Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22
Notes and Notions.
THE Democrats the past year have had
majority of forty-four in the Ohio legislature.

majority of forty-four in the Ohio legislature.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS predicted that If
Ewing was defeated Grant would be the
next Republican president, and would never
leave the white house alive.
JOSEPH Cook mot a woman suffragist
myself, am yet in favor Of trying the ex-
pertinent Of both the temperance aud the
education ballot in the hands of women"
THE Philadelphia Times says; at is
very clear that sooner or later this country
has got to have kind of Indian who won't
get mad when white man steals his land"
CHIEF JUSTICE GRAY of Massachusetts
granted thirtytwo divorces at Worcester
week before last. There were about forty
applications. In most Of the cases the Ii
belize was defaulted.
FREEMAN, the Pocasset murderer, has
been indicted and his wife acquitted. She
refuses to accept her liberty, and processes
to implicitly believe that they will soon be
delivered from the power of their prosecutors.
THE annual interest of the bonded debt of
the United States has been reduced, under
Republican rule, from sl5O,977, 597 to $685..
773,77S. United States taxes have been re-
duced from s55s 032,6 500 year to $751;
763,S79.
The New York Express says; Butler is
more buoyant this fall than ever. TRY us
just once p is his latest appeal This was
what the Vermont chap said to the girl he
was counting Marry me once, said he,
and If you don't like me as a husband ri
never ask you to marry me again as long as
live"
LOUISVILLE COurier-Journai: "This re-
suit ought to satisfy Democrats of the folly
of financial equivocation. 1t shows con-
clusively that the Ohio idea,' so called, is,
and has always been, deusion and a snare.
Democrats have now nothing but New York
to look to. If we lose New York, little less
than miracle will save u.s.
SPRINGFIELD Republican The Ohio re-
suit is seen very clearly at Washington to
help the prospects of Bayard and to hurt
Grant. Foster is not Grant man, Ewing
is certainly not Bayard man. In other
words, the conservative influence in each
party is going to make itself felt in favor of
better men than Grant and Tilden."
WASHINGTON Post (Bourbon organ) "The
Democratic party has got to carry New York
this year in order to have it the next, and
through its indispensable aid secure the
presidency. II we lose it in November moth
ing short of political miracle can save us in
1880. Let Democrats and Republicans alike
take this admission and make the most of it. -
CHICAGO Times The Ohio election is
the North's warning to the Southern politi-
clans that the distinctive political ideas
which array that section in an attitude of
menace to the North, which is America,
shall never again dominate the policy of
this land. If the Southern politicians aud
their Northern allies have any sense at all,
they will heed the warning"
AN ex-Union soldier, who has been set
bicd III SdIOllud DIS SuCCtSSlul W
Dacco planter ever since the war, has decided
to sell out and return with his family to the
North. In a letter to a friend in Connect.
cut he says: State rights is the rallying
cry South as much now as in 1860; and
when you at the North learn the true issue
it may be too late to save the Union"
The king of the Zulus does not allow
liquor to be sold in his dominions, and Caffrp
beer was the strongest beverage drank by his
subjects until the British invasion. 1t is re-
lated that native, relapsed missionary
convert, got drunk and abused the king to
his face, but Cetywayo, instead of having
him punished, forgave him when he asked
pardon, saying that they who gave him drink
were more to blame than he was.
EDWARDS PIERREPoNT : " | am glad that
Mr.. Hayes adopted the policy Of Cancellation
toward the South. | think it was greatly
wise. 1t was necessity. Had it not been
done, the Northern sentimentality would
never have been satisfied. Had the plan sue
0coueo, ~ "ouiu nave poch "eh having
failed utterly, it proves that endless concilia
tion is not the remedy for Southern troubles
1t proves what had been proved before, that
Northern magnanimity, Northern sentiment
and Northern character are wholly unap
preciated by the South. They stand upon
lower plane. They breathe an atmosphere
of demibarbarism; they cannot understand
the larger humanity and the more enlightened
conscience of the North"