Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-21
Notes and Notions.

lure, wnlcn met laSJ week Monday, are pO-
lygamists.
L. Q. G. LAMAR, Mississippis eloquent
senator, has had stroke Of paralysis. He
is slowly recovering.
New York Eoening Mail. "The Maine
muddle will get itself settled peaceably, and
another great triumph for our institutions
will be achieved"
New York Herald: Ex-Governor Sey-
mour says that he prefers to remain on his
farm and stick to cheese. Well, sometimes
cheese is mitier than the sword"
SENATOR MORRILL, has introduced bill
providing for commission to examine into
the liquor traffic in all its relations, aud in
quire into the practical results of license
and prohibitory legislation.
WASHINGTON Republican. off the press
the country over would treat Kearney as the
Washington press did. G., ignore him-he
would soon reach his proper level, which is
that of harmless blackguard."
SENECA (New York; Courier: "Demo
Gratis profess to have dread of centralza-
ton, but this one act in Maine will do much
to create a feeling in favor of a more cen
tralized form of government"
GENERAL Garfield was on Tuesday
elected Senator from Ohio, the vote stand
ing sixty.six to forty-four for Thurman in
the assembly, and twenty to thirteen in the
senate. His term begins March 4, 1881.
g&ANgand jury of the United States
court in South Carolina refused to find a
bill against Luther Williams and others for
a conspiracy against Postmaster Nix, who
was shot at by Williams short time ago.
OF sixty-eight democratic journals con-
suited in Pennsylvania, fifteen are for Til
den, thirteen for Bayard, eleven for Han
cock, nine for Seymour, four for the field,
five for the nominee and eleven for any
body.
Mr.. GERMAN, who has been nominated
by the Democrats of the Maryland legisla-
ture as their candidate for the United
States senate to succeed William Pnkney
Whyte, was once page in the body of
which he is to be member.
GENERAL GRANT was presented with a
live eagle at Fernandina, Florida, last week
Monday, and responded to the presentation
speech by saying that he hoped that the
American people would soar above all Sec
tional strife and initiate the bird.
A MEASURE is before the New York egis-
lature providing for the election of two cleo
tors at large and for giving authority to the
people of each representative district to
choose one, thereby going back to the sys
TEN that once obtained among the states.
PROVIDENCE Journal: "The people of
the United States, if they are afraid of be
ing enslaved by president, would find a
better safeguard in their interest and atten
ton to public affairs than in limiting their
choice of a worthy servant beyond an arbi-
trary term of Office"
GENERAL MILES: al think the Indian
ought to be placed upon the same plane as
other Americans, rendered amenable to and
protected by the laws. Give each family
a sufficient tract of land and an annuity to
start them with, and let them take their
chances with the rest of u.s."
New York Tribune: " The best coptri.
button which the majority in the legislature
can make to the settlement of the presiden-
tial question is so to manage their affairs as
to make it as easy as possible for the Repub-
leans to elect the entire electoral college
of New York by the existing method"
ACCORDING to the Philadelphia Times Gin
dependency the Republican press of Pennsyl-
vania, so far as heard from, stands thus; For
Blaine, twenty-six; Grant, twenty-five
Sherman, three the field, FIVE; the NOM
inee, seven the best man, three; total,
sixty-six; or one.sixth of the papers in the
state.
The Western Reserve, as it was called
when northern Ohio was comparatively new,
is said to be about solid for Sherman for the
presidency. The indications warrant such
a presumption. John Sherman is strong
everywhere in Ohio Every Republican pa
per in Ashtabula county is reported to have
declared for him.
one Of the fusionists in the pretended Maine
legislature. He has been for years leading
director of the First National Bank of his
town, but at the annual meeting Of stock
holders on Tuesday he did not get single
vote. The attempt to steal a state does not
recommend man as bank official.
The st. Louis papers have received reli'
able information that the colored exodus
from the south will resume with greater
vigor than ever" with the first approach OF
spring. Whereupon the Chicago Tribun,
claims that the three states of Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois can provide employment for all
the colored farm laborers who come.
YOUNGSTOWN Herald: Professor Proctor
calculates that the chances of meteors strik
ing human beings would give one death
from that cause every four hundred years
A man was killed by meteor in Kansas re
Gently, so we are safe for four centuries a.
least. At the expiration of that period We
shall have to dodge when we see meteor
INVESTIGATION confirms the report that
the judges of the United States Supreme
Court, exclusive of Hunt, are evenly di
vided on the constitutionality of the election
laws. As near as ascertained, Clifford
Field, Bradley and Harlan are of opinion
the election laws are unconstitutional. The
opposite opinion is held by Waite, Swayne
Strong and Miller. The court is also to b,
evenly divided on the legal tender question
NEW YORK Herald: "At time wher
we have 80 many painful and startling dis
closures OF private decentralization, we should
not fail TO recognize the remarkable integ
rity which prevails in the administration o.
the national government We have neve
had an administration which deserved
higher praise in this respect than that o
President Hayes, and all honest men SHOULD
feel a sincere pleasure in paying it this jus
tribute"
FOrty.Sixth Congress.
The proceedings in congress during the pas
week have been unusually tame and uninterestln
so much so, indeed, that had 1t not been for tn