Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-12-29
Che FREEMAN.
Thp Coming Year.
MONTPELIER, Vt,
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER %. 1873

We hone aH otlr READERS. and everybody
else. have had Merry" { Christmas and Will
have n Happy New Near.
The Centennial yerr ;iso:tlmost at hand
and so far as can be feHetold will be one
more than usually fiEll of interesting
events. especially to lAlme1;iGtllS 1t cIo~e>
on he part of our own people Il century ''
sclfrovcrnmcnt, and 4Inet:s'@ne OF the mos
important nations Of Eim@pe: just started
upon an experiment Of the 2z3{ae nature,
The French republic depends: greatly OF
The elections which viii soon take p.ar
f,r the reminder of the Senatc and t'l
TN. Assembly. StforIG he friendsei pop
uI,. government sa&eeeel rs tIey hope t"
who knows but they Will htsae It e.ieflteflill:ll
celebration of the founding of 4 rep'Il5.f'
in = hundred years. The old Assemble
ho, concluded its election of seventy-ilve
life members Of the new Senate winch i
to consist Of three hundred members III
ALL OF the seventv-live the Bonapartl>t>
have. elected but one man. The Right
Center or Orleani7ts have chosen eight
and the Extreme Right or Le@itim>ts.
who bow IL Chambord IL the ri1httul king,
succeeded in obtaining eleven. his
leave, tiftv-iive who were elected by the
republicans OF these thirty-One are OF
the left Center or moderate republicans
Of whom Theirs may he taken ao the type
or leader, and twenty-four are of the TX
trcmc Left or radical republicans Such
an election gives hope that the Senate
which was established in the interest OF
those who do not Ike the republic will
after all be found :, stronghold of its
friends.
Other European countries tre going
along with nothing of special interest in
their present condition. But it never
takes long for 4 STORM to brew in those
highly charged regions, and 1876 may at
its close stand out rs notable for trans
atlantic changes as does 1870.
The presidential election will keep ,he
United States at fever heat for the >lA
months prior to the frs Of November, and
it will nrrl All the brotllerIr love that is
To- lllvr it, headquarters in the Quaker
CITY to make the troubled waters passably
calm.
The Centennial now looks rs though ii
was to be the grand and peculiar feature
of the year. Philadelphia will be a tenn
porarv Mecca to which the faithful will
make pigrimages. We note this week
how that our own village is to be there
represented and from\le interest exhibited
at Rutland have no doubt the citizens of
Vermont will give their State Il creditable
position at the great gathering.
So many Vermont towns are to be rep
resented that the Exposition will be OF
personal interest to thousands of citizens,
and we have no doubt that the farming
that the interest will become yet wider
spread
Vermont will hold her biennial election,
and of course it will excite L great deal of
Interest to know who are to do the PEG
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