Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-02-28


ing to the unconstitutional national return
ing board, we should not have had fraud
ulent president. -New York Sun.
We trust that Senator Edmunds has II
realizing sense of his degraded condition,
now that the COarier-JOurnaI declares of
him that " he emphatically represents the
peridious principles of his Pilgrim
(orelathers, rock-rooted in Hypocrisy,
bigotry and fraud" -Boston Journal.
That was a strange request for Speaker
Randall to make of the Honorable House
yesterday, that there should he less cigar
smoking on the floor during its sessions.
Mr.. Randall might have borrowed the
phrase of that great American orator, the
peripatetic Pratt, when the college Toys
got him into n small, close room and pro-
ceeded maliciously to smoke and smoke
and smoke" Gentlemen, your Speaker
amt II ham IN Y. Tribune.
The more the country sees of Gov.
Hayes, the better it likes him. lie com
mited no blunders during the campaign,
and during the terrible suspense since then
he has kept himself as quiet and self-con-
trolled as though he were an Indifferent
person. He has written no sharp letters
and made no foolish speeches. What he
said 10 his old neighborS the other night
was as sensible as it was pleasant. 1t ought
to shame the dagger brigade into silence.
The political ledger foots up in this way
in the opinion of the Springfield Union:
= The Democrats have gained Senator
and lost II President; the Republicans vice
versa. 1t wasn't an even swap, and it is
Davis's name ELECTS copous profanity in
Democratic circles, and exceedingly I'M
flatering allusiOng to the stupidity of the
Illinois Democrats, who might have known
that the Democrats in Congress would
never have voted for the compromise il
they hadn't expected that Davis would be
the fifteenth man."
The Boston Transcript says: The Tele-
phone in the hands of Professor Bell and
his assistants, is making rapid progress,
and is pretty well out of the experimental
stage, although it has not developed fully
into the practical stage as yet. The diff
culticS that vet remain, however, are small
compared with those that have already
been surmounted by the perseverance and
tact Of the inventor, and there seems to be
every reason to suppose that the new in
vention will soon become so far perfected
us to admit of its practical application for
the transmission of messages.
VrRM0NrERs.-Fifl members of the
present congress were born in Vermont.
OF the men who are engaged in settleng
the presidential question, Geo. f. Ed
munds, Matt. Carpenter, j. A. Kasson
and Il. w. Stoughton are all natives Of the
Green Mountain state.
William NJ. Evarls is not n Vermonter
by birth, though his summer residence
has been at Windsor for many years. He
is a native of Boston, Ills father, Rev.
DR.. jeremiah Evarts, however, was horn
nington county.
The embarrassment of Sir Hugh Allen
cuts wide swath in Canadian business
circles. all the great corporations in which
ne Is interested n'N,9S uecllheu IN .He
Montreal market Merchants bank has
gone down, within three or four months,
from 1903 to 80, Montreal telegraph from
81 to No. hlcheleu ana ontario navlga-
ton company IRON 70 TO ~, Guy fnSSen-
ger railway rom 20 10 ~ Consollda'ed
from lo2 to Vs. ana even the BANK OF Mon
treal has dropped from l9l to l|o: Inc
Merchants bank mas capital OF S9'o0o'-