Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-17
Notes and NOtlnnA.

| CORRESPONDENT oil the Chicago Jour
nal proposes General Phil. II. Sheridan TO
the Republican nomination for president.
THE books for women's registration il
Massachusetts, have closed. The first vot,
OF women in the state will amount TO abou
two thousand.
ALBANY Journal: "Jeff Davis will prob
ably be elected to the senate from Missis
sppi to take his seat in 1881. Who say
the war was failure 2"
CLEVELAND (Ohio) Herald "Mane ant
California have given the keynote to tn,
campaign of 1880. They have spoken OF
the subject of slush money and secession.
CINCINNATI Commercial: "With a ton Of
European gold per day landed at New York
and Republican victories in Maine and
California, the rag baby in Ohio is short OF
breath"
NEW YoRK Tribune; "Mr. Field has done
Mr.. Tilden valuable service in showing the
Democrats how well he is entitled to the
name of Slippery Sam They are proud
of him for it,"
Ex-CoNGREssMAN MARTIN I. TOWNSEND
of Troy, who has just returned from an er-
tended tour in the West, says that there
never was country 50 Hourishng as the
West is to-day.
LIKE the rest of the federal officers at
Washington, President Hayes is to take ten
per cent of his salary in ancestral dollars.
His monthly bagful of silver will weigh
twenty-five pounds.
An exchange says In Defiance county
Ohio, every township treasurer, with sin
gle exception, is defaulter. The one hon
est treasurer is the only Republican treas
urer in the county,
New York Sun Either Lucius Robin
son or Alonzo b. Cornell will be governor Of
the state of New York for three years from
and after the first day of January next. OF
the two we greatly prefer Lucius Robinson"
New York Herald: "Tammany boltee,
sure enough, and yet it Is undeniable thst
the Democrats, in renominating Goveruu
Robinson, in the face of Tammany's bustg
and threats, have given their party futur
in the state"
UTICA Herald: at will be criminal to
throw away the opportunity to set New YORK
in the Republican column for 1880, which
is offered to us by the bitter divisions which
distract the counsels of the Democratic party
aud will divide its vote"
BUFFALO Express: Hardly paper in
Mississippi has condemned 'the Yazoo
frolic,' says the Okoiona States. The States
is undoubtedly correct. Public sentiment
in Mississippi can be always relied upon in
these cases to keep still"
Ex-GovERNoR L. d. MORGAN of New
York has sent the following dispatch to Mr..
A. b. Cornell al congratulate you upon
your nomination for governor. | believe
you will be elected. My efforts will be given
to accomplish that result"
CHICAGO Times: "a solid California
This is the outcome of the first national
election at the North following the at
tempt of the Southern 'captors of the
capitol to carry out their programme OF
sponging out the legislation of the war"
AN ex-rebel paper in North Carolina re.
minds the Mormons that levying war against
the United States would be treason, and
warns them that armed resistance to the
authority of the United States would result
in their destruction. That ex-rebel has
learned su.aothi.s.
HARPER's Weekly speaks the sentiment
OF vast majority of Americans when it
says :" There is no spectacle in our political
history more ridiculous than that of Mr..
Tilden announcing solemnly from amidst
pile of cipher kilograms that the country
will never con lone fraud"
New YORK Herald l." Mr.. Blaine has Just
carried Maine away from the Democrats
and Greenbackers in the most brilliant man.
ner He is fortunate enough to be the I'M
disputed master of his own party in the
state, which has long followed his leader
ship enthusiastically, and is now more de-
voted to him than ever"
New YORK Herald: "The Republicans
in Maine did not attempt to meet accusa-
tions; they paid little attention to the cur
rency question what they did mainly was
to hold the Democratic party up by the tail
in full view of the state and when the peo-
pie got good look at it they went immedi-
ately and voted the Republican ticket"
"THE UNITED STATES UNMAsKED is
the title of volume just published, iu Lon
don, of course. The author endeavors to
prove that "far from having made moral
progress with their growth the forty million
Of people in the United States are most
strongly characterized by their unblushing
political, social and financial corruption"
A FRENCH writer says of life at watering
places which is as true here as in Europe
50 In former times people left the city and
its methods of living to seek through travd
a more simple life in order to admire nature
To-day people leave their quiet home life to
seek luxurious existence entirely foreign
to their habits aud quite independent of the
of nature"
SENATOR MATT CARPENTER SAYS: "The
Democrats will be forced 20 take up Mr..
Tilden. | consider his nomination one of
the sure things of the future. am equally
confirmed in the belief that the Republicans
can beat him with any good man. Who
that good man is to be depends upon so
many contingencies that any opinion with
reference thereto would be mere guess work
out any good man will succeed against Mr..
Tilden."
NEW YORK Sun; "Now that the wheels
of business have begun to revolve, the streets
are blooming with the ruddy faces of our
country cousins, who have come into the
finest of American watering places TO spend
their vacation. They wisely kept cool at
home in the heat of summer, and made
their city cousins happy in the slow and sol
emn country; and now they come to see the
swift, uneasy city at its best in glorious Sep
TENDER. They are heartily welcome"
TIMBER FROM STRAw.-The versatile in
genuity of Western inventor, who doubt
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