Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-06-04
Notes and Notions.

mead when ne says kepuDican victories arr
assured in the Northern states because thu
4" Democracy have shown an utter incapacit,
to govern either the country or themselves.
The British government of India offer
a long four and hall. per cent. loan Of only
s250oO,0 and is delighted to find takers
of IL at ninety-four, while our United States
four and half per cents are quoted above
one hundred and seven.
RoBERT LINCOLN and Stephen A. Dougla.
are both practicing law in Chicago, and both
are prominent in their respective political
parties. IL is suggested that Illinois may
some day be again called upon to vote for
either Lincoln or Douglas.
| BUFFALO Commercial advertiser. "Demo
cratic leaders in Congress threaten that il
the Republicans don't come to terms they
will continue the session through the Sum
mer. From political point of view the
Republicans could wish for nothing better.
THE state treasurer of Louisiana informs
the members of the constitutional conven
ton that there is in his vaults 1888 with
which to pay the $4,000 of salaries of mem
bers due to the present time. lie cannot
borrow dollar, and taxpayers are delinquent
BosToN Trdvetier: "The nomination OF
General Grant would make the event as
clear in 1850 as the same nomination made
the event clear in 1868; and we really have
not the right TO give defeat at least an equal
chance when victory invites our acceptance
Of her greatest favors."
EX-SENATOR Alcorn of Mississippi says
"The ballot box in this state has been, and
is to-day, thoroughly prostituted. Ballot
box stuiIing, while equally effective, is more
humane than the bulldozing, shotgun policy
of the past In this take pleasure in re-
cording an improvement"
CoNGREss has passed bill appropriating
100000 TO aid in clearing up Southern cit
les and preventing the scourge of yellow
fever the coming summer. II handsome
thing to do, but it must be little humilia.
ting to sticklers for state sovereignty to see
the national government step in to do the
states work.
MEMPHIS Avdlanche. "The ferocity ex
hibited in Congress by so many Northern
and Southern brigadiers suggests that they
did not fight enough during the late I'M
pleasantness. This may be due to the fact
that a majority OF them didn't begin til
1865, when the boys in blue and in gray
pitched their guns into the fence-corners
and went home"
VIcKsBURG (Miss.) Herald: "Our citi
zens have deprecated, deplored, denounced
published, and done everything but tax,
the law in their own hands, yet crime in
creases. 1t was bad last year it is wors,
this. We positively believe that Mississippi
averages one murder per day, and we have
perhaps, better means of securing informa
ton than almost any other person in the
state"
New York Sun: $50 Grantism ha.
failed the first time it has been brought K
an actual test Thus, we predict, it viii
continue to fail. Sherman is stronger thar
Grant-as the living are stronger than the
dead. Sherman proved stronger in Ohio
aud nominated Foster. He bids fair t.
prove stronger in the National Republican
| Convention, where we expect to see hin
nominate himself Well, it is glory enough
for one day to defeat the thrd-term move
ment. We are content"
Mr.. JUSTICE MILLER, of the United
States Supreme Court, said, to the Bar Asso
citation of Des Moines, Ia, that the day ha.
passed in this country when, except in
limited class of cases, the verdict of iur,
can be won, or will be permitted to stan,
when won, unless it is in accord with tn
view of the court as to the law of the case
and that there is no more fatal deluson TO
a promising young lawyer than to lay out
AS one Of the purposes of his life, to viii
verdicts by eloquent appeals to juries.
GAINESVILLE (Ga) Southron We hav'
no objection to Uncle Samuel as democra
and a pretty clever old wire-puller, but W
have decided objection to pandering +
New York politicians any longer. We hav
tried Seymour, Greeley (God forgive us)
and Uncle Sam. We got busted in som
way or other on all. Now let us take goo,
man from some other state, and if New Yorl
can't go democratic without she puts up tn
candidate TO be defeated, let her ago b
grass" and we will take seven or eight o
the smaller states in her stead and win tn
President by small means and good man.
of them, which is better than large defea
in the electoral college.