The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-06

favors absolute prohibition of the liquor
traffic in the District of Columbia.
An enormous aggregate of cotton,
sugar and other products is being car
ried by New Orleans factors and mer-
chants, awaiting rise in prices.
I" A sTRADDLER's lot is not happy
one, and, confound it, it ought not to
be!"-Boston Record. This reads like
going back on the mugwumps.
IT is rumored that the silver men
will ask the President to give the
sources of information for his state
ment that gold is being boarded.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN HoRR believes
that there are 50,000,000 silver dollars
in circulation not coined at the mints.
They are technically counterfeits.
PRESIDENT Mcneil of the Lancas-
ter (Mass.,) National Bank has en-
bezzled 100000 of the banks funds,
and of course he has fled to Canada.
The ladies at Oberlin recently de-
bated the question:: 3" Resolved, That
the extreme development of the intel
lect chills and destroys the affections.
The long strike of coal miners in the
Monongahela Valley has ended by the
men going to work at the rate of wages
offered from the first by the employers.
THE supervisors of the insane speak
in high commentator of the improve
ments recently made at the insane asy-
lum at Brattleboro, and also of its gen.
eral management.
MosT of the leading papers of the
country are opposed to the postal tele
graph scheme. Their opinion appears
to be that the government now has all
that it can properly attend to.
BROOKLYN has had terrible scare
over typhoid fever, which was spread
ing rapidly, and the result has been an
examination Of inspected premises and
the discovery of at least six hundred
houses in which the plumbing was de-
fectivc and in which repairs were
ordered
THE uncertainty of law is well illus
trated in the decisions of four state
courts upon the constitutionality of laws
prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of butterine. Pennsylvania and Mis-
souri, have decided in favor of such re-
strictions, while New York and Mime
sofa have decided against them.
IT is said that Secretary Manning,
despairing of securing the absolute sus-
pension of silver coinage, proposes to
ask congress to limit the coinage to
$3.50, 100000 upon which to base the
system of silver certificates and to with
draw from circulation all notes of less
than IS and issue silver certificates in
their stead.
AMONG the magazines purchased for
the use of United States senators, and
charged to Uncle Sam, are copies of
the Nursery. 1t is supposed that GER
tain members imbibe their free-trade
notions from this infantile periodical.
Some of their arguments sound as il
they might have emanated from the
nursery Herald.
SOME of the justices of the supreme
court are indignant at the story recently
started by some INSCRIPTIONS scribbler
that they have snug little bar-room
stocked with liquors as an annex to
their court premises in the capitol at
Washington. They deny in the most
positive terms that anything of the
kind has ever had an existence.
1t is significant fact that of the
S275 100000 of deposits in Massachu-
sets saving banks, over 1852 100000
are in sums less than $500 each. This
is good evidence that the deposits rep
resent the earnings and savings of
working people, rather than the accu-
mutations of men who don't want the
trouble of investing their surplus in
come.
THE total number of deaths from
smallpox in Montreal during the late
epidemic exceeds 5000, distributed
among over 500 houses. The amount
expended in extirpating the smallpox
epidemic is Sis, 900, and it will take a
further large sum to meet the remain
ing engagements entered into Com
pulsory vaccination is being strongly
enforced.
Any man who looked into the shops
before Christmas, and found them
crowded as they have not been for years
with happy and eager wives and moth
ers, must have suspected that the sort of
hard times which cut down the pur-
chase of necessaries of life had not
reached this country yet. A great holt
day trade does not mean general starva-
tion.-Tribune.
THE celebration of the anniversary
of the settlement of the New England
town that, in looking up its military
record, discovered that to fill its quota
of troops during the war twenty-four of
its citizens were drafted, of whom
twenty-three periodically furnished sub
stitutes and the other emigrated to
Canada, ought to be notable occasion.
Boston Traveller.
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