Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
Notes and Notions.

THE Republican press Of Indiana gener.
ally agrees that Washburne can carry the
state by $4,000 majority.
" congress adjourns without making APP
preparations for the marshals, President
Hayes will probably call an extra session.
SPRINGFIELD Republican: "If there is
any one candidate whom the business men
of the country favor more than another it is
unquestionably Hayes"
New York Tribune. "The Democratic
states want Grant; the Republican states
want somebody else. That is the result of
the canvass so far in nutshell"
New York Sun; "The money is on the
side of Grant. We, therefore, look upon his
nomination, although he is not the first
choice of the masses, as extremely probable"
New York Telegram: "The Greenback-
ers of Vermont announce their intention to
put full state ticket in the field. II IL af-
fords them any amusement probably nobody
will object"
BosroN Herald Independently "Every
day increases the certainty that the election
of the next president lies with the party
that shall secure the Independent vote by
putting up the cleanest man."
GIDEON W. STEWART of Ohio will be the
prohibitory presidential candidate, and the
Massachusetts, delegation propose to push
DIR. Miner for the second place on the ticket
at the Cleveland convention of June 18th.
The saloon keepers and liquor men of
Louisville have gotten up fund of $4,000
to fight the enforcement of the Sunday law
What is called the Citizens League has also
raised several thousand dollars to compel
obedience to its acquisitions.
A coRREspoNDENcE has been going on
among various college presidents as to the
expedency of allowing the members of the
college base ball clubs leave of absence from
their college duties for ball games, and the
opinion of most of the presidents thus far is
decidedly against the proposition.
CAPTAIN POTTER of the bread ship Con-
stellation has been presented with the free
dom of the city of Dublin. Lord Mayor
Gray, who presided at the ceremony, stated
that the distress in Ireland was as great as
ever, and he feared that during the next
three months it would prove most severe.
New YORK Nation: There are good
many reasons for fearing that the deep and
widespread hostility to third term, of
which there are just now so many mani
festations throughout the country, is turn
ing, or is likely to turn, indirectly to the adj
vantage of Mr.. Blaine"
BosToN Herald: GAS the several Repub.
lican state conventions have unanimously
expressed their admiration for the reign of
Rutherford B. Hayes, it would not be so
very surprising if the warning factions at
Chicago should find in the present occupant
of the White House peace candidate"
SENATOR VOORHEES, has spent $4,000 of
the taxpayers money in ascertaining that
seven hundred negroes went to Indiana,
and three thousand to Kansas "'cause we
wanted to live in Gods country" as the
most of the witnesses express it. The value
of the information is wholly out of proper
ton to its cost
THE house committee on Indian affairs
having recommended bill transferring the
Indian bureau to the war department on
July lst, 1881, the country will watch the
progress of the measure with interest. After
the repeated failures of the interior depart
ment perhaps it would do well to try the
war department for while.