Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-29
Notes and Notions.

OfhlNdflELD HepuOucun " ne Demo
cratic bar'l in New Hampshire has an ad
vantage-it flows both ale and money"
CONGRESSMAN BLACKBURN in the house
Of representatives April 5, 1879: ave do
not intend to stop until we have stricken
the last vestige Of your war legislation from
the statute book"
CONGRESSMAN ELLIS of Louisiana, in q
recent speech at Staunton, Virginia, said 1:
When Hancock drew his sword on the
south he was actuated by as high principles
as Lee and jackson were."
On the 18th instant J. G. Field, attorney
general of Virginia, said 1--WE killed a
great many Yankees during the war, and l
wish we had killed twice as many more,
enough to have given us victory and our
cause success"
BUFFALO Commercial Advertiser: Gen
eral Joseph L. Johnston recently said in the
presence of gentleman who repeated his
words TO us that a northern man would be
treated anywhere in the sou'h according to
his social claims-just as he would be any
where-only he must not talk Republican
politics.
"D-N the Irish the country would be
better off without them" are the exact
words of candidate English Of Indiana, &C
cording to the oath of John Smith, an Irish
drayman of Indianapolis, who was trying TO
get satisfaction from English's horse rail
road for the killing Of his little daughter by
a street car.
THREE states, Oregon, Vermont apd
Maine have elected members of the next
house of representatives. In the present
house these states are represented by five
Republicans and four Democrats and Green
hackers. The members-elect are seven Re
publicans and two epbackers--a Repub-
lican gain of two.
AMONG the stone layers employed upon
the building of the new British house Of
parliament was one of peculiar thought
full turn of mind, man of speech and am
bition above his trade. That man now sits
in the house he helped to build, and he is
Mr.. Broadhurst, the member for Stoke,
whose speech on the employers liability bill
has marked him out for parliamentary sue
cess.
FoRNEY on Hancock, May 80, 1868 /:
General Garfield the orator of the day,
was in fine health and spirits. General
eral Hancock, handsome, but naughty was
not in the procession to the graves at all,
evidently hating the affair because il was
not intended to honor the rebels Hancock
is evidently beginning to discover that he
cannot be the Democratic candidate for
president without turning his back on all
those who stood by him."
HAMILTON FISH: "Of General Garfield
| can speak with confidence, which an in
innate acquaintance Of very many years and
a close official relation during at least eight
years of that time justifes. No purer or
ADLER man ever assisted in the counsels of
the nation. In private life exemplary, an
affectionate, dutiful son, kind father, a
careful parent, a good neighbor, an honest,
upright citizen in public life able, far-see-
ing, truthful. None doubts his ability, none
questions his integrity; and although the
necessities of partisan politics and the as
perities of the canvass have called out at
tacks upon him, he stands unstained, and
no better man can be found"
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Cincinnati
Commercial reports Joe Blackburn of Ken
lucky, late Democratic candidate for speaker
in congress, as using the following language
at Democratic meeting at Batavia, Ohio :
" Let the radicals howl about solid SOUTH
She is Solid thank God. She was solid for
Jeff Davis in 1860, aud will be solid for
Hancock in 1880. The Republicans are the
hardest people in the world to get along
with. Up to 1861 we tried our best to get
along with them. We endured them just
as long as we could, and when we could en-
dure them no longer we said we would dis
solve the partnership, and we took up our
grip sacks and left the home of our fathers"