Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-15
Notes and Notions.

| 1HE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Hayes VIII re-
turn TO Washington on Thursday next and
renew their residence at the White House.
THE Philadelphia Record says the pres.
ents that have accumulated in the Ledger
Office for General Grant, during his absence,
would FIJI two or three wagons.
BETWEEN noon and nine O'Clock r. NJ. the
other day, Senator Blaine travelled one hun
dred miles and delivered four political
speeches in Ohio, 10 as many different towns.
The Louisville Courier-Journai says the
long suffering of the South is worn out, and
that the Democratic standard bearers should
assume the offensive and make things hot
for the North.
RICHMOND (va) State: "Whether the
charges against Mr.. Tilden be true or not,
they have injured him before the people.
He cannot call forth the enthusiasm that is
necessary to success
THE Vicksburg Herald thinks the hide
pendents will carry Yazoo county at the next
election. Dixon's character was a little off
color for martyr, but his blood is the seed
Of the Independent party in Yazoo.
RALEIGH (N c. Observer: Should Judge
Buxton be nominated for governor by the
radicals, North Carolina may be wrested
from us in spite of all we can do, and with
the gubernatorial candidate will go the cleo
toral vote"
THE people of Hannibal, Missouri, made
amends for the insult offered to the presi-
dent there by party of roughs, sending
delegation of its best citizens to meet him
on his return from Kansas, and giving him
a handsome reception.
SENATOR INGALLS, of Kansas was charged
with bribery in securing his election, and
true to its instincts Democratic senate set
an investigating committee to work to prove
the charges. 1t has finished its work and
Mr.. Ingalls, is judged not guilty.
So MoNoToNoUs has become the noting
Of the arrival of foreign gold in dollars, or
pounds sterling that the dispatches begin to
speak of it in TONS Sixteen tons arrived
last week, and are now at the Philadelphia
mint being transformed into American
eagles
GENERAL GRANT says the contrast be-
tween Japan and China in the matter of de-
string to advance with the age, is something
surprising. In the former country every eff
fort is made to go forward, while the latter
shows only the faintest indications of anxiety
for progress.
STAMFORD, Connecticut, votes no license
for the third time, after warm contest
The women pinned button-hoe bouquet
on the coat of every voter against license,
besides treating all such to cake and coffee
The women also held two long prayer-meet-
ings during voting hours.
SENATOR LAMAR has made his promised
speech in Mississippi, but he said nothing
about the Dixon murder or the Yazoo plan
His friends say that he privately disap-
proves of both, but thinks it better not to
say anything publicly, lest his own prospects
at home should be injured.
Mrs. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT is doing a
good work in Arizona, where is now her
home She has collected class of poor boys
and girls who are obliged to work for liv.
ing aud therefore cannot go to school, and
is spending Friday evening of each week in
giving them sone knowledge of history.
1T has been supposed that cold climate,
oftener produce consumption than warm
ones, but recent mortuary reports show that
this is not true. Northern Scotland counts
England; Montreal than Havana, and Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick than Jamaica.
UTICA Herald: "Colonel l.. w. Higgin
son is saying on the stump in Massachusetts
that the negroes in South Carolina tell him
what they want is not bayonets, but the
moral support of the Republican party
That party should carry free discussion and
a great deal of it into every Southern state"
OVER thirty thousand people gathered at
Warren, Ohio, on Saturday at Republican
meeting. The speakers were General Gar
field Senator Chandler and General Kilpat-
rick, Meyer and Beattie. Twenty-Five bands
of music, artillery, cavalry and organized
bands of old soldiers united in grand
parade.
ST. LOUIS Republican "If the planters
could begin next year system of raising I'M
mortgaged crops, buying their supplies for
cash and selling their cotton and exacting all
the proceeds except the reasonable commits
sions and charges on its transportation and
sale, the South would enter such an era of
prosperity as has not been dreamed Of"
The record of the evidence taken at DR..
L. p. Blackburn's trial at Toronto, Canada,
in 1854, for distributing infected clothing
through the North, show that two witnesses,
both Of Southern sympathies, testified that
DIR. Blackburn plotted to send President
Lincoln suit of black clothes, infected with
yellow fever, as "a present from the work
ingmen OF Manchester"
GENERAL GRANT, in a speech at Stock
ton, California, last week. took occasion to
| explain that he was not the Captain Grant
who in lS49 led dissolute life in that state.
His first visit to that state was in 1852. For
several years the Democratic press has re-
peated this now exploded SANDER concern
ing Grant, who, for about the first time in
his life, rises to personal explanation.
J ANOTHER monster anti-rent demonstra-
ton was made in Navan, Ireland, on Sun
day last Thirty thousand people gathered
from the surrounding country, every man,
} woman and child carrying green boughs.
, The monster procession passed under tri-
. umphal arches in every quarter of the town,
! bearing the notices, "Down with the land
robbers !" " Ireland Cor the Irish !" Home
} rule liberty for the people," etc.
A WAsHINGToN letter writer says; Sen
ator Conkling will cover some Of his news
paper assailants with confusion by bringing
Mrs. Conkling here at the beginning of the
session. When it is seen that they live very
happily together, and that Mrs. Conkling
and Mrs. Sprague exchange visits as old &C
quaintances, the scandal-mongers will bt
astonished and disguised, as the public will
see that there was no foundation for theii