Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-05-10
gin Genfral
Personal.

"hiIELAW REID IS writing life OF Hon.
James G. Blaine.
JUDGE DANFoRTH is the latest mentioned
dark horse for the republican nomination
for governor Of Maine.
SECRETARY CHANDLER is accused of
wearing the most venerable aud "slouchy"
hat in all Washington.
Miss MCCLELLAN, daughter of General
Mcclellan, has been the belle Of the military
circles at Old Point Comfort, Virginia.
LIEUTENANT DANENHowER, now in st.
Petersburg, is expected to arrive in Wash
ington by the end Of the present month.
Mr.. EDWARD ATKINSON, an expert, says
the south loses S60,000,000 a year on its cot
ton crop because Of the imperfect cotton
gins in use.
THE biographies of Emerson recall what
many people had forgotten, and many more
never knew that he was "the Rev." Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
MooDY AND SANKEY will probably post
pone their visit TO London until the autumn
of 1888, using next winter in the smaller
cities and towns Of Great Britain.
THE summer school of philosophy at Con-
cord will devote day of its session during
the present season to the discussion of En-
ersons character by several speakers.
JuDGE. BANNER of Winchester, Virginia,
who e~cte-Ivea John Prnwr ~ ha hanrad
was at the capitol in Washington the other
day, and attracted much attention from the
curious.
EDWARD S. STOKES, who shot James
Fiske, Jr., is now proprietor Of an elegant
bar room in New York. He gave recep-
tion recently to "ladies," and New York
&c
present.
SENATOR Hill cannot recover, but is not
troubled by regrets. &c cannot complain"
he said the other day. {" have lived fifty
eight years, and suppose no man ever lived
fitty-eight happier years. 1t may be best
that they be all"
Mrs. GooDLovE, poor woman residing
in Boston, has entered claim for tract of
land near Kingsbridge, New York, valued
at 36,000,000. She claims to be grand
daughter of one Mcleod who bought the
property many years ago for & an acre.
IT was necessary that one of the daughters
of Minister Sargent should sail for Ger
many with her eyes blindfolded owing to
affection contracted while studying Sans
crit and Auglo-Saxon. A noted occulist of
New York was in attendance at the last
moment.
Mr.. w. G. RILEY, whoever he may be,
writes that Blaine and Arthur are " on the
most friendly terms, aud that Mr.. Blaine
has been rendered the English mission, do
know says Mr.. Riley. Mr.. Riley is what
the late Mickey Free would have called "a
kuowledgeable man."
THE Chicago Inter- Ocean remarks "Rev.
Brook Hereford leaves Chicago because he
| finds with religion, as with everything else
here, restless, resistless, pushing ahead,
a sharp competition for the foremost rank.
He prefers, at his age, to 60 where there is
more peace, more rest, more Of an old
fashioned way of taking things.
| ALEXANDER II. STEVENS has so far re-
considered his determination to retire from
| public life as to say that if his health con-
tinues good and the people of Georgia insist
upon it, as they appear to do, he will con-
sent to become candidate for governor.
1t will be extremely difficult for Mr.. Ste
phens to escape public life, but he is a
much more interesting figure in the house
or senate at Washington than he would be
in Georgia acting as pardon clerk and sign
ing notorial commissions.
| Hon. HORACE MAYNARD died suddenly
at one o'clock Wednesday morning of heart
disease. He was born in Westboro, Massa-
chusetts, August 80, 1874; was graduated
at Amherst in 1888, and soon afterward emil
grated to Tennessee, with the politics and
| progress OF which state no has ever since
been conspicuously identified. He entered
the University of East Tennessee as tutor
and subsequently became professor of math-
ematics. During this time ne was engaged
in the study of law, and, being admitted to
| tha har in 1874 davota ad nj m aalf n tho larUa
and lucrative practice which at once came
to him. Mr.. NJ synard held number of
local offices, was a presidential elector in
1852 and was a representative in congress
for several terms. For his loyalty during
the troubles of 1861 Mr.. Maynard's property
was confscated and he and his family were
driven from the home of their adoption.
He was delegate to the Baltimore conven-
tion of 1854 and after the war closed in 1865
was elected again to congress by the loyal
people of Tennessee, and was several times
reelected. In 1875 President Grant ap-
pointed him minister to Turkey. In 1880
President II ayes appointed him postma aster
general. Since the expiration Of Mr.. H ayes
term Judge Maynard, as he has been com.
monty called, has been in private life, and il
has been said that he would be candidate
for the United States senate before the next
Tennessee legislature. Mr.. Msynard was &
man of finished education, and not only {
ripe scholar, but also thorough and strong
lawyer. Hs was forcible and clear speaker
always entertaining and instructive, and
sometimes rose to the level OF genuine elo
quence. His patriotism during the period
of the rebellion was conspicuous, and won
the praise of the loyal north as well as the
hatred of the rebel press and people, and he
has always been regarded as the representa-
tive southern republican.