Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Notes and Notions.


elected in Rhode Island and Kansas.
The Ohio temperance convention has re-
solved TO sustain no particular prohibition
party, but to labor in caucuses aud at the
polls to secure sober men for office.
MANCHESTER New Hampshire) Mirror i:
Either Grant or Bliine will carry this state
easily, and, if the nominee should chance to
be man not half as good as either OF these,
he will carry it."
THE Connecticut house of representatives
have passed a bill providing that every
woman of twenty-one or more years of age
shall be entitled to vote upon any question
pertaining to the sale of intoxicating liquors.
ExGovERNoR JonN NJ. PALMER of
Illinois attended meeting of the John NJ.
Palmer club at Springfield last week and
made an address accepting the position of a
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for president.
ALEXANDER STEPHENS is said TO be so
thoroughly disguised with his party that he
thinks of resigning his seat in congress.
The unhappy man has been in much the
same mental condition during his entire
political career.
AFTER reviewing the field, the New Or
leans Picdyu1e reatlirms its belief that it
would be unwise for the Democrats to NOM
mate Tilden against Grant, as il would cause
three, If not four, southern states to become
debatable and doubtful.
THERE is very general feeling that Sec
rotary Schurz' settlement with the Utes, by
inducing them to take their lands in sever
atty, will make new policy in Indian
affairs which the government will carry out
in all directions as fast as possible.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Post,
describing the restitution and suffering
among the workingmen of Manchester,
England, says; " If the dram shops were not
so crowded on Saturday afternoons, perhaps
there would be less of this quiet Distress "
CHICAGO Times: "The color of Senator
f imunds is deepening visibly. He may be
quite dark by June next. Four years ago
at this time Hayes didn't begin to have the
chance that Edmunds now has. New Eng.
land, with the exception of Maine, is looking
at him."
THE lower house of the Wisconsin legis-
lature, by vote of sixty-six to twenty-six,
has adopted the constitutional amendment,
which has already passed the senate, pro
hbiting the manufacture OF Intoxicating
liquors. The amendment will go to the
next legislature for ratification.
WORCESTER Spy: "If the majority of
the Republicans in Massachusetts hope that
Grant will be nominated, let them have
Grant delegates-at-large and be truly repre-
scented at Chicago. But if the majority
prefer Mr.. Edmunds, let them choose Ed
munds men and make no mistake about it,"
THE Democrats of the senate have an
nounced, through Mr.. Thurman, that they
will confirm no more of the presidents
Republican nominations for supervisors of
the census until he sees fit 10 send in the
names of Democrats for Democratic dis
tricts. There are possibilities of dead
lock; in which case Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illinois and other states may have no census
whatever.
NEARLY 300,000,000 postal cards were
used in the United States last year. They
are made at Holyoke, Massachusetts,, by a
private concern, under the general super
vision of government officer. The work
is nearly all done by machinery, even to
counting and putting them up in packages
of twenty-five, The use of postal cards is
said to have driven many makers of writing
paper and envelopes out of business.
LORD Derry to the workingmen awe
have heard a great deal recently about the
peasantry becoming owners of land and
having gardens, fields and farms of their
own. Now, an acre of good agricultural
land is worth, on an average, about $50, oil
as nearly as possible three pence for every
square yard. wonder how many working
men consider that when they order three
penny worth of beer or spirits they are
swallowing down square yard of good
agricultural land"
WORCESTER Spy" II our judgment il
not greatly at fault, nearly, il not quite, al
the delegates from this city to the state con
vention will be favorable to Mr.. Edmunds
candidacy, and we see no reason TO suppose
that the feeling and opinions which prevail
here are other than those which prevail else
where in Massachusetts,. The Republican
press in Connecticut is almost unanimous fol-
Edmunds, aud Rhode Island is not unfavor
able. If he should have, as he might will
moderate effort, the united support at Chi
cago of four New England states, his nom
nation would be not at all improbable. II
ia well worth trying for"