Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-01-15
TENPERANcE.-An audience of three hun

dred or more were addressed on Sunday
evening, by DR.. G. n Brigham The address,
which was Of absorbing interest, treated IN
a learned but very clear and simple manner
of the nature of alcoholic and fernented
liquors. and their influence on our physical,
mental and moral natures Total abstinence
was earnestly urged on all for personal
safety, but law which, striking at the
very root Of the evil, forbids both the
manufacture and importation of these
causes Of crime and suffering, was consider
ed to be the only remedy which could effect
radical change throughout our country
1t is understood that the address is to be
published for gratuitous circulation, and
therefore it is needless, as it would be i'm
possible to attempt to report so excellent a
paper. May we ask that every person, into
whose hands the tract may fail, will give it
4 careful perusal?
Man inhumanity to man" finds an occa-
sionaI illustration in these days. Montpelier
had an exhibition of it last week. n. {.
Bacon-who is an honorable man, no doubt,
and expects when he reaches the celestial
city to stand before his Maker unabashed in
white robes with golden harp in his hand
had a bill Of sale of the only COW belonging
to Alonzo Alexander, a poor day-laborer with
a wife and six children This bill of sale,
Alexander, who can neither read or write,
claims was surreptitously obtained by repre-
senting it to be note of Sl5 for balance OF
rent on a small shanty costing 5000, and for
which Alexander had already paid some $50
in ten months Wednesday last Bacon S
constable undertook to drive off the cow,
without any legal papers. The mother,
thinking only of the young children whose
su8tenance came almost wholly from that cow,
- went for" that constable much after the
fashion of Bill Nve Broomsticks and pitch
forks were freely brandished, and the con
stable instead of driving off the cow was
himself driven off. But procuring reinforce
ments and proper papers, he returned once
more to the fray The woman barred the
barn door and stood sentry with a tear III
her eye but club in her fist. The battle
again waxed hot, but finally the woman was
overpowerei by superior numbers, thrown
down and held by one officer while the other
triumpbantly drove off the animal to furnish
milk for Bacon The end was not here
Alexander endeav0re1 to have Bacon give up
the cow agreeing to pay $500 each week
until he had paid off the note. Bacon refused
to take anything but the pound of flesh,
and a subscription was finally raised among
our citzens amounting to some Sl5, with
which, Sunday afternoon, Alexander went to
Bacon, who had spent the forenoon doubtless,
thanking God he was not like other men
extorti oners, &c, &c, and redeemed th'
children cow,-paying to the last cent, anc
for the remainder of the month in advance
Comment is unnecessary The whole affail
was simplya business transaction and trans
pired in the nineteenth century
TuAr ONO BEEF.-Our Kentucky friend
who has many acquaintance in old Vermont
promptly responded by sending in his tive
dollar subscription for the FREEMAN, and we
have since dined off of a fine roast of tha
Ohio beef from Bailey q Newcomb's mea
market The letter accompanying {" G. B
DIS remittance is quite too cOmplimentar
for publicaton-lnd we fear A. Ward woul
pronounce il slightly sarkusticle If
however. all our subscribers would pay u
as promptly, aud as far ahead as our ker
lucky patron, we could strive nightly
make the FREEMAN as creditable to Vernon
as the Tribune is to New York. And mos
assuredly we shall not aspire to the Pres
dcncv . Our head IS level - in that dire
ton. The fate Of Mr.. Greeley IS too fires
in memory not to be potential as a warning
We thank our friend Tor his prompt remi
tlnce this time, but if hereafter we chance
touch bis feelings pItyinglY, when ende ivot
ing to impress upon our patrons the biessei
ness of initiating his example OF renderlr
unto the editor the things that belong to Il
editor, he will please bear in mind that it
not his dollars we are after. We should fes
for our lowliness of spirit and .lf-abasemen
were our patrons universally to insist upC
paying too far in advance for their paper
Yet we could, we presume, stand a sma
shower III bildL UtIGttibIs 'luI sui pACSSi
our meekness.
SMART OLD PE)PLE-We last week b.
the pleasure Of seeing letter written
the mother of prominent citizen of Mon
pelier, which fjr nIive wit and easy grace
expression, WIS a model worthy of ben
copied. And yet the la iy writing it is Sc
c,nr roarS III of rho cold
wedding of Deacon Hamilton of Montgo
cry whose wife is the ladys sister, viii
occurred last summer, and was extensive
noticed in the papers at the time, she me
tions the fact that she sa NJ the alto to t
hymn used on that occasion, without missi
slurriny a sin gle note. The same day, viii
was the cold Wednes lay, Mr.. Asa Ordwa
aged eighty.One years. drove from MOrr
town. alone with his own team, transact
correctly and iptelIigent!y some legal bu'
ness with MesSrs Heauon an1 Reed, a.
after passing the night with a relative liyi
in Berlin, returned home the next mornin
When askci why he did Mt send young
man instead of coming out on such ct
day, he replied, he did Mt dare to trust h
to d. business; The was as ignorant abe
such matters as young child"
PLAINFIELD.-Our Plainfeld friend wri
that we made one or two mistakes in
letter published last week Plainfeld
fire stores, and feed store, besides an exc
lent stove and tin ware store, owned by NJ
Roxana Richards, where everything usua
kept in such shop can be found III