Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-11
Notes and Notions.


SENATOR BLAINE was fifty years old Sat
urday week.
HAwLEY said of the late Senator Chand-
Ter: He hated many things do not think
he hated any man"
The lower branch of the Iowa legislature
has passed woman suffrage amendment to
the state constitution, ffty-six to twenty four.
THE presidential preferences of the Iii.
nois delegation in the house are said to
stand nine for Grant and three for Wash
burne.
ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat: ave choose
to interpret the vote at Harrisburg in this
way For president, U. S. Grant; for vice
president, James G. Blaine"
Mrs. BELvA A. LOCKWOOD, the Wash
ington lawyer, has been elected an honorary
member of the central Republican COM
mttee of the District of Columbia.
THE Maine legislature has instructed a
committee to sift the matter of the alleged
bribery of two fusionists to the very bottom.
The country wants to know who lied.
BUFFALO Express (Republican): "Ac-
cording to the precedents neither Sherman
nor Blaine stands any chance. No secre-
tary of the treasury or United States senator
was ever elected president"
WHEN and where to hold their next ma.
tional convention are the questions now agi-
tating the Democratic national committee.
They hold a meeting in Washington on the
231 inst. to decide these matters.
THE southern portion of the Chicago ex.
position building is being converted into an
amphitheater for the coming Republican
| convention. 1t is expected that twenty
thousand persons can be seated.
ST. LAWRENCE Piaindeaier (Republcan)
ave of northern New York would be both
proud and pleased to see William A.
Wheeler, the present vice-president, elected
to position in the White House."
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, the son of the
"little giant" disappointed the Democrats
Va al bo"h VIM ihIci1 Wtub W near
him lecture, by beginning his discourse with
these words :" am a stalwart Republican"
New YORK Star mocratic); "Com-
promises with the man who tried to buy
the presidency for money after winning it
by votes, mean nothing but dishonor and
shame. He is to-day trying over again to
hny Tho ntI,oa ~ ,,rao;Iant
LONDON TINES. Z" We trust that no one
will be deferred from giving single penny
for the relief of Irish distress by the mis-
chievous disorders in Ireland, which are the
direct and inevitable consequence of Mr..
Parnell's political teaching"
Troy Tins: "The ID .mocratc and in
dependent press are united on one thing
that is, the Republicans should not nominate
Grant. They also agree in saying that if
he is nominated he cannot be elected. How
kind and considerate in them !"
GENERAL BEAuREGARD, in his appeal
for help for the children of General Hood
omts to inform the public that they would
have had fortune of 100000, which their
father had invested in Louisiana state bonds,
if the state had not repudiated.
CINCINNATI Enquirer: The action OF
the Pennsylvania Republican convention is
almost decisive of the nomination of General
Grant at Chicago. 1t certainly makes un.
availing the presidential aspirations of John
Sherman in this year of our Lord'
LITTLE FALLS Journal (Republcan) "Let
the GROWERS and the threateners all be
marched to the rear, while the great army
under whoever may be chosen as leader, shall
push forward to the triumph which is surely
awaiting us in the coming autumn"
WHEN General Grant was in Florida an
effort was made to drive off the poor negroes
who were crowding around him, when he
said, in his quiet way Z" Let them alone
wherever | am they can come" Fred
Douglass thinks this the best thing the
general ever said.
ONO State Journal (Republican) awe
have read at least fifty reasons why the Dem
ocratic party should not aud will not elect
the next President. And when they are
summed up all of these reasons amount tc
simply this; The people are convinced thai
it will not do to trust the party with power
Troy Whig: "In the year 1880 there
will be four eclipses of the sun and two OF
the moon. There will also be an eclipse Of
the Democratic party. The latter will be
total, and will be plainly visible without the
aid of smoked glass in the eastern, middle
western, and some portions of the southern
states"
Preston POWERS son OF the celebrated
sculptor of that name, who was recently
married in Washington, will sail shortly fol
Florence to superintend the shipment to the
United States of the statue OF Mr. Cola
mer, which he has executed by the order O
the state of Vermont to be placed in statu
AIRY hall in the capitol.
Tnr banking committee of the nationa
house of representatives has recommended
for passage bill allowing national banks Il
loan one-quarter of their capital and surplu
upon pledge and mortgages of real estate
The effect of such an enactment would b.
to change the current OF present banking
business very materially,
The British and Foreign Anti-Slayer,
Society in England has raised $500 fol
the colored refugees in Kansas An sttemp