Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-03
Notes and Notions.

KENTUCKY state election was held Mon
day. 1t, of course, went democratic by the
usual majority.
A RICH Pennsylvania writes to Governor
Foster that he wants to give Mrs. Garfield
100000 in case of the presidents death.
The name is withheld.
The Post says that ex-senator Uamlin of
Maine will accept the Spanish mission and
that Captain Boutelle of the Bangor Wing
will be secretary of legation.
Hon. ANDREW WHITE, United States
minister at Berlin, has positively rendered
his resignation, to take effect August 18th,
at which time he will return to the United
States.
Ex-CoLLEcToR MERRITT of New York,
in his report, bears unequivocal testimony
to the good results of the system of compel.
tive examinations adopted in the New
York custom house.
Now it is all over, some of the democrats
wish that they had not allowed Collector
itOcCiOooh W bC Dub lndb biltl
had helped Conkling kick up a rumpus in
the republican party.
"MR. BUCHANAN was an able man." said
Jefferson Davis the other day, "but very
timid one. If he had had the nerve to deal
with the situation as its gravity demanded,
he continued, doubt exceedingly whether
any other state south would have followed
South Carolina into secession"
Ir is proof of the approach of the mil.
lenium that Ben. Butler has voluntarily
abandoned his favorite role of agitator and
withdrawn himself from the public gaze.
He has hardly been heard from since the adj
iournment of congress, and the report made
is that he will not even seek TO be nominated
for governor of the old commonwealth.
THE New York Tribune, referring to
CoDklng's fight and its outcome concludes
that it has welded the republican party to-
gether as nothing else could have done.
Republican and independent voters are ex-
ceedingly gratifed to find the party at last
in full and united accord with the national
administration which commands the conf
dence and sympathy of the whole people,"
A ST. LOUIS dispatch represents Governor
Crittenden of Missouri as saying that the
late Judge Clifford told him that he had
prepared a complete and detailed history of
the electoral commission, of which he was
member, and that it would be published
after his DEATH unless his wife, who was the
custodian of the manuscript, should other
wise decide, and that its publication would
create sensation throughout the country.
TEMPLE farm at Yorktown will be the
site of the military encampment during the
centennial celebration. Secretary Lincoln
has invited Maior-General Hancock to COM
mand the military part of the celebration.
The twenty-second New York regiment has
offered to escort the governor of Massachu-
sets and his guard Of honor the first corps
of cadets, when they pass through New
York October 18th, on their way to York
town.
BESIDES the hundreds who are taking ad-
vantage of the low rates to the west, caused
by the wars of the railroads, to visit friends
or relatives or to transact business, other
hundreds, consisting of school teachers,
clerks, mechanics and the like, are giving
themselves the treat of visit to that Sec
ton of our country as pleasant way of
spending vacation. Cheap fares set the
multitude to travelling, and the railroads are
blind if they shut their eyes to the fact.