The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-22
Notes and Opinions

IHIS tremendous ACTIVITY III railway
building augurs well for the general
business of the country Toledo Blade.
THE democratic state ticket of Mis-
souri, is composed entirely of ex-confed-
crate soldiers. The republican ticket
is composed of Union soldiers.
THE Rutland Herald and Burlington
Free Press are yet considerably scared
over the senatorial situation. The
wicked flee when no man pursueth."
THE New York Times says that Mr..
Blaine's triumph will destroy him.
Well, he might as well be killed with
success as by anything else. Tribune.
IN 1865 the public debt amounted to
SIS. per capita. Last year it amounted
to only S24.14. In 1865 the per capita
portion of the annual interest charge
was S4.2 20. Last year it was but SO cents.
THERE are over three thousand Rus
sian and Roumanian paupers on the
ocean en- route for this country. The
law requiring their return by the YES
sells in which they came should be rig
idly enforced.-Blade.
If the Egyptian obelisk in New York
is to be preserved from destruction by
climatic influences it will be necessary
to place it under permanent shelter
somewhere. The coat of parafiine has
proved failure, and the work of disin-
tegration is going on rapidly.
ST. JOHN, who has been employed in
the Maine campaign to help " kill the
republican party" would not speak at
Augusta and Bangor because he could
not have his $50 a night, the party not
being willing or disposed to raise the
amount.-Nashua Telegraph.
THE Maine campaign is closed. Its
striking feature has been Mr.. Blaine's
speeches, which in force, fertility and
responsiveness have never been ex-
celled in an American campaign. Mr..
Blaine has added greatly to his fame
Il
SECRETARY WHITNEY, after the long
fight over the new dispatch boat Dol
phin, has paid John Roach's assignees
the last installment. They claimed
$4,000, but he beat them down to
$4,000 The boat is now accepted
without litigation and will soon go into
service.
Now that Ropes is trying to define
his position or the free pass question,
perhaps he will be good enough to tell us
where he got his free pass that carried
him to the Chicago convention in 1884,
and how he got it; and whether he has
not made applications to railroads for
free passes this very year.
"THAT coat which you say cost you IS
in Cork said free-trader to an Irish
man, " would have cost you $40 in this
country" / don't know about that"
replied the Hibernian, 1" when the coat
bought in Cork cost me twelve davs'
wages and one like it can be bought
for eight days labor here"
PROFESSOR PROCTOR says that earth
quakes are assurances that the earth is
not near death; that hundreds of thou
sands of years will still pass before the
end is seen in the steady disintegration
and removal of the land without reno
walton or renewal by the action of sub
terranean forces. Thanks, professor.
THE Rutland Herald is not doing
Mr.. Edmunds any special service by
harping constantly upon the results of
the senatorial contest, making invidi-
Gus comparisons between Edmunds
and Blaine unfavorable to the Maine
statesman, etc. 1t should remember
what happened to the Free Press in the
Barlow-Grout campaign.
IT is announced that four or five
clerks in the pension Office who are ac-
credited to Vermont managed to take
their vacations while the recent cam
paign was on in the state and were act
i've in electioneering for the republican
ticket. On their return they were mott
Heu lnau lney were not neeucu any
longer Washington Special.
GEORGE FREDERIC PARSONS, in a
late number of the atlantic, calls atten-
ton to the saloon in politics. He says
that the seven thousand saloons in
New York city have fastened upon
that corporation the most shamefully
corrupt government ever endured by q
community, and this under the delu
sion that the people were free.
ROBERT p. PORTER, who is now in
Ireland for industrial information
writes that the beautiful embroidery or
linen and muslin sold in this country
as French embroidery is made by the
poor peasants of Ireland, who carr
from siXty-two and one-half to seventy
five cents per week making it. Mr.
Porter asks why the Irish should no,
have the credit of this work.
81 SAT- beside Horace Greeley once
at great political meeting in New
York, just after the war;" said the
Rev. DR.. Bennett, "and heard him de-
fine the difference between society and
politics. Said he, looking over the
crowd: If / were to contine the right
of suffrage to only such of you men al
l would permit to marry my daughter