Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-24

In the House, Saturday, Congressman
IIendee presented II petition of the Yer.
mont legislature asking for an early re.
sumption of specie payment.
Irene House ofNew Jersey, who shot
her husband sometime ago, has been de.
clarod incurably insane. She labors under
the Authorization that she shot her son rs
well rs her husband.
We understerud that portrait of Cover
nor Van Ness. ordered by the late Mrs
Judge Roosevelt, is being painted in Paris,
and will be presented to the State in due
time.
Congressman Joyce returns from Louis
lana II thorough believer in the strength OF
the Hayes claim, and says that, if the
whole state is like the "hull -dozed y
parishes he visited, it ought TO be legsat-
ed into barbarism ut once.
The Democrats of Wisconsin and Ken
lucky met on Thursday and declared for
Tilden or blood, but the conference report
drowned completely the familiar sound OF
the war-horn, as north east gale browns
the piping of IL penny WHISTLE Tribune.
Senator Anthony was indisposed Friday,
owing, his friends think, to his having
eaten II partridge, which are now poison
Gus, as the ground is covered with snow
and they feed on the laurel buds. The
Senator is, however, in no danger, and
will be out with the return of fair wealth
| er.
Judge Strong decides that there were no
"profits' in the centennial exhibition until
the stockholders were reimbursed the cap
tal they put in. Hence no profits"
| from which to reimburse the United States
subsidy, and the whole surplus, amount
ing to about so per cent of the stock, will
be divided among the stockholders.
Mr.. Alvin Saunders, the new republican
United States Senator from Nebraska, is Il
native of Kentucky, and is about fifty
five years of age. lie lived fer time in
Illinois, and afterward in Iowa He was
two years republican member of the
State Senate Of Iowa, and was appointed
Governor of the Territory of Nebraska in
1861, He was reappointed in 1865, and
held the Office until Nebraska was admit.
ted rs State. Since then he has resided
at Omaha, where he is President of the
State National Bank He was elected
Thursday.
1t is IN abandonment of the position re-
publicans we're entitled to hold-a surren-
der Of the method sanctioned by usage,
and which protects the right of the states
to determine the regularity of their re-
spective votes. 1t is moreover, II surren-
der which, instead of quietly settling the
points in dispute, lays the foundation Of
much bitterness and discomfort and drags
into the mire of partisanship the judges OF
the supreme court at Il time when they, OF
all men, should be protected from the
taint.-NcW York Times.
THE ASHTABULA BRIDGE.-Mr. Albert
Congdon, the master machinist Of the
Lake Shore Railroad Company ut the time
of the construction of the iron bridge at
Ashtabula, Ohio, testified on Saturday that
he had charge of the building of the bridge
although he "did not consider myself
himself a competent bridge man." and
that Mr. Rogers, who erected the bridge
under the orders ofthe eompany's officers.
told him TCongdon that g he did not
know how" The wonder is that the
bridge lasted as long us it did.
Tennessee has elected Isham G. Harris
for the full term of six years from The
fourth of March. He was one of the most
notorious secessionists in the state, and it
was mainly to his efforts that Tennessee
was taken out of the Union; and when he
fled the state at the approach of the federal
troops, he not only depleted the state
treasury, but carried off the funds of the
banks For second senator they have
elected an unknown man, one james +.
Bailey, defeated Daniel NJ, Key, who in
his term Of less than two years has made
himself II national reputation for states
manship, ability and fairness. Harris and
Bailey will hardly fill the place of Cooper
and Key.