Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-18

plates and the posts each side of the barn
doors upon both sides of the barn. Two
bolts passed eastward lengthwise Of the
roof, tearing off the boards and shingles,
and destroying the rafterS of the gable end
of the barn, then down the end of the
barn in four different places. One of the
bolts in passing from the barn plowed II
deep furrow in the ground for some dis
lance. j. S. Dana, Geo. Wheeler and two
other men who were in the basement ut
the time miraculously escaped with only
slight injuries. The barn is forty by sixty
feet, and just built, and insured, June 28th,
in the Farmers Mutual Fire insurance.
Company u. S. Stoddard, accompanied
by ID. f. Boyden, the agent of the Farm
er's, who insured the buildings, visited the
barn, by order of the Company, July 18th,
two days after the damage was done, and
settled with Mr.. Wheeler, the damage be-
ing estimated at $3.50.
EX-Gov, Ames has sold his property in
Natchez, Miss.
Grant actually gave her that message
ain care of the Queen" which some tipsy
veteran sent off in the name of the Grand
Army reunion.
The Old Line Wing threatens to get up
and take sides with the president if the
anti Hayes republicans show signs of
making trouble. He is said to be able to
take the whole south with him, too, should
such an emergency arise.
Human nature is human nature. The
prosecution of Charles Bradlaugh and
Mrs. Besant in London for publishing an
obscene book has increased the sale of II
very Objectionable work from five hum
dred copies in n year to one hundred and
twenty-five Thousand copies in three
months.
Parties and politics are getting as
mixed as the ingredients of n 4th of July
punch. 1t is hard to tell where the orig
inal begins and leaves off; whether man
is democrat or republican, Il llayeslte
or t'other fellow. And, what is worse,
things won't stand still long enough fol
the bosses to unravel the tangIe, or for
anybody in the tangle to get out of it
S. r.
Bob Ingersol has stirred up foemar
worthy of his steel in San Francisco, Rev
DR.. Thomas Guard, Methodist preacher
and the papers report Guard as getting the
best of the controversy. The question, Of
course, is the Christian system, the exist
ence of God and immortality, lngersol
being the champion inidel of the day, an(
having broken out with unusual freedom
of utterance in California.
The Emperor Of Brazil is travelling ii
Scotland Among the first places he vs
ted were Abbotsford, Melrose Abbey, ant
| other localities made famous by Sir Walter
, Scott. While at Dundee he was so en-
, crossed in inspecting the railway bridg
across the Tay that he did not leave him
) self time for breakfast, and in order It
e catch u train he was compelled to depar
r fasting.
1t is stated that Baltimore hts quee
e old man who, every day goes through Ger
n tain streets and takes his stand near
pump. There he remains counting aIou
U the persons who come for water until thu
g number reaches seventeen, when he turn
V and goes the way he came to his home
! He probably wants to make sure that thcr
are seventeen persons in Baltimore Wh
~ use water us n beverage.
II We are inclined to believe that Pos
ID master. General Key is right when he say
l. the opposition to the administration CONT
v from the extreme wings of the two partie
w and that majority of the moderate me
~ in Congress will be found supporting tt
H. president. While it is true that the soutl
it ern question may be re-opened. it is lik
ed wise true that all the discussions whit
4 NAV arise in or out Of Congress will n
" alter the political status of u single sout
u ern state Washington Stdr.
~ y, "The presidents southern policy th,
I'll far has consisted in the institution Of loo
hit self-government. His course in this rega
I'll is approved by all the elements heretofo
-, opposed to the republican purity, and it
''' fast becoming evident to the thinkil
C. colored men of the state that it will be
is positive benefit to them in the end. b
IT, how it will affect the present organlzali
l. of parties does not yet appear. At pre-
80 ent there is no visible evidence that til
lis will be affected at all.-New OHea
ed Times.
w. Governor Tilden, SO correspondent |
ed ports, has not given up the European II
at contemplated by him some time ago, |
will sail in week or ten days with Cyl
w. Field. Their principal business abro
will be to raise money to build the II
ich York Elevated Railroad which they p
W. pose to extend around the east side of
70 city. Mr. Tilden, it is stated, on the sa
vs., authority, has given up all thoughts
'o' reviving the presidential contest in
the courts He has also relnquishcd the pr
It's pose of maintaining his supremacy in N
York State politics, and will make no fl:
in the approaching fall convention.
''t Frank Leslie, in an interview, tells h
we a number of years since, Thomas Mas
young boy, applied to him for work,
lies was requested, by way of getting rid
me him, to go down and sketch ferry b
landing scene. So we'll did young \
'u' succeed, he was allowed situation in
cir artists room as II sort of assistant.
lsp- Eytnge took Il great fancy TO him,
~ young Mast was forever hanging aro
Eytinges table. Later, Eytinge secet
went over to Harpers', and Mast went v
on him. Leslie makes this criticism of Nj
be " Mast is great artist of course,
for does we'll now, guess, since he rece
l. at present so much of the drawing n
3" however, labors under the same disady
re- tagh that the music pupil with too goo'
re II ear does He had SO much natural tn
law that he could never school himself to
~, proper appreciation Of detail. To
'c". day, in fact, Mast cannot draw Il hand
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