Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-02-25
Vermont has 591 clergymen and 56s
physicians.

physicians.
Mrs Halleck, widow of General Hal
Ieck, has arrived at Nice with her son.
Mr.. Smith Van Buren, son of the ex-
President, who was so dangerously i'll at
Nice. is improving in health, and will soon
be able to leave for home.
Joseph w. Freeman shot his widowed /
mother dead at her home in Jersey City, |
one night recently because she refused to
give him $1,000.
Five or six members of the Kentucky |
Legislature drink nothing stronger than
gin and nutmeg, and a stupid session is
expected.
The Memphis Aualanche thinks that the |
candidate for Governor ought Ito be Il
man VIII is visible to the naked eye" That
does seem fair requirement.
The Insurrection of Prayer" is what /
the Graphic calls the operations of tenn
perance women in Ohio.
Genet is ' travelling abroad" his lawyer
says. His health evidently requires it.
The close confinement at Sing Sing would
not agree with him.
Out of 4259 criminals who have asked
for executive clemency in Kentucky since
the lst of January, 1870, 3l06, or about
charge their troubles to rum.
The Publishers Weekly says that there
is but one perpetual copyright in the world.
and that is held by the university of Ok
frd on Lord Clarendon's history of the
Rebellion.
The Iowa Senate are heavy body
The fifty members kick the beam - ut
8, ,527 p unds. an average of 10 l-2 lbs per
senator. The heaviest member rejoices
in 24O pounds, while the light and airy
form of the small man only weighs l2O.
Mr., Murray is an enigma. He has u phil
osophical mind, his strm ons abound in
eloquent passages but they never reach the
in spiritual sense, seem wholly unemo-
tional and uninspired. Crowds follow
his preaching, but not revivals.''
The death of John P Hale of New
Hampshire, revivrs and substt tistes the
story which was current ut the time of
President Lincon's assassination, that
J, Wilkes Booth was engaged to (; dau- h.
ter of Mr. Hale. Her picture was found
IN the diary which was taken from Booth S
body.
Accord NC to the last published figures,
the number of Changers is 75l,125 and
they exist in every state except Delaware
and the number of Oranges is l0,Ol5.
They II be heard from between now and
next November and hay seed promises 70
be ut II handsome politica' premium by the
tin,a tho how # INA Sh.,ll bayr,. haap
altered in.
The Connecticut prohibitionists met at
New Haven, and nominated u state ticket,
with Henry D Smith of Southngton ut its
head Resolutions were adopted con-
lemning the depravity of the democrats
IN the hypocrisy of the /, publIcans, and
pronouncing the license law a failure.
1t cost : 100000 to run the city of
Philadelphia last year, of which amount
IS 50O,Uor WAS charged to the account of
The departments. There WAS S2.250, 900
cash in the treasury, Jan ary |. including
the public building and sinking-fund bal
ances and the total liabilities S of the city,
are III round numbers, S5S 100000.
TIE COLvOCOREssES CAsE.-It is nm
nounced hat important new evidence has
been discovered in the Colvocoresses in
>urance case. of character to prove that
the deceased was murdered instead of COM
/ mitting suicide, as it will be the aim of the
insurance companies to show. The case
/ will probably be tried at this term of the
superior court of Iitchfeld county, Conn,
which met January p.
( The late Chief Justice placed his volum-
inous diaries and other papers in the
hands of Judge Warden, an Ohio friend
that he might compile a biography there
from This he has nearly completed, bu
it is not acceptable to the wife of Senator
Sprague, Mr.. Chase's daughter, and she
has encouraged Mr.. Shuckers, who wa.
her fathers stenographer, to write another
life from such materials us she possessed
New York has Just discovered that Bill
Tweed and Tom Fields were on the Com
mission that was to represent her ut tn,
Centennial Exhibition, and said Com
mission has been wiped out by the Legis
lature Suppose the discovery had not beer
made? Horrible thought. but Tweed ant
Fields were Just as bad in 1871 as they ar,
now.
A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette enter
into an interesting and apparently fai
comparison of real wages now and in 1859
from which the conclusion is deduced tha
| the wages of day laborers are 25 per cen
, higher, wheat 80 per cent higher an,
pork 30 per cent cheaper than in Decem
ber 1858. AS the reduction in the mea
staple balances the increase in the f1ou
staple wages have risen % per cent. Thi
would be reduced somewhat by the ad
vance in other groceries and also in rents
A SPIRITUAL MESSAGE THAT PAID -
t Ex-Minister De Longs wife has had
. Spiri ual communication worth hraggin!
: of Just for the fun Of the thing De Lon
{ visited Foster. the medium in San Fran
cisco, the 9th day, and a message ar
: rived for his wife, which the lady had t
z come in person to receive. 1t proved t
he "a letter from her dead and gone father
e revealing Il real estate transaction wit
Y Thomas Madden of that very city. an
r remarking thlt h must be male to settle
: The upshot was that Madden transferre
: deed for .625 acres of land to Mrs. ID
0 Long, and Immediately offered her 5 IS. co
: for it. The old gentleman bought it 70
: $780, Now all the Frisco folks are cor
b, sulting their deceased parents throug
+ Foster. --'-s
+ WHAT IS AN EbIroR-we have see
: many definitions of many names, word
Z and phrases, but the following of an editor
given by Josh Billings. is about the bes
we ever yet encountered:
An editor, IL a male being whose buz
ness il to navigate a nuze paper. II
writes editorials. grinds out poetry, insert
deaths and weddings, sorts out manuscript
!, keeps waste basket, blows up the devil,
\ steals matter, fites other peoples battles
l sells>hiz paper for 2 dollars Il year, take
beans and apple sass for pay whe
I Fe ye,si get it, raises Il large family, work
Sst9 haurs out ov "a, knows no Sunday, get
: s~dtmed by. everybody, and once in
+ while gets whipt by somebody, lives poor
dies middle aged and often broken-h hearted