Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-25
Notes and Notions.


dered the removal of the trustees OF the
Tewksbury aims house. His action is Gre
ating great stir.
A BosToN clergyman has found text
which he thinks aptly describes the magni-
tude Of the gubernstorial muddle in the old
Bay State. "And Benjamins mess was Eve
times as great as any Of theirsl"
SENATOR EDMuNDs said last week to
reporter Of the Kansas City Times that, in.
ssmuch as insurance companies refuse to
take years risk on the life Of Mr.. Tilden,
that gentleman couldn't be regarded as a
very formidable candidate for president.
In cutting away the knobs about the old
fort at Lake George, to obtain earth and
gravel for repairing the railroad embark
ment, the workmen lately dug into what was
doubtless at one time the military burial
ground. Seven skeletons were exhumed,
nearly all of which bear the marks of battle.
One skull had bullet hole in the forehead,
and when the sand was shaken from it out
dropped the fattened bullet.
The Washington grand jury has returned
an indictment against William Pitt Kellogg
for receiving money, while United States
senator, for services rendered in relation to
contract with the United States. 1t has
also returned an indictment against Thomas
j. Brady, for receiving money while second
assistant postmaster general, for services rem
dered in relation to a contract with the
United States. There are FIVE counts in
each indictment, charging five separate
payments Of $500 for expediting certain
routes in Texas and Louisiana.
WASHINGTON Critic: can experiment
with dynamite was recently made by one Of
the officers of the navy yard. A quantity
of dynamite was confined on the top of
stone five feet square and five feet thick by
wooden box one foot square and three
inches high, without top or bottom, the ex.
plosive being placed loosely inside the i'm
promptu fence. A fuse was applied and
the assembled officers scampered off In diff
ferent directions, fully expecting that the
wooden enclosure would be blown into frag-
ments. The explosion took place, and upon
examination 1t was found that the wooden
box had not been injured. while the dynam-
lite had exploded downward in the direction
of the greatest resistance, shattering the
stone throughout"
WHILE preparations for the imperial cor
onation are going forward in Russia, the
gallows is busy disposing of condemned
Nihilists. Six were recently hung, two con-
demned to life servitude and ten to from
fifteen to twenty years. imprisonment.
Among the number is naval officer and a
priests daughter. Notwithstanding the
terrors of speedy and severe punishment,
Nihilism continues to flourish. During the
last week the arrests were numerous, en-
bracing all occupations-military officers,
soldiers, working-men, young ladies, teach
ers and students. So long as there is an
iron-bound autocracy in all the Russias so
long Nihilism will prevail, though there be
a gibbet on every square mile Of the en-
pire's vast territory.
AN avenging spirit more terrible to be
endured than the vengeance Of outraged jus
tice pursues the acquitted murderer Dukes.
Treacherously and in cold blood he shot the
father of the young lady whom, under promise
Of marriage, he had grievously wronged.
In the face of overwhelming evidence Of
guilt he was acquitted by corrupt jury.
Only one friend stands by him. A member
of the Pennsylvania legislature, his asso-
ciates declared that he should not sit in that
body. The brand of Cain is upon him. A
few days ago he emerged from his haunt in
hotel in Uniontown. A young sister Of
the lady whom he had doubly wronged, pass.
ing, saw him standing there and hurled a
cobblestone at him. The school children
boot at him as he walks the street.
DANIEL CURLEY, another OF the accursed
Phoenix Park assassins, was convicted in
Dublin, Wednesday of last week, and con-
demped to suffer death, May 18th. The
favorite expedient in England, the last re-
sort of the astute Weller, an alibi, CORES.
ponding to the insanity dodge in this coun-
try, was attempted in vain. The chief wit
ness for the crown was the informer James
Carey, who had previously sworn away the
life of Brady. This wretch seems to have
led these men into murderous conspiracy
and when they are in the clutches of the
law, to save his neck, beuays his confeder-
ates. In his speech, Curley admitted that
he was a Fenisn, but averred that he was
der. In the case of Thomas Kelley, another
Of the alleged assassins, the jury failed on
Friday to agree on verdict, and another
trial began Monday.
The following item we find going the
rounds of the press /" Some of the over
nice Legislators at Montpelier in 1852, who
thought it would be cunning to have few
corporations pay all Of the taxes, find that
capital by the thousands and hundreds Of
thousands has been drawn from the banks
and the state through their shortsighted
folly" Admitting this to be the fact, it is
difficult to see what bearing it has upon the
law taxing corporations. 1t is not true that
legislators at Montpelier, nice, over.nice or
otherwise, a" thought it would be cunning to
have few corporations pay all the taxes"
If by this reference is made to the Hooker
revenue bill. The tax assessed upon the
corporations is only small part of the az
gregate OF taxation in the state. If the
item can be attached to anything in particu-
lar, the things it sets up would seem TO have
a bearing upon the later workings Of the
listing law. Time will tell.
INDEPENDENT awe recall little incl
dent we observed few years ago. Awork-
man in Cooper institute, having occasion to
ascend ladder to do some repairing in one
Of the public rooms, called to an old man
whom he happened to see standing near by,
watching him Here, old fellow, hold the
ladder for me, won't you The old fellow
started forward and held the ladder for the
workman, while he climbed up and did his
work. That unpretentious old man was
Peter Cooper. 1t was Peter Cooper through
and through and all over. II was ambition
enough for him to hold the ladder for other
people. He might not climb himself he
remembered how hard the climbing had
been for him when he tried to study and
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