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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

MAssAcnusETTs.-The Republicans of
Massachusetts understand the obligation
which rests upon them to poll their full vote
If the tactics of General Butler have been
changed, his determination has not. Mas.
sachusetts is Republican state it aroused
itself last year and upheld union principles
and decent manners, as was to have been
expected 1t needs no exhortation from
abroad to do the same next November. Nor
have we any doubt as TO the result of its
coming election. Virtue and intelligence
are not myth to the party which has from
the first stood fast in behalf of equal rights.
The whole history of the Republican party
in Massachusetts, is guaranty that, so long
as any liberty is assaied in any of the
United States, it will be found, effectively
found on the side OF law, freedom, constitu.
tional privileges; and enforcing constitu-
tional duties.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

GENERAL GRANT.-The name of Grant,
uttered at the Saratoga convention, by Sena-
tor Conkling and Vice-President Wheeler,
srootvd viii, enthusiastic applause. AT
the meeting held at Worcester last week
Monday night, to celebrate the twenty-ffth
birthday of the Republican party, General
Banks wrought his audience up to the very
highest enthusiasm when he referred to the
great soldier. He spoke of General Grant
as one who, after successfully conducting
gigantic armies, and then ruling a nation,
had since received as private citizen the
homage of world, and had stood unchal
lenged before the nations as a representative
of the magnanimity of the Republican sol
diers and the integrity of Republican mag
istrates. Great applause. And if, which
may heaven prevent any impending or i'm
placable calamity shall make his services
necessary to the country again, his country
men would not hesitate, ON account of the
evil example of other men, to confde their
dearest interests to his patriotism. Con-
tinued and enthusiastic appause].
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

SOUND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Bout
wells speech at the Massachusetts, Repub-
lican reunion on Monday Of last week con.
tanned this admirable advice to the party
concerning its future sour future as a
party is with ourselves. If we daily with
wrong, If we turn deaf ear TO the cry of the
oppressed if we consider questions of trade
and finance, the commerce of the sea and of
the land as Of more consequence than of
human rights, if we neglect to exercise all
the powers OF great government for the
protection of its citizens everywhere, then it
can with justice be said that the Republican
party has lived as long as it deserves to live
But If, as anticipate, we are now to engage
anew in the contest for the equal rights of
all men, with the zeal, courage and persist
ency which were manifested in the great
contest against slavery, we shall deserve and
receive new lease of party life, and for
another generation keep the government in
the hands of those by whose efforts it was
saved"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24
WOMEN AND SoHooLs.-Tn paper read

WOMEN AND SCHooLs.-Tn paper read
before the Social Scientists at Saratoga on
Wednesday of last week, Rev. DR.. Peabody
of Cambridge heartily commended the par
ticipation of women in the selection of
school committees, aud believed their SER
vice on the school boards to be of incalcu.
liable advantage. His most important rea.
son for this was, that the school should be
regarded not as a separate institution from
the home, but as the homes extension aud
complement. The parental spirit should
pervade its discipline and the home feeling
should be cherished in the pupils. In the
man-made schools there is inevitably, too
much of the army, and only the active partc-
ipation of women in the work of education
can replace this by the home-ike system.
When the public schools were first estab-
lished they were not meant for the girls, but
now that women are recognized as mems
peers, and more in culture, it is time to re-
organize the schools de moro, and bring in
the domestic influence they lack, by admit
ting to their control those who best under
stand how to make them home like.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

The Butler Democratic Convention that
met at Worcester, Massachusetts, last week
Wednesday, nominated General Butler for
governor. The rest of the ticket contains
no name of special public consequence, al
though it includes that of gallant soldier
and genial gentleman, General Michael I.
Donahoe, colonel Of the Tenth New Hamp-
shire Volunteers during the war, who was
nominated secretary Of state. ID. N. Skill
ings, the treasurer, is well known lumber
man, formerly partner of Lawrence Barnes
of Burlington. lie was nominated on the
Butler ticket last year, and, as he snubbed
Butler then by refusing to run, it is doubtful
II he will do 30 now.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

A MAGNIFICENT REcoRD.-Of the late
gathering of Massachusetts, Republicans to
celebrate the birthday of the Republican
party in that state. New Jersey exchange
says: The veterans had many battles to be
fought over again, and they drew the line
between the two great and only considerable
parties with keen discrimination. What
history they had to recite They aud
their followers had upheld the sacred soil of
freedom in the Northwest, had kept Kansas,
Nebraska, all the Western Territories free
from the curse of slavery. They had ex-
tinguished slavery itself in the tempest of
the war of the rebellion. They had pre-
served and made us nation. With heavy
loss of life and cost of money, they had given
to the grand old North secure prosperity,
had maintained the public credit and honor
of the nation with success which seems
miraculous. They were Republicans. Now
will anybody tell us what the Democracy
have done for the country during the last
twenty-five years ? What the Democracy
threatened was the growth of grass in
Broadway. 1t is a short CROP
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24
English Agricultural Commission.

The reports of short crops in Great Britain
find alarming confirmation in the semi-ofIi-
cial returns, which reveal a shortage closely
approximating to s200,OOO,OOO throughout
the United Kingdom. So serious has the
question become that the government has at
last concluded, under the pressure brought
to bear upon it, to appoint commission to
inquire into the condition of agriculture in
Great Britain, and Europe generally, and in
America. This consists of some of the
largest landholders in England and some of
the smallest, about twenty in all. 1t has APP
pointed sub-commissions TO visit different
countries, and last week the two gentlemen
sent to study farming in the United States
arrived in New York. Being practical farm
ers themselves, they will bring an intelligent
comprehension of the subject in hand TO
bear in their observations. They propose TO
spend the next three months in different
parts OF the country, in order TO see and
understand the process which has, as they
say, produced such wonderful results. Mar
ket gardening, grain farming and stock rails
ing will all come in for a share of their at
tention. Much of the present difficulty in
England has been attributed to the massinp
of land in large quantities, and the system
of tenant farming, but the commissioners in
an interview with the reporter of the New
York Tribune, expressed doubts about this
view OF the matter, and say that there il
plenty of land to be sold in small quantities
and it is as easy to purchase farm there al
anything else in the market. OF course Their,
are various opinions expressed in English
papers as to the good result of the commits
sion. The London Truth declares it to be !
sop thrown to land owners to keep them still
until after the election. Whatever may b,
the real purpose of its appointment, its re
port will be looked forward TO with great in
tsrsst by the people Of this country.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24
Ira Allen.-.Again.

Messrs. Editors Carlyle once said Truth
though the heavens crush me for following her "
notice in a recent issue criticisms of my article
on " Ira Allen and his Home" Some of them
accept and some of them most decidedly do not
made no statement without having some author
ty for it, but find that even authorities gener-
ally accepted as reliable differ, as for instance,
Appleton says that Ira Allen was born in 1852
while Hemenway says in 1851. "When doctor-
disagree who shall decde?" There are valid rea-
sons for concluding that Ira Allen not only visited
lrasburgh, but spent considerable time there
During the tedious litigation caused by the cap
ture of the Olive Branch, nearly all of Mr.. Aliens
valuable property in the western part of the state
was either spent or unawfuy wrested from his
possession and 1t was then that he removed to
Irasburgh to the house which had been built by
his son, Ira H., according to Hemenway This Is
proven by the letters which have been found 10
the old house, some OF which were written TO the
family in Colchester, and must have been re
moved; also by the common tradition of the
towns people, etc. WAS told that Ira II. Allen
was member OF Congress, but | find that the
facts were these: ." When the offer to put him in
nomination as representative to congress for this
district was rendered him. and in circumstances
which seemed IN randar car,ain his ,o,,i,.,,o,
and subsaonent a,ec,;o, no ,no,al,saa,,, do
clined . Jemen,,o,, J,osh,,r,b ,,,,,,. ,xo
Rev Thomas Ravne saws, % Via H., II Allan,
nnrsued collegia,e s,ndies n, tho U,i,or.;,n -,
yermont Ihave inst road so,na ~ ri. ao,;aoa
comnosi,ions written in tho vear 1880 ,sh,o,' !
find amonc b;s nanars Thoy avh,,,,, 80, -,
ritv Of reflection and oh.ervation tor a von,h a,
egh,een ar nine,aop rho,r =,
and ssr,ons cb,rac,er Tho,r ,i,,os ara sre,, a.
,bssa. rihar,y. pa,,,,,o,. ,,o.ai,,... o..
~ "so"' ao,'"'9' iy"hhy
happiness lhey are thoughttul essays, marked
by sound Judgment, envened by fancy and
peryaded nv eenerous ,emotions and asnlra,ions
H. NJ,
ne was ooneoa W re'nquish coiiegiate studies at
the close OF his sophomore year, 1870 on account
of ophthalmic weakness, which had become seri-
o,,sl, a,,,,r,,a,a, no ,,,,lioa,I,,, ;, IT.
80 " "ppa 49, W '''uS' "e"
e"ody, Hdso"rgt, pages 2o0-I.
namrhIa, vas ,,.e,,.aa ~, La AL ,,,,.'1.','
p'"Pe' ""a p'oPa'o" W ~" A"on, e"pouyins
the causes which, In the opinion Of the writer
justified the withdrawal of the people of the dis
trict from tho Nav yo,k govarnmsn, an a.
- .'' '"' +''" ~" so'o'""''"', ahu ALSO
inc advantages when would accrue 10 them by
the formation OF a separate state II appears not
Ia have been oublisbed until the e,s,ing snr,no
!, '., 49,, ,,,ss',.' Ne 'p''nH
was e"''ieu' INSTANTANEOUS fehafhs ON the
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

A COOP PLAN.-The city of Providence
began, year aud half ago, to dispense its
charity on new plan. Helpless paupers
were kept in an almshouse, or aided at home,
as before; but all able-bodied applicants for
food or lodging were put at work in wood
yard at fifty cents a day. Unworthy fami-
lies, who had been assisted by the city for
years, dropped out of the charity COM
missioner's sight, while begging decreased
greatly. Tramps began to give the city a
wide berth, for they had to pay for their
lodging aud meals with work in the wood
yard, and the station-house dodgers during
the year numbered only twenty-four hundred
and seventy-nine, against nine thousand four
hundred and twenty-five for the year prece-
ding. The new system has also been one of
economy, the expenditures for outdoor and
indoor relief being 1920, against sl9l44
for outdoor relief alone during the preced.
ing twelve months. The wood yard is self
sustaining.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

Troy Times: "Both Mr.. Long and Mr..
Pierce, the candidates for the Republican
nomination for governor of Massachusetts,,
are splendid men, and either would honor
the office; but special sense of gratifca
ton is to be experienced after all in the fact
that Mr. Long won the honor. The Spring
field Republican opposed him; and when the
Republican fights man it may be taken for
granted he is worthy of the best considera-
tion the party can give him. The only thing
that can be said against Mr.. Pierce is that the
Springfield paper favored his nomination"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24
Notes and Notions.

BEN. HILL of Georgia says awe Che
rebels) joined the Democracy of the North
because we admired their course during
the war"
THERE was steady improvement in all
the leading branches Of the wholesale trade
last week. In some instances the volume of
business is unprecedented.
Mrs CHISHOLM tells her story in full in
the New York Tribune, the chronicle of a
terrible crime which ought to shame the
South for its political intolerance.
LATEST advices from Maine go to show
that the senate, before which the choice of
governor must come, is so close that an off
cial count must determine the result.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR "The great changes
in the aspect of our affairs are due to the
craftsmanship of the pillow, not TO the wis.
dom OF Legislators nor the skill OF financiers."
The Charleston Neps says that the Bryce
murder was not political one. Perhaps
not but il is little strange that Repub.
leans only are murdered in South Carolina
ONLY four of the cabnet-Shermar, Nc
Cresry, Thompson and Devens-subscrbed
to the Republican campaign fund at Wish.
ington, and of the subscriptions Sherman's,
of 800, was the largest.
GENERAL WooDFoRD and Mrs. Chisholm
expected to start for the North from Misss-
sippi last Saturday. The remaining cases
against the Chisholm murderers will not be
tried until March unless special term Of
the court is called.
II Jefferson Davis goes to the United
States senate from Mississippi, some Of his
adherents believe that he can be elected
president pro tenn. of that body, and SO stand
possible chance for the presidency in case
of some political accident.
THE Philadelphia Times, independent
Democrat, says: at must begin to dawn
upon almost any kind of intellect that the
Democratic party would have saved money
If it had wrapped itself in camphor and
kept out of public life this year."
The estimates of the secretary of war for
the next fiscal year amount to Si0,043,2lS
a reduction of $3,445,00O over the estimates
for the present fiscal year, and more than
fourteen millions less than the estimates sub
mitted by the heads of the bureaus. A fact
which we are very glad to record in our col
umns.
THE negro exodus will, unless all signs
fail attain immense proportions next sea
son. General Conway estimates that at least
one hundred thousand negroes will emigrate
from the South to the North and West. He
says that he has application for laborers from
all the Western states and could even now
find homes for twenty thousand.
NEARLY S2,500,000 of the sums paid out
under the pension arrearages bill has gone
South, the Southern states furnishing three
hundred thousand white men to the Union
forces, not so very many less than New Eng.
land, whose pensioners receive SO 100000
under the same bill, those in New York re-
ceiving S3230000, and in Pennsylvania
S3,O5O,O00.
HERE is the result of ridiculous congress
sional farce. An examination of the vouch-
ers showing the cost of General Ewing's ia.
vestigation in the forty-fourth congress, to
prove that resumption could not possibly
take place at the time fixed by law, reveals
ha fact hot tb,o t,,,;r,, H.,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A LONDON journalist of rather ripe Imagination
says that at a recent dinner given in New York
the peaches developed an altogether new and I'M
expected feature They bore the monogram OF
their owner traced distinctly in the velvety bloom
The process he described thus Letters cut from
paper are pasted on the peaches while growing,
When the fruit is ripe, on removing the paper the
letters are found picked out in the most delicate
green, the rest OF the fruit being rosy hued.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

The great reading-room Of the British Museum
with its twenty five thousand works Of reference
is now open to the public every evening. Ilith.
erto, the danger Of fire has prevented this, but
now the electric light furnishes safe ilumina.
ton, and has proved brilliant success
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

rHE improvement in the iron industry all over
the country is very decided. Merchant iron has
gone up ga, railroad iron $40 to sl2, pig iron
50 90 TO so, aud iron fifty cents per ton, all
within the present year. The rolling mills are
now running night and day.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

DURING the past six years ninety three monas-
teries and forty-one converts have been sup
pressed In Rome, and their inmates 2, sSs In num-
Der, cast adrift The net proceeds OF the confis-
cations and sale OF the church property In the city
were only $1,000 00O-a mere tribe in compa rison
10 the great expectations entertained by the
authorities
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

THURMAN and Ewing, having given up
all hope of electing the Ohio Democratic
state ticket, are hard at work trading off
Ewing votes for representatives, both fight
ing for dear life to carry the legislature and
the United States senatorship at its disposal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

bRIpdroS, New Jersey, contains three fruit
canning establishments, which together ship some
two million seven hundred and fifty thousand can
OF tomatoes, peaches and the smaller fruits yearly
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

A SAN FRANCISCO man WAS caught altering the
figures ON his mothers tombstone, his object be-
ing To make the date suit his purposes In lawsuit
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

the two-iiity class and the race for green horses.
There were six entries in the two-fity class which
was won by the Tanner Girl in 2.5i, ASA, 2.bI,
80 and 25l. There we're four entries in the green
race which was won by g. Bay Nellie" bay mare,
owned by George Fisher. Time, 400, IS. 500.
2 5s and 25s. These races were nol finished I'M
til dark and closed the second annual fair OF the
White River Agricultural Society.
For list Of premiums see fourth page.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-24

Mr. Mayor i accept with pleasure your invitation to
become the of your citizens during my stay In
san Francisco VIII iiord me great pleasure to observe,
growth OF your city Of which have nea,d and rsad az
and have doubt, when see for myself
viii md had but faint idea of the changes
petty OF your city, again ask you express ct
zes OF san Francisco my sincere appreciation OF the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-05

cultural society; regulating charges of
railroads, telegraph and express COM
panies; to appropriate $1,000 for the
governors contingent fund. Senators
Richmond and Van Setback were ap-
pointed on the joint committee to con-
duct funeral services of the late Hon.
John Potter, jr., and the senate then adj
journed. E. .
THURSDAY, Jan. go ssembly.-A
memorial against contracting prison
labor and a petition for q prohibitorv
amendment We're presented. A joint
resolution to provide committee to
conduct the funeral services Of the late
Hon. John Potter, Jr., was adopted
Messrs. Ford, Webster, and Pulcifer
were appointed on said committee on
part of the house. Bills were introduce
ed: to regulate the size of mesh nets
used on Lake Michigan; to appropriate
1900 to the Waupaca agricultural So
ciety; to divide the counties of Clark
and Marathon and erect the county of
Webster; relating to assessment of pro-
pertv. The assembly then adjourned
as a mark of respect to the memory of
John Potter, Jr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-05

Writing of this subject I'll the Mid
winter Scribner, Dr.A Holland saws:
We nave no wish Tor a change in the
Amer. IN form of government. The
risks would be too many, even were a
change In any way desirable; but one
does not need to be very acute of vision
to see that the peculiar form of loyalty
which gathers around the queen and
royal family of England is The grand
bulwark of the national stability. In
deed, the queen and her family hardly
exist to-day for anything more or better
than to sit or serve as the objects of the
nations loyalty. The sovereign of Eng
land is a person who, in these days, ex-
ercises very little authority, for the Eng
lish nation is about as truly and thor
oughiy self-governed as our own. In
deed, England is one CT the freest coun-
tries of the world; and in some re-
spects, her governing powers are more
directly and Immediately responsible
to the people than our own. She GER
tainly has this one advantage, to which
IN this article we call special attention,
viz: that for long years she has had in
the sunreme place woman, who has
represented the nation and been the re-
cipient Of its affectionate loyalty, and
not half a dozen men who, for limited
periods IF time, have represented
party. Through all administrations
and above all administrations, there has
stood unchanged the person of the Brit
lsh queen, as the incarnation of the ma
tional Institutions, laws, authority and
life. bailta a7ad ug.r .gs5
d So we are delighted With, the express
sions of loyalty, which have attended
the reception Of the new Canadian gov
ernor and his wife, Canada is friend
ly neightor, with whom it is for the III
terest Of the United States to cultivate
the most cordial relations. DiShe wants
nothing Of us politically, and we want
nothing Of her; and it is gratifying to
learn-what this reception seems to
have proved--that Canada is content
with the very mild foreign rule under
which she lives; nay, that she has
sense Of pride in being brought closer
TO the heart of the empire by the pres
ence within her borders Of royal blood.
This reception promises we'll for order
and peace and unity, On which our
neighbor is to be heartily congratulated.
She is to be congratulated on the acqui-
sitlOn Of a capable and worthy gentle
man to stand at the head of her affairs,
and q woman for her social leading and
political inspiration who represents in
her blood the person around whom
cluster the loyal affections of great
and remarkable people.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-05


disapprobation, asked whether congress
accepted the resignation of President
MacMabon.
The congress set this inquiry aside by
voting the previous question by large
majority. Congress, after appointing
tellers, proceeded to vote for presi-
dent of the republic; 713 senators and
deputies present, go voted; the absolute
majority required was 1856. M. Jules
Grevy obtained 536 votes and Gen. De
Chanzy 90.
M, Grevy was accordingly declared
elected, and was proclaimed president
Of the republic for the. term of two
years. Forty-three blank voting papers
were deposited. NJ. Defauer was loudly
cheered when he cast his vote. The
senate and the chamber Of deputies re-
sumed their separate sittings