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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26
Power Of the Church.

The Christian Union well says "Botb
Roman Catholics and Professionals will do
well to bear in mind that the power of the
church ends with its power to infct spirit
ual penalties. Whatever authority the Al
mighty may be supposed to have placed in
the hands of the priesthood, the state in
America has reposed none if the priest has
the keys of the kingdom Of heaven, he Ger.
tainly has not the keys of the kingdom Of
earth. This has been again decided in a
case in the same state of Massachusetts,, in
which jury have just given verdict of
s3,433 damages against Roman Catholic
priest of Holyoke for having forbidden the
members of his church to use the hacks be-
longing to an excommunicated hackman.
The court held that our laws do not allow
any ecclesiastical authority to interdict a
man from pursuing his ordinary business,
or to prevent even the members of the same
denomination from which he has been ex.
communicated to deal with him. The same
principle was laid down by the courts of
Pennsylvania two years ago, in case in
which husband who had been excommuni-
Gated by Protestant sect was allowed TO re
cover judgment against the church for re-
curing his wife to leave him under pain Of
being accommodated herself"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26
Trade Marks.

The supreme court Of the United States
rendered decision last week which cannot
fail to produce great excitement and not
little CONSERVATION among the merchants
and manufacturers of the country. The
court pronounces what is known as the fed
eral trademark law unconstitutional. This
law provided for the registration of trade
marks and guaranteed protection against
imitation. There are now eight thousand
trademarks registered and two thousand ap-
plications pending. The court holds that
an ordinary trademark has no necessary re-
lation to an invention or a discovery; that
a manufacturer who asks that his trade
mark may be patented is not entitled to the
protection which is accorded to inventions,
discoveries and the writings Of authors. A
trademark is generally nothing more than
the adoption of something already in exist
ence, the outgrowth of considerable period
of use. 1t differs from machine or book,
in that no originality is involved in its pro-
duction. 1t does not depend upon novelty
in invention or discovery or any work of
the brain, but is simply founded upon prior
ity of appropriation. The court therefore
decides that the law is not authorized by the
constitutional provision concerning authors
and inventors and is an excess of congress
sional power. In virtue of this decision and
until some further legislation is had on the
subject, the honest merchants and manufac-
turers of the country will be, to certain
extent, at the mercy of the rascals who
infest every branch Of trade and manufac
ture. Those who have been protected by
registered trademarks in their sale Of goods
that have become "justly popular" can now
expect TO see the market flooded with coun
terfeits to the great detriment Of the publ,
and of legitimate business.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26
The New York I" Scratchers.v

The chairman and secretary of the indie.
pendent Republicans in New York, of which
George William Curtis is the leading spirit,
have issued an address summing up the work
accomplished in the campaign just closed.
They say 1.-THE Republican candidate for
governor of New York has been elected by
nearly 10000 plurality, thanks to about
$4,000 votes for the Tammauy candidate.
Without that help, Mr.. Cornell would have
been defeated by above 10000 votes. He
has run behind the ticket 500 in New York
city, 1887 in Brooklyn, and correspondngly
in nearly every part of the state. 1t is prob.
able that at least 10000 Republicans re-
jected Mr.. Cornell, some such votes being
offset and obscured by Tammany and canal
votes. The standard-bearer of the machine
is behind the one unquestioned man on the
ticket, Mr.. Wadsworth, more than $4,000
in majorities-a sufficient rebuke to the
methods and author of Mr. Cornell's nomi-
nation. Mr.. Soule, in more than 1900 ma
jority, is buried under the anti-corruption
vote. The rest Of the state ticket appears
to be elected by close vote, varied by un-
organized scratching. Mr. Conkling is re-
sponsible for thus endangering the loss of
"the pivotal state" True leadership and
good candidates would have assured the
complete success won with the old enthusi-
asm in other states. The committee con-
graduate Independent Republicans on the
significance of these results. The move.
ment, which was but the two months spon.
taneous work of business and professional
men unknown in politics, conducted at many
disadvantages and without aid from the
party press, makes it easier to accomplish
much more the next time, should another
issue be forced upon the party. Fair notice
has been given to the machine that the party
must rule it, and not it the party. The bal
auce of power in the state which will give
the casting vote in $780, resides, it ID
proved, with the Independent voters, and the
"Strong Man" needed to carry New York
repel, Republicans of conscience intelli
gence and memory"
The address closes as follows "Adher
ing to the Republican principles of nationa
supremacy, honest money, and administra
tive reform, as expressed in the platform O.
1876, the committee, in conclusion, desir,
to express their full belief that Republi
can candidate, whose character and recort
embody and fulfill these principles, and will
therefore be acceptable throughout the party
can and will be elected in 1880, and the.
appeal to all earnest Republicans TO see b
it. by the cultivation of an outspoken pub
lie sentiment, that no other shall be nomi
mated"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26
Farming In Kansas.


A writer in the atlantic Monthly for De.
cember gives somber picture Of the Kansas
farmers life. A recent tour through the
state has convinced him that these people
are very badly off and have little hope Of
anything better. He continually met per-
sons fleeing from the country, and was told
Of settlers who would go II they could find
the means Of getting away. He was as
sured by all he met that the small farmers
who had bought land upon credit could not
by any possibility get out Of debt or live
decently, and he found not few who with
out debts, and having neither interest nor
taxes to pay, could not get living. He
found the small farmers living in small
board shanties, fourteen feet square or a
little more, usually of one room only, un-
painted, without laths or plaster, or chin
neys, and with very little furniture. Another
style Of farm house, IL such den deserves
the name, is the dug out" hole in the
ground, with q roof of sticks, matched with
straw, hay or cornstalks. There are few
sod houses built up Of sods cut from the
prairie, and these may be made quite COM
Portable and of good appearance, but they
are infrequent. These rude habitations are
extremely squalid, and have depressing
effect upon traveller or new conner, but
they are what must be expected. The
really depressing part, If it is one, is that
even by submitting to so hard conditions
Of life the settler makes no progress toward
something better.
As might well be expected, the article, Of
which the above is but meager abstract,
has called forth a sharp reply. The Chicago
Inter Ocean takes up the cudgels for the
West, and opposes number Of hard facts
to the statements Of the magazines CORE
spondent. 1t alleges that agricultural Kan
sas, so far from being poorly of, is really in
most prosperous condition. 1t further
gives tabulated statement, showing that
during the last seven years Kansas has
steadily and rapidly increased in the i'm
portant item of wheat growing. The in
crease in single year, from 1877 to 1878,
in the aggregate acreage of winter and
spring wheat was six hundred and fifty.six
thousand eight hundred and nineteen acres.
Another table shows that there has been
proportionate increase in live stock. The
reply, which is lengthy, is full Of such knock
down arguments.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

MAISE.-Since the Republicans of Maine
applied to the supreme court for writ Of
mandamus, requiring the governor and coun'
Gil to open the official returns for inspection
and correction, as provided by law, there
seems to have been yielding on the part
of the bourbon schemers, and the governor
and council now give notice that they will
be in session from the LIST to the 18th OF
December for the purpose of examining the
official returns, and candidates claiming
Irregularities or other causes presumed To
vitiate elections will have reasonable oppor
tunity TO be heard personally or by duly au
thorized counsel. There is reason to hops
that this hiehhanded plot will eventually be
abandoned.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

MORE TRIuMPHs.-Ther recognition Of the
superiority Of American agricultural imple-
nents at the Paris exposition of 1873 proves
to have been complete aud is highly hatter-
ing to inventors and manufacturers. Eleven
special prizes, in addition to the customary
medals, were awarded in this department
for the exceptional merit Of machines as ex-
hibited in the field. Seven Of these prizes,
which were beautiful Sevres vases valued at
one thousand francs each, have just been re-
ceived in this country, one of them going to
ID. M. Osborne & Co. Of Auburn, New York,
for their harvesting machines, which are
probably the most perfect Of any now made
in the world. II was significant that the
English exhibitors were unwilling TO per
NIT test Of the machines in the field, and
that only two Or three Of them entered for
| competition.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

WAGES IN CALIFoRNIA.--A Sacramento
letter oorreots souue erroneous Impressions In
regard to the price Of labor in the golden
state. 1t says Some people have the idea
that here gold can be dug in any place, but
l have yet to strike lead. The prices for
labor here are ridiculously low, compared
with prices in "the states" as they call the
East here. The Central Pacific railroad
shops are the whole life of the city, and in
good times employ one thousand men, pay
ing from two to three dollars per day for its
best hands. Outside of the trades that the
Chinese cannot enter into competition with
white labor, prices are good; and in the
trades that Chinese enter they have it all
their own way, thus making it obligatory
for white labor to seek other fields, and, of
course, overcrowding them. The Central
Pacific is employing three hundred men
and boys in filling up Suffer lake; and its
price one dollar for men and fifty cents for
boys per day, pay every night and board
themselves. Thus the laboring man who
comes here expecting to find bonanza will
find it like the songster's farm in Kansas
ain the mind"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26
The New French Cable.

This latest Atlantic cable, which was
completed last week, runs from the shores
of Cape Cod to st. Pierre, the southernmost
of the Miquelon group of French islands off
Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, thence it
crosses the Atlantic direct to Brest, on the
French coast.
The owners of the French cable-the
company is composed of French and Ameri-
can stockholders, the French being the con-
trolling interest-claim that it is superior
to anything yet invented for submarine tele-
graphic purposes. 1t is described as con-
sisting of central wire of copper sur
rounded by ten twisted copper wires. Thus
absolute conductivity is insured in all
weathers. For insulating purposes three
envelopes of gutta psrcha surround the
wire, and outside of these is placed wrap
ping Of MANILA hemp. Inclosing the whole
is an armor of steel wire surrounded by
another layer of MANILA hemp saturated
with an anti-corrosive compound. The mana
gers Of the undertaking express themselves
as thoroughly satisfied that neither possible
nor impossible sea-serpents nor any other
hostile forces will be able to get the cable
out of order.
On the completion of this new line the
Anglo-American cable reduced its rates to
twelve and one-half cents word-the low
est they have ever been. The rate was one
hundred dollars in gold for ten words when
the old line began business in 1866, which
was reduced to one dollar word in 1869.
A cable telegraph war in 1875 reduced the
tariff to twenty-five cents per word for
three weeks, but 1t was soon restored to
seventy-fve cents, the point where the pres
emit reduction finds it. This rivalry is
bound to exist in all the future, since the
new company is expressly precluded, &C.
cording to the terms of its grant, from pool
ing its issues with any other ocean cable
oNrrNopu
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26
Our Boston Letter.

Bosros November 10, 1879
MesTs. Editors II Boston, although the reputed
home Of more than Its quota OF sages and phiIoso-
pliers, and the Hub around which the universe
rolls is like many other portions OF tho habitabe
world, subject to the vicissltudes Of wind and
storm, OF heat and cold, as the extremes Of the
past week have clearly proven.
THE ELECTION
excitement Is over and ratification meetings have
given place to jolhcation on the part OF the Re
publicans, and observable but pardonable depres
sion on the part Of their opponents. The canvass
was vigorous one throughout the state. though
noticeably lacking the humor OF last year. There
seems to have been greater earnestness and les'
certainty Of success on tho part Of
oRSRRAL BUTLER
and his followers. The general accepts the re
suit with provoking good nature. and may b'
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

The Com AND WHEAr CRor.-The latest
returns from the corn crop show an increase
of two hundred million bushels over last
year. When we consider that our crop last
year was very large one, this is an extra
ordinary increase. The increase in the
wheat crop is twenty million bushels more
than last year, when our surplus of wheat
was also very large. 1t is evident that we
can supply Europe with all the wheat and
corn that is wanted.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

WELL PUT.-The Utica Herald says
"No less than eighty-two thousand Repub
lcans, who voted for Morgan in 1875, re
fused to heed the appeals Of the late cam
paign, and Mr.. Cornell goes into Office with
out the aid Of their votes. Those votes will
all be needed next year, If New York is tc
elect Republican president. The election
just past shows that they are not be dra
gooned by the cry that the welfare Of the
republic will be imperlled unless they con
sent to support candidate who does moi
command their confidence and respect"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

ALL WRoNG.-The difficulties growing
out of the financial Encouragement of
Archbishop Purcell have not yet been recti-
fed. The pope refuses to accept his resig-
nation or in any manner reflect upon his
conduct, and he still remains, therefore. the
authorized head of the Roman Catholic
church in Ohio. II the archbishop is re-
sponsible for his incorporation of poor
peoples money as private citizen, it is diff
fcult to see why he should not be treated as
such by the common law. II he is held to
be simply the agent Of the church, the
church should cancel the claims against
him. To allow the case to remain as ii
stands is discreditable and unjust.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

any MAN."-Of President Lincoln at the
Gettysburg dedication correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial gives some inter.
esting "reminiscences. An address was given
in the evening by Mr.. Charles Anderson, and
in church. The audience had assembled,
and arose as the president entered. An old
man. shabbily dressed, followed him up the
aisle, and when reaching the seat reserved
for Lincoln was about going in with him.
Governor Tod, who escorted the president,
put his hand on him and said, "No, old
man, you can't go in there" Mr.. Lincoln
turned and said, Yes, governor, that's my
man." and, putting his arm around the old
man, brought him into the pew. 1t was the
man who entered the battle of Gettysburg
with his musket and fought independently
all day.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
The Republican national committee are
called to meet at Washington on the 18th
day of December next. Among the objects
Of the meeting is the fixing of the time and
place OF holding the next national conven-
ton, Chicago and Saratoga are each con-
tending for the honor, with the chances
largely in favor of the former--the city
where Lincoln and Grant were first nomin-
ated. The time will doubtless be between
the middle Of May and the middle of June.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

The opening of the Seventh regiment
fair in New York last week Monday night
was very successful affair. Mayor Cooper
made the opening address, George William
Curtis followed with an GRAFTON, and Presi-
dent Hayes declared the fair formally opened,
after which reception was held.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

GENERAL FITZPATRICK expresses the opin-
ion that "when the waves roll mountain
high and tho old ship heaves and rolls, we
need Jim Blaine or John Sherman or Gen
eral Grant, and one of them we will have OF
know the reason why"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS says openly
that in the next presidential canvass he will
vote for Grant before he will vote for Tildsn.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26

will be one of the most important in the
history of the country, and many grave
questions, involving the highest interests of
the nation, will be acted upon. Let us hope
that less Of spirit of blind partisan zeal
will actuate all who make our laws, and that
with, one accord all to whom this important
interest is committed will devote themselves
industriously and intelligently to the work
set before them. II they should happen to
labor harmoniously for the best interests Of
the whole country, for its perpetuity and the
perpetuity Of its institutions, economy in it,
administration, and peace and good will
among the citizens Of its different sections
they will be doing themselves great credi,
and the country incalculable good.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-26


WILLIAM c. RoASE, colored lawyer,
was admitted to practice in the court Of ap-
peals at Richmond, Virginia, last Saturday.
He is the first man of negro blood admitted
to practice at the bar of the highest appel
late court in the commonwealth of Virginia,
and the lawyer who moved the admission
was Captain John S. Wise, son Of ex-Gov-
ernor Wise, the ardent secessionist
ALBANY Evening journal: "Dr Chamber
lain recently made the remark that all
classes Of society in Asia are becoming i'm
pregnated with the idea that their religious
systems are seeing their last days, and that
there is no district in India where Hndoo-
ism stands firm. II s00,000,000 Buddhists
really intend to change their faith, II is a
matter of some consequence what beliefs
they are likely to embrace"
SourHERNER in New York Herald
Next 10 Greeley, Grant is the ideal man Of
the North in the minds OF the Southern ne
groes. just as they associate Greeley with
abolitionism, so they associate Grant with
emancipation aud as Massa Lincoln is dead
and Massa Grant is alive, they have, as II
were transferred their gratitude from the
dead to the living Grant The average ne
gro mind Of the present day down South
stands for Greeley and Lincoln combined"
In Japan the government officials express
great satisfaction at the friendly tone Of
the American press. The intelligence o.
Grants views on the Loo Choo question wa
received at Yokohama with intense interest
II Is now known that the government wa
strongly influenced by Grants warning
against the Vaccinations Of European
agents, tending toward q rupture between
Japan and China, for the advantage Of un
scrupulous aliens. At no time was there rea
danger Of war, but Grants sdmonitions con
tributed TO the preservation Of peace.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-14
The 99ailg Arsas,
ROCK ISLAND. ILLINOIS

Only little while vain man, only Its
tie while, and when you come home from
the Office at even or noon, the wife of your
bosom will meet you at the door with an
anxious look in her eye and fybrnsh or
an apron in her hand. She will hold the
door open just three inches for YOU to
crowd yourself through, and as you make
hopeless efforts to slide in through that
space, above your head and under your
feet and around your legs that fly brush
will whirl and nestle like restles l,nt :
teor, and when you finally crowd in and
two lies follow you, the goddess of your
home will bang the door aud weep, and
say that she can go in and out Of that door
fifty times day, and never pass fly in
side, while you can't come into the house
without bringing millions of them with you.
1t is hard, poor man we know; it ISM
fair on you, and it isn't just, but it's got
to come, and you might just as we'll make
up your mind to stand Burlington
HACK EUe
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-14
Sensible Advice.

You are asked every day through the
columns of newspapers and by your Drug
gist to use something for your Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint that you know moth
ing about, and you getdisoouraged spending
money with but little success. Now to
give you satisfactory proof that GREEN S
AUGUST FLOWER will cure you Of Dyspep-
STA and Liver Complaint with all its eff
focts, such as sour stomach, Sick Head
ache, Habitual COstiveness, palpitation Of
the Heart, HEARTBURN, Water brash,
Fullnees at the pit of the Stomach, Vel
low Skin, Coated Tongue, Indigestion
swimming of the head. low spirits. &c,
we ask you to go to your Druggist, Johr
Bengston, and get sample Bottle Of
GREENS AUGUST FLOWER for 10 cent:
and try it, or regular size for as cents
Two doses will relieve you.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-14
Com st3rRtioU.

l. the disease-1nalcr II all human beings. The
rich and the poor, the old and the yonng, male and
female arc its regular victims. At The bedside the
physicians lrstqvestion is, hoW are your bowels?
This condition has many causes, anc leads to many
diseases, az follows: Indigestion, acid stomach,
heartburn, fevCrs. biousuess, sick hoadnche, tor
pidity of the liver, collie, flatulency, inf smmatory
diseases, nervousness, loss of appetite, etc etc,
These conditions, whether itilictiHg old or young,
can all ba relieved by the OF 'Bailcy's Saline
Aperient." which is pleasant and sparkling purga-
tive, acting speedily and freely upon the stomach,
bowels and liver: giving tone and strength to all
relieving indigestion; curing sick headache, heart
burn and acid stomach c0Os and quiets in fevers
never produces pain or nausea; acts gently upon
the skin and kidneys, and IS the cheapest G-iclnc
ever offered.