Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-06

The Hon. Israel Washburn, Ex-Governor
candidate for the United States Senator
ship from Maine, to succeed Senator Ham
lin
The following remarkable death notice
appears in an exchange:
Died at New Brighton, Staten Island. April a. Alice
years. May Cd, waln Henry. aged years; ali enid
Hu S W Of ahq he knapp ahpd the
late Bradford Lncon aged q years Al of the above
their native place.
Good lawyers are not always good law
makers The consolidation act, drawn by
Charles O'ConOr and passed by the last
New York Legislature, was found to be SO
defective that one explanatory act was
soon after passed, and another was debated.
Julia Sumner Hastings, the only survi
wing sister of the late Senator Sumner,
writes from San Francisco to the Mass
achusetts Legislative Committee, thanking
them for the tenderness and care with
which they performed the funeral services
of her ilustriOus brother.
The Cincinnati Gazette, reviewing the
financial situation, says: There is posi-
lively nothing at this time, save the I'M
certainty created by currency agitation in
Congress, to prevent the steady recovery
of trade and industry on Il sounder basis.
1t is estimated that $1,000, 900, 900 is
owed to workingmen in this country by
employers, savings banks, etc. Initiation
of the currency, which reduces its value,
would rob the workingmcn of part of
this money.
Gov. Hendricks of Indiana is convinced
that Il dignified reticence on the initiation
question is just now eminently becoming
to a man in his position. A correspondent
of The Cincinndti Enquirer found him in
that frame of mind.
Norwich, Conn, is in a state of mind,
because, after drinking itself almost blind
on tea at the centennial party, twenty five
per cent of the money did not go to the
poor, but into somebody's pocket.
Intelligence has been received that The
Supreme Court of the United States have
reversed the decision and remanded the
celebrated case Of L. w Park vs. the Troy
and Boston Railroad to the court below
for Il new trial. This is the suit that sew
eral wears ago led to the railroad Difficult
ties in Western Vermont, in reference to
which Il special session of the legislature
was convened
The Pomtret Changers have voted to de-
vote next Saturday to planting trees,
while their wives will plant flowers, and
three premiums are to be given to the
three persons who shall set out the great
est number of forest trees not less than
nine feet high
The Minneapolis Tribune calls attention
to its correspondents description of the
manner in which Saints DAYS are ccle-
DRAFTED in Peru, adding that it will repay
Peru>al. This pun would, it seems t. US,
make Peruvian bark.
In the House of Commons, the 10th. Sir
Stafford Northcote. chancellor of the ex-
chequer, submitted the annual budget
1t shows the total gross revenues of the
United Kingdom in the year ended March
81, lSw. to have been I'll 49,, 900. and ex-
ceeding Mr.. Loves estimate by Is. 574 900
total gross expenditure for the same YEAR
f76.4j6, 900 including the sum paid for the
Geneva award, but does not embrace the
expenses ofthe Ashantee war. The excess
of expenditures over the estimate was
Il. l56,000. The total revenue for the cur
rent fiscal wear ending, March 3, 1873, is
estimated ut t77,906,000 and the total ex-
pcnditWes mt t72,703.000 leaving sur
plus of 81. 1872 600
The greatest man i he who is equal to
his opportunity. The President has shown
this greatness. He had an opportunity
like Washington when he signed Jay 5
treaty, like Jefferson in the purchase of
Louisiana. like Jackson in dealing with
notification. like Lincoln when he signed
the emancipation proclamation. His veto
will remain IN orr political history as one
of those shining acts that certify a great
mans claim to @reatne~S.-Nt1c York Her
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