The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-18

day, among wnom was large uelegaulOn
from the Eighth Vermont.
HOLDING the pen for the Rev. DIR. Sam
uel Barch-d John Hay, in the New York
Tribune, addresses the following valentine
to Grover Cleveland:
Alone walked the oceans strand,
A pearly shell was in my hand,
stopped and wrote upon the sand,
stopped and wrote-my smile was bland,
(Forgve me, o my native land,)
wrote three RS, you understand,
Grover CT
No wave did wash those RS away,
They came-ah, woe Is me-to stay
They shine more plainly every day.
Whereer travel, near or far,
Afoot, In steamer or in car,
A voice comes like falling star
That's Burchard of the fateful r."
Grover CT
And hence 1t is call you mine,
And hence that you may call me thine,-
Well you may wear a look benign
And toast me in your choicest wine
And hail me your valentine,
Grover CT
This is witty and without malice.
b. G. NoRTHRoP, LID, of Clinton, Conn,
addressed such of the people of Montpelier
as braved the storm, Monday evening, on
the subject of Rural Improvements. At
another time and in the appropriate place
we shall give DR.. Northrop's lecture the at
tention to which the subject is entitled, but
which lack of space and opportunity rem
ders impossible at this time. We hope
rural improvement society will be organized
in Montpelier, and in every town in the
uta e fxr,bi in1, 10 fha papta1 MANY of
the points touched upon by the lecturer
have already been discussed at consider
able length in The WATcHMAN. DIR. North
rop is an expert in tree culture and he is an
encyclopedia of facts and information, of
worldwide extent and of practical utility,
relating to forestry and kindred matters.
He treats the subject of rural improvement
very broadly, in diverse directions and in
its material as well as moral aspects. An
address by him to the farmers of Vermont
on the single subject of tree culture would
be of inestimabe value to them, if any con-
siderable number would follow out his sug
gestions. We sincerely hope that Cover
nor Pingree will adopt the doctors sugges.
ton and, like Governors Morton of Ne
braska, Porter of Indiana and others, ap-
point an arbor day for Vermont and set
forth its objects and advantages in proc
lamation.
THE Rutland Herald's military critic an
initiates General Wolseley for choosing the
Nile route to Khartoum rather than the
Red Sea route to Suakim, thence across the
desert to Berber and up the Nile to the be-
leagured city. He makes the march to Khar-
toum sort of picnic excursion by this latter
course. If, however, the critics military
ability is estimated by the knowledge OF
geography he displays, there is reason to
doubt if England would gain anything by
setting Wolseley aside and installing the
Herdlds man of war in his place. Hear the
critic: General Wolseley moved slowly
down the Nile by whale boats halting tC
carry by the cataracts, and finally, after
one thousand five hundred miles tediou.
journey, reached Korti, the most southerly
point on the great bend of the Nile below
the fourth cataract. Some one hundred
eighty miles southeast is Metemneh, where
the river, coming from the northeast, be
gins to flow in a more southerly cours,
towards Khartoum, one hundred sixt,
Ouu ihliCS ~ llltuu dJ Oul clDON
remarks that children are sometimes
troubled to understand how the Nile car
run up hill" but he is surprised that a mill
} tary critic should fail to comprehend tn,
phenomena. Perhaps Wolseley was labor
ing under similar hallucination when h
9 chose his line of approach and supposed h
could sail "down the Nile" directly int
: Khartoum, and is still puzzling over tn
: perversity of the historic rivers current.
THE effort to supplant the Caledonian
not unattended by difficulties and embaI
: rassments The editor of the new Simon
pure sheet turns out to be mugwump,
and Senator II. C. Ide occupies nearly
column in both the I,der and Caledonia
= to explain his connection with the new en-
terprise and to disclam any personal poll
: ical purpose in joining the Inder association
He somewhat ungratefully remarks upo
=, ! the Cdledonian'S constant support of his as
u pirations for office, and shows his magnar
i unity by forgiving that journal for any in
e jury its favor may have done him. Whethe
n the fact that in the late election Senate
d Ides majority was only about four hun
i dred, while the full republican majority i
: Caledonia county was about fifteen huI
!; dred, was due to the support of the Caled
h nidn, or whether the Cdledonidn'S supper
3 of Mr.. Ide is one among other reason
s. for local complaint, does not distinctl
:, appear Perhaps there is as much groun
y for the latter insinuation, made by tn
/ Cdledonian, as for the former by Nj
= Ide. AS to the lieutenant-governors
J. it is barely possible the newspapers hav
e missed the mark. Reports which we hav
e heard associate the name of quite al
y other man of st. JOhnsbury with that o
r flee. The story goes that when Mr. Blaine
g nomination was made, Colonel Frankli
o Fairbanks was among those who grieve
> and who were outspoken in their dssen
IL till an intimation was conveyed to him tn;
'e he "must pull straight if he expected {
ID be lieutenant-governor in 1886. The patr
y otto colonel, it is we'll known, was excee,
ingly effusve in his devotion to the caus
Ell during the late canvass, and exceeding
n, intolerant of the slightest impatienee of I'll
:. party trammels. Common report associate
n, him conspicuously with the new enterpris
g. but doubtless common report is as much
m fault in interpreting Colonel Fairbank
IN motives as Mr.. Ide's. Each has stror
le points that would make neWsnaper Dropri