Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-30
Notes and Notions.

NOTES ana NOtlOns.
HANCOCK is communicate in the Epis.
copal church.
GENERAL RosEcRA Ms al cannot believe
THAT James A. Garfield was ever guilty of a
dishonest act"
GENERAL HANCOCK is a twin. His twin
brother, Hilary Hancock, is a lawyer at Min
neapolis, Minnesota.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER will be at the
Twin Mountain House in August, and preach
Sundays in the parlor, as usual.
New YoRK Tribune: General Hancock
is very handsome and amiable gentleman,
whom we shall have pleasure in beating
with all possible courtesy"
SAID an active young Democrat, rising
lawyer in one of the larger cities. " Han
cock is good man to nominate; but he
would make very poor president"
AN astonishing lot Of good Democratic
doctrine on the unwisdom of selecting a
military man to discharge civil duties will
have to be rewritten to suit the present
emergency.
GENERAL HOWELL, editor of the Atlanta
(Georgia) Constitution, took one good look at
the Tammany crowd in Cincinnati, and re-
marked: "If I lived in the north would
be Republican"
GENERAL GARFIELD says he will proba-
bly, visit Pennsylvania, New York and New
England some time during the summer or
early fall. He anticipates warm and ex-
citing canvass but feels confident of success.
AN exchange says: During convention
week Cincinnati brewers sold 10000 kegs of
beer. Reduced to glasses, the Gazette puts
the figures at 100000. The same author
ity computes that the convention attendants
left half a million Of dollars in the city"
CoLoRED Cadet Whitaker is to have one
more chance to vindicate himself The Sec
Rotary of war suspended the recommends
ton of the West Point academic board that
he be dropped on account of deficiency in
his studies.
REPUBLICANS in West Virginia are organ
izing carefully for the coming election, and
think that they have prospect of carrying
the state for Garfield. They say that their
party has not made an active canvass since
1872, when the state went for Grant.
HARTFORD Courdnt: THE people of the
country are called upon to decide between
the two great parties, to judge Of their tend
encies as shown by their deeds. This is the
only question of the contest, and it cannot
be obscured by any side issues. And here
is just where General Hancock is hopelessly
handicapped"
GARFIELD once took occasion in speech
to say good word for Thurman, and added:
"The flowers that bloom over the garden
walls of party politics are the sweetest and
fragrant that bloom in the gardens Of this
world, and when we can fairly pluck them
and enjoy their fragrance, it is manly and
delightful to do 3d."
SENATOR PADDOCK of Nebraska says the
census returns will show that his state has
population of over half million. In 1870
it had less than one hundred and thirty
thousand. If his estimate is correct, the
state, on the basis of the present apportion-
ment, will be entitled to four congressman,
all of whom, probably, will be Republicans.
GOVERNOR DAVIS was renominated by
reclamation by the Republicans of Maine
on Wednesday. Resolutions were adopted
endorsing the Chicago platform, pledging
support to the Chicago nominees, notwith-
standing Names favorite was not nomi-
mated; denounciDg the Fusion party of
Maine favoring constitutional amend
ment for the election of governor by plu-
rality vote.
| SECRETARY SHERMAN reads until late at
night, but is always the first man in his Of
fee in the morning. He owns a large num-
Der of inexpensive horses and drives great
deal. He has always saved his letters, and
has one of the largest collections in the
world. He and his brother, the general,
have always been as loving as sweethearts,
and his letters from the general are in three
large volumes. Some of these letters cover
forty pages each.
TOLEDO Blade: "The loyal people of the
United States will steadily refuse to see
General Hancock, because their gaze will be
fixed on those seeking ambush behind him
the Wade Hamptons, the Hamburg But
lers, the Fort Pillow Chambers, and the
whole Of that hungry horde of cormorants, of
place hunters, of spoils grabbers, of treasury
plunderers, who are using him as their decoy
duck. His defeat is as certain as Mcclellan 5
or Horace Greeleys was from the first
| SENATOR HoAR: "No man, Democrat or
Republican, who ever served with Garfield
does, l think, doubt that he is absolutely in
corruptible. He has been for years on the
committees of appropriation and ways and
means, controlling the expenditure of mil
lions upon millions, and policies that make
and unmake great business interests. He
lives in the most frugal way, and his incho-
ate property does not in all equal single
years profit of many Worcester mechanics.
The leaders of the Democratic party will,
before this canvass ends, put an end to these
foolish charges without Republican contra
diction."
RAPID TRAvELING.--Jules Verne's hero