Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-24
Notes and Notions.

jority of the national Republican committee
clamorous for Grant
ALBANY Journal. "The Democracy have
rendered no such service TO the Republican
party since the extra session as in exposing
their true character in therobbery of Maine"
ATLANTA Georgia. Constitution: "The
public sentiment Of the South is to-day as
Enthusiastically in favor of putting down the
Mississippi and Louisiana methods as the
public sentiment Of the North"
FLORIDA letter. "Our people say that
Grant at his worst will be better than Sher-
man or another dose of fraud and Hayes.
At least, General Grant always respected
the articles of the surrender of General Lee
and his veterans"
ALMOST every member of the national
house of representatives has subscribed five
dollars to relieve the Irish sufferers. 1t is
expected that 81 800 will be raised from rep
resentatives. Representative Kenna Dem
ocrat, West Virginia,) has charge of the
subscription list.
THE English sanitary commission in In.
dia in an elaborate report says that :" if
drink were abolished and some changes
made in the clothing of soldiers, neither the
sanitary nor the medical officers would need
to have special concern in regard to the
health of the men,"
A BAD rule works both ways. The New
York HeraIds Washington correspondence
notes that while most of the Republican
congressman from New York the day be-
fore the Maine usurpation were opposed to
the selection of electors by the New York
Legislature, the day after favored the change.
THEY talk of forming this winter, in
Washington, District of Columbia, con.
gress of ladies, of which all the wives of
senator's, members of the house, and other
dignitaries will be members. They will dis
cuss grave and disputed questions of eti-
quette, and fix the rank of the different sets.
The surviving members of the Hutchin.
son family of Lynn, whose songs Of freedom
are remembered simultaneously with Gar
rison's powerful logic, suggest the idea of
erecting monument to the memory of Mr..
Garrison, on High Rock, in that city. The
rock with its surroundings are finely adapted
to some public use
New York World: "Certainly congress
could not do more popular or a juster act
than to offer General Grant some signal
testimony of the public sense of the value
of the service he has rendered the country,
services of which the country is showing its
sense by such demonstrations as that
which took place at Philadelphia yesterday"
p. b. S. PINcHBACK "The masses of the
Republican party in Louisiana, and for
that matter, the entire South, are undivided
in their choice of General Grant, and desire
to see his name at the head of the ticket.
They believe, in common with the Republic
cans of the North, his election to be essen
TALLY necessary to the present requirements
of the South"
New YORK Post: ave have observed
with much qualification the new governors
unwillingness to consent to large parade
at the time of his Inauguration. 1t is an
old.fashioned notion that the time for public
plaudits is when the warrior takes his har-
ness off, not when he puts it on; but in
these days the good old rule is too often dis
regarded. Governor Cornell has one of the
best opportunities ever offered to public
man to confound his political opponents"
MORMON DELEGATE CANNON: al speak
within bounds when / say that among the
Mormons not more than one man out Of
every seven, might say ten, have more than
one wife. There are about one hundred and
fifty thousand Mormons altogether, about
thirty thousand men and not more than four
thousand of them have plurality Of wives.
While the Mormons believe in polygamy,
believe that it was revelation of God, they
are not going to violate the law of their
country by practicing it."
A SUB COMMITTEE of the house commit
tee on war claims have classified the claims
before them into six divisions, the sixth be-
ing what are popularity known as rebel war
| claims. In respect to this class the com
mittee declare that the government is not
legally responsible for these losses, and that
the claimants are dependent entirely upon
the generosity of the government for the
payment of them. The report and the rec
ommendation of the subcommittee will
doubtless be adopted by the full committee.
KENNEBEc (Maine) Journal: "Let the
Republicans of the state of Maine stand
shoulder to shoulder in resisting this great
wrong. A way will be found to correct it.
1t must be defeated or our liberties are
gone We will be counted out next year if
we submit this year. Besides if it succeeds
here, it will be tried elsewhere to determine
the presidential election. 1t is part of a
conspiracy that includes the national gov
ernment and we must resist it if we do not
desire to see lawlessness and anarchy spread
ing far over our land"
THE SPRINGFIELD Republican q" Governor
| Garcelon's disregard of law is so fragrant
that, with any legislature but one debauched
in his own behalf, he might undoubtedly be
impeached. 1t is encouraging to observe
that even the Democratic journals who APP
prove of the Maine business are few. Garce.
lon ought to have thrown out at least one
Democratic representative, so as to present
| some sort of show or fairness to the outside
world. Ex-Mayor Putnam of Portland and
Judge Libbey of the supreme court, D,mo-
Gratis, denounce the counting out"
Mr.. CANNON, Utah's delegate in congress,
has the newest theory to explain the deca.
dence of Mormonism. He lays it all to
fashion. He says the simple, old style dress
of the Salt Lake women no longer satisfies
They must be sup to the times" with silks
sealskins, gold horse-shoes and the 9th !
gewgaws that this perverse generation holds
high toned. OF course, under such crcum
stances, no ordinary Mormon can think Of
maintaining more than one wife. If the
laws of fashion will work a remedy for po
lygamy, they will prove by no means an un
mixed evil.
A FoRERUNNER.-The rumor that thu
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