Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-13
Notes and Notions.

DETROIT Post and Tribune: Now that
Tilden has filed another barrel by the rise
of elevated railroad stock, ought he to be
called a double-barreled candidate 2"
The wheat crop of De- Glenn, the Demo-
cratic and the " Hon. Bilks candidate for
governor of California, will furnish cargoes
for twenty ships, and cost some 100000 for
freight alone.
REPRESENTATIVES, FISHER Of Pennsylva-
MIA, who has been on a tour through the
state, reports that fifty thousand more work.
men are employed than last year; which he
rightly assumes to be bad thing for the
Greenback party.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS has new
grievance against the Republicans. He says
they impose a tax on poor man If he at
tempts to make medicine for his family out
of his corn. This is putting the whiskey
question in new light.
The New Orleans Democrat claims that
the Mrs. Dorsey property willed TO Jeff.
Davis will not aggregate over $4,000.
Brooklyn relatives of the dead woman, who
talk of contesting the will, have put the
value of the legacy at s250,00O.
BRANDON Union: Governor Stewart of
Middlebury is the coming man from this
district. He could have been nominated
and elected last year had he allowed the use
Of his name, but next year he will most Ger.
tainly succeed Colonel Joyce in Congress-"
W. II. II. MURRAY" Heaven is not pop
ulated with singing thieves, or palm-bearing
bankrupts, who settle with their creditors at
twenty-five cents on the dollar Wednesday,
and ride TO church next Sabbath in thou
sand dollar coach, with man in livery on
the box"
CHICAGO Times: "If there be no practical
remedy for these manifestations at the South
of Mechanism in the forms of law and
judicial procedure, then remedy will be
found in the solidity of Northern civiliza-
ton against Southern barbarism. Of this
Southern men can be very sure"
A CAREFUL correspondent OF the Cncin-
natl Gdsehe estimates the coming vote of
Ohio as follows Foster, $4,000; Ewing,
30S,956; Piatt, 1889; Stewart, 4,lS2. The
vote last year was Republican, 274,120 (;
Democratic, 270766; Greenback, 3S,332 !;
Prohibition, 56S2.
The Kentucky election returns show no
change from last year, in the general result,
though there has been great falling off in
the aggregate, nearly fifty thousand on the
Tilden and Cooper votes. The shrinkage in
Louisiana was eight thousand. Slight gains
in the Legislature are reported for the Re-
publicans.
INDIANAPOLIS Journal: :" If Senator Voor-
hees would take Secretary Sherman's speech
and go off beside the warhling Wabash, and
beneath the shade of some tall sycamore
study long and earnestly the figures it con-
tains, he might afterward be able to con-
ceive how ridiculous he has appeared in all
his initiation harangues for two years past. y
LOUISVILLE Courier-Jomnai: With the
influx of capital, the widespread establish
ment of manufactures, the general diffusion
of free educational facilities the energzing
| influence of healthful immigration, the
Southern people can afford to let the tongue
of vile SANDER wag,, for their prosperity
| will make them potential factors in the
great Union of states"
CHICAGO Tribune: "Mr. Tilden has sold
| his elevated railroad stock. He is in cash
funds, and he knows how to place them
where they will do the most good. Mr.
Tilden will not retire to Gramercy park
| He will hold on to the Democratic leader
| ship so long as there is Democratic party
to lead, and il is fit that he should. He re
presents both its bourbonism and its diabol
ism; he is worthy of it, and it is worthy Of
| him."
CHICAGO Times: "The eight-hour agita
tors denounce the departments at Washing
ton, and more especially the navy depart
ment, because of the number of workingmer
it employs, and for not enforcing the eight
hour law of congress. As a matter of fact
| Sooioe"iy ihoiPSoh ohiPioyo al WIG hiol
in the yards on the basis of eight hours pei
day. He pays on that basis and allows ex
ira pay to those who choose to work tel
hours. They all choose to work ten hours
and earn ten hours pay"
PROFESSORS HoUsToN and Thomson o.
Philadelphia have undertaken to prove that
the whole power of Niagara Falls can be
conveyed by means of electricity five hun
bred miles or more along a copper cable moi
exceeding half an inch in thickness SAC
cordingly," says writer in the Popular
Science Monthly, "such query as Wha
shall we do when our coal fields are ex
hausted :? need cause us no anxiety, fol
centuries before this possibility shall bt
realized opine the world will no longer
stand in need of them"
DR.. w. IL. VAIL, writer on scientific
topics, says " | look forward to the time
and believe it is not far distant, when W,
shall have heating gas laid through the
streets of our cities and towns side by side
with lighting gas and water mains, and
when our mills and factories and workshops
our parlors and kitchens will be supplied
with heat from that source, and when fire:
of wood and coal, with their abomination,
of dirt aud ashes, aud extravaganza, will be
looked upon as nuisances of the good old
times when they knew no better"
| CINCINNATI Commercial: +" We have re
sumed, and gold is coming from England
We have remonetized silver, and Germany
the nation that disturbed the world in seek
ing TO establish the gold standard with the
French indemnity, acknowledges her errol
and co-operates with us, that the two pre-
cious metals shall be united, nevermore tc
be divided Can any one imagine the peo
Pile Ohio to be so degraded in intelligence O
subservient to ignorant and reckless part,
leaders as to vote a want of confidence in tn
policy that yields these magnificent results2'
A NEW and important enterprise has beef
set on foot in Maryland by party of Ger
man capitalists, who have made arrange
ments to engage in the manufacture o
sugar from beets in the vicinity of Balti
more 1t is claimed that seed from Ger
| MANY has been tested ON a MARYLAND farm