Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-08-22

should IL murderer in the south be called
a ku-klux and murderer at the north be
called rioter? We move TO amend by
inserting the words loyal ku-kluX in
stead of rioter."-AtIGntG (Ga.) ConSh-
tuition.
Mary J.. Booth, editor of Harper'S Bazar,
is paid $4,000 year for her services. Ex-
ceeding industry is one of her conspicuous
trait. She attends seven or eight hours
daily at the office, all the copy and illustra-
tons pass through her hands, besides do
ing good deal of writing for the Weekly.
Seven ocean steamers sailed Saturday
loaded to their utmost capacity with
freight, the grain shipments being very
large. and including 22l,000 bushels of
wheat. Only two steamers carry fresh
meat, the refrigerators being filled with
butter. There are $500 packages of but.
ter and $4,000 boxes of cheese.
1t may be interesting to ladies to know
that Mrs. Hayes wore, on the 10th, a
bottle green dress trimmed with invisible
green silk, light colored bonnet with a
white plume tipped with blue, lace veil
half covered her face. folding fan, dark
on one side and light on the other, and she
also wore gloves to match her hat.
Disease is killing Morton, Blame is kill
ing himself, Hayes, as to a second term,
committed suicide before he was born,
LIristow is buried, Conkling is about to
perish of inantion. HartranfL's hickory
shirt is his political winding sheet, Grant
is foundered-there is clear field for the
dark horse in 1S80,-Chicago Times.
Mary Mapes Dodge, editor of 81. Nicho.
las, is u handsom brunette, below the mid
die size, and quite stout, the embodiment
of vivacity and merriment. She has two
boys, arrived at mans estate, and no one
who did not know would suppose that they
belonged to her. She was married very
young, and is now but little over forty.
Bret Harte, it is reported, desired re-
Gently to be minister to China, and re-
ceiyed the hearty support of the Pacific
slope for further opportunity to study "Ah
Sim" But hard-headed Mr.. Evarts said
he desired man of business in Pekin,
and President Hayes. who had listened 10
the proposal with friendly air, thereupon
would hear nothing further about it.
As might have been expected, the coun.
try is already confronted with Hartranf1
as presidential probability. Considering
the natural tendencies Of the Pennsylvania
ans to evil, Gov. Hartranft did well. Il
he shall now succeed in making the ex.
tremely bumptious commonwealth o
Pennsy lvania us quiet and law-abiding as
one of our southern states, his chances foi
elevation in the national convention of his
party in 1880 ought to be very good. -
LouiSrilie Courier-Journal.
Gail Hamilton, says correspondent, sis
thirty-nine. She looks considerably youn
ger, however, owing to her small stature
expressive features, and vicacity of man.
ner. Though plain, she is not at all home
ly, and have heard persons call her hand
some when her face is animated. She is
IL brilliant talker, and great social at
traction ut Senator Blaine's Washington
house, where she makes her home during
the political season. The wife of james
&. Blaine is her cousin
Senator Morton's paralysis so affects his
muscular system that it is necessary tC
move him in bed The President hi.
sent dispatch of sympathy to him, and is
reported to have said 10 friend who
spoke to him of Mr.. Morton's illness: 81
look upon Morton rs the balance wheel Of
the Senate. His place cannot easily be
filed" The republican majority with &
| fpll yOtn iS than GNnr md
toms absence would make the republican
control uncertain.
Both United States Senator Jones and
the speculator Jim Kecne are selling
out their California possessions. The the
DRY is that they can do better with their
money at the East, which is quite proba
be-even if they are not obliged to inves
it in their debts, Jones has been spread.
ing himself powerfully. His ice machines
in the South do not yet prove success
and his new seaport town of Santa Moni
ca, down near Los Angeles in southern
California, does not ripen so as to pay
prompt dividends, and he is despairing o.
The English scientist who recently Kin,
ed two large horses and donkey ut col.
liery by fastening cartridges of dynamite
to their forcheads and firing them by cleo
tricity, has an humble rival. A cattle lob.
Der VINO turns an honest penny at Congle.
ton by buying the carcasses of deceased
cattle at few shillings piece, has lately
added to the ordinary routine the move
plan OF going round the fields before dav.
light, and running a long, sharp iron rod
through the intestines of grazing cows, in
order that there might be more to buv on
his usual economical terms.
The bond for $2l5,0OO in the case of the
steamer Denmark, libeled for silk SNUG
Cling, has been filed, and is signed by the
owners of the vessel, Hugh j. Hastings
and W. X. Garrison, This frees the Spain
held as surely for the Denmark. Purser
Maggie of the steamship Denmark saws he
has brought silks and laces from firms in
England TO New York for two wears and
a hall, aud had them sold at New York
paying the present master S25 for every
barrel landed (they being placed in barrels
for concealmenO. He has also brouobt
large quantities of silk for John Scott, who
A''o hSN W Ndutuh.
When Field Marshal Won Moltke was a
simple colonel he astonished the membors
OF his mess by his regularly taking ten
Frederick d'ors out of his pocket at the
beginning of dinner, and laying them be,
side his plate. Always after dinner ha
rIepocketed the gold, buttoned up his coat
looked sourly around, and disappear ed
1t was resolved to ask him the meaning NJ
his strange behavior, Well,n he said
" | have noticed, from the time entered
TINS regiment, that the conversation AT 70
DIG has always turned on women. or cards
or horse-racing, and have determined to
~! make present of ten pieces of gold to
the hrst man who should start a sensibIo
SUBJECT No one has yet earned them