The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Notes and Opinions.


rupt and placed under regency.
THE United States consul at Calao,
Peru, gives a gloomy picture of the
commercial condition of that republic.
No country can thrive on revolutions.
1T is reported that among the Indian
inspectors recently appointed is man
who fought on the Union side at Bull
Run and afterward entered the con-
federate army.
THE howl which the democratic and
mugwump press sets up over Senator
Sherman's speech shows Enthusiastically
that it hurt the feelings of bourbons
and their allies. They curl up as quick
under his arraignment of the demo-
cratic party as a currant-worm from
dose of ellebore.-Concord Monitor.
To make holiday of travel success
full the tourist must take with him
good temper, good digestion, good eye
sight and a sympathy with his fellow
creatures. He must be able to fast
patiently, to sleep on a hard bed, to
make himself at home in railways and
steamboats,. He cannot expect to
make sure of his home comforts. -The
4drdnce.
LAST September President Arthur
appointed as postmaster at Vinton,
Iowa, a one-legged soldier, who is editor
of a republican paper and has never
been in Jail. He had over three years
of his term to serve, but President
Cleveland has removed him from office
and appointed in his stead John f.
Pyne, understood to be the same person
whose Jail record adorns the court
docket at Dubuque.
WORD comes from London that
Cardinal Manning has obtained the APP
proval of the pope and the whole British
Roman Catholic hierarchy to the pro-
ject of holding in London, at an early
day-probably in June, 1SS6-a con-
vention of English-speaking Catholics
from all parts of the world, to devise
means for more intelligent unity of
action in regard to matters of present
pressing importance to the church and
its various interests, temporal and
spiritual.
THE vacation season is now rapidly
nearing its end, and, in certain sense,
the end will not be unwelcome to those
who are engaged in business. 1t will
| be new experience, or one at least
which has not been enjoyed for some
years, to return to business and find
that there is business TODD. The coun-
try is now entering upon another period
of activity and enterprise, and to those
who have reasonable degree of pluck
and energy there will be opportunities
as great as ever existed in the ''gOOd
old times" when croakers were COM
PEELED to take back seats and keep
them.-RecOrd.
SENATOR SHERMAN has opened the
republican canvass in Ohio by speech
at Mt. Gilead. 1t is frank statement
of the case against the democrats. The
senator charges that the party which
once tried to destroy the Union is now
combined to prevent thousands of citi-
zens from exercising their political
rights, guaranteed by the Constitution;
and that it is aided and abetted in this
iniquitous work by the national admins
tration. OF course shrek of dissent
will 90 up from the democrats and their
Independent friends at these accusa-
tons. Mr.. Sherman will be charged
with " waving the bloody shirt" But,
all the same, nobody will be able to deny
the truth of his statements.-T Tribune.
GIVE are in favor" says the Ameri-
can Dairyman, " of one-man judges at
fairs. A Jury was a good thing at the
time it was invented, but its day of use
fulness is passed-except, perhaps, in
criminal cases. 1t has become COM
mon saying with lawyers that when
they have bad case they want jury;
when good case, a Judge. If we had
superlatively good COW, we would
rather subject her to the judgment of
one expert than any jury of farmers,
breeders or experts that could be Sc
lected from an unlimited panel" This
feeling in favor of single judges or of
very small committees for awarding
premiums is, we believe, gaining
ground in the minds of exhibitors gen
orally who have good stock to show
Neo England Farmer
THE platform of the Iowa republicans,
adopted in their state convention last
week, is a vigorous document. 1t declares
that the issues growing out of the war
LOT lne y MON Can ucNcI NC Cdllcu oCtllCu
until they are settled right. BY usurp-
ing and absorbing the rights of the dis
franchised colored men, the white men
of the Southern States are eXerting
double the political power of the white
men in the Northern States; that the
menace of this crime against the ballot
in the South is also menace to free
labor in the North; that the republican
, party declares, in the interest of honest
and safe government, that there can
not be political inequality maintained
among the citizens of a free republic,
!, and that there cannot be a minority of
white men in the South ruling ma
jority of white men in the North. 1t
censures President Cleveland for his
appointments of men to represent the
country abroad who deny the indis-
soluble unity of this government; for
his removal of disabled Union soldiers
g by means of the disreputable device
of offensive partisanship." 1t demands
that ample provisions shall be made by
, law for the protection of labor and cap
ital and their varied interests, and such
laws should provide for state board of
arbitration for the adjustment and