Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-09

TIE TEMPERANCE MEETING Sunday evenin g
was fairly attended, despite the disagreeable
travelling. Mr.. Lull presided, and first called
up Hon. Nelson A. Chase, who spoke with
a quiet earnestness that showed his heart
to be in the right place. Abiding to the
commencement Of these meetings, Judge
Chase said, well known citizen inquired
in one of the early gatherings, " What does
this mean - lie thought If that person
was present tonight, he might we'll repeat
the exclamation. lie then briefly reviewed the
progress of the temperance movement, mar
rating the good that had been accomplished,
and the vantage ground attained. Men had
been saved from deep degradation and vice.
Families had been made happier and their
prospects more inviting. He spoke of the
word of warning given transgressors of law
by the civil authorities, and regretted to
have any doubts tn at men were not living up
to their agreements. He believed in watch
fulness, especially where there were suspected
places. No honest man feared to be watched;
a rogue needed vigllant attention.
After an incident related by D. Mcdonald
which elected another from Mr. Chase il
Illustrating the force of early habits, Rev.
j. F. Stone was called upon, and made an
ernest and effective address, much to the
qualification of his hearers The meeting
soon after closed in the usual manner.
THE WEATHER is a most unpleasant subject
to write about these days, and more disa-
greeable still is it to paddle ones own
canoe about the streets, where snow and
slosh and filth are commingled in var ying
proportions, each warning for the mastery.
The street commissioner can immortalize him
self by now looking as sharply to our ways as
to his own; or he may render himself worse
nuisance than is the concentrate nastiness
about our street crossings, if he fills to adopt
the most prompt and effective measures to
open the cutters, drain off the surplus flood
and clean the street corners and crossings,
His occupation will be no boys play for the
next week or two, if he wouli prove himself
' master Of the situation" and not have
pedestrians wish him in that place where,
from latest advices, Jim Fisk is trying to get
up " corner" in birthstone. Let US have
peace Mr.. Commissioner but not bit of
it till everything is done that an honest man
should do to relieve the discomforts and mas
tiness of the village walks.
SMALL Pox.-No new cases have been de-
veloped in Montpelier the last two weeks
and it is thought t here is no further cause
for alarm.
In speaking of the disease in our last
issue we said g DR.. Kemp treated Mrs. Clark S
case as a mild form of chicken pox. Be-
fore pustues were developed. council of
physicians was held, and although it was
not settled what the disease really was, it
was decided to treat it as small pox, and take
proper precaution to prevent contagion."
The facts are these DR.. Kemp was called
to see Mrs. Clark, and thought the disease
chicken po1, but the similarity between
chicken pox and varioloid is so close he
deemed it advisable to vaccinate all in the
house, and prohibited the young lady, who
afterwards left for Mortified (then one of
the family, from leaving the house. AT
the council of physicians spoken of above,
DR. Kemp's opinion was confirmed, and it
was not till the daughter of Mrs. Clark was
taken sick, that the disease assumed a suti-
GENTLY marked appearance to justify physi-
clans in pronouncing it varioloid.
EASTER BEEF.-We have been waiting pa
tently for some one of our numerous butch
ers to " get ahead of Messrs. Bailey &
Newcomb in the article Of fine fat beef for
Easter days, because We don't quite believe
in one firm having all the good things said
about them and still we have such faitl
in little George and his Ratchet that WI
can't tell lie Therefore we shut oul
eyes when those fat three years old steers
fed by Judge Wood of Barre ,-whOse . bes
holt - we had always considered was on tn
turkey tribe, rather than for fat bovines >
were marched by our window for the slaugh
ter-house But yesterday they appeared t.
us again in the shape of several quarters Of
nice beef going into Messrs. Bailey & New
combs meat market We gazed at then
long and earnestly. with hands deep in oul
pockets feeling for that bottom dollar, Will
Frank was tantalizingly singing:
Easter beef, nice Easter.beef to sell,
If I had all the money could tell,
would not cry, nice Easter beef to sell.
RESPECTFULLY DECLINED, WITH reasons
We have received from Northield, raspiD
communication relative to the action Of tn
late Spiritualist Convention in passing res
olution maintaining the right of Victori
Woodruff to fill her paper with such matte
as she pleased, and condemnatory OF the Ne'
York authorities for incarcerating that ire
pressible lady in the Ludlow Street Jail, o
charge of publishing obscene literature
We have little faith in and less respect fc
Victoria, but we don't believe any good en-
will be subserved by publishing the commu
nication alluded to. There are certain pei
sons, as well as a certain class of evils, whic
flourish best and only when they are stirre
up and brought to the surface by we
meaning, but injudicious opposers, desirou
of uprooting and annihiating them. To lie
those persons and those evils severely alone
is the only safe method of Graduating them
L. ". JONES has disappeared from Stat
Street, and reappeared with added glory o
South Main Street Read his announcement
IN our advertising columns When L. "
speaks it is safe to tlke stock in his stat
ments, without a particle of fear that the il
vestmCnt will return like Credit Mobile
shares, to plague and Co1found the taker