Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-31
| We shall feel the better if we arc disap-
THE SUFFERING POOR

pointed.
THE SUFFERING rooR
IRE like to be allowed 10 suffer, for Charity
moves very slowly this winter. St. John $
Guild, the noblest Of them all, is without
funds, and distributes from day to day
what it receives. 1t has not means for
one tenth the calls that are made upon il.
It gathers iabout one thousand dollars a
lay, and that is q mere nothing. The
rther Charities are just as poorly provided
for the calls that are made upon them.
md the city is doing very little work.
Last Sunday thousand men were given
lwenty-four hours work clearing the ice
from portion of the streets. Ten thou
sand could be so employed, and 1t would
be mercy could it be done. The suffer
ing this year is among the honest class Of
people; the laborers who have been
thrown out of work by staganation in all
departments of business. | have seen
clerks and statesmen, who year ago were
in receipt of good salaries, taking relief
from Charities because they could do moth
ing else They would roll barrels on the
lock- but there are no barrels 10 roll
they would work on the streets, but there
is no work for them. 1t is terrible, and to
ldd to the distress, the cold is intense
God help the poor this winter.
HUNTING FOR GOLD.
There are great many places about
New York where, according to popular
belief, Capt, Kidd, the pirate, hid his ILL.,
gotten gold, but so far no one has succeed
ed in finding it. The last effort is being
made in Monmouth Co., New Jersey, and
singular to state, good many New York
ers have got the craze, and have invested
money in the search. There is an old
legend that two hundred years ago an In
dian saw four white men ascend Shark
River, and bury there an immense amount
Of treasure. This tradition was communi-
Gated TO an old settler, who for some un
explained reason did not dig for 1.-THE
Jerseymen of to-day would not have let ii
slumber so long-and the story has been
handed down from father 10 son. Some
time since company was organized to
search for the treasure, and mt last week
operations were begun. The belief is that
Kids treasure is in Money Hill," as
the place is called, and the company will
never stop till they have gone through the
entire locality, and they have abundant
capital to do it. There are three hundred
men at work, but up to date nothing has
been found Their faith is so well ground
ed that the men at work were offered II
very good sum per day for their services
in lieu of the share in the spoil originally
promised them, and every one of them
declined. The work is being done by Il
regularly organized company. The race
of fools is not entirely extinct.
BUSINESS
is still AS dull MS it can De, with no pros
pect of improvement The people are
now waiting for spring, hoping that warm
weather will bring the change.
VANDERBILT.
Vanderbilt's son Cornelius and his sis
tiers are preparing to make move on the
mllionaire's will. They are not satisfied
with the half million each left them, but
lhev want a slice of the hundred millions
he left. should be satisfied with what
the least of them got. Cornelius, who is
moving. was left an income of two thous-
anu uOIldTS II llOHlu, Dhu IL 1911 SlOuoh
for him. lie wants one. tenth of the estate
or nothing. There will be IN ugly fight
over it. have made up my mind unal-
terably not to leave hundred millions for
my heirs to wrangle over. | don't like
these fights Of families over property.
THE SNOW
stopped falling a week ago, but we are
suffering from its effects yet. There has
been but little freight over the roads for
weeks, and great deal Of Inconvenience
has resulted. Merchants are unable to
ship and produce from the interior is lying
along all the roads. waiting for CT ear
tracks. The snow fall on the coast has
been the largest for fifty year, and as ii
has been general, New York suffers from
it terribly. The roads are now well nigh
cleared, and freight is pouring in in inn
mense volumes. Ten thousand men, two
days, would have kept the Central track
clear, but Vanderbilt would not do it. He
is chip of the old block.
PIETRo.