The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
Notes and Opinions.

complete failure of the Delaware peach
crop has begun to appear.
IT is an Arabic proverb which says,
&c Never do to-day that which can be
put off until tomorrow" This is what
is the matter with congress.
If the " reform" monkeys hadn't
climbed so high on the telephone pole
their exposure would not have been so
shocking National Republican.
AN eighty-cent silver dollar is as
much fraud as an eighteen hundred
pound ton of coal or a seven quart peck
of potatoes.-Proridence Journal
RECEIVER RICH of the st. Adams
Trust Company is called on by the
Messenger to explain the delay in wind
ing up the affairs of that unfortunate
concern.
AN encouraging business indication
is the advance of ten per cent in the
wages of operatives in several of the
large cotton and wooden mills in New
Hampshire.
THE fact that every democrat in the
senate except one voted against the
admission of Dakota leaves little ground
for hope that the bill will pass the dem
ocratc house.
THE Florida orange growers have
held convention, and resolved " that
there was no wholesale destruction of
the orange-trees and fruit in that state
by the late freeze.
SENATORS LOGAN and Frye, two
men who understand the people, and
who have no purposes to conceal, are in
favor of open executive sessions
Nashua Telegraph.
THE difference between Mahoneism
and bourbonism in Virginia is an OBJ
vious one. Malone proposes to repu-
date only half the debt. The bourbons
have repudiated the whole of it.-Chi-
cago Journal.
THE last Texas legislature was the
victim of a craze for low taxation. 1t re-
duced it to so low figure, however, that
the ordinary state expenses cannot be
met, and the state treasury is suffering
from serious financial embarrassment
A WASHINGTON correspondent of the
Tribune calls loudly for aggressive re.
publicans in the senate. Well, some
of the republican senators are more ag.
gressive now than they were in 1884
That was year when aggressiveness
would have been worth more to the re.
publican party and the country than il
is now.
COLONEL WRIGHT, the statistician
says that the clergy throughout the
country are taking great deal of inter-
est in statistics. They have quite
cleaned me out of my last report" he
said, recently, " and are studying these
questions of practical life with so much
vigor that in few years look to see
them forget all about their theological
fights"
THE Burlington correspondent of the
Troy Times says that Speaker James
X. Batchelder certainly has the best
chance for the republican nomination
for governor, and Colonel Levi X.
Fuller of Brattleboro for lieutenant
governor. Secretary of State Porter,
State Treasurer Dubois and Auditor
Powell will, of course, be renominated
without contest.
Mrs. j. ELLEN FOSTER telegraphs
that the temperance education bill has
been passed by the Iowa legislature by
non-partisan vote, democrats and re-
publicans voting for it. 1t is one of
the first bills enacted. This is another
illustration of the wisdom of the women
who stand committed to no political
party, and are therefore enabled to use
their friends in all parties. Journal
THE Springfield Republican is much
disturbed over the prospect of Mr..
Blaine's denomination for the presi-
dency in 1888. 1t makes the absurd
statements that thousands of men who
voted for him in 1884 would vote for
Mr.. Cleveland If the two were trimming
again, and that the latter has gained
immensely in popular favor, while Mr..
Blaine has lost ground in that respect.
The truth is exactly the reverse of this.
THE able speech of Senator Sherman
last week, on the prerogatives of con-
gress, set forth the right of the senate
to demand free access to any documents
in the executive department relating to
matters upon which it is called upon to
act. In the matter of presidential APP
pointments, the republicans hold that
the senate cannot act intelligently upon
nomination until it knows why the
vacancy it is to fill was made by the
President.
In the senate, last week, Mr.. Blair
explained the provisions of his public
education bill. Mr.. Morgan of Ala
bama spoke against it. Both houses
adopted resolutions on the death of
General Hancock. Debate on the Fitz
John Porter bill was begun in the
house. A bill to allow national bank
ing associations to increase their capital
stock and to change their names and
locations without the Intervention of