Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-12-22

WLOIu Slittll DC u lCtlcIil mol
an advocate of prohibitory legislation OF
of total abstinence in relation to alcoholic
liquor, who shall serve without salary
and within two years investigate the
liquor traffic, its relation to revenue anC
taxation, and its general economic, crimi
nal, moral and scientific aspects in connec.
ton with pauperism. crime, social vice
the public health and general welfare OF
the people; and also take testimony us to
the practical results Of license and prohib-
tory legislation for the prevention of in
temperance in the several states.
Dawson, the telegraph operator inWoods-
vile, n. H., is 4 right good fellow. but
one of the poorest judges of fish in all
these parts. At the hotel the other day
tripe was served, and the operator took
hold of the dish with 4 keen relish and
made one or two attempts to compliment
it, but failed each time rs he didn't know
what to call it. When the table maid
came round he called for more, and as she
brought it to him. he asked in suppressed
tones. "What kind of FISH do you call
this?" but the other boarders overheard
the nterrogatory, and now Dawson wish
es he had never seen 4 particle Of tripe in
his life.-Lyndon Union.
JUDGE LYNCH EFFICIENT.-San Fran
cisco, Dee. 10. A dispatch from Carson,
New, says L man namel Thomas Burt
was hung by 4 vigilance committee Friday
night. He was found this morning hang
ing to t gate of a cemetery. He had been
recently enga! ell in many cases of arson
and robbery. and had escaped imprison-
ment for want of legal evidence, and had
received repeated warnings to leave the
vicinity. which he disregarded He was
taken quietly from his bed by masked
men and hung without any disturbance.
He was Il native of New York, and 2C
years old.
TIE LAWS DELAY.-The Woodstock
SuQdurd mentions IA case-that Of Adams
vs.. Warncr-now pending in the Windsor
County Court of Chancery. which reminds
one of the famous suit of Jarndvcc VS..
Jarndvcc," in - Bleak House" 1t WAS en-
tered at the May term of Windsor Coun-
ty Court. in lNJl-overa quarter Of 4 cen
turv, and nearly Il generation, ago; and
heirs have been born into it. and heirs
have died out of it. Lawyers who We're
retained in the case in the full vlgOr of
their ability have remained in it until the
fecblenesS of aye compelled their with
drawtl from it. or death called them to
plead their own cause at the bar of eternity
The trial Of Thomas w. Piper, the Bos-
ton sexton. for the murder of Mabel Dung
in the belfrv tower, last May, resulted las t
week in the disagreement of the jury,
who-aftcr hearing evidence fora week
and arguments for two days. and then DELI
beratinr among themselves some twenty
hours-came into court and reported that
they could not agrer. standing nine for
conviction to three for accIuttal. The
case has been Il remarkable one. every
wav,-in the brutality of the crime, the
lack of any rational motive. the singular
demcanor of the accused and the fact that
the evidence WIS almost entirely circum-
stantial. Probably most folks will always
believe that Piper killed the little girl.
Messenger says that the announcement that
tie famous st. Leon Springs, in Canada.
had passed into the hands of Hon. George
f. Edmund>. Judge H. H. Powers. Gen
eral George p. Foster, Hon. Jed =. Clark
and Mes>rs +. w. Peek. Z. Benjamin
and George Idle. is hardly correct. These
gentlemen have not bought the Il. Leon
Springs. but have purchased the Campbell
Springs, about forty rods distant from the
former. and upon the oppo lite side of III.
river. These springs ar- TWO in Imbrr.
The water of one of them being similar in
taste to the St. Leon water, while that of
the other is much stronger The proprie-
,ors propose having their @roun is suitably
laid ont and summer hotels built by the
a. v IL.
to s. Leon.
Plymouth Church, Thursday night, voted
to participate in a council, if Mrs. Moulton
consents that the point, in her first letter
be the only ones in the missive calling the
council. In accordance with the >ugges-
ton of Mr.. Becchrr. II committee consist
ing of Mcs,rS f.. X. Brechrr. III w Sage,
Raymond, Hutchinson. Storrs. McCahe
and White. WAS appointed t. prepare for
this mutual council of Congregational
churches and ministers. to be held At the
earliest practicable day. for the purpose OF
advising this church whether there is any
thing IN lis order or Il >cipline when re-
quircs correction, or which could constitute
any Just ground for complaint or rcmon-
STRANGE Oh the part of sister churches.
Tie DEUTSCHLAND DISAsrEE.-Thr
verdict Of the jury at lI:rwich on the
Deutschland disaster. censurcs the steam
ship company for not giving the Deutsch-
land the best known appliances for ascer-
tanning the distance traver>el. for inctfi
cicnt boat-owering apparatus, and for
placing an inexperienced pilot on board
attaches no criminal blame to the captain
of the steamer, praises the captain and
crew of the tug Liverpool which finally
went to the rescue. and makes no mention
of the conduct of the ilarwich people in
refusing to 90 to the assistance of the
wrecked steamer for two days.
TIE BREAD RIOTS AT MoNrEEAL-Th
Montreal authorities have finally taken
matters into their own hands. rs they
ought to have done in the first place. in
stead of teebly calling upon the general
government for assistance. Four of the
leaders in Friday riot have been arrested
and sentenced to six months imprisonment
he police are instructed to prevent any
large gatherings of the unemployed. and
about 2O0o of the latter will he be set to
digging, to day, at 90 cents 4 day.
MpOuN lEtu some OF the top lights :
mixed in among the common people of
his congregation ut Philadelphia. Sunday
evening. For instance, President Grant
and wife. Col. Fred Grant and wife. Post.
ma>ter-General Jewell and wife. ex-Speak.
er Blaine. Gov. lIartranft of PENNSYLVANIA
Gov. Bcdle of New jersey. Senator Wal
lace. Gen. Garfield. Judge Ducn, Gen
Robert F.. Patterson, Judge Strong. cx.
Senator Cattell, and many congressman,
who staid over from the previous dav s
| excursion.
Mrs. Norton, (iuthor of :. Bingen on tn,
Rhine, } whose approaching marriage to
Sir W. Stirling Maxwell is announced in
the London Ahcnrun1, is rather advanced
in years for Il bride. She is now sixty.
seven years old. Her grandfather wa.
the celebrated dramatist orator and states
man, Richard Brinslev Sheridan. Hel
first marriage, to Hon. George Chapple
Norton. took place nearly half Il century
ago, in 1927.
William Scitz of Cincinnati. is douhl,