Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-05

Col. A. B. Jewett and o. X. Brown have /
gagged in an enterprise when is likely to |
attain large proportions. For twenty years /
or more Col Jewett mas been qllte an extern |
sve dealer in Canada straw hats, buying /
them of the French women wAo make them
and drsposngof thousands Of dozens Of them
at wholesale in the different cities in the
Union. But they were ordinary, cheap
affair, mad OF ripe grain straw ani wios.y
unfinished Last year they adop Ell an en-
uIreIv different course. Large fields were
slwn to rye and when the straw was well
grown, and Just before the grain began to
SET the straw was Graded, bound ia sma
bundles and taken to large bleaching Kettle
in the field and immersed IN chemical
solution. 1t was then spread OUT and dried,
again bound and then s.Ured for use, benz
" mite and exceedingly tough. la and around
Swanton there is large Canadian French
population, and the women call and get this
straw and soon return it braided into hats OF
any required siz pattern blocks being fur
nshed them for the purp se- The hats are
then put through another bleaching process,
sized OF stfened WIKI glue, aud pus on blocks
and pressed with hot irons by the use oil
machinery adapted to the purpose. Tney
| are then bound and otherwise trimmed by
expert girls, with wing machines, and
packed for market. The past season the haas
were the prevailing style IN the cities and
the manufacturers have no doubt OF their
ability to continue u suIt the public taste.
they are certainly q nice article, and many
OF our young men, We dare say, have worn
them, little dreaming they were made SO
near at home.-MeSsenQer
In Wisconsin,. as well as in several other
States, liquor sellers are compelled by law to
give bonds for the payment of all damages
that may result from the traffic. These
bonds provide in addition, that any party
sustaining damage from the acts of drunk
ard may recover the amount thereof from
the party who sold the liquor. Dealers
have been very FESTIVE under this law, but
it has been generally maintained by the
, courts. In Iowa several very heavy verdicts
have been rendered La Wisconsin a case
has just been before the courts which will
settle the matter as far that State IS con-
cerned, permanently. The Mayor of Nil
waukee, sympathizing with the dealers, de-
, clined to recognize the law, aud refused to
, require the bonds in question. He was
brought before the court, where his counsel
urged as his defence that the law was un-
r constitutional, in that it first made selling a
lawful act by licensing it, and then punish
ing it and that if it Were criminal it Should
I be prohibited. The point was also raised
that the law made the seller responsible for
, the remote consequences of his acts, which
was in contraventon of the common law
and also that the drunkard might be able to
! reap an advantage from his own criminal
acts. The court however ruled that the
State had the power to prohibit the traffic
or to allow it. In the former case, it coul
affx such conditions as the law-maklog DOW.
s er might deem proper and requisite TO the
interests of C immunity The law, therefore,
! was declared constitu ,ional, and the NJ ,yor
compelled to substitute the judgment of the
court for his own.
Louise Muhlbach, the novelist whose
death was announced by cable, the 29sh wa,
born in Neubrandenberg, Germany, in 1914
she received from her father, No @as d
local official of considerable wealth liberia
iucatiOn. At the conclusion OF her studies
she travelled for while on the contineu,
with a German lady of the nobility, and
while on a tour to Italy, met Theodore
Mundt, who married her, two years after
ward. Herr Mundt became a professor in
Breslau University. while his spouse began
novel writing. assuming the literary title OF
90 Louise Muhlbach.' The husband died in
sane, twelve years ago. The wife, for a
period of thirty-seven years. engaged in the
production ola long list of historical romano
es, in which few facts have been used as
foundation for a superstructure of fiction
and personal prejudlces. The works hava
had an immense sale, and the writer has an
least obtained the aeeting reward of literary
reputation from large circle of European
aud nerican readers