Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-12-15
Notes and Notions.

A GRAND reception is TO be given Gen
eral Grant in Washington on the 18th
instant.
The people of Iowa adopted at the lat,
election by majority Of 3S,294 a proposed
amendment to the constitution of their stat,
making colored men eligible to the legisla
ture.
The fact that General Garfield received
clear popular majority over Hancock gives
the Democrats great deal of trouble. II
was done in spite Of tissue ballots and in
timidation, and shows the growth of the
party under President Hayes.
GENERAL GARFIELD is reported in ex
cellent health, the excitement of the cam
paign having been beneficial rather than
otherwise. lie sees every body who calls
but avoids all political talk. This winter
will be the first he has spent at home for
twenty years.
The New Jersey prohibitionists are favor
ing women's suffrage, as well as liquor pro
bibition, and have called mass convention
to be held at Trenton on the 18th and 10th
inst, to devise means to secure thorough
organization of all citizens of the state who
agree with them in opinion.
A PENNSYLVANIA law provides that
money put into a stake holders hands as
a wager may be seized and devoted to the
support of the poor. The statute is sixty
years old, and has long been a dead letter
The poor board of Scranton, however
have undertaken to enforce it in that city.
Or the forty thousand colored men who
emigrated from the south to Kansas last
year, not five hundred are now receiving aid
from any relief association. This speaks
well for their thrift and industry. 1t is a
fairer showing than is usually presented by
like number of immigrants from Europe.
IT seems that Bernhardt's agents, while
industriously working up this country, do
not neglect her home interests. A Paris
paper publishes dispatch from New York
predicting that Mile. Bernhard will ulti
mately be proclaimed president of the United
States, so unprecedented is her success with
the popuace.
We find this bit of moonshine in the
Washington Star: General Garfield has
been assured personally and by letter by
several southern senators that they intend
heartily to support his administration, in
the hope that sectionalism, which is so fatal
to the south, may be forever removed from
American politics"
Ir is announced that Mr.. Lamar will not
occupy his seat at this session. He is quite
feeble, and his friends fear that he will
never be able to take his place in the senate
again. His disease is akin to paralysis, and
he lessened his chances of recovery by tax
ing part in the recent campaign, against the
advice of his physicians.
The report is that Jay Cooke, the famous
banker who went down in the financial crisis
few years ago, is on his feet again, and
hopes to make his creditors and himself
happy by paying every farthing of his in
debtedness. 1t is good thing for such
men as Jay Cooke and Mr.. Stuart of Phil
adelphia to go under occasionally, to prove,
on their recovery, that there is such thing
as Christian integrity and commercial honor.
MAJOR Tom OCHILTREE of Texas, who
has genial relations with General Grant,
says There is one thing l have noticed
that no person, whatever his social rank or
intimacy with Grant, is allowed to tell a
coarse story in his presence. have seen it
tried at least twice-once in Paris and once
in this city and in both cases, as soon as
the scope of the story began to be limned,
the general arose at once with grave coun
tenance. and said Il have an engagement,
and am going away"
THE De Lessep' canal scheme is appar
emily going on. The American subscrip.
tions in two days were S6,3O0,OOO. At Der.
lin, stock was taken to the amount of 3d..
100000. Washington specials represent the
attitude of congressman and members of the
cabinet as highly favorable, and Mr.. Evarts
is quoted as saying that, since DE Lesseps
enterprise is conducted by private corpor.
alton, it does not raise the objection that
might be made to any project under the pro
lection of foreign government.