Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-02
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POPULAR cooking schools at New York,
Boston, Washington and other cities mark
national progress.
New YORK Herald Washington special :
"What is remarked here in general is that
too many of the democrats, coming after
twenty years once more into the control of
both houses of Congress, act rather as per.
sons who have fallen heirs to great fortune
than as people upon whom very serious
responsibility has devoved."
THE Boston Pilot says: awe drank last
year one million five hundred thousand gal
Ions more beer and six million five hundred
and twenty thousand gallons less spirituous
liquors than in 1877" What an old guzzler
the Pilot must have been Still, this is an
exceptional case, for the general tendency is
to less beer and more whiskey.
BANGOR has been city for forty-five
years. 1t was settled one hundred and ten
years ago. But William II. Brown, the re-
Gently elected mayor, is the first native of
the city ever chosen to fill that Office. This
is a little singular, but Westward the
course of empire takes its way" and the
smart young men who might have aspired
to the highest honors of the city have gen.
orally gone West.
ALBANY Journal: "The current of events
and discussion clearly points to the true
democratic ticket for lSS0-Tilden and jeff
Davis. Tilden to represent the incorrupti.
bic virtue and reform of the party, and
Davis to represent its fervid and undying
patriotism the union of the two to repre-
sent the union of the North and South
under democratic auspices. Let the demo-
cratic watchword be Tilden, jeff Davis and
democracy"
A VERY shrewd political observer, who
watches the situation with an unprecedented
eye, says that if Mr.. Tilden should be unable,
by reason of his physical condition, to be the
democratic candidate in 1880, then the
chances are that David Davis will be the
most available man to harmonize all the
democratic difficulties. He can beat Grant.
Let us hope that such good fortune is in
store for the country Washington Letter TO
Boston Herald
THE Memphis (Tenn.) Herald is credited
with the following statement A drover
was found dead at Fifteen-NIle Bayou, near
st. Francis river. A jury held an inquest
and brought in verdict in accordance with
the facts; after which the squire, noticing
pistol on the person of the dead man, again
called the jury together, who found him
guilty of carrying concealed weapons and
fined him twenty-five dollars, and some stock
Of the dead man was then sold to pay the
fine"
New YORK Herald: ain our Judgment
the sole feasible method of government OF
American collegians, between the ages Of
sixteen and twenty-five consists in an ap
peal to their honor as gentlemen scholars
| and admitting them to limited self.govern
ment, by means of class officers of theil
own election. 1t is self-evident that the
amount of self-government which can be
conceded to collegians must vary with theil
| average age, but such institutions as Ilar
ward, Yale, Cornell, Princeton, Amherst
etc., are frequented by class of student,
who really exercise self-government in many
Of the most interesting concerns of col
legiate life"