The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-31


trousers buttons and darning their own
hose.-Norristo,Cn Herald.
GEORGE HEARST, the new demo-
cratic senator from California, is fifty
five years old and made fortune by
mining. He is the owner of the San
Francisco ETaminer.
A SUBSCRIBER asks if Mr.. Edmunds
voted for Mr.. Blaine for president in
1884. 1t has been asserted that he did.
but it might be difficult either to prove
or disprove the statement.
The Boston Record says that "noth-
ing practical " has been gained by the
senate debate. Well, the administra-
ton has been severely but Justly
handled, and that is something.
If the President were to spend lit
tie time reading the Constitution of the
United States-amosta admirable work
he would learn that the government is
not his private property. Tribune.
TIE day is not distant when the
teacher will command as much public
recognition in life and death as any
citizen who has done no more for the
public good.-Journal Of Education.
THE Washington Post declares that
the democrats are not too cowardly to
repeal the civil service law, but too
virtuous, and adds: "Give us credit for
our virtue" Well, here it is. neighbor,
for the full amount-000.-Ph Press.
ALDERMAN JACHNE of New York
has secured bondsmen and been re-
leased from jail. He pleads not guilty
to the charge of bribery, but the case
looks very dark for him and several
other aldermen. Jachne will have his
trial April 18th.
IT is estimated that the public ex-
pense connected with the late Senator
Miller's funeral will exceed $4,000.
This is pretty high, but there are sena-
tors whom the people would give even
more for the privilege of interring.-
Ne'c York Tribune.
OK Monday railroad traffic had not
been resumed in the Southwest, owing
to misunderstanding Jay Gould has
entrusted the arrangements for arbitra-
ton to Vice-president Hoxie, and does
not intend to make up committee
with Powderly, as the latter expected.
On what " a slender thread" life
hangs is shown in the case of Rev.
DR.. II. M. Grout, the beloved pastor of
the Congregational church in Concord
Mass, who has recently died. A post
norton examination showed that his
death was caused by the Judgement of
a fig-seed in the bowels, which was
eaten some six days before.
A DISPATCH from Carrollton, Mis-
sissippi, after reciting the details of the
recent massacre of negroes in the court
house at that place, closes with the
naive remark: " No inquest was held,
as the coroner recently held one in a
case of violent death and the county
would not pay for it, on the ground that
the manner of death was known to
everybody"
Mr.. GLADSTONE has been i'll with a
cold. 1t is now announced that the
Irish policy will be laid before paria-
ment April s. What that policy will
be is the subject of much speculation.
1t is believed by some that Mr.. Glad
stone has decided to abandon tempo
rarily his scheme for buying out the
landlords of Ireland, and to make home
rule in some form the simple basis of
his proposals.
THE mugwumps profess to be much
dissatisfied with the course of Senator
Edmunds in the controversy with the
President; but it is made quite plain
from an article in the mugwump Spring
field Republican, last week, that they
prefer his reelection to the senate to
that of any republican who gave an I'M
qualified support to Mr.. Blaine in 1884
Mugwump influence won't help any
one in Vermont this year.
w. E. BARRETT, the unveracious and
sensational Washington correspondent
of the Boston Advertiser, has just fur
nished that paper with another de-
cidedly g fishy" letter concerning YER
mont politics. OF course the Free
Press and two or three other papers,
which are well aware of Barrett's repu-
tation as truth-dodger, will hasten to
copy this letter, as they did his sem
atorial letters from this state last fall.
THE article copied elsewhere from
the New York Tribune, concerning the
relations of the republican national
committee and Mr.. Edmunds in the
campaign of 1884, is construed in some
quarters as an attack" by "Blaine
people," but it appears to be nothing
more than defence of the committee
from certain Misrepresentation There
may be another side of the story,
but eventually the whole truth must
come out.
WHAT then do we want? The CAPT.
talist is at his wits end as well as the
laborer. Shall we accept some insane
theory, and seek to upturn the deep
foundations of society. What we want
is Just ld'cs .faithfully executed. Wealth
should not be permitted TO rob and OBJ