The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-24
Notes and Opinions.

Mr.. BLAINE's letter has converted
the select body of Independent patriots
into bowling dervishes.- Tribune.
THE best kind of labor union exists
in the man who combines in himself
pluck, economy, foresight and common
sense.
VERMONT may yet give the Union
another president before many years.
Boston Transcript. Let no one encour-
age that delusive expectation.
THE latest bulletin of the agricul-
tural department at Washington gives
the following estimates of crops for
this year: Corn, l 700 900, 900 bushels;
potatoes, 1853 100000 bushels; hay.
100000 tons; tobacco, 4S5 900 900
pounds.
THE supreme court of Arkansas has
decided that Second Adventist must
observe Sunday, even though he OBJ
serve Saturday as Sunday. This makes
Arkansas more rigid in this respect than
Massachusetts, which allows any one
within its borders to perform secular
business on Sunday, that will disturb
no one else, provided he observes Sat
urday as Sunday, conscientiously be-
lieving it to be day of rest.
A New YORK physician says there is
nothing better for the treatment of
diphtheria than tar smoke. 1t has been
used by many physicians in New York
and found most eflicacious. The method
consists in closing the room tightly
and burning quantity of pitch on
red hot stove or shovel. The smoke
dissolves the fibrous matter that chokes
the patient, and gives almost instant
relief. A remedy so easy to apply is
certainly worth remembering.
THE special tendency which ardent
prohibitionists should guard against is
the tendency to withhold assistance
from all devices to lessen the liquor
traffic except such as are impractcable.
The special tendency for moderate pro-
hibitionists to guard against, is the ten
dency to become practically indifferent,
and tamely to submit to license meas
ures as the best measures possible. Ii
cense laws, low or high, are not things
TO be satisfied tcith. He who is willing
to accept the "half Loaf if he can get
no more, should be continually liboring
for the "whole loaf. "-MOrning Star.
THE weather prophets have begun to
get in their work for the winter. The
first to venture forth to veX the public
is Professor Foster, the Iowa meteorol-
ogist, who predicts great storm period
extending from December to II,
during which will occur some of the
most destructive winter storms of re-
cent years. These storms will be much
of the same nature as the billiards. of
last January. Heavy SHOWS and high
winds will greatly impede railway travel.
and he advises the railways to prepare
for blockades in the western states
about December 3, and in the eastern
states December 9.
AN Iowa correspondent of the New
York Ecening Post, replying to a
former correspondent who had dis
paraged the operation of prohibitory
law dullltS llldl lnC law II ilol tulOICtu
in some of the river towns and certain
other localities, but contends that this
! is the fault of officers not faithful in
their duty rather than of the law. The
most interesting fact presented is an ac-
count of meeting of sheriffs of the
state, at which seventy were present,
who, without dissent, expressed the
judgment that the law, even with the
opposition it encounters and its in
different enforcement, has decreased
court business fifty per cent or more.
If we were to believe the representa-
tons of some of the newspapers of the
Brattleboro Reformer type, the railroads
are more of a curse than benefit to
the people of the state; and yet those