Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-03-29
Notes and Notions.

SENATOR and Mrs. Edmunds have gone
south with their youngest daughter, who is
seriously i'll.
AMONG the senate combinations last
week was that Of Judge Blatchford TO be
associate justice Of the supreme court. He
accepts the position.
john II. SMITH of North Carolina, who
has been nominated minister TO Liberia,
preceded DIR. Garrett there and is young
lawyer Of the same race and Of ability.
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL SWAIN has
decided that the court-martial proceedings
against Sergeant Mason were irregular, and
that the accused is unlawfully confined.
The house committee on agriculture has
agreed to recommend an appropriation of
100000 for the distribution of seed among
the people of the submerged section of the
Mississippi valley.
THE star routes west of the Mississippi
were recently advertised and let for another
term of four years at cost of about one
half the annual price paid under Brady's ad.
ministration Of the service.
A NUMBER Of Yale students and graduates
at New Haven have formed Free Trade
club. Professor Sumner told them he be.
lieved the tariff would be the leading politi-
cal issue of the near future.
| The summer Of 1916, the year that New
England farmers called eighteen hundred
and starved to DEATH" is said to have been
preceded by just such winter as we have
been having. 1t was summer only in name,
for nothing seemed to grow.
The floods in Mississippi continue to sub
side, and government aid for the sufferers
will not be required to any extent after the
9th Of next month. The situation at Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, is hourly becoming more
serious, and the entire Crosse Tete coun.
try is now under water.
THE cabinet has disapproved Cadet Whit
takers sentence of dismissal from the SER
vice on the ground that technical evidence
was taken at the trial and improperly in
troduced Cadet Whitaker will be released
from arrest, but he will be dismissed from
the military academy for deficiencies in his
studies.
A DEMOCRATIC paper in Mississippi re.
Dukes Senator Jones for his declaration
that " the negro is wholly untitled by nature
ever to attain the requisite intelligence fol-
free government or even useful citizenship
1t adds that the democratic party in the
south will not admit the justice Of his con.
clusions'
THE state department has received infor.
nation from the United States legation al
Pekin, dated December 3lst, that the Chi
nese government was then examining the stu
dents who had returned from this country
with view to sending back fifty of then
who should appear to have made most prog
ress and give the best promise.
The versatile Shipherd is unfolding tc
the house investigating committee what he
knows about the affairs of the Peruvian
Company. Nothing especially new has beer
developed except that he considered Minis.
ter Hurlbut "purchasable," and artfully
turned this quality of the diplomat to &C
count to prevent him from turning viciously
against the Peruvian company's interests, -
thing which Mr.. Blaine at first laughed al
as good joke, but which six months later
when the people were looking over matters
he Indignantly spurned as an attempt Al
| bribery.