Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-24


| Says the Worcester Press; When Vir-
ginia gentleman asks another to drink he
blandly says. "Shall we give the public
debt lift?" And they lift.
| Tammany resolves that the Presidents
order to Office holders is unconstitutional
md Offensive" and that, if he tries to en-
force it he ought to be impeached.
Clintonvile, N. Y, is said to be devas
taled with small pox, Twenty persons
have died within few days. Travellers are
prohibited from entering the place, and all
he highways are being blockaded.
The wife of William c. Gilman. the
New York forger has become insane and
has been taken to the Hartford retreat,
and the children are to be distributed
among the friends Mrs. Gilman is a
niece of Henry Ward Beecher.
President Lncoln's son Robert, who is
winning good reputation as u lawyer in
Chicago, declines tic offered place as third
assistant secretary of state, 10 succeed
John A. Campbell, who is broken down
in health, and is to have a consulate.
Claiborne F. jackson, who was once
governor of Georgia, married five sisters
in wealthy and distinguished family.
When he went to ask for the last one, his
venerable father-in-law replied: Yes.
Claib., you can have her. You have gol
hem ALL For goodness sake don't ask
me for the old woman"
General John NJ Harlan, newly APP
pointed Supreme Court Justice, is said to
he not so heavy IL man as Judge Davis.
but he will be by far the largest man on
the bench, "lf he were lady he would
be called magnificent blonde" says Mr..
IIalstead: for the new judge is tall and
ruddy, and of majestic figure.
The unpublished life of General Grant.
written by his father, Mr.. Jesse r. Grant,
is in the possession of the Connection
State Librarian. This manuscript gives
new version of the way in which young
Grant got his name Of Ulysses; it say
that the name was one of IL lot drawn from
u hat when his parents were debating
what to call him.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution has .
story that Jefferson Davis, by active inter
position, saved Andy johnson from being
lynched on bis return from Washington t,
tennessee, in 1861, and it intimates thai
it was the knowledge of this fact, obtained
in April, 1866, that caused him to weaken
in his desire to make this particular
traitors treason peculiarly odious.
The democrats of Massachusetts expect
that Mr.. Castor, their candidate for gov
ernor, will have majority Of five thousand
calculating that the republicans will, a.
usual with them in off years poll one third
fewer votes than in presidential years;
that the Democratic vote will fall of
twenty-five per centum from presldentia
years, and that the prohbilory vote will
be fifteen thousand.
1t is said that Gov, Hubbard of Texas
has made an appeal to the President, rep
resenting that the five murderers whose
rXlradition was demanded of Mexico, and
who were in confinement at Matamoras,
have been released by the direct action Of
the Diaz government. Thomas F Wilson
our consul at Matamoras, now ut Wash
ington, complains that the Texans are the
aggressors to IN equal degree with thu
MeXicuus in these troubles.
That eminent democrat, Congressman
Springer of Illinois, wants above al
things to have the tax taken off of whis
key. The west, he says, demands chea
whskey. 1t is the dear whiskey that keep,
the West back, retards civilization, i'm
petles commerce, paralyzes manufacture,
and clogs the car of progress. Congress-
man Springer has the patent on this grea
idea.
The Presidents Message is highly
spoken of on all sides. Senator Bayard
of Delaware, voiced the prevalent demo-
cratic feeling when he remarked thst he
did not see how the President could have
said what he had to say more crcumspect
ly. and that it was great relief to get ii
message which did violence neither to the
spirit of the constitution nor the rules Of
syntaX.
President Seelye, of Amherst, does not
think the Ohio defeat was in any way due
to dissatisfaction with the Ppresident. but
was caused by third party tickets and the
''doughfacedness of the republican candi-
date" A "man who would make such
speeches as Judge West did ought not to
have received vote" Mr.. Seelye thinks
the President means well in everything,
but he suspects he has some advisers who
don't know what "well" is.
The permanent exhibition at Philadel
phia, which has lately shown symptoms
of succumbing to its financial troubles, is
in more hopeful case. The receipts the
past week have been suffi lent to meet the
running expenses, and the creditors have
signifed their willingness 10 abate their
claims from twenty-five to fifty per cent,
thus reducing The floating debt to forty
thousand dollars, which the managers
think they can wipe out.
The bill introduced by Senator Edmunds
to prevent abuses in the sale of postage
stamps and stamped envelopes provides
that any postmaster, deputy postmaster, or
other person, entrusted by the United
States with postage stamps or stamped
enveloL es who shall sell or dispose of the
same otherwise than in the regular course
of official business at their face value and
for cash on delivery, shall be deemed
guilty of embezzlement, and shall, on con
viction thereof be punished by Il fine not
exceeding 1000, or by punishment not
exceeding one year, or both.