Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-10-29

The Boston Globe calls attention to a Tact |
of some importance at this lime, and to |
which we desire to call public tention.
The national banking law makes every stock |
holder responsible Tor double the amount OF
his stock, SO that the stockholders of every
national bank in the country are liable tor as
much again as the full cash capitals OF their
respective institutions. For instance, if the
capital of a bank is one million dollars, the
stockholders are responsible for TWO millions.
The knowledge of this tact certainly ought
to be enough to quiet the nerves OF even the
most timid deposltor.
The Free Press learns from New York that
the large historical painting OF the battle OF
Cedar Greek, which Julian Scott is painting
for our Vermont State House, Is rapid
ly approaching completion. He is finishing
the details OF the picture, and every day adds
some new tuches, which give Ii g and vigor
to the composition. The painting already
wins high praise. Gen. Mcclellan and Sec
Rotary oil War Belknap have each been to see
it lately, and expressed much graf hcaton
with the picture. General Phil. Sheridan
has also been to see it, and declared, alter
looking at it intenty for a while, that it
was the only battle piece to bis mind that he
had SEEN lie liked it, he sa d, because it
" made the boys as they were, going H.
Hon. George P. Marsh, U. S. minister to
Italy, has recently purchased for his summer
home, during the months when the malarlal
air OF Rome makes a residence there danger
GUS. beautiful villa near Florence, which
was built in the fifteenth century, and still
contains much furniture and many objects
of INT crest of that date. Mrs. Marsh, who
has suffered from an affection OF the nerves
of the ewes, which has for years almost who'll
llv prevented use of them in reading, alter
three weeks under the care of a ce ebrated
German ply sician of Coblen,z, now uses her
eyes freely in reading, for hours daily.
Even the staid jurymen occasionally meet
with sensational adventures. One mig ht last
week several of the jurors who had been
called to aid in dispensing justice in ChIt'eo-
den Co. Court. after tarrying long and late 10
: their deliberations, came to verdict ana al
the same time to the knowledge that the jan
itor had got tired, locked u o their hats and
overcoats and gone home. Hatless and with.
, out overcoats they demureiy wendell their
way to their lodgings. But an Orleans county
Juror beats this adventure. At the late term
Of the county court, as the panel was called h'
was missing, and on search was found locked
, IN in iail The sheriff had let him in to bt
OarOereu Dy LILO coloIoo Sehtlemao iooiuos
; there, pocketed the key, and gone his way
: perfectly obl'vious OF jail or jury until m
( name called by the clerk put hun in mln'
that one of the dispensers of justice was ii
. durauce vile.
t The police of New York have the mai
a Irving safely housed, but as yet he is under
g stood to refuse to divulge what he know
!. about the Nathan murder until promised
Il immunity from punishment Tor bis own Of
lenses Eventually this will probably b
done, for the police would not have gone t
the trouble of bringing the fellow back frou
Y Callfor MIA merely to put him on trial Tor tn
petty ofenses with which he stood charged.
o Toe Michigan Constitutional Conventio
adjourned Tor three day, on account Ut sh
i % me, 10 give members time to loox ate
heir affairs.