Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-12-05

out of places, the scheme does not meet
with favor The respectable portion of
the party in this city believe in the homes
ty and integrity of President Hayes, and
they know the effect his policy has had
upon trade. The southern trade has more
than doubled since last March, and it is
increasing daily. The south is peaceful
and quiet, both races uniting in an effort
to repair the ravages of war, and restore
it to more than its old-tme prosperity.
The south is earning something and has u
surplus. Hayes did what Tilden could not
have done, and the merchants of New
York realize it. The scheme of the great
fraud will find no encouragement here.
SILVER.
Silver is so plenty as to become Il
nuisance. 1t is only worth ninety-three
cents en- the dollar, and the retailers, res
taurant keepers and others are taking ad-
vantage of it. You 60 into Il restaurant
and tender five dollar greepback and
you will get back three dollars in silver
dollars. AS these people pay ninety-three
cents for them, they make seven cents
every time they can do this, which is a
very handsome addition to their profits.
The places of amusement buy silver regu-
larly to give out in change. and the result
is, silver is the circulating medium. If
the bland bill should pass, it would drive
out gold and paper money altogether.
The dollar of our daddics " is getting as
plenty as blackberries.
LIFE INSURANCE AND SING SING.
The scoundrelly president of the Secu-
rity Life Insurance Company, who swore
to Il surplus of about quarter of mil
lion when it hadn't dollar, and who did
all sorts of things in a most irregular way,
has been sentenced to five years in the
Penitentiary at hard labor This is well.
Case was n man of large property, and
one of the class known as eminently
respectable lie stood high in the church
and in society, and, it is probable, didn't
realize that in plundering vast number
of people by means of life insurance that
he was doing any wrong. 1t is fashion
able kind of stealing, this life insurance
and savings bank swindling, and the
respectable Case was IN astonshed man
when he was pulled up to answer. Such
II thing had never happened before, and he
could not believe that anything serious
would come of it, He protested that he
had never examined the condition of the
company-that the statement was brought
to him, and he swore to it, without know
ing what it was. But the Judge held that
IL president who received ten thousand dol
lars per annum to manage the interests of
twenty thousand widows and orphans
ought to know something about it, and so
he sends him up for five years, despite his
responsibility. DR.. Lambert, the president
of the swindling American Popular, will
90 next, and the law is reaching for Fur
bel, the president Of the North American.
A life insurance president in striped clothes
is II cheerful and improving sight, and there
ought to be more of them. The good
companies in the city have been largely
instrumental in bringing about this most
excellent result, for the reason that the
companies that expect to pay losses have
had hard time competing with the swim
dIc-shops that were organized to fail when
they could make more money by failing
than continuing. Now the business is on
II better and safer basis than ever.
THE BABY SHOW,
An enterprising genius has fitted up
hall corner of Fourteenth Street and Fifth
Avenue and organized baby show. He
advertised for all sorts of babies, fat, lean,
large, small, single, twins and tripets,
and he succeeded in capturing hundred
or more. There are Il dozen pairs of
twins, some of them very handsome, and
some very ugly, and there are three sets
of triplets, which are the most unaccount-
able specimens of uglness ! ever beheld
The father of one of the sets of tripets
exhibits them, and is us proud rs though
he was entitled to credit for them,
The show is Il success, so far ms ATTRACTING
people is concerned. A throng of women
stream through the hall from ten in the
morning till twelve ut night and the ba-
bies are punched, felt of, kissed and hug
ged, according MS they are dirty or clean,
pretty or otherwise. The exhibitors are
all poor people, who get from one to two
dollars n day, with chance of winning a
prize. The visitors all vote for their ia
vorilcs, and those having the most votes
in their class, get premiums. 1t is u Gu
rious exhibition. One man brought baby
to exhibit. very young one, the mother
being sick at home. The first night he
picked up his baby, and took it to its
mother, when 10, it happened to be girl,
whereas his own child was boy. He
rushed back to the hall and got another
child, but that was not the right one. And
he has been taking children home ever
since, but he has not yet got his own.
The mother, who could recognize her
child, is too sick to go to the hall, and so
there is trouble.
TIE TEMPERANCE WAR.
The law and Order League continue
heir fight on rum, and they accomplish
Last Sunday the bars were ..
very generally closed, and about hun q
lred of the worst class of doggeries have