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

AT the California State Fair. recently held
at Sacramento. lloWes scales were awar-
ded a gold medal
1t Is reported that the comptroller of the
currency has authorized the starting of
another national Bank in Burlington.
The newspapers of London are unani
nous IN their expression of satisfaction al
The result of the October elections in Amer
ica.
Capt. T. A. Burke, of the bark Michigan.
hallin| from Milwaukee, was shot and
MORALLY wounded by John Wright, sailor
abroad his bark last evening at Buffalo.
While Henry Becker. Young man OF
Pekln. ILL.,. was riding in 4 wagon with :,
loaded gun between his knees the other
day. it was accidentally discharged, blow
ng off the top of his head
subterranean room, Of considerable
size, with L bath full of fresh water issuing
from spring, and supposed to have been
used AS 4 baptiStry. has been discovered
in Il street in London. 1t is built of Ro-
man bricks.
President Orton, of the Western Union
Telegraph. says that for all telcgraphic
purposes, the English language is from 25
to 33 per cent cheaper than the French
German. OF any other language. and that
the economy of its use has been thorough
ly established.
LONDON. OCTOBER l4.-The Pail Mall
Gt.eHc published Il special telegram from
Berlin. in which it is said that under the
pressure of the great powers, Turkey is
diminishing her concentration oftro"ps on
the Scrvia frontier. and Servia is demob-
ilizing her forces.
The suit of the Rutland railroad against
the Vermont Central to recover possession
of its road. which WAS to come on ut St
Albans. recently. was again postponed
till November 16, on account of sickness
in the family of Senator Edmunds, counsel
for the Rutland road.
Susan Anthony is paying off the United
States Supreme Court for its decision
against woman suffrage. She says in a
letter publshed You will recolect that
| was in Missouri last summer. n, the bed
side of a suffering brother. Well couldn't
90 five miles out Of town without meeting
a flock of grasshoppers that would make
y better bench of judges than the present
Supreme Court Of the United States"
Tweed can no longer save himself or
delay justice by a resort to technicalties
His case now stands for trial on the merits
and. as the court suggested, it will no lon
ger present the anomoly Of an innocent
man on the one hand. retained in custody
Il al, IL,
man setting the law at defiance with the
proceeds of his crime. The New York
courts are certainly slitftning up their
back bones Il little.-Rutiund Gl0be
Attorney General Perrepont has been
assured hv ex-senator Pelse and United
States District Attorney Wells, Of Missis-
sippi. that the policy determined upon hy
The Admin ,trntion with regard to the
Mississippi emeutts was the only safe one.
The principle of self-govcrnmcnt of the
State would be imperilcd if the Federal
troops We're to be called out upon every
occasion of :, riot which The State authori-
ties did not even attempt to suppress.
An Arizona paper, describing 4 recent
water-spout in that region. says that the
flood came down almost in Il solid wall of
water, sweeping away fences. houses.
chicken, ,n,. hogs. The cattle SWAN from
side to side of the torrent md saved them
selves The gardens AMI fields were COM
plctrly stripped. not only of the crops but
of the soil. which was torn up and borne
away by the madlv rushing water 1h,
wagon road for distance of sixteen miles
WAS entirely ruined.
y s L., 7 l.
one of the few upright and unromproin.
inn criminal Judges of New York city. is
opposed by ramm,nv. The ground of the
opposition i> that hr hld refused to appoip.
court officers nj Tanmanv ,!cdication
The New York press and law abiding p0r-
ton OF the community generally strongly
favor the denomination of the recorder
and if he Is defeated it Will be 4 striking
evidence of the tyrannical control which
Tnmmany eXcrts over the city of New
York.
NEGRoEs VERSUS INDIANS.-The color
e,l residents of Indian Territory. formerly
slaves of the Choctlw>. Chicki-aws.
Greeks. SemnolcS and Cherokce>, recent
" held Il convention ut Armstrong acadc-
my, in the ChOct:iW nation. at which they
adopted u meme oria' to Congress. asking
for equal rights in the territory with the
Inhinns. and to br secured and projected
in such rights. They ask for the section =
inc of lands and organization of terrific
rial government such as the Indians
consented to in the treaty of 1866. and ad-
vocatrd by Col. Boudnot. \ delegation
was appointed to 90 to Washington to car
~ out the views of the convention. The
colored people claim to number fifteen
thousand out of fifty thousand of the pro-
duciny population of Indian territory, and
to raise by Their labor eight-tenths of the
products of the territory.
The Etruscans were the first who dopt-
ed the eagle us the symbol Of rova! power,
and bore its image us a standard ut the
head of their armies. From the time of
MaruS it WAS the principal emblem of the
Roman Republic. and the only standard
of the legions. 1t was represented with
outspread wings, and was ~ually of silver.
till the time of Hadrian. who N ,de it of
gold. The double-h AIDED eagle was in use
among the byzantine emperors. to Indicate,
it is said. their clail, to the empire both
of the East and the West; it was adopted
in the fourteenth century 10y the German
emperors. and afterwards appeared on the
arms OF Russia. L ne arms Oh ITu>SEb are
distinguished by the black eagle. and those
of Poland bore the white. The white head
ed eagle is the emblematic device of the
United States of America. is the bulge Of
the Order of the Cincinnati. and is figured
on coins Napoleon adopted the eagle for
the emblem of imperial France; 1t was
not, however, represented in heraldic style,
but in its natural form. with the thunder
bolts of Jupiter 1t WAS disuscd under
the Bourbons, but restored by decree of
Louis Napoleon. January l. ls52.-Apple-
tons american Cyclopeadia.
Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson has been
talking with correspondent of The Con-
cord Monitor about the habits of his poeti-
cal friends. Hom mes" said he, " is SO
full that he can write at any time. Lowell
broods over his subject for II time and then
composes with great swiftness: He does
not like to write to order, though desirous
of employing the stimulus of great occas
ions. We asked him to read a poem at