Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-08-23
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opinions of Us, forms our true honor.
Willard Guild has been appointed post
master at North Shrewsbury. in place of
\. j. Aidrivh, resigned.
Massachusetts, is answering her helm.
Tildens touch on the tiller is soon felt
FuU Rirtr Uem0crat.
Couldn't your conscience overcome
your party pride enough to drop thc-er
from that word?-BostOn Adttrttscr.
TIE SrIHII OF TIE LATE MISSISSIPPI
CAMPA!GN.-God cave the victory to Il
people who were contcndng for liberation
from the btscst thraldom ever endured by
Il civilized race, and who would have been
justified in swinging up their oppre>sors as
foOd fer the bU.. tris to The bOughS Of orr
for. st tree s. -IbcruteN Erunll1ltr, Ju(u 26.
But it is q fact that the democratic ticket
dOesn' &" consist - reformcrs might vote
for Tidcn with comfort, but there is Hen
drlcks to be voted for too TO make mat
ters worse. the tail of the democratic ami
NAL has shown both the dispo ilion and the
ability to waggle the dog. Mr. Tildcn
has indeed written di>paragingly of the
Sherman act; but the Houses vote to re-
peal the resumption clause was Mr.. Hen
dricks's victory. and 4 victory over his as
>ociate on the ticket. 1t is also :. fact that
Mr.. Tillcn is the candidate of a party that
is furnished for post-ofiice.- e.-Spri14yhtM 1t
Ecpublicn1.
The tide of immigration toward the
nitcd States has flowed so continuously
during the last ha,f century that Amer
leans are slow to ree:,ize that it has
suddenly ebbcd. The .>u FrulciSro
Post. for instance, urges that State agtn-
cics should be organized. and Il scheme
broachcd for the promotion Of immigr..
ton and the location of settlers upon the
waste lands Immigration and coloni-
z:,tion, it thinks, should be the watch
word of California. Not SO. 1t j.
idle to whistle for immigrants iAst now
The State has more urgent work IN hand.
1t should teach its farmers not to bleed The
soil 10 death bv raising grtin year after
year. and should encourage manufacturing
and Industrial pursuits i'll city and town.
Theodore Thomas has GOT sick of pip
inT and paying the piper himself, He
SAYS that he has been working alone for
the last seven or eight Years and paving
tor the privilege of playing for the people.
Now he wants them 10 come forward and
do something OF he shall give up the loh
He Is not 2olng To take any more lisk~, or
furnish music on spec. If anybody
wants HIM to play lhey must furnish 4
place and pay him for his share of the
work, which Is that of an artist and not Il
business man. He thinks the the talk
about his music being too classical 10 be
popular, is all trash He SAYS the only
difference between bis programmes and
others is tltt thry arr not nasty or
stupid. bnt only light" Meantime he i
living in the untrv with hi ftmlly and
his orchestra is dispersed. Ii anybody
wants his services, he must be called Ike
Cincinua'us, from his rural retirement.
The hr ted term has been the most ter-
rible ever known, and has >wtllrd the
mortualv lit to Il degree that is ah~o-
Iutclv frIghtful. Children have peri>hed
equally large number Of adults have 81
cumbcd tn the more than torrid heat One
woman in BAXTER street has assisted in
preparing l3i children for burial. lIe.c
let me say ,hat there has been scarcely IN
instance Of death among the ranks of the
temp, rate. The men that have avoided
the use of alcoholic drinks. when >un>truck
almost invariably recovered. and when re-
covered were ~ good ae new. Bat when
Il " hi>kcN or brrr drinkrr went down il WIS
generally down for good and II is a mat
ter of fact that the drinking Glasses WEI"
an hun,ircd fold more li,bl, to br struck
than the temperate. Th" trmperanc" pco-
pie may make what use of this they please.
but all the city physicians viii vouch for
1t, truch.-N,a Iorb Letter.
There lit, always been Il helirf th.t out
in Ind lnt the Democrats are under the
impression that Gov. Hendricks stands At
the head of the National ticket Tn. fol
lowing remarkable dies >palch II III, fu4+ift-
NIT Ga:tY. from Indlanapoli~ recently
night. tends to corrobor:,tc the belief: at
now tr;,n~prcs that Gov. Hendricks Sec
ond visit East j. for the sole purpose of Sc
curing the removal of Gcv. TiIdrn from
the head of the Democratic ticket. THIS
fact wa, communicated Yesterday hv :,
prominent Democrat and personal friend
of Gov. Hendricks, u resident OF this city.
to a friend hostile to the lIoo-irr Cover
latter and hi supporters that Tlllen'S
nomination i sur, defeat to the party
that in Indiana even, if Democrats elect
their state ticket Mr.. 'l'ildcn must be DE-.
fr.sc.l tn 1t the evi lrnc. OF his rrjm", his
railroad fees and hi, unbushing attempt,
to bribe city couucil> and State L"gi~lt-
t,Ir,.- in the interest of Wall Street and
railroad corp 'r.,iion-. arr 50 ovrrpowrr-
inr that he c,nno b. successfully d-frn /
Tribut'.
HUHIAI OF TIE VICTIMS or THE CUSTER
MA>sAC .E-Mr. Roberts, brother of Mrs
Iatt :. accompanied Custer to wi hin seven
tv miles of the scene of the slaurhtcr
when his hors" gave ont and he was
OBLIGED to fall bchind and afterwards
Joined HcnoS command. lie SAYS that
Rcno's men gave the dead of Clusters
command rs decent burial - tn" circum-
stance, would admit Of. They had but
two spades, ana while those were being
used in digging graves. the soldiers We're
>coopinT i'll the dirt upon the dead with
their plates. cups and c.t~r knives. some
claw ING it in with their hands. The graves
oi the officers We're carefully III .rkrl.
They were buried exactly rs ,hry fell \
stake followed ont in the center and tightly
plugged WAS driven ont OF sight at the
head OF each officers grave In the hol-
low OF each stake was deposited 4 small
roll of paper upon which was written the
name of the dead one underneath Cor
responding number, We're prepared and
are in the keeping of Captain Nolan. Of
the Seventh regiment. The numher WIS
also burnt into each Stake before beiny
driven into the earth.
LAMoILIE COUNTY CoNvENriox. The
Republican County Convention at HYDE
park on Wednesday last. was by all ac-
counts one of the livclic~t on recent record
There had been IN active canvass for some
time for the Scnaior>hip, between the
friends of K. F. Parker, Esq of VOL
colt, ANA Hon 7. X. GIced Of Mprrisvillc
Mr. Glced Withdrew from the canvass
about a week before the Convention; but
harmony was not restored. Mr.. Parker
was nominated by L majority of one in
the nominating committees but it being
evident that the report Of the nominating
committee would not be accepted without
a struggle. but that the matter would be
fought out in open convention, he with
drew his name. in favor of Rev. Edwin
Whcclock of Cambridge, who WAS then
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