Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08
Notes and Notions.

its slow length along.
New York Tribune. "Few men would
be willing to sit up with corpse as long as
Mr.. Plat is doing"
THE price paid for the New York Even-
ing Post by Carl Schurz and Co. is said TO
have been S050,0O0.
The proposition to remove the bones of
William Penn from England to America
will not be countenanced.
ALMOST as many lives we're lost by the
steamboat accident at London, Ontario, as
we're lost by railroad accidents in the United
States during all of last year.
THREE Canadian newspapers,-th St.
Catharine Ne,os, Quebec Mercury and st.
Johns Globe,-have come out in favor of
annexation or independence"
IT is stated government law officers of
New York have been recently following
clews to the authorship of the Morey letter
and have met with signal success.
A MONUMENT is to be erected at Char
lotte, North Carolina, in time to be unveiled
May 90, 1882 in honor of the Mecklenburg
declaration of independence aud in memory
of the rebel dead.
THE Boston Advertiser pays its compli.
ments to Vice-President Arthur, and sug.
gests that the office is one which is " to be
deliberately assumed and to be admins
tered with decency and respect"
THE Montreal Telegraph Company has
entered into an agreement with the Western
Union, which controls the only other COM
pany in Canada (the Dominion), to unite
tbe two under one management
VERY significant scene was afforded
Decoration day in Louisiana by the blend
ing of ex-confederate organizations with the
Grand Army of the Republic at the decora.
tion of the soldiers graves at Chalmette.
BosroN Herald: "Arthur's fidelity to his
chief reminds one of Sheridan who, going
home drunk, and finding friend in the
gutter, first tried to lift him up, but, failing
in that, Loyalty lay down with him in the
mud"
No one can think Of the empress of Rus
STA without the deepest pity. 1t is said she
looks more like corpse than live being,
and sits perfectly speechless, seeming to hear
and see nothing. Who would possess royalty
at such price
ALBANY Journal: Notwithstanding SEN
ator Conkling deserted his post the govern
ment goes right along as if nothing had hap
pened. The public debt was decreased last
month to the extent of s1l,15O,72l.s7, and
the reduction for the year will exceed 300,
100000.
A MAN in Indiana who subscribed $50 to
the church on Sunday refused to pay the
subscription. The matter was taken to
court, and it was decided that the church
could make collections on Sunday, for they
were " cash down." but could not hold
man to contract made on that day.
COLONEL F. A. CoNKLrNG, an ex-congress-
man, told the New York chamber of com.
merce Thursday, in speech upon the duty
levied on sugar, that he had heard that one
firm had paid 100000 to member of con-
gress, who was a member of the committee
on ways and means, to prevent legislation on
this subject.
HARPER's WEEKLY: "Neither the presi.
dent nor the senate, whom the resig nation
was intended to affect, has altered in the
least. If he was justified in resigning he
was not justified in seeking reelection,
because he would return to the same presi
dent aud to the same senate whose conduct
he holds to have justified his resignation"
GOVERNOR ST. JOHN of Kansas claims
that the prohibitory law of his state is a
wonderful success. Topeka, with popula-
ton of twenty thousand, has not single sa-
loon, and has had only one case of drunken
ness since the law went into effect. An inc
briate took an overdose of Hostetter's bit
ters and the man who sold the "medicine I"
was fined 300. There are no open saloons
outside of Leavenworth and Atchison, and
these are under prosecution.
The Rev. A. ID. Mayo of Vicksburgh,
Mississippi, who has been looking over New
Orleans and Louisiana, writes the Christian
Register that within five years the progress
i've white men Of all parties will unite with
the colored voters to rescue the state and
city from the clique of imbecile political
implacables that now controls it, and estab-
lsh government under which free labor,
free suffrage and the free schools will be de-
Tended against all their foes"
SAYS Professor Phelps of Andover: ave
are not half awake to the fact that, by our
laws of divorce and our liberation of the So
cial evil, we are doing more to corrupt the
nations heart than Mormonism tenfold.
Vice, avowed and blatant and organized, to
large extent nullifies itself, SO far as self
diffusion is concerned. But vice, lurking
and still, trickles into all the crevices of So
ciety. A nation of Mormons is impossible
not so nation of libertines."