Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-29
Notes and Notions.

: FIFTH week of the Albany deadlock ant
! no prospect of break.
THE first currency bearing the signatur,
of B. X. Bruce, the new colored register
was received at the treasury department OF
Tuesday last.
WHEN Grant speaks Of military affair
his utterances are concentrated wisdom. Il
is only when he talks politics that he makei
his friends tremble for him.
OK Friday, at Long Branch, the president
drove past the Grant cottage and Genera
Grant and he exchanged bows. It is stated
General Grant would have called on the
president Friday had the latter not been out
driving.
New YORK World. "The United States
have made an end of the violent agitators
Of abolition by making an end of slavery.
Let England in like manner make an end of
misrule in Ireland If she objects to violent
agitators."
SECRETARY BLAINE is reported as saying
that "from this time on you will see that
the republican party will grow stronger for
having asserted that men are elected to Of
flee to discharge certain lawful duties, and
not to be bosses.'
| GENERAL Tom BROWNE of Indiana, of
the committee of visitors at Annapolis, says
that "when the board unanimously voted
the use of tobacco an injurious habit, which
ought not to be tolerated among cadets,
every member of it had cigar in his
| mouth"
LORD CHEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE of
England lately sentenced man to six
months imprisonment for kicking his wife
to death, and he imposed sentence, which in
England is regarded as somewhat severe for
an offense so common, in order TO demon
strate that human life is precious thing
in the eye of the law"
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, few days since,
made visit TO the homestead of Mr.. Ed
mund Lloyd, on Wye river, Talbot county,
Maryland, where he was once slave, and
which he had not before seen since he left it,
fifty-six years ago. He was kindly received
and Hospitality entertained by the surviving
members of his old masters family.
THE Atlanta, Georgia, Constitution reports
Judge A. o. Lochrane Of that state, who has
recently returned from visit north and west,
as saying q You want point. The son of
old Abe Lincoln, the present secretary of
war, will be president of these United
States He was one of the three hundred
six Grant men at Chicago and could bring
that wing up He's in with the administra-
tion and will not be distasteful to that wing.
Do know him do, and he's man with
the same wonderful magnetism that his
father had. You look out for Bob Lincoln |"
MATTERS in Russia do not seem to i'm.
prove in any degree, but the Nihilsts grow
stronger and tolder, if that were possible |
The executive committee having notified |
the emperor that his death is decreed, all |
summer jaunts have been given up, and |
great changes are being made about the |
winter palace in order to render it secure |
The officers who have hitherto made it their |
home have been removed, and battalion of |
one thousand two hundred men will be quar-
tered in the vacated rooms while the square |
in front Of the palace is to be enclosed |
against the public by railing.
DURING the fiscal year now almost ended
three hundred and twenty million postal
cards have been used, and during the last
four years about one thousand millions. If |
placed end to end those used this year would
go round the world at its largest circumfer-
ence, with several millions to spare. 1t is
expected that the number used next year
will be nearly five hundred millions. While
the present rate of letter postage is contin-
ned, the number of postal cards used will
probably increase, but if letter postage
should be reduced to two cents, the post Of
ice authorities would expect the demand for
postal cards to diminish.
AN intimate friend of Secretary Blaine
says: He told me the other day he was
going to Maine to spend good share of the
summer; that he was getting wagon fixed
up for four-in-hand team that he has four
handsome bays; that he was going to fill
hat dray with his own and his neighbors'
children and 60 spinning round the Maine
,ills camping out fishing loafng and hav-
ng good time out of doors. He thinks
hat what he needs is fresh air, relief from
,are, diversion for mind and body, and the
Punishment of office hunters. Blaine says
ne is good four-in-hand driver, and that he
earned how to drive in California, and has
had good deal of practice since"