Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-25
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The State loses an able newspaper man
in the retirement of Col. Albert Clarke
from the management of the Rutland
Herald.
Senator Edmunds says he doesn't want
the place of secretary of state or any
other cabinet position. The Office he
now holds is good enough for him.
Montreal found itself with three feet
of snow Monday morning. 1t proceeded
at once to rebuild the ice palace-which
the warm weather had caused to slump
and to make other preparations for gath
ering in American dollars.
The South has acted upon the advice
given it by Republican Senator a few
years since-to raise more cotton and less
HI. 1t is said that the cotton crop of
$3.50 will be the largest ever harvested,
approximating 100000 bales.
Anthony Higgins, Delaware's new Re-
publican Senator, is said to be great
dog fancier. This is evidence that he is a
philosopher, too, agreeing, perhaps, with
that other philosopher who said that the
dogs.
The Vermont fish commissioners in
their annual report say that the English
sparrows eat grain and drive away insect
eating birds. They, therefore, recon-
mend that the pests be destroyed. The
public have held the same views for
long time.
We publish this week the third of
series of "American Letters" which can
not fail to be of much interest to our
readers. Mr.. Battell will extend his trav-
els through Texas, New Mexico, Old
Mexico, Arizona and California and will
write fully of what he sees.
Kansas people want to know what
they're paying for-and it is question
they may fairly ask, too-and have,
through the House of Representatives,
directed a committee "to ascertain and
report to the House at as early a day as
practicable whether it is a fact that the
British doctrine of free trade is being
taught at the State university at Law
renee"
"White Caps" the modern form of
"Regulators, are showing themselves in
various sections outside of Ohio and In
diana, where they originated. New
Hampshire and Western Massachusetts
have been visited by them. But after a
few of these gentry have had their heads
broken, as they deserve to be, they will
decide that the business is not quite so
funny after all.
Says a London dispatch: "It is stated
that all of the English steel rail-makers
have agreed to form trust, and that the
French, German and Belgian makers con-
sent to join the ring. 1t is expected that
the movement, if successful, will cause an
advance in prices of 20 to 25 per cent
Evidence accumulates that the tariff is
not responsible for trade combinations in
this country, as the Democrats tried to
prove during the late campaign.
Speaking of the annexation of Canada,
the Springfield Republican says: "The
union of Quebec and the United States
would be like union of the 10th and 10th
centuries, and the practical difficulties
are huge enough to cool the ardor of the
average American" Perhaps it doesn't
occur to the Republican that the union
must come sometime, and that union of
the 10th and 10th centuries is preferable
to the union of the 10th and 2Oth or 2lst
Our esteemed contemporary, the Ar
gus, has high opinion of the new State
superintendent. But it will be noticed
that it doesn't believe in the new school
law any more than Mr.. Palmer does.
The reason it thinks well of him is, then,
not far to seek. Those who do regard
the school law as good thing are, how
ever, fairly entitled to protest against the
choice of an enemy of it to the Office of
superintendent without having imputed
to them a personal or other bias,