The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-27

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THERE are few things that are NJ
better off now than they would be
they were reformed by the profession
reformers. Tribune.
THE New York Herald thinks Il
ablest leaders of either party in the Sc
ate are bound to break down the Wild
scheme of civil service reform.
ANOTHER blizzard of great severi
has ragged in the West, with snow bloc
AIDES and mercury from twenty-four
iifty-seven degrees below zero.
West. young man, and freeze up wi
the country.
IT was not republican newspape
but rather that sterling democrat
sheet, the Richmond State, that cri
cized the Presidents letter on new
paper lying as " the words of Blu
falo tough"
The most startling statistics y
made public are those showing tn
$50 persons who ruined themselv
by gambling at Monte Carlo, committd
suicide there in the past eight years
an average of over 200 per year!
THE recent appearance of a nd
island in one of the Pacific Ocean grou
illustrates the fact that hundreds
geographers and surveyors have all tn
they can do to keep their work abrea
of the never-ending physical change
of the earth's surface.
SENATOR LOGAN is right in his mo-
for the abandonment of secret session
to consider the Presidents nomin
tons. Those who oppose him shou
recall the Scripture reason for the a
ton of those who choose darkness rath
than light.-Boston Herald.
AN attempt will probably be made
amend the Hoar presidential successid
bill so that it will not be possible, in Il
event that newly-elected president al
vice-president should die before inaug
ration, for the secretary of state of Il
outgoing administration to becon
president for four years.
THE Tribune recently stated tn |
Florida's disaster from the cold way
might prove Southern CALIFORNIA; Of
portunity. Now comes the news of
disastrous storm in Los Angeles count
causing a loss Of S500,000. No part
the country appears to be wholly exem
from storm, cold and flood.
THOSE best acquainted with I'll
Brattleboro Rgormer are unable to d
eide what it is driving at-whether
wants to.give up the newspaper bud
ness and run the state, or to run bot
together Either scheme is locke
upon as quite elaborate for a Brattl|
boro mugwump quill.-MeSSenger.
THE republican senators need nj
waste much of their valuable time owl
the Presidents appointments. There
little probability that the democrat
will control the offices more than fo}
years, unless the republican party
betrayed again in 1888 by those vii
aided in the restoration of the demo-
racy to power in 1884.
If the government coins "a ,000,0
silver dollars year, that cost on
$4,000 900 to produce, the profit go|
into the pockets of the silver kings,
whom we have a number, and this a
counts for their easily-made coloss
fortunes. Why not, then, pay them
coined silver standard value for the
uncoined ingots? This would partly,
least, remedy the evil.-Erchdnge
A GOOD friend gently criticises IL
logic in a recent editorial utterance
the CdledOnian. If, besides giving 6
the local news every week, we are e
pected to be logical, the subscriptic
price of this paper must be advances
Certainly no reasonable person can e.
pect us to be logical at S1.50 yea
That's an absurdity. - Caledonia
Then why not increase the subscriptiC
price?
THE Boston Herald having assertt
that the poor mans dishes, cutler
woolens and flannels pay a tariff du
of fifty to siXty-seven per cent, whit
enhances the cost to him in proportic
to the duty imposed, it is shown tn
the articles named are cheaper to-ds
under the high tariff than they were u
der the Walker tariff of over forty yea
ago, the closest approach the count
has ever had to free-trade.
THE democrats in Washington, Sc
ing that they cannot sustain themselv
in opposing the admission of Dakot
are now suggesting that Washingtt
Territory be admitted to the Union
an offset. This suggestion recalls Il
policy pursued during the STAKEHOLDER
regime, by which no free state could g
into the Union unless a slave sta
came in at the same time. WashingtC
Territory has of late shown a dem
cratic tendency, but the vote is We
close. -JOTndl,
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, havil
charged that General Halleck was c
vious of General Grant, and won
have been willing to allow WashingtC
to fall Into Lees hands in order
crush General Craft, General BoyntC