Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-17

Tudoa Davis will initiate. his sehatoria'
ooreer bv pressing bill for re-organlza,-
ton Of the federal judiciary, which is sad
ly needed.
Nv Love. correspondent of the Bos-
ton Globe was assaulted and knocked down
IN Center street, Rutland, about 10 o'clock
Friday night, by some unknown person.
Vice President Wheeler indorses the
presidents policy and believes that before
HE next presidential campaign it will be
adonted bv a reunited and victorious re-
publican party.
Cen Zimmerman, who crossed the Dan
ubo into Dobrudscha with 10000 men,
some three months ago, and hasn't been
heard of since, is understood to "contem-
plate a military movement
Reckless fathers will learn, after while,
to have becoming respect for their chill
dren. The son of a Kentucky man lately
fred charge of bird-shot into him for
waking him up too early in the morning.
A prisoner in Louisiana Jail patiently
feigned paralysis for three months SO as
to get chance to escape; and when the
opportunity came, in the language of the
local newspaper, che was off like tele-
gram"
1t has been learned that severe frost in
Florida, last winter, had so injured the
orange trees that the would not bear well
this fall. These fears have proved ground
less; there will be larger crop than ever
before.
DUNG the last year there were ten
thousand eight hundred and nineteen boys
and ten thousand three hundred and elev-
en- girls born in Minnesota. There were
five hundred and fifty pairs of twins,
eight sets of triplets, and one of quadru-
plets.
A ninety-eight-po wife at Jay be-
came disguised with the hired man while
her husband was away; discharged him
and did all the household and farm work
herself digging fifty bushels of potatoes in
day.
The white whale in the London Aquari-
UNI died of pneumonia resulting from Il
cold which it took in crossing the Atlantic
1t is evident that these delicate creatures
should be well wrapped up and prevented
from getting wet when taken on II long
sea voyage.
Senator Ben Hill felt it to be his duty TO
call upon the president the day after the
Ohio ratification in Washington and con-
denim the utterances of the northern dem
ocrats who spoke, and declare that Black
burn did not represent the sentiment of
the southern democracy.
Spain has,at last paid over half million
of dollars of the awards made by the Joint
Commission which sat in 1871, to adiudi-
cate the claims of naturalzed citizens of
the United States whose property in Cuba
was conliscated on the ground of their
participation in the rebellion in that island
The business men of New York Seem to
look upon the business prospects of the
country with hopefuness if not with COM
pete satisfaction. Yet the Ohio initiation
lunalics affirm that the business of the
country has been ruined by the policy Of
contraction,
Blondin has returned to England, anC
and is exhibiting on rope 70 feet from
the ground, standing on his head, lying or
his back, feinting to fall, sitting on the
back of chair balanced on two legs or
the rope, and riding velocipede along it,
backward and forward.
A new sect called "the Purifiers" be-
longing to the Greek church, has sprung
up in Russia. Their leading doctrine i,
that all persons must marry on coming o.
age; that the husband must be subordinate
to the wife and recognize her Us the heaC
of the family, and that once a week h,
must confess his sins to his wife.
Springer of Illinois announces war OF
the whiskey tax, which is mostly paid, b,
says, by the state of Illinois. He cent,
ignores the fact that the burden fails OF
the people who drink the whiskey, no
on those who make it. No single in
lerest has been more prosperous ut tn,
West than that of raising corn.
One of the New York Police Commits
sloners has addressed an earnest protest t,
John Kelly against the assessment of sub
ordlnates in that department for poltica
purposes This was brought out by cir
cular received by clerk calling for con
tribution of thirty dollars to the Tamman,
Hall campaign fund.
1t is reported that New York gentle
man, whose name is withheld at his ex
press desire, has pledged the annual in
terest during his life of $25,0 to pay tn,
salary of a Professor of Political Econom,
IN Middlebury College, and will rive t.
the college at his death the full sum, Th
payment will commence next wear
The Episcopalian convention, Mt Roston
took important action, on Wednesday, i,
the passing, by vote of 144 to. 1871, th
amendment allowing the division of die
cese itself. A resolution was adopted cal
ing the attention of the bishops to the de
moralIzlng effects of raising church fund
by ice cream parties, round dances, fairs
ratlles, etc ''''''
The constitution of the Masonic frate,
nifty in France had an article which read
Free Masonry holds to the principle q
the ext 'tence Of God and of the immortal
lty OF the soul.' After long agitation r
the SUBJECT, convention of the bretbro
mas changed this article to read: =. Ere
Masonry holds to the principle of of an nj
solute freedom of conscience. and tn III
brotherhood of mankind" VI
Boss Kelley is now engaged in enforcir
the payment of assessments made Inv hir
upon all the employees of the CITY fo
political purposes. Police COMMISSIONS
Erhardt resists the efforts of Mr.. Celly an
writes him very sharp letter, in wbicI
he lniormes the Tamany chieitilin that thi
assessment business will prove final +
discipline, and, eff knaves and sconnGroi
again overcome the good votes of ono
men by fraud and wrong, it will in ~ N
small measure due to the practice ybinI
your commtte has lacked strenofh "
inclination to forego. %" =
Recently, in Illinois. II man name
Thomas Crawford, while under the inau
ence of liquor obtained at Bloominolor
lost his life by lying upon railroad track
Ills widow obtained a verdict for damnoe
against the saloon keeper who sold hin
the liquor. The latter being bankrupt III
WIDOW sued the owner of the building oc
cupied by him as business place, and ha