Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-08
Notes and Notions.

met and in the party.
THE White House example is spreading
at Washington. Neither the members of
the Cabinet nor Speaker Randall provided
any intoxicating beverages for New Years
callers, while many private citizens served
only coffee and chocolate.
Consul MosBY, on leaving Washington
for his post in China the other day. told his
friends that he would return to Washing
ton on the 4th of March, 1881, to be present
at the Inauguration of General Grant as
President for third term"
A WOMAN in Waterproof, Louisiana,
writing to a Northern anti-slavery man, de-
clares that the atrocities practiced by the
democrats about election time exceed in
horror those of the Bashi-Bazouks in Bull
garia. This is pretty strong language, but
the lady says it can be proved.
The democrats are not quite as happy as
they were a few days ago, now that the
Blaine committee has found the ways and
means to pursue the Southern election
connection has been that Senator Blaine did
not do himself the justice to prosecute this
investigation in person.
VERY agreeable New Year reflection
The excess of exports from the United
States over imports for the twelve months
ending November Both was 5000, 300,741,
against Sli0723620 for the same period
last year. An increase of over sixty per
cent. in the balance of trade in our favor in
one year is very healthy sign,
The legislature of Colorado met last week,
as did that of Indiana. The New York
legislature met yesterday in the new Capitol
that of Missouri and Illinois on the Sth Ito
day. that of Kansas meets on the 14th, and
that of Nevada met on Monday the 9th. In
each of these states there is Senator to elect,
to take his seat on the 4th of March, 1879.
CHARLESTON Is. c. Neos g. Courier:
"a pound of raw cotton will now buy as
much goods as two and half pounds of
cotton would buy thirty years ago. Hard
pan and resumption are at the bottom of it.
We sell cheaper, but we buy cheaper. South
Carolina can live and grow rich. The state
can rise more surely than any new state can
rise. These are the conditions Economy,
hard work and hard money"
SENATOR JONES, of Nevada al think
the general feeling throughout the North
and extending as far as the Pacific coast, is
Indifference about the South. Our people
seem to have made up their minds that the
South has always been overestimated, and
does not contain sincere elements of patriot
ism or good behavior. do not know that
there is any bitterness toward them. The
feeling is rather disgust, as toward some
worthless kinsman."
The Vicksburg, Miss, Herald gives this
warning d" 1t is worse than folly to ask the
people OF the South to follow the lead of
such men as Randall. Some of the Repub-
licans at the North are certainly ADLER and
better than many of our so-caled friends,
and when they begin to seek strength with
the white people, where it is to be found
and by kindness, look out for cracking
among the old timbers. The hide-bound
democrats of the North will have to stand
aside"
Miss MuLocH, the English authoress
says at is ever question, seeing how
deeply rooted and widely-spreading in every
class is the curse of our country, drnk-not
perhaps, bestial drunkenness, but the slow
consuming habit of perpetual drinking-it
is question, I say, whether the next gen
Grafton may not act upon the principle that
the only means of stopping this will be by
legal compulsion, namely, to make the sale
Of alcohol in every form subject to the SAINT
penal restrictions as the sale of poison"
SOME of the evidence as to the buldozinl
and assassinatious in Louisiana during thu
late political campaign is being mad'
public. The report of United States Dis
trict- Attorney Leonard shows that from
fifty to seventy-five negroes were killed il
) Caddo parish, a large number in Tensa
: parish, and that several prominent local Re
publicans were killed in Ouachita. If thi
"a sample of the evidence which the in
curry will bring out, it is no wonder tina
the democrats are throwing cold waite
upon it.
A WASHINGTON letter says "Ever sine
the exhibition which Beverly Douglas mad
upon the floor of the House at the last SEES
sion, the weakness which ultimately cause'
his death has been matter of public note
riety, but comparatively few know che be
ginning of his unfortunate habit Dougla
was major in the confederate army, and
on one occasion, in a fit of passion, shot on
of his own soldiers. Remorse at the though
chat he had killed one of his own men with
out sufficient reason preyed upon his mind
and ultimately brought him into morbic
condition, which drove him to the excessiv
and almost constant use of the stronges
liquors"
THERE is significant contrast between
the "pomp and circumstances attending
the movements of the new Governorgenera
of Canada and his royal wife, and those o
the Chief Magistrate of the great republi
this side the border. President Hayes an,
his wife walk to church on Sunday, simpl
dressed, and wearing or doing nothing t
attract special attention. There is sti
, enough popular reverence for the dignity q
authority to cause their movements to b
. eagerly watched by curious eyes aud t
prompt many special attentions. 1t is chrol
icled that on recent Sunday geutlema
:, sitting behind the official pew took out hi
handkerchief and carefully brushed III
j rain drops from the Presidents coat cola
h WALTON DWIGHT, who lately died a
). Binghamton, N. Y, with his life Insured fc
g a quarter of million, left by his will tie
a thousand dollars for Christmas dinners
the poor of Binghamton, five thousand do
! lars for an annual dinner to the fire depar
:, ment, and the following requests to tn
, press To the press of Binghamton 800
a in kindly recollection of their always earne'
efforts to assist me in the promotion of an
project that would work to the future int
- est of the city, the annual interest to /