Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-04-18

bodv can write hook" he says, and there
are books enough already" WE'LL 'here
are good many
The secretary of the navy has wisely
ordered all officers to make their own
uersonal applications for assignments 10
nositions, and to refrain from having such
implication made by Congressman or
politicians. Tally one more for evil
service reform.
An immense meteor, weighing untold
ions, alighlcd some time since in NeVa
dn valley; and as they assay everything
ont there, this was taken in hand by
chemist. who demonstrated that TINS wlhu-
fall from the heavens was II real bonanzh,
vialdinD s2S7 in silver and $42 in gold
per ton.
THE panic of 1878 has brought IL price
less compensation to the people it has
afflicted, 1t has taught economy at home
and enormously enlarged the sale OF tnen
GOODS abroad. The country never llad
50 much money ms it has to-day. The
mnic of 1873 is making the United
States rich.-TriGune.
When we read in our Bourbon contem
poraries that the presidents southern poll
cv is Il fraud because more democrats OF
conservatives are not appointed to ONCE
and then read in the same columns denun7
Citations of all southern men who accept
nositions under the Federal Government,
# occurs to us that there is slight neon
sistencv somewhere .-MemphtS AUaIdnche.
Nothing can be more absurd than the
idea that looking guilty" proves guilt
An honest man charged with crime IS
much more likely to blush at the accus4-
lion than the real offender, who is general
lv prepared for the event. and has his FACE
q Hreody made" The idea of being sus-
pected of anything criminal will bring the
blood to an innocent check nine times out
of ten.
Ali Moon, u San Francisco Chnaman,
beinp on trial for murder, was told by his
LAWYER that the best defense would be i'm
alibi. The prisoner said that he could ar.
range readily for witnesses, and he did
Three of his countrymen swore that, at the
time of the murder, he was at work IN
wash house; two swore that he was
asleep at home, and others would have
sworn that he was in other places had moi
the lawyer interposed.
An intelligent and observant cores
nondent of the New York Tribune, who
has been taking notes IN South carolina
saws that the negroes are the worklngmef
of the state. The whites have an antipatby
for manual labor, and all the rough work
both on farms and in the cities, us well a!
n large part of that involving mechanlca
,, skill, is performed by negroes. Thougt
, the colored people have shown good dea
of industry, they are not over thrifty ant
!, are too ready to accept life on the easles
terms. The whites regard themselves a
the superior race beyond all doubt and th
negroes us created for menal duties.
Mrs. Hayes has attracted more atten
/ ton in certain way than has the Presi
= dent She dresses plainly, wears her han
7 smoothly combed back, with no orna
: ments, except u gold dart that pins TIT
e neck-tie at the throat She receives he
5 friends at all hours-morning or evening
5 walks to church because she thinks IN
t horses and driver should have rest on tn
o Sabbath, attends class meetings, kneeIs Il
= PRAYER, sings with the congregation, and
i in short, is IL good, old-fashioned Methd
5 dist, ii faithful wife, kind mother, tis
= friend-a woman in the truo sense, supt
G rior to folly and fashion. Your reader
If would be astonished to see how frowse
e and frizzes have disappeared, and halr
y la Haves take their places, since MR.
= Hayes first reception, Cor. Of Zion Lei
3 aM,
Il A story is recalled of an cccenlr
70 clnruyman named Rev Hosea Brown, wi
y, during the great immigration into Mlrh
!" oan in 1896, put up at u crowded Motel
Is Aun Arbor one night, and asked for roo
Z and bed for himself. The landlord said
lie could have one, provided he would share
l if the house became very full with som
III body else. Toward midnight nc WI
III aroused by knocking At the door, and Il
- voice of the Landlord was heard, deman
e' ipp that he must take another lodger,
" he believed there was only one perso
Il, within. "One!' exclaimed Mr.. Brow
~ ''why, here is Mr.. Brown and Meth
j" dist minister, and myself, already, and
!' should think that enough for one bed, ev
IN in Michigan" The landlord seemed
III think so, too, and left the trio to their
IL Il pose.
I'D WHAT CAME IN A PorATo.-A friend
ia ours received Il day or two ago throui
~. @ the post Office from Olympia, Washng
he Territory, roundish, irregular packaaS
lnI which on examination proved to contain
ed ed large potato. Further investigation sho
pr- m that the potato had been cut in two II
mi the inside scooped out, and in the cav
A were found flowers and leaves, which,
,al he learned by II note previously reHelv
Wv, ,rn had been picked in II garden in the oL
air on the 26th day of December. 1
VI. flowers, pansies, geraniums, and othe
IDS were as fresh and bright as if they /
'be been gathered within an hour, thou
1cc -rC their Journey across the continent had
'Et Aft cupied fifteen days. Olympia is in ab
,ict the latitude of Quebec, though its win
teG I climate is not more severe than that
nt Memphis. - Worcester Spy.