The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
Note and Comment.

WILLIAM j. FLORENCE, the actor,
died in Paris, last Thursday evening.
EX-SENATOR HENRY w. BLAIR of
New Hampshire has decided not to re-
turn to that state, and will settle in the
West.
SCENE at the White House: Glow
de-do, Mr.. Foraker" said the presi-
dent, "I'm going off shooting at once.
Good dayp'-Erchange.
"BELL must bang" is a frequent
headline in state papers. A bell is of
no use until hung. -Hord,oick Gazette.
Hanged would be better. Ask the
Messengers critic.
THE latest edition of Bartletts
Quotations. contains extracts from the
messages and interviews, letters, etc.,
of Grover Cleveland. Now doth the
festive mugwump smile.
IN Sullivan County, New York, Ken
rick, the republican candidate for as
semblyman, was elected by majority
of one. The assembly is tie. Here
is moral for the lazy voter.
ALBANY society looks forward with
sigh of relief to the arrival of Gov
ernor and Mrs. Flower at the executive
mansion. The Knickerbocker capital
has had in Cleveland and Hill all the
bachelor governors it wants.
THE last of the four SAKE brothers of
Vermont, of whom the poet, John g.,
was the eldest, has died in San Fran
cisco. Peter SAKE was the foremost
man on the Pacific coast as an importer
and dealer in blooded stock.
SAID Evangelist Sam Small at the
prohibition rally at Atlanta, Ca, on
the evening of the day when saloonist
Tom Minor knocked his teeth down his
throat: "There may be slight inped-
iment in my speech-but that's
Minor matter"
EDITOR CRANE of the Ludlow
Tribune has apparently come to the
conclusion that the "patent outside"
is source of mental dissipation to his
readers, and nowadays the first and
fourth pages of his valuable sheet
present virgin Darkness.
THE cheerful intelligence is brought
that Harry LeGrand Cannon, inciden.
tally of Burlington, arrived at New
York from Europe, last week, with
trunkful of dancing shoes and his still
new bride. Mr.. Cannon, it is under
stood, proposes to GUST Ward McAllister
from the leadership of New York's
"400." So.
WE still beg to differ with our ter
restrial friend of the Burlington Earth.
The word overweening does not ex-
press exactly what he intended to say.
The democratic victory in New York
was due to the overwhelming
power of Tammany. If he had simply
stated that Tammany is overweenius"
in its power we should have cheerfully
agreed with him.
THE West Randolph Herald and
Ne,Cs on the report that the editor of
the Brandon Union intends to preach
at Swanton: 1--WE have heard him
preach in times past and will aver that
he can tell as good stories as we ever
heard fred out of a pulpit" There is
a freshness and felicity of diction to
Thayer's editorials that commend them
selves to the fastidious reader.
WHILE our f. C.'s are gently taking
one another to task for assaults on the
English language-a controversy in
which we do not care to become mixed
we would suggest TO the Free Press that
the Grocers' and Meatmen's Associa-
ton met to mourn its loss, in the death
of Alderman Trick; not "his loss"
Also, that the educational depart
ment" of the Burlington Earth is sadly
in need of a proof-reader. No back
talk.
EDWARD MALLEY of New Haven,
Conn, a few years ago accused of the
murder of Jennie Cramer, bought the
biggest canvas at the great sale of the
Verestchagin paintings at New York,
last week. The picture is sixteen feet
by twenty-three, represents the Prince
of Wales entering an Indian city on
elephant-back, and cost Malley S4,125.
He said he might give it to Yale Col
lege. The ITO pictures were sold for
$4,000.