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

1T is proposed 10 give a pension OF
$1,000 year to Mrs. Grant, though the
sale of General Grants book promises to
yield at least 100000 to his heirs.
THE greatness of General Grants ca
reer, though recognized by his country
and by all the world as he was living
it, was never so manifest as now, when
it is finished. boston Record.
THE present English ministry is hav-
ing no better success in the house of
commons than did Gadstone's ministry.
1t was defeated last Thursday night, on
a clause of the medical relief bill, by
fifty majority.
THE Boston Erening Recordmay have
creditable reputation for enterprise,
but its recent sensational and mis-
chievous gossip concerning the purchase
of the WATCHMAN shows that the Rec
ord has yet to gain an enviable repu-
tation for veracity.
AT a school meeting in a Michigan
town last week a taxpayer moved to
abolish the teaching of Latin and Ger
man in the high school, on the ground
that they were dead languages. On be-
ing asked why he had not included
Greek in the motion, he explained that
he regarded it as identical with Latin.
The motion was buried under an adj
verse vote.
THE wearing of mask when every
body knowsi it to be mask is childish,
if not knavish. Since he has abandoned
the policy of combining removals to
offensive partisans, the president would
do well to add postscript to his Curtis
letter saying that he finds that republic
canism, pure and simple, is intolerably
offensive to the democrats.-Chicogo
Inter- Ocean,.
TIE local option law that passed the
Georgia house of representatives, last
week, has a provision that looks to pro-
hibition in time. 1t provides that on
petition, every two years, elections may
be held in counties where liquors are
sold, until the county decides for prohi-
bition, after which no more elections
can be held. The temperance people,
therefore, have only to carry county
once to enjoy the permanent fruits of
their victory.
BRADsTREET's for July 25th discusses
the business situation and the outlook,
which, with the most favorable figures
at command, it fails to make particu-
larry promising. The record for the
past six months, it says, gives very few
signs favoring the near approach of
speculative activity and high prices,
though the conditions are much more
favorable, in that the commercial evils
inflated credit and excessive buying by
interior traders-have been materially
checked.
TIE signal service bureau has made
step of progress in deciding to publish
weather predictions thirty-six hours in
advance of the time concerning which
precautions are made. This system is
one which must necessarily improve
with time and experience, since after a
close study of years it is possible for
those whose duty it is to prepare pre-
dictions to discover those exceptional
factors which now and then have made
their estimates of probability entirely
different from subsequent realization.
Boston Herald.
On returning to newspaper work, we
find that the Springfield Republican, of
which we have seen very little for two
months, is still busy in trying to run
both political parties, and is as active
as ever in misrepresenting and ira
ducing Vermont men and interests that
are not in sympathy with its erratiC
course. We expect nothing favorable
to ourselves in the columns of the
Springfield Republican, because we have
nothing in common with the party
wreckers whom that paper represents
and we should regard it as a misfor-
tune if we ever did anything, polit-
ically, to commend us to the favor of
that journal,
THE average newspaper correspond
ent in these latter days is capable OF
doing many impertinent things, but the
most unoalled-for and indecent piece of
wort tbat hos pane IN publip notiaa for