The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
Notes and Opinions.
The bankruptcy bill has gone into
bankruptcy for this session.

lHE bankruptcy Dill mas gone into
bankruptcy for this session.
MosT, the anarchist, will have a
year to mediate in Sing Sing prison.
IT is said that the President selected
wife without consulting the mug
wumps. They will make him smart
for this.
ASIDE from the passage of the oleo-
margarine bill by the house, the pro-
ceedings of congress the past week are
devoid of anything of general public in
terest.
A REPORT was current Saturday that
Henry Ward Beecher was dead, but he
denies it, and he ought to know. Mr..
Beecher is going to England on lee
ture tour.
THE latest important news from Deer
Park is that the President went fish
ing on Saturday and to church on Sun
day. A good many people about here
did the same things.
AN improvement is noted in some
departments of trade and industry, but
the disturbing effect of the recent
labor troubles is still felt in many
branches of business.
Mr.. j. E. HARRIS has disposed of
his interest in the Burlington Clipper
to his partner, Mr., G. S. Kinsley. We
are not advised that this change has
any special political significance.
No man is indispensable in this
world. There is always some one who
can take his place. Even in the case
of the best of them, he will not be
missed except for short time.-Neu
York Star.
DoRMAN B. EATON says in the North
american Review: No one can regret
more than l do that the democratic
leaders are so greedy and short-sighted
as not to leave the President at liberty
to do better"
The attempt of the Free Press to
make capital for Mr.. Edmunds among
the soldiers, in connection with the
death and burial of General Stannard
violates the proprieties of the occasion
and deserves severe reprobation.
The Brooklyn Union, heretofore a
free-trade mugwump paper, declares
that it will hereafter give the candi-
dates and principles presented by re-
publican conventions an unqualified
undertaking and energetic support"
Poor Senator Jones of Florida has
been counting twice as long as Mr.
Cleveland and hasn't succeeded half as
well. The chimes of the Presidents
wedding-bells will sound almost like q
dirge to poor Jones. - Philadelphia
Press.
HON. DANIEL MANNING has rendered
his resignation as secretary of the
treasury, on account of ill-health; bu
the President has asked him to take {
leave of absence and defer the fna
disposition of his resignation unit
October.
THAT slanderous paper up in Rich
ford says 1--WE are told that the stock
holders of the st. Johnsbury Repubico,
are offering their stock at a magniicen
discount for cash. What is the matter?'
You must have been misinformed
"there's millions in it,"
THE long debate on the home-rul,
bill in the house of commons termin
ated on Monday evening in the defea
of the Gladstone government by thirt,
majority. There is great rejoicing
among the conservatives, and Glad
stone and his supporters are much de
pressed.
THERE are tales of organizing TEN
perance effort against the reelection
of Senator Edmunds, because he like,
to warm himself occasionally with ;
bumper of whiskey. 1t is said tina
there is good deal of correspondence
and canvassing among these folks
Brattleboro Rgormer (democratic).
WHERE are our statesmen" in
quires the Philadelphia Times. If the
Times refers to statesmen of the demo
cratic persuasion, we will simply re
mark that one of the three died il
Utica few weeks ago, one is now liv,
ing at Graystone, and the other is a
his home in Ohio. WASHINGTON Repub
licdn.
THE Congressional Record is said t.
be sent to jeff. Davis regularly. TIL,
government seems determined to pun
ish the unrepentant rebel, after all.
the government had to deal with Her
Most, it would probably send hin
printed copies of the free-trade speeches
delivered in congress. - Norristoc'
Herald.
REV. DIR. FIsKE says of the Chimes,
in this country: "They number les
than 1000 in a population of $4,000,
900. This Is the net result of thirt
years of unrestricted immigration, fol
lowed by five years of restriction. lie
this show the essential smallness of
subject which has occasioned so grea
discussion.
THE man who carries his dinner in