Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-09

the reckless use of powder is quite large.
THE question is sometimes asked :" how
do so many lawyers live p Here is partial
explanation The Continental Life Insur-
ance Company has been in the hands of q
receiver about three years, and during that
time more than $4,000 have been paid to
lawyers and receivers. This by no means
covers all the expense of settling up the
company's affairs, and the end is not yet.
The Maine democrats are disheartened.
They held their state convention Tuesday
of last week. but it was a small affair. Be-
sides this, it played directly in the hands of
the greenbackers, having many soft words
for those recent brothers in their own party
and only had punches for Republicans
They understand perfectly that the little
third party is not of much account in Maine.
BY the way it renominated Gov. Garcelon.
IT doesn't require any great power of OBJ
servation to discover that we are having a
pleasantly peculiar summer. 1t is true that
on few occasions and for short periods the
mercury has crawled up among the nineties,
but it didn't stay there long. And every
warm term Of two or three days has been
followed by delightfully."- cool weather. So
far we have hardly had taste of the pros.
tratiug centennial season, when an immense
mass of heated air embarked over a large
area of country and hung there for weeks.
STATE elections will be held this year in
the following order Kentucky, August A.,
state officers and Legislature; California,
September 3, state and judicial officers, four
congressman and legislature; Maine, Sep
tember s, state officers and legislature I;
Ohio and Iowa, October 7, state officers in
part and Legislature Maryland, Massachu-
sets, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey,
New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wis
consin, November 3. Governors are elected
in all the states named except Mississippi,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
DEATHS by drowning seem to be remark
ably frequent these days. In addition to
the sad accident in ST. Adams on Friday, six
people were drowned on Lake Quinsiga.
mond, near Worcester, Mass, on the same
day while with an excursion party; and about
the same number were drowned at Trenton,
N. j., by the breaking down of dock, built
for the accommodation of excursion parties
to Morris Island. Our crowded excursion
trains and boats are fruitful source Of cas-
ualties, and parties belonging to such a
crowd cannot be too cautious in their conduct.
EITHER Professor Edison has big sur
prise in store for the public, which will be
intensified by long delay in bringing out, or
he is a humbug One of the latest reports
from his retreat says al have supplied six
electric lights from one horsepower. These
cost me just about one-third as much as
three similar gas-burners will cost gas manu-
facturers. claim that this solves the ques-
tion." In view of what the professor has
accomplished in other respects, we are in
clined to believe that his electrical apparatus
is no humbug, and that time will give US the
light we are seeking.
The Springfield Republican well says
" The best observers at Washington unite
with all intelligent students Of politics in
awarding President Hayes the only laurels
won from the recent session of congress.
The steady growth Of the honest, amiable
yet obstinate occupant of tine White House
in the affections of the people is worth
thinking about. There is much strong
dignity in the consistent course of the presi
dent-the same man who incurred Bill
Chandler's passionate denuncation, and the
reformer whom lots of good men and jour
nalists at one time formally denounced as mol
likely to bring forth good political fruits"
MINNESOTA will this year harvest croI
of nearly fifty million bushels of wheat
which a concurrence of suspicious condi
tons may swell to fifty-fve million. Thii
is by far the biggest wheat crop which evel
burdened the granaries of any state of thu
Union. Its money value to the farmers o
that state can hardly be less than $4,000,
600, and may be much more than this, TO
all our European advices point to the prob
ability, rapidly ripening to certainty, tina
the wheat crop of Europe this year will b
short. In England there is no doubt tina
the annual deficiency will be largely in
creased by comparative failure of the dc
nestle crop, and similar reports come from
the continent.
THE Northampton Gazette of last wee
says that the trial of John Carl Cheney, tn
bigamist and temperance lecturer, formerl
Of st. Johnsbury, will not take place unit
December. When the case was called i
the superior court at Northampton last wee
it was noAe pressed, and Cheney, as he So
in the prisoners box, declared a free MAJ
He continued sitting there, not taking
the sense of his liberty, and while he 81
there papers for his arrest were again mao
out at an adjoining magistrates office, an
when he at length descended from the stel
of the temple Of justice he was rearreste
and after hearing returned to his confn
ment. His defense will be liberty Of co
science, backed up by the existence Of Mo
monism and Shakerism.
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