The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-13
Press Notes.

IMPERIAL Rome was once saved by
the cackling of a goose. Perhaps
Pigott has freed Ireland. - Boston
Herald.
HARRISON has harmonized the party
in New York by giving the oyster to
Tracy and dividing the shell between
Platt and Mi.ler.-Albany Argus.
VERMoNT's sterling republicanism is
rewarded by cabinet portfolio. There
are only few democrats in that state,
vet they had the minister to England
in the last administration Troy Tele-
gram.
THE story that General Harrison had
his August hair cut before leaving In
dianapolis is confirmed. Various news
paper portraits of the general had given
people to understand that he was in the
habit of having his hair shot off with
q .-ChicagO Ne,Cs. There is rea-
son to believe that it was his January
hair which was thus removed. -Ne,C
York Herald.
Ex-Governor PROCTOR will be the
ablest man in General Harrison's cabi-
net. He and Senator Edmunds are
staunch friends, and it is almost needless
to say that he is no admirer of Mr.. Blaine.
If General Harrison's Administered on
should not be wrecked by Mr.. Blaine,
it will be largely due to Ex-Governor
Proctor, cool, cautious, long headed
Vermont Yankee. Mr.. Blaines mag
netic ways and sky-rocket perform
ances will have no influence with him.
He ought to be in the interior or the
navy instead of the war, and his expe-
rience as a banker and manufacturer
would make him a good secretary of
the treasury. York Times.
THE glorious uncertainties of Jour
nalism are feelingly portrayed in the
ensuing extract from the Arizona
kicker: 1.-TWO or three weeks since we
denounced Colonel Hallimell at claim
Jumper, mule-stealer and wife deserter,
and added few words to the effect
that he would look well at the end Of a
rope. Saturday evening, as we were
talking with the cashier of the First n "a
tional bank, the colonel approached us
and wanted us to prepare for death.
Greatly to our own amazement and to
the intense surprise of the whole street,
we didn't run. On the contrary, we
sailed into the colonel like a brick
house falling on sand-fiy, and we had
him licked inside of five minutes. We
can't account for these freaks in our
nature. Sometimes we fight like tor
nado and again we run like jack
rabbit. People intending to lay for us
must take their chances"
DIR. HOsKINS urges in the Mont
pelier WATCHMAN the establishment
of sort of freight-express, to take
small shipments of farm produce at
moderate rates from stations in Yer
mont to the industrial centers OF South
ern New England He says that many
residents of these cities desire to get
their supplies of farm produce from
producers with whom they are person
ally acquainted, and he believes that
such system would ultimately develop
a larg and profitable business for the
railroads engaging in it, while it would
save the succession of commissions
coming out of the price of the products
at the farm, which in many cases make
all the difference between a good profit
and serious loss for the farmers. The
New York Evening Post quotes this as
an excellent suggestion and one that
seems entirely practicable. Many peo-
pie in New York City, the Post adds,
get butter, eggs, vegetables and other
farm supplies from the interior of New
York state or from the western portion
of New England, despite the expense
and difficulties which now attend such
tran sactions. and this traffic might be
greatly increased if arrangements were
made VIII ich would diminish the cost
and trouble, to the equal advantage OF
farmers in the country and housekeep-
ers in the eity.-Brott'eboro Picnic.