The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-08
Notes and Opinions.


has not signifed. --Hargord Post.
ETERNAL vigilance is the price of
liberty, but the cost of anarchy is some
what higher. philadelphia Press.
THIRTY-FoUR steamers and twenty
three sailing vessels are rotting at their
docks in free-trade Glasgow because
there is nothing to do.
JAPAN has about twelve hundred
earthquake shocks year-three or four
a day right along. There is nothing
like getting used to it.
THE indianapolis Sentinel (democrat),
which regards civil service reform as
ga fraud and humbug," says plainly
that the law has not been enforced in
the indianapolis post-office.
IT is noticed as an interesting fact
that two of the Minnesota republican
congressman who voted with the demo-
Gratis for the Morrison tariff bill have
been defeated for denomination.
THE Burlington Free Press has made
itself so obnoxious to several hundreds
of the best republicans in that city that
it is proposed to form an association to
establish new daily republican paper
on substantial basis.
ONE of the best of the latest of Irish
bulls is the following from an editorial
in one of the leading papers of the ma
tionalist party the other day: $50 long
as Ireland was silent under her wrongs
England was deaf to her cries"
THE "Wheel " is a new political Or
ganization in the Southwest, with head
quarters in Arkansas, where it has put
up a full state ticket. 1t is composed
of farmers exclusively, and its object is
to advance the interests of the farming
community.
JUST before the election the Stand
ard Bearer, prohibition paper pub
lished in Concord, N. H., in a brief
article on Vermont politics and Mr..
Edmunds, remarked that his notori-
Gus personal habits in the use of liquors
preclude any active sympathy in his
behalf"
A MEMBER of the republican con-
gressional committee who has returned
from tour through the Western
States makes gratifying report of the
prospects, according to a Washington
dispatch in the New York Tribune.
He thinks the republicans will have a
majority in the next house.
THERE are wars and rumors of wars
in Europe, but it is doubtful whether
there is to be great continental strife
in the immediate future. There are so
many jealousies and animosities among
the powers that it is difficult to form
them into gigantic combinations against
each other, such as is intimated may be
the result of the Bulgarian difficulty.
LET'S see, didn't the conductor on a
Central Vermont railroad train take up
Arthur Ropes annual pass and collect
fare of him one fine morning about the
time of the insertion of the Edmunds
Rural into Montpelier? And isn't
Ropes using the paper with which he
is connected simply for personal re-
venge? 1t would seem so to a man up
a tree. -Burlington Clipper.
THE unanimity with which the demo-
cratic and mugwump papers pronounce
Mr.. Blaine's speeches weak and stupid
is only equaled by their frantic zeal in
trying to disprove his statements. Why
don't you let him alone, brethren ?
Surely so harmless an opponent as you
represent him to be should be treated
as an object of compassion, and not as
a target for unlimited abuse Concord
Monitor.
THE British government, as now con-
stituted, is really in the minority, as
4 the actual standing is as follows: Con-
servatives, three hundred fourteen
unionist liberals, seventy-seven; Glad
, stoneites, one hundred eighty-nine
nationalists, eighty-four, with five va
, cant seats, which when filled will doubt
less add two to the conservative, two
TO the Gladstonian and one to the ma.
. tionalist strength. While the con-
servatives have a majority of forty
eight over all the liberal factions, they
lack nineteen votes of majority.
= MAJOR POWELL of the geological
6 survey says that there is line of weak.
. ness in the crust of the earth, be-
! ginning somewhere south of Raleigh
n. c., and extending in line along
the tide-water past Richmond, Wash
: ington, Baltimore and Troy, n. Y.
d that this line of weakness is marked by
, displacement; in some places this dis
. placement is a flecture in the rocks
in other places a fault, and in the
neighborhood of this displacement is
found the principal waterfalls which
constitute the water-powers of the AT
: lantic slope.
e WHILE the East is undergoing milo
e outbreak of the sea-serpent Gin spots)
/ the boundless West has a peculiar phe
r nomenon that is all its own. This il
e no less than the pouring out of foot
= of water with great force from tn,
/, bowels of the earth-that is to say, from
u depth of one hundred eighty feet
t According to the dispatches, the cold