Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-11-12
The Dartmouth Anvil is dead. Too bad.
Many brilliant things were struck out upon

Many brilliant things were struck out upon
it.
Professor Hitchcock of Amherst College,
explored Miles Cave, in Salisbury, Mass,
last Friday, with guide. Hundreds of feet
below the surface their torches were sudden
| ly extiDgulshed, and as there was no means
of relighting them they remained below for
hours. The Professor tainted on emerging.
| Charles Read, Nj. P, of England, one of
the delegates of the Evangelical Alliance, is
vice President of the London School Board,
and has just concluded a careful examination
of the school systems of our country. He
expresses himself as greatly pleased with the
American method of teaching, and considers
it vastly superior to the system in vogue in
England. He will strongly urge it's adoption
upon the educational authorities of London
The way to discourage the building of
splendid temples and to encourage the cree
ton of houses of worship, according to the
JeIoish Messenger, is to levy tax OF $3.50 on
each $50, 900 of cost.
The Missionary Union has in servi ce $50
American missionaries, and 600 native pas
tors and helpers. There are also 720 mis-
sonary churches, with a membership of over
50 900 souls, of whom 1000 were baptized
last year. In the Asiatc missions there are
l9l schools with over 5000 pupils; college
at Rangood with twenty-sx students, and a
theological seminary with Ill candidates for
the ministry.
Iowa is the wonan's paradise. A majority
of the State officers and also majority of the
State judges of the highest State Court favor
woman suffrage. The State Librarian is
woman, and the enrolling and engrossine
clerks in the House are women. Women
are reporters, copyists, and paper-folders II
the State Capitol, and six women are serv
ing as County Superintendent of schools
John Hay, according to various authori
ties, will shortly marry a pretty girl anC
four millions. We beg this pretty girl
however, to reflect on the morality OF tn,
man who gIoriies the existence of a chaI
who had one wife in Natchez and another il
some other locality And does not Mr.
Hay belong to the Iribune2 What is thu
pretty girl thinking of
The Saturday ReUielC alludes to Americans
as - people who talk through their noses,
) and this is the way the Chicago Inter Oceal
goes for it: About two centuries and hal
T ago, some travellers came here from England
' and notwithstanding they landed on a bleal
. part of the coast and found it hard for tim
, to make the IT two ends meet" the peopl,
they founded got through the tea trouble
and the little " unpleasantness F" which fol
lowed very successfully. 1t is noticeable
fact that people who talk through theil
noses" fought successfully in the first revo
luton, fought successfully at New Orleans
> in 1912, fought successfully in Mexico, il
1916, and successfully in the South, in 1856
to 1865, when the propriety of calling hu
man beings " men and women" instead O
slaves, was finally settled in this country.
o Tho humorous paragraph writer's are still
taunting Rhode Island with her limited ter
n ritory and population. The latest joke o
this kind is the assertion that if the firm Q
A. & W. Sprague should be dissolved, tn
t other Rhoie Islanders will be admitted int
the firm OF Brown { Ives. Here is mani
fest effort to produce the impression that tn
c population OF Rhode Island is 50 small tina
n the dissolution of single firm will thro'
! the greater part of the people out of employ
ment There need be no hesitation III char
acterizing this as gross and malignant ez
d aggeration. Unprejudiced people who hav
r attended a commencement at Browne I'm
&c versity, in Providence, +. l. and have see
II a procession of upwards of fifty men formed
stretching quite across the State from Mas
. sachusetts to Connecticut, and subsequent
% marching, with lock -steps, in circle, in OIL
: der to keep within the limits of the State
know that these slurs on Furnishing, if nc
+ positively overgrown, State are wholly with
II out foundation. - Graphic.
r Who does not remember the trial of Al
a bert j. Tirrell for the murder of Mary Bick
t ford in Boston, % years ago, when Ruff
. Ch0ate, the counsel of Tlrrell, spoke 2
n hours, by his marvellous eloquence galnin
the acQulttal of the murderer, all the tim
70 knowing that ne was barbarously guilty ?
\ to the shame of Choate, be it said Th
husband of the unfortunate woman, VIII
loves her still faithfully, has been the subiet
- of inquisitve interest in West Conway, N
IL H., wnere he formerly resided. He treasure
III every article he could ever regain belongin
le to her, even to the white slippers besmt arc
~ with her blood, and those are packed in
(. large box and trunk with her wax statu,
1 which he purchased from travelling MIR
D farley. Over these musty things he wi
pore for hours, and is always glad to di
D. play them or talk of her, for the trouble CT
g deep and left permanent traces observable t
any one. He has most of her letters, for ST
n kept up correspondence with him in tt
= midst of SHINING, to which he Responded
40 hoping always to win her back. In one lie
ter she expresses wish to return If he Wi
allow her the eompanionship of Albert Til
J.. rel. La spite OF his infatuation, he refuse
W the shameless request. At last, wearie
70 with sin, she prepared to return unencuu
u u bered. 10 prevent it, Albert Tirrell ere!
~ into her room at night, found her sleepin
10 and cut her throat, Over this the husban
constantly laments, saying that if he hs
gone after her she would not have been mu
: ~ dered, as he could have protected her. The
H. had one child, which fortunately died, bu
the baby shoes and trinkets are preserve
at with her things. Albert j. Tirrell lives
to contemplate life in a town not far fro
tie Boston. Cor. Springfield Republican.