The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Press Notes.

ALL Gaul in divided into three parts:
Paris, the remainder of France, and
Boulanger.-BHtalo Courier.
If Carter H. Harrison of Chicago is,
as he says he is, out of politics, this
would be good time for somebody to
bolt the door and shove the bed up
against it, Washington Post.
COLONEL DAN LAMONT has Just
bought another street railroad in New
York. Dan did not get big salary
down at Washington, but he seems to
be hush.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND talks of
going abroad next winter. But he is
said to be afraid of sea sickness. That
little trip up Salt river last fall evidently
disgusted him with nautical AFFAIRS
Albany Journal.
THE rumor that Mr. Blaine will posi-
lively retire from the cabinet upon the
assembling of congress is again re-
vived. The outlook for an abundant
chestnut crop this season is thus cheer
fully pictured. -BoSton Herald.
JUSTICE LAMAR of the United States
supreme court is one of the vice
presidents of the United States Hay
Fever Association. And yet it is said
that his opinions from the bench are
not to be sneezed at.-Minne0polS
Tribune.
UNDER protection the output of the
Lake Superior iron mines has increased
nearly three-fold since 1SS4-another
excellent instance of what our free
trade friends call "the blighting in
huences of the protective tariff. "-BoS-
ton journal.
THE new interstate commerce COM
missioner from Vermont has already
achieved fame, after the Lord Byron
method. He has had his name spelled
in three or four ways in the newspapers.
The latest and most correct way, we be-
lieve, is Veazey. Herald.
WITH a S10,000,000 worlds fair, a
10000, 900 city hall, 100000 memo
rial arch, and Grant monument, cost
not estimated, on its hands, New York
city may be said to be in an interesting
condition, but not without hopes of
safe delverance.- boston Herald.
EDITOR HALsTEAD doesn't propose
to wait for cooler weather before open
ing the campaign in Ohio. He has
plunged into the fray with all the fury
of double leads, italics and big caps.
Editor Halstead's pen promises to be a
more terrible weapon than Foraker's
sword on the Ohio field.-Boston
Herald
The Vermont veterans who have re-
turned from the Milwaukee encamp-
ment say that Judge Veazey is certain
to be elected commander at next years
Grand Army gathering in Boston. Such
was the general understanding after
Colonel Veazey took himself out of the
way of General Alger.-Sprinqfeld Re
publican.
INTERESTED inquiry is being made
up and down the land for an organiza-
ton once known as the interstate COM
MERGE commission, which, it was adver-
tised, was going to run the railroads of
this country in highly successful man
ner, but which, it is feared, has caught
its foot in a frog somewhere and been
run over by a gravel train.-W Washing
ton Post
The workingmen of protected
America will not fail to notice that the
great strike now in progress in free
trade England is for an advance of
wages to siXpence an hour. The advo-
Gates of free-trade in the United States
are remarkably backward in coming
forward with illustrations of the
superior condition of labor in Eng
land.-Utica Herald.
THE authorities of Louisiana made a
great fuss when they thought there
was likelihood of the Sullivan Kilrain
prize fight occurring within the limits
of that state. But Louisiana has just