Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-01-19
wATCHMAN STATE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 49, 1881
not to have place in President Garfeld's

not to have place in President Garfield's
cabinet.
The arithmetic men in congress have
been at work, or, at any rate, have found
out somehow, that, IL the membership of
the house should be increased by three,
Massachusetts, would retain her eleven dis.
tricts under the new census, and II IL should
be increased to three hundred and one,
Rhode Island would retain her two men,
bers. In either case Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont would lose one.
The Woman's Journal is highly gratified
with the action of our late legislature in re-
spect to woman suffrage. It says: "There
should be an extension Of the provisions of
the law to enable women to vote on all
school matters on which men vote in coun-
try towns. In many states this is now the
law. The one just adopted in Vermont with
only one dissenting vote in the senate, and
only three or four in the house, is of this
kind"
THE London News says: "The total ef
fects of the statement Of Henry Youle Hind
is to vitiate the fisheries award by vitiatine
the statistics accepted by both governments,
on which it rests. If Kinds figures are cor
rect, Justification has been committed, and
the whole question must be reopened. We
hope the government will refuse, in the
name of English honor to profit by mis-
stated case, and insist on complete investi-
CATION"
CONGRESSMAN GEDDEs of Ohio, who was
married to Mrs. Amelia B. Gass at Mansfield,
in that state, last week Tuesday, was mar
ried there in 1S4S to his late wife, on the
same evening and at the same place when
and where his present bride was married to
her late husband. The two survivors of
that double wedding after an interval of
thirty-two years, were married by the cler-
gyman who oficiated at their previous Ger.
emonies.
THURMAN of Ohio Boys, have been
in the democratic harness a long time. /
have always tried to do right, and now am
on the eve of retiring from the senate; but
have this to say, that the democratic party
before many years is as sure to come into
power as the stars are above us, and for
Gods sake when you do nominate men, nom-
mate big-souled, big-hearted, generous men,
whose sympathes and feelings are with the
people and the country"
A DELEGATION of prominent colored men
from Alabama waited upon Garfield at
Cleveland last week, setting forth the condi-
ton of their people in the south, their lack
of education, etc. Garfield responded that
the education of their children was the fore
most duty of all the American people and
assured them that what could be done would
not fail. He urged them to avoid raising
the color line and not to separate themselves
as class from the community.
The rebel brigadiers on the house mill
tary committee, being in the majority, have
voted to table the bill retiring General
Grant with the rank of general Senator
Blaine favors the bill on the ground that
the country took General Grant from life
position and made him president, and that
he ought to be left in as good position as
that of general of the army. 1t would re-
quire explanation in history, he says, if con-
gress should refuse 10 restore to the army
list the name of the general of all the armies
that conquered the rebellion.
SUNSET Cox of New York has imbibed