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

| ihE NeW iork WOTH says ihs ihuoh
faction REFLECTS itself state committee and
rules out the party"
THE indications are pretty positive that
Ex-Governor Stewart will be candidate for
congress from our district this fall.
THE president has vetoed the deficiency
bill, on the ground that it contains legisla-
tion foreign to the main purpose of the bill.
GENERAL JOSEPH T.. JOHNSTON, after
serving one term in congress, desires to get
out of that crowd, and refuses a renomin-
alton.
Mr.. YUNG WING, now acting Chinese
minister at Washington, is quoted as saying
that there are three Cinnamon leaving this
country to one who is coming.
Nor long ago President Hayes bought in
Philadelphia an original portrait of Wash
iugton, by Stuart. The gentleman who sold
it had owned it fifty-fve consecutive years.
MEMPHIS appeal (Democratic) "The
idea that the southern states will reverse
their judgment and verdict against Grant
and become his supporters is an insult to the
southern people,"
Troy Press Democratic) We have no
doubt that not only two-thirds but seven
eighths of the delegates at Cincinnati will
be of opinion that Mr. Tilden is the man
the people want"
FIVE thousand Maygars left Hungary for
the United States during the past winter
and still they come. 1t seems as if all
Europe was pouring its distressed popula
ton upon cur shores.
CoLDwATER (Michigan) Republican: " Ed
munds and Washburne would make ticket
that every Republican could most cordially
support, and one that would be elected with
out the shadow of a doubt"
THE Blaine club of Maine " has arranged
for an excursion from Portland to Chicago,
fare out and back 800, "to aid in nominal
ing our honored senator" Rooms are en-
gagged for two hundred and fifty persons.
THE BUFFALO Express suggests that Gen.
eral Oliver o. Howard be put in charge of
the military academy at West Point, belev-
ing that under his superintendency no col
ored cadet would be subjected to any unfair
usage that the faculty could prevent
New YORK Tribune: 1T becomes more
evident daily that nobody will be nominated
on the first ballot, and that if Grant is NOM
mated at all it will only be after scramble
which his friends once declared he would
not permit himself to be drawn into"
UTICA Herald: aft the peace and-good
will which Grant lavished in his southern
it TO be, the blood and thunder of Conkling,
Banks and Boutwell, in the north is the bald
est nonsense to catch timorous gudgeons."
New YORK Tribune: The whole Demo.
cratic party is anxious to drop Tilden, but
dares not for fear that the barrel and all
that it implies will drop with him. If he
were as poor in pocket as he is in health, he
would never be mentioned as a candidate
again"
CHICAGO Times: "Mr. Tilden is in the
field. He has played and won the first in
nings. He expects to continue to be in the
field, the Lord willing, until the presiden.
tial game is played ont There is not the
least ground for thinking that he will retire
from the field voluntarily"
CINCINNATI Gazette: I'VE do not say that
John Sherman will be the nominee of the
Chicago convention, but we do say that John
Sherman is stronger to-day than at any time
since the opening of the campaign for the
nomination. The sober second thought of
the people is coming to the front"
HARTFORD Times (Democratic) "a ma
jority, probably nearly all, of the delegates
to Cincinnati are friendly to Governor Til
den, and recognize the important fact that
the foul abuse so lavishly bestowed upon
him should be left entirely to the party that
cheated him and the people in 1876"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Com.
mercidl who has been rummaging through
statistics, says there in no nation in the
world without national debt, and that the
sum total is more than all the world can
pay. Instead of diminishing, the debts are
increasing, leaving sorry outlook for their
final payment.
THE Albany Journal, referring to General
Grants recent speeches, says "lf this i'm.
proved temper is apparent to so keen an OBJ
server as the general, may we not hope that
the time has really gone by when a strong
man is absolutely necessary to preserve Or
der, and that any man of ordinary frmness
would be able to meet every exigency which
might arise during the ensuing four years ?"
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Epe-
ming Post puts the following pertinent ques,
ton Every cadet at West Point Gnclud-
ing Whittaker) declares upon his honor that
he did not slice off Whittaker's ears. Why
does General Schofield accept as conclusive
the statement of every cadet except Whit
upon, and who ought to know certainly
whether he did it himself or not ?"
New YORK Herald: Sherman has but
the slenderest of chances for the nomination,
and Edmunds is fancy candidate put for
ward in New England to head off and hui
initiate Blaine. The Edmunds delegates
merely express decided New England re-
pugnance to the nomination of Blaine.
Although Edmunds has majority of the
delegates from Blaines section of the coun.
try, his friends contemplate his nomination
only as remote possibility"
BROOKLYN Eagle Oemocratic) "Mr.
Tilden cannot be nominated at Cincinnati,
and if he could, it would not be possible to
elect him. The issue raised by the Repub-
licans in 1876, and that which they will
probably present in Grants denomination,
are too momentous to justify the Democracy
in handicapping itself for the race this year,
and for no better reason, after all, than that
the voters Of the republic are as they are, and
not as Mr. Tilden may think they should be-"
QUADRENNIAL CONFERENCE.-The TWEEN
ty-third quadrennial general conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal church convened
at Pixies Opera House, Cincinnati, Satur-
day morning last, Bishop Scott, the senior
bishop presiding. The opening devotional