Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-04-26
Notes and Notions


F, B. Moody as their candidate for governor
and M. g. George for congressman.
THE venerable Ralph Waldo Emerson is
suffering from severe attack Of pneumonia
aud serious results are feared.
A DUBLIN dispatch says that not single
person having the slightest claim to Ameri.
can citizenship is now confined in any Irish
prison.
ScovILLE has withdrawn from the Guiteau
case for the reason that he cannot continue
his connection without ruin to himself and |
family, as he AYERS.
STRIKES continue to multiply. The Har-
mony Mills at Cohoes, New York, were |
closed Monday and ffty-fve hundred en-.
ployes are out in the cold.
In the Cramer murder trial at New Haven,
the drawing of the jury was completed Fri
day and the court adjourned to Tuesday
without taking any testimony.
CONCENTRATION messages were ex-
changed on Saturday between Emperor
William and President Arthur over the new
direct cable between Germany and the
United States.
THERE was general observance Of the
Sunday law in the chief cities of Ohio last
Sunday, nearly all of the liquor saloons be-
ing closed. Various other kinds of business
were also suspended.
The Philadelphia correspondent of the
New York Herald has been sued by Senator
MCPHERSON of New Jersey for reporting that
he paid $1,000 for one-twentieth of a share
in the Peruvian Company.
al WANT to adjourn" said Mr.. Benedict,
democratic member of the New York Assem-
bly,, to that body Friday, before my party,
the grand old democratic party, commits one
Of its proverbial Mistakes"
DURING the nine months ending March
31st, 4i0,325 immigrants arrived in the
principal customs districts of the United
States, against 35O,53l for corresponding
period last year.
A STARTLING report is received from IT.
kutsk, Siberia, that the United States steam
Rodgers has been burned aud sunk in the
Arctic regions; the officers and crew, how.
ever, are safe at Tiapaka, near Cape Serdze.
HALLET KILBoURN has obtained verdict
of 100000 damages in his suit against ex-
Sergeantat-Arms Thompson of the national
house of representatives, for arrest and i'm
prisonment against his will at Washington
in 1876.
THE trial of Walter L. Malley, James
Malley, and Annie Kearns, alias Blanche
Douglass, charged with the murder of Jen-
ME +. Cramer, opened in the superior court
at New Haven, last week. before Judge
Granger. After several panels were ex-
hausted, jury has just been drawn and the
trial will now proceed.
THERE is at least one daily paper in Mis-
souri,, the Sedalia Democrat, which does not
hesitate to express its admiration for the
late eminent citizen, Jesse James, and its
disapproval of the treatment he received in
his life from some portion of the public. 1t
says " That was his country the graves of
his kindred were there. He refused to be
banished from his birthright, and when he
was hunted he turned savagely about and
hunted his hunters. Would to God he were
alive to-day to make righteous butchery
| of few more of them"
THE Washington Star says that promi-
nent ex-confederate officer, now residing in
Washington, started out, the other evening,
to find man-servant. He met pretty
good-looking colored man and asked if he
could recommend a good servant. The COL
ored man regretted that he could not.
"What are you engaged at ?" asked the ex-
confederate. "Why can't | employ you ?"
al am not doing anything just now" was
the reply, :" but | expect to have seat in
congress in few days. My name is Lynch,
and | am contesting the seat of General
| Chalmers"
GENERAL BEAUREGARD has been engaged
for some time on book about the war, and
his MS. is now almost complete. The work
covers his whole military career. 1t is not
conciliatory in tone. 1t assumes through.
out the fundamental justice of the confed-
crate cause, and maintains that their senti-
ment and teachings upon that subject ought
to be preserved and cherished. General
George w. Smith has also completed an
account of the fall of New Orleans under
Mansfield Lowell, together with history OF
military operations on the peninsula. He
attacks Jefferson Davis as severely as some
of his predecessors.
Missouri must be nice state to live in,
according to prevailing accounts. A writer
in the New York Herald, who says he had
to leave in order to save his life, after hay
ing been crippled, declares that there were
no less than thirteen murders committed in
one year within mile and half of his
farm, and the land thereabout was very
sparsely settled, to that the percentage of
deaths by violence was rather large. He as
serts that there are more than score OF
men now at large in Missouri who have
murdered two persons where Jesse james
did one, and they have the sympathy and
good will of at least one-third of the PEG
pie among whom they reside.
A TERRIFIC cyclone swept over Browns
vile, Saline county, Mexico, Monday after
noon, the 18th instant. The entire business
portion of the town was demolished, seven
persons were killed and between twenty and
thirty others badly injured. The storm
came from the southwest and it arose sc
suddenly that the first intimation the PEG
pie had was sudden roaring sound, which
was immediately followed by large black
funnel-shaped cloud, coming at the rate Of
one hundred miles per hour. When the
cloud reached the western part of the town
it dropped down almost to the ground anc
seemed to draw everything within radiu,
of several hundred yards up into the mouth
Of the funnel. 1t swept through the town
laying everything waste in its path.
THE Boston Post (democrat) having said
"The south is now calling for Tilden," the
Charleston News (democrat) replies; I" 18th,
Boston Post knows nothing of southern feel
ing regarding Mr.. Tilden. There are som,
sporadic cases of Tildenism in the south
but the disease ceased to be epidemic il
1880. The improvements in political drain
age and the study of political sanitation
make the south safe against the return Of /
malady which produced high fever at tn,
time and left the patient debilitated and de