Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-04-05
Notes and Notions.

Notes and Notions.
GENERAL BUTLER intimates that he has
gone into the democratic party to stay. The
republicans profess their gratitude, but the
democrats are silent.
THE anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's
birth was celebrated by the Jeffersonian club
of New Haven, Connecticut, Monday eve
ming, large number of prominent demo-
Gratis being present. A letter was read from
Samuel j. Tilden.
THE Ohio legislature has passed the bill
for taxing saloons from 800 to $500 year
each, aud Cincinnati is especially happy in
the prospect of an addition of something
like 100000 annually to its revenue. There
is a constitutional provision against licensing
saloons, and heretofore nothing whatever
has been realized from them.
GENERAL GRANT told Mr.. Nichol just |
after the presidential election that there |
were two men to whom he should never |
speak, Rosecrans and Hewitt. "For seven
teen years Garfield has defended and praised
Rosecrans," said General Grant, "and kept
him from sinking into merited oblivion, and
the return for it was an assault in speech
in San Francisco"
CONGRESS has before it three bills to es-
tablish uniform system of bankruptcy.
Action is being taken by the different bust
ness organizations of the country in favor of
one or another of these bills. The Lowell
bill, which is the most complete and prob
ably the most satisfactory, is being generally
endorsed by the boards of trade and ex-
changes of the country.
The republicans of Hartford, Connecti-
cut, on Monday elected their candidates
for mayor aud majority of the city coun-
Gil. Democratic victories were won in Gin
cinnati, Ohio, indianapolis, Indiana, and
Keokuk and Dubuque, Iowa. In Columbus
the success was divided between the two
parties. In Bridgeport, Connecticut, the
republicans were successful.
SOMEBODY has discovered that Easter will
be observed this year on the anniversary of
the day on which the resurrection really &C.
Cured. The only real doubt now about the
year of that great event is whether it was
A. ID. 20 or 80. If the latter, the Paschal
full moon fell that year on Thursday, April
9th, the crucifixion would be next day.
April 7th, and the resurrection April 9th.
MAYOR GREEN of Boston has raised a
breeze among the democratic politicians of
the hub by summarily dismissing the police
commissioners for the reason that /" the dis
cipline of the department required it," The
decapitated office-holders are loud in their
imprecations and confidently assert that
this action of the mayor will result in a
democratic triumph at the next municipal
election.
The prohibitory bill was defeated in the
Massachusetts house of representatives on
Friday last by tie vote. Mr.. Speaker
Noyes has been counted upon as staunch
prohibitionist, and yet when he had it in his
power to pass the bill by his casting vote,
he refused to vote, and 80 the bill was lost
Whereupon the friends of prohibition are
very greatly incensed, and apparently moi
without reason.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR; ." have been influ
: enced, in making up my appointments, by
senators and representatives so far. Tit
I result of this is: have made some yer,
unsatisfactory nominations. Hereafter,
shall be guided by my own judgment in thu
r cases. When am asked to select new mel
for places, shall only take the recommends
tions of a congressman the same as from
other leading public men,"
THE senate committee to whom was re
ferred back the bill to admit Southern Da
kota into the union by reason of the refusa
= of Yankton to pay certain bonds issued
~ aid in the construction of a railway, ha
. reported that the complaint against Dakot
/ is matter for the courts and not for col
% gress to settle. The committee has accort
i ingly renewed its recommendation of th
u bill for the admission Of the territory.
= A DISPATCH to the Boston Journal say
a that the diplomatic corps at Washingto
has been informed by the Chinese legatio
that if the Chinese bill is signed the Oh
k nese government will at once take stel
d. looking toward the abrogation of the trea
il with China. The Chinese minister has i
III formed Secretary Frelinghuysen that the Ct
p nese government in making the treaty wi
n ready to restrict emigration, but did not i
ne tend to prohibit it for twenty years.
or JUDGE JEREMIAH BLACK is quoted by
10 correspondent of the Providence, Rho,
IL Island, Press as saying, in regard to the 7
80 mors of Mr.. Arthurs marriage, ~ do n
ny doubt that the president is the constant su
10, ject of matrimonial overtures from all qua
rs ters some of them most automatically pi
lib sented. When l was associated with Pre-
ls- dent Buchanan as cabinet officer from
To- own state, was continually solicited to
AIT the medium of these delicate approach
'ar and propositions"
no The latest phase of the Indian questi
appears in the proposition of Senator Ho
!. OF Massachusetts to appropriate $4,000
IN to be expended in educating those tribes
on siding beyond the Mississippi. The SCI
Ter tor adduces many excellent arguments
he support OF his plan and brings forward
} 4. strong array of figures to prove that accol
ing to past experience this would becheaI
act than TO restrain them by force of arm
,la- There is Justice and humanity enough
mt this idea to call attention TO it and it "
ao doubtless receive careful consideration.
90 DOM PIATr: "To those, however, W
Us had the happiness TO know well the qualit
ing of the man who, now moldering in his gra
oiy shames the little creatures that live to fatt
70 on our unhappy land and quarrel over
10 corpse, this charge of disloyalty TO frie
'er Is dresry bosh. II Garfield had one quail
more marked than another, it was that qu
ity these hyenas, fighting over his narr
of home, seek TO rob him OF. lie was woma
of in his attachments and true in his friel
,en- ships. We all know how he clung
his Mcdowell and Pope in their hours of n
eim fortune, and through good and evil rep
his loyalty TO Rosecrans was seen by all me