to the
chaotic"
RICHMOND (Va.) State: at is hard to
ask any one to support that which is not
only against his principles, but also against
his interests, and this is what Ohio has done
in forcing her peculiar idea to the fore,
front. The East is almost unanimously in
favor of hard money and in the South the
last elections for Congress showed that a
great majority of our best people were
strongly opposed to the initiation schemes OF
the greenbackers.
PHILADELPHIA Times: "All the South
has to do to make the election of Grant as
certain as any event in the future is to get
up few more Winchester celebrations un.
furl few more rebel flags, sing few more
rebel songs, and have few more orators tell
the country how patriotic movement re-
bellion was, and how grand thing the
South attempted when it decided to over.
throw, by causeless war, the noblest govern
ment of the world"
In letter to friend in Worcester county
written just one month before his death
Mr.. Garrison made some reference to the
exodus of colored people, concluding with
this remark: My faith in divine justice is
strong that this event will in the end be pro
ductive OF good to the entire colored popula
ton at the South, and tend powerfully tc
their final deliverance from such cruel per
secution. 1t may be safely affirmed thai
they have never had so many sympathizinl
friends as now"
THE Boston friends of Mr.. Garrison hat
an informal consultation in that city last
week with reference to a memorial. 1t wa
proposed with the united approval OF thos,
present to invite contributions to fund fo
this purpose from those who sympathiz,
with it, the form of the memorial to be de
termined hereafter. Mr.. Henry p. Kidde
was appointed treasurer, and will receiv
any contributions that may be sent to him
A suitable memorial would probably requir
from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars
One of the gentlemen interested started tn
movement with check for one thousan,
dollars. A good beginning.
The worlds champion belt for pedestrian
ism which the plucky Englishman, Rowe
won at the trial in New York last winte
and carried home in triumph, comes bac
again pretty quick after all. In the recen
contest in London which closed at eleve
O'Clock last Saturday evening on six day
stretch, Weston, the walkist," the Amel
lean who has made so many magnifcen
failures in this country, comprised five hui
dred and fifty miles, the longest distanc
on record during the same length of tim
He returns with the belt, sum of none
estimated at thirty thousand dollars, an
will receive such an ovation in New Yor
as has seldom been accorded the mightie;
potentates of the earth. In the words {
the prophet Daniel, it may well be said {
him; "Verily his legs are of iron, and h
feet part of iron and part of clay" and h
head is Of no great consequence any way.
, WELL lLLUsTRATED.-A South Carolin