Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
Notes and Notions.

Notes and Notions.
IT is stated that Senator Cameron pro
poses to make an example of the Widow
Oliver aud those who have been associated
with her, and the matter is in the hands of
General Butler. We think both parties
might well be content with the exhibition
already made.
THE National Republican hits the mark
plump in the centre when it says the new
Bourbon doctrine means that there shall be
no Federal bayonets at the polls for the pres
ervation of peace but that there may be
plenty of bayonets, pistols aud rifle clubs
there for the preservation of the lost cause.
The Kemper county court goes through
the farce of continuing the cases against the
murderers of the Chisholm family from term
to term. Several of the brutal assassins so
endeared themselves to their fellow-citizens
by their participation in that horrible mas
sacre, that they have since been elected to
office.
ONE act of justice, at least, has come out
of the Vanderbilt will suit, recently settled.
The two daughters of Horace Greeley have
received from William II. Vanderbilt S2S, 800
each, in payment, with compound interest,
of the money loaned by the kind-hearted
Horace to Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of the
commodore, fifteen years ago.
JOHN G.. FLETCHER, democratic candidate
for mayor of Little Rock, Ark, recently
made a speech, in which he said that if the
presidential contest should be between Grant
and Tilden, he should support Grant, and
he knew hundreds Of old confederates of the
same mind. He thought that the South
would fare better under Grant than Tilden.
New York Tribune 1t is in order to
sweep away that obstacle (the supervisors
law, and to steal the electoral votes of
this state by casting fifty thousand illegal
votes once more, that the democrats are now
seeking the repeal of the law. In every
emergency for forty years, democracy has
resorted to fraud, and it has no other hope
of success in the next election"
The progress of reform under the auspices
of the democratic party is strikingly shown
by advertisements appearing in Washington
newspapers, of which these are samples
I WILL GIVE 500 CASH FOR POSITION IN THE
Capitol or on Capitol Poce or more money according
DENCE, Star office.
I WILL GIVE $50 CASH AND SIS PER MONTH FOR
MONTH or $50 cash and Sis per month for one that pays
SIS per month Address good recommendations. A. b. c.
Star office.
In the terrific gale which prevailed on the
Atlantic coast from the 10Th to the 2lst of
February last, the old fishing port of
Gloucester, Mass, lost fourteen vessels, with
one hundred and fifty-fve men, leaving sixty
families destitute. This was by far the
greatest calamity which has ever visited
this port, and organized efforts are being
made in various Massachusetts cities for the
relief of the sufferers.
The more sagacious democrats at Wash
ington are conscious of the blundering folly
of their position. A prominent Southern
Senator is quoted as admitting it, and then
charging it upon the Northern democrats.
They put us in this hole" he says "we
cared only for the repeal Of the test oath
but they said in the caucus that they could
not carry Ohio or New York unless the
election law was repealed, and we were
forced into it,"
New YORK has just been witnessing
contest as demoralizing as a Spanish bull
fight. Twenty-one young women started in
Gilmore's garden, for six days tramp and
the championship belt Only five stood the
strain of the walk, the others dropping out
from sheer exhaustion. One became crazy,
another dangerously sick, while those who
finished were completely used up. The
spectators were mostly "Bowery bhoys."
Decent people would sicken at such an in
human contest.
SECRETARY SHERMAN Yes, but l have
abiding faith that this attempt to force the
President to approve measures that he does
not approve will signally fail, and that all
the speeches that are now being made will
nave W TIC Hudc ONti AGAIN ou tut blulDD
If all this commotion is merely to make
political issue for the canvass it is well
enough, but if it is to be forced upon the
appropriation bills necessary for the support
of the government, it will prove a fatal mis-
take to the democratic party.
We believe that thousands of honorable
democrats will condemn the revolutionary
attitude of their representatives in Congress.
When the democratic leaders of the South
attempted TO destroy the Union in 1861, aud
democratic leaders of the North excused and
encouraged their treason, hosts of patriotic
democrats refused 10 follow any such stand
ard and arrayed themselves on their coun-
try's side. We believe that in this new
assault upon the Constitution many of them
will feel and act in the same way.
The Chicago Times says of the present
situation at Washington; BY their reck.
less programme the democrats have put
themselves, as party, completely in the
power of MIR. Hayes. They cannot carry
forth their revolutionary scheme without his
aid. His refusal to aid them in this attempt
to override and usurp the Presidential pre-
rogative is the rock upon which their reck-
less partisan adventure will be utterly
wrecked. What will they do then Prob
ably they will do what they have been doing
during the last twenty years OF their exist
ence-exhibit themselves 10 the world as
shining examples of a Bourbon stupidity
that no other men on the planet can rival"