Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-17
Notes and Notions.
THERE are thirteen colored men in the
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Mr.. HENDRICKS will consent to be a can
didate for the vice-presidency on one condi
tion-that Horato Seymour heads the ticket
THE New York Mail is of opinion tina,
the president is about the only leader, wor
thy the name, that the Republican party
now has.
THE Colored Republican Club of Win
chester, Virginia, last week passed resolu
tion refusing to recognize any minister Of
the gospel as political leader.
WADE HAMPTON "The South should
put itself promptly and emphatically on rec.
ord in support of settled financial policy
a settled currency and settled country"
1T is said that Judah p. Benjamin. the
famous ex-confederate lawyer in London, is
very likely to be appointed to vacancy on
the bench in the British court of exchequer.
THE Wilmington, North Carolina, Pos,
says that not one in ten Of the white families
of the South take any sort of newspaper, and
that where one is taken it must give opin-
ions, not news.
SPRINGFIELD Republican: at has cost
the city of Brooklyn $500 to bury an alder
man, but lots of cities could make money
by burying their entire city governments at
twice the price,
KANSAS Republicans are prepared to back
Governor st. John, who has gained consider
able reputation through his connection with
the colored refugees, for the second place on
The national ticket.
The revenue has lost 100000 by the
Democratic tobacco legislation, yet no man
has purchased his narcotic any cheaper than
before. But for the revival of business the
loss would have been greater.
GOVERNOR BLACKBURN of Kentucky
reaps the doubtful reward of $4,000 car
riage, which the grateful gamblers of Louis
vile have secured as present, in return for
$4,000 in fines RENTED for the fraternity.
IT really looks as if the "best society ;"
this New Year will abandon the practice of
giving wine or spirits to young men out call
ing. The ladies' have taken hold of the mat
ter in New York, Philadelphia and other
leading cities.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Tribune
says that leaning toward Tilden is grow.
ing apparent in the Democratic press of
Indiana, twenty-five papers having declared
for him. Probably they have a realizing
sense of what carried Indiana in 1876.
PRESIDENT HAYES has appointed John
G.. Jones, a wellknown colored man of Chi
cago, as commissioner of the government to
go to Cuba, for the purpose of investigating
the alleged sale of colored people of this
country into slavery in the West Indies.
THE New York Tribune now publishes
Sunday edition. 1t claims that it has been
forced to it by its patrons. That is where
the country weeklies have the advantage of
their metropolitan contemporary. Nobody
ever urges them to issue a Sunday edition.
THE bulldozing INDUCED in in the recent
Louisiana election will have the effect to
give new impulse to the negro exodus.
The most prominent opposer of it week
since has just announced his conversop,a1fd
favors general exodus of the race to IN.
sas. This man is Pinchback, colored
leader and strong man.
THERE is quite fund accruing from the
income of undisturbed bounty money due
to colored soldiers, and Senator Bailey pro-
poses that the interest of the amount, now
some 100000, be divided among the lead
ing educational institutions in the South,
for colored people, year by year. 1t GER
tainly belongs to the dusky race.
WASHINGTON Star: Senator Thurman
ment from politics much to heart. The
other day in the senate chamber, friend
complimented him upon the receipt of the
handsome bouquets that ornamented his desk.
'Oh yes replied the senator, some kind
friends have sent these to decorate my po-
litical cofhn.'"
UTICA New York; Herald: Wherever
the Republicans planted their banner firmly
for hard money and unconditional resump.
ton, there they met with their most crafty
lug triumphs. Wherever they followed the
temporizng and cowardly policy to which
the Republican leaders in congress now in
cline, there they wasted their strength, and
gave aid and comfort to the enemy"
CHARLESTON (South Carolina) News: " 1t
is just as well to recognize the fact that there
are some people in this state, and who are
neither knaves nor fools, whose thoughts are
seriously turning to Grant as the man for
1880; and if it were concluded that the Re-
publicans are going to win, and compel
everybody to write "Nation with a big
N, the number of these Grant folks down
here would be strangely multiplied"
VIcKsBURG Herald: "The ballot-box re-
turns from Silver Creek were particularly
Yazooish. There was some five hundred
majority there for the Independents, and
this majority was represented by ballot
box which was returned to Yazoo City and
contained two pens and an ink-stand. And
yet Senator Bayard complains that his Dem
ocratic friends in the South are not ere
'pected," and not given places of "honor"
in the government.
JOHN ScoTT, leading colored man of
North Carolina, has gone to Indiana with
his first installment of colored people, one
hundred and twenty-five in number. He re-
ports in Washington that four hundred
more will leave when he returns and reports
in regard to location, and that two thousand
more will leave before spring. At the sug-
gestion of the planters who oppose the
exodus, the railroads have raised the fare to
Washington from six to ten dollars.
The Boston Herald says Barksdale, the
murderer of Captain Dixon, the Independ.
ent candidate in Yazoo county, Mississippi,
has been acquitted by grand jury which
the local newspaper of that place pronounces
to be one of the most respectable and i'm
partial that ever came together. If this
comment is correct, all that we can say is,
that we are heartily glad that fate never in
trusted the safety of our person or property
to the guardianship of the average citizen
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