Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-08-25

The Swiss national council has passed
resolution for the suppression of converts
and sisters of charity.
The Detroit Post says that some men
who favor rag money are honest but thick
headed, but General Butler has no such
excuse. He knows better, and when he
talks after this fashion he is rascally."
The Hon. d. NJ. Key of Chattanooga,
has been appointed by the Governor OF
Tennessee to fill the vacancy in the United
States Senate caused by the death of An
drew johnson
1t is estimated that the yield Of wheat in
Wisconsin this year will be ut least 10000
600 bushels OF this amount about 5,OOo.-
600 bushels will probably be reserved by
the farmers for home consumption and
seed.
| At Boston, Saturday, Connecticut and
Passumpsic Railroad stock preferred. sold
ut so; Portland and Ogdensburg 6, 1891,
Vermont Division, As: Vermont Central, IS,
1891, guaranteed, co. Rutland Railroad
script, No. I. 81.
Testimony is being taken at Boston by
parties interested in the Vermont Central
railroad controversy, to be used before
Chancellor Royce at st. Adams, Judge
Poland being counsel for the receivers,
and ex-Gov. Smith, Col. A. T. Walker of
Rutland and others for the bond-holders.
Hon. Daniel Needham, Secretary of the
New England Agricultural Society. has
arranged with the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher to be the guest of the Society on
the 9th of Superintendent to deliver the adj
dress on the following day at the Annual
Fair in Manchester, n. H.
The balance of the debt of New York
State unprovided for January l. 1872, was
500, 200, 100; the balance now unprovidcd
for is $GOj,S and a tax of quarter of a
mill for next year will wipe out the entire
indebtedness. The whole State tax next
year need not exceed , or , ID mills.
ANOTHER TRAMP OuTEAGE.-A tramp
boarded a Boston & Albany Railroad freight
train last Saturday morning, and throttlcd
Il brakeman who refused him free ride,
and threw him from the train. After a
two hours search the missing brakeman
was found senseless beside the track with
his skull fractured.
A HINT TO OLD PRoBs-" Old Probs"
isn't very popular nowadays. Here is a
postal card he got from Sparta. n. j., the
other day:
Mr., Probabilities: You are overdoin. this moist
rasional hour OF snnshine.for two weeks VIII have
T. make an extension to my h,an poles Time entire
Srs ana ed The ~hoe tim. Is Wras and ,e been
taa a stop stop To tins a A'' Have cut ] ~
p,ice more Yours. etc, GRANGEK-'
Popular sentiment in New Hampshire
appears to be growing in favor Of a con-
vention to revise the State Constitution
That instrument has served its purpose a
long while and is sadly in need of some
judicious overhluling. What was good
enough in the last century can hardly be
expected to be wholly upto the rcquirmentS
of the present day.
TIE RESULT IN NORTH CAROLINA SET
TIED" Judge Settle, prominent North
Carolina Republican, says il has been def
nitelv asccrtaned that of 100 members
elect to the Constitutional Convention
tifty-nine are Democratic. fifty-cight Re
publican and three independent OF the
latter, two it is thought will act with the
Democrats and one with the Republicans.
thus giving the Democrats Il majority.
The New York Evening Post seems to
be fortunate in getting good editors, and
unfortunate in not being able to keep them
very long. In only about dozen years, it |
has had in succession rs managing editors,
Mr.. John Bigelow, Mr.. Parke Goodwin. Mr.. |
Charles Nordhoff, Mr.. Charlton T. Lewis,
Mr.. Arthur G. Sedgwick, Mr.. S II. Gay,
and Mr.. Albert G. Browne. Jr The lat
ter. who has proved himself one of the |
best of the whole list, has just retired.
Australia wants to annex New Guinea.
which is the largest island on the globe |
There is not much doubt that the annexa
ton will take place, for it is already pre-
determined by the settled policy of the
British government England means to
possess all the islands of the Southern Pa |
cltic. and is taking steps for their coloni-
cation and absorption. They furnish a |
SPLENDID outlet to English enterprise and |
capital. and will eventually make marniti-
cent markets for a profitable commerce.
Boyle and Fowler, the locomotive steal |
ers of Sing SIM. who Were arrested at st
Louis and Just brought back to Pourh- |
keepsic, by their own confession. turn out |
To he y precious pair of scamps. The |
night they were arrested. they had planned |
to rob the Fourth National Bank of :; |
Louis 4 diagram of which. with KEYS to the |
rear door. was found in their effects. In |
the vault. that nj -ht. We're $50 900; and
they say they could have entered it in two |
hours. when they would have started for |
South America. Diagrams of other banks |
in st. Louis and of two rominent banks
III Chicago, were also found on them.
TIE SALARIES OF POSrMAsrE
gress recently passed law providing for
the REIMBURSEMENT Of the salaries of post
masters at smaller offices on the basis of |