Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-09
Notes and Notions.

EDMUNDs appeared to have less headquar-
ters and more prospects than any other can
didate at Chicago.
The Democratic national convention in
Cincinnati was from Monday morning until
Saturday in putting James Buchanan in
nomination.
WHEN asked IL he wanted special wire
from Chicago General Grant said, al think
| shall be satisfied with the ordinary sources
Of information"
COLONEL RoBERT II. LINCOLN, Colonel
Fred Grant and Stephen A. Douglas brought
portraits Of their respective fathers to the
Illinois headquarters.
NAILS are down to $40 keg. About
six times as much money has been lost by
the fall as was made by the rise. The les.
son will probably do no good, however.
THE man who owns United States bonds
cannot dodge the taxes. Tribute is taken
out of the interest. Yet it is very common
to hear of the "bloated bondholder who pays
no taxes"
THE gavel used in calling the convention
to order on Wednesday was carved out of a
piece of oak taken from the sill of the house
in which Lincoln formerly lived at Spring
field, Illinois.
ONO State Journal: ain 1875 each para
graph in the Democratic platform COM
menced with the words, Reform is neces-
sary.' This year the initial clauses will
read, Fraud is necessary"
AN old man named Caleb Taylor was
delegate from Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
He was the only man in the delegation to
vote for Lincoln on the first ballot in 1860,
and said he was there then to vote for Blaine.
AN innumerable number of tiny bits of
paper, bearing these words have been scat
tered through the Palmer House: "Resoiued,
That we pledge ourselves to secure women cit
liens in the exercise of their rights to vote"
A BOOM is started for Senator Randolph
of New Jersey for the first place and Senator
Mcdonald of Indiana for the second on
Democratic ticket. This move is said 10
take well among the congressman of that
party.
STOCKS have met with a great tumble
since this year began. The fifty-nine classes
of stock quoted in the regular reports of the
New York stock markets have declined 2l.7
per cent upon their par value, or s2l2,.
1904.
CONGRESS is waking up to the necessity
of providing means of defense Of our coast
in case of foreign war, and seems about
ready to appropriate some 100000 for the
completion of the four double-turreted mon
itors begun by Robson during Grants ad-
ministration.
THERE is little fear of famine in this
country, if the reports from the great wheat
producing regions may be believed. Out
along the line of the Northern Pacific, where
last year the yield was six million bushels,
the promise now is of ten million bushels.
THE Democratic party gets deep, wide
wound at the hands of one OF her favorite
sons. Senator Beck of Kentucky charges it
with cutter incompetency in the manage
ment of economical questions, and with
having violated its tariff pledges to the peo-
ple." The indictment will stand.
THE tariff question is receiving good
deal of attention. Senator Dawes favors
the appointment of commission to exam
inc the whole subject with view of mod-
flying it, said commission to report at the
next session Of congress. There is not much
hope that any other measure will pass this
session.
IT is interesting at this time to compare
some of the predictions regarding the prob
able result of the first ballot at Chicago with
the facts. The Blaine men gave Grant 297 /;
Blaine, 307. The Cincinnati Commercial
gave Grant 2S5 ; Blaine over 800. The New
York 7ribune's predictions were of SINH
lar tenor, while the Times prophesied with
approximate correctness.