Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-07-25
NOTE AND COMMENT.

and the census fight, the newspapers of
Minneapolis and st. Paul have their
hands more than full at present.
1t is an encouraging sign that twenty
of the class of sixty-eight at the medical
college in Burlington were refused diplo-
mas because they could not pass the eX-
aminations.
The unofficial census figures give ST.
O16 as the population of the GA largest
places in the State,-a gain of l4,G49
since 1850. 1t is questioned, however,
whether this gain in the towns will offset
the losses in the country.
The county supervisor of education
has had us publish second time the list
of textbooks fixed upon for use in this
county during the next five years. 1t
appears in another column, and it should
be preserved for reference.
The census Office at Washington is
pushing its work with the hope of having
the returns of population in such shape
that Congress may pass reapportion-
ment bill before it adjourns. The pros
pect now is that the session will not end
till September.
The New York Sun seems to regard
President Harrison as cold-blooded. 1t
says: "The people at the seaside resorts
who complain of the GOODNESS of the wa
ter should remember that the Hon. Ben
| min IJlrr Hre hnt
last week. An event like that is enough
to raise gooseflesh Oh the Gulf Stream.
1t is a wonder that the whole Atlantic
coast is not icebound."
The Hartford (COnn.) Evening Post
thinks the drift of population is soon to
change and that it will then be from the
towns to the farms, adding: ''Indeed,
the efforts of the farmers of our State for
the past few years to put their industry
upon its old-time footing is already bear
ing good fruit. The Connecticut farm of
the future is going to be worth drifting
back to, which is more than can be said
of the Connecticut farm of the recent
past"
Reports from the Argentine Republic
show that affairs are in bad shape. \
plot to overthrow the government has
been discovered and gold is constantly
advancing. The present situation is thus
told in Buenos Ayres dispatch of Tues
day "The city is greatly agitated in con-
sequence of the discovery of the plot to
overthrow the government. The place
is garrisoned by 1000 troops and 5000
armed policemen. The bourse is demor-
allied. At the close of the bourse yester-
day gold was quoted at 2l3 per cent pre-
mium.'
This extract from the address made by
Hon. II. c. Ide of st. Johnsbury at the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
museum building in that town, July 4,
is good reading for those Nermonters
who may be discOntented: sin the new
portions of the West, crop failures, low
prices for products, eXtortionate railroad
freights, excessive mortgages and high
interest, depreciation in real estate val
ues, cyclones and tornadoes, and the
hardships and privations of frontier life,
have made thousands of hapless men and
hopeless women mourn the day that led
them to leave happy homes in the East.
1t is true that great fortunes are not
made or lost in day or a year with us.
But we have no labor troubles, no race
problem, little crime, no convulsions of
nature. We have the means OF acquiring
competence, well-ordered society, beau
tiful scenery, loved acquantances and
the very best facilities for equppng our
youth well for the race of life. May we
not well be contented, and say, 'The
lines are fallen into pleasant places ="
Gen. Harrison on the Sd of March,
1856, in the Senate, made a speech on the
negro question which is interesting in
view of the recently-passed election bill.
He said ~ have looked hopefully in the
old times to the torcible Intervention of
the general government in their defence.
have thought that it might be possible,
under that stringent legislation which
Congress adopted, by the forcible inter
vention of the federal authority, to pro-
tect them in those rights of which they
were so cruelty deprived. But have
ceased to haye faith in the possibility of
that intervention in their behalf, consti-
/ tuted as this government is, with its
, complex organization of federal and State
governments, independent within certain
limitations. In the States and in the trib-
unals which they establish, and in the