Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

Montenegro with the Turkish army fully
ii 300 are dead or missing.
The consumption of So New England !
cotton-mills, using annually over 100000
: bales of cotton, is found to be about 81 per
cent larger than last year, and the market
for goods is not filling up.
Rear Admiral John Rodgers now in
charge of the naval observatory in Wash
ington, will be assigned to the command
of the European squadron in place of Rear
; Admiral Worden, who returns home at
his own request.
The present Cabinet is made up of COM
paratively poor men-not one of them has
u fixed income sufficient for support and is
financially able to retire from business.
Mr. Sherman is supposed to be the wealth
lest member Of the Cabinet, and he is not
rich.
1t is the pleasant prerogative of the
United States Supreme Court to put an
end to litigation, The Court has brought
the weaisome Jumel contest to a close,
leaving the property where it was before,
and the public will hear no more of the
case.
The war in Cuba still drags on its dreary
and blood-stained way. The insurgent
chief Morejom has just been taken pris- !
oner and shot in Remedies, and more than
loO insurgents are said 10 have been shot
after being taken prisoners in various ac- 4
tions.
Contrary to all usages of civilized war.
which forbds the firing of shells contain t
ing acids or poisonous missiles, the Turks c
during recent engagement fired explosive i
bullets at Ollinitza The corpses of several u
Russians bear terrible evidence of the ?
truth of this statement. I
1t is the opinion OF the Bangor Villa
anal Courier that Chamberlain's indiet-
ment lis not left to culver and toss on Il Il
mere froth of words, but is built up from C
a massive foundation by such incontrovert 0
lble and startling truths us the people c.
will not fail to recognize" b
The monument erected by the Sunday y,
School scholars of the United States to the D
memory of the late P. P. Bliss and wife a
will be dedicated at Rome, Bradford conn. Z
ty, Pa, their early home, next Tuesday. IL
ana ana keVlvallst Moody will preside and adj al
dress the people. Sankey will be there to
sing. r
The Financial Chronicle gathers from an N
active private canvass of western opinion az az
that the opposition to contraction is DIVING III
out IN that quarter, but it is said at Wash, f,
lnIglon that Secretary Sherman is Just get tn
ing ready to concede something y to w
that element. We thought Sherman icon. tie
coded something" sufficiently when the ac
resumption act was framed. Va
If Hayes will conduct the presidency nc M
if it were IN independent newspaper, true
to his own motto that 'he serves his par. ne
ty best who serves his country best" he BI
VIII nave an administration successful and iss
brilliant; ne will command steady ma 81
orlly OF both houses of Congress, and he ge
Will come out the republican of republi- IA,
pride and future of the republi- th
'an party in no wise Johnson-smirched on
'r Iylerized.-LouiSrllc Courier Journal. M,
This is one of the awful pictures Hail. su
stead is drawing in his Commercial, and an
all Cincinnati into ce-water hor- ar
'ors: " water produces indgestion;
Indigestion creates Il morbid appetite for DO
stimgl ants; stimulants be- raj
Jet habits of indulgence in strong drinks. fer
nd strong drinks produce drunkards inc
me end OF hard ice-water drinker is in Toe
nanla-a-potu,. Let the Nlurphys consider COZ
nd beware eta
Sunday z. NJ, the new rcservoir Of ga
Atnol' Mass, on hill $50 feet above the ceS
nam village, into which volume of wa. val
5r mad Just been emptied, gave away be. Itt
eath the pressure and the torrent rushed Gle
own the hill to Pleasant street. quickly
'aVefsed the distance TO the town, II half tba
lile, and Joined Beaver brook swelling moi
MS stream. The flood carried away sew wo
raj mill dams and caused more or less Gle
amage to other mill property The roads inc
Tere badly washed. The reservoir was mn
ulIt by contract and was accepted bv the sin
'wn on Saturday. VIII
Famine is now unhappily so prevalent me me
India as no longer to excite surprise or arb
arm Although the distress has disap- wo
cared from some districts, the number of SER
eople still receiving relief is large. The ma
overnment might do something in the NV
ture 10 prevent the recurrence of such A
Ilamities by diversilying the industrial vot
'oducts of the country. The success WIN
men has been attained in cotton manu- con
ctures and tea-growing indicates broad que
I'D OF enterprise in Hindostan. mas
D.,,, the
Phlladelphia's Oldest inhabitant, Mrs. the
lSan Ilayne, is to be buried to-day. Her Fed
Their was an English sea captain, and nro
as drowned when she was three months The
d. Her husband was ship caulker. is n,
ID lived to green old age. Her moth exc,
died of the yellow fever and she her. that
If was attacked by the same scouroe. but ofic
covered. She had twelve children, fiE anil
-four grand children, and one hundred lhat
d twelve great-grand children. All! be r
S; she once saw General George Wash that
gun! "li" MIS- washington anght from thei
carriage and go into house in her ma men
e village.
A Washington despatch says that there C,
II large body of Mexican fiibusters at prec
capital, and their purpose is said to be theI
war with that country. The iooo
patch continues Among them is a con- or;'l
cradle number ofrestess spirits from =" ,,n ~;
} North and West, fond of adventure. t p''n'
d anxious to secure some other occupa- oor
n than tina; ofplodding industry. Some XIII 6MRiI,
these persons have been engaged for a "",,'
us in the Cuban movement, but having ~
de IF oGvort'n" a,o l i0oAIns loF leSll exist
busters are engaged in magnifying all " o"u
Ids OF pretended claims, and seeking in Ell ELL
nlioId ways to attract public attention o oO'I'
he Mexican question. o.iu
* President Grant and family and Con- IN u
General Badeau visited, on Saturd ay. land
Hotel de Vile at Brussels, where the and
gomaSer did the honors of the COM than
nal palace. The General, so the tele- sltua
pm reports, perused with much interest he II
ancient register containing communal were
lchises. and took great interest in the Mldl'
ills Of the TELEGRAPH service and water
ply. King Leopold visited Gen. Grant \,
day, and gave state dinner in his Cnao Az
or Sunday night. Gen. Grant left for ' u,ee
ogne Monday morning, and is expect n nIpi
IN Berlin about the end of this month, p.os'
'gnito, to stay only two days, en- route . nave
Sweden and Norway. Later in the O O,on, >.
son, or at the beginning of the spring ; SUES d
Will return and spend some time at ;l'en CIV
n nd ,fnt / III