Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-10-19
Notes and Notions.


THE Portuguese court went four days in
mourning for Garfield.
GENERAL BUTLER has written letter to
Mr.. Scovile declining to act as counsel for
Guiteau.
REV. THOMAS X. BEEoHER, the EImira
parson, is running for the New York assem-
bly, on greenback nomination.
THIS seems likely to be Tilden year in
New York politics, and the Tribune says it
is glad of it. "The republicans will not
shrink from that ISSUE" says the Tribune.
The 7'ribune's Washington correspond
emit afirms, without any ifs or butts, that
the president has asked Mr.. James to stay
in the cabinet "until the star-route trials
are finished"
THE friends of Judge Gray of Massachu-
sets are confident that he will be appointed
justice of the supreme court. Grays APP
pointment would make Devens chief justice
of Massachusetts,.
ALL republicans outside of New York ap-
prove the remark of the Springfield Union
that " if the Workers will now drop the terms
stalwart and 'half breed the rest of the
country will be profoundly thankful"
CINCINNATI Commercial: President
Garfield said thirty-six hours before he was
shot that no member of the cabinet had
been overruled more frequently than Mr..
Blaine, and no one had taken overruling in
better part"
HARTFORD COurdnt: "The Springfield
Republican is pointing out the defects and
perverse twists of Senator Edmunds'
character. There is none righteous, no,
not one, except Charles Francis Adams,
and he is ageing."
THE Garfield fund amounts to about
S357,S51 and the subscription books are
now closed 1t is proposed, however, to
erect a 100000 monument in his memory,
and the public will have an opportunity to
contribute.
Mrs. MARTHA JEFFERSON EPPEs SHINE
called at the White House last week, and was
shown the courtesises of the place by the
officers in charge. This lady is Thomas
Jefferson's granddaughter, and she had with
her the medal awarded Jefferson by the
continental congress for drawing up the dec
laration Of independence.
TIM political vvuLest in Virginia gets
more and more bitter and personal as the
day of the election approaches. At a ratif-
cation meeting in Richmond, Jubal Early
denounced Malone in SO many words as a
liar. A personal feud has existed between
the two men for several years, growing out
of difficulty since the war.
THE signs point to resurrection of the
candidacy of Samuel j. Tilden for the
presidency. The democratic convention for
New York held on Wednesday was perfectly
and smoothly controlled by his hand. The
resolutions smack of Tildenism as in the
days when he was running for governor and
later for the presidency. The loudness of
their shout for reform is only exceeded by
the thunder of the chorus that the demo-
cratic party is just the party to bring it
about.
JUDGE PAINE of Cleveland has given
publication to letter written to him ten
years ago by the late President Garfield, in
which occurs the following: "The whole
country owes you debt of gratitude for
brushing away the wicked absurdity which
has lately been palmed off on the country as
law on the subject Of insanity. If the thing
had gone much farther all that man would
need to secure immunity from murder would
be to tear his hair and rave little and then
kill his man.
GUITEAU doesn't want Colonel Ingersoll
to defend him, as that would array the
whole Christian world against me-" Talk
about that man being insane He may play
the lunatic at times to escape the gallows,
but he shows balance of mind when he
| forgets to sham that thousands of persons
whose sanity was never questioned do not
possess. A man who sees the points that
will tell against him in his trial as well as
] he does is clearly responsible for his acts,
and being responsible, no maudlin sentiment
should interfere 10 save MN.
PRESIDENT WHITE on Garfield: at often
seems to men that the rude, massive column
of rough hewn stone from the quarry, in all
the ruggedness and apparent strength of
nature, is the strongest of all supports in
architecture; but the architect knows better
he knows that the Corinthian column,
beautiful as it is, slender as it is, delight
to the eye by its beauty, and to the mind by
its proportions, well poised, put together of
selected stone, all flaws carefully worked
out, is stronger than the rough, rugged pier
as it comes from the hand of nature. Gar.
field, in the great temple of our constitu-
tional liberties, was one of the Corinthian
columns, well-based, well-built, towering
loftily, adorned with all that culture could
give, and for all that the stronger"
New YORK Mail, "Mr. Edmunds has
been charged with being a factious partisan,
but if he had insisted ON thorough debate
on the right Of the excluded senators to
vote on the most important question that
could come before the senate, he would
have shown his abilities as constitutional
lawyer on that subject to the lasting confu-
sion and disgrace of the democratic sena-
tors. Such debate, prolonged for week
or two, would have compelled all the demo
Gratis who took part in it to face the hostile
constitutional doctrines of every democratic
national convention that ever sat. Before
its conclusion Mr.. Edmunds would have
, exposed them to the ridicule of their own
party and to the contempt of the Other
party Belonging, however, to the party
that is responsible for the government and
desiring to avoid unnecessary contests at
/ the outset OF new administration, he fore
bore to take advantage of the opportunities
! of debate that were offered. There was an