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

ST. JoHNsBURY has given up all hopes
of securing a fish hatch ry, and is now
after a canning factory and hospital.
The latter, with a large ward for sore
heads, might be well patronized.-
Hdrd,Cick Gazette
THE Morrisville Neos and Citizen OBJ
serves that I" the victory is not as COM
plete in Massachusetts and New York
as we should like" What do you
want, a tidal wave? Hadn't learned
before that the News and Citizen was a
democratic sheet.
MoNsIGNOR PRESTON, vicar-general
of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of
New York, who died last week of heart
disease, was one of the most able and
eminent of the converts of forty years
ago from the Protestant Episcopal
church to the church of Rome.
THE White River Junction Landmark
complains that ambitious young Ver-
monters are shut out from fame beyond
the boundaries of their native state by
the presence of too many ex-governols
and mossback politicians here" Alackl
The Landmark has not been feeling
we'll of late.
ACCORDING to the Hardwick Gazette,
Governor Page went to Boston last
Friday week and remained sundry days
looking after the wreck of the Maverick
bank. 1t is understood that the gov
ernor had $4,000 of private funds in
the institution few days before, but
had Withdrawn large part of it.
THE 81. Adams Messenger has been
having an argument with its contem-
poraries as to the use of the term
"chief Justice" The St. Johnsbury
Caledonian contends that there is every
possible authority for the use of the
words, while the Messenger insists, not
without reason, that they are incor-
rectly used for the term chief Judge"
THE erudite and linguistic gentle
man who edits the Earth at Burlington
should revise his almost faultless Eng
fish. The following appeared in last
weeks rations of rhetoric for his read
ers: "The contest in New York was
hot and sharp, and the large demo-
cratic vote was the result of Tammany's
overweening power in the cities of
New York and Brooklyn" cover
weening" might be excused, however,
were it not for an atrociOus alleged
pun on poor Chilli. That country has
suffered enough.
THE New York Herald, with charac-
terietic enterprise, added to its wonder
fully complete machinery for reporting
election returns by operating flash
light of enormous power on the tower
of Madison Square Garden. When the
light flashed to the west it signifed
that Flower was ahead; when it
streamed to the east Fassett men took
courage; and when it pointed south
ward the result was in doubt. All
New York and the cities and towns
around it watched the beacon of hope;
and when at last the rays settled
toward the Occident, and moved up and
down to signify that Tammany had
once more jumped on the neck of the
patient people, the democracy of New
York went to bed happy.
EX-GOVERNOR SMITH was one of the
shrewdest men who ever appeared be-
fore legislative committee. Thoughts
came to him with the speed of light
ming, his diplomacy was wonderful,
and during the days of unrest for the
Central Vermont he scored many
point during legislative sessions. These
same qualities he carried to his office,
and many shipper over the Central
Vermont who went to ST. Adams with
double barreled grievance, and mad
enough to eat the railroad and pulver-
ize its board of managers, left the presi-
dents office feeling that he had some
how made serious mistake, and that
the road had good case against him
for SANDER. Conductor Bun" Muir
ray will remember one bewildered
=" kicker" that he carried home from
st. Adams.