Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-23
Notes and Notions.


for the Ohio campaign. He will make three
or four speeches during the season.
AYouNG Mems Republican Club, number
ing about three hundred members, at Au.
burn, Maine, includes twenty men who voted
the Greenback ticket last autumn.
AN exchange says "The return to old
fashioned business integrity now bids fair to
be complete. Forty Boston milk dealers
hive been punished for authorizations"
New York Tribune: "Any Republican
who wishes TO become mole of stalwart can
easily succeed by subscribing for half
dozen leading Southern newspapers and
reading them carefully"
THE Nation believes that "a very large
proportion of the more sober-minded Demo-
Gratis themselves have been thanking their
stars during the past three months that there
is Republican president"
SENATOR THURMAN is in Boston with
his wife, and means to spend the summer at
some seaside resort He is tired, needs rest
and wants to be let alone, and especially not
TO talk politics with anybody.
SENATOR BECK is credited with saying
=" If there is any cheating at the next presi-
Dental election we intend to do it ourselves"
Now, Mr.. Beck, don't waste your time say
ing that; tell us something new.
MILWAUKEE Sentinel: "Once the pressure
of Northern politics is removed, divisions in
politics in the South are inevitable, and it
is certain that in these divisions the colored
one to be respected"
So MUCH has been said lately of the num-
Der Of Democrats in the Union army that
the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader has taken the
trouble to go all over the records, and finds
that according to the returns of the soldiers
vote there were about six Republicans to
one Democrat at the front.
A YOUNG man is at present undergoing
sentence of six months in Jail in Montreal
two of which only have expired, who has
fallen heir to the sum of Sl85,000 by the
death of an uncle in San Francisco. It is
needless to say he awaits his liberation with
impatience.
"MoNTPELrER, midway between the White
Mountains and Saratoga, with the best hotel
accommodations and charming drives, fish
ing opportunities all about, and Mount Mans
field few miles away, has come to be a
much liked resort for summer vacationists."
So says an exchange.
REroRTs from this country uniformly pre-
dict an unusually large yield of grain, and
the reports from all parts of Europe con-
tinue to foreshadow short crop. The
amount of grain needed to make good the
deficient supply abroad is estimated at two
hundred and seventy.two million bushels.
CHICAGO Tribune: at is now generally
admitted by knowing Democrats that Tilden
and Ewing have entered into an alliance, of
fensive and defensive, with the understand
ing that the former shall help the latter to
be elected governor of Ohio, and that the
latter shall transfer his strength to the former
in the presidential convention"
AFRENcH Imperialist newspaper proposes
that Frenchmen take some French soil to
Chiselhurst and make a grave for the late
Prince Imperial. ." His sleep will be easier, -
it says, d" if he lies in morsel of that country
which he loved so much, and whose glory,
at the cost of his life, he went to plant like
flag at the other end of the world"
On Tuesday of last week the steamer
State of Virginia Of the State line between
New York and Liverpool, carrying full
load of passengers, was wrecked in fog on
Sable Island, hundred miles off Halifax
Nine of the passengers, five of them children,
persisted in the surf the officers, crew and
remaining passengers got safely to land.
UREA Herald: taking the receipts OF
the post Office department from each state as
basis for calculating the amount of revenue
paid by the people of each for the support oil
the general government, it is found that the
people of New York alone pay more than al
the Southern states together-including the
District of Columbia-seventeen in number
CHICAGO Tribune: "Reports from the
southern parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
show a condition of extraordinary prosper
ity among the farmers. Their crops Of
wheat are the largest known for years, and
the good price offered for the product in
duced volume of shipments which strain
the utmost carrying capacity of railroads.
wart Republicans and the bourbon Demo
Gratis are in error when they say that Presi
dent Hayes has changed his policy. 1t seems
to us that he is man who has kept straight
on, swerving neither to the right nor the left
and that if he were sustained in his course
the cause of reconciliation would progress.
Coon authority announces that Genera
Grant will not accept M, de Lesseps' little
offer Of the honorary presidency of the cana
scheme, the Generals views on materia
points being in antagonism to those of tn,
projectors of the enterprise. Though it il
not stated in what this disagreement con
ssts, the suppostion is that Grant holds t.
the Monroe doctrine.
On Friday evening of last week an un
known man of strange appearance, who re
fused to give his name, created great con
sternation among the passengers of tn
steamer Drew OF the Peoples Hudson Rive
line, by exploding can of gunpowder il
one of the staterooms. The cabin was file,
with smoke, three staterooms demolishe,
and four others badly damaged
WESTERN exchange at is All i'll wine
that blows no good. Our farmers have no
been realizing high prices. The reports o
the failing crop in Europe come in time TO
them. The great bulk Of the wheat is still
in their hands, and they will get the benefi
of the advance rather than the spectators
While the increased demand abroad ma
not greatly enhance the price, it will natu
rally have some effect"
The Chicago Times is again calling atten
ton to the fact that delegates in the mex
Republican national convention from South
ern states which will not cast single elet
toral vote for the Republican candidate TO
the presidency, will cast votes enough in tn
convention to control the result, If the del,