Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Notes and Notions.


Two hundred and eighty-one members OF
Congress are lawyers.
Two ladies are candidates for clerkships
in the Legislature Of Ohio.
THE Boston Traveller and Journal are both
for Grant the advertiser is for the nominee
Of the convention, whoever he may be.
THE St. Louis Globe Democrat has dis
patches from Washington indicating a de-
termined movement in that city against
General Grant.
Mrs. GRANT is quoted as having said that
the happiest period of her life and the Cen
erals was when they lived in Galena ain a
small brick house and kept one servant"
Rev. JOHN G. BRADY, who has returned
from stay of two years in Alaska, says that
the natives have learned how TO make ga
ruinous intoxicating liquor" from molasses,
and they drink so much of it that alcoholism
is common disease there.
BosroN Transcript: "A liberal Demo-
GRAFT when asked his opinion about Maine
said q don't see why the Republicans
should complain. They have lived on Dem.
ocratic blunders for years, and the supply
seems to be inexhaustible.'
ALBANY Journal: "The Democrats of
Maine are doing their level best to make
the country elect Republican president
and that kind of Republican, too, who
can be trusted TO deal effectively with such
rascality if it shall be applied to the presi-
Dental election.
GENERAL GRANT says he is agreeably
surprised by his reception in the south. At
Little Station, in Edgefeld county, a burly
.Carolinian yelled out General, you are
going to be our next president, are you
not ?" Grant replied; "Oh, no; am not
now in politics."
A SHORT time ago a number of ladies
were designated by the pastors of various
churches at Saratoga to 60 through the town
and make a canvass of its spiritual con-
dition. They have reported that they find
in the village only four hundred non-attend-
ants at church, and the announcement causes
no little local qualification.
THE distinguishing mark trick for
counting out Republican votes was carried
further in North Carolina than in Maine.
In one of the congressional districts in the
former state more than two thousand Repub.
lican votes were rejected because of de-
feet in the press, which left small crease in
the paper of each. This the democratic
judges chose to call a device"
SECRETARY Schurz recommends $500
appropriation to purchase as a historical relic
the first patent ever issued in the United
States. 1t was issued at New York July
81, 1870, to Samuel Hopkins of Philadel.
phia for an improvement in making potash
aud pearl ash. 1t is written on sheet of
parchment twenty inches square in round
old-fashioned hand, and is signed by George
Washington and certified by Z. d. Ran
dolph, attorney general.
National Tribune, (colored organ) "The
negro must understand that he is left alone
to work out his own destiny. He cannot
now depend on the Republican party for
elevation, neither can he depend on the
philanthropist to feed, clothe or locate him
on land, either in Kansas or any other part
of this country. 1t is intellect that elevates
apeople, and not being nation of towards
and beggars for old clothes, protection and
free transportation to lands that they must
beg the money to locate on"