Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-07

Gov, Hayes is quoted as saying Of the
electoral commission: sit has now become
! lawsuit, and we have good case, good
lawyers, II good court and good pros
poets"
Judge Davis is represented as feeling
very glad that he didn't have to go on the
commission, because he would have had to
decide against the democrats on every le-
gal point involved.
While we have had winter Of great
snowstorms, Great Britain has had great
floods, and Norway and Sweden unwonte1
SHOWS, France reports mild season. A
late Paris letter says the oldest inhabitant
does not remember such mild, delightful
weather.
jefferson Davis is about to occupy u
house at BeAuvier, near Missouri City,
there to write the "reminiscences of his
public career, which divers injudcious
friends have been demanding ut his hands.
lie is to be assisted in his work by prom
ncnt man of Mobile and by Mrs. Dorsey,
Il southern writer of verses
Three governors are among the senators
whose terms begin on the Attn of March
Samuel j. Krkwood Of Iowa, Lafayette
Grover of Oregon and Richard Coke of
Texas. The first and third gave way to
the lieutenant governors elected with
them, who will serve till the end Of the
year, but Oregon has no such officer, and
the secretary of state, S. F. Chadwick,
who has already been sworn in rs Growers
successor, will hold the office till Septem-
Der, 1873.
The treasury agents at Boston have
been working up II case which will bring
before the United States courts one Of The
largest manufacturing companies of tine
charged that they have received from the
government over 100000 drawback on
exported goods on the plea that they We're
manufactured Of imported iron on which
duty had been paid whereas they were
made wholly Of American iron. Suits are
to be begun at once for the amount of the
drawback and penalties, which will in
crease the claim of the government to
100000.
A notable centenarian death is t at of
Mrs. Nancy G. Van Rensselaer,, widow of
Gen. II. X. Van Rensselaer, of Albany, at
Randolph, N. Y, aged 1902. The old gen
eral equipped and commanded II regiment
raised from the Van Rensselaer, manor,
and was wounded in the battle with Bur-
goynes army ut Fort Ann, N. Y. Since
the death of her husband, in 1916, Mrs.
Van Rensselaer, has lived with her son and
has led IN active cheerful life. The imme
diatc cause of her death was an attack Of
dropsy.
The Mississippi democrats used various
methods TO make sure of II good majority
for Tildcn. One dcci ELY effective ex.
pedicnt was revealed by II witness before
the Senate committee on Saturday, being
the furnishing of duplicate key to the
balot-box to one of the democratic judges
of election ut every votlng-place in A
county. This wiIncss comes from Hines
county, and the figures indicate that the
Judges made good use of these keys to pull
out republican ballots and substitute demo
cratic. The total vote was 5077, against
800 III 1877, mt the republican NOIG nus
sunk from 40l5 to 1874, and the demo
cratic increased from 1889 TO 4503. There
is reason to fear that frauds Of this sort
were not confined to Hines county.
"What," said Sir Edward Thornton, as
he passed down the stairs, "wonld such II
people us the French think of this speca-
cle-the lawfulrepreentatiyes Of two great
parties submitting questions of national
equity to the form of law us simple ms
those employed in the commonest courtP"
I" 1t is wonderful exhibition of national
virtue and sell-restraint, said another di-
plomat, land does more credit TO republ-
can government than the conque-tS of an
empire" A member of the commission,
commenting on the day, thanked God that
he was an American, -" for believe said
he, THAT there was never n more magnan-
imous spectacle in the Iageantry of ma
tons than the lawful spirit of the two par
ties bowling submissively to the law which
puts what they deem II fairly won victory
to the hazard of judicial construction. -
Washington Letter.