Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-23
)URNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY %, 1879

ceremonial scenes in which the former has
been chief figure. -Four parts have already
been issued. Look out for the canvasser.
CHARLESTON Neps "Mr. Tilden skulked
in his handsome rooms in Gramercy park
while his friends did the fighting for him.
They were beaten, and now he tells them
that they ought TO have known better II
he was wisest among his political com
panions,' why did he not give TO them, TO
the people who elected him, the benefit of
his wisdom The more closely his conduct
is scrutinized the more inconsequential aad
wishy-washy IL appears"
OpposE an earnest reformer and he is
pretty sure to consider you a bad fellow.
Washington and Jefferson college at Wash
ington, Pennsylvania, gains $4,000 by this
popularity of DIR. lie Moyne, the cremation
ist. The doctor had willed 100000 to a
Pittsburg son who displayed great interest in
the celebrated furnace for cremating the dead,
but who recently buried dead boy of his.
The boss cremationist at once dsinherited
the unfaithful son, and turns half of his ex.
pected thousands over TO the college.
The first week in July the Bank Of Eng
land held &35,143,525 in coin and bullion,
which is the largest amount ever collected
at one time in its vaults. The same week
the cash in the Bank of France amounted to
s00,000,000, while the coin and bullion held
by the Bank of Germany reached nearly
f2S,0O0,O00. Thus the treasure held by
these three great institutions was the almost
incredible amount of fl53000,000. This
great accumulation of wealth in the banks
is owing to the depression in trade.
A TERRIBLE tornado, causing immense
destruction of property and great loss of
life, occurred in Massachusetts on Wednes-
day OF last week. 1t seems to have been
one of series of similar occurrences through
out the country, although very infrequent
abouts has been marked by large number
of thunder storms and general disturbance
of the elements-entirely remarkable for
this section of country where tranquility
and prosperity have for so long been accus-
toned to hold sway. Let us have peace"
JOHN B. GoUGH recently said at Liverpool :
"Why, honestly believe that there is no
single power in Great Britain which so in
| fuences British character and so sways the
material and moral destinies of the British
people as that influence which sits enthroned
on the beer butts of Burton There is
large class Of good men, both in Great
Britain and America, who look upon beer
drinking as thing almost harmless-a very
good substitute, indeed, for rum and gin-if
only we could get people to drink it. Well,
it is time all this we're changed. Beer is
the arch-enemy of our reform; upon beer
let us concentrate our special energies"
A SOLDIER of 1915 writes the Oxford
Democrat, a Maine paper, as follows al am
a laboring man, and let me give some facts
and figures to prove that the times are not
so hard as we are told. In 1868 I worked
for the town building road. received
$3.50 per day, and fluid by book kept by
trader where l bought my groceries that 1
paid al6.50 per barrel for flour, Sl.25 per
gallon for molasses, eighteen cents for sugar,
and everything in proportion. Well, now
get sll2t per day for the same work, and
pay SO for -four, forty-fve cents for molasses,
ten cents for sugar, and everything in that
proportion. That is what specie resumption
has done for me, and l wish it had come
long ago."
THE New York Times has very elaborate
article to prove that there was fraud in 1876,
as Tilden claims, but that the fraud was
wholly in his interest. 1t takes the official
statistics of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut in the North, aud Louisiana,
Mississippi and Florida in the South, and
shows that the Tilden claims and results
cannot be reconciled with reason and hon.
esty. The enormous increase in the popular
vote was out of all proportion to the increase
of population, and the ratio of voters to
population belied all previous experience
1t is commended that the claim to majority
of the popular vote is based upon votes fraud
ulently cast. The figures given amount to 8
moral demonstration of fraud.