The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-15
Notes and Notions.

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what is called hard town, and the
reverse is equally true. The schools of
locality build up the place as well as
educate its younger people,"
COLONEL WILLIAM H. STINsoN,
master of the New Hampshire grange,
has issued a proclamation to the Pat
rons of Husbandry in the Granite State
appointing April 30 as Arbor Day, to
be devoted to the planting of shrubs
and trees on public grounds, along high
ways and about private residences.
NEWS from the war in the northwest
is to the effect that fourteen white set
tiers at Frog Lake, about forty miles
northwest of Fort Pitt, Canada, have
been massacreed by Cree Indians. 1t
is also reported that Battleford is sur
rounded by one thousand Indians, but
no attack has yet been made on the
barracks.
GIVE understand" says the augusta
(Georgia) Chronicle, that the impress
sion prevailing that the colored people
of Georgia do not pay their proportion
of the school fund is an error. A COM
petent authority tells us that they pay
more than their quota. In emulation
of George Washington and Grover
Cleveland, we must tell the truth"
CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN: capri is
dotted heavily with Grant anniversa-
ries. April /, 1865, Grant turned Lees
right at Five Forks; April he as
saulted and carried the lines at Peters
burg; April he entered Petersburg
and Richmond; April 6, 1862, the bat
tie of Shiloh opened; April Grant
drove the rebels from the field; April
s, 1865, he he'd thrown his cavalry
across Lees line of retreat, and April
8 Lees army surrendered"
To delegation of the colored citi-
zens of the District of Columbia Presi-
dent Cleveland said he should give
them just recognition of their rights,
and accepted an invitation to review
their procession on emancipation day.
The world moves. 1t is within the
memory of millions still living that a
democratic chief justice of the United
States supreme court declared, in effect,
that negro has no rights which a
white man is bound to respect.
GOVERNOR PATTIsON of Pennsyl-
vania has designated April 18th as Ar
Dor Day in that state, and in his procla-
nation he recommends that the people of
the commonwealth, on the day named,
plant trees along the streets, by the
roadsides, in parks and commons,
around public buildings and in waste
places; that they distribute information
in regard to trees, shrubbery and for
ests, and that, in every way possible
they encourage the planting of trees.
MOBILE REGISTER: "Events have
convinced Senator Voorhees, that Secre.
tary Lamar has become little rusty or
geography, so he asked Mr. Lamar the
other day as a personal favor to take 8
map of the United States, some leisure
moment, look at it carefully, and see
whether or not he could find upon it &
place called Indiana. And he and
Judge Garland will please look close
about Georgia, and see if they can find
a state whose stump tail sticks down
between Mississippi and Florida, and
wags itself in the Gulf of Mexico. That
state is Alabama"
THE PETERSBURG INDEX-APPEAL
"There is no disposition on the part OF
any southern men to deny that there
was civil war from 1861 to 1865
What is insisted on is that there has
been none since the latter date, ant
that there is no disposition among
southern men to renew it; that in ap
pointments to office, as in all othel
dealings of the administration with the
people, just the same course should bt
taken as would have been if there haC
been no war. This seems to us to bt
both proper and polite, so far as ma
tional interests are concerned, and We
think great majority of the people ART
of the same opinion. The rebel brig
adiers on horseback cannot be made {
national isSun ,,
CAMDEN o. ROCKWELL, the brother
in-law of Mrs. Garfield, mentioned in
recent letter to her the newspaper
stories about her reported intention t,
marry again, and received in reply {
letter, written April A, from which tn,
NeW York Tribune makes this extract
''This cruel rumor, which seems to hav
been ahoat for two or three months, di,
not reach me till three days ago. Moth
ing that has ever been said about nj
has so hurt and offended me as this
and the deepest humiliation of it is tina
so many are ready to believe it. To M
it seems just as much an insult to b.
asked whether it is true as it would b.
were the dear general still here. Tha
any one can think me capable of bein,
false to his memory seems like being re
oarded criminal A identified denial n