Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-19
Notes and Notions.

THE democratic house of the Alabama
legislature has elected colored chaplain.
JUDGE FLEMING, the successor of the late
Congressman Hartridge. of Georgia, is sew
enty-four years old.
THE United States Circuit Court at New
Orleans, Judges Woods and Billings presid.
ing, has decided that the federal electional
law is constitutional
THE National Republican, "Give us an
extra session of Congress and at the same
time get the bells ready to toll the death
knell of the democracy"
THE gre enbackers come TO the front once
more in Washington with the claim that
they have seventeen members in the House
and hold the balance of power.
THE Wisconsin legislative democratic eau.
Gus has endorsed the position taken by Con
gresham Bragg in opposition to the pay.
ment of the Southern war claims.
THE Potter committee will devote the re-
mainder of the session to digesting the evil
dence already taken, and will not encourage
the effort TO extend the inquiry further
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald says, in a
late issue "Before we support any man for
United States Senator from this state we
intend to know whether he belongs to the
people he desires to represent or the North
ern democrats"
The ridiculous stuff about bulldozing in
Massachusetts finds no favor with the Potter
committee. When the matter was brought
before them the democrats declined to make
any recommendation. So the whole silly
business drops to the ground.
The subcommittee Of the House COM
mittee on appropriation, who have in charge
the preparation of a bill to meet the pay
ment of the arrearages of pensions, will rec
ommend an appropriation of s26,SO0,0OO,
which they consider sufficient
ALTHOUGH the national banking law for
bids the loaning of money on real estate,
the United States Supreme Court decides in
a test case that the debtors of national banks
cannot make the illegality of such loans a
valid excuse for evading their payment.
THE House has adopted an amendment
to the legislative bill dispensing with the
biennial examination of pensioners, the COM
missioner to have the power of ordering
special examinations when deemed neces-
sary, and of reducing or increasing pensions.
EVEN the fire-eating Charleston Neus says
that ain ninety-nine cases out of hundred
the claimants are traitors, spies or liars, and
there is no excuse for Southern democrat
advocating them, except that the money
will indirectly benefit his section by being
spent there"
Buffalo Express: "Mr. Smith Weed is
Indispensable to Mr.. Tilden He frequently
has to eat the old gentleman's breakfast for
him, and the other day he went to the dem
lists and had one of Mr.. Tilden's teeth
pulled, while the sufferer was down town
transacting business as usual
IMAGINE colored man calling such high
spirited democrats as Voorhees,, Eaton and
Ben Hill to order from the chair of the
United States Senate. Senator Bruce, of
Mississippi, presided one day last week, be-
ing the first colored man that ever sat in the
chair of that august body.
TILDEN rating Smith Weed about making
the proposition to the South Carolina can
vassing board, and saying that he never
would consent to become President by any
such means, was very pretty piece of act
ing, but, considering that it took place after
the negotiations had completely failed, it
was somewhat filmy in texture.
CHARLESTON g. c. News and Courier
"There is before the Union in 1880 a strug-
gle as important in its bearings upon the
fortunes of the republic as the election OF
1860 proved to be. Defeat at the next Pres.
i1ential election will destroy the democratic
party, and give the United States, if the
successful candiiat. be General Grant, their
last President"
Albany Journal: Z" AS rule, the journals
which are now attached TO either party, and
which claim to be independent-like the
Springfield Republican, the Boston Herdid
and the Philadelphia Times-regard the
outcome of the whole matter as leaving Mr.
Tilden in bad plight The conclusion OF
the representative organs of opinion, with
scarcely an exception, is adverse to him."
The Nation -" The present administration
will, at the end of its term, have rendered
the party three inestimable services in re
lieving it of responsibility for the condition
of the South, in restoring specific payments
and completing the refunding of the public
debt, and in effacing the remembrance OF
scandals of the Grant regime by four years
on the whole, pure and orderly government
WHILE the democratic Congressional
caucus was considering the question of in
serting section in one of the appropria
ton bills to repeal the law concerning tn,
qualifications of jurors, Southern demo
crat declared that the democratic majorit,
in the next House is only four; that two o
those are under indictment and liable to b,
sent to the penitentiary before Congress as
sembles, unless the law is repealed.
BosToN Advertiser: "Pelton couldn' rais
the money to pay his returning board bills
and had to leave his boarding place a
Gramercy Park. lie also incurred the dis
pleasure of his uncle, probably expressed
| affair th;s styla.
Il do not love thee, nephew Petonl
The reason why need not be dwet on;
For every blow you would have dealt on
The head of Hayes, hit M head, Peton.'
MISSISSIPPI is waking up to attend to it
own buldozers. A number of Wilkinson
county darkies were ordered TO leave thei
homes on some pretense, and started +
go, but a crowd of law-abiding citizen
started after the refugees and persuaded
them to return, by the promise of proteo
ton. Nine of the bulldozers were slappe,
into Jail at once, and the local deniocrati
sheet advocates the severest punishment fo
them that the law can inhict.
Civil Service.
The following is proof of the President