Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
Notes and Notions.

of Caleb Cushing, the sole survivor OF
Pierce's Cabinet. II was not much of a
Cabinet any way, and JEFF. makes very
fair sample.
The committee appointed by the execu'
| tive committee of the United States centen'
NAL commission, to investigate the accounts
of the centennial board of finances, has
completed its work The credit and debit
accounts balance at gil ,16l, 1885.
SAM. CAREY, the prince of greenbackers,
said a few weeks ago al tell you John
Sherman can't resume next January. lie
can't get gold enough there isn't enough in
the country; he can't pay twenty dollar
greenback with five dollar gold piece"
The year 1878 was marked by several
things which caused great suffering and loss
of life. Among these were the great famine
in China by which fully a million people
persisted, and the yellow fever in our own
country, that sent to their long homes
twenty-five thousand.
The Bennington Banner, speaking of the
proposed investigation into the late election
in that town, as suggested by Senator Thur
man, says BY all means, let us have the
investigation, and the quicker it comes the
better it will please the Republican party in
this town and county"
The New York Journal of Commerce calls
attention to the ill-timed date for the hold
ing of the New England greenback con-
vention. When the whole country was re-
joicing in the advent of currency redemp-
ton, it very properly considers that it was
no time for the inhationists to meet and ask
for flood of irredeemabe paper.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Hunt, of the Su-
preme Court, remains in a critical condi-
ton His attending physician, DIR. Baxter,
while he has no fear of any immediate dan
ger, is not prepared to say that he believes
Judge Hunt will recover from his present
illness. His right side is completely para
lyzed and he is unable to articulate. His
mind is perfectly clear.
WITNESS before the Blaine Teller Com
mittee, at New Orleans, j. f. Breda, of
Natchitoches parish, testified that in his
parish the negroes are " miserable individ-
uals who hardly dare strike back, and are
killed like sheep" He adds the astonishing
statement that the parish contains four
thousand colored voters, and only one thou
sand seven hundred white voters, and a
number of the latter are Republicans.
BosToN Pilot: I" We have no love to spare
for General Grant, but he has been honored
by all nations, Catholic and Protestant, as
the ex-President and representative of this
republic, and it ill beseems the corporation
of an Irish city to fling the first insult in his
face. The Pope received General Grant, and
the city of Dublin gave him, for Americas
sake, grand ovation. The people of Cork
should have forgotten the man in the country
he represented"
GENERAL GRANT made speech, written
with lead pencil, covering three sheets of
letter paper, at Des Moines, Ia, at meet
ing of military men, about four years ago,
in which he was understood to trample the
Pope's toe. 1t was that speech that was the
matter with the blatherous persons who
made a noise at Cork. That is to say, it
was the Des Moines speech which furnished
the pretext for saying that Grant had raised
the "no-Popery flag.
THE Blaine committee, of which Senator
Teller is chairman, have been engaged in
taking testimony at New Orleans during the
past week, concerning the bull-dozing al
legged to have been practiced there during
the last election. They have examined
cloud of witnesses whose testimony leaves
no room to doubt that the elections were
scenes of tumult and confusion. So much
for the elections in Louisiana. Other states
are to come under eye of this committee,
among them being South Carolina and
Massachusetts,.
IT is a singular fact that fifteen of the
ladies connected with the present diplomatic
corps at Washington are American girls
whose beauty and diplomacy captured dis
tinguished husbands. Among the number
are wives of the French, Italian, Gautemal-
ian and Turkish ministers, and many others
of lesser rank, including Mrs Yung Wing,
of the Chinese Legation, who was a Miss
Bartlett, of Connecticut. In the diplomatic
corps of Europe there are also several Amer
lean ladies, such as the wife of the Italian
minister to The Hague and others.
SENATOR BAYARD thinks the House dem
ocrats make a mistake in attempting to
block Edmunds' electoral bill with South
ards, and says "The Edmunds bill wants
the House in case of conflict to concur to
accept the returns, whereas the Southland
bill requires that they shall concur to reject.
l hardly see how these opposing ideas can
be reconciled, and ! can't see where the
danger is to come from by adopting the
Edmunds proposition, when the state tri-
bunals are given such controlling power.
hardly like the argument that some of our
people use when they say, Let us wait until
we get control of both houses This does
not seem to me wise or statesmanlike, when
such vast interests are at stake, and possibly
the peace of the cOuntry"