Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04
Notes and Notions.

DURING the silly season at Washington
society correspondents have IL that Queer
Victoria would not object to seeing a match
between the Princess Beatrice and Presi
dent Arthur.
THE London Telegraph thinks IL better tc
trust the verdict of mankind than that Of
twelve men, and declares that this larger
jury is unanimous in demanding that Quit
eau shall be punished for his crime.
Now that all the funny newspapers have
had their gibe because ex-President Hayes
refused to subscribe to the Garfield monu.
ment fund because of poverty, it is found
that he did not refuse. He gave $3.50 and
offered to give more.
IT is pretty well settled that the commit
tee Of the American Bar Association will,
at its meeting in New York, in February,
adopt plan for the relief of the United
States supreme court, which contemplates
the establishment of another court to con-
sist of fifteen judges.
LONDON Truth GAS for his being mad,
this is nonsense. He is pernicious fool,
and if he were acquitted on the ground of
insanity, the life of no president in Amer
lea would be safe against the endeavors
Of pernicious fools like him, seeking to
thrust themselves into notoriety."
As Charles Sumner was leaving Boston
for Washington for the session of congress
during which he died, he said to friend
| never wanted TO live so much as | do
now. | want TO live forever. | want to see
the progress of the age. want to see the
end of all organized systems Of wrong and
oppression. | have seen slavery die, and
want to see all evil die"
IT is well that there still is considerable
unoccupied land out west. Uncle Sam is
going to need it all before he achieves his
manifest destiny. Here comes dispatch
from London, stating that emigration prom
Uses to be more colossal than ever in 1882,
and that fourteen thousand tickets have
already been taken for transportation by
vessels leaving Bremen for America in the
spring.
The total number of business failures
during the year 1881 is reported at 391,
with assets amounting to S3,902,096, and
liabilities at S11,130,933, The grocery,
cigar and tobacco, boot and shoe, produce
and provision, liquor, fancy goods and no.
ton, and furniture trades stand highest in
the number of failures and in the order
named-the first being credited with twenty
five failures and the last with fourteen.
THE proceedings Of the Charleston, South
Carolina, city government on the death of
Garfield have been bound in handsome vol
umes and sent to Mrs. Garfield, President
Arthur and his cabinet and ex-Presdents
Grant and Hayes. Mrs. Garfeld's copy has
this sentence embroidered on white satin
Those whom natures aflliction has Joined
together let no political difference put
asunder.
AN amendment to the constitution of the
United States has been proposed which, if
adopted, will prohibit congress from passing
local or special bills. 1t prescribes that
" the legislative power of the United States
is limited to the enactment of laws general
in their application and effect to all Sec
tions and persons within the jurisdiction of
this constitution. All laws, private or spe-
cial enactments, hereby prohibited, shall be
null and void"
THE London Truth says "Amerca is
sending us prime beef and mutton. Ameri-
can wool is BUSTING English from the
market American apples are more numer-
GUS in the English market than homegrown.
America is now sending us English plum
buildings ready for boiling. American
horses have this year won the principal
races in England and France. And now
that America is bestirring herself about her
navy, what will he left for poor old England
to plume herself upon 2"
ALBANY Journal: 4" For demanding some
form of local self-government the Irish peo-
pie are denounced as insurgents and
revolutionsts." But Scotland is ripe for
a similar demand, and when she raises her
voice it will be heard by all Christendom.
Even Canada, which shows hardly more
spirit than Bombay, has begun to grow res
tive under parliamentary machinery which
is in no proper sense representative of the
people, or responsible to them, but which is
only for narrow partisanship."