Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-04

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for them. Every shop which Comstoch :
has raided had circulars and schemes Vi
MI kinds of lotteries, located everywhere
which they were sending out mlscellane--
ously. and gathering in money from all
sources. He has demonstrated that mere
is, nor can there be, anything honest IN H.
and that everyone, no matter how adVer-
tised, is a fraud, and fraud of the worst
kind The simpletons who send lheir
money take the chance of having their
names known, for their names and post
office addresses are all registered, lor use
in other ways. Consequently when the
police capture the books, they capture
also complete list of the concerns VIC
Tins. Keep out of the lotteries.
PIETRO.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany have advanced their wholesale sched-
uIe price for coal 10 to Is cents per ton
Eastman Johnson's academy picture
this spring is called The Tramps, and
presents a rural scene adorned by these
travellers.
The Courier says the Barney House ut
Swanton has been purchased by A. 1. hel-
logg of St. Adams, who is TO take posses
sion at once.
The Chicago Tribune proposes to have
Sergeant Bates, Eli Perkins and Private
Dalzel sent South, and to recognize the
government that will kill them first.
b. +. Fifeld Esq, who has for eight
years past ably filled the office OF United
States District Attorney, for the District
of Vermont, was, on Friday, re-appointed
by the President 10 that office.
Secretary Sherman has inauguratod a
whiskcy war by ordering that the prosecu-
tons begun against crooked whiskey dls-
tillers be continued, and new ones vigorous
ly started against Illicit distillors in the
west.
Miles, the Barre bank robber, has been
telling an interviewer that he isn't guilty,
and that his pal, Peter Curley, sworc him
to prison to save himself. New York
friends are working for Miles. All this is
said to be preparatory toasking Gov. Fair
banks for IL pardon.
Michigan held her State election for n
Judge of the Supreme Court and Regent
of Michigan University Monday. Wiscon-
sin held Il State election for n Judge of her
Supreme Court and Circuit Judges Tues
day, and to-day the annual State election
takes place in Rhode Island.
Bartlett the sculptor, who is at Paris
executing the commission for the bronze
catamount for the Catamount Tavern
monument, has finished the clay models.
The figures will surmount the pedestal
placed in front of the site of Landlord
Fay's tavern Of revolutionary fame in
Bennington.
The clause in tho Constitution Of New
Hampshire, from which the people have
refused to strike the word Protestant,
authorizes the several towns, parishes
bodies corporate Or religious societies tc
make adequate provision ut their own ex
pensC for the support and maintenance O
public Protestant teachers of pety, relig
ion and morality.
1t is II sad and pitiable spectacle; all the
more so, because of the sweetness anC
charity of those other early apostles o
frcedom-lke Garrison and Whittier anC
Fred Douglass-whose souls have mellow
ed, who realize what the men Of actor
have done while Phillips has been scold
ing, and who breathe the spirit of hin
whose shoelatchet Phillips was unworthy
10 unloose, the second savior of his coun
try, gentle Abraham Lincoln.-NcW I0rl
Null.
E TIE SUGAR SEAsoN.-Mr Timothy
2 Wheeler, Of Waterbury, Vt, who ha
studied the philosophy of sugar making
g and the circulation of sap to a conSidcra
, be extent, writes the NeaO England Farm
/ eF that according to his system of foretcll
g ing Il sap season, we shall have n No.
e season the coming spring, not the best no
S the poorest. | have learned, he says, t.
f make distinction between a sap seaso
n and sugar season. Last spring was ;
5 good sap season, but poor sugar season
e The springs of lS74-5 were good sap AM
Il sugar seasons, while the spring of 1877
y was II good sap season. but poor suga
n season.
S Last Thursday, Mr. II. Raws II, Will
i engaged in cutting away ice at the SINAI
= bridge south of Johns Head, in Montgom
5 cry. so as to allow passage to the water
J, accidentally slipped into the stream an
IL was carried under the ice and bridge, an
= drowned. His body was recovered by cut
o ting through the bridge and ice, afte
u nearly half an hours exertion. Mr.. Raw
J son was nearly 62 years of age, was til
II Franklin County director of the Vernon
$ Mutual Fire Insurance Company, wa
G deputy sheriff, one of the sclectmcn,
J prominent farmer, and Il respected either
) and had many times filled various tow
J offices with credit and ability.
!. Governor Brown of Tennessee, in n
g interview with reporter, states that h
e did not accept position on the Commi:
II sion to Louisiana until Thursday night
(. and then only after frequent solicitation
and the urgent advice Of leading demo
e Gratis in Washington and New Orlean,
IF He hopes the Commission may be able
e forward the Presidential policy of pacil
Il cation, but can see no feasible plan for dc
is ing so now. He thinks the way may
d found clear when the Commission reache
!. Louisiana aud takes in the situation. II
p will heartily cooperate in doing what tn
: President desires in the interest Of the e!
adjustment of the rightfu government.
FLOW OF SAP IN MAPLE TREES. Som
time ago, the Amherst Agricultural Co
< lege made up its mind that the maple sa
n from which sugar was made in the Sprin
Is was laid up in the tree the year before.
II order to find out if this was true, II map
+ tree, one December, having been guyed 6
j. as TO keep it upright, was sawed off NJ;
IL the ground, and the end of the trunk he
II meically sealed with wax. Thus the Tire
g stood until Spring, when it was tappe
Is and Welded its average amount OF suga
II although the tree had been severed frol
e its roots upwards of three months.
y young maple was cut in the White
o brought into the greenhouse and tapped
3 1t soon began to flow sap and continued
J do SO for thirty-siX hours, when the flo
n stopped. The tree was then taken out
l. doors and allowed to freeze again. Upc
10 being brought back 10 the greenhouse, til
III sap resumed its flow and continued to {
is SO us long rs the alternate freezing M
Is thawing processes were kept up.
Is
~ A WIDOW WITH SIX CHILDREN
=, clergyman, II widower residing in one
~ our Vermont rural towns, recently create
:; n frsL-class sensation in his household
-, 20 which consisted of several grown L
20 daughters. The reverend gentleman W;
~ absent from home for number of da,
,n visiting in an adjoining town. The daugl
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