Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-12-07
Notes and Notions.

renominated for United States senator by
the democrats of the Kentucky Legislature
SECRETARY Hunt estimates that it will
take S20013,7l6 to defray the expenses Of
the navy department for the fiscal year end
ing June Both, 1888.
THE secretary Of the treasury has issued
a sixty days call for S20,0000OO continued
six per cent bonds now bearing three and
half per cent interest.
In the speakership contest the readjuster
democrats from Virginia voted with the re-
publicans, and Rev. j. Hyatt Smith partci-
pated in the republican caucus.
GUITEAU said that for twenty years he
had entertained the expectation of being at
some time elected to be president of the
United States, and he had not given up that
expectation.
Two thousand delegates, representing
10000 farmers, were present at land re-
form demonstration in Aberdeen, Scotland,
on Thursday. Resolutions in the interest
of tenant farmers were passed.
As we predicted, Colonel Hooker seems
to have had an easy walk-over for the office
of sergeant-at-arms of the national house of
representatives. That he will make an ex.
cellent officer there can be no doubt.
An examination of the books in the tax de-
partment of Philadelphia reveals the fact
that the city has been defrauded of large
sum of money by various irregular methods
in the assessment and collection of taxes.
CINCINNATI Gazette: "Scoville told of
cases in which, after death, dissection
showed that the convicted were insane. If
insanity can be discovered by post NOR
tenn examination, let Guiteau have the BEN
eft of it,
Ex-Governor E. A. STRAW of New
Hampshire has been adjudged insane by
commission appointed by the probate court
in response to petition of his family, and
his brother and son have been appointed his
guardians.
New YORK Tribune: ave read that the
Judge presiding at the Guiteau trial strug-
gled once yesterday to repress a SMILE
when the delightful Mr.. Guiteau was es-
pecially entertaining, but not once that he
struggled to repress the audience"
Four large Touring mills in Minneapolis,
Minn,-the Pittsburgh, Empire, Excelsior
and Minneapolis burned Sunday, en-
failing property loss of $4,000, and caus
ing the death of at least four men, and the
injury, more or less serious of several others.
SPRINGFIELD Union: "There is but one
word in the English language that fully ex-
presses Guiteaus character, and that must
be used in the old English sense. He is a
fool of the most unmitigated type; not by
any means an idiot, but vain, impudent,
cowardly, intolerable fool"
DETAILS of the arrest of the provisional
president of Peru and his exile to Callao
have been received, but the exact cause of
the act has not TRANSFERRED. Much excite
ment prevails at Lima about the action of
Minister Hurlbut, and the diplomatic corps
unanimously condemn his course.
GOVERNOR ST. JOHN of Kansas "My
opinion is that any proposition to return to
the old system of licensing dram-shops
would be defeated in this state by at least
seventy-ive thousand majority and if the
women could vote the rum power would be
buried without hope of resurrection"
JUDGE LAWRENCE of the treasury depart
hna ~ a.; d, IA =
almost fiat on the top from the forehead to
the crown, which rises prominently and al
most perpendicularly from the nape of the
neck. This, if l understand anything of
phrenology, indicates sanity and self-conceit
strongly developed"
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has dispatched cir.
cular letter to all the South American min
listers in regard to the attitude of the United
States on the Peruvian and CHILEAN i'm
broglio, and Messrs. William ii. Prescott
and Walker Blaine are to.proceed to Chilli
and Peru for the purpose of arranging the
existing misunderstanding.
SPRINGFIELD Republican: "Judge Porter
is exposing Guiteau's character as man Of
vanity, of very alert mind and sound reason
ing capacity. The prisoner has only one
cranky idea, and that is the one he depends
upon to save his neck. He clings to it with
desperation, which is likely to be unavailing.
If he convinces only one man in twelve of
his insanity, however, it will do"
THE widow of President Lincoln has a
pension Of $4,000, which her physician, DIR.
Lewis A. Sayre, says is not enough to main
tain her comfortably, as her disorder, aris-
ing from an injury to the spine by fall
few years ago. requires expensive treatment
with the constant employment of a nurse
and other personal attendants. He has
called the attention of Cyrus w. Field to
the matter, and Mr.. Field undertakes TO In
duce congress TO increase her pension TO
| $4,000.
PHILADELPHIA Press; "When General
Sherman said that II the arrears of pen
sions bill became law it would require
hundred millions to meet it, friends of the
bill said he was talking wildly. That amount
| u o INV pOoh pau oue ahu ~ 10 cotiuhtcu
that s235,000,0O0 more will be required.
1t would be interesting TO know how much
of all this has gone and will go to the de-
serving pensioner, how much TO claim hunt
ing sharks, and how much to perJured APP
plicants."
A CHARLESTON lady, whose husband is
a high government official in that city, re-
Gently said to a friend; "Though | was
born and reared here, yet the fact that my
husband is a republican is considered
enough to bar me from the society of peo-
pie with whom | have been acquainted all
my life and formerly associated. They do
not recognize me even upon the street.
| When we attend church the majority of
the communicates are in sympathy with
political bourbonism. and none of these