Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-01-19
Notes and Notions.

GENERAL GARFIELD sent out nine thou
sand letters from Mentor during the last
quarter of 1880, nearly all in answer to Of
fice-beggars.
Mrs. MoLLIE GRIzzARD, the republican
elected engrossing clerk Of the Tennessee
legislature, is widow whose husband was
killed by the rebels while hiding out in the
bushes.
GOVERNOR ALVIN HAWKINS was inaugu-
rated at Nashville, Tennessee, yesterday be-
fore a large assemblage. He is the first re-
publican governor inaugurated in Tennessee
in ten years.
CINCINNATI Gazette: "With Grant as
secretary of state, and Sherman or Sher-
mans equal at the head Of the treasury de-
partment, General Garfield could hardly
make mistake in forming his cabinet"
RUsKIN: Though England is deafened
with spinning-wheels, her people have not
clothes; though she is black with digging
of fuel, they die of cold; and though she
has sold her soul for gain, they die of
hunger"
HoRATro SEYMoUR's doctors have forbid
den him to attempt any physical or mental
effort, 50 that even his letters are written
by others. He amuses himself by studying
the weather with apparatus given him by
his nephew.
MRS. BRUCE, wife of the colored senator
from Mississippi, was among the best look
ing ladies present at the White House on
New Years day. She wore reception
toilet of violet colored silk and satin, trim
med with white lace and diamond orna-
ments.
MADAME RUMoR has it that Vice-Presi-
dent-elect Arthur is to be married next fall
to Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts, whose hus-
band died less than year ago. General
Arthur's wife has been dead about year.
Mrs. Roberts is handsome and has fortune
of 100000.
THE federal supreme court and the courts
in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio have
all recently held that railroad corporations,
and not the sleeping-car or palace-car COM
panies, are responsible to passenger for in
jury or loss from the porters on palace or
sleeping cars.
Thehouse has voted to refund the national
debt in five-ten bonds and one-ten treasury
notes, each bearing three per cent four hun
dred millions being the limit of the bonds
and three hundred millions of the notes. The
senate will doubtless decide that the above
issues cannot be foated.
The government is paying now from two
to three times as much for pensions as it
did in 1866 at the close Of the war If one
half OF the cases now on file in the pension
Office, 100000 in number, are approved, the
annual charge of pensions will be s75,OOO,-
600. 1t is now $50, 100000.
MIR. MOODY was followed to his lodgings
fortnight ago by a convert who wished to
ask whether it would be right, now that he
had professed to be Christian, to pay his
whiskey bills. The evangelist told him to
pay all his debts, no matter how bad they
might be, and then to make new start.
New YORK Herald: ain fact the So
called young scratchers, independents liber-
ais and anti-Conklingites are regarded here
to-day, not only by their opponents, but by
their sympathizers and friends, as such con-
temptible politicians that they deserve never
more to be heard of and probably will
not be-"
The Dartmouth college alumni associa.
ton of New York have their seventeenth
annual reunion and banquet at Pinard's. q
East Fifteenth street, on the evening of
January 27. The president of the associa-
ton, Dr. John Ordranaux of the class of
1850, will preside. The association now
numbers four hundred and thirty members
living in and near New York.
WASHINGTON LETTER: "Three ont of
the four Arkansas members of the house of
representatives have taken, and thus far
kept, pledge not to drink liquor during
the session. The fourth member, the iolv
Slemons, says he finds it aconsiderable task
to do all the whisky drinking for the entire
Arkansas delegation, but he intends to do il
If it can be done by one man."
ISAAC c. PARKER, judge of the United
States district court at Fort Smith, Arkan.
sas, has sentenced more men to the gallows
than any other federal Judge. When he
was appointed judge of the district court
five years ago the Indian territory and the
borders were infested by deperadoes. lie
set to work to enforce the law, and in the
five years of his administration has passed
sentence upon forty murderers.
Mr.. FRYE has withdrawn from the con.
test for the speakership OF the next house
and will be a candidate for the senate from
Maine to fill vacancy which, it is conf.
IDENTIFY stated, will be made by the early res.
ignation of Mr.. Blaine. This latter event,
it is maintained, will occur before the ad.
journment of the Maine legislature, so that
Governor Plaisted may not have the oppor-
tunity of appointing fusionist ally to the
democrats in the senate to assist in its or.
ganization. This conclusion is regarded az
setting at rest all rumors that Mr.. Blaine is