Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-10-27

DARTMOUTH The Dartmouth college
boys had their annual athletic contests,
last week. w. G. Clark. '76, took the
lrst prize Tor throwing the baseball, hav-
Ing thrown it 3lS feet IL inches. j. w.
Staples, '76, won the deciding beat of the
one hundred yalds dash, although better
time was made in one of the preliminary
heats by l.. V. HASKELL 70 who ran it in
10 IA seconds. William G. Davis walked
mile III 9.3G, Sumner Wal ace put the
>lxteen-rOund weigh, 26 feet ) rs inches,
and William w Prescott threw the sixteen
pound hammer 60 feet 10 il inches, each
winning the prizes for those fc;,ts, respec-
lively. The best three jumps WAS by
Thomas II. Flint, who covered so feet ? rs
inches and the best running long jump by
Stephen Young. II feet ) inches Edward
Z Stlnson ran Il mile the fastest in 40 l-2.
he S1x-oared she'll boat-race between the
seniors and Sophomores was won by the
l"rmer by seven and one-half seconds.
In the L S. District Court of Salt Lake
City. Judge Borcman delivered a strong
charge to the grand jury, in opposition to
poivghmy or higamV, and in regard to en-
forcing the law Of Congress of 1872, pun
lshnT the offence. He stated tha, it had
never been respected. and every p ssible
means had been used to prevent its en-
frrcrment; that the leaders of the people.
while touching this crime. repudate them
selves when brought into the court room:
that. as there is no statute in this territory
| IN regard to marriage. no ceremony i.s
required ana none need be proved He
called upon the jurymen to indict all
persons known to be living in polygamy.
lie said that it depended upon the grand
JurlcS to see whether the laws should be
enforced or not; or whether Congress
should be called npon to give us better
laws.
The Toronto NOnetotry Reric,o gives
some interesting facts in regard to the re-
cent failures in the lumber trade. 1t saws,
For tive or ten years past Il trade has
| been sprnging up in Canada. which now
hts reached vast portions, under the
| hands OF an organization whose STYLES
We're in Montreal, Louis, Hall & Co.; in
| Burlington. VT. Shepard. Davis & Co. in
Boston. Shepard, Hall & Co.. and also the
IIunterstown Lumber Company. of Hun
ttrstown. n j. Mr.. Hall of Boston was a
man of established capital. ana his part
ners all men of means; their COM
blned capital was supposed to be
Il million of dollars. The capital, how
ever was locked up in mills. limits.
and lumb'r piles. The trade became stag
nant, and although they Gun show a gooi
margin of assets over debts. they have
been forced to stop payment because their
property at present is useless"
The Chicago Times editorially charged
Secretary BristOw with defr;tudng the
| T., ,y h, Il,
longing to his family, who were returning
| from Europe. taken off ship board AMI
| landed without being subjected to eXlm-
nation or the payment of duties but Atior-
ney General Pierrepont promptly explodrs
the story. He says that he was present
when the secretarv's family returned. that
| their baggage was landed with that of 9TH
er passengers. that it was fully examined
and the duties thereon paid by the sccrcta-
~. He adds that 1.-THE rigid conforming
| to regulations and searching examination
| of baggage WAS insisted upon y by the
secretary on account of his position and
| the peculiar relation he sustained to the
customs department He might have
| added that no one believed the story. ;tnd
that the charge would never have been
made if the secretary had left the whiskcy
| linen alone
The Michigan liquor law has heen deci-
dcd by the Supreme Court of that State To
! be constitutional. The peculiarly of This
law is that it levies heavy tax upon the
| liquor business. and this was assumed to
be, practically a license law. which is pro
hibitcd by the constitution of the State
The court decides that levying a tax upon
| he business is not the same ~ licensing it.
1t is reported that tll,. w has tended to
decrease intempcrance. The number of
Ilacc> where liquor l. sold has largely di-
minished. The requircnl' 1T Of the law
that saloons shall be closed between ! l p
VI. and = i. NJ. and on Sunday. has secured
the quiet Of large cities at late hours on
Sundays. The law has been operation
4 few months, and has thus far been thor
Ouyhlv enforced.
Late cases of hazing at Harvard are
| reported. On Tuesday night party of
voung gentlemen. n they call then! selves,
broke into the sleeping room of 4 fresh
man. took him oct in his mig -clothing.
| led him to tie college yard, and then made
him crawl on his knees along side >tlk,
and with piece of chalk number f1rgging
stones up TO the number of three hundred
and twenty. One of tn" ptStimcs OF these
Young gentlemen is to force their way in
gangs into the rooms of freshmen who
have Just come from the purifying ntluen
&c, of Christian homes and compel Them
| to read books of u questionable char ,ctcr.
1t Is probable that Ihe persons engaged in
.haznr the freshmen, are few in number
and that most of the students scorn such
practices. but if this be So, there is less
difficulty in putting 4 stop to 1t.
Another move in the defence Of the
Tweed case has been defeated. The OBJ
ject was to delay the trial so that it should
not come on during November term An
appeal has been taken from the decision of
the General Term that Mr.. Tweed was not
entitled to a bill of particulars. The de-
fence asked for Il stay of proceedings till
the appeal was decided; Judge Lawrence
refuses to grant this delay. The ground Of
refusal is thai there is no reason to believe
that the appeal will amount to anything.
There is reason for congratulaton on
on this opinion and decision. The motion
for a stay Of proceedings and the appeal.
are Of Il piece with the original demand
for a bill of particulars-a demand of in
tolerablc in>ol.nct, when it is considered
thaf the defendant WAS IL party to the des-
truction of the vouchers from which the
particulars in question might have been
CLEANED " Y Tribune.
Our government has sent a national ship
to Brazil. to bring home those genuine Sc
cessionist> who went to that country after
the fall of the Southern Confederacy. ratfl-
er than live in land where slavery Is un-
known There can be no objection made
to the return of those eccentric gentlemen
to their old home. but is mt it a little too
strong proceeding to despatch public
vessel for their special use, as if we could
not get along without them? Imagine the
British government sending ship to Aus
tralia to take home the banished Canadian
g Patriots" ten years after the close OF
the Patriot War.
The old mystery surrounding the tar
and featherng and subsequent disappear
ance of Charles G. Kelsey. at Huntington,
l.. l.. has been revived. the past week,