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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

WINDSOR PRIsON.-Ed. Hayden the
Derby Line murderer has come to his So
Der senses and fully realizes his situation.
He is confined in cell in Murderers'
Row." and the door is only opened to pass
in his food, lie is in a pitable form of
mind
John Clark, the burglar who blew open
Mr.. Tewksbury,s safe at Randolph two
years ago and is at Windsor under eight
years sentence is II noted New York burg
lar, one of the smartest in the country
He is suffering from partial paralysis of
the lower limbs.
John P. Phair is in solitary confinement
in cell in "Murderers' Row, and suffers
much mentally. He was convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Frieze at Rutland in June
1874, and is sentenced to be hanged the
first Friday in April, next,
Miles, the Barre Bank burglar is hearty
and vigorous and is advanced to the high
err branches of the shoemaking business.
lie occupies cell number 81, on the second
tier, back from the street and out of the
reach of signals from the exterior. He is
faithful and well-b behaved, but the prison
officials think he will bear close watching.
His wife paid him II visit few days ago.
Charles Lewis,the alleged murderer ofan
old man in one of the Windham County
mountains lust spring, occupies cell on
Wanderers Bow" He is there for safe
keeping and his trial will come off ut the
next term of Wintham County Court.
There isn't woman in the Institution.
The convicts turn out from 400 to 1900
pairs of shoes per day and the State Prison
is on II paying basis financially. There are
now 147 conviots in the prison the largest
number ever confined there. The sanitary
regulations and condition are excellent
there being bul two prisoners in the hos
pital. Warden Bailey is an excellent and
efficient officer, devoting his whole time
and attention TO the care and safe keeping
of the prisoners.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

TILDEN IN A BAD WAY.-The Washing.
ton correspondent Of the Springfield Re-
pubijcun says: The republicans in this
vicinity are getting even with those
democrats who, for years, have been fond
of reporting Gen. Grant us II hard drnker
and much of the time in IL state of intoXi-
cation. They assert that Mr.. Tidcn has
been intoxicated most of the time during
the last six weeks that he has quarreled
with some of his best friends, including
Mr.. Hewitt that he is detected over the
loss Of SO much money during the presi-
Dental campaign, and so on ! Some Of
these rumors come down to details, and
assert that Barnum and Gwin beat him TO
the amount of over Il million of dollars
for campaign purposes, and that Mr.. Til
den, if he loses the object of his ambition,
will soon drink himself to death! | sup
pose, of course, that tive-siXths Of these
stories are false, but us Gov. Tillen is no
teetotaler, but likes strong drink full as
well us Gen. Grant does, our democratic
friends, if he becomes President. will
doubtless have IN opportunity of knowing
how ii feels to have their party chief set
down as drunk every time he takes Il So
cial glass of wine. Gen. Grant says it
will seem very pleasant to him to TASTE the
sweets of private life, and especially of
escaping Misrepresentation. Gov Tilden
already knows what it is 10 have his pri-
vate ACTS tumprted TO the world, but it is
nothing to what is coming if he takes the
presidential chair. There he will soon
become 'sot, that is if he, like Gen
Grant, is fond Of II glass of wine with his
dinner--and he will be regarded by his
political enemies rs one of the worst men
that ever lived. A COOL and upright re-
publican told me the other day that he be-
lieved Tilden to be far more corrupt thar
Tweed in his palmiest days."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-Thursday morn
ing, Jan. II, the prisoner Henry Gravln,
convicted of the murder of Herbert o.
White of Weathersield, last fall, endeav
ored to obtain of another prisoner razor,
evidently for the purpose of suicide. Dur.
ing the morning he seized one man and
endeavored to compel him to produce his
razor, but i'll attempts of this kind failing,
he took piece of looking glass, and retir-
ing to II cell by himself made fearful cash
in the left side of his neck, partially sever
ing the jugular vein. Tho alarm was at
once given to the keeper and physicians
summoned, the wound was closed and the
flow of blood checked, While in deli
rous state he freely talkrd abont the muir
der and maintained his innocence of the
crime although stating that he was party
to the arrangement by which it was per-
petrated He said it was arranged be.
tween himself and two of his hired men
that they should start for Claremont in the
evening, and lie should then send White
home. At II convenient place on the road
they were to waylay and murder him
Further than this he did not say, and it is
Il matter Of conjecture whether he gives
the facts us they occurred or whether this
is n story on which he had been dwelling
with view of attempting to shield him
self from the gallows. He is very low
and if kept quiet and prevented from re-
opening the wound there is thought to be
a bare chance of his recovery.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17
The Weeks Politics.

The Florida and South Carolina situa-
tons remain unchanged. In louisiana,
Pinchback has taken four of his followers
into the Nichols Senate and it is thought
other negroes will 90 over from the repub-
Iican house. Packard occupies the state
house and Nichols controls the rest of the
city. The president has not recognized
either government and Gen. Augur is
merely instructed to preserve peace The
committeeman have nearly all gone back
to Washington.
In the Oregon electoral dispute the SEN
ate committee has traced the $4,000 chec k
to W. T, Pelton, Tilden's nephew; but
Pelon swears that one Scott, a member of
the democratic committee, was the man
who stood back of him. and that he was
not in that transaction " the nephew of
his uncle"
The House committee on counting cleo
toral votes has hastily made report, but
since making it, has been in consultation
with the Senate committee, which is COM
posed of good men, and the latest report
is that the two committees are agreed upon
u plan. There have been rumors for sew
eral days that the Senate committee had
come to m understanding, end the most
generally accepted theory was that they
proposed the two houses should count, but
in case of disagreement the dispute should
be referred to the four Supreme Court
judges longest in commission, with nine
congressman added; the House to choose
five, the Senate five, and one of the ten tc
be dropped by lot.
Whether this is the proposition agreed
on or not, the country will be pleased to
have the matter determined in us honorable
a way. There is Il deal of bowling about
this plan in some newspapers that call it
electing by chance, Tipping "copper""
and the like of that. All of which is very
cheap talk and not worth answering until
it is known whether the plan agreed on.
if one has been agreed on, contains the
feature which SO excitcs the mirlh of the
kept testers Of the press.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

Weather items from the Sunny
South: In Texas, snow has fallen to
the depth of from to IS inches, crushing
in roofs and freezing numbers of horses
and cattle to death A negro froze to
death in Houston, and one in Dallas. In
Louisiana, trains have been snow-b und
and negro froze to death at Shreveport
In Mississippi, members ofthe Legislature
were snow-bound, and for two days nc
quorum could be had Persons have
crossed the river on the ice mt Vicksburg
for the first time in the history of that sec.
ton, In Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and Vr.
ginia, the snow and cold are unprecedent.
ed in depth. In Georgia and South Caro-
lima, seet has been very destructive tc
trees and telegraph lircs. The Mississipp
river has been gorged with ice us far nortI
as Ozark island, nearly 100 miles below
Helena,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

State auditor Jed P Ladd has been con-
fined to his bed, ut his home in Alburgh,
for two weeks. lie is improving.
The Samuel j. to whom the democrats
look with faith is called Randall and not
Tiden. The latter, the great relormer,
seems to have about us much Influence
over his party us II chilled con. fi,h would.
Mark Twain ought to be hung or left
out doors over night. He went and made
IL speech about New England weather, and
we have the consequences. Mark ouch,
to know that his imagination, brilliant as
it is, cannot any more than keep even
with the regular custom work of our
weather clerk, and still he has gone and
stirred him up and flttered him into see
ing what he can do, and he has gone and
done it.
The state sheep breeders association
held their annual meeting at Middlebury.
Wednesday, with an unusually large at,
tendance, and N. T. Sprague of Brandon
was elected president.
The Good Tcmplars of the state number
5l28, loss. during the year, of 265,
though ll55 were initiated; there are SO
lodges, nine being formed last year. The
receipts of the grand lodge were $1774,
and the expenses 1890.
Three ex-Speakers of the House of Rep
resentatives, each regarded in his day as
particularly good authority on the ques.
lions of procedure. are on record in favor
of the proposition that the President OF
Senate must count the Electoral vote in
the absence of legislation or concurrent
action of tho Two Houses of Congress
Two of these ex-Speakers were Liberals,
four years ago They are Colfax, Banks
and Galusha A. Grow.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

The Academy of Science in Paris mes
in the worst ventilated hall in the cEE.
1t was member Of this society who w.
found after Standing an hour in front of &
butchers shop where a calls tail was stucE
through knot hole, trying to find oaE
how that calf got through that hole.
James Gordon Bennett has been hidiak
on his steam yacht. it seems, since his "a
turn to New York after the duel. H
boarded the steamer City of Rlchmond
from the Herald yacht on Saturday, az
Sandy Hook, and sailed for Europe. AIt
Mays whereabouts are not yet known.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, Jan. Is
The market was very dull, attendance
small and receipts light. The quotations.
remain about the same as last week. Wo|
quote win er butter at 20 to % cents per
pound. Small lots of fall butter are com
ing forward, and are held at high figure
about 81 cents.
The Moody and Sankey meetings which
were expected to begin this week, in Bos.
ton, will probably be postponed Il week or
Two, as the evangellsts. who had intended
to give up the Chicago work to Whit il
and Bliss, are, by Mr. Bliss death, forced
TO remain there through this week, and
need and ask for short rest before begin
ming their work in Boston.
Among the laws passed at the last ses.
sion, and which went into effect on The
first of this month, is one which changes
the standard bashel, by weight, of various
kinds OF produce. Sixty pounds of beans
now make IL bushel. instead of ia beino re-
quired. A bushel of buckwheat drops
from AZ to 4G pounds. A bushel Of herds
grass or Timothy seed is fixed at As in
stead OF AZ, and il hushel of onions at SO,
in place of o. The weight of Il bushel of
apples IS fixed by statute for the first time,
and is 40 pounds.
Vanderbilt could have given Il million
apiece to every man, woman, and child
among his lineal descendants. But he did
not. He gave his son VIM. II. over forty
millions and divided fifteen millions among
The rest. He thought women had no need
OF much money and only gave his daugh-
tiers half million apiece but VIM. Ii. is
to make their portions round million
apiece. His spendthrift and epileptic son,
Wi hclluo' Solo OllIy Vic income Oh SZUU,-
600; -Four of his grandsons are thrown on a
cold world with the following little sums
Cornelius Vanderbilt gets S., 400, 900; w.
X. Van derbi't, $4,000, 900; Fred A. Wand
erbilt, $4,000, 900, and George Vanderbilt,
S2OU0, 900.
Nothing like the present winter is re-
membered in the Sunny South by the
"oldest inhabitant." When the mercury
gets much below the freezing point, the
average southerner thinks it has gone low
enough; but during the past fortnight the
thermometer has recorded several degrees
below zero, not only in Tennessee but even
IN Georgia. At the same time there has
been the heaviest fall of snow on record i,
foot and Il half in Tennessee and Virgin
III, and almost rs much in Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas. Southern railroads
are totally unprepared for such storm,
the snow-plow being unknown even in
Tennessee, and good many loads were
blocked up for DAYS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

Gravelin, the Weathersfeld murderer,
cut his throat in his cell, last week, with a
piece of glass. There is a chance for his
recovery.
The Republican Convention at Concord,
n. H., Jan. 10th, nominated Hon. B. f.
Prescott of Epping for Governor and G, P.
Conn for Railroad Commissioner. In the
Third Congressional District Hon. Henry
w. Blair was renominated.
A House committee is examining u.
Chandler about his conduct Of the republi.
can campaign and there is quite lively
disagreement between the committee and
Chandler as to whether they can make
him answer certain questions. Mr.. Chan
der says, howeverbe don't care how many
of his kilograms they see. If Chandler
has to tell all he knows it would not be
strange If Hewitt and even Tilden should
have to take the stand and reveal the dem.
ocratic methods Of operation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

There appears to be no end of the. con-
cessions and the compromises that the
Democrats are asking the Republicans tC
make, in order TO insure the success Of
Mr.. Tilden.
How does it happen that all the great
influential meetings, held without distnc.
ton of party in the country for tina pur.
pose of influencing Congress in the mat
ter, are held by rabid Democrats every
time, and in many instances by rampant
rebels into the bargain?
If the Republicans are required to make
any moro sacrifices than the other party,
us they arc all the time demanding, We
would like to know for what reason.
If Mr.. Tilden has Il majority of the votes
legally cast, let him be inaugurated peace
ably, without all this labored argument,
manifestly to try to help a bad case.
If Mr.. Hayes is legally elected, of
which there now appears no doubt, let him
take the helm,-and the Democrats would
appear 10 much better advantage, if they
would stop charging the Republicans that
they cannot afford to have their candidate
counted in by so small a majority, without
destroying the party. Please let the ex-
pertinent be tried. S. r.
Boston, Jan. 15 1877.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17
MONTPELIER MARKET.

ROT me Oee6 ehdiR0 Jan. L., 1875
Apples, dried new ll6l2l,c n ID; DuIier eoze
So; Beef 462Oc; Beef dried, green weight, SOC
Pore, hesh, 2bc; PORK, salt, l2Kc; liam, lie:
Corn so 10; Corn meal, T. 100 tbs, al 80; oSts, !.
bushel, 50dOOc; Flour. n bill, S6 5nalON,: Crs,L
ers; tl-OS; Coal, ton, SL75dSOO; cheese, y n.
a 7. l6SG; F'sn-Fresh Cod, dressed, l0c; Halibnt
salmon l1nl2he v ID; Tnpe, l2i<c Kerosene
oil p gallon, 453; Potatoes, = bushel, 20 So:
salt, 6nahel soc Dairy lSa2q y h; sugar
refined l3Salte; Drown l2c; MOlaSaes, u Gallon
'0n tl,0O; Maple Sugar v IN, 7dlOc, Syrup'
gallon 4Ocd$l.OOi Tea 50ca SO 90; Coffee 'rII
Java, roasted zoe; Rio roasted, 300 " h; Herds
Grass seel, 800; Michi gan Glover. 2je v n
Noihern New York, do, zoe p pound,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

FAMINE IN INDIA.-The famine is so
great in Madras, India, that million Of
people have had to resort to the govern
ment relief works, while the number in
Bombay is 2S7 900. In Madras, the ter
litory covered by the famine is $4,000
square miles, and contains population OF
100000; in Bombay, $4,000 square
miles, with II population of S,000006, s.
100000 of whom are directly affected. The
government estimates show that the fam.
inc in Bombay will gradually increase,
reaching the maximum in April, when II
million persons will require relief, after
which, it will gradually ecrease. In Mad
ras, the prospect is propoHionately worse.
The cost 10 the state will be over $4,000
000
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

Snow BLOCKADE.-Th amount of snow
which ut present covers Northern, Central
and Western New York has not been
equaleI since 1851, if even then. Through
out great portion of this region it lies
three feet deep on the level, and is fire.
Quently drifed to height Of 10 or Ii
feet. Fences are buried to their top rails
roads are almost impossible. even for the
heavy country sledges; and L1e various
railways are obliged to reopen their bur.
led tracks day af er day. The snow brings
to the New York Central IN unexpected
AMI peculiar difficulty. On single track
railroads IL snow plow clears the way
promptly, efficiently, and permanently
| Even on II double track the snOw-plow i,
of great service. Only on Il quadruplC
track does steam prove utterly unequal t,
the emergency of great snow-storm
There the plow clears one track only tC
throw the snow upon another. Steam is
| found useless, and the railroad authorize,
are thrown back TO the most primitive APP
planes, and compelled to employ in ar
my of laborers to shovel the snow from
every square foot of their four tracks from
one side of the State 10 the other The
Rochester and Buffalo papers have hat
very lutte to say about the matter, but tht
New York Central has been In state o
almost hopeless confusion for eight day.
past. In the Mohawk Valley, between
Utica and Rome, Lyons and Clyde on Tho
direct line, and at Chill, Bergen, anC
Churchville, between Rochester and Buff
10, the drifts amount to blockade whirl
is constantly renewed, and the trains art
running very much ut random.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17
TIE BEAUTIFUL SNOW.

SNow is all very well when you have
logs to haul, or when you want to sleigh
ride. But in the narrow streets of New
York it is II nuisance, pure and simple.
The street-cars are running only half the
number of cars ut the very time when the
capacity for carrying ought to be DOUBLED,
and the streets are SO bockaded rs TO
make trucks superlluous. Tt conse-
quence is terrible interruption of trade.
The terminal facilities Of New York are
wrctched at best, and a very heavy pro-
portion of the produce consigned TO this
market has to be handled by trucks. Now
that trucking is an impossibiIity, it is al
going to B,ltimore. The merchants are
indignant ut the authorities for not remov-
ing he snow. Cargoes intended for New
York are going to Baltimore to save the
fearful cost Of handling in the city. 1t is
estimated that the snow, thus far, has cost
the city round million, and general
suspension Of business is feared, if meas
ures cannot be taken 20 remove it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17

NEUROLOGY OF VERMoNT.-The Te,.
mont Farmer gives the following list o
the more prominent residents or natives
of Vermont, who died during the yeal
1876 :-Luther Newcomb. Montpelier
John A. Stevens, ST. Johnsbnry; Dr.. Rob.
inson, 81 years old, the oldest man il
Bennington; Joseph Gould, Mortified
Paul 7. Sweet Burlington; Reuben Dan.
ies, Woodstock; George G. Hunt, st. Al
bans; DR.. Abram Lowell, Chester; N. Z
Abbott, Weston; Rev j Rogers, Swanton
Geo. l.. Stone, St. Albans; j. w. Vince
lock, of the Freeman. Montpelier; Judge
Isaac F. Rudtield, ut Charleston; Jededial
Clark, Rochester; George IL. Walworth
Newport; Dea. j. Buckminster, Ludlow
T. .. Sargent, Chester; Judge DAME
Fish, Jericho; Go. S. Howe, Rutland
Judge Ezra June, Brandon; Rev. f. NJ
Sherman. Clarendon; DR. Eliakim Paul
Middlelown; DR. Paget, Derby; W. Reyes
Reading; WIN. Whiltord Addison; Frank
W. Harris, Brattlrboro; Rev. G. p, Fren
year, Townsend; Fayette NJ. Marsh, Shell
don; j. r. Allen, Newport; Judge H.
Munsell. over thirty years judge of probate
Bristol; j, S. Carpenter, Bennington; Lu
Their Pease, Hartford; Ferdinand Tyler,
BraltIeboro; James Graham, South Peach
am; Col. Wright, Starksboro, veteran o
the war of 1872; Rev. Joseph Underwood
East Ilardwick; Dea. Daniel Thompson
Brattleboro; DR. 0. w. Drew, Waterbury
VIM. Fuller, ST. Johnsbury; Rev NJ X
Peck, Brooklield; Louis V. A Iluri, Bur
lngJon; Vermont's CeDtenarian, being
l04 year; HartweIl Powers, Ferrisburg
another veteran of 1872; Thomas Bartlett
Esq Lyndon; II. Ii. Dyer, RuJland; Capt
q. U Cody, Mdllebury; Ephraim Mills,
Burlington; Hiram Bellows, St. Albums
G. w. Bailey and Carlos Bancroft, Mon
tpelirr; SewalI Fullam, Ludlow; Hon. Ma
than Sprague, Brandon; Hon. Thomas Z
Powers, Woodstock; Rev. Benjamin Shaw
in anti-slavery lecturer, Landgrove. j. S
Adams, the first and very popular secreta
ry of our board of education. N p. Eos
ter, ID. d., So many letrs pastor in Bur
linglon and Rev. b. d. Ames, at one tim,
settled in Charlotte, are among old Yer
monlers who have passed away.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17
His full name is ElhebOld Allen Cronin,

His full name is EIheboId Allen Cronin,
Cornell University has fifty women students.
The Grand Duke Alexis OF Russia will spend the
winter in the United States.
Five hundred and 1ny-two suicides in the United
States, during the centennial year.
Some anonymous was sent Cronin dozen large
sized handkelchefs the other day.
Mr.. Alexander II. stephens is very i'll again,
having had hemorrhase oil the lungs.
Mr. John L. Motley is in Paris, in very good
health and very busy in a llerNry way.
Now that Bennett has really got of on his way to
Europe, the Worcester Gaz4Ite implores Let lis
have peace"
Duluth, which was TO be the rival OF Chicago has
500 inhabitants, and most of them find it hard t.
make both ends meet.
The states hay crop, last year, declined Il PEI
cen in quantity, because OF the outh, but was II
per cent better in quality than The previous year.
A smart boy, asked for the derivation of cyan.
Nce," said that John Bull, as yanker, tried to yank
US out of our rights, and we were then the yankees
An Arkansas funeral took on a lively phase when
the men who were iillhg the grave got to Fighting,
and two were killed before the eyes If the mourn.
ers,
1t doesn't make any difference, after all, which
city pachs the most pork. IFS the number of Uls.
er overcoats worn in a town which tells the story
If i's progress.
Miss Helen Locke, a beautiful and accomplished
gnl Of eighteen, of Bristol, n, H., died on Friday
IRON the effects Of inhaling gas from red fire, burn.
cd during taGleau.
The old orange tree at Versailles, known as the
Grand Bourbon" has finally died at the ripe aye
f4jj years The queen of Navarro gave the seed
10 her gardener 1921.
The lrst yea receipts of the 4.miles-long Wood
,to' K railroad were $2l ON Two trains each way
nave been Iun, daily, Carrying Ii 2SS passengers
and G6lI tons OF freight, without accident
The Syetlana, flagship of the Russian squadron
arrived IN Hampton, Va. recently, having on board
irandDuke "A eXis and Admiral Bountajof, and
the remaining ships Of the squadron are expected.
James Gordon Bennett is said to be very gener-
GUS to all Herald employees. lie has gwen $50
watches to some of marked enterprise, and on
Iltor, out oil health, he gave $5IOO or European
rip.
"What do they mean by bull-dozing" asked an
Dnquisiuye wife the other evening Il suppose
answered her hu band, from the reccsses of his
evening paper, suppose they mean BUN that is
halrasIeep" And the injured one kept on with
ner sewing, but SAID nothing.
Pauline Lucille Western, the actress died, last
week, of pneumonia. She was born in New Or
leans in lS43. Her mother married theatrica
manager named ENGLAND, who, observing the talent
Of Lucille and her sister Helen, put them on the
stage In 1858. She attained success in "Eas
Lynne and Oliver Twist" reaping large fnan
ciAl rewards from both. IIer beneactions were ex
tcnsye and her use of money was always free. She
had Il country seat at Maiden, Mass. where heI
mother lives. Miss Westerns body was taken ia
Massachusetts.