The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-28

THE tail of the old secession snake
died in the person of Terry. -NelC
York Meil and Express.
TIE Indianapolis Journal speaks of
the NeU York Times as "the Ananias
in journalism" This is the worst
blow that poor Ananias has received in
a long time.-Ne,C York Tribune.
THE times may be out of joint for
aught we know, but General Boulanger
says he is not coming to this country,
as reported. If you think awhile you
can always find something to be thank
full for.-Ne,c York Herald.
EX-SENATOR MCDONALD of Indiana
declares that he would have been
81 900 900 better off if he had let poll
tics alone. Politics would have been
something better off, too, but hardly
that much.-Philadelphia Press.
THERE are some democrats who are
very anxious to have the Ohio democ-
racy fight the republicans of the whole
United States. The gallant Ohio
democracy has tried this several times
and got licked. Cincinnati Enquirer.
TAKE any dozen monarchies, and you
can not select from their centuries of
| kings twenty-three men that will match
in character, ability and performance
the statesmen who have occupied the
| presidential chair. -BdltimOre Aneri-
can.
THE gentleman who nominated Cap
tain Mckinney in the Virginia demo-
cratic convention said of his candidate
that 8 he had served his country until
its sun set at AppomattoX." That is
the kind of stuff of which democrats are
made.-Troy Telegram.
IT is estimated that a horse can pull
twice as much on macadam road as
on a dirt road; three times as much on
a road paved with granite blocks as on
a macadam road, and two and one-fiflh
times as much over asphalt as over
granite.-LouiSrille Commercial.
THE shock which Boston culture re-
ceived when New York climbed for a
day to the top of the league-pennant
race was tame compared to the up
heaval in Beacon Hill society when it
was learned that Professor John l..
Sullivan was doomed to years exile
in Mississippi bastile.- Chicago Neus.
IT is good thing to have president
who is not ashamed of his old home,
and who delights to return and take his
neighbors by the hand. President
Cleveland contemptuously avoided Buff
falo. President Harrison has taken one
of the earliest opportunities for accept
ing an enthusiastic welcome from In
dianapolis. York Tribune.
II is not our disposition to alarm the
public, but when we see all the Euro
pean kings and emperors and poten-
tatesses going about hugging and kiss
ing each other, we feel that war is how
ering in the immediate vicinity of the
present time and that the market price
of American breadstutfs is crouching
for pretty tall spring. Washington
Post.
WON'T it be hot, though, in 1892,
with all the world crowding to New
York, and the biggest presidential
campaign ever known in full blast?
What splendid opportunity to teach
our benighted brothers from Europe
the blessings of free government and
the beauty of a torchlight procession
profusely garnished with tin hornsl-
Ne,O Hauen Palladium.
THE English women who protest
against the extension of the suffrage
to their sex return to the charge again
in the Nineteenth Century, and fill
twenty-seven pages of that review with
their signatures-1,5 800 in ALL The
worst setback which the suffrage move
ment has received is the opposition
among women themselves, which, both