Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-16
Notes and Notions.

The third trial OF Timothy Kelly for par
ticipation In the Phoenix Park tragedy re- |
suited in q conviction week ago, and the |
accused was sentenced to be hanged on the
9th Of June.
BosToN JOURNAL: president Arthur |
has not been. credited with being a civil SER
vice reformer, nevertheless II must be adj
mitted that he has saved the commission
from great mistake"
The Minneapolis Tribune says that Min
nehaha, the scene Of Longfellow's inspira-
ton in connection with d" Hiawatha," has
been translated into beer garden, and is a
disgrace to American civilization.
LAST year over 100000 worth Of oleo-
margarine was made in New York city.
This was about ten cents worth apiece for
every man, woman and child in the ceun-
try. We trust that some one has already
spread our particular dimes worth on his
batter-cakes.
New York Sun President Arthur is
said to have illuminated the discussion Of
the civil service regulations with expert
ences from the New York custom house and
to have surprised his advisers with his 'prac-
tical knowledge and appreciation Of civil
service REFORM"
QUEEN VIoToRrA's sixty-fourth birthday,
May oath, will be celebrated on that day
throughout Great Britain, excepting in Lon
don, where it will be kept on May Goth.
This is an admirable arrangement, the Lon
don Globe thinks, inasmuch as il will enable
loyal subjects to observe the day once in the
country, and second time in London"
AN Indian was accused of killing deer
during close time in Maine. He exhibited
to the jury treaties from the general govern
ment and from Massachusetts, permitting
Indians to hunt and fish. The accused
pleaded for his exemption from the law, and
manifested 30 much of the traditional elo-
quence Of his race that he was acquitted.
ExAsPERArED in the night by cats, Du-
buque man went out on the back porchs
swung heavy club to let fly at them,
caught it in the long tail of his night shirt,
knocked himself down the steps, and broke
his arm. On the following day man in
the same city, while absent.mindedly trim
ming tree, sawed off the limb that he was
sitting on, and was half killed by the fall.
New YORK SUN: "Mayor Palmer de.
clares that nothing but miracle can pre-
vent the election of the next democratic
candidate for the presidency Oh, yes,
Mayor Palmer, there are several things short
of the miraculous which may prevent the
election of the next democratic candidate
for president For example, the next re-
publican candidate may have more votes"
In is very curious fact that, whereas so
many English colonies ignore the example
Of the mother country and establish protec-
tive tariffs, there are French colonies be-
yond the sea which refuse to initiate the
protective tariff of the republic, and stick
to free trade. At Martinique and Reunion
foreign goods are admitted duty free, with
the result that foreign traders are cutting
out the protected manufactures Of France.
SANITARIAN: Courage is a wonderful
agent in throwing off disease. A walk of
FIVE miles would cure many an occupant Of
the lounge. Will-power will surpass pill
power in nine cases out of ten, if not in
every one. To hold bottle of smelling
salts in the hand on account of headache,
may be just the thing at times, but to fling
pound of fruit cake into the alley, and
then walk a furlong as a reward for not eat
ing the compound, is nearly always much
better thing"
JOE BRADY, the first of the Phoenix Park
sssassins sentenced, was hanged in Dublin
Jail Monday morning. He was the princi-
pal in the murder of Burke and Cavendish
but few days more than year ago. For
months detection was defed, but at length
it came, and justice has been speedily and
sternly administered. The guilt of the pro.
cession of assassins which will follow Brady
to the gallows is established beyond doubt,
and as the drop SUCCESSFULLY falls the friends
OF law and order everywhere will respond
with an, Amen.
| THE courts have decreed the dissolution
of the marriage tie between Senator Fair
and his wife on account OF the senator's
marital infdelties. Tabor, another of the
divorced bonanza senators, Disguised the
country by vulgar display of wealth at his
late marriage in Washington to divorced
woman. The example of these bonanza
kings, morally and politically, is a rank of.
tense to the nation. The courts decree gave
Mrs. Fair s4,250.OOO, the family mansion at
San Francisco, and also the custody of the
three minor children.
"THE Landmark is vigorously at work
starting a boom for LieutenantG Governor
Pingree for governor. 1t is little early
yet, Brother Earle, and perhaps the early
bird will not gather in the honors this
time" The above from the Herald and
Ne,os has an Arctic frigidity about it, con-
sidering the fact that the latter paper has
made specially of mentioning" future
governors, and that, several months ago, it.
self set up LieutenantG Governor Pingree, on
an elaborate platform, for the governorship
in 1884. Thayer took in that worm long
before Earle was off the roost.
ABOUT the middle of April, when the
snow was flying in this latitude, and sleigh
ing and skating were to be had all through
Vermont, the mercury at Fort Ringgold
Texas, reached one hundred eight degrees
in the shade, and had been near that height
since the early part of the month. To the
majority of people figures indicating dis
lance do not give SO vivid conception Of
the vast territorial extent of the United
States, in an unbroken stretch, as the an
nual experience of receiving cargoes Of
green peas and strawberries, grown at the
south in the open air, while here every
thing is still in winters grip. I
THE new rules of the civil service com
, mission provide that the general examina
/ tions for admission to the service shall b,
limited to the following subjects ~ Pen
manship, copying, photography, letter-writ
ing. (2) Arithmetic, fundamental rules
fractions, and percentage. (O Interest
) discount, and elements of bookkeeping ant
, of accounts. (4 Elements of the geog
, raphy, history, and government of thu
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