Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-19
Notes and Notions.

IT is remarked that Washington, Taylor
and Grant were the only presidents who
never served in congress.
The verdict against him in New York, is
one Of the few judgments Tilden can neither
get postponed nor hide the record.
The Greenback vote everywhere has
dwiudled into comparative insigni6cance.
In Pennsylvania it drops from 10000 to
10000.
New York Tribune; 1t is pretty well
settled that the United States treasury is
not to be presented as token of esteem
to the Solid South next year."
The Washington Post Democratic
den) dominates Horatio Seymour as the only
man likely to save New York to the Demo-
cratic party as presidential candidate.
IT is currently reported that Governor
Hendricks declares that he will not play
second fiddle for Governor Tilden again.
He calls the old gentleman a trickster and
fraud.
The Lowell Courier, which says that its
information comes from "a source close 10
the THRONE reports that General Buffers
campaign expenses for the last two years
will reach s275OOO.
Ex-TREAsuRER JOHN c. NEW has talked
over the presidential question with General
Grant, and reports the general not anxious
for nomination, though he would accept if
his friends forced him to it.
ALBANY Journal: You may do Just as
you please, gentlemen. Don't disturb your
selves on my account. If you don't want
to nominate me, don't; but in that case,
shall take the liberty of smashing your old
party.-S. j. r."
So sanguine were the Adventists of New
York and vicinity that the final end of the
world would occur on Thursday, the 18th
inst, that at their public meeting in Cooper
Institute they shook hands all round and
babe each other goodbye.
Council BLUFFS Qa) Nonpariel; "Sen
ator Herman must go. Senator Eaton must
go. Senator Wallace must Co. Senator
Randolph must go. Senator Thurman must
go. The Democratic majority in botf
branches of Congress must Co."
BLACKBURN of Kentucky tells the Gin
cinnati Enquirer that he visited Tilden in
his house before the Syracuse convention
and tried to convince him of the folly of nom
: mating Robinson. Mr.. Blackburn says hi
unbounded selfshness forbade him yielding
the point"
In an interview with Parnell, in Dublin
he told an American newspaper man tina
Just now their aim is to keep the Irish pee
!, pie from starvation and from emigration, bu
ultimately "we aim at establishing the &C
, tual tillers of Irish soil on the land as it
owners, not as tenants"
SECRETARY McCRARY has just writer
!, a letter in which he places the cost of tn
Mexican war, exclusive of pensions, at on
!, hundred million dollars; the cost of the re
: bellion to the United States at ten billio
3 dollars and to the confederates at two b
lion dollars. Pretty expensive luxurie
, wars are.
/. NEW YORK Sun: "The Albany Evenin
r Times quotes with unqualified satisfactio
a from journal Of Watertown I'VE thin
/ it may be safely stated that Sam Tilden
politically finished This seems to be true
and it may even more safely be stated ths
f the Democratic party seems to be POLITICAL
s finished also"
9 THE post-office department is an exceller
Y place to observe the beating of the pulse {
d trade and business. Its receipts for I'll
u past year have bern about three-fourths
" million of dollars more than for the pr
n ceding year, which indicates that the Peep
r. are doing volume of business correspon
e ingly increased.
. LIKE Phil Kearney, the late Gener
;, Hooker was distinguished for reckless da
~ ing in the face of the enemy. He seemt
20 to court death, for he rode about the battl
= field on gray charger-a conspicuous targ
n for hostile artillerist and r1smen. Yet
10 died in his bed, like Napoleon |. and maj
another warrior.
OK what a simple thread the fate of ell
pires sometimes hangs King Cetewa..
l. now says that only ten of his men were e
r. gagged in the attack on the Prince Imperia
q party, and that a resolute defence wou
Il. have scattered them. As General Tayl
U said on similar occasion al would ha
al fought little anyhow"
l. SENATOR HILL of Colorado thinks tn
n Indians who are willing to work should
IT fed; Indians too lazy to work should ha
i'd no rations issued TO them, and none of the
]; should be permitted to own or use firearm
I'd and further, if an Indian robs or XII
I'd another Indian, he should be indicted al
Z. tried in United States court.
ne How little we realize of events which q
passing around us is illustrated in the ia
IN that since the cholera outbreak in Japan,
April last, there have been $4,000 cas-
and $4,000 deaths-and yet probably n
- one person in fifty living in the Unit
= States has any knowledge of the awful fa
So little does onehalf of the world knc
~ how the other half lives-or dies.