Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-14

1t is blackmail scheme, says the aged
Simon Cameron, of the widow who is
suing him for breach Of promise.
The general assembly of Maine has
passed, almost unanimously, II bill appro
priating 1921 for the agricultural col
lege,
The Lord is a just judge, and Hayes is
the choice Of n small majority of the pco-
ple.- Congressman Foster on the Florida
Decision.
The annual session of DAD Fellows en-
campment was held at Burlington, Tues
day, the 9Th, and Samuel Rigwool of Win
ooski was elected grand patriarch. There
was balance of $4,000 on hand.
A comet WAS discovered by Barely, the
French astronomer, February s, in right
ascension II hours Is minutes, deClen>ion
10 81 south, daily motion plus | minute
A seconds in right ascension and plus 3
Z in declination. The comet has IL bril-
liant round nucleus.
James Alden, rear admiral of the Uni
ted States navy, died, the 9th, At Sun Fran
cisco, where he had been for II few weeks
on visit. lie was born ut Portland, Me-,
in 1910 He was attached to the Wilkes
exploring expedition in 1892, participa-
| ted in the Mexican war, and during the
rebellion bore an honorable part in the
naval operations of the Gulf department.
Mr.. Field is busy, if he is discouraged.
Washington dispatches indicate u change
of legal base on the contest of louisiana.
The action of the Returning Board is to be
assaulted on the ground that it did not con-
tain the full number of members required
by the law, and that therefore no canvass
of the votes was had, If this position is
LOST, the eligibility of two of the repubii.
can electors will be attacked.
Mrs. Sarah Peter, the mother of Rufus
King, died in Cincinnati on Tuesday
morning. In 1854, while in Europe, she
was converted to the Catholic Eith, anC
since that time her whole life has been de
voted 10 its propagation. She has foundeJ
in Philadelphia and Cincinnati no less
than twenty converts, and bestowed the
bulk of her wealth upon charitable insti
tutions. She crossed the ocean nine time,
on special visits 10 the Pope, and has trav
eled the world over
am willing to 90 out of public life on
the record of the BILL however the result
may turn out. am free 10 say that | diff
fer from those who think it would have
been better to have had two presidents in
, auguratcd and risk the consequences. Tho
country could not have stood that. In my
Judgment, it would have been the end o
our institutions. AS it is, if Hayes does %
; into the White House in the face of law
/ and facts, it will be the death-knell of th(
republican party. That party will b,
ground finer than dust Senator Bayard
The Times has characterized the cree
ton of this hcrmaphrodite commission ~
n cowardly attempt of the two houses o
Congress to abdiclte their constitutional
functions. From that opinion it has no
yet seen any reason to recede 1t was no
t only cowardly, but idiote. The case was
Just this: A political body holding thu
constitutional power TO determine thi'
purely political question, being composed
in the majority Of the political supporter!
of the lawfully selected candidate, delib
eralely abdicates its power in favor of ;
hermaphrodile commission composed il
:. the majority of the political supporters o
the defeated candidate. Surely politica
damphoolsm never in this world more
perfectly exemplitied the nature of human
folly. If the upshot shall be the setting
up of an elective monarch upon political
: fraud and rottenness, the verdict Of the
world will be, Served the idiots rightP'
Chicago Times, tDens.)