Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-19
Notes and Notions.

notices on the Harrison-Tyler ticket voted
in Illinois in 1910.
POSTMASTER JAMES of New York, the
model officer of the country, declines the
office of postmaster-general
The Grant Club of Cincinnati, numbering
four or five hundred members, have resolved
to attend the Chicago convention in body
MILWAUKEE Sentinel: "General Grant is
personally clean. Mr.. Blaine is not on the
contrary he is about as vulnerable a candi.
date as could be selected"
THE latest Pennsylvania report is that the
Chicago delegates will vote as unit for the
man whom the majority of the delegates
shall prefer when they reach Chicago.
Rev. S. W. Dixie of Royalton, Vermont,
opened the discussion on Divorce in New
England its causes and remedy" at the
ministers meeting in Boston on Monday last.
THE editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean
telegraphs the New York Times that Grant
will have the Illinois state convention by
over one hundred majority without Cook
county.
Mr. GoUGH says that when he told six
thousand people in Exeter Hall of Mrs.
Hayes great moral courage in refusing to
offer wine to her guests at the White House,
they instantly gave three cheers
TODAY "wednesday Republican con-
ventions will be held in the states Of Illinois,
Minnesota and Nebraska, and in the terri
tory of Dakota. Sixty delegates in all will
be chosen to the Chicago convention.
BosToN Herald: We confess our belief
that, with Tilden as the Democratic candi-
date, either Grant or Blaine could be elected,
while, with a better candidate, the Demo-
Gratis might carry the country against either
of these men,"
VIcE-PREsrDENT WHEELER told an inter
viewer at Malone, the other day, that in his
opinion neither Grant nor Blaine is likely to
receive the presidential nomination; and
that his own choice was either ex-Secretary
Hamilton Fish or Senator Edmunds.
SPRINGFIELD Republican: "Elihu b..
Washburne more and more develops his I'M
fitness to receive the support Of men who
demand higher than Grant or Blaine. Lots
| of the dark horses outrank him. The old
question is in order Why not Edmunds ?"
The New York Independent well says of
the late DR.. Spaulding of Barre, "Vermont
did not possess more highly useful citizen.
He was an uncommonly manly man. His
interest in the higher popular education was
| a lifelong consuming enthusiasm, and
equaled only by his religious earnestness."
New YORK Independent: awhile General
Grants journeyings seem to have been ar
ranged for scenic and political effect, Sem
ator Edmunds has quietly attended to his
regular senatorial business, making no dis
play of himself even by great speeches.
Massachusetts, and Vermont may be proud
of their candidate"
WASHINGTON Letter "Senator Conkling
does not attempt to conceal the fact that the
Grant fight has gone so far as to be mat
ter almost of life or death with him. He
remarked TO one man who conversed with
him that, as for himself, it was fight for
glory or the grave, and he does not appear
to expect to be buried"
LUDLOW Tribune: Several of our state pa
pers wonder Judge Poland was not more Sc
riously injured when thrown from that car
riage at Wells River recently. Why, the
Judge was not born to be killed in that way
he gave the country Hayes, or had prom
inent hand in it, and he has other equally
important work yet to perform.
CINCINNATI Gazette (Republican); "The
| Samuel j. Randall club, of Philadelphia
| will attend the Cincinnati convention in a
body. Each member will wear a neat suit
of dark blue, with a cutaway coat, high
white hat, and light brown kid gloves. They
have hired Curriers' band, of this city, to
| stay with them and assist the BOOM"
WASHINGTON special to the Boston Jour
nal: Ex-Postmaster-Ge General Cresswel is
spoken of as the probable presiding officer
at Chicago. Senator Conkling will present
the name of General Grant, General Gar
field the name of Secretary Sherman, and
Colonel Bob Ingersoll, if he is member of
the convention, the name of Senator Blaine"
New YORK Tribune -" Senator Hill closed
his anti-Kellogg speech Wednesday of last
week with pious wish that 'the people
would rise up and sweep the last vestige of
power from that party which had perpetu
ated its life by fraud and bribery and that
exasperating person by the name of Ed
munds said Amen 1t was lovely perora-
ton until Mr.. Edmunds changed the APP
plication on it,"
AT the dinner recently given by Secretary
Evarts to President Angel of Michigan Uni
versity, lately appointed minister to China
on the secretary's presenting Congressman
Cox to the guest of the evening, Mr.. Cox ex-
claimed; "Why, Jim Angelll" "Why
Sam Cox I" exclaimed President Angel, in
response. The two had been classmates at
Brown University, some sixty years ago, and
had not met since.
GENERAL GARFIELD was his wifes in
structor and taught her Latin so thoroughly
that she has been able to prepare her boys
for college. He honors himself by saying of
her " She is one of the coolest and best
balanced women l ever saw. She is I'M
stampedable There has not been one sol
itary instance of my public career where l
suffered in the smallest degree from any re-
mark she ever made"
HARTFORD Courant. alt looks to-day as
if the Grant force was no more likely to be
transferred to Washburne than it is to
Blaine. 1t seems to us, therefore, that
vote for Washburne would be vote thrown
away. Besides, he is not so high type of
man as Edmunds. All will admit that.
And the delegation which pumps its vote
for Edmunds at first will have no reason to
be ashamed of its record, whatever happens
afterward."
PROVIDENCE Journal: at is merely
matter of taste, and we do not suppose that
Senator Blaine is at all responsible for it,
but the idea OF the special train carrying
the Maine delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton, with brass band in the front car and
cannon in the rear, TO emphasize its way