Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
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There is more than an average crop of hay
this year, especially in the valley of the
Connecticut river. This seems to be true of
the whole length of the valley of that river.
The crops of wheat, oats, corn, potatoes, etc. :,
are all looking finely.
The Michigan Constitutional Convention
has adopted a clause prohibiting the sale Of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage.
BIG TREEs.-Prof. Swallow, of the Nilsson
ri Geological Survey, claims that that state
rivals California in the matter of gigantic
trees. He specifies a number of trees in
Howard, Mississippi, and Cape Girardeau
counties, Southeast Missouri, which are re-
markable for size. The largest is sycamore
sixty-fve feet high, which two feet above the
ference; another sycamore girths thirty ight
and half feet; cypress, twenty-nine feet !;
a cottonwood, thirty feet white oak,
twenty-six feet; tulip tree, (poplar) thir-
ty feet; and a willow is twenty-four feet in
circumference, and one hundred feet high
A telegram was sent the other day from
Rhode Island to Alexandria, In Egypt, in a
little more than twelve hours.
Charles Dickens writes thus iorcibly to
his old friend, L. Gaylord Clark, in regard to
the hopelessncss of the project for an inter
national copyright law between England and
the United States % What impossible wager
shall lay against some piece of property of
yours that you and will not be in our graves,
and out of them in particles of dust impal-
pable to human sight, before those wrangling
i men at Washington, in their earthly riots,
care one miserable d-n for MIND?''
EDITORIAL DUTIEs.-Mr. Hunt. in his
volume on the Fourth Estate thur
sketches the peculiar duties of a journalist
- The man who once becomes journalist
must almost bid farewell to mental rest. l.
he fulfills his duties truthfullv his attention
must be ever awake to what is passing in the
world, and his whole mind must be devoted
10 the instant examination, discussion, and
record of current events. He has little time
| for literary idleness. with such literary labor
on his shoulders. He has no DAYS to spend
on catalogues, or in dreamy discursive re-
searches in public libraries He has no
months to devote to the exhaustion of any
one theme. What he has to deal with must
be taken up at moment notice, be examined
tested and dismissed at once: and thus hs
mind is kept occupied with the mental neces-
sity OF the worlds passing hour"
PRoGREss--Gail Hamilton SAYS, in her new
book, that in 1910 there was but single
school in Milwaukee. with twenty-five schol-
ars; now there are three hundred lager beer
shops.
Jerry O. Brien, who eighteen months
since murdered his mistress Kate Smith, was
executed last Friday in New York He real
lied his position fully, and devoted all hi,
last hours to appeals for mercy from his
Maker.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.-Secretarv McCul-
loch's monthly statement of the national debt
on August LIST, is as follows
Debt bearing coin interest. Sls7saos 6ql
Debt bearing currency interest, 574.ei4 -
Matured debt not presented for payment, l5,ssi.sI
Debt bearing no interest, SIS. l64, -
Fractional currency. 2s.554.72
Gold certificates OF deposit. Il. -
Total debt sasss.6s5.s4
Amount in the treasury coin, SItr1 .n5 1 -
Amount in the treasury, currency, 72,l7i. 20
Total. sl75,s7e,i -,
Amount of debt less cash IN treasury, Sa5Il .3O6 -
This shows reduction of nearly four and
half millions of dollars since the last state
ment. The currency contraction during tn,
same time has been over twenty-five millions
yet money is abundant enough everywhere
The jury in the Surratt case were out -
hours, and balloted every time eight for ac-
quittal and four for conviction. Some OF
the jurymen state that if Surratt had been
indicted as an accessory before the fact. or a,
participating in conspiracy to murder, in
| stead of a direct principal, charged with be
ing present and then and there murdered the
President, he would have been brought in
guilty at once, bat that, under the indict
ment as given t. them, they could not agre,
on a verdict of guilty.
Sarratt was very much depressed at the
result, and remarked to his brother that he
would have preferred any verdict to going
through another trial, with the consequent
long imprisonment and suspense.
Owing to the rumors of impending troub
les, the prisoner was ironed and taken bacl
to Jail by heavy guard. The next tria
may take place at the December term of the
Criminal Court-Chief Justice Carter pre-
siding, although many suppose that the pris
oner will not again be tried. OF the eli .ht
jurymen for the acquittal of Surratt, sever
were born South-mostly in Maryland-anc
one in New York. The four for conviction
were all born North.
PORTLAND AND OGDENsBURG RAILROAD
An adjourned meeting of the corporators o
the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad was
held at Portland Saturday. The commtte,
on survey and subscription made partial re
port in favor of survey of the route be
tween Portland and Conway, to there NEE
the New Hampshire section. Parties from
Boston and elsewhere are already lookin!
after contracts for building the road
According to Nasty, the g Insttoot - o
which he is the illustrious head, conferred
the degrees of LID, MD. and ABB, OF
Androo johnson, as a rebuke to the Northern
Colleges. Boscom Nasty says re
markt that he didn't know whether tn
President would feel complimentid. 70,
know, Deekin Pogram, said he, that THU
amt much of college Troo, said thu
blessed old peece of innocence, too troo
but then, to balance that, johnson ain