The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
Notes and Comments.

Touoly Wlbn pOuCldl WDhNOI lOI butlT
candidate for governor.
THE New Hampshire legislature has
labored unavailingly the past week to
choose senator. Senator Rollins has
withdrawn. Secretary Chandler has re-
ceived large support, but it is reported
that he will soon withdraw his name.
Attorney-General Tappan, General Mars
ton and Judge Smith have received repub-
lican votes, among number of other gen.
tlemen of little note. 1t is thought,
however, that choice will be made this
week.
CINCINNATI ENQUIRER (democrat)
"Judge Hoadley's Toledo speech shows
that the democratic candidate has a won
derful fund of information about affairs
in Spain-almost equal to Sam Hunts
knowledge of the pyramids. And this
suggests that if Hoadley will secure us
the Spanish vote, and Mr.. Hunt can be
induced to make a few speeches to the
late subjects of Arab Bey, victory will
surely clap her wings upon the democratic
banner in October"
IT is season of tornadoes, and no por-
ton of the country seems to be exempt
from these devastating visitors. London,
Ont, has had bout with these aerial de-
mons, with what result our foreign news
columns tell During the past week Ne
braska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Mis-
souri, have been again ravaged-railway
trains have been blown from the track,
stock killed by hail, crops cut to the
ground, circus tent torn to tatters, and
the animals let loose, trees laid low,
buildings turned into heaps of ruins, hui
man beings mangled and human lives
destroyed.
BosToN ADVERTISER: /" 1t has always
been a favorite trick of the democratic
party to select for the leading candidates
on its tickets men who appear not 10 rep
resent the real purposes of the party, but
something stage or two nearer respecta-
bility and republicanism. The choice of
bait of this kind is exemplifed once more
in the nomination of Hoadley in Ohio.
But the trick never works, and the con-
test in Ohio this year will yield the old
result. The candidate looks well, but the
moment he begins to talk he offends the
Bourbons, and betrays how hard it is to
reconcile responsibility and truth with
democratic history and doctrine"
GENERAL Tom THUMB died at Middle
boro, Mass, Sunday morning, of apoplexy.
Charles Haywood Stratton, the Generals
real name, was born in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
January 4, 1888, and he was consequently
forty-fve years old. P. T. Barnum placed
him before the public at the age of four
teen, and since that time he has been we'll
known all over this country and Europe.
He married Lavinia Warren, tiny lady,
who, with her sister Minnie, was also in
Barnum's service. When it was known
that the petite couple was to be married,
the popular interest in them was redoub.
led and Barnum offered them $50 to
postpone the wedding month. His re.
ceipts for their exhibition at the time
were frequently $4,000 day. Barnum's
offer was Indignantly rejected. The great
Snowman said he could have made $25, 000
by exhibiting the wedding ceremony in
the Academy of Music, at so much seat,
but he resisted the temptation. The Gen.
eral and his wife escaped with their lives
from the Newhall house, Milwaukee, los.
ing some money and jewelry. In his later
years he grew stout, wore moustache
and beard, and ceased to be the smallest
mortal on exhibition. He was buried in
Bridgewater.
CHAMBERS JOURNAL " 1t is estimated
that about six bushels of wheat are con
sumed yearly by each person in the United
Kingdom. On an average, six bushels
weigh $50 pounds, and when ground pro
duce $50 pounds of flour, and about loo
of bran and offal.' Flour is usually sole
in sacks of $50 pounds, so that the annua
consumption is sack head for each in
habitant. Assuming the population o.
the United Kingdom to be 35,000,000, il
appears that our requirements are in rount
numbers 26.000000 quarters of wheat, o.
100000 sacks of -four. The Times, no
long since, estimated the home crop O
wheat for 1882 at fully 100000 quar-
tiers, so that nearly 100000 quarters, O.
their equivalent in flour, must be imported
within the year to keep up the supply
America, Algiers and Egypt, the cont
nent, India, and Australia, all contribute
to our wants; and as the harvest tim
varies more or less in each, new wheat i
sent us from the country where the sup
ply is at the time most plentiful wheneve
prices are sufficient to stimulate importa
ton. The inestimable boon to this coun
try of these supplies cannot be exagger
ated. When butcher meat is rising il
price, when potatoes are poor crop, an'
in Ireland very small crop, bread be
| oonac mora and mora O stap1a food for Al