Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-12

are reelected.
TWAS reserved for the Boston Adcert User
to remark that Mr.. Patterson of New Hamp |
shire "retires after faithful and exec lient
service.
The Kansas Senate have passed res0iu
ton prai Ing York and commencing Pomeroy.
The resolution of the lower house censures
both.
It has hesn decided to hold the 18th an
nuaI convention of the Young Men Chlstian
Association of the United States and Canada
at Poughkeepsie, n. I.
A member of the House, Saturday. sent |
mage to various members, requesting them
not only TO write their names IN his autor-
graph book, bus To append a motto or sentl-
ment. When the book was presented to
Cakes Ames he wrote in 1T Put what
YOU have where it will do the most good.
Dan Voorhees, allowed = that 10 Offering
the resolution OF thanks to Mr.. Blaine, lie
was performing the pleasantest duty OF his
offic,aI existence ii it were not Tor these
little amenities, public life would be indeed
a rugged path.
John w. Young, Brigham's most dashlng
and business like son. WHO has had three
wives and three boys by each one, has lately
| got divorced from wives number one and two,
| and having settled annuItles upon them,
proposes gong TO Phlladelphla to live with
! his last wife, who is said to be a most ac-
complished lady.
| Two benevolent female members OF the
PRESBYTERIAN church at Mooers, Mo . sur
prsed the parish and themselves mu tually,
the other Jay, by both attempting to pre-
sent a silver communion service, all SUIT
a Div engraved, to the church on the same
day. Each had kept her plan little too
sly.
fearful fire occurred in Boston on the
2Sth ult, IN six story building while
number Of girls were at work In the top
story. One girl lost her life in spring. ng
from the burning building, and long list Is
presented of killed and wounded fremen and
others from the falling Of wall.
Indiana is to have board of FIJI Com
missioners. W 18th eggs, land fish ladders, and
all the paraphernalla of fish farming, and Is
now fellcitatlng herself upon the prospect OF
gamey bass and delicious shad IN place OF
buffolo cat fish and red horse.
Rhode Island has reps ated the law prohibit
SN-N-O~
persons Ihis Is alto ether a matter OF per-
sonal taste, and cannot be regulated by leg
islalion.
The Legislature OF n evada is gravely con-
sidering bill AUTHORIZE NJ all State othcers
to travel free over the railroads, on condition
that they make no charge tor mileage. Ne
vada is paving the way for large amount
of railroad corruption
| A Port and gentleman who heard that
(like the Mirblehea boys who rocked stran-
, gers who wore good clothes) the Ferry
, Village BOYS assaulted Portlanders, made a
tour Of the place, and sand exultngly to a
n Ferry Vlliager, Well, I've been ali over
: your place, and didn't even see boy. >
: - Ahi'' said the villager, q" tina S because
:. all the boys were at the other end of the
+ village, stoning funeral.
The Boston Herald propounds this c0nun
j drum - Before the war members o
l. Congress used 10 patTonizs tie gambling
T. heils of Washington, and win or lose thei
hundrtd s of thousands. Under TIE presen
order of things Congress promotes a muci
larger system OF gambling al over the land
q in wbIcn the stakes are millions and tn
u effect OF which Is lett in the cost OF ever
It poor mans dinner. " hen d)y say rep
: resents the higher mDraiigy?
. Cyieraine, Mass, is one OF iheiwol ST showed
, IN places the State. FOr over wee
ID there has been next to no commur lcatlo
/ between different parts OF the town, scarcel
Is between near nelghbors. The constabi
is posted the warrant for town meeting b
&c virtue of snow shoes, drifts in places bein
E. over twenty leet deep. Every day men Ii
as Dor to yet the roads snoveled out, and ever
J. morning he work has TO be begun over, ow
" ing TO the Storms ami wind.
RS 4 cores pendent sends Us a compar ison
er wages and expenses of all kinds in 49,
a with present prices. from which it appear
OF that wheat has nearly quintupled in price
re potatoes, sheep, cows. eggs and butter hay
IL sustained even greater advance. Hay
now four times as costly, while the prices
IS tea and coffee. pepper and salt have decline
$ one half. and cotton goods have sustained
It larger reduction. Wages, on the averag
a. have advanced tbree-fold. 50 that farme
I'd who do their own work and mechanics who
1t time is their capital, have nothing to COZ
* PLAIN of in the general change of values.
n, The disco very of frauds to the amount
a. 81 200, 900 on the Bank of England caus
excitement in financial circles. The bi
themselves were so neatly executed that tn
would have escaped detection. The ava
.e- for the arrest of the forgers has been i
he creased to f2500. The discovery of t
of forgeries was altogether by accident and W
r.. brought about by the Rothscbi DIS noticil
he in some bills Of exchange difference in {
SIS color OF the ink from that ordinarily use
, a The bank has issued notice cautioning t
he public against negotiating certain five-twe
rs ty and ten-forty United States bonds, a
his gregating in amount TO 1920, 600. 1t
ell. thought that the forgeries were perpetrat
nj by ring OF American swirl iers and not
RS. one personally, as at first supposed.
III The Public Debt was reduced, during t
rk month of February, S5,277 $40. Pref
re, we'll done for short month. The who
as debt less cash in the treasury is 81, l57. 81
as' 700. The decrease during the four years
slv Gen. Grants administration. has been o,
of three hundred and sixty-eight million d
csc lars: sixty-eight mil lions of it during |
last r.
The special session of the Senate is co
'cu cerned chiefly with the confirmation of a
ass pointments sent in by the President. Amo
ed those confirmed We are GLAD to notice Jud
ee- Asa o. Adds, reappointed Southern CIair
Ter Commissioner, and B. F. Fifeid, u S. d
ter trict Attorney for Vermont.
ey 1t is charged that Mrs. Putnam, the mu
nd dered mans widow, received SIS 900 fro
is one of Fosters relatives for signing pet
It. ton for the Communication of the murderer
ee- .
nd
'iy Hon. Simon Brown. one of the editors
~ the New England Farmer, died on Thursda
ON az MS resioenoe In concord Mass lie b;