Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-19

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centre, for the western cities are receivinI
it direct from China and Japan, via tn,
Pacific Railroad, and enormous quantities
have been rushed upon the American
market because of the improved facilities
for getting it. The importers with larg,
stocks on hand are suffering terribly, ant
the fear is that the bottom is not yet reach
cd.
CIIROMOS.
Good friends in the country, beware
This is the season for the chrome man tC
commence his devastating career, and Y OF
will be acute if he does not take YOU in
When mild, meek-hced young man en-
tiers your door, and announces in the sweet
est voice that he is introducing the Chris
I'a" Fog Horn, which he is doing by means
Of valuable works of art, signal your DO,
to let the bulldog loose. For he will open
an oll-cloth arrangement, and display two
hldeons, gaudy, high-colored pictures
which he will assure you sell at retail for
ten dollars, or rather would sell at that
price only the publishers of the Fog Horn
publish them, and they cannot be had at
any price except by subscribing to that in.
valuable family paper. You can't get the
precious works of art, for less than len
dollars, but that you may be induced to
read the Fog Horn, year, you can get
that paper and the " works of art,"-they
are genuine oil chromos,-for three dol.
lars! By the time he gets through this
Grafton set the dog on him, and let the ami
NAL alone till he gets through with him.
A dog trained to kill chrome men is in
valuable. For be it known that these
chromos, us they are called, are the mean
est, cheapest. most infamous caricatures of
art ever palmed off upon the public. They
are worse if anything than the papers
that use them The L" works of art that
retail at ten dollars, cost Just six cents
apiece, and that is all, They are common
Autographs, printed in colors, and are
printed in this city by the million. Prang
OF Boston makes chromos that are really
fine, but they sell at a high price, and
never get into connection with the Foq.
Horns. | say that the chromos hawk
ed about the country as premiums for
newspapers, cost only six cents each, and
you can buy them by the quantity for even
less than that. When the dodge was not
quite as we'll understood as now, some of
the religions papers run up enormous cir
culations by their use. The woman who
took them was tolerable well pleased with
them till she found the same pictures on
the walls of all her neighbors, and then
how many thousands of them were quiet
ly taken down and consigned to the ash
barrel! Beware of the chrome man this
fall, for the advanced army are already in
the field, the chrome mills are running to
their full capacity, and the meck-aced
young man is leaving the city, with the
oil cloth case under his arm.
TWEED ON THE STAND.
An investigation committee had Tweed
on the stand, but they have not thus far
got anything new out of him. Everybody
knew that the city had been robbed of mil
lions, and they knew exactly who did it,
and how it was done Tweeds testimony,
thus far, is only valuable as confession
from the leader of the thieves, with some
minor particulars added. He may make
some new disclosure before they get
through with him, but it is doubtful. The
old man keeps up wonderfully we'll, and
will, ii he ever gets out make trouble for
his enemies. He is very bitter, and desires
nothing so much as TO get chance at
those of his friends who deserted him, He
does not blame the citizens, generally, for
what has befallen him-he magnanimous-
Iy forgives them-but to have shared the
plumber with men and then have them 90
back on him, angers him. He says it was
pleasant reading when in Spain, the de-
of himself by men who were
lis partners, and who were living on the
money they stole when with him.
BUSINESS
s increasing every day and every hour.
Broadway hasn't looked so much like the
Broadway of old, for five years. There is
he comfortable, nld-time certainty of be.
ng run over, if you attempt to cross any
ime from nine in the morning till six at
light-there is the crash and smash of
'ehicles, and the cursing of drivers, there
s the crash and din of thousands of wheels
n the stone pavements, there is the block
de of long lines of street cars, and the
Lages in apparently iaextricable jams
here is, in short, the good old uncomforta-
lie Broadway Of the olden time. More
Gods are leaving the city now than ut any
me since 1872, and the merchants believe
lat the rush will continue ill late 10 the
inter. May they not he disappoint.
PIETRo.