Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-01-13
Editorial Items,

Iner6 mas Deer q terrlDte earthquake III
Calima, Mexico, occasioning considerable
loss of life.
The debt of Maine is a trife over five
millions of dollars.
The debt of Michigan is 'etween five and
six millions of dollars. IL has over a million
dollars in the treasury.
Geo. Francis Train is spouting Fenianism
in New York.
Delaware owes a million and a half of
The wheat crop of Minnesota last year
was sixteen millions of bushels.
Gen. Grant will have a public reception
in Baltimore this week.
Wisconsin raised sixteen millions bushels
of wheat last year.
Senator Stewart ~(Republican) has been
nominated for reelection by the Republicans
of the Nevada legislature.
Hon. Onslow Stearns, of Concord, has been
nominated for governor by the Republicans of
New Hampshire, and Col. S. B. Quarles, of
Ossipee, for railroad commissioner.
Hon. Zaehariah Chandler, the present seDa-
tor, has been nominated for reelection by a
caucus of the Republican members of the
Michigan Legislature.
Tn peace conference at Paris in reference
to the troubles between Turkey and Greece
is in session, and making hopeful progress.
The situation in Spain grows no more
tranquil, and it is quite probable that moth
ing but a strong government will be able to
restore order.
A big musical convention is talked of, to
be holden in Boston next juno, with an
orchestra Of 1000 pieces and chorus of 20 600
voices. Mr.. P. S. Gilman started the project.
There are $500 miles of railroad track in
Ohio. The gross earnings of the roads were
over forty-seyen millions of dollars, and the
net earnings over fourteen millions last year.
The public debt statement for January lst
shows an increase of nearly two millions of
dollars, instead of a decrease, as the public
had been lead to believe. Six millions of
bonds had been issued to the Pacific railroad
during December.
a new suspension bridge has Just been
thrown open for travel across Niagara river.
California has exported the past year over
five millions bushels of wheat, 24O,O bar
rels of flour, and it has over 5000, 900 Of
bushels of wheat ready for export
The debt of Massachusetts, is nearly TWEEN
ty millions Of dollars.
Mexico is reported to be in a " discourag-
ing" case. The e1chequer is bankrupt, and
Juarez is unable to improve matters. If our
government had granted the twenty million
loan which some members of Congress ia
vored, the Mexican revolutionists would
have had a good time spending the money,
and we should have a good time paying it.
1t is intimated that Secretary Seward
thinks of extending his real estate operations,
and ~contemplates buying Mexico, General
Rosecrans. our Minister to the Court of
Juarez, being now in the capital of that
country to make negotiations. Seward has
been buying earthquakes and icebergs. and
now he is trading tor a country that is good
for a revolution every six weeks.
Everything is not lovely .a~bapt1AIsska-
Some Californians claim to have purchased a
monopoly of fur hunting in that frozen re-
gion, while a Connecticut vessel has been
hunting there on it's own hook. Both parties
are now at Washington to bring the matter
before Congress, and the lobby smell a job.
The Grand Jury of Washington did not
find a new bill of indictment against John
II. Surratt for the assassination of President
Lincoln. They thought Mr.. Johnson's am
nesty proclamation covered Surratt's case,-
and it probably does if it covers anything.
Congress from New York city, franks his
patent medicine circulars and advertisements
We have mt heard that be is in favor Of
abolishing tho Franking Privilege.
The last Harper's Blzar has an illustrativ,
argument respecting woman suffrage, TO wit
two rough, coarse, whiskey-drinking Irish
men, observing two trim. intelligent looking
ladies. remark, " Shure and wot's the country
comm to whin thin craythurs can vote"
Thirty-nine senators are reported to be
opposed to a repeal of the tenure-of-ofice
bill, and twenty-eight favor it. We hope
the thirty-nine will prove steadfast in their
opinions.
The proposed ship canal across the Isthmus
of Darien is thirty-ive miles long, including
a tunnel of seven miles. Its estimated cost
is sixty-fve millions of dollars,-which IN ay
answer for a beginning.
A fifty dollar counterfeit reenback, SPLEEN
didly executed and perfect in every respect
except that the vignette of Franklin has two
buttons on his vest, is in circulation.
Gen. L. ii. Rousseau died after an illness
of three days, last Friday, in New Orleans,
He was As years of age, and at the time oil
his death commanded the department of the
South. He was a Kentuckian by birth, and
a brave and accomplished Union soldier dur
ing the war. Politically he followed John
son.
This inscription is said to be actually
visible on a tombstone in an ancient cemetery
in Massachusetts
ain memory of Jane Bent
Who kicked up her heels and away she went"
The Agricultural report for 1867 is an
nounced as nearly ready for distribution. II
will be about as fresh, when it appears, a.
an old almanac.
ECLIPsEs IN 1S69.-There will be foul
eclipses this year, two of the sun and two Of
the moon. Two of them will be visible or
this continent. The first will occur on the