The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-29

joined table:
iss0-Dow, for president. .............."....... 99
lss2-Eustis, for governor. 1896
lSsi-Eustis, for governor. 1870
lss-St. John, for president. ........ .......2l6O
lSS6-Clark, Tor governor. 1872
How does it look for soldier who
served on the Union side during the
whole war and then joins the other
side after it is over? 1t is the strangest
thing to me in the world that man
can fight five years to save the Union
and then join the other side in con-
trolling it afterward. Senator Logan.
CIT was a considerate act on the part
of Mr.. w. Barnes" remarks the Cay
uga Chief, "to leave golden pumpkin
in our Office last week, which has been
the basis of our favorite pastry since.
Thanks" And yet some wretched,
dyspeptic pessimists argue that life is
not worth living. Go to.-Tribune.
THE cyclone season has not yet
closed, as the report of the western
storms indicates. A great deal of
damage has been done in Indiana, Hi
nois, Michigan and Ohio, and there
were some fatalities and many exciting
and perilous experiences, but thus far
there is no account of scenes of death
and ruin such as accompanied previous
visitations of this sort.
ONE sign of prosperity that should
not be overlooked is the marked in
crease in the number of applicants for
admission to our colleges. Nearly all
of those institutions are gratifed to find
their portals besieged by the largest
classes ever known. This betokens
easy circumstances among the large
middle class of the population, from
which college students mostly come
Ne,o York Commercial.
THE vote for governor of Maine,
made up from the official returns, is
as follows: Bodwell (republican) 6S 1897; ;
Edwards (democraD, IS ,9S7; Clark (pro-
hibitionisD, 1872; scattering, 20. Only
three of the sixteen counties gave pu-
ralities for the democratic candidate.
namely, Knox, 231; Waldo, "a; York,
5. The largest prohibition vote was in
Cumberland county, 563, but the largest
in proportion to the whole county vote
was that of Aroostook county, 49,.
THE reports received by Bradstreet's
during the week from the various bust
ness centers are of the most salts
factory character, and they tell uni
form story of an increased distribution
of merchandise, with distinct and
widespread tendency toward higher
prices for staple goods. The dry goods
trade is especially active. This is a
gratifying indication, from the fact that
this branch of trade is one of the most
sensitive of business barometers.-
Irareller.
A GENTLEMAN canvassing for the
DAILY JOURNAL in Montpelier and
Waterbury found that the agents of the
slippery Ropes had represented to sew
eral persons that the WATCHMAN office
would not publish daily paper during
the coming legislative session, and on
the strength of this falsehood they Sc
cured a number of subscribers fol-
Ropes daily. This small and contempti-
BILE trick sizes up the character of the
proposed Daily Vern,onter and its editor
quite accurately.
HERR LIEBKNICHT, the German
socialist, is getting along rapidly. He
has been in this country about week
and already he is telling us how we
should run our affairs. AT meeting
in New York he made speech in which,
while disavowing any sympathy with
anarchical agitation, he undertook to
say that the convicted Chicago assassins
are innocent, that the verdict in their
case was ga fatal error of iurispru-
dence," and he entered his protest
against such judicial murder"
THE official printing of Vermont
should be retained within the limits of
the state. Possibly there is no print
ing-oflice that could quite compete in
price with some of the large city estab-
lishments on certain classes of work
but the quality would probably be more
satisfactory. The competition among
the printing-offices of the state is
always sharp enough to make prices
very reasonable. Here is a chance for
the coming legislature to encourage a
home industry .-Northfeld NewS.
IT has transpired that the outline of
a new treaty between England and the
United States has been drawn up by
representatives of her majesty and
Minister Phelps, with view of putting
an end to the fisheries dispute. 1t has
been considered by the Canadian cabi-
net and it is said that the present visit
of Sir Charles Upper is in its interest.
1t will be returned to the home govern.
ment for the consideration of changes
suggested, and then submitted to the
next congress for ratification.
LIEUTENANT SCHwATKA, commander
of the New York Times Alaskan expe-
dition, writes to that paper from Sitka
thath and his party have succeeded in
ascending Mt, st. Elias to the highest
point ever reached by white men, seven
thousand two hundred feet above the
line of perpetual snow. They have
also explored large region of country
hitherto little known, and have discov-
cred and named one large river, three
GLACIERS, one lake and range of lofty
hills. But the San says that none of
the " discoveries " are new.