The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-09
Note and Comment.


which Lima is situated has sued Sena-
tor Calvin S. Brice for $15,00S.45 de-
linquent taxes.
SOME villain has been sending threat
ening letters to Fannie Warden, warn
ing her that her sister Christie's fate
will also be hers, and signing his name
"Jack the Ripper"
PECULIAR accident is reported from
a Dakota township last week. Light
ming struck a barn which was filled with
corn. The result was the whole county
was deluged with popcorn.
No wonder Mayor Grant of New
York thought it worth while to cross
the ocean to visit his old aunt in Ire
land. 1t is stated that she has $780,
900 to will away" and thinks that her
nephew is king of New York and boss
Of the surrounding villages.
THE advantages in the New England
elections last week lie on the republican
side. Republican mayors were elected
in several cities which had given demo-
cratic pluralities in the state elections.
Providence, r. l., elected a democratic
mayor for the first time since 1854.
He is an extraordinary man of bust
ness" says Mr.. Blaine of the president;
prompt, decided, clear-headed. He
wastes no time. | have rarely heard a
man more ably or more tersely discuss
public questions" There is no petty
jealousy in the makeup of thesman
from Maine.
CHICAGo's decision to have the open
ing ode for the Worlds Fair written by
Miss Harriet Monroe, Tennyson hav-
ing declined, reminds the ancient reader
of the war meetings reported by Or
pheus G. Kerr, when "Queen Victoria
being unavoidably absent, the chair
man introduced Hon. Felix Mullens."
REMENYI, the violinist, was unable
to keep his engagement at New York.
last week Sunday evening, because Sun
day trains are prohibited in Connect
cut. The Ne,o York Herald says that
the train service between Massachu-
sets and New York is interstate COM
merce, and beyond the control of a
state.
The great war vessel, "New York ;"
was launched at Philadelphia last week.
She is both formidable and defensi-
BILE, the largest and fastest of the war
ships yet put afloat by the United States,
and probably superior. to anything of
her class in the world. Her launching
marks a new epoch in the history OF
the United States navy.
MARTIN D. LoPPY, wife murderer,
was last Monday electrocuted at Sing
Sing, NY. AS about all the New York
papers are under Indictment for print
ing what they could get of the details OF
the last executions, there is some curl.
osity as to what they will do this time
There is no law against the reporters
being present; the statute merely forbids
the publishing of the details.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw remarked in
recent speech that the millionaire
who accumulated great fortune and
spent it exclusively for his own pleas.
ure did more to propagate socialism
than all the anarchists hanged at Chi.
cage. AS result of his speech, about
every mail brings dozen letters to Mr.
Depew, each enclosing his speech and
asking a loan on the strength of it.
A" Absolute free trade.
"An income tao.
" Cleveland at any cost.
"And Tammany, of course, at any
price"
The above significant platform
sprinked freely through the columns
of the editorial page, is the sermon
which the Neo York Herald drilled
into its readers all of last week.