Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

TEE New York CHARrIK continues to ex-
ercise the Tribune and Mr.. Thomas Murphy
and the New York Legislature. Some time
they will get charter passed which will suit
somebody. and the wide awake Journal
ist can tell whether is is a good shIng or an
other cover for theves--after it has been
tried.
The country will regret to learn that Geo.
William Curtis has resigned bis position as
one of the advisory board OF the civil service,
of which he was not only chairman but the
efficient and working member. Inc New
York Evening Post is authority Tor the state
ment that Mr. Curtis regards several ImpOr-
tant appointments recently mace as vlrtu-
al abandonment of the civil service reform,
with which his name is 81 closely identified,
and therefore sent his resignation to the Pres
ident about fortnight ago. As the resig-
nation of Mr.. Curtis is accepted, and as an
amendment of Treasury agent abroad has
been bestowed upon Mr. Cattell, the other
efficient member of the board, the board may
be considered as in fact dissolved.
The New York Times says - We do not
credit the report, and We should be sorry TO
be Obliged to credit it MIR. Curtis has been
for many weeks Suffering from an illness so
severe az to compel him 10 withdraw from
all business, and this makes 1t improbable
that he has taken SO grave step Tor the rea-
scn assigned. Fire Press.
The SToRs of Saturday was very se'ere to
the southwest, extending as far as Virginia
or beyond. The Mohawk and Hu isOn Rivers
were broken up and immense bodies OF Ice
set in movement down stream
There has long been dispute between the
United States and the New York Central
Railroad, as TO the payment OF tax to the
former on the dividend declared by the road
in scrip. The L. S. Collector has lately
seized several locomotives at Albany and the
company VIII sue him for tie money they
had TO pay him TO redeem them shis VIII
settle tue legality Of the tax.
4 traveller from Huntington tells of seeing
COW happily chewing her cud on the roof
of barn to which she had easily assembled
4 hy means of snow DRIFT, and of a cali that
was peering into some dove boxs, through
holes in the barn gables zenith, by staining
on a similar pedestal
As John Smith, a you ng man twenty
wears old one of the track hands OF the Rut-
!
snow bank near the end Of the rock cut be-
low Duttonsville, On Thursday afternoon
the snow slid down on the track carrying
Smith under the cars of the up mail train
/ rhe wheels ran over him taxing oil one Leg
and cutting and managing his body terribly
! The le- with the boot on the loot was pick
ed up as well as other portions OF the body,
and taken to PrOctorsyiile, where he resided
with his mother, who looked 10 him Tor sup
per. - Gazette.
The death Of Mrs. James Gordon Bennett
IS reported By cable from Sax0ny.
Since the Minnesota SNOW began 10 tone
down little, several railroad trains have
come in, two months and a hall behind
time.
The Cleveland Bar Association requested
Judge Sherman to resign because OF his
course relative to the Credit Mo5iiler inves-
tigation.
Mr.. Morgan of Denver Col has just bag
ged q white buffalo. tie first one Of that
color ever shot by white man, though tie
Indians find them occasionally.
DR. Livingstone is expected to emerge
about year from now.
Petroleum V can bear nine Getnsans out
Of ten at drinking lager.
At the Westminster annual town meeting
it was voted to ceie or deed to the State the
ground in the cemetery on which the monu-
ment to Mr. French is to he built. 10 accord
ance with the act passed by the Legislature
last tall.