Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-06
Notes and Notions.

Mrs. GARFIELD, who speaks French and
German fluently, is said to be the first presi.
dents wife able to talk with foreign diplo.
mats in the court language Of Europe. Her
husband is also accomplished in German
and French.
SENATOR HoAR's definition of Bour-
bon I" He was once man who never learned
anything or forgot anything. The Bourbon
has advanced somewhat. He is now man
who never learns anything and forgets a
great deal"
The Indiana house of representatives
voted Monday of last week on the bill for the
punishment of wife-whippers with the CATO
nine tails, and it failed for lack of consti-
tutional majority-thirty-ave favoring the
bill and thirty.four opposing it.
THE Minnesota legislature sensibly de.
cided to avoid extravaganza in replacing the
state house recently burned and voted to put
up comfortable brick building devoid of
architectural ambition, instead of the mag
nifcent capitol building st. Paul people
wanted.
To Virginia gentleman who wrote TO
General Grant asking II it is true that Gen.
eral Lee offered Grant his sword at Apo
mattox, and If it was declined, General Grant
replies as follows "There was no demand
made for General Lees sword, and no tender
of IL made"
The snow blockade in the far west was
so long continued this winter that the Sioux
Valley Neps of Dakota could get no paper
for printing, but pluck and ingenuity solved
the problem, and the issue of March 18th
was printed on cotton cloth, giving very
fair impression.
The public is again assured that the per-
petrators of the Morey letter forgery will
soon be indicted, that among those who will
be compromised are several well.known dem
ocratic politicians, and that the indictment
will extend to some Of the members of the
national democratic committee.
SENATOR TRUMBULL of Illinois is re.
ported as having said to young lawyer who
came to him with an application for gov
eminent appointment al presume you can
have the place; but before / take step in
that direction feel like giving you one word
of counsel. If you take Office in Washing
ton you will ruin your whole life. You will
never know how to live without Office after
ward, and no office can surround a man with
the fortune of gentleman"
SPRINGFIELD Republican: "The new tax
law in Vermont goes into effect this month.
It ought at all events to have fair trial,
and those communities which have solemnly
resolved not to try it are very stupid. 1t is
the first attempt to introduce a rational sys-
tenn of corporation taxes in the state, and
although the legislature mutiated Governor
Pages scheme for a thorough reform in
taxation, there remains in the law probably
enough of value to make substantial i'm
provement over the past"
THE governor of Wisconsin has signed
the bill recently passed by the legislature,
prohibiting the practice of treating" The
bill provides that any person who shall here
after ask another to drink at his expense, or
any person consenting to drink at another's
expense, shall be liable to arrest and punish
ment. When the bill was introduced into
the legislature it was referred to as sense.
less and impracticable idea, and nobody
thouuht n would hecome a law r. has only
attracted attention since it passed. Charles
Harger, managing editor of the Evening
Wisconsin, has been arrested for violation of
the law, the complainant being the city edi-
tor Of the same paper. 1t is understood the
proceeding is to test its validity.