Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-10-12
Notes and Notions.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR completed his fifty
first year on the 9th instant.
PRESIDENT IIrNsDALE Of Hiram college,
has decided to write life of the late Presi-
dent Garfield.
THE New York republican state commit
tee now stands twenty half-breeds to thir-
teen stalwarts. q.
GENERAL GARFIELD first met DR.. Bliss
when they were both young men. Garfield,
when trudging to college, lost his pocket
book, containing all his worldly wealth, and
Bliss found it and returned it to him.
MURAT HALsTEAD thinks the first choice
of President Arthur for secretary of state is
Andrew d. White, late minister to Berlin,
and that Mr.. Blame will be invited to remain
until December, and then take the English
mission.
The office of the Womdn'S Journal Bos-
ton, during the week of mourning, displayed
the portrait of Garfield, surrounded by
mourning decorations, and below it the in
scription " He voted in congress to give
suffrage to women"
GENERAL BANKS has accepted an invita-
ton of the city council of Boston to deliver
eulogy on General Garfield. No day has
been selected, but the exercises will probably
take place in Music Hall or fremont Tenn
pie in about three weeks.
1t having been charged that the popula-
ton of Kansas has fallen off on account of
the p Prohibition law in that state, Governor
st. John says a" The only place where there
has been any decrease of population is in
the penitentiary, where there are sixty-six
less than there were six months ago.
GUITEAU was taken from jail to the court
room in burglar-proof cart, used by the
bureau of printing and engraving for carry
ing bonds, notes and stamps. The top, sides
and bottom are made of plate iron, and the
single door in the Hear, secured by strong
combination lock. The jail is two miles
and half east of the court house.
The prohibitory party held its state con-
vention in Boston on Wednesday Of last
week. About two hundred delegates were
| present, many of whom were women. The
ticket of last year, with Charles Almy at its
head, was renominated. The platform
vigorously presented prohibition doctrines
and closed with a resolution mourning the
death of President Garfield.
SpRINGFIELD Union: "Mrs. Garfield con-
templates spending part, at least, of each
year with her boys at Williamstown. That
her intentions may be the more easily car
ried out, some of the wealthy business men
of Berkshire county propose to purchase a
1t is understood that a house will be pro
cured as soon as Mrs. Garfelds favorable
) decision is received"
THE Nashville American says that Pres
ident Garields assassination is the first ma
, tional event which has called forth from the
women of the south wide and profound
, sympathy. This, it says, is plan of restora-
, ton worth all the rest, and also ga fea
+; highly creditabe to the man who could in
! spire southern feminine instincts, long deaf
t to the beat of any national chord, or for tn
! north any sympathetic chord, with such
/, feeling"
9 THE International Cotton Exhibition a
! Atlanta, Georgia, was opened on Wedne'
! day with great enthusiasm. Iebulon L
!, Vance of North Carolina made the addres
: of welcome, to which Daniel w. Voorhee
:. of Indiana responded. Mr. Voorhees, CAV
an extended history of the rise and progress
OF the cotton industry in the United State
and in closing took decided ground in fave
It of the tariff as a means of building up th
eff infant industries of the south and west.
ID YEE LEE, Chinese laundryman in Luz
W low street, has an engraving of the lat
IT, president tackled up in front of his she
e, surrounded with Grape. Below it is Il
ID following inscription, written by zee Ii
DIS himself: Z" The emmy shoot him and des
'ir he were nice man. The American Peep
RS very sorry and pain on him. Now eve
ed house hang up the black thing funeral f
do him. Good man the people obey him Il
g, name very fame forever. Bad man will
be burn of fire.
Gu REFERRING to the criticisms of DIR. Har
~ mond and others on the conduct OF the PR
DC idents case, the Cincinnati Gazette max
u.s. the following just remarks; "There a
ne many big generals on paper in this count
us who will tell how battle which has BET
'sy lost ought to have been fought. And
M nature had endowed us with foresig
III equal to our hindsight, there would not
AN many blunders made in medicine, on
's' field of battle, or in business. The wis
~ men are the critics who write after
%" facts, and they are only wise in their o.
'oi conceit."
-; WILLIAM M. EyARTs -" 1t is very q
al, fact for us as republicans now speak
,w our republican form of government and !
;,. OF party-that, during the term OF the gr
,Ja office which our constitution provides, fo
of our chief magistrates have died in off
two plagued to death by the importunit
in of oflice-seekers, and two slain by assassi
4 ia tion really melted by the same cause
raj under the wild personal excitement gr,
cel. ing out of greed for Office win the PEG
nan say they will stand by their chief rulers
and defend them by the powers of repressio
and Let us consider whether all this plague
ter. patronage, the placeman's pride, the sta
OF mans scandal and the nations shame c
'Iay not be averted. Who shall stand bel
the this people, between the living and the d
it," president, that this plague NAV be STAYED