Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-12

The October atlantic will contain the
first of new series of papers by Mark
Twain. 1t is not yet known whether the
topics will be theological or merely scien-
tile.
Schuyler Colfax energies from the
gloom of obscurity to observe, and "vehe-
mently,' that he is in favor of the silver
dollar, and straightway drops out of sight
again
Harpers Weekly says that "Dorman b.
Eaton is in England and at the request OF
the President will make careful investi-
CATION of the English methods of civil
service management.
DeBar, the theater man, who lately
di ed at St. Louis, poisoned his brain by
using powerful hair-dyes in which lead is
an ingredient. So that if he had not dy ed
he would not now be dead.
Mr.. Moody has declined the invitation
to visit Washington this winter, and says
in his letter, "IIfeel that New England
cities are just now the places where the
harvest seems TO be more specially ready
for laborers."
An old witch at Honolulu predicts that
at the end of another twenty-five years
whales will be so numerous that ships
will have to carry cannon to beat them off.
Then we'll use them for pontoon bridge
across the ocean.
The annual order prohibiting hazing at
h,,A
enforced, teach the young warriors a prop
er respect for good manners which can
scarcely fail to affect their conduct when
they enter upon the practical duties OF
their calling,
With the holding over members, tn @
democrats are to have thirty eight maiori-
ty in the new California Legislature on a
joint ballot. They elected ten of the new
senators and fifty-seven assemblymen, and
the republicans the same number of sena-
tors and twenty three assemblymen.
In many parts of the West stump pull
lers have been almost superseded by dy-
Mantle cartridges, which are inserted un-
der the stump in holes made by n long
earth auger, and on being fired, lift out
and demolish the stump, without making
a large hole.
The Presidents reception in Louisville,
Ky, it is said will throw into the shade
anything of the kind ever attempted in
that city. There will be q reception ut
the Gait House, for which 1000 invitations
will be issued, and during his stay the city
will be decorated, and illuminated at
night.
A novel libel suit was brought in Eng
land recently A man who didn't like his
neighbor sowed mustard and water. cress
on his own grounds in such way that
when they grew the words Whitehead is
Il scamp were seen. The court decided
the act to be libelous, and that vegetables
had no right TT grow in that style.
The quiet manner in which the funeral
Of Theirs passed off shows that the moder-
alton which Lis example inculcated is a
feature of French Republicanism to-day.
While the Government had made prepara-
tons TO repress anything like disorder,
the absence of any occasion for doing SO
was as noticeable as the armed display
which was intended to overawe it. Had
the obsequies been those Of u distinguished
Bonapartist the moderation which marked
the conduct of the crowd would hardly
have been manifested. While the eulogy
of Jules Simon emphasized Theirs's subor
dinate of his duties to his sovereign to the
demands of his country, there was nothing
which any reasonable advocate of mon
archioal rule could have objected to on the
ground of appropriateness OF bad taste
in these tributes of the great Republican
statesman.