The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20
Notes and Comments.


GERS, all graduated at Rensselaer, Poly
technc Institute, Troy.
A NEVADA penetentiary convict says
she was sent to prison for being dishonest
and is there kept at work cutting out
pieces of pasteboard to put between the
soles of shoes in place of honest leather.
How many children are in their own
homes learning to be rogues by similar
practice and example ?
In the criminal court at Washington
Monday, M. c. Rerdell withdrew his
plea of guilty of conspiracy in the star.
route case. A nolle pros. was then en-
tered by the government, and he was dis
charged. The pleas in abatement of the
charges against ex-senator Kellogg will
be argued on Saturday next.
A BUTCHER of Springfield, Mass, says
that the housekeeper who asks for white
veal encourages lawbreaking and buys
poor meat. The whiteness is due simply
to the loss of blood, the animal having
been bled twenty-four hours before it was
slaughtered. The farmers do the bleed
ing, because the meat then fetches bet
ter price; and the people, who have a
foolish fancy that white veal is the best,
are in a way responsible for the brutal
process creating it.
w. I. DoDsoN of Danville, Va, tried
to cheat company out of $4,000 life
policy by firing his house with dead
body in it, and then absconding, leaving
his family to collect the policy. The fire
was discovered and extinguished, the
body recognized as that of negro from
the neighborhood, and Dodson arrested in
his flight and he now confesses that the
negro was murdered in his presence by
two other negroes whom he had hired to
bring him corpse. The clumsy scoun-
drel will be tried for murder, and de-
serves the severest punishment.
THE Rev. DR.. Cuyler recalls that when
the late William E. Dodge entertained
the delegates to the Evangelical Alliance
in his Madison avenue mansion, "certain
famous German theologians wandered
over the house, as through dry and
thirsty land, in vain quest for a glass of
beer" At banquet given to foreign
railway king, and where Croton water was
the only scarce beverage, Mr.. Dodge said
to his waiter: Set pitcher of ice water
by my plate, and don't you bring wine
bottle near me-" When Genera Dix hon.
ored him with complimentary dinner at
Fortress Monroe, during the war, every
wineglass was reversed, {" as silent trib.
ute to the conscience of the guest"
THE Charleston News and Courier has
the following: Henry Watterson says
that with two Or three exceptions there
has not been man killed amiss in Ken
lucky in fifteen years. If this be true
Kentucky has very undesirable popula.
ton. Her history for the past fifteen
years is red with blood, and it is not ex-
travagant to say that more men have beer
killed within her borders during this pc
riod than in any other two states. The
brutal murder of the postmaster at Ian
caster by Best has not been forgotten, moi
the killing Of Judge Elliott, Professor
Butler, DR.. Barnes, Walter Davis anC
Burnside. These pd scores of othe
bloody crimes make up record that no
body but Watterson would attempt to de
fend. Instead of apologizing for such of
lenses, the good people of Kentuck.
should make an effort to subject the shot
gun to the courts"
New YORK EVENING PosT: Nothin,
could be more characteristic of the wa,
in which things are done in Russia thai
the so-called amnesty proclamation o
act of grace promulgated by the Gar a
the time of his coronation. The Ministe
of the Interior may, if he sees fit, repor
the applications for pardon of politica
offenders who have been in Siberia for
number of years and who are now thol
oughly penitent, and then they may b
permitted to return to their homes, pre-
vided their homes are not in large cities
and inquisitions into political offences CON
mitted at least fifteen years ago, provide
the inquiries have disclosed nothing, ma
be dropped. This is all the grace polit
cal offenders can hope for. But thos
who have robbed the state by the embe,
Element of public money, or by conspirac
with contractors, or in any other way
one word, the public thieves-shall b
pardoned outright and go scot fret
Their accounts are to be closed withou
further demands from the government
1t seems that they will not even be oblige
to promise not to steal again"
THE NATION: SIN England there is n
appeal in criminal cases, unless the judg
thinks the points raised by the defenc
worthy of consideration by the full bench
In that case he preserves them, an
they are argued before several judge
and, if sustained, new trial is ordered
But a point has to be a yerV strong on