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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
A New National Court,

Senator Davis of Illinois, late judge OF
the supreme court, has introduced care
fully prepared bill for the establishment Of
a court of appeals-the object being to re
lieve the supreme court of the United States.
It is provided that the president, the senate
consenting, shall appoint two additional cir
cult juges for each circuit; and that when
the administration of justice in any circuit
is unduly delayed from the accumulation Of
business in the court Of appeals for that cir
cult notification shall be sent to the SUI
preme court, which shall thereupon transfer
a portion of the accumulation to one or
more of the courts Of appeals in other cir
cults where such an accumulation oil bust
ness does not exist. The terms of the court
of appeals are to be held in the cities OF
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond
New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis
and San Francsco-the first term to be held
on the first Tuesday of November, 1880.
The machinery of this tribunal is ex.
pected to work smoothly with that of the SUI
preme court. In each judicial district of
the United States circuit court shall be
held at the same time and place as the dis
trict courts-the number of the circuit
courts to be increased accordingly. Should
several circuit judges be present, each one
may hold special session and the senior
Judge may assign every district or circuit
Judge to hold district court in any district
within the circuit. The circuit courts are
to have no appellate jurisdiction after Sep
TENDER LIST, 1880, except in regard to pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy. The proposed
court of appeals in each circuit is to consist
of the supreme court justice assigned to that
circuit, the circuit judges of the same, and
two of the district judges to be designated
by the senior circuit judge. A quorum
shall consist of any three of these, including
one who is competent to preside, and the
court shall have appellate jurisdiction of all
cases in the several circuit and district
courts within the said circuits respectively.
As to questions of fact, the decision Of
the court of appeals shall be final. The
only exceptions to the finality of its decis-
ions on points of law are that the supreme
court may review in the following cases
When the matter in controversy exceeds
sl0000 when the construction of law,
treaty, or the constitution of the United
States is involved; when the court shall
certify that the legal question involved is Of
sufficient Importance to require decision
from the supreme court; and when patent
,r copyright cases are involved. Patent
light cases may be reviewed in equity, re-
,ardless of the amount in controversy, if the
question is considered of sufficient import
.pce by the court of appeals.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Our Insane Asylums.

Ar. Editor II was glad to notice in late num-
her OF your paper an article on the care OF the in
sane. have felt for long time that something
ought to be done for this most abused and unfor-
tunate class OF patients. Oufstate asylum has
not been what that word signifies, an institution
for the care and relief Of the unfortunate. The
original plan may have been humane, but it has
heen most wickedly perverted in years past.
have been glad to know that some change has
been made recently that basement rejected,
where spirits have dep,r that will come up in
judgment against this generation. knew some
thing about the management of our Institution
in II, and ought to have said something before
this for the poor sufferers. II could say some
thing to influence those who have friends suffer
ing from arrangement OF mind, to keep them
where they can know what is done for them, to
make place comfortable for them at home; ~
only in extreme cases should they be carried to
IN asylum. II you could know the utter despair
and hopelessness OF one partially deranged left
there by their friends, locked In narrow cell at
night two or three stories from any one that can
hear them; without even a drop OF water to wet
their burning heads, or quench their thirst; to be
called at breakfast, or rather stack OF grdde
cakes and West India molasses, with no appetite,
md II they refuse TO eat two men hold them aud
force some slop down with pump; for dinner,
few vegetables, and tainted meat; for tea, slice
Of bread with poor butter; to be obliged to battle
in the same water with fifteen or twenty 20 my
heart fails to tell OF all your deanged friend /.
subject to,-I say II you knew these things, could
you enjoy life and freedom II beloved wife
was carried from you to such terrible place
Much has been said about cruelty TO animals, and
more time spent by our wise legislators on dog
laws and non-essentials. II they would make
some laws to prevent this alarming increase OF
insanity, which is intemperance. When shall We
have temperate legislators, before every other
public building Is an asylum, and every other
one prison? II our young ladies would study
physiology and hygiene as much as they do liar-
pers' Bazar-and learn the Importance Of taking
care OF their health, rs much as the fashionable
iooeries of the day-there would not be no many
broken down young women. And what wonder,
when they are taught to appear In society instead
Of home; overtasked and burdened with nonsensi-
ties in dress all manner OF eatables, unfit to be
taken, then what wonder, when their young hus-
bands come Keeling home, at late hour, that
they go crazy? This is getting to be a crazy-na-
ton When will people tell the naked Truth, read
the old fashioned Bible and weep over the abomi-
nations Of our landl NKsvous WOMAN.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

BRooKFlELp At the Second Congregations
for the ensuing year; Superintendent, c. H. Bige.
low; assistant superintendent, Walter Morse
secretary, Deacon Jerah Edison; treasurer Mrs
W. p Bigelov; librarian, George o. Wheatley
assistant Librarian, Stella NJ. Peck. . January I'd
there was large and pleasant gathering at Union
Hall to express to our pastor and family our ap
probation of his labors with us the past eleven
was tue presentation Of a cake by Eddie Wilcox
in behalf OF the ladies on the branch, with poem
There were twenty-five deaths in this town
In 1879, The average age was fifty-four year.
and four months. Mr.. Chauncy Carpenter has
sold his farm to Frank Tracy of Roxbury; price
one thousand dollars MIR. Edward Crane
started for Nebraska last Tuesday The follow
ing officers have been elected in Mystic Star Lodge
No a. Free and Accepted Masons Worshipfu
master Emery T. Guptil senior warden, Georg'
+. Beard; junior warden, j. A. Griswold; trea-
surer, George Crane; secretary, L. A. Clark, Jr
senior deacon, c. ii Bigeow; junior deacon, L
ID. Batchelder senior steward, A. T. Sargent
junior steward, c, T.. Blake; tyler, W. L. Buck
chaplain, NJ. Peck marshal, W. c. Clark
Mrs. b. Clark of the Travellers Home" has be-
gun building an addition to the ell part OF her
house. and will raise the roof of the present part
and will finish a hall twenty by forty feet in tn,
upper part. The coasting fever has run high in
all parts of the town, and several accidents have
occurred, none, as yet, very serious but several
" halr-breadth escapes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

THE NATIONAL CAPIToL.-A new Ger
man book about America, by Ernst Won
Hesse- Wartegg, has this appreciative pas
sage on the capitol at Washington; " Upon
the plateau of low hill rises the snow
white mass in grandeur of form, and a
costliness of material that can nowhere in
the world be matched. A stately park sur
rounds the edifce, and out of its green ex-
panse the iron and marble limbs of this
monumental giant tower against the blue
southern sky. Whatever may be said about
it, the capitol is simply wonderful. A skill
full architectural critic may tell us hun
dred times that the great structure does not
come out of one mould-that the dome is
faulty, that the building is too much re-
pressed here and too bold there-his judg.
ment makes no impression upon us, but our
eyes return with ever fresh admiration 10
this blended pomp of Corinthian columns,
these grandiose flights of stairs, and these
blooming architraves and capitals carved in
marble. The impression of magnifcence
which we first receive never leaves us"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Vermont State News.

WOODSTOCK suffered no loss by fire during 1879
JONI PARK Of South Ryegate has been married
twice and has twenty.one children.
TnE lost Ploof child at West Jay has never been
found, and the affair remains deep mystery.
or Craftsburys fourteen hundred inhabitants
over one hundred are seventy years Of age and
upwards
d. D. HALL Of Newark recently slaughtered
hog that weighed nine hundred and nineteen
pounds, II nobody has lied about II.
Phoebe GOODWIN OF South Newbury Is able To
Knit though nearly one hundred years old She
was born In 17S0and now she sees 1880
SisduLARLY enough, both sides profess salts
faction with the result Of Master Stewards find
ings in the great ttEstey organ case
Mr. A. L. FAByAS has taken deed Of the
Trotter House property at Bradford, and will take
possession when Mr.. Peaslee's lease expires in
March.
EMMA SANDS Is still in the insane asylum at
Brattleboro, but is much improved and is now
perfectly sane, and will probably return home in
the spring
ALBERT CHAPMAN has resigned the agricultural
editorship OF the Mddlebury Register, and pro-
poses to establish monthly wholly devoted to
the merino sheep trade
Miss LAURA FELLOWS, maiden lady, was
found insensible on the floor of her room at
Weathersfied, on n recent morning. and lived
but a short time afterwards
THE vergennes machine company has leased
the premises Of the water-power company for
three years through A. Kingsland OF Chicago, and
will soon resume business
SOME Montgomery school boys have been loading
fire wood with gunpowder to spite the teacher
OF course there was an explosion, but no one was
hurt. They we're fined each $40 and costs.
JAMES Mum, a carpenter Of Burlington at
tempted to,commit suicide Thursday by cutting
his throat, but he did not succeed though the
wound was a severe one. Delirium tremens.
JOSEPH Cross attacked Judge Abel Walker last
Thursday evening IA mile from the village Of
Brandon, and attempted to rob him, pounding
him considerably and demanding his money or
his life. Cross was arrested.
WEDNESDAY last fire broke out in partition in
the south hall buildingoi St. Johnsbury academy
The fire was extinguished after several hundred
dollars damage had been occasioned by water and
the cutting through Of partitions.
NEW fish has appeared in Lake Champlain at
Whitehall where it is being takenin great numbers
It averages eight inches in length and is said to
semble Seth Green's hybrid shad-bass, but i, is
not known that any Of these fish have been put
into the lake.
AN Episcopalian church choir festival was or.
ganized at Vergennes last Wednesday evening
with about one hundred persons in attendance
from fourteen choirs. 1t is to be a state insi IL
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

THE Christian Leader thinks 1T C srtainly
is strange that laboring men, at least, should
not see that what is called free Sunday
means, at least for them, just the opposite.
Switzerland has made trial of this Cont
mental Sabbath and finds it irksome. As
long as some of the stores are kept open for
business, competition seems to compel all
the rest to do the same. Aud so the remorse.
less grind of work-day toll goes on unremit-
tingly. And now nearly five hundred shop
keepers in Zurich join in petition to the
city council, asking that all trade on Sunday
may be officially stopped"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

Our INDIAN PoLICY.-During the late
negotiations with the Ute Indians, the
pledge was distinctly made that those who
participated in the White River massacre
would be protected, and have fair trial at
Washington, if they should be voluntarily
surrendered. Yet when twelve Utes who had
nothing to do with the slaughter started for
Washington they were surrounded by a
bowling mob in Pueblo who pelted them
with coal and cried, I" Hang the red DEVILS"
Shoot the numbering fiends." They mar
rowly escaped lynching. The information
is added that had any of the Indians who
were in the massacre been of the party, the
rope would have been used. This incident
will not hasten the surrender of the guilty
ITtes
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

BEEcHER ON IRELAND.-At one of Par
nelPs Irish reform meetings, held in Brook
Ign last week, Henry Ward Beecher, being
called out. said that the granares of the
west are theirs when starvation comes to the
Irish people, but the journals say that this
is to be the end of our effort. The man
who stops at this point and goes no further
is not worthy of the title of man. 81 am
in favor of long and earnest agitation in
America for the emancipation of the Irish
people, and there is no more important ques-
ton than the land question" He protested
against the land system as despotism and
predicted that unless the system was revolu-
tionized, England would be revolutionized.
He hoped that Ireland would never be quiet
until she is free. Parnell has issued an APP
peal to the people of America soliciting sub
scriptions for the distressed people in Ireland
and stating that all contributions can be for
warded to Drexel, Morgan & Co. of New
York, who will remit the money 10 the trea-
surers of the land league in Ireland.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

The EcLIpsE.-A special from San Fran.
cisco, Sunday, says the line of totality OF
the eclipse of the sun passed ten miles north
of that place. The weather was clear. AT
ifty.three minutes past three the obscura-
ton became total. As the last ray of the
sun disappeared corona of clear whit
light entirely encircling the moon flashed
into view, brilliant at the edge of the moon
and paling towards the outward limit of the
halo During the observation horses showed
signs of extreme uneasiness, and the fowls OF
the neighboring ranches sought their roosts
The thermometer fell eight degrees during
the totality.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
EmancipatIOu In Cuba,

Those who have witnessed the death
struggle of slavery in our own land cannot
be indifferent spectators of what is now
transpiring in Cuba January |, according
to the announcement made Christmas day,
was to begin the destruction Of slavery in
the island of Cuba. The struggle in the
Cortes has been long and bitter but the pro-
gressive party triumphed, and it was an
nounced by order of the Spanish Govern
ment that emancipation should begin New
Years day of 1880 and be completed on the
same day of 1890. Few people stop to re-
alize all this involves, the horrors that it
ends, the disgrace to civilization that it
makes cease. In 1921, over $50 years ago, the
long agony began. For two centuries after
that Spain went on in the name Of religion
with this terrible traffic, making during that
time ten treaties that authorized the sale
of more than 1000 human beings, and re-
ceived from it tax of 100000 livres. By
the treaty of Utrecht she granted to Great
Britain the monopoly of the trade that gave
the New World its supply of slaves. OF the
sufferings of the poor creatures who were
torn from their homes, of the thousands who
died upon midocean, it boots not now to
speak. If the glad tidings are true, then
one of the greatest crimes and most terrible
tragedies the world has ever known is
brought to an end. When other countries
engaged in the infamous work gave it up,
Spain and Portugal chung TO the traffic for
the money which it brought, unheedlng the
despairing cries of outraged humanity, but
at last the sentiment of civilized world
has had its weight. With the sweeping
away Of this reproach, it is to be hoped that
these countries will awake from the degen
crate sleep in which they have been wrapped
and reused to take their places in the pro
gressive movements of nations.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

The pulpit of the Dartmouth College
church at Hanover, New Hampshire, has
been furnished with telephone, the wires
from which run to the houses of invalid and
aged members of the congregation. "The
trial." it is announced, twas perfect sue
cess. Every word spoken and the singing
Of the hymns were distinctly ineligible to
interested auditors at over dozen houses
in town. The PASTOR the Rev. DR.. Leeds,
preached very scholarly and instructive
sermon, which could be distinctly heard at
Norwich depot and village, two miles or
more away, and across the Connecticut
river"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Civil Service Reform.

Hon. Dor man B. Eaton, the distinguished
New York lawyer and political economist,
has done our people most excellent service
in the publication of his History of Civil
Service in Great Britain. 1t will be re-
membered that President Hayes asked Mr.,
Eaton to investigate the practical workings
of the civil service reform introduced into
England in 1852 and since that period quite
rgidly adhered 10. Mr.. Eaton, having for
years made this important matter a subject
of careful study, had become convinced, as
who is not, that our present system" to
the victors belong the spoils was one of
the most vicious conceivable, and he readily
undertook the task, which he has faith
fully aud intellgently performed.
Before the wrestling from King John of
the Magma Charta, all the revenues of the
realm were regarded as entirely at the dis
posal of the king. The submission of the
king TO the mobiles at this time marked the
first step toward reform in government, by
the admission of the mobiles to participa
ton in its councils. The progress of popu-
lar liberty and civil rights from that time
was very marked, but was disfgured by the
incapacity and in many cases the rapacity
aud corruption of the public officers. The
first successful attempt at lettering this
state of affairs through civil service reform
appears in 1902. 1t continued with vary
ing fortunes until 1856 when it was finally
adopted and has worked satisfactorily and
to the immense benefit of the public in that
country ever since. The practical results of
the reform are thus stated:
First That great impulse has been given to
popular education, so that England of late has
been compelled to provide elementary schools
which compare favorably with any in the world.
econd-That a better grade OF service at less
pay has been obtained. This is partly due to the
approximation allowances, which have been ad-
mirably arranged to make assurance OF com
Portable old age but it is also due in part to the
better class OF men now in and coming into the
service
Third That the morale Of the service has been
improved. 1t is deemed an honor to be member
OF her majesty civil service and it is not an I'M
common thing for civil servants to indicate their
occupations on their cards.
Fourth The abolition of patronage has left
parliament free 10 pursue its legitimate business
unhampered by the vexatious requests of office
seekers, or the need Of haunting the public offices
to procure places.
FVM. The equality of all the people being rec
ognized in the distribution of offices, the peace Of
the realm has been much promoted
The condition of the public service in our
own country with, of course, rare exceptions,
is bad enough to warrant the adoption Of
almost any well-considered and sufficiently
tried plan of reform, and Mr.. Eaton is to
be congratulated upon the light which he
has shed upon this subject, light which we
are confident will be of no little weight in
moulding the future of our own =" civil
service reform" And may the time speedily
coma
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

The famine of Northern Persia continues
Unless help is soon received a large portion
OF the population will perish. The report
of the Shanghai relief committee on the re
cent famine in the north OF China is one OF
the darkest chapters in the history of human
misery ever published. There were hideous
cases of cannibalism, the stronger falling
upon the weaker and devouring them. The
authorities strove in vain to stop the prac
tice, and the punishments which they in
acted were almost as revolving as the crime
itself-women being buried alive for eating
their own children.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

FISANcIAL.-The customs receipts for the
quarter Of the fiscal year lS79-S0 were S4i.
0S3, 498-an increase over the corresponding
quarter of the previous year. For the sec.
ond quarter OF the present fiscal year the re-
ceipts were si3, $3.50, 252-au increase of $751;
796,9l2 over the second quarter of the
previous year. Secretary Sherman is thus
considerably ahead of his estimate; and all
the indications are favorable for an excess
of the customs which cannot well fall short
of fifteen millions, and may reach as much
as twenty-three millions. The increase in
the internal revenue for the first half of the
year is s0l 800, 602-a total increase of
1885, 1858 over the corresponding six months
of last year At this rate the secretary will
have four millions in excess of his estimate
and he may have as much as seven millions.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

A LOOK AHEAD.-The following are the
predictions of Raphael, TIL English prophet,
for January, 1880; Bad eSs to England
from abroad and from colonies unsettled
state of affairs in Europe bad time for
trade; money and health western states OF
American agriculture vii suffer through
cold and moisture; death of some king
sedtion in India, Greece and Bulgaria tht
transits are bad for France, Turkey, Spain
and the United States; Paris will witness
some exciting scenes; the position of Saturl
causes us great doubts of herevival of trade
in England during the whole year.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14

SOME VITAL STATISTICS. Mrs. Elizabeth
Thompson, the well known philanthropist
"a native of Vermont), has published little
tract, contrasting the relative expense of re-
ligion, living, education, rum and tobacco.
Rum, she computes, costs the country 1867.
63S,502 annually; religion, $H $3.50, 450; ed.
ucation, s95,i06,726. Rum costs each per-
son annually sl7, whether they drink or not.
Mrs. Thompson computes also that the man
who drinks, treats and uses tobacco, will
spend on the average s3.SS per week s4.l7.
she argues, will feed family of six persons
one week,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Vermont at Chicago.

Mr.. Editor Your article of last week in re-
gard to the position Vermont is likely to take in
the next Republican convention prompts word
OF notice. Were Vermont to regard the matter
from a desire TO make herself felt in the national
convention, the last thing she would think Of
would be to join in the cry for Grant The fol-
lowers of Grant in other states can easily drown
her cry in the general chorus Her course, II she
seeks influence, is to raise her voice steadily and
clearly against any but the purest and most un
exceptionable candidate This. il seems to many
OF US, Is her duty. We do not find that candidate
in General Grant The writer has voted for Gen.
eral Grant twice but as vet sees no reason WHY
he should do so for n third time II oupht To he
understood by those who read the reports of the
opinion of Vermonters to which YOU refer that
the desire of polticians. AZ thew find expressio
in print, and IA Won imply. do not ALWAYS cor
rectly represent the people. There IA a mnch
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