Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-23
Notes and Notions.

THE cabinetmakers at Washington are
beginning to work eighteen hours day
once more.
Roswell P. FLOWER, the newly elected
New York congressman, earned money for
his education by working in brickyard
and teaching school.
THE Greenville (South Carolina) Ne,os
takes the Malone victory very seriously to
heart. The editor, being native Of Vir-
ginia, put his paper in mourning.
For the Garfield monument at Cleveland
$4,000 has been raised, si4,500 in the city,
and the rest of the state is rather slow TO
give the rest of the 100000 required.
RoscoE CoNKLING has opened law Of
fee in New York, over the Bank of Com
merce, corner of Nassau and Cedar streets.
1t is expected before long that he will make
New York city his residence.
GENERAL SHERMAN is again at Atlanta
not as he was there on his "March to the
Sea-" but as a man of peace, and guest Of
the city during the cotton exposition. Yer
lily, "peace hath its victories"
GOVERNOR FOSTER of Ohio is quoted as
saying that MIR. Arthur struck him as "more
like president than any man he has ever
seen in Washington, and as being on the way
to become "the greatest of reconcilers."
THE Bourbons in Virginia in their rage
are threatening to nominate colored candi-
date for the United States senate in order
to draw off the colored readjusters and thus
defeat their candidate. The colored read
justers are the last men to be drawn off.
Ex-PREsrDENT HAYES says Of the govern
ment OF the District of Columbia, that the
board of commissioners, as at present organ
lied, has been, upon the whole, think, the
best city government in the world. This is
a large statement, but am confident OF its
truth"
WENDELL PHILLIPS sent Scion Chase
$25 for new press, saying in his letter If
greenbacks had never been interfered with he
would have sent ten times as much. 1t may
not have occurred to him or to Scion that in
that case the press would probably have
cost at least ten times as much.
THURLow WEED cast his sixtieth cleo
ton vote Tuesday Of last week. Mr. Weed
says that he has missed only one vote since
he became entitled to vote, and that was oc-
casioned by his absence in Europe on gov
eminent business He says he has cast more
votes than any other living man in New
York city.
THE Richmond State (Funder), in an ed
itorial article on the future of Mahoneism,
says Henceforth it will be our duty to
inform our people Of all the methods which
this party will devise for bringing about
system of mixed schools, the marriage of
whites with negroes, and the election of
Grant in 1884"
GENERAL GRANT has pretty good mas
terry of plain English, but the vocabulary Of
bric.a-brac is too much for him. Writing
to his agent at Galena the other day, in re-
gard to forwarding his effects to New York,
he said: " You will find in the parlor two
Clorsini plaques, if you know what that
means l don't Send them with the bal
ance."
CHIEF CLERK MARI of the first assistant
division has been employed in the post-ofiice
department at Washington for more than
fifty years continuously. He was appointed
to 5000 clerkship by Postmaster-Gsneral
Barry on the LIST of June, 1881, in President
Jackson's first term. At that time there
were only eight hundred postoffices in the
United States, and the entire revenue of
the department was less than 100000 per
year. Now there are forty-fve thousand
post-offices, and the annual revenue is over
GAG 600 600.