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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11

WASHINGTON reports say that Rep
resentatives Bayne of Pennsylvania and
Hiscock and Willard of New York called
upon President Cleveland, Friday, and
had quite talk with him. They told
the president that they approved of the
attitude he had taken in his inaugural,
and in carrying out the policy therein
declared he would have their hearty
support. In this they spoke as repub-
licans, and said they believed they
spoke for a large majority of their
party. The president received their
advices in the best possible spirit and
thanked them with much feeling and
earnestness for their promises. We
believe these men spoke the sentiments
of sensible and patriotic republicans all
over the Union. The republican press
that represents the conscience and con-
servatism of the party-like the Provi-
dence Journal, the Worcester Spy,
among New England papers, stanch
Paioy P"P0io oPO"h hiS'iy VI IiiO PiCoi-
dents address; and, in carrying out the
policy he outlines, he will have their
hearty support. On the other hand,
the Boston Journal and New York
Tribune, almost alone among eastern
journals, display their offensive par
tisanship" in their silly endeavors to
belittle the presidents words, and to
discredit him in advance of his action.
Such was the course of the bourbon
democrats toward Lincoln and every
succeeding republican president. No
true republican will sink himself to
that low level. There will be time
enough to criticise the president when
he has deserved criticism.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11

SO far as heard from, twelve towns
adopted the town system of schools at
the election last week. Full returns
may somewhat increase the number.
This is a better result than the friends
of the system looked for AS general
thing, no discussion of the school ques-
ton was had at the meetings. The
vote was not fair indication of the
opinion of the citizens of the state re-
specting the merits of the system.
Thousands heedlessly voted NO." be-
cause they have not taken the pains to
inform themselves about the system,
because they do not understand it, and
thousands who favor the adoption of
the system by the state, either did not
vote at all or voted enc" to signify
their opposition to this optional method
of introducing the system-a method
that practically establishes town
quarrel for five years. The affirmative
vote cast last week does not mark the
strength of the measure among the
people, but the opposing vote is a
measurably full showing of the strength
of the opposition. When the total
vote on measure is but small frac-
ton of the full vote, as shown in the
election of governor, it is plain there
is strong reserve of opinion which
must be brought out before decisive
conclusions either way can be claimed.
The town system is coming
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11

suits in the operation of government
by the people, pleading that "the bit
terness of partisan defeat and the exul-
tation of partisan triumph " be sup
planted by" "a conscientious concern for
the general weal, +" and seeking the aban-
donment of sectional prejudice and
distrust," are fair measure of the pat
riotic and non-partisan spirit of the adj
dress. But these sentiments can hardly
have been intended for exclusive appli-
cation. If the president is as honest
as he appears to be, he must have in
tended that his political friends and the
section which gave him its unbroken
vote should have derived very broad
and salutary hint from these brave
words. His strong suggestion that the
"general welfare" is paramount to
private interests " and "local advan-
tages," is fair warning to the corpora
tons and the promoters of internal
improvement schemes. He expresses
his determinations be guided by just
and unstrained construction of the con-
stitution, and impressively and elo-
quently lays down the high obligations
of citizenship. Economy in the adj
ministration of the government is made
the duty of public servants, and regard
for " simplicity and prudential econo-
mics " is enjoined. The historic for
eign policy of the nation, "the policy
of Monroe, of Washington and JEFF
ferson," is re-affirmed in few ring
ing sentences. He demands that the
finances of the country shall be es-
tablished on a sound and sensible basis,
and his recent letter to the silver men
leaves no room for the critics to impute
ambiguity to his views of what consti-
tutes ga sound and sensible basis" His
words respecting the important matters
of revenue and taxation are not illu-
mined by the strong side-light his civil
service and silver letters have thrown
upon his brief, but clear and emphatic,
declarations respecting finance and re-
form in the administration of the gov
eminent. Protection of the public do
main, suppression of polygamy and a
philanthropic Indian policy are each
announced to be special objects of ex-
ecutive solicitude. The freedmen are
given paragraph that should quiet
all anxiety touching their protection
in their rights or their security in the
enjoyment of their privileges under the
constitution and amendments, so far
as the power of the executive is con-
cerned, and if the presidents views
sway the administration. AS Judge
Poland is reported to have said of this
address, when the last word was
spoken: Well, if he lives up to that
we cannot complain" This, we be-
lieve, is the sentiment of every repub-
lican who is a patriot before he is a
partisan. The president is essentially
republican in what he has said, and
if the vigor and success of the wal
come up to the lofty phrase of the
proclamation, he must find his support
in the republican party and the con-
servative and enlightened element OF
the democracy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11

THE last official act of congress, the
last and most grateful official act of
President Arthur, was the passage and
signing of the Grant retirement bill,
the appointment and confirmation, in
open senate, withouta dissenting voice,
of the great commander to the retired
list of the army, with the rank and full
pay of general. This gracious act was
greeted with loud applause from the
floor of the senate and the crowded and
sympathetic galleries. For the honor
of American citizenship, it is to be re-
GREETED that this measure was allowed
consideration in the house only on con-
dition that the contested election case
of Frederick rs. Wilson, democratic
claimant of an Iowa republicans seat,
should first be decided. Mr.. Wilson,
amid rounds of applause from the re-
publicans, expressed his willingness to
be sacrificed " if the house would vote
to put General Grant on the retired
list" Accordingly Mr.. Frederick was
awarded Mr.. Wilson's seat, and for
twenty minutes occupancy drew $10,-
900, two years salary. Having cleared
away this obstruction, Mr.. Randall
again moved to suspend the rules and
pass the retirement bill. The hour of
final adjournment was drawing nigh.
With the hope of delaying a vote till
the hour of noon should put an end to
the forty-eighth congress, ex-confed-
crates and implacable northern demo-
Gratis had recourse to obstructive tao
tics. They were ultimately out-voted,
and the bill was passed by a vote of
one hundred ninety-eight to seventy
nine. The bill was hurried to the SEN
ate, and the venerable door-keeper
of that body turned back the hand on
the dial of the clock twenty minutes,
and by this fiction obtained time for
the necessary supplemental formalities.
The seventy-nine opponents of this
just act have brought ignominy upon
themselves and disgrace upon the
American name. They were all demo-
crats-fifty-ni were from the South
and forty-nine from the seeding
states. We trust that the following
exract from the Savannah, Georgia,
Ne,os--and not these forty-nine ex-
confederate representatives, of whom
six were from Georgia-portrays the
real sentiments of the South in this
matter: "The whole country will re-
joice at this action. We do not believe
there is single unreconstructed rebel
but will join us in approving measure
so fitting. In his days of power, Gen
eral Grant was an eminently humane
man. Although an implacable fighter,
he was always generous to the con-
quered. His great deeds saved his
country and will cover his name with
imperishable renown. He is one of
the master military minds of this GEN.
fury. In his civil life he made some
mistakes. There is not an American
living who believes they were anything
worse than mistakes. He is the most
celebrated of living Americans"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11

Union. His later career in the house,
where, as a member of the minority
party, the opportunities for distinction
have been few, but where he has had the
privilege of doing the greater part of the
work of the judiciary committee and
has secured the enactment of certain
laws of the greatest Importance, with
his previous distinguished career in the
lower house, have fairly won for him
the title of the Great Commoner. Judge
Poland will carry with him into his re-
tirement the best wishes of his fellow
citizens.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11

ana 1rm CONVICTIONS ana MS unhaltlng
acceptance of the result of the war.
In 1874, while representative from
Mississippi, he pronounced magnif-
cent eulogy on Charles Sumner, on the
death of the great Massachusetts sena-
tor, declaring, amid other fervd ex-
pressions of the strongest Union senti-
ments, that he shared Summers convic-
ton !" that all occasions for strife and
distrust between the North and the
South had passed away" His constit-
uents revolted against him on account
of this speech. He was, nevertheless,
reelected. Again, during his first
term in the senate, the Mississippi legis-
lature requested him, by resolution,
to vote for the currency initiation bill or
resign. Explaining to the senate that
he believed it was his duty to vote ac-
cording to his own convictions and not
in subservience to a legislative majority,
he voted against the bill. In vigor-
Gus canvass on the hard-money issue
he was reelected in 1892 His record
is reassuring. AS the South was solid
for Cleveland, it is not unreasonable
that he should give that section a lib
eral representation at his council board.
Republicans will not quarrel with him
on that score. They have more conf
dence in Bayard, Lamar and Garland
than in Northern bourbons and copper
heads. Moreover, the appointment of
ex-rebels to cabinet offices is only logi-
cal consequence of the work of recon-
struction. The republican party re-
stored the Union, insisted that Lamar
and Garland, with thousands of others,
should still be citizens of the Union,
reclothed them with the duties and OBJ
legations and conferred upon them again
all the rights and privileges of citizen
ship. So their right to the legal pos
session and enjoyment of any federal
office, even the presidency itself, is as
broad as that of any citizen of the
North. If this is to be a Union of
equals, "bound to each other" as
Lamar said in his eulogy on Sumner,
"by common constitution, destined
to live together under common gov
eminent, forming unitedly but single
member of the great family of nations y
the presence of rehabilitated rebels in
high federal offices, even the highest
so long as they are true to their new
vows, must be expected. Longstreet
Key and other ex-confederates were
approvingly honored with office by re.
publican presidents. There is nothing
more shocking in the comforting OF
similar honors, by democratic presi
dent, upon the ex-confederates who
by taking iron-clad oaths and by word
and deed, have signalized the sincerity
and the fullness of their acceptance OF
the result of the great civil contest
These men must sometime be trusted
and if the result of Mr.. Cleveland's ex
pertinent shall prove that the lines o.
true loyalty to the government and the
principles of the government run Nortl
and South as well as East and West
the demonstration will be worth some
thing. The new South now has grea
opportunity, and the use it makes o
the opportunity will vindicate or i'm
peach all the fair words of its foremos
spokesman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11

THERE is no change for the better in
General Grants condition, and there is
no additional reason, DR.. Douglass
says, to apprehend an early termina-
ton of the generals illness. His
daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, has been sum-
moned from England. The general
has been cheered by the justice tardily
done by congress, and friends by thou
sands have left their congratulations
with his attendant.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11
Matebman 4 Suurmal.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH II, 1885.

THE deluge of applications for office
is rising around Washington. Extra
clerks are detailed to manage the
shower of postoflice papers. Indepen-
dents and civil service reformers are
urging the reappointment of Postmas-
ter Pearson of New York, whose term
expires March Dist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11
IN EXTRA SESSION

The vice-presdent then called the senate
to order as in extra session of the forty-ninth
congress. Prayer was offered by Rev Il. ID.
Huntley, chaplain of the senate, and Mr..
Hendricks briefly addressed the senate. AZ
ter the new senators had been sworn in, the
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1885-01-14
Les pelerinages a Stp-Anne.

Nous lisons dams le Courier du
Canada +:
II y Gu pendant le cours de
rann6e 1854, 80 pelerinages orga-
misses a Ste Anne de Beaupr6,
c'est-a-dire treize de plus qu'en
1883.
LIE nombre des p6lerins s'est
6lev6 a plus de $4,000, &c qui nous
dome plus de trois mile p6lerins
que Pann6e derni6re.
Les rapports publi6s par les
journaux, lann6e derni6re, 6taient
exag6r6s, car nos renseignements
nous permettent d'afirmer gull ny
a GU que $4,000 p6lerins en- 1883.
On a compile l'ann6e derni6re un
peu plus de $4,000 p1lerins.
Ce nombre est respectable ct
prouve sufisamment que le Cana.
diem porte une devotion toute par
ticuli4re q la Bonne Sainte Anne
de Beaupr6.
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LIE MISSIONNAIRE DIES MISSION
MARE LIE Hiatt de Toronto pu-
bliait reinforcement les lignes sui
vantes a poccasion du 33e anniver-
saire de la CONSIDERATION de Sa
Grandeur Mgr. Tach6, archeveque
de Saint Boniface.
"Apres demain la population
catholique de Saint Boniface, pre-
tres ct la1ques celebrera le trente-
troisieme anniversaire de la cons6-
Grafton %6piscopale de Mgr. Tach6.
see savant, eminent ct tres esti-
me pr6lat, don't la vie est toute
lhistoire du Nord-O Quest, vint en-
cette region en- 1916 par Pancien-
ne route de pOttawa jusqu'au lac
SUPERIOR, ct de Ia, moiti6 par eau
ct par portages jusqu'a Saint Boni-
face. A son depart de Montreal
il n'6tait que sous-diacre; il n'avait
pas Page requis pour ~le:diaconat.
Les voyag s 6taient 81 Tents a cette
6poque ct la route 6tait 81 Tongue,
que durant le trajet lie jeune l6vite
atteignit Page requis ct put etre
promu au diaconat le dimanche
qui suivit son arriv6e; quelques
semaines apr6s il 6tait pretre.
I'll n'6tait dams le pays que de-
puts cling ans, lorsqu'h fut choisi
CONNIE coad]uteur du v6n6r6 eve
que Provancher, avec droit q So
succession. LIE IA JUN 1850, le
Pape Pie TX le nommait 6veque
d'Ararth.
Mgr Tach6 fut, en- consequence,
sacr6 6v6que dams La cath6drale de
Viviers, par Mgr Manzared, assis-
t6 de Mgr Guibert, aujourd'hui
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. de Paris.
L'imposante c6r6monie cut lieu Ia
% novembre 1861.
Mgr Tach6 reviut au Nord-
Quest en- 1852, ct reprit ayec plus
de z6le que jamais l'ouvre de ses
missions. "A la mort de Mgr Pro-
vancher quelques ann6es plus tari,
Sa Grandeur SO transporta aSaint-
Boniface, Oh ellie q toujours reside
ldepuis.
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VARIETIES.

Tn mot f6minin dune cruaute
bien implacable
On parlait devant Nine de b. !.
dune de ses dnnies, r6put6e pour
ga medisance.
II ny q pas . dire, bavardait-
on, il fault qu'elle morde tout le
monde.
Pour faire de la r6clame q son
ratelier, opina Nine de B..
Jugez un peu sill n'aYait pas etc
question dune annie!
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TAXES SUR LES CELIBATAI-
RES.
liz nouveau budget, en- France
content une take sur les c6libatati-
fes.
LA France est peut-e tre lie pays
qui compile le plus dc vieux 8 r
cons. On pense obtenir I'm double
r6sultat par cette take forcer les
gems q Sc marier GU bien pr6lever
un imp0t considerable.
Rien n'indique que la mesure ri
goureuse don't on menace les vieux
garcons ait et6 inspir6e par les
vieilles files, mails il est bien per-
mis- de eroire qu'elles sen r6joui,
ront en- silence. Cest Ia une ven
geance permise, qui les indemnise-
"a de indifference don't Giles ont
ste lobjet de la part de ceux qui
n'auront pas su les %appr6cier.
La France nest PAS le ser pays
qui III s6vi contre les vie gar
cons. L'Angleterre a DEF acopo-
Sc un impot contre le c6libav. On
ne reconna1t pas Get 6tat, q
moins d'scheter le droit de l'exer-
Ger, tout CONNIE lon pale I'm droit
pour passer Sos marchandises q la
douane. On nous fera peut-etre
remarquer qu'on frappe bien dun
impot les vieux garcons, mails qu'on
n'impose pas de take sur les We'll
les files. Ce serait une injustice
que de leur faire payer un droit
pour une carriere qu'elle mont
p~eut-etre pas choisie. Pour etre
Unsuitable d'imposer une take sur
les vieilles files, il faudrait que
PEtat s'obligeat de fournir les ma
ris. Et celle qui refuseraient pale
raient la take. Les revenus du
pays n'augmenteraient peut-etre
pas beaucoup.
C'est peut- etre une idee de pro-
gres, dit lie Monde, de s6vir contre
les vieux garcons, mails on a fait
la meme chose, il y a d6ja bien des
siecles. En- Greece, le marriage 6tait
consid6r6 CONNIE une question din
t6ret public ct d'int6ret priv6. II
en- 6tait ainsi surtout q Sparte.
D'apres la legislation de Lycurgue,
on pouvait porter DIES accusations
criminelles contre ceux qui con-
tractaient une union NAL assortie,
ainsi que contre ceux qui restaiAnt
dams le c6libat. Les c6llbataires
6taient exclus des emplois evils ct
m~ilitaires. Tous les ans, lis 6taient
soumis a une certaine c6r6monie
fort peu agreeable. Les femmes de
Lac6d6mone allaient les prendre
chez eux le premier jour du prin-
temps, pour les conduire au tenn
pie de Junon Oh on les accablait
de plaisanteries blessantes en- leur
administrant, au pied de la d6esse,
certaine correction qui ne s'admi-
nistre qu'aux enfants.
Les lois de Scion admettaient
aussi l'accusation contre les c6liba-
taires ct celle de Platon lecr6te-
rent DIES peines p6cuniaires contre
ceux qui ne Sc mariaient pas avant
trente cling ans.
Les anciens l6%gislateurs de
Rome imposerent des lois pour
contraindre au marriage. Cesar
s'attaqua, lui, au c6libat DIES fem
mes, en- les prenant par la s6v6rit6.
La loi defendant aux femmes qui
avaient moins de quarante- cling
ans de porter DIES spierreries, ST
Giles n'6taient pas mariees.
A Rome, les c6libataires ne
talent pas admis q rendre t6moi-
gnage. La premiere question d
celui qui SO pr6sentait pour rem
DIRE @moignage, 6tait celle-ci +:
"Avez-vous une femme?'--Le
Quotidlen.
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C'est la seule ligne sous une seule ad-
m%inistration entire st. Paul ct Chicago, et
c'est lie chemin de fer lie mieux equipe de
font lie Nord-Ouest. C'est la seule Iigne
ayant des chars-dortoirs de Pullman
ainsi que DIES chars palais CONNIE fumolsr,
ct aui passe par Ia fameuse out du boro
du aeuve, route qui longe les rives du lac
Pepin ct du superbe Mississippi, sur un
grande distance avant d'atteladre Mil
waukee ct Chicago. SEES trains CORES
pendent avec ceux des lignes du nord, q
Ia Grande Care Centrale, d st. Paul. Pas
dc engagements De chars d'aueune elasse,
entire ST. Paul ct Chicago. cette compagnie
tient maintenant les plus beaux ehars-res-
taurants du monde, pour 10 service entire ST.
Paul ct Chicago. Pour Bullets de passage
complet, pour horaires ct antres inform
tions ,s'adresser q aucun agent de billets,
coupons du Nord-O Quest.
Is S. MERRILL, a. v. 81. CARPENTER,
Directeur Gent. Agt Gen'l DIES Pass
T. CLARK, GEO. 81. HEAFFoRD,
.surin't. Gent. Asst Agt.Gen. des Pass
Milwaukee, Wis.
w. III. DIXON, Agent Gen'l des Pasa.
gers pour le Nord-O Quest. st. Paul
Minnesota.
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"C'est le voeu sincere de tonte
Ia population, protestante CONNIE
catholiqua, que 1 gr Iach6 vive
assez longtemps pour revoir d'au-
tres anniversaries de 50 %consecra-
ton 6piscopale.
Nous nous loignons de tout occur
an tribut de respect ct d'admira-
ton que le principal organe pro-
testant de Ia province d'Ontario
Went ainsi de rendre au grand ct
venerable archeveque de St Boni-
face, Mgr. Tach6.
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face, Mgr. Tach6.
Nous d6tachons de L'Uniuers
la chronique s~uivante, Oh le bull
liant d6put6 bonapartiste, Paul de
C~assagnac, administre une racl6e
de sa faGon u gouvernants repu-
blicains ath6es, corrompus ct repus
de la pauvre France actuelle:
M. Paul de Cassagnac 6crit dams
lie Matin, en- s'adressant aux con
ser~vateurs, q propos du seryilisme
q la majorit6 pour NJ. Jules Ferry.
Get vous d6sireriez chaser Get
homme
"Pour un, vaine satisfaction,
vous voudriez le voir accroch6 par
le cou, SO balancant aux four hes
de Montfaucon, un corbeau goulu
plant6 sur sa carcasse puante?
Gallons done !! conservateurs
mes amis, votre l6gitime colere,
votre juste degout, vous 6garent.
"Qu'on ny touche pas; il nous
le fault, il nous le fault q tout prix !!
Get je defends qu'on l6ve la
main sur lui; nous en- avons trop
besoin.
Scar ce nest plus un homme
d'Etat, c'est un chef de bande qui
tra1ne Sos hommes au pillage de la
patrie;
"C'est le piqueur dune meute
de trois cents chiens, chiens de
toute espece dogue de f'union re-
publicaine, bassets de l'union de-
mocratique, roquets attard6s du
centre.
"C'est avec dies saucisses quill
les attache ct les tient accouples.
"Essayez done de les s6parer !
Rien ny fait.
"En vain leur alton fait enten-
DIRE, esp6rant les a%ttirer, les ancien-
mes sonneries, les sonneries vibran-
tes du ratriotisme.
SPAS nm ma bOug6.
"Le cor est impuissant, ct la
seule musique, pour eux d6sormais,
c'est le bruit DIES gamelles.
EFT VOLTA pourquoi syous les
avez retrouv6s tous dams l'urne
chang6e en- chenil, museau contre
museau, a c'est Ia qu'on mango.
Et nous irons au combat, le
occur joyeux, avec ces descendants
repus, 6dent6s, de la yieille R6pu-
blique, avec ces go1treux qui mont
plus nj principles, nj vertus, nj
virilit6.
"Qu'un prince Sc leve, quill par
le, quill agisse, ct plus nest besoin
d'6p6es GU de fusils pour vaincre.
les fouets suff6iront.- Paul de Cas-
sagnac.
en-. Paul de Cassagnac, on lie
volt act nlain d'ardarr af d'esnoir
Nous craignons, D6anmoins, que
dams Get espoir, il he s'abuse un
peu trop. La majorit6 de Gam
beta ne valait guere mieux que
cel]e-ci.; ct les fouets mont pas
sum a la chaser. II fault envisa-
ger les difficulties telles ou'elles
sont, ct surtout combattre avec
autant de sang-froid que de deci-
- $500 =s~srs a# so