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

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The work will go on to completion
Jules Grevy, NJ. Thiers's successor in
political life, lives in style OF quiet out
decided elegance. His reputation is great
As A chess PLAYER. In this game and In
shooting he finds his chief recreation
Letters have been received at Washing
ton from Gen. Bristow and some OF his
most intimate friends, expressing Their
none that Gen. Harlan will be promptly
confirmed as Judge of the Supreme Court
When the Master of the Universe per-
mitted Tilden to be counted out, lie knew
what He was doing, although some demo-
rats thought He had made mistake
His ways are not our Winchester
(Ky) Democrat.
The utmost lawlessness prevails in CEN
raj Kentucky, and a number OF men nave
recently been killed. The oulrages are
similar to those of the kukluX organiza-
ion, and to whiskey and the common
practice of carrying revolvers this state oil
hings is largely due.
The Teviotdale, an iron ship bound from
Cardiff to India with cargo of Goals, was
lbandoned on fire on the LIST of November
1876. On the night of the 18th of Septem-
her, 1877, the mail steamer HndOstan, on
her way from China to Suez, came across
the TeJiotdale and found the coal still
smouldering in her hold. The fire had
thus lasted ten months, and she had DRIFT
ed about two thousand miles.
The army offices who have had expert
ence in Indian lighting don't have 50 poor
an opinion of Howard S recent exhibition
of generalship as some of his non-combat-
mt critics in the East Gen. Poe, who
has Just returned from II trip to Yellow
stone park with Gen. Sherman and other
officers, says that they consider Howard S
march in pursuit Of Joseph rs " the most
emarkable pursuit of IN enemy on record,
md Gen. Howard is entitled to II great
Heal of credit. ;
"Cleopatra's Needle" which was eX-
pected to arrive in London ere this, was
set adrift in the Bay of Biscny the l4th,
having been abandoned by the steamer
Olga during a tremendous gale. The crew
IN the craft which contained the obellsk
was transferred to the Olga, but not until
the Olga had lost her second mate and tive
hands IN her ehdeaVor 10 rescue 'ne'u .,,
but the ooel'Sk was recoVerru 'llo neAt
day by the steamer Fitz Maurice, north of
Ferrol, Spain.
The first cases of ldaor sellers prose-
cuted in New York. through the efforts OF
Rev. Dir. Howard Crosby Temperance
Society, have been put through by Record
er Hackett' VINO expressed IN court n's
sympathy win the movement anu snl'
that three'quar'ers OF !he CRIME IN t
city was caused by drlnNlhS. ne hheu t'io
accused men llity dollars 1t oeihS lhe'r
lirst offence out announcer 'l,'I ne "olI'
hereafter impose the inII 'eha''y' TWO nun
.Ired and nifty dollars me ana year
imprisonment.
1t seems little paradoXical, and some
what contradictory to the doctrine that
imprisonment Is worse than death, to lind
that there are people who are so anxious
to be imprisoned, that they commit crime
rot;tronsIv fo,. tbe e,l;o of boinp s,ro of
= stoady lame Sovpr,l inetanr9s IF tho
liza L,1o ,Irn,dv ooonrrod in Now WI,
I,,d ,Lo lthor DIV ToLn 7 INV, tr,,,n
'n;eh;nc, Wv no cont to tho vnyIhons f6,
ho' ,i9,ar thre,v a ,,rin,.etono thronnb
=, D e9oh ,r.inGow Ddns nTnishmpnt nm.
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The Tribune thinks that about enough has
been said about e. il service reform for the
present, and remino, the members of the
ASSOCIATION IN New 1oif That " the cause
loF wilen 'nuy hIG ' co',.tha'ns mas suller
from It's foolish friends rs from its onnr
enemies, and that if civil service reform i.
not prosperous to-day, It's not from any
'''cN VI "uli'll"p'e 'Heo'les az washington
ana el:e"lere' ouV from l',ck Oh Practl
cn'lIN III tloNe uso" WHOM l',e IeaiIzatioI
Vi '''''0 ''i' Vi '00 ''i0'' o'P'"o'
The Washington correspondent of tht
Boston Herald learns that Mr. Blaine b,,
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that he has no idea of being presidential
candidate in 1880. berause he sees clearl,
!l'ai ',e i oe,iloo.,iS VIII sweep Ine rountr,
viii elect a urpsilent who viii snrn" , N, :,
sonth4rn demands. and Tins c,n.o - tr j."
mpndons reaction in favor If the R.n,ill;
can Marty in the Nnrth md Wn,t "I IT,
llooke forward tharnfnrn tn , r,s,o.,tid,
of the Rehubliran Marty to nnwor in 1901
and intends if nnssihlo to ha ~ panoI-J i
Ican cpndid,to ,t ,hat limo '''''
The n4lo-American Times strongly op
poses the process known as r,ilro,,
wrockinp and .nnrovos ,bo Fno.,;,l
oaaa,i,,,ti',..a ,,l;l..,1 49, '.''' '''
CONSTITUTING i'''''o'" " P'lolc lllShway
ana securing the public right of traffi
while securing the rights of creditors b,
4noblino ,ben IN conf;,.,,o +bo on,;na 49,
Vm no," "'' a .lto', "eii''.' i're met al
,"o'',t' s sHon ,,o% c mere IN lhe inter
49, i' s i; 1, ieio' ~ I'll osucr 70 proven
u"4"Lo " u'ioo'o'o i."'" throwing road
i. o ah,, ply s.''' 'ney may DC absorbed
''''o 0'Aoi y 0'o '"'
Gen. Miles, tn hero of the Sioux an,
Nez Perces Indian wars is ,brs sl.o,,La,
ho .o., ~ ~" 1'e',O'
" nv "lP1"t'" on 'nc llF'o oi Da'tle
" lie looked the leader shat he was-r0ugh
Tough and ready. Weighing nearly tw,
hundred pounds he sat on his charge
IKE centaur, his brown mustache an,
side "hlskerS. sli hlly mixed with gray