Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-30
Notes and Notions.

HENRY j. SpooNER has been elected |
congress from the first Rhode Island distric
in place Of Nelson w. Aldrich, recent
promoted to the senate.
The Madison (Wisconsin) State Journc
believes that the biennial sessions amend
ment to the constitution of that state ha
been ratified by the vote of the people.
CINCINNATI Enquirer: "The Rev. Froth
ingham has at last realized that the free re
ligion which he has been preaching kick
out its own bottom and leaves the preache
standing on nothing"
PRESIDENT GARFrELD's memory is to b,
honored in London by the founding of ,
home for working girls, to be called GEAR
field Home" A lady has given large sun
to committee for this purpose.
Or the sixtyone members of the New
York legislature who voted for Lapham OF
the final ballot twenty have been reelected
while of the twenty.eight who voted fol
Conkling but one has been returned.
They are unearthing frauds in the Phila
delphia tax department that are likely tc
give the board Of pardons for the state an
opportunity to save some more of the high
toned rascals and thieves of that city from
imprisonment.
A VIRGINIA paper says that the desirable
ity of a reunion Of Virginia and West vir.
ginia is felt by many in both states, and ii
believes the question cannot long be kept
out Of the discussions during political cam.
paigns in Virginia.
THE report of Mr.. A. M. Gibson, the spe-
cial attorney of the government in the star
route cases has been made public. The in.
vestigation reveals gross irregularities in the
matter of "expediting" mail routes under
the administration of General Brady.
THE Norfolk Vnginian states it as a fact
that Major Daniel and Colonel Cameron, the
opposing candidates for governor at the late
election in Virginia, received the same ma
jority, nine hundred eighty-six, in their re-
spective cities, Lynchburg and Petersburg.
A DISPATCH from Chicago says "S So far
from Mrs. Lincoln being short of funds, as
alleged in recent dispatch, her friends in
Springfield say she has an income of $4,000,
and that since she came back from Europe,
a year and half ago, she has saved 50, 900
from her income"
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has notified com.
mittee that proposed to call upon him to ad.
wise with him in regard to the composition
of his cabinet, that while he would be very
glad to meet the members of the committee,
he could not hear them on the subject of Sc
lections for his cabinet.
The reports of Guiteau's trial excite the
utmost establishment among the English
lawyers that such continued violations of
decency are permitted in court, nor do Eng
lishmen understand how a criminal is en-
abled to communicate with the public
through the newspapers.
THE ladies of the American Silk Culture
Association have reeled sufficient raw silk
from cocoons raised during the summer to
weave into dress, which is to be presented
to Mrs. Garfield. The quality of the silk is
said to be equal to the best Italian. 1t will
be manufactured at Paterson, New Jersey.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Louis
vile Courier-Journai writes that General
Sherman's " exceeding affability of manner
is doing much to wipe out all animosity
toward the alien general of 1864. Many
old soldiers came up and shook hands with
him to-day who then resisted him to the
DEATH"
The Christiaucy scandal took another sad
phase one night last week, when the wife
Of the ex-senator was found in her night
robe msdly rushing up Louisiana avenue,
screaming at the top of her voice. She was
secured and returned to her home, and it is
feared it will be necessary to remove her to
IN insane asylum.
IT is sad and melancholy comment upon
he rapacity of newspapers that President
Arthur, in order to prevent his message
from being stolen, will send in the manu-
script to congress. The agents of the New
York and Chicago papers offer such high
'ums for an advance copy of the message
hat the temptation is too strong for the
printers.
KARL BLIND, the eminent German social
writer, in letter to Mr.. John Bright's
birthday celebration committee, says he joins
n honoring the great champion of the peo-
,le's cause, who, by his noble defense of the
republic during its most danger
'us crisis, bears name which has become a
household word with the friends of freedom
here and abroad.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says the
landau" is the most popular vehicle in |
" as it can easily be changed
rom an open to closed carriage, and nearly
very senator owns one. Senators Morrill, |
md Bayard own the bay teams and landaus
n which they take their after-dinner airing,
while Senator Edmunds not only owns bay
cam and a landau but has two saddle horses |
,esides"
ANOTHER democratic paper in Mississippi, |
he jackson Comet, takes exceptions to the |
propositions of the Meridian Mercury to |
AXE the ballot from the colored man. 1t
lays; "Human slavery is abhorrent to both
Tod and man. The only way in which the
ballot could be taken from the negro would |
Do civil war, and God forbid that we
'hould ever have another. The right to
vote is annexed to his freedom, and no
power has the right to destroy either"
New York Commercial Advertiser: "No
'ne would have believed a year ago that
Roscoe Conkling or James G. Blaine, unless
stricken with incurable disease, would have
been in retirement to-day. This is one of
he wonders of the wonderful year. A year
ago both seemed on the threshold of greater
power than they had ever enjoyed, but that
power has melted away. Their future will
be one Of the most interesting studies of the
lime. That of both is uncertain. Mr..
Blaine's friends say he makes no disguise of
his hope of obtaining the presidential NOM
nation from the republican convention in
1884. Mr.. Conkling has no plans at pres
'nt, except the recovery of his health that
mas been impaired by long and arduons pub
ic service. But if their lives are spared both
are bound to emerge sooner or later"