The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22

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encouragement to establish daily
paper, for which Burlington now seems
to afford an inviting field.
SENATOR SABIN of Minnesota said
to a New York reporter last week:
4" Blaine's name is the only one promi-
nent for president in 1883 in our party.
| Nevertheless great many quiet men
think he should not be nominated. 1t
is a good thing that he should keep to
the front. 1t keeps the party organiza-
ton up and will serve a good purpose in
that way. If Blaine does not take the
nomination, it is pretty certain that he
can name the man who will"
REPRESENTATIVE CIRCUIT of Yer
mont will introduce bill to place
duty upon milk sugar. This is a new
industry recently started in Burlington,
which is said to be very promising.
Mr.. Grout proposes to tax the importa-
tons, which come mainly from Switzer-
land, five cents per pound for the crude
and ten cents per pound for the re-
| fined. Mr.. Grout will also introduce a
bill to grant to Union soldiers who
were confined in Andersonville 50 for
every thirty days of their confinement.
THE senate has done well in passing
the bill to repeal the tenure-of-office
act The house will of course concur,
and the act will soon disappear from
the statute book. Its passage in An
drew Johnson's time was only iustif-
able as a sort of military necessity"
and it ought to have been repealed long
ago. The whole drift of public opinion
in recent years is towards centering re-
sponsibility upon the executive, and
freedom to remove subordinate is an
essential part of such responsibility
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ice reform paper).
HUGH O'BRIEN is reelected mayor
of Boston by a plurality of 1865 and a
majority of 1,104. The vote is as fol-
lows: O'Brien, 23,3S7; Hart, 1919;
Mcneil, 1864. Last years vote was:
O'Brien, 26,672; Clark, 1902. The
board of aldermen will consist of seven
democrats, four republicans and one
independent (Haynes). The common
council will consist of thirty-nine demo-
Gratis and thirty-three republicans. The
city went for license by the following
vote: Yes, q ,223; no, 1876. The
cities of Salem, Worcester, Lowell and
Newburyport also voted for license.
A FAILURE in the Boston shoe trade
amounting to S40O, 900, involving the
house of which ex-Mayor Martin is the
head, is due to labor agitation. Mr..
Martin says: 4" 1t is simply folly for a
man to attempt to run his business at
the dictation of others, and the labor
ing classes will learn by and by that
the demagogues who urge them on to
demand more than the manufacturers
can afford to pay are not their friends.
The fact is, believe, that a crisis is
near at hand when this bad system will
be broken up, and men will see that if
they would consult their own interests
they must have some respect for the
interest of their employer"
Hon. MARSHALL p. WILDER died at
Roxbury, Mass, Thursday, aged eighty
eight. He had wide reputation as
one of the foremost pomologists and
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president of the American Pathological
Society and was making active prepara-
tons for meeting of that society in
Boston in 1887 at the time of his death.
His influence in the improvement and
development of all classes of fruit in
this country was marked, and his name
has been a household word with every
pomologist of America and Europe.
He had held many prominent positions
in business life in Boston, and was Ole
of the few remaining old merchants of
that city,
IT appears that Mr.. Cleveland has
selected a new cook for the White House
French gentleman, who is said to be
a graduate of the College Culinaire de
Delmonco. Curiously enough, this i'm
portant place is not subject to the civil
service rules. 1t would, however, be
in consonance with the spirit of civil
service reform to submit candidates for
the post of chief cook at the White
House to thorough and searching eX-
animation of their qualifications. If a
letter-carrier's legs or a bungstarter's
arms are to be tested by quizzes as to
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cake crossing, why should not a chq
be made to show what he knows about
things in general and particular? Let
us have consistency, as the monkey
said when he sweetened the pie-crust
with gamboge. 1t is strange that Mr..
Cleveland should select his cook just as
an ordinary spokesman might. - Ne'o
York Sun.
THE pretended war claim, as figured
by the third auditor and the chief of
ordinance at Washington, against the
state of Vermont, is now put at S543,
$50. This is on account of arms and
equipments furnished by the govern
ment for the protection of our frontiers.
But it appears that the government had
full statement of the matter years
ago. Quartermaster-ge Kingsley.
in his report in 1875, said that nearly
all the arms were received between Oc-
tober 20 and December 81, 1864, and
were used in arming and equipping the
militia and forces organized for the de-
fence of the frontier against rebel raid
ers from Canada, who made their ia
nous descent upon St. Adams October
10, in that year, Naturallya great pro