The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
Pith and Point.

INCUBATION for cholera is declared to be
a failure.
PRINCESS BEATRIcg's German husband
has an income of but $3.50 year.
AN exchange says that gradually the i'm
preston is spreading that summer is not a
joke
The Cheyennes are laying down their
arms-but without letting the troops see
where they lay them
THE trustees of Vassar College are quoted
as declaring that no woman is competent to
assume the presidency of that institution.
Ell MAHDI's death by smallpox is con-
firmed by dispatches received by the Eng
lish government, provided any dependence
can be placed on the dispatches.
THERE is nothing that makes the proprie-
tor of a loan library so mad to have the
intelligent compositor and proof-reader
work it in " lean library. Fire. Press.
A FRENCH scientist who has acquired
reputation for predicting earthquakes says
that this and the coming year will be
specially marked by these disturbances.
THE report comes from Indiana that Vice
president Hendricks is aspiring TO the presi-
dency He looks upon Mr. Cleveland as
failure and counts upon being his successor.
THE New York !Sun openly denounces the
civil service reformers as men who speak
and act upon theories which take no account
of fact, of experience and of human nature.
OF the one thousand five hundred post
offices in the state whence comes the post
master -WscOnsin-less than one
hundred have as yet been filled by
democrats.
Mr.. GLADSTONE will take the stump this
f,l1 p..l, fha
ruling passion with him, and the tories may
yet give him good opportunity to assail
their cause.
BURLINGTON has some economical men.
One of them, on the occasion of the last
baccalaureate sermon, put two-cent piece
into the contribution box and took back
cent change.-WeSSenger.
THE fence about our postoffice has come
down at last. In many other cities through
out the country it has been the postmaster
who has come down from the fence since De-
cember Installation Record.
THE man who wants TO eat oleomargarine
ought to have perfect right to eat II. The
great trouble, however, has been about the
man that don't want TO eat it, and couldn't
help himself PutsblnY Commercials
NOTWITHSTANDING seems to be waning.
Many of the Kinks in parts of the country
where the sport first ragged are being turned
to other uses, and everywhere the tendency
of the diversion is toward unfashionableness-
AS made up by John b. Clarke, clerk of
the house of representatives, the roll of the
house stands as follows: Republicans, one
hundred thirty nine democrats, one hum
bred eighty greenback republican, one;
greenback democrat, one; vacancies, four.
A BALLOON railroad is to be constructed
in the Austrian Tyrol The balloon will
have grooved wheels on its car, and these
will run on nearly perpendicular rails, the
gas providing the lifting power. Gravita-
! ton will be utilized on the down trips.
SECRETARY LAMAR's home organ, the Ok
| ford (Miss.) Eagle, in a recent issue, calls
halt to ballot-boX stutfing in this guarded
manner: No more balot-boX stutfng, ex-
| cept in cases of absolute necessity 1t
omits 10 state what, in its opinion, are cases
of absolute necessity"
AMONG the names of new postotfices are
found Sarah Ethel, Edith, Violet, Eve, May
and Hypathia The etfeminate weakness of
such nomenclature is so far from gratifying
that il is even pleasant TO see it offset by
such names as Onion, Wildcat and Way
backs, which are said to have been conferred
upon three southern postothces.- Chicago
Times.
"WHEN was in Illinois, three weeks ago,
met General John A. Logan, and he said
that he would not live to see another north
ern state carried by the democracy, and he
added these remarkable words that after
ward jotted down in my notebook: Retri-
! button to the sinner is AS unerring in politi-
| cal as in religious life. Col. q. W. Hooker
! THE Laudersdale peerage case has been
decided by the house of lords in favor of
Major Maitland, the descendant of Mary
| McAdam, the mistress of the sixth earl OF
Laudersdale, whom he made his wife ON his
death-bed in New York in 1772. This sup
ports Minister Phelps view of legal marriage
In this country at that time, and not that of
Senator Edmunds, both of whom, ii will be
remembered, testified in the case.
THE office OF collector of customs is not
worth as much, pecuniarly, as 1t used to be.
| The salary of the collector for the district OF
| Vermont is one thousand dollars; and his
emoluments from fees, ETC., are limited to
fifteen hundred dollars more. The " compen-
sation" proper of the office is thus -, 800
which is however, increased by certain per-
quisites to an indefinite and variable amount,
The patronage of the office consists in the
appointment and control of deputy and
chief clerk, who has salary of $500; of
five other deputies, whose pay ranges from
81 200 to 81 800 per annum; of clerk at st.
Adams al 81 900; and of about sixty depu-
ties, watchmen and tally clerks whose pay
ranges from dollar day to $3.50 day
! Free Press,