The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21

alton or any individual city, and should
be held under the auspices of the
United States in Washington. This is
not mere bluff, but sound common
sense.-Boston Herald.
A MISSISSIPPI paper says that the
democrats of that state "have no leis-
ure for the discussion of the tariff or
any other economic question" 1t
keeps them busy, we presume, to pre-
vent the negroes from acting upon the
foolish notion that the constitution
guarantees equal political rights to all
classes of citizens.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
DANIEL w. VOORHEES, beseeches
the Indiana democrats to stake the
satanic spirit of plutocracy by the throat
and strangle it 10 death" OF course
they unde rstand very well that they
can't take a spirit by the throat, or even
by the breeches, and that what Mr.
| Voorhees, really wants them to do is to
re-elect him to the senate.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
WE have been told by gentleman.
for many years a deputy sheriff in New
Hampshire, that the prohibition law is
practically dead letter, except when
saloons or liquor places become nui-
sances, or it is used as an instrument
of personal or political revenge. Pro-
hibition does not prohibit in New
Hampshire any more than in any other
state. -BoSton Transcript.
OURS is the only civilized country
blessed with good crops this year. The
general failure of the farmers abroad
will make the demand active for every
thing we can not use at home. Russia
has bad wheat outlook and breads a
famine. The grain prospect in Hun.
gary, Roumania, Galicia, Silesia, Be-
hemia and Moravia is very gloomy.
India will be short 10000 900 bushels
of wheat In France the estimates
have fallen twenty per cent England
will be in bad fix without six weeks of
unbroken sunshine-something not to
be hoped for.-Atlanta Constitution.
HADJI HAssIM GHOOLY KHAN, eX-
Persian minister, made a speech at an
informal dinner aboard the " La Bre-
tagne on his voyage home, one of his
fellOw-passenger writes, in which he
cordially drank the health of the Amer
lean people, and said: g am quite sat
isfed now that it was only Joke, and
that my inability to understand Ameri-
can humOr was the cause of the trou-
ble." This is almost equal to Chauncey
Depew's Englishman who didn't see
the point of one of the American 5
funny stories until twenty years after,
when it suddenly dawned upon him as
he was in company with Mr.. Depew
} and set him off in guffaw of laughter.
Troy Times.
THE directors to the use of electric
ity in executions will find themselves
strengthened by review of the expe-
rience of II. NJ. Stevens, the assistant
, of the Boston electric light company
l who four years ago slipped and fell
catching with both hands the brushes
of a powerful dynamo, so that for sew
r eral seconds force measured by one
thousand volts passed through his body
t shock far surprising what is contem-
: plated by New York law; yet though
physicians despaired of restoring him,
=, the simple expedient of laying him on
= the damp ground for an hour served to
: restore him to consciousness, and he
afterward fully recovered, fact which
would seem to initiate against the
efficiency of electricity as a certain
: means of destroying life,-SprinQfeld
: Republican.
THE constitutional convention il
!, Idaho, which has now adjourned, pro
poses rational change in the jury sys
tenn. In civil suits it would make the
= agreement of three-fourths of a jury
II sufficient for verdict. This is the
/ system already in force in California
u and Louisiana, and it is commended by
il the greatest law writers. Hallam spoke
of the requirement of unanimity as 9 3
h preposterous relic of barbarism." A
S the time the jury system was originated
a unanimous verdicts were necessary il
e order to protect the people agains
r themselves. In criminal cases they ar,
70 well enough, because it would be a los
to the public as well as to the defendan
a if the latter is condemned when hi
S guilt is merely probable instead of Ger
t. tain. But in civil suits the property
i should 90 to him who is probably it
II rightful owner. The defendant has al
n the advantages which come from tn,
- delays incident to trial and re-trial, am
also all those which come from tn,
>, ability to secure the best legal services
! To give him the further advantage
= against the plaintiff that one man OF
q his side shall outweigh eleven on thu
e plaintiffs, is to protect the stron!
o. against the weak.-ChriStian Union.