Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-08
Notes and Notions.


CoNrRmuTIoNs are being taken up at
Washington to enable Mrs. Chisholm to
prosecute criminal proceedings against the
murderers Of her husband who have not yet
been tried.
CINCINNATI Commercial: Ben. b. should
remember that it is not the person who gets
the most nominations who always secures
the largest maiorities. Greeley had twice
as many nominations as Grant in 1872"
Christian at Work. "Denis Kearney has
had the cheek " TO call twice to see Cen
eral Grant The rantug, disappearing dem
agogue, most appropriately, was not received.
Grant, in this, showed not only self-respect
but becoming respect for American citi-
zenship."
THERE is every prospect of good sized
row over the spoils in the recent contest for
the Ashley belt, owing to discovery that the
track lacked some fifty-nine feet of being a
full mile in eight laps Lawsuits are threat
ened and the record Of the race will be
thrown out
New YoRK World. " So far as the north
ern wing and both wings of the Democracy
have been Handicapped by anything
since 1876, it has been by the cipher bust
ness and to that, If the World can prevent
it, the Democratic party will not become an
accessory after the fact"
The PHILADELPHIA Times Independently
well says Mississippi must be made to
see that by her liberation of bloodthirstiness
and tenderness to murderers, she has earned
the contempt of the civilized world and for
feited her right to be considered well-or-
dered and law-abiding commonwealth"
SENATOR VOORHEES, having denied that he
ever said during the war that every Union
soldier should wear a collar inscribed "My
dog, A. Lincoln" twenty ladies and gentle
men who heard him use that term come out
out in card affirming that the noisy lndi-
ana senator did make use of that term.
THE last Democratic administration was
in 1860, when James Buchanan was pres-
dent. The United States government was
then forced to pay equal to twelve per cent
for the use of money. Now the United
States government has funded the debt, con-
tracted in putting down the Democratic re-
belion, at four per cent.
AGREEABLY to a promise made to his
friend, Dean Stanley, Mr.. Cyrus w. Field of
New York has Just erected a suitable stone,
neatly inscribed, upon the spot where Major
Andre was hanged as spy during the revo-
luton The neighboring farmers are threat
ening to destroy it, but it is to be hoped
that better counsels will prevail.
THE Tribune. "NIr Stoughton, in his
argument before the extraordinary general
term yesterday, remarked that in 1868
some twenty-six thousand votes were added
to the vote of New York by fraud carried
on by two men-one gone, the other still
with u.s. Mr.. Tilden will be amazed at
the immoral audacity' of this remark"
THE result of the legislative vote in Cali.
fornia gives clear Republican majority Of
nine on joint ballot. The senate will have
twenty-three Republicans and sixteen OPP
position. In the house of representatives
the Republicans will have forty-one, aud all
the rest of the parties thirty-nine. The new
constitution party elected but one, and the
Democrats thirteen.
New York Herald: "Unless some Re
publican candidate goes into the convention
strong enough to secure nomination on the
second or third ballot, and thus preclude a
deadlock, it is possible that General Grant
may suddenly be brought in as the dark
horse, and triumphantly win the race. 1t
would be difficult for him to decline nomi-
nation made under such circumstances
SOME of the Democratic papers in New
York are letting out long-suppressed truths.
For instance, the Express says Tweed &
Co. threw over ten thousand fraudulent votes
into the ballot boxes Of New York city in
1868, electing Hoffman governor. Tilden
was then supposed TO be a silent partner of
the firm which proves the necessity of fed
eral supervision when congressman are
elected.
CHICAGO Tribune: "There can be no
doubt that Mr. Tilden is entirely right in
his assumption that the southern methods
have caused serious apprehension among
10 to a,ba ata p,
Democratic administration which the ex-
confederates would control, aud neither the
southern newspapers nor the southern politi-
clans, as rule, are doing anything to quiet
this apprehension"
UTICA Herald: As the current now sets
the dimensions of Cornell's plurality will be
something astonishing. We believe that on
popular vote tomorrow the Republican
candidate for governor would be elected by
fifty thousand plurality. Every tendency in
the drift of events at present makes it prob.
able that the plurality will be even larger
and the actual majority for Cornell in the
state quite as large as that which Robinson
received in 1876"
CHICAGO Times Independent Democracy
A solid South means one hundred aud
thirty-eight electoral votes, and a solid North
means two hundred and thirty-one electoral
votes. The two together mean the election
of the solid North candidate by nnety-three
majority of the electoral votes. They mean
that the election will not go to the house
and that it will be of no use to unseat Re
publcans and seat Democrats with view
TO such contingency"
The CINCINNATI Gazette has hunted VI
seven hundred and seventeen homicides il
twenty Kentucky counties in five years
Tlaua .Dtf. a, l...A.
three life-terms in the penitentiary. To thi,
startling exhibit is added the statement thai
800 of Breathitt county's 1900 voters ar,
under indictment, aud 2,S46 in ten countie
with voting population of 1854. Tn,
schoolmaster is too scarce and ill-equipped il
that bloody battle-ground.
The Nevada Enterprise says that ex Gov
ernor Foote of Mississippi says he can re
member when Blackburn, just elected gov
ernor OF kentucky, was in Canada, trem
bling for fear the British Government woul,
hand him over TO our people for the small
pox plot. None of the rebel leaders ex
pected then to be ever allowed to live in tn
United States and DR.. Blackburn knew tina
death would be his doom if he was tried a
that time. Now he is Democratic governor
IS New England alone there are two hun
dred and thirty farmers clubs, TO whic
seventy-two thousand active members bt
long. There are over twenty thousand vo
umes treating on agricultural subjects il
their libraries In the whole United State
are about two thousand agricultural soci,
ties, with libraries of a total of fifty-eigh
thousand volumes and three hundred an
sixty journals of agriculture. The agricu
tural interest is the backbone of the nations
prosperity.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY, according to I'll
Zululand correspondent of the London Stan,
ard, offered 10000 head of cattle for Kin
Cetywayo, alive or dead. at is difficult
believe" says the Standard, shat an Englis
general can have sought to bring about Ii
murder of a man who, be he what he ma
is crowned king-crowned by our ow
hands-who has simply resisted the inv
sion of his country. 1t is certain that IL
real difficulties of our position will only b
gin with the destruction of his power Whe
that iron rule is broken, what is to take i
place ?"
The Oakland California; Tribune Civ,
the following reason why Denis Kearne
wilted in regard to his Grant efiigy: "Ca
tain Jack Crawford, the poet scout, is
great admirer of General Grant. When
heard Of Kearney's threat he went TO Kea
news headQuarters Not finding him tho