Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31
Notes and Notions.

the East will contribute money to feed and
clothe his destitute family.
SENATOR BAYARD expresses the opinion
that Grant will receive unanimous nomina-
ton at the Chicago convention.
BUFFALO Courier "Governor Garcelon
is physician, but that is no reason why he
should have doctored the returns"
THE New York Tribune asks "what
shall it profit party If it steal state in
1879 and lose the whole Union in 1880 ?"
FIFTY rooms have already been engaged
at Chicago hotel for the use of the Ohio
delegation 10 the Republican national con-
vention.
GEORGE W. CHrLDs is reported as saying
that Grant is not interested in the Nicara-
guam Canal Company, and has no intention
of accepting the presidency.
OKoLoNA Southern States: "If General
Grant dares to assume the authority of
dictator our party will see to it that bullet
is sent singing through his heart"
COLONEL MCCLURE of the Philadelphia
Times says Cameron was never more in
earnest in anything he ever undertook than
his scheme for making Grant president.
THE rumor is revived by Washington cor
respondents that Judge Hunt will speedily
resign his seat, and that Senator Edmunds
will be at once appointed to the vacancy.
PHILADELpnIA Times ID smocratic): at
looks as If it were going to become the fash
ion to turn down your wine glass at the ban.
quet. Grant is doing great deal to make
it popular"
NEW York World: "Suppose Horatio
Seymour nominated by the Democratic party
for the presidency in 1880. Does anybody
suppose that Grant could carry this state
against him ?"
HARTFORD Couant: "Garceon is the
man to take Tilden's place as leader of the
reform movement next year. 'Garcelon and
Barksdale would make ticket such as has
seldom been seen."
GENERAL GRANT has received, in addi-
tion to the presents now in keeping of Mr..
Childs, gifts enough to fill eighteen dry
goods boxes, which are now on their way
across the continent.
AN indignation meeting at Gardiner, Me-,
Monday night, passed resolutions warning
all persons who were not elected to count
the cost before attempting to constitute
themselves senators or representatives.
LOOKING at it from the Democratic stand
point, the Louisville Courier.Jounai says
that the action of the Maine Democrats and
wholly repudiated by the Democratic press
throughout the country.
ACCORDING to the Washington cores
pondent of the New York World, President
Hayes says that he has always believed and
still does that the vice-president has right
to count the electoral votes :" in the manner
directed by the constitution"
PARKE GOODWIN: "Grant would be over
whelmingly defeated. The people would
bury him as politician out of sight. They
would not stand the impudence, the auda.
a decisive termination to it,"
MAYOR SroKLEY, of Philadelphia, is not
a rich man, and it was proposed that sub
scription should be taken up to defray the
expenses of his reception of General Grant
1t has been discovered, however, that Mr.
George w. Childs has quietly paid all bills.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty " We may ez well
make up our minds to the eleckshun NV an.
luther Radikel in 1880. We hev no cappytle
to go on. The winter wheat looks ez tho ther
wuz a g5in to be anuther cussid big CROP
and Their is coed market for all that kin be
raised"
SUSAN b. ANTHONY says the general SEN
timent is growing rapidly in favor of suffrage
for women, and for evidence of it points to
the fact that six legislatures have granted
the school suffrage to women, and that all
colleges, trades, and professions are opening
their doors to them.
"YoU see," says ex-senator Barnum, 1--WE
must 60, with the Democratic national con-
vention, where there is plenty of hotel ac-
commodation and where the Democratic
press is in the majority, and you can judge
for yourself how difficult it will be for the
committee to find such place."
ABOUT the only thing which would lead
the public to look with any leniency on an at
tempt by the Republican legislature of New
York to turn over thirty-fve votes there to
the Republican candidate, would be the use
of Garcelon's miscount to give the seven
electoral votes Of Maine to Democrat.
The Richmond (virginia) Dispatch re-
minds its Democratic friends that if the
presidential electors are chosen by the state
legislatures, the law which gives United
States supervisors and deputy marshals au
thority to be present at elections for choos,
ing presidential electors will be successfully
avoided and evaded.
UTICA Herald: "The signs are unmis-
taxable that General Grant can never re-
ceive another presidential nomination at
the hands of the Republican convention
without first encountering an organized and
determined opposition which would be fatal
to his cordial and united support by the
masses OF the party in 1880"
BosToN Post: "The Maine legislature
has discretionary powers in determining
its membership which are not conferred on
the executive. How ought this to be ex-
ercised There can be but one answer by
fair and candid men. Full force and effect
should be given to the popular will in all
cases, unless valid and imperative reasons
| forbid"
THERE is something very touching in
Mrs. w. Z. Gladstone's care of her husband
She has never once left his side all through
the Scotch campaign, and being near him,
she never takes her eyes off him. She
wraps him up when he leaves room, places
a chair for him when he enters-is as care.
full OF him, in short, as if he were her only
son and still in petticoats.
GENERAL WALKER, superintendent OF the
census, is overwhelmed with the applica
tions, made by congressman and others, for
the position of census superyisors There