Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-23


| do not know, and are now living in
fine style up town.-NeU York Letter.
The latest story is that Atlorney-Gener-
al Fairchild has concluded not to use the
Tweed statement, and so the old gentle
man will have to stay in Jail for the pres
ent.
Congressman H. o. Pratt of Iowa,
has left politics and the law and become a
Methodist minister In the fall lie will
Join the Upper Iowa Methodist Confer
ence.
Bishops Scott, Simpson, Ames, Bowman,
Harris, Wiley, Merrill, and HaHn were
present ut II reception given to the Bishops
of the Methodist Church in Cleveland,
Ohio, last week.
A New York lawyer, who has been dis
barred for bad character, has sued the
Albany Ecening Journal for publishing
the official report of his case, us passed
upon by the courts.
Miss Van Lew, the Union spy, who has
been postmaster at Richmond, Va, the
past eight years, is to be superseded by W.
w. Forbes, II republican and old whig,
who is respected by both parties.
There is talk of reviving and enforcing
the order which President Harrison issued
Just before his DEATH epioining all office
holders to attend strictly to their duties
and to let politics alone under pain of
dismissal.
Two Virginia City undertakers fought in
the street, the other day, for the possession
Of body that one had laid out and the
other had stolen. The stealing undertake
er kept the body, but couldn't collect his
bill.
Dom Pedro and his wife visited the tomb
Of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, where
they received communion. The wife of
Pedro is the first empress who has trod
the streets of Jerusalem since Queen He
lena.
The great pianist Essipolf has closed her
series of concerts in this country, having
received the highest and truest praises for
her art, and made the Ito us) Notifying
discovery that Americas purely musical
public is of the smallest dimensions.
The permanent exhibition at Phadel-
phia is quite success in regard to the
numbers that attend, and some days fairly
rival the corresponding days of last year
in this respect. There have been not less
than $4,000 visitors within single twelve
hours on several occasions.
The failure of the appropriation for the
War Department has had one painful ef-
feet. The war clerks have been informed
that after the LIST of July they must buy
their own toilet soap, for use at the Office,
or 90 without. And yet the Government
expects clean hands of its servants!
1t may be recognized as fact that so
far III the state AT large there have been no
outrages of power or abuse of the colored
people or republicans generally, believe
Gen. Hampton will endeavor to make a
good and honest government so far MS its
financial and practical departments are
concerned Chamberlain.
There has Just died in London the last
but one of Sir Walter SCOTS family,
Dame Jane Jobson of Lochorc, widow of
Sir Walter Scott, bart, and daughter-in-
law of the great author The one now
remaining is the tenant of Abbotlslord,
Mary Monica Hope Scott, the granddaugh-
ter of Lockhart.
There was u hurricane in the village of
st, IIyppolite, near Montreal, Friday af-
ternoon. A Roman Catholic church and
several houses were blown down. Two
brothers named Bcileau, working in the
interior of the church, were killed. and
their fathera and another man badly wound
ed.
The St. Louis Times, democratic pa
per, speaking of the butchery of the CHS
holm family, says: 1.-The plain truth is
that not only the state of Mississippi but
the democracy of the Union. is on trial
IN this matter" And further: THAT
state and that party cannot afford to lie
under the imputation of having aided or
permitted those outrages, or of having
suffered them TO 90 unavenged."
The position which the Duchess of Ed
nburgh holds, as the daughter of one
sovereign and the daughter-in-law of an
other, who are likely soon to be at war
with each other, is certainly not an envi-
able one. The position of her husband is
not much better, for he is commander of
one of the very iron cladS which, in the
opinion Of most Englishmen, soon will be
in the Golden Horn, conducting operations
hostile to his royal fathcr-in-law.
The new capital building at Albany,
whose cost was restricted to $4,000,000,
has already cost $7,723, sos; and when it is
finished the total cost will not be less than
ten million dollars, and possibly more.
Gov. Robinson, in his veto of further
appreciation for that building calls it "a
great public calamity" and says the an
nual cost of its maintenance would be
$3.50, 600 Il year. There is proposition
to remove the State capital to the metrop-
oils.
An interesting feature of last weeks
democratic convention in Burke County,
Ga, was the unanimous adoption of the
following resolution:
ReSOired, That we assure the colored
race that they have been made citizens of
the stale; that we have no purpose to
make war on them or their legal rights
that in the hands of the democrats they
receive protection that they cannot get
from any other party in this country, and
that we will stand by this assurance
whether they vote with us or against us"
The administration of the law is not
always so cruel and undiscriminutng rs it
is represented to be, A man was arrested
in Newark, N. D., the other day for steal
ing a bed-qult and Il silk dress, which he
was trying to sell, 1t was found that ho
had wife dying of consumption in his
miserable home, and two children who
had had nothing to eat for thirly-six hours.
The wretchcd husband and father had re-
sorted to this means to obtain bread, JUS
tcc dropped her scales and refused to in
quire into the charge of theft. The man
was at once discharged and tho wants of
his family provided for.
A war correspondent Of the London
Nc1US describes the Cossack as "A very I'M