Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Notes and Notions.


appointed Thursday as day Of fasting and
prayer throughout the state on account of
the recent assassination.
THE death of Associate Justice Clifford is
expected at Portland, and the end will be
gracious relief as the venerable judge has
become hopelessly demented.
THE independent movement in Mississippi
is gaining strength every day, and it is said
that there is an increasing probability of
bourbon defeat in the coming state contest.
BEN HILL says "The number Of people
in the south who agree with the view Of the
war and its results as expressed in Mr..
Davis work is too limited to have the slight
est influence"
ATLANTA (Georgia) Constautiondlist: Z" If
the president RECEIVERS he must visit his
southern friends. We of the south hav
learned to love him. He would love us If
he knew us better"
| SENATOR CoNKLING must realize his fall
when the Utica Herald says that both
Lapham and Miller are able to make
broader and deeper mark on legislation than
Conkling has ever achieved
THOMAS G. WHITE, a surgeon, telegraphs
from Beaufort, South Carolina Every in
genuous southern heart throbs in unison
with the general solicitude for our president.
| now consider recovery assured"
THE Boston Journal says that the basis of
all office-hunting is petition, and suggests
that If every man would refuse TO sign petit
tons for appointments unless there are va
cancies one root of the evil will be killed.
OF the seventeen presidents who have
died in or out of office six have died in July
and three, jefferson, Adams and Monroe,
have died on July 4th, the first two on the
same day in 1926, the fiftieth anniversary
of the declaration.
FIFTEEN passages to Europe in the White
| Star line were countermanded on the news of
the presidents assassination, the passengers
who had paid the money saying that change
of administration would compel them to stay
at home and watch their money affairs.
| EVEN Ingersoll was thrown off his guard
enough when he heard that the president
was MORALLY wounded to exclaim, "God
save our country" And later he has as
serted that nothing short Of miracle could
save his life. So he seems in hopeful way.
| Ii the pain the wounded president suffered
could have been distributed among those
who had sympathy with him, it would hardly
have given them twinge apiece. Almost
fifty millions of people in the United States
alone would have been glad to have borne a
share.
The national debt paid off in the last
fiscal year, Sl0l, 573, 4S3, is the largest on
record since 1870, when 0l,60l,9l6 was
paid. The interest on the national debt as
it now stands, SOL 1868, 9l2, is less than one
half of what it was at the close of the war,
$780, 7769S.
| QUEEN VICTORIA has had occasion four
times to send messages of sympathy such as
she has now sent to Minister Lowell. Since
her reign began, in 1887, three American
presidents, Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln,
have died in office, and President Garfield is
shot down by an assassin.
GENERAL SHERMAN gives, as a remarka-
BILE evidence of sympathy for the president,
the fact that the small boy of Washington
went about the streets all through the long
hours of the glorious Fourth, with his
pockets filled with fire crackers, and yet
didn't fire one of them off
SPRINGFIELD Republican: off Garfield
gets well this nation will do some tall cele-
brating at Yorktown in October. That &C.
casion winds up the centennial celebrations
which began at Lexington and Bunker Hill
Should the president be present reunited
country will make the occasion memorable"
SENATOR VOORHEES, of Indiana says that
the representation of the south in congress
now is higher, in the aggregate of talent,
than before the war, and that Senator Gar
land of Arkansas for example, despite the
legal reputation of Thurman, Mcdonald,
David Davis, and others, is universally &C.
knowledged to be the best read, best equipped
lawyer in the United States senate"
| New ORLEANS Times I" lie lies to-day
the center of an empires tears and prayers
The victim of miserable assassin No |
The victim of peoples willing degradation !
The victim of the detestable and foul system
of spoils which that people have allowed to
be fastened upon it to its shame. If the
poor wretch's pistol-shot wakes the land to
that shame, President Garfield will have
suffered, be the end what it may, as the
savior Of his country"
BosToN Herald: "Tariff reform, civil
service reform, the revival of commerce, the
final adjustment of our currency upon a
sound basis, plans for national aid to educa-
tion and wise schemes of internal improve
ment, the Just control of the moneyed
power, and the guarantee of free and fair
elections-are not these all exigent and i'm
portant questions For the welfare, the
safety and the honor of the government, is
it not time to lift the level of our politics ?"
ATTORNEY GENERAL MoVEAGH intimates
that President Garfield had Just resolved
upon a new departure in the political course
and tone of his administration. "Ah,' said
Mr.. McVeagh the other day, " he was never
better president than he was at the mo-
ment when Guiteau's bullet struck him
down. lie never saw more clearly, and he
never had frmer or better purpose. He
was going to be all that the best thought OF
the country ever expected of him. lie was
going to be a great president"
al HAVE my doubts" says E. V. Smalley,
the correspondent, long General Garfeld's
private secretary, "whether Garfield will
take the Field subscription. He has never
been much in the pursuit Of money. be
lieve it would suit him better,-though, Of
course, do not know,-if, in case of his
death, congress would vote 100000 to his
family, or one-half of his salary; and then,
his life being insured for $4,000, Mrs. Gar
field, with her farm, could do very well
Garfeld's boys will be just as well off with
out money in profusion as with it,"
PHILADELPHIA Press; "A pleasant little
episode in official circles is the promotion
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