Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-10-26
Notes and Notions.


The greenback ticket gets only thousand
votes in Ohio this year.
SENATOR CoNKLING is suffering, as in
former years, from malaria, and is confined
to his house.
PROVIDENCE Journal. "The Williams
Garfield professorship seems the best educa-
tional memorial that could be given him."
The trustees of Cornell University have
required President White to pledge himself
not to accept political office for four years.
JUDGE LOWELL Of Boston is now promi-
nently named as likely TO succeed the late
Judge Clifford on the United States supreme
bench.
GENERAL FRANCIS A. WALKER has re.
signed as superintendent of the census, and
his resignation has been accepted by Presi-
dent Arthur.
The New York committee on the Mich.
gan relief fund has called for further aid.
They say the amount required is 81, 100000,
and only 100000 has been subscribed.
GENERAL GRANT intends to have family
reunion at his new home in New York on
Thanksgiving Day. Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris
will sail from England in time for the festival.
THE constitution of Maryland makes min
listers or preachers of the gospel or of any
religious creed or denomination ineligible
to seats in either branch of the state legisla-
ture.
THE temperate habits of the citizen SOL
diers cougregated at Yorktown are said to
have greatly surprised the spectators in the
rum-selling line who set up bars in the con-
fident expectation of being overrun with
custom.
SECRETARY WINDOW has received the
caucus nomination of the republicans of the
legislature of Minnesota for United States
senator, and is as good as elected. 1t isn't
every man who can lay down a senatorship
and pick it up again at will-eh, Mr.. Conk.
ling
ALBANY Journal: "Iu 1879 G vernon
Foster was elected by a majority of 1900.
His majority now is $4,000. If this is an
off year in politics it is an awful year to
democracy. AS has gone Ohio so will go
New York. The trump has not yet sounded
for the resurrection of Bourbonism."
A GREAT demand for confederate bonds
has just sprung up, aud they are changing
hands by millions. In explanation Of the
improved market it is said that there is in
England seven million dollars in gold de-
posted during the war to the credit of the
rebel government, which can be used toward
the payment of the bonds. The holders of
bonds probably started this story.
BosToN Pilot: England may imprison
every public representative in Ireland. She
may break up every public meeting of the
land league. Very well; then she drives
the people to secret rganization-she plays
into the hands of the revolutionsts The
land league cannot be broken up. It is
stronger now than ever. Parnel's arrest
has made it thousand times more powerful.
The land league is permanent"
THE Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times congratulates Washing
ton society over the prospect of the reign,
under the polite and gentlemanly Arthur, of
culture and refinement in place of the
" prairie manners that have held sway in
that city for the last two decades. Further
along he discloses that his idea of the acme
of culture and refinement is that there be
plenty of dances and an abundance of wine.
What does the country think of this sort of
culture and refinement