Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-09

I 1t is suggested that the president ought
TO leave few able.bodted men in Ohio 10
move the crops.-S. Paul tMina.) Dis
patch.
With the expiration of the last of the
sewing machine patents prices drop at once
so per cent. The cost of machine that
has sold for $40 is said to be only about
S15, so that there will be plenty of profit
for the manufacturers left
Georgia voted, on Tuesday, on consti'
tutional amendment repudiating certain
State bonds to the amount of about eight
million dollars, which were issued under
the corrupt Bullock regime. No doubt
there was great corruption.
II. E. Sargent, the photographer, for
merly of Rutland, who was suspected oil
completely in the murder of Mrs. Frieze,
has told his story to the Rutland Globe,
and that paper expresses the opinion that
he has cleared himself from the least
shadow of suspicion.
The tax-bill has been reported in the
South Carolina Legislature, and it makes
liberal provision for schools, but appro-
PIRATES nothing for interest on the state
debt. The democrats apparently propose
to follow the republican example of few
years ago by repudiating more or less OF
it.
The good signs multiply. Senator Chris
tiancy has written Ben. Hill II letter con-
graduating and commenting the Georgian
very warmly for some remarks which had
the true flavor of craftsmanship about
them, and saying that, to secure complete
reconciliation, the restoration of confidence
and fraternal feeling, men can afford to
forget party names.
Wendell Philips having recently charg-
ed that " the cruel ingenuity " of the laws
of Virginia and Tennessee in furnishing
tools to Cypress the negro was "equalled
only by the bloody and infamous code
which England built up in 200 years 10
crush Ireland" somebody has overhauled
Tennessee statutes, and finds that the only
law which distinguishes between whites
and negroes in the states named is that
forbiddng intermarriages. And of course
Wendell wouldn't have negro marry IN
abandoned white person any way.
A report comes from Salt Lake City,
Utah, that the Mormons, anticipating the
arrest of Brigham Young and other lead
ing men of their church, are making mill
itury preparations to resist the authority
of the United States government; that the
famous old Nauvoo legion is to be re-or-
ganized; that nightly drills are held in
Salt Lake City. and that the preparations
are particularly active among the south
ern settlements, to which four boxes of
breech-loading rifles have been shipped
from the cooperative store ut Salt Lake
City. 1t is said that Brigham Young has
boldly asserted within few days that the
MormOns, who have been driven so often
and so far, will be driven no longer.
The boilers of the ocean steamship Sid
oman, on the voyage from New York to
Bristol, England, exploded April goth,
killing the captain, three engineers, two
fremen and one trimmer, and injuring the
cook. Something had got out of order in
the engine, and the men were fixing it
when the accident occurred. The steamer
China sigraled her the next day and sent
II surgeon on board. The cause of the nc
cident is unknown, as all who were near
enough to know were killed. One fire
man who was fatally hurt, when asked
the cause of the explosion, answered, Il
will tell you in the morning." but he died
in few minutes. The Sidonian proceed
ed under sail, and will not arrive at her
dcstinatiOn under two weeks