Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-27
Notes and Notions.


NEW ORLEANs FUMES: Inc 4 azOO plan
is repugnant to the principles Of the Demo-
cratic party, and ought to be set down upon
quickly and effectively"
INDEPENDENT tickets are becoming thick
in the Louisiana parishes, and there are al
ready premopitions Of the "Yazoo idea" in
certain Republican localities.
THE public debt question has become the
leading issue in the political campaign Of
Virginia, and bids fair TO divide hopelessly
the Democratic party in that state.
CINCINNATI Commercial :" The question
now is whether the Republican majority IN
Ohio will be twenty thousand or forty thou.
sand. An early frost even would not save !
Ewing"
VIcKsBURe Herald: "The press Of the
state is speaking out in thunder tones against |
bulldozing. 1t is not likely that the Yazoo
plan will be tried in any other portion of !
the state"
PHILADELPHIA Times: For fear the Re. !
publicans of Maine and Ohio might not be
able to carry the elections in those states
themselves, the Mississippi Democrats have
come to their rescue"
THE Natchez Democrat declares that in.
dependency thus far in this state has meant
radicalsm, and It will be treated with the
same severity that has met all attempts to
revive Republicanism."
THERE will be five conventions held this
year in Massachusetts, to nominate caudi-
dates for governor-the Republican, the reg |
ular Democratic, the Butler Democratic, the
Independent and the Prohibitory.
THE REV. w. H. II. MURRAY told a re-
porter of the San Francisco Call on Tues
day that his entire indebtedness would not
exceed $4,000 that he had sufficient prop.
erty to liquidate it, aud that he should re-
turn east in a few days and put matters to
rights.
THE Otalona (MississippD States con-
tinues to disgust the Northern Democrats by
its candor. 1t says that the Southern Dem.
ocracy will not have Sherman at the head
of the army. Under Democratic president
"the general-in-chief must be grand old
confederate
CONGRESSMAN MORRISON of Illinois, who
has chung 10 his hard-money faith in the
West almost alone in his party, probably
takes grim satisfaction in telling an inter-
viewer, as he has just done at Washington,
that Ewing's prospects in Ohio are not in
the least encouraging.
New YORK EUening Past: at would be-
upon the whole, rather funny if the country
should turn the government over to the
Democrats for fifty years or longer just be-
cause the Republicans have managed affairs
so well that we are already beginning TO
feel the sweep of great wave of material
prosperity"
THE Galveston News says; "There can
be no question that sooner or later the Dem
ocratic ascendancy in Texas must conform
to the demands of the intelligence, enlight-
eminent and healthy spirit of progress ex
tant through the state, or must go down be-
fore an independent and irresistible combi-
nation of these redeeming factors
THE circular of the Democratic executive
committee of Mississippi closes with the fol
lowing suggestive sentence: at should be
remembered that the reforms which have
been established can be carried out only by
rigid adherence to the discipline and OBJ
servance of the methods by which the VIC
tories of 1875, 1876 and 1877 were won."
SOME of the bue-blooded people of the
town OF Harrisonburgh, Virginia, protests
through their local paper against employing
in the public schools " men of Northern ed
ucation, with Northern prejudiocs, of North
ern customs and manners, of Northern feel.
ings of Northern ways of thinking aud talk
ing, as tutors and instructors Of our young
people"
THE recent three days storm was the
most extensive and violent that has been
experienced in recent years at this season.
1t extended along the Atlantic coast, from
North Carolina to the British provinces and
from Texas to the northwestern lakes. A
good deal of damage was inflicted upon
shipping, buildings and growing crops, fruit
especially suffering.
CYRUS w. FIELD announces with great
vigor in an interview in the New York
World that nothing under heaven - would
ever tempt him to have any more dealings
with Samuel j. Tilden. Field hints dimly
at a lawsuit The two men were associated
in the New York elevated railroad, aud Til
den came out of the association, SO Field
says, 81 100000 richer.
THURMAN and his man Friday, Johu G.
Thompson, are said to be taking their re-
venge on Ewing for wrestling the manage
ment of Ohio politics out of their hands, by
organizing the hard-money Democrats of the
state and swapping off Ewing for members
of the legislature in Thurman's interest
This work is said to be quietly going on in
every county in the state.
New YORK Sun; We unhesitatingly &C.
cept the assurance of Mrs. Sprague that
there has never been any criminal conduct
on her part. We join in her resentment at
the imputation. But wife's integrity may
be corrupted without any such actual guilt.
1t is corrupted when, under her husbands
roof, she listens to reproaches on her hus-
bands conduct and name"
AN interesting and important phase of
the industrial advances of this country is
the rapid substitution of steel for iron. Not
only are the railways putting down steel
tracks, but steam boilers are being made of
steel plate in immense quantities. 1t will
not be long before iron boiler plate will be
entirely obsolete. New steel furnaces and
rolling-mills are going forward, and find the
demand beyond the supply.
The Kentucky ku.klux are out again
Last week they made raid upon the town
of Middleton, aud, as a local paper says
"applied the rod of correction, well and
severely laid on to quite a number of ouI
colored citizens" The victims were not
charged with any special offense, but are
described as "lazy, triaing, idlers" The
paper reports the event with complacency
as the second recent visit OF the kind. An
exodus from Middleton has begun.
A PROMINENT Mississippi Democrat, il
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