Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-03
Notes and Notions.

| The Greenback vote at state elections this
year has been only about one-third of what
it was at the state elections last year.
THE Republicans carried twelve states
this fall, viz: Ohio, Iowa, Maine, New York,
Nebraska, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey,
California, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts,.
ONE of the most remarkable results of the
late election in Virginia, was that in which
an old politician, who had been frequently
elected to the Legislature, was defeated by
his former slave.
THE Hartford Cnurdnt says "Since our
tramp law was passed, Connecticut has had
the quiet of old days all through the state"
And the same, we think, is substantially
true of Vermont.
UNITED STATES SuB-TREAsURER KEN
NARD of Boston was given s75O,OOO of sill
yer dollars for distribution. He disbursed
$780, of them, but they all came back,
and brought S56S59 more with them.
| BUFFALO Commercial: "When the Demo-
cratic brethren arose on the fifth of Novem-
Der and took survey of the field, just one
solitary oasis gladdened their eyes in all the
dreary wastes of Republican success. That
blooming spot was Yazoo.'
New YORK World: {" If free and frank
meeting of minds between General Grant
and the people of the South shall tend to
disntegrate alike the solid South aud
the solid North greater benefits may flow
from it to both sections perhaps than Gen
eral Grants especial friends just now an
ticipate."
VIcKsBURG (MississippD Herald: ain
Claiborne, Yazoo, Harrison, Kinds, and in
fact all over this state, there are many peo-
Union sentiments recently expressed by
General Toombs. The woods is full of
EN- And that is what's the matter with
the South"
GENERAL RUFUS Ingalls, "Would
Grant accept don't know. don't think
anybody knows. don't believe his wife
knows. 1t depends upon how it is presented
to him. If it is offered, supposing that he
wishes it, he will decline. If it is offered
to him as by the voice of the great mass of
the people of this country, if their wishes
and interests demand it, he will accept"
THE young Republicans of Quincy, Mas
sachusetts, gave Governor-elect Long re-
ception Monday evening. Charles Francis
Adams, Jr., presided. In his opening re-
marks he expressed surprise at being in
vited to preside, as he was not very young,
nor much of Republican, but he voted
for Governor Long, and thought he deserved
some credit for so doing, as he voted against
his own brother.
THOMAS A. EDISON, the New York Sun
says, will exhibit his electric light in full
working order Christmas day. The difficult
problem of dividing the current so that it
will flow on from lamp to lamp, instead of
exhausting itself on one, has been solved by
the invention of an entirely new generator.
From single generator one hundred and
sixty lights are supplied, each of sixteen
candle power, at cost so far below gas
that Edison says that no competition can
exist.
CHICAGO Tribune: "Those who opposed
Grants denomination at the close of his
second term out of respect to useful tradi-
ton may consistently and honorably wei.
come his return to public life now or in the
future, for the countrys good. He would
return as Washington became commander.
in-chief of the army for brief period after
being president two terms, or as John
Quincy Adams went into the lower house of
Congress after he had occupied the chair of
chief executive. If Grant be again candi-
date for president, it will be at call from
the representative party of the nation so
unanimous and so urgent that no man can
assert fairly that duty should prompt him to
decline, while majority of the American
people will undoubtedly declare at the polls
that it was his duty to accept"