The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-23
Notes and Opinions.

THE senate has been discussing the
admission of Dakota in partisan spirit
IT is estimated that two-thirds of the
wheat crop in the Northwest has been
sold.
THE excitement over the threatened
Mormon uprising in Salt Lake City has
subsidized.
DAKOTA has elected EIgarton and
Moody as United States senators,
and the state government is rapidly
organizing.
THE wonderful prosperity and growth
of Minneapolis are explained. The
town has never had democratic news
paper Utica Herald.
THE prohibition movement is making
as much progress in Louisiana, Texas
and Mississippi as in. Georgia. 1t is,
however, strictly non-partisan.
THE statement that Mr.. Vanderbilt's
relatives have employed Gordon of de-
tectives to guard his grave suggests
another unpleasant phase of the condi-
tions of the possession of wealth.
Traveller.
THE bill which has been introduced
in the senate by Mr.. Edmunds in re-
gard to the Mormon Church is not so
arbitrary measure as has been init
mated, and is in no sense a measure
for the confiscation of Mormon prop
erty.
A JUSTICE of the supreme court of
California has resigned, and in retiring
he hints that the reason of the step is
the insufficient compensation. A year
or two ago there were four designations
from the bench of Oregon for the same
reason.
AN investigation of the great erup-
ton at Krahatoa in May, 1888, has just
been completed by the Dutch East In
dian government, and the results appar-
entity confirm the doctrine of central
fire, and that the thickness of the earths
crust is much less than has been sup
posed.
THEBAw, the deposed tyrant of
Burmah, declares that he is not al
together responsible for the misdeeds
of his government, as he has long been
virtual prisoner in his palace, ignorant
of what was going on outside, and, in
brief, mere puppet in the hands of
his ministers.
A NUMBER of colored ministers in
Charleston, S. c., preached by concert,
recently, on the failure of justice in that
state as it concerns the negro. The
burden of the addresses was that the
black man is considered prima facie in
the wrong, while the white criminal is
usually allowed to go free of punish
ment.
If Mr.. Carlisle completes the term
of office as speaker to which he has
just been reelected, the people of the
state of Kentucky will have the salts
faction of knowing that they have sup
piled the national house of representa-
tives with speakers during twenty out
of ninety-eight annual sessions. Four
teen states have thus far furnished
speakers. -Aduertiser
KEEP really desirable and attract
i've goods, sell them at a moderate profit
in situation that is favorable for trade,
advertise conspicuously in the right
newspapers, attend to your own bust
ness and be concerned about that of
nobody else, no matter how great COM
petitor he may be, and you will not fail
to get lively trade during the next
month.-Ne,0 York San.
AN exhaustive article on the subject
of leprosy, written by DR.. George L.
Fitch, has been received through Con-
sul-general Putnam of Honolulu, Sand
witch Islands. DR.. Fitch has had
charge of the government hospital and
leper settlement on the Island of
Molokai. He believes himself justified
in saying that leprosy is hereditary
and cannot be communicated by one
person to another under any circum-
stances.
GENERAL w. w. HENRY of Burling-
ton says the Office of United States
marshal for Vermont has not paid him
more than 81 200 a year, and he does not
feel very badly about losing the situa-
ton as far as the pay is concerned
When reappointed the last time he
hesitated about taking it, and finally
accepted in the hope that a national
bankruptcy law would be passed, in
which case the Office would probably
pay over "a 900 year.-Herald.
A FLOOD of light is let in on the
singular spread of socialism in the
German capital by statistics showing
that in Berlin no less than "a 900 fam
lilies, comprising nearly 100000 indi-