Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-25

The Louisiana Democrat (Den1.) say!
that GO Gobble Grover of Oregon appear!
to have been elected much upon the
Cronin plan"
Ex-Treasurer Cardoza of South Caro-
lima is charged with misappropriating
public funds during his administration, and
is held in $4,000 for appearance in Octo.
Der.
Among the calamities of the great
strike is the fact that it occurs just rs the
great wheat crop of the West is ready tor
shipment. Eighty cars loaded with new
wheat arrived ut Toledo on Saturday.
There is not colored man in the Geor-
gia Constitutional Convention. This is an
unjust exclusion of large portion of the
citizens of the State, but it may be of some
advantage in inducing the Convention to
be scrupulously careful in securing the
most equal rights for the race which has
no voice in its deliberations.
Stringent measures have been adopted
against the Colorado beetle at Mulheim,
near Cologne. The infected potato fields
having been covered with sawdust, were
drenched with petroleum and set on fire.
The eggs and beetles on the potato leaves
having been destroyed by this summary
procedure, the ground was dug four feet
deep to look for grub and chrysals. These
were carefully picked out and burnt. FL
nally, the ground was drenched with caus-
tic lyc.
A man named Uriah Saunders recently
died ut Kingston, N. Y, who is said to
have been engaged in five hundred law
suits-mostly petty ones. With one neigh
Dor he had sixty .nine-mostly for trespass.
But the browning glory of his life was his
suit with one Harper, whom he called
bob y, and whom he said on his death
bed he was going to meet and renew with
him the battle left unfinished here for lack
of time. The suit was commenced TWEEN
ty years ago and was twice near coming
to trial The last time it was prevented
by the drowning of Harper.
Cleopatra's needle, soon to 90 to Eng
land, was originally erected at Baal, in
Syria, and dedicated to the worship of the
Sun. The city was aferward styled He'll
opolis by the Greeks, and is still celebrat-
ed for its ruins at Baalbec The mono
lith, with another, was brought to Egypt
by the Romans in the reign of Tiberius.
1t is of red granite, sometimes called The
baic stone, and was given to England by
Mohammcd Ali when Pashn of Egypt.
There are not less than II Egyptian ODE
lisks in Rome, which were brought from
Egypt by successive Roman Emperors rs
memorials of their triumphs
1t was announced some time ago that
Gen. Robert Toombs intended to throw
the whole weight of his gigantic intellect
in form of amendments to the Georgia
Constitution. The first indication that the
throwing has begun is the news that he
has introduced Il resolution in the Conven-
ton calling for the repeal of the act forbid
ding duellng, and has seen it voted down
by a majority Of three to one. Now let
him introduce another giving him permits
sion 10 90 off somewhere and shoot him
self, and see how many members will have
the hardhood to vote that down.
1t is said there is not living II single
descendant in the male line of Chaucer
Shakespeare Spencer, Milton, Cowley, But
lei, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Goldsmith,
Scott, Byron, Moore, Sir Philip Sidney,
Sir Walter Raleigh, Drake, Cromwell,
Hampden, Monk, Marlborough, Pcterbo-
rough, Nelson, Strafford Ormond, Caren-
don, Addison, Swift, johnson, Walpole,
Bolingbrook, Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke,
Grattan, Canning, Bacon, Locke, Newton,
Davy, Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Hogarth,
Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick or
Edmund Kcan.
-Four little black boys, the oil dost not
more than ten, met four little white girls
of the same age in Mobile last week, and
with one accord kissed them. The next
morning an officer went down the road
and finding the four little black BOYS fast
asleep under bridge, took them before
the Mayor, Did you kiss the little girls?n
asked the Mayor very sternly. and each
little black boy said Yes, Sir" Then
justice was melted out to these dreadful Of
tenders. They were publicly spanked?
Not so. Bill" the Oldest, was sent to
Jail for nine months; Pete and tom {"
got four months, and Hank" is
immured at the expense OF the county for
n period of two months. The four little
black boys were taken to the Jail without
the aid of troops, and the little white girls
OF Mobile are now playing tag in peace
and quiet.
FACTS ABOUT THE P. AND o. R.-The
completion of the Vermont division of the
Portland and OpdonShur0 ro,I IN Cu,,