Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-12-21
Notes and Notions.

Notes and Notions.
SECRETARY FRELrNGHUYsEN assumed his
duties Monday.
WHITTIER declines TO write any more
verse to order, even for the benefit of deserv-
ing charities.
COLONEL JOYCE is member of the con-
gressional committee on the memorial SER
vices of President Garfield.
FREDERICK S. PHILLIPS is appointed
President Arthur's private secretary. He
was his secretary when he was collector at
New York.
JUDGE HORACE GRAY of Massachusetts
has been nominated by the president for
associate Justice of the United States su-
preme court
SENATOR MORRILL,, chairman Of the SEN
ate finance committee, will introduce bill
to enable national bank associations to ex-
tended their corporate existence.
THE New York Tribune says of Guiteau ::
His brain recalls the definition of flea in
one of the old dictionaries--"a creature
of diminutive size, but of internal activity"
IT is officially stated that the number of
victims of the Vienna theater fire is seven
hundred ninety-four. All the inside of the
theater is heap of human bodies and char
red remains.
ASSISTANT PosTMAsTER-GENERAL HAT
TON says that there are three hundred presi-
dental post-ofices vacant, that there are
from five to ten applicants for each Office,
and that they are all in Washington.
THE annual meeting Of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, was held Friday night. The re-
port showed membership of 2491, an in
crease Of 1874 over last year. The receipts
for the year from pew rents were $4,000,
and from other sources $4,000.
The president will disapprove of the
finding of the court-martial in the Whitaker
case and the colored cadet will be restored
to duty. General Howard is now the su-
perintendent at West Point and he will see
that Whitaker has fair chance.
The committee of congress having in
charge the memorial ceremonies in honor of
Gen. Garfield have chosen Mr.. Blaine to de-
liver the eulogy. This will be very graft
flying honor to Blaine, both from his init
macy with the subject of his grafton, and in
view of his ambition to be his political heir.
The New York Herdld's Washington cor
respondent asserts that in tolerating emit
cans interruptions and antics Judge Cox
has acted upon the advice of eminent judges
and lawyers. at is unjust to fling re-
proach upon him." says the correspondent,
"where he deserves not only sympathy but
great praise"
PRESIDENT ARTHUR will not, during the
| winter, "keep house," as that term is under
stood in Washington, and there will be no
fete occasions at the executive mansion.
The president intends, for some time yet, to
live very quietly. He will keep "bache-
lor's hail." breaking that rule only when he
shall receive visits from one of his three sis.
ters.
| THE London Neps says: "The European
powers have no desire to NEEDLE with al
fairs on the American continent, but it il
very remote from meddling with them to
agree together that, If the Panama canal is
completed, no war ships shall go through il
in time of war, and that it shall never BIZ
closed by any hostile feet against peaceful
cargoes, which, it is hoped, will find theil
way from Europe to the western shores of
the American continent, and to our OWL
Australian colonies by that route"
The New York Herald says 1t is believed
in no recent murder trial has there ever beer
such unanimity among experts regarding
the sanity of prisoner as in the Guitear
case. Should the jury return verdic
against the prisoner, it is certain the ques
ton of jurisdiction will be raised and SEQ
vile will have the assistance of able attor
neys in the presentation of this question
The case may eventually be brought befor
the United States supreme court.
SENATOR GARLAND's bill concerning pres
idential inability provides that din case o
the removal, death, resignation or inabilit,
of both president and vicepresident of tn,
United States, the secretary of state for tn,
time being, or if there be no secretary o.
state, then the secretary of the treasur
for the time being or if there be neithe
secretary of state nor secretary of the treas
ury, then the secretary of war for the tim
being shall act as president until the diss
bility be removed or president be elected
In introducing Rev. Mr.. Hayward to hi
Boston audience, Governor Long said tina
two things have made this the epochsl yea
since the Wharf.-The Atlanta exposition an
the Virginia election. OF the latter tn
governor said: know but little of the in
tricaces that led to it, as know little of tn
, cochtuate in which my dinner is cooked
/ but in my judgment it marks another poin
when the south, forever rubbing out tn
: color line in citizenship, declares that ther
shall be but one caste-the caste OF characte
0 ability and manhood, and puts itself side b
side with the north in throwing open to a
alike the opportunities of advancement an
n in making the commonwealth the commo
/. veal.
linz stcdlncI NbucIlduuJ WHICH mas
= rived at New York twenty-five days frol
+ Antwerp with six hundred persons on boar,
n reports one of the most terrible experience,
n in the recent gales ever known. On I'll
a third day the bad weather began, and tw
days later the wheel-house was stove il
. sails and spars demolished, and finally IL
8 rudder became disabled. In this plight Il
D. ship drifted, in fearful storm, for forty-eigl
b. hours, all on board expecting momentari
"a to go down. Finally the rudder was got
"a work again and the ship made some pr
r. gress, but still the storm continued and SCI
"a dashed over the decks, tearing away OIL
part of the vessel after another and threa
ening total destruction. Water was ankl
deep in the cabin, the steerage was aoodt
>, and the widest panic prevailed. Two CHI
70 dren were born in the terrible time, al
y, there were three deaths. There were also
"a number of sailors seriously injured, al
Az many passengers were thrown about by Il
T. pitching ship and bruised. There was |