The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23
Notes and Opinions.

ton, have resolved against the barbed-
wire fence as cruel to animals and iniu-
rious to their hides.
IT is not wise to underrate Mr..
Blaine's strength. He has been indorsed
at the polls by the largest vote ever
cast for minority candidate. RECORD.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has APP
pointed his brother-in-law as superin-
tendent of the custom-house at Toledo,
Ohio. The brother-in-aw is repub-
lican, but it is none the less a case of
nepotism.
IT is now stated that the vigorous let
ter which was given out as that of the
President to democrat who confessed
that he had recommended an unfit man
for office was bogus, the President
never having written such letter.
THE Maryland democratic convention
has furnished definition of democratic
g reform" 1t favors reform with the
biggest kind of an X, but insists that
the subordinate positions shall not be
filled by persons opposed to the ap.
pointing power"
THE Poughkeepsie Eagle reminds
the reformers that there is no limit to
the tenure of Office of collectors of in.
ternal revenue and, according to the
theory, they ought all to be in office
now. Yet, out of eighty-five, the Presi-
dent has removed seventv-siX.
THE republicans of Mississippi have
abandoned all hope of carrying the cleo.
ton in that state and the committee has
passed resolution to that effect. The
resolution sets forth the fact that g or.
ganized opposition to the democratic
party of this state this fall is useless
because of the well-known impossibility
of securing at the polls an honest cleo.
ton"
THE democratic nominee for Cover.
nor of Iowa, Mr.. Whiting, is convicted
of having publicly said, early in the
war, that if an Iowan went into the
war, he hoped none of them would live
to get back to Iowa. A good many OF
them did not live to get back, but those
who did ought to make Mr. Whiting
very uncomfortable this fall. -Spring-
field Union.
NOTWITHSTANDING all that has been
said concerning the more rapid in
crease of the black population of the
South than of the white, the census
monograph on death statistics, which is
nearly ready to be issued, will show
that the deathrate of negroes is much
higher than among whites, and that
! it is enough so to overbalance the
greater increase of the negroes.
THE wool market shows continued
activity, the sales last week being ovel
5000 900 pounds, and the prices strong
with an upward tendency for some de-
scriptions; lots of coi8bips, Michigan
fleece and medium woods, IN some in
stances, bringing higher prices. There
ers. Wooden goods are selling well
| anu tut IldTkel Is SeHeTdlly SlfOnS anu
encouraging.-Bostom AdcerhSer.
A MAN in Lincoln, Neb., claims to
have actually seen the human soul, and
to have demonstrated that it can exist
independent of the body. He has dis
covered 1t by the use of a powerful
microscope. The application of this
instrument to the discovery of souls is
not surprising. We have all seen men
whose souls seemed so minute that a
microscope might be necessary to dis
cover its special localization In the
body, and we have sometimes thought
that close examination would find it
in the region of the pocket-book. -
Christian Register.
IT is conceded that he 0he Presidency
hes the right to appoint his political
sympathizers to offices, and l will vote
to confirm them where they are APP
pointed on fair political grounds, with
out detriment to the public interests
and without smirching the regulations