Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-16

Gen. Frederick T. Dent has been ordered
To assume command of Fort Trumbulf, oppo-
site New London, on the Connecticut river.
Thurlow Weed denies any inspiration III
the matter of the New York charter, or any
responsibility for the dissensions that have
arisen concerning it.
Grace Greenwood complains, in her Wash
ington letters, that, under the present system
of competitive examination, mddle-aged
women, whatever their worth or their wants,
are likely to be crowded out Of the depart
ments BY young ladies fresh from school ex-
aminations, with few facts of the latest as
Economical discoveries, the latest geographic
cal boundaries, and the latest system Of
orthography afoat on the surface of their
care-tree, inexperienced minds.
| News from Havana though Spanish sources
confirms the reported capture of the forfeited
city and seaport of Manzanillo, and says that
an immense amount of booty, in money and
munitions of war, fell into the hands OF the
Cubans who sacked the town. The attack
was made at night, in the absence of t
Spanish troops in the field. The captain
general has telegraphed to Madrid that
large body of troops is imperatively needed
at Havana, as a revolution may break out at
any moment.
Indiana's new divorce law provides that
no divorce shall be granted unless the ap
plicant can prove, by at least two witnesses,
a bona tfde residence of two years within the
State it forbids the person obtaining the di-
vorce to marry again within two years, and
limits the grounds for the divorce to the
causes specified in the present statute.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has refused in the
most positive terms to accept the new treaty
with England which did away with the slave
trade. And no course is left to that power
but to try the persuasive effect of shot and
shell. 1t will not do for England to hesitate
before such puny potentate as the Sultan !;
and having gone thus far already she muss
t 60 all lengths in defense of the rig hts of hu-
mainly. England and America should not
hesitate to take the severest measures for the
destruction of this last remnant of the slave
trade.
Somebody discovers that ex-Gov. Perry of
Bristol formed the first temperance society
f in New Hampshire in 1926. The governor
l was building a tannsry, and it cost him u
barrels of cider, besides a barrel of rum, to
raise the building; then the whole thing
eliminated in fight and one broken leg,
WUeTedL tue governor, III uleSusLi IOFneu d
: temperance society among the employees oil
the tan yard.
1t is now believed by many physici ans that
; the terrible disease, cerebro-spinal meningi-
tbs, which appears at this season in various
parts of the country, is directly traceable to
bad drainage. 1t is 50 sudden and swift in
> it's action that the cause of it remained
hidden FIR some time, but it is asserted by
those who have made study of the disease,
= that it scarcely ever occurs save where bad
! sewerage exists.
L 1t is distinction of which any publishing
: house in the world may be proud, to be able
. to offer such list of authors as james R.
: OsgoOd & Company have, Among them
e are Longfellow. Hawthorne, Emerson, Whit
e tier, Lowell, Holmes, Agassiz, Howells,
t Bayard Taylor, Parton, Stedman, Harte, and
Hay, to say nothing of the foreign list
Dickens, Tennyson Thackeray, Sir Walter
: Scott, Charles Reade, George Eliot, &c.