Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26
Notes and Notions.
TWENTY-FIVE members will retire from
the United States Senate on the 4th Of
March, 1881.

BARKsDALR, the assassin Of Dixon, has
been elected sheriff of Yazoo county, Mis-
sissippi. OF course.
TrLDEN, Hendricks, and Reform are the
names given by proud Kentucky parent to
triplets lately born unto him.
The Republicans Of Boston have nomin-
ated Alderman Solomon B. Stebbino for
the Office Of mayor, and the Democrats Fred
erick o. Prince
WASHINGTON Star: at is plain that the
political solIdity Of the South is pierced with
a large crack, and that 1t will fall to pieces
within year or two"
The question is, how many men in the
South are of like mind with Toombs
That is what we want TO know before the
next national convention.
A NEGRO named Merit was elected circuit
court clerk of Bolivar county Mississippi,
over two white competitors, many whites
voting for him on account Of superior quail
ifcations.
THE Burlington Free Press sees "no rea-
son why both and all parties should not
join hands to secure change in our listing
laws, demanded by every consideration of
public interest" Who does
CONGRESSMAN G. w. JONES OF TEXAS I:
"The time is past when all they had to say
was, You are a Republican, and down you
went. The time has arrived when cause
shall prevail by the force of reason"
The Republicans have just one hundred
majority in the Iowa Legislature. There are
just five Republicans, all told, in the
Mississippi legislature. Iowa is famous for its
common schools, Mississippi for its Yazoo.
RICHMOND (yirginia) State: Gall these
professions from the South of desire for
Grant, on the part of the Democrats, are
bypocritical; and this Union can never be
cemented or the people paci6cated by the
arts of the hypocrite."
GENERAL GRANT," Let us be true to
either on the part of sections or parties, to-
ward each other, and we need have no fear
in future Of maintaining the standing we
have taken among nations"
AUGUSTA (Georgia) Chronicle: at would
be better for the South to have the radicals
organized and aggressive in every Southern
state than to have to encounter this mongrel
independentism, which in its last analysis
is only radicalism in disguise"
SOUTH CAROLINA Republicans are pluck
ing up courage again, and the Abbeville
Medium says, with amazement and disgust,
that they openly talk about the party in the
streets and no longer under the cover Of
darkness and the guise of religion.
THERE is nothing like putting on a bold
front and keeping up appearances. The
chairman of the national committee of the
defunct Greenback party has issued a call
for grand consultation to be held at Wash
ington on the Sth OF January next.
UTICA New York; Herald: General
Grant, as a presidential candidate, would be
the embodiment of sectionalism, and the
campaign carried on to secure his re-elec-
ton would be the most sectional in its as
poets that this country has yet seen."
The New Orleans Times thinks that 1880
will end the "bloody shirt" business, and
that tariff and kindred questions will soon
wipe out Mason and Dixon's line by uniting
the South and West against the policies of
the New England and Middle states.
ONE of the lies used effectively among the
ignorant Virginia negroes by the repudia-
tors in the late canvass there was the asser-
ton that if the debt-payers triumphed the
colored men would again be sold into slavery
and the proceeds used to pay the state debt.
IT is sad, but Mr.. Hendricks has lost his
respect for Mr.. Tilden. He calls him a
trickster and a fraud, and other names not
more complimentary. The friend who re-
ports him was surprised that Governor
Hendricks talked so plainly about Tilden.'
ALBANY Evening Journal: "The Demo
cratic papers are vigorously discussing the
points for and against Bayard, Randolph,
Hancock and Tilden. They might as well
spare themselves the trouble. The next
president of the United States will be a
Republican"
PHILADELPHIA Times "The proposed
Democratic fraud in Maine, if consummated,
will justly annihilate the Democracy of that
state. In politics, as In law, the touch of
fraud should be death, and the party that
defends or excuses fraud is unworthy the
trust Of free people,"
MERIDIAN (Mississippi) Mercury: Gone
thing is quite certain, and that is, that the
election of General Grant, by the help Of
the Southern vote, would disintegrate the
Republican party aud mollify the feelings
Of the North toward the Southern people
result likely to produce excellent fruits. u
1T seems that the way the Democrats car
ried Yazoo county, Mississippi, was by sup
pressing some six hundred independent
majority at Silver Creek precinct, the bal
lot box from that precinct reaching Yazoo
City with only two pens and an inkstand in
side. One of the three Democrats Yazoo
sent to the lower branch of the legislature,
however, is colored man.
SPEAKING OF the rascality that may be at
tempted by the rebels in congress, to count
out Republican states, Senator Dawes says
that the contingency has long been thought
of. and that the safety of the republic against