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

IN The dresses of the ladies at Saratog
IL this year, are noticed only for the absen,
of costly raiment
st Ex-President Grant has arrived at Ware
+ Italy, and there was a grand concert an
o display of fireworks in his honor
, The civil suit for damages filed by Uni
ed States Government against Mckee en-
c braces 1858 counts for sl,4OO each, aggrt
t eating s2,314,2OO.
Two causes for the disastrous stale c
trade and finance in this country are a.
signed by the New York Times" an in
Hated and incOnvertibe currency and
manufacturing industry unnaturally slim
uIated by prohibtory duties"
Adjutant General Cilley of Maine write,
that Governor Connor of that State anC
full staff will attend Vermont's Centennial
The authorities have provided ample po-
lice regulations. The Committee on En-
terlainment has accommodations for so OOO
people, and fully that number an expected
The Pennsylvania Railroad directors
having decided TO pass the usual quarterly
dividend the Springfield Republican re-
marks;-No strike is reported from the
10000 stockholders, scattered here and
there over the middle states, many of them
persons of small means, widows and Or
phans of scant incomes, nothing burned.
no troops ordered out, nobody killed.
The Columbus (Miss,) Index has the
merit of frankness. Since the republicans
gave up their organization in that state, it
coolly remarks that Z" the causes which
justified the fraud and violence heretofore
attending elections" no longer exist and
that " the purity of the ballot must be re. /
stored, and the citizen protected in his suf- /
rage"
Count Herbert Bismark, the elder son
OF the statesman, has entered the diplo-
matte career, and is at present at
tached by the Foreign Office to the staff Of
his father. The younger son, Count Will
helm, the more popular and the more
beer-oving of the two, is co referendar
ut the District Court, and is now prepar
ing 10 pass bis examination as an assess
or, Both sons, ieutenants Ia suite of
me ISL Regiment of Dragons, fought in {
'he late war with great distinction, and |
were decorated with the iron cross. Count
ass Marie, Bismark's only daughter, is her
athers favorite and his almost constant
/
A tutor of one OF the Oxford COLLEGES
who limped in his walk was some wears t
liter accosted by well-known politician s
Who asked him if he was not the chaplain
II the college at such a time, naming the
ear. The doctor replied that he was. The r.
interrogation observed, II knew You bv Y
our limp Well" said the doctor. ii, q
GEMS my limpng made Il deeper impress! y,
ion than my preaching" "Ah, doctor,n e.
vas the reply with ready wit, ait is the q
lghest compliment we can pay minis Il
Ell; to say that he is known by his walk Il
ather than by his conversation. ~ 80" IL
An Ohio paper describes what it terms r.
he " Black County" of the United State, til
fly years hence, 1t is Il district OF one
square, including the coun. le
es of Athens. Perry and Hooking. In So
fly years it atfirms, this region will eoual
ny coal region in the world. The dis. az ~
let has twenty-five feet of solid coal IN l'
We seams. The great vein (properIv GO
bed } is in places twelve feet thick, and ~
owhere less than six feet. Mingled u
nong the coal beds are inexhaustibl IN
IDS of iron. The thckest is five feeJ ca
'ep at the outcropi the thinnest, in places S s
INKS to six inches. lol
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