Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-19
Notes and Notions.

CHICAGO Inter Ocean: "The tendency OF
the democratic party is shown IN the fact
that its leaders and representative men APP
pear as the eulogists of jeff Davis"
BURLINGTON (Iowa) Hawttye. "The
Forty-ffth Congress will be noted in history
as the one which had more good words for
jeff Davis than for George Washington"
A PROJECT is said to be on foot among
leading Southern politicians to divide Texas
into five states, in order to increase the po-
litical strength of the South, and render it
even more solid than it is now.
THE exact figures in regard to Chinese
immigration for 1878 at the San Francisco
custom house show that sixty-six hundred
and seventy.fve arrived and six thousand
and seventy-one departed net remainder,
six hundred and four.
IT is reported that the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, as re-
siduary legatee of the late Deacon Otis, of
New London, Conn, will come into posses
sion of property the estimated value OF which
is over half a million OF dollars.
NORTH CARoLINAs legislature must GER
tainly have the medal for disinterested pub
lie spirit. Not finishing the business in the
constitutional sixty days they are paid for
they sat six days longer for nothing, in order
to dispose of their unfinished business.
BUTLER is perfecting his machinery for
an active and efficient Fall campaign in
Massachusetts, His agents are now engaged
in getting the lay Of things by sending out
circulars to friends of his cause, asking the
names and politics of the selectmen of the
various towns.
ST.. LOUIS GioJe-Democrdt: The extra
session is another of those little helps which
the kindly fates have scattered along the
public pathway of U. S. Grant. 1t is one
of those magnificent opportunities for fool
ishness which the democrats have never
been known to throw away"
THE New York Sun sees thing or two.
1t says Z" If Grant or some other Republican
is preferred, the sooner the untamed South
ern element strikes out from the shoulder
the better. Senator Lamar's recent eulogy
on JEFF Davis has fully prepared the wGy."
The Sun senses the popular feeling.
The democratic majority in Congress
seem determined to make prophetic the
warning language of the New York Sun !:
"With the combined odor of secession and
proAigate misappropriaton of the public
money attached to it, the democratic party
would soon stink so in the nostrils of the
people that they would bury it under huge
independent majorities."
CINCINATTI Commercial: "The hopes of
Senator Thurman's friends for the nomina-
ton for the Presidency are predicted upon
the election of their state ticket in Ohio this
fall. Flushed with victory in one of the
closest contested states of the Union, and a
state whose political Importance is hardly
second to that of New York itself, they
would go into the national convention and
demand the nomination of Thurman as the
one man who can carry Ohio in $780,"
IT is stated that recent confessions which
are to be used in prosecutions against ballot
box frauds in Florida show that the demo-
Gratis in 1876 made changes in the returns of
one county sufficient, if they were corrected
to conform to the vote, to take the state out
of the list of doubtful in the election of 1876
and make it Republican on the face of the
returns by so large a majority that if every
thing which the democrats claimed before
the canvassing board had been conceded to
them the Republicans would still have been
hundreds ahead
The Springfield Republican is the last
paper in the world that would be suspected
Of endorsing extreme or radical Republican
measures; but it has this to say of the great
question now pending =" 1t is no ordinary
blunder which the democrats in Congress;
are committing by their assault on the cleo
| ton laws. They are menacing the nationa
safety at the point where danger is already
great, and keenly realized by the people
the purity of elections" These are weighty
words coming from such a source.
THE wrestling match between Mclaughlin
the Boston Theatre, on the 18th Install, in
the presence of about three thousand spec
tators. Each man won fall, and aftel
working for four hours the match was de
clared draw. The referee allowed a thirc
fall for Mclaughlin, which occasioned con
siderable dissatisfaction among the audi
ence, whereupon Mclaughlin stated that HI
made no claim for the fall, and the wrestler'
went on with their work. The match wa!
$500 side and the collar and elbow cham
pionshp of the world. McAlahon is unques
tionably the more scientific of the two, thu
superhuman strength of the Detroit mar
being most prominent.
AN esteemed subscriber from Martinton
ILL.,, who is evidently warm friend of Sen
tor Logan, objects to a statement of our
some weeks since, when, in speaking of this
Senator, we said; The result of his elec
ton is greatly deplored as Logan cannot b.
regarded as other than a most unfit man TO
the place" Our correspondent resides nea
Logan's birthplace, and is naturally infecte
with local pride in the various successe
which he has won in life. To those VIII
live at distance, however, the various pc
litical summersaults of this gentleman hav
not endeared him, nor from them does he con
mand the respect which they accord to hun
dreds of other citizens of that state whom
they know, and whom they have learned
respect aud honor.
In making up the roll of the new Hous
, Clerk Adams is required to accept as electe
every man bringing a certificate showing b
r is elected in accordance with the laws of tn
state and the United States. He discharge
a this duty fairly in making up the roll Of til
l Forty-ffth Congress. He had then n
e difficulty in deciding. Every certifcsi
: showing an affirmative title was admitte
, to the roll. Those which did not, were no
t Clerk Adams ought to have no difficulty
deciding now. The six members elected
October from Iowa show such case. III
l federal statute and the state constitute