The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01

and 1t is certainly worthy OF the career OF
the party for the last generation"
New York HERALD: $50 far as the
Tines poll shows anything it seems to
us to suggest that on the republican side
Senator Edmunds has really the strongest
following, while on the democratic side
nothing is as yet settled. But the most
remarkable showing of all is the steady
advance Mr.. Arthur has made in the good
opinions and confidence, not of his party
alone, but of the general public. By the
way, in the Times list Mr.. Arthur and
Mr.. Edmunds together hold 121 to Mr..
Blaine's 1O3 votes"
GENERAL SHERMAN, when lad, was
adopted by Thomas Ewing of Ohio, whose
wife was very Jealous Roman Catholic.
Mrs. Ewing had the boy baptized in the
church, but the priest who officiated OBJ
jected to the heather name of Tecumseh,
and baptized him simply as William Sher-
man. The boy did not Ii Ike it, and the
Rev. DIR. Bronson, who tells the story,
says that Sherman then told him: " | am
going to stick to Tecumseh, heather name
though it be. Father gave it to me, and
l propose to keep it,"
The Missouri editors went to Mexico
for their annual excursion, and, one of
them writing to the 81. Joseph Gazette,
says: "Few people understand the bitter
hatred the average Mexican has for the
American. 1t is simply inextinguishable.
No matter what Porfrio Diaz says. No
matter the continued ovation he received
| from st. Louis to New York and from
New York to New Orleans, the masses of
the Mexicans hate the people of this coun-
try with hatred that can only come from
the commingling of the Spanish blood
with the Indian"
THE bell rung by the San Francisco
| Vigilance Committee in 1856 hangs in
the belfry of the Baptist church at Petal.
una, California, which purchased it in
1858. During the war the Unionists of
that town rang it after every Union VIC
tory, much to the annoyance of those who
sympathized with the South. One night
the latter took the bell from the belfry
and carried it off to a public store. 1t
was recaptured and rung with renewed
vigor Next morning it was found broken.
1t is now shown to visitors as relic OF
old California days.
ALBANY JoURNAL "Mr. Arthur is the
first republican President of whom it could
be fairly said that he governed united
republic. His messages are the first
written by republican executive in
which no reference to the South as a sec
ton is to be found. He is as much the
President in Florida or Arkansas as he i.
in Ohio. The notion that his office repre-
sents something alien and hostile to then
has faded from the minds of southern
people. OF course much of this is due tx
the healing natural influences of time. Blu
quite as much is due to the President
own good sense and self-restraint."
PHILADELPHIA TINES 81. Mr.. Til
den will gladly accept the nomination TO
the presidency, if he can get it. 2. fl
will write one of the best of political epis
ties, to be read in convention, declinin,
the nomination, if he can't get it. 3. H
will continue to maintain his presen
proclaimed indifference about the pres
idential nomination, and prove that h
doesn't care button about it by doinJ
his level best to bunch Tilden majorit
in convention. The foregoing three point
cover the whole ground of Mr.. Tilden'
attitude on the presidency, and all othe
reports are bogus. Copyright not az
piled for"
SAN FRANCISCO ALTA: GA list of tn
big ranches of San Luis Obispo county i
given. Few counties are suffering NOR
from the aggregation of land in the hand
of wealthy men. There is one ranch @
more than $4,000 acres, four of more tina
10000, two containing over 10000 an
less than 10000 acres, four between 20
900 and 10000, and nine between 1000
? and 10000. The Tribune says, by way 9
comment In some of our neighborin
counties there are tracts of 100000 acre
in the possession of sheep herders VIII
live in an eight-by-ten shanty, withou
book or newspaper, little above the shee
in intellect. There may be one nest c
: children, no more, who are compelled t
8 lead a life of seclusion and ignoranc
f away from society and all that is eleva
/. ing. Not school house, not church
< not fruit tree, or even a flower mar
i the wide desolation.'"
New YORK TRIBUNE " General Ave
i'll, an officer of good repute in the Arm
3 of the Potomac, who particularly ra
McCausland down, after he burned Chan
s bersburg, and dissipated his command, r.
n marked recently: Though have acte
y with the democrats for several years,