Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
Notes and Notions.

Notes and Notions.
BosroN HERALD :" Dodger Of laws would
be good degree for Harvard College to give
TO Governor Butler"
THE Cincinnati Enquirer, (democrat)
gives this plain advice to its party " Don't
monkey with the tariff"
IT is stated that the friends Of Mcdonald
in Indiana propose to get rid Of Ex-Governor
Hendricks as candidate by 80 ridiculously
booming him for the democratic presiden'
tial candidacy as to kill him.
ACCORDING to information derived by the
Cincinnati Commercial Gdsene from the best
informed distillers and dealers, the country
uses now only as much whiskey as 1t did
when it had but $4,000, 900 population.
THE Tennessee legislature has recently
passed law which prohibits the sale Of in
toxicating liquor to minors without the
written consent Of their parents or guardi-
ans, and to habitual drunksrds who are
married, without the consent of their wives.
st. PAUL PIONEER Press The { flop
Of the democracy on the tariff question is
sudden enough to awaken "reminiscences Of
the late presidential campaign and the ia
nous Hancock letter. There has been
trouble in the camp of the unterrified for
weeks and months upon this score"
KING CETYwAYo's ill luck still pursues
him. Restored TO his throne under condi-
tions that made him no longer a sovereign,
but vassal, or a trustee for British power,
he found rival chieftains ready to resist him,
and in two battles he has been defeated
with great slaughter. British clemency and
friendship have proved hardly less fatal to
his fame and fortunes than British hostility.
IT is now believed that the surplus of the
postoffice department for the year ending
June 80 will be three million dollars, or
almost double that of the last fiscal year.
Should this prove true, and the steady in
crease Of mail business go on. it is highly
probable that the experiment of two-cent
letter postage will vindioste itself by free
dom from department deficit during the very
first year of its introduction. In that case,
it will be less difficult to persuade congress
to risk one-cent postage than it was to in.
duce it to reduce the rate from three cents
to two.
THE London Mark Lane Express says that
the horrible cruelty of the transatlantic i'm.
portation of cattle is in favor of meat traffic.
The report of the veterinary department of
the English Board of Trade certainly tells a
dreadful tale. Two thousand seven hundred
and ninety.seven animals had to be thrown
overheard, one hundred and ninety.five
landed dead, and one hundred thirty-eight so
much injured or exhausted that they had to
be Immediately killed on landing. I'm
happily, the sufferings known to be expe-
rienced even by cattle coming to New York
forbid assuming that this statement is
exaggerated.
Mrs. LOUISA GUEDAN's right to the name
of heroine is attested by the extreme act Of
heroism, the risk of ones life to save the
lives of others. She was widow, seventy
years of age, proprietor of store in New
York, for the making of artificial leaves.
Her store was fired last week by an explo.
sion of chemicals. Up to the second story
the brave woman ran through sitting smoke
to warn her workmen of the danger. Again
she essayed to mount to third story to res
cue mother and child. A half stihed cry
was all that reached workman who saw
her disappear behind black smoke and
tongues of flame that blocked pursuit.
When the fire was extinguished her half
charred remains were found at the door of
the woman and children whom she sought
to save but who, unbeknown to her were at
the time absent from the building. A true
heroine was this brave old lady.
PEOPLE were packed, like sardines, in the
streets of New York and Brooklyn at the
opening of the great bridge on the Oath.
The structure was gaily decorated with
flags, and there were forests Of flags in the
cities near the bridge. The two cities
joined in making mammoth holiday. The
president walked across the grand arch to
the accompaniment of cannon from the
ships and forts. Both towns were full of
rustic sightseers. OF the great heroes of
the achievement, the Roeblings, one, the
father, was in his grave, the other, the son,
a prisoner in his home by reason of physical
infrmities contracted by his devotion to his
great work. To these and their worthy help
ers, down to the humblest laborer, Hon. A.
S. Hewett paid manly and eloquent tributes.
OF another, Mrs. Emily Warren Roebling,
the wife of the younger Roeblipg, he spoke
graceful and well merited words Of praise
and honor. When her husbands body was
stricken down his mind maintained its
brightness, and from his residence, with a
telescope, in the midst of physical pain, year
after year, he directed the progress of the
great work. When he was first smitten his
wife began the study of engineering and has
since been chief of the engineering staff, and
has been faithful and valuable coadiutor
Of her stricken husband. Mrs. Roebling was
awarded the distinction of driving the first
team over the bridge. Such regal honors of
speech and heart as were paid those I'M
crowned sovereigns, might well have been
coveted by Victoria and Alexander, their ri
walls on that day for the worlds attention.