The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-03


BRADsTREET's advices for the week
indicate the same irregularity in gem
eral trade. There is slight improve
ment in dry goods, and wheat is more
active.
THERE is nothing new concerning
the Irish problem, except that the cor
poration of Cork, by vote of thirty
one to ten, favors an Irish parliament
in Dublin.
JAMES G. BLAINE has much popu-
larity. No man could have brought a
larger amount of ability and experience
to the presidency of the United States
New York World.
IT is limited in special dispatches
from Washington that large number of
democratic representatives are hoping
something will turn up" to prevent
discussion of the silver question.
TALKING about the tariff, one thing
is certain-the man who fails to fence
in his own corn-feld must be ready to
take the consequences if his neighbors'
pigs and cows eat up his grain. -
Tribune.
IT is understood that the democrats
in congress will agree to the admission
of Dakota, Washington and Montana
as states together Dakota is republic
can, Montana democratic and Washing
ton close.
THE most terrible weapon of the
American socialist is his jawbone. He
has the same variety of jawbone, too,
with which Samson did such extreme
execution among the Philistines.- Kan-
sas City (Mo.) Times.
IT is said that if Collector Smalley is
rejected by the senate at Washington
Hiram Atkins may be nominated by
the President to take his place. -ED-
change. Then where would be the
gain in rejecting Smalley?
NORTHERN democrats who complain
that the southerners are leading the
party into the last ditch are reminded
that, in the economy of politics as well
as of nature, the dog generally wags
the tail.-Sprinqfela Union.
L. E. CHITTENDEN, formerly of Yer
mont, has been bounced" from the
New York County Autobiography
League for acting as counsel for Jacob
Sharp after he had accepted a retainer
from Edward M. Knox to help him
fight Jacob Sharp and his associates.
THE President sent a special mes
sage to the senate Monday, in regard
to its demands for papers, in which he
takes the ground that papers relating
to suspensions from office are not Of
cial papers, and consequently he does
not feel justified in sending copies of
them to the senate.
A LEADING and most attractive fea.
ture of county paper is to be discov-
cred in its town and county news items.
No county paper, however well filed it
may be in its other departments, can be
said to be complete without this. In
this respect great revolution has taken
place in the press of the country in the
last few years. Messenger.
AT meeting of representatives OF
the oranges of New Hampshire, Yer.
mont, Massachusetts and Connection
in Boston, resolutions were adopted
earnestly protesting against an increase
in postal rates for fourth-class matter
and heartily approving the bill creating
a national bureau of agriculture anC
labor, with its secretary member OF
the Presidents cabinet.
THE policy of further pressing the
President in the matter of the re.
movals is questionable, now that he has
said he won't give his reasons and has
virtually admitted that they were parti-
san. The issue is in danger of being
carried to point where it will be
ridiculous and will react againt the sena-
tors. The reflections that are due should
begin at once.-BOstOn Advertiser.
"THE mugwumps have a future
exclaimed Rev. James Freeman Clarke
OF course they have, but it can hardly
be considered kind or fair to remind
them of fact which it would be a com
fort for them to forget entirely if they
could-like the candid Arkansan who
being asked if he believed in here.
after, replied, eyes, but burned if
want to. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
THE denomination of Blaine is hardly
matter of uncertainty in 1888, if he i.
alive then. have just returned from
an extended western trip, and, as g
democrat, have had fair chance tC
find, by inquiring, how the republicans
feel. There are Blaine clubs in every
state Of the Union to-day actively al
work, and the Young Mems Blaine
Club of Cincinnati is the largest single
political association in the West to
day.-COrrespondence Ne,o York Sun.
"THE old ticket is the thing" Nomi
nate Blaine and Logan, and there will
be no need of brass bands, or speeches
or parades, or fireworks, or even Of
committees. They would walk into the
national capitol almost without opposi
ton. Even Harper's Weekly would
support them, do believe. There il
no other man than Blaine who can bt
elected. Sherman and Logan boil