Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-21
Notes and Notions.

The New Jersey statute law warrants
fGuiteau's indictment and conviction in that
state should the president die there.
A FELLOW in Elberon tried to set up a
telescope four hundred yards away, com
mauding the presidents window and person.
lie was hustled away in lively fashion.
New York Tribune: awe believe there
will be harmony in the convention and the
party. But it will not be amiss TO remem-
Der that it must be upon the basis of con
sidering some things settled. And the chief
thing settled by the late senatorial election
is that the republican party of New York is
m administration party"
More than three hundred republican
meetings will be held in Ohio this week, and
The campaign will be vigorously conducted.
Ex-President Hayes will take an active part,
and General Porter of Indiana will be one
Of the speakers. Senator Sherman made his
opening speech in the Ohio campaign att
Mansfield last Saturday evening.
SPRINGFIELD Republican: "Roscoe Conk i
r. ing stood before the ballot-box at the re-
publican primary in Utica, and shook hands
with all corners. lie carried his own ward
and five others. The administration repub-
: leans carried four and one is contested
3Conkling will be a delegate at New York ),
and the republican convention promises to|
be the scene of very pretty fight"
GENERAL BURNsrpE's war-horse =" Maior,"|
that bore him through the war, was killed
at Providence, Friday afternoon. lie had
become helpless, and the general had ar
ranged for his death whenever he could bel
| killed without his knowledge. MEANWHILE
crowds were pressing past the remains oil
General Burnside, lying in state in the city
4 hall, at the rate of four thousand per hour.
FULL returns of the vote for representa-
tive in congress to fill the vacancy in Maine j
I give Dingley, (republican) l1,007; Gilbert
| (greenback) $500; Read (democratic) PA i
Eustis (prohibitionist) &c. Dingey's ma
|iority, 5,l73. The republican majority for
governor in the district last year was 47i j
Fryes majority for congress was 1906. The
largest republican majority ever before
| given in the district was 5000.
ROBERT CoLLYER: "This is the land of
armed men. Even the farmer has rel
4 volver in his bedroom, and on the slightest
provocation pulls out his pistol. Two hun
3dred years have proved that in civil life,
at least, the Quaker is right. No Quaker
ever shoots and no Quaker ever is shot
There should be general disarmament
and we should guard the sale of pistols as
we guard the sale of poisons. 1t is the bru-
(tality that comes with the possession of
weapons that does the harm"
BosToN Post: "The democrats of the
second Maine district Intentionally abstained
{ from voting, in order that their rebuke of
trading aud dickering leaders might be as
marked as possible. Time will show that
heir action of Monday last has strengthened
rather than weakened them. Honorable
ALLIANCES can hereafter be made for the pur-
pose of defeating the republican party, but
we take it that in Maine, as everywhere else,
Idishonorable and humiliating alliances, and
those where the tail wags the dog, have had
their day. At any rate, the democratic dog
will no longer be waggei by the greenback
tail. The aforesaid tail can be as accommo-
dating and self-sacrificiug a. it chooses