The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

ana worm q hundred cents on the DOL
lar. Judas was sharp, and we doubt
whether he would have accepted sew
enty-nine-cent Bland dollars. Spring
field Union.
SENATOR SHERMAN has introduced
silver bill which is in the nature of
compromise. He says the bill would make
silveras good as gold by putting the two
metals upon the same monetary basis;
but many of the anti-silver men and
newspapers express doubts about it. The
bill does not meet with favorable re-
ception from extremists on either side
of the question.
LITTLE Greece is belligerent, but her
power may not prove equal to her
spunk. The voice of the present min
istry is for war against Turkey, but
there is a strong party in favor of yield
ing to the demand of the Powers for the
maintenance of peace. The Greeks get
no support from the Powers for their
claim to Thessaly and Epirus. 1t is
stated that continental opinion strongly
predicts war.
of the protest this morning against the
appointment of McGettrick as postmas-
ter at st. Adams. The protest sets forth
that the appointment must have been
made under misrepresentation and
urges the President toreconsider. The
protest is signed by persons who say
they are democratic officials of Frank
lin county, headed by three state sena-
tors. The protest has also been sent to
the President. In the copy sent to the
senate the word copy is spelled with
two p's.-Washington Special, Jan. 81.
AFTER all the plans for avoiding
elections, for concentrating power in
the hands of mayors, governors and
presidents have duly failed and brought
their due disasters, we shall bethinB
ourselves of that true system of govern.
ment which finds its best exposition in
the New England town--the system OF
making every citizen interested in gov.
eminent by demanding of him every
year to say what he thinks of his serv.
ants and their acts, and teaching him
to eschew, as inventions of Satan, all
these schemes for getting himself gov.
erned without bother Congressman
Reed of Maine.
PEOPLE who have been marked by
their enemies for slaughter are not
often allowed to choose the manner Of
their death. Major Andre requested
that he might be shot rather than hung
but Washington denied his petition. The
white man in the legend assured the
Indians who had captured him, as they
were heaping fagots about the stake tC
which they had bound him, that on the
whole he would rather die of old age
But the Indians refused to let him have
his own way. The Salisbury govern
ment, realizing that its days were mum
bered, was anxious to be placed under
the sod by fatal attack of the Irish
question. But the high executioner
Gladstone, said nay. He agreed thai
the funeral of the government should
take place, but would not be dictated
to in regard to the style of club to b'
used in the lling.-Iribune.
No one outside of a newspaper Office
is aware of the frequency and urgenc.
of the demands which are made upol
newspapers in the name of charity
The singular thing about these de
mands is that they are made ordinaril
not as favor but as right, to be ac
copied without thanks if given and t.
justify the severest reproaches if re
fused. A good many people appear t.
cherish the idea that the prime motiv
in establishing and maintaining a news
paper is to make it vehicle for tn
gratuitous announcement and advertise
ment of all manner of charitable an,
semi-charitable schemes. People VIII
would not think of levying indiscrimi
nately upon strangers for money con
tributions to the objects in which the
feel an interest, have no hesitancy at al
about demanding the equivalent c
money from any newspaper, and the
are very indignant indeed if their de
mands are not acceded to. The col
umns of any newspaper which under
took to meet all the demands thus mad
upon it would present a very singula
annearance - ROstOu TOllrn0I