Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-04
Deferred Items.

The Rutland Globe says: We submit
iaat it is cruel for learned college fresh
l,en to destroy at one full sweep the repu-
t1lion of poet whom the world has re-
eered for century. Yet that is Just what
Lev have done with Burns at Middlebury,
AN article in the last Undergraduate de-
ciding that his claim to genius is myth.
Brigham Young says I married Ann
liza to please her parents and keep her
I|om ruin. But she played false to me.
vent off with strange men, kept me in
constant hot water with my other wives,
md | was glad when she ran away from
ne, as she did from her first husband.
Ann Eliza wouldn't work. She was al
ways light headed and frivolous.
Perhaps this accounts for Mr. Hendricks's
Tremendous vigor. Says the indianapolis
.6urnal: We had positive information,
When party of Eastern delegates to the
~. Louis Convention stopped in Indianap-
oils last year. that pledges were exacted
and given that if Mr.. Hendricks would ac-
cept the second place on the National
democratic ticket he should have the first
place in 1880.
Ex-Gov. Fletcher of Cavendish, whom
The Free Press reported as 81 years of age
(which item we copied the other day
saws he is but 78 years of age. He adds:
If the editor designed to show that
oreat amount of good must have been ac-
complished in that long period, it was
al well enough, but if he supposed that
The implication, that only a very short
lime remained would be acceptable to his
readers, then the item is less agreeable"
If the presidential election should come
OF this year, Hendricks would be the
democratic nominee for president, and he
would owe his nomidation not to the noisy
f0ols who seek to antagonize him when
aver they can, but to the solid mass and
bcdy of the democratic party, who regard
lin, as we have described him, as " an
ablc and spotless statesman, deserving
anything his countrymen have mind to
rive him. p Louisville Courier-J0urnaI.
General George A. Sheridan, Special
agent of the Post Office Department, Wis
Ted Feliciana parish, La, TO examine the
complaints of Messrs Dula and Chapman.
Who report themselves bull dozed away
rom there. Mr. Sheridan concluded that
they might safely return to their homes,
but they decline. They requested that
deputies be allowed to do their work. The
charge against them is incompetency. Mr..
Sheridan will recommend their removal.
Tom Merry, in the Seattle Dispatch,
lells of his experience with well.known
bnmorist. One night it was showing ter
rlbly rs he walked up South G street, when
enddenly we heard our name called. Here
vas Mark Twain, wrapped in a big over
eoat, sitting on an empty dry goods box
and covered with snow. " It's workin'
billy" says he in his unearthy drawl.
HWhat's workin'PH we asked. My dorg
irap,-oh, mo- guess not' 1t seems that
d man had opened new drugstore with
Il night bell at the front. lie tied one end
pf rope to piece of tough beef, and the
pther to that bell. The dogs made it live
NJ for the druggist, however.
The New York Mutton says: "the
Passionate devotion of Mr. Tilden and his
blowers to reform-reform in the curren-
w; reform in the civil service; reform in
HE army; reform in the navy-whch in.
gpired the St. Louis platform, has all dis
appeared, and in its stead we have the
eingle cry Of fraud The democrats may
be right in feeling sure of carrying the
oountry in 1880 on this cry, but if they do
so they will do it without the aid of the
Independent vote that supported them in
The campaign, The independent vote cast
~, tb,, a. Ia ci1n FIi1Joy, ronoiX1-
cd almost entirely us reformer, and be-
cause it was believed that his adminstra-
ton would be reform administration. If
he wishes to retain this support he must
10 on being II reformer, and must make
speeches very unlike that at the Manhattan
Club"
While the English yacht Osborne was
roundng the north coast of Sicily on June
2, the officer Of the watch saw long ridge
Of fins, each about six feet long, moving
tlowly through the water. He called for IL
lelescope, and 10! it was the sea-serpent.
The head was bullet-shaped, six feet in d.
imeter, and not unlike seals. Its fea-
lnres were seen by only one officer, who
described them as like those Of an alligator
The neck was comparatively narrow, but
80 much of the body as could be seen was
Ahape1 like turtles. The British ma
lines are anxious to learn why the mon
eter was padding along SO near the sur
nee of the sea. The explanation is at hand.
Two weeks earlier submarine volcano
Rot out of Joint in the Gulf of Tunis, and
lbe disturbance below water may have
atirred up the sea-serpent, which, when
seen, was only 100 miles from the scene of
ihe eruption.
Erastus Brooks is authority for the state
ment that the sale of newspapers in the
slreets by newsboys was substantially un-
known until the summer of 1913, the ini-
.al occasion being Mr.. Webster's celebrat-
ed Marshfeld speech, in which he declared
That 1.-The nomination of Gen. Taylor for
the presidency was one not fit to be made !"
This was regarded rs an affair of such
public moment ut the time that it was car
fied up to Boston by special express and
printed in the form of an extra, which Mr..
Brooks tells us, " was sold in the streets
with zeal and bought with zest never
excelled since" The next piece of start
ling news was the flight of Louis Philippe
lrom France, which also brought out the
newsboys with their startling cry, and
bince then they have become nearly as
much one of the institutions of the times
as the daily paper itself Indeed, some of
The shrewdest and most successful business
men in the country owe their success in
ife to the schooling received in the sale of
newspapers.
The INFLUENCE OF MAN ON CLIMATE.
The influence Of man upon climate has
been II favorable subject of late years, and
is now well-known that by cutting down
brests and draining the soil man can
Materially change the climate of coun
lry Some recent experiments conducted
ID Germany confirm this belief by show
ing the extent to which woods will affect
lhe rainfall. Two observatories were es-
lablisbed ior the purpose of comparison
Dne over clump of pine trees forty feet
high, and the other over II plain about
three hundred and thirty yards from the
wood Both of the observatories were
built at the same height from the ground.
Twelve months observation showed that
Of the total rainfall within that period ten
per cent more rain fell over the trees
Than over the bare land, distant three hun
dred yards from them. Further, the air
Over the wood was found during the whole
year of observation to be charged with
aqueous vapor to the extent of ten per