Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-03

Who would live in Europep There is
congress in session there'-Indtanapol's
Journal.
Hendricks thinks Grant is going to be
the republican candidate in 1880. and
doesn't take any stock in the Potter inves-
tigation.
The Brattleboro Reformer says; They
say Atkins did have TO make thirty
speeches in the state convention TO Keep
the machine well oiled"
Anderson is cheeky dog. After utterly
refusing to testify before the Matthews
committee. he applied To its chairman Tor
his mileage from Philadelphia and fees as
n witness!
A wine merchant in Mayence, Germany,
went down into the cellar, knocked out
the bungs of sixteen casks, cut his throat,
and died in a deluge Of wine thus causing
his unhappy partner double bereavement.
l have been nine years n member OF
congress, and / come before you now
fresh from the last session, and say am
better pleased with the work done by it
th1n by any one I ever saw.-Senator
| Thurman at Columbus.
1t is Just forty years since the corona
ton of Q ieen Victoria. Since the dea'h
of Eliz lbelh there has been but one SOW
ereign whose reign covered Il longer pc
riod; and before Eiz ibeth, there were
only two kings who were on the throne 50
long.
This ridiculous investigation is not
likely to make Mr. Potter governor OF
New York, but will give him sufficient
occupation in governing his temper for
the next six m onths Mr.. Tilden will be
"a more bigoted old bachelor than ever
after this dreadful experience. Tribune.
The Cincinnati Enquirer (Deoi.) hav ne
asserted that the republican press of Ohio
was demanding third term of General
Grant, republican paper challenges the
Enquircr to name four of the fifty or six
ty republican papers in Ohio rs favoring
the movement. The Enquirer is dumb.
The Windsor JourntL says: There
are at present one hundred and seventy.
nine convicts in the state prison-the larg
est number, we believe, that were incar-
ccraled at one time. Provision will have
to be made for I'm enlargement Of quarters
NJ TIE COmluP SeSSlon vi 'ilO 'SS 'o','bU'o " a.
there are hut one hundred and tifty-seven
cells in the prison"
OF all the mean performances | ever
knew in politics the proceedings of the
gang of republicans of whom Conkling is
: the leader have been the meaneSt. For II
whole year these men have been ut work
. so letting testimony which could be used
by them to compel the administration to
use the patronage us they desired. That
, is the whole of it. Hayes could just us
) well have had the support oil q mixing
and Butler rs their opposition, if he had
been willing to have it on their own terms.
, - Washington Letter TO Boston Herold.
In view of tue fact that Mr.. William L
Chambers hair is of the shade usually
, known among simpletons rs Canatagu',
being little beyond Auburn, and that
Mr.. james Z Andersons head, according
to the Philadelphia Times. would put II
rufous woodpecker's TO the blu~h-or, to
speak more correctly, TO the ptle-a new
and interesting theme ut once emergrs
D from the vast inane for the commencement
; orator of the future: " Tho INFLUENCE OF
D red. headed men on the republican party
+ and the politics of America. ~ Y
: World.
The communists of Chicago carried .
1 banner at II recent celebration with this EN-
G blem: Capital is stolen wages lie
f us see about that. A young man begin,
/, business, and during ten years of his life
: his net annual prof is are $1,000. Dat o
this sum he lives and saves 500 per year
This makes him worth at the end of The
| h., hnp of
His employers average 5000 per gear
e They spend every cent of their incomes
ia and run in debt each year. How has thi
mans capital become "stolen wages?"-
=, Troy Times.
y Senator B. X. Bruce of Mississippi an,
# Miss Josephine b. Wi lson of Clevelanr
= were married Monday, ut the house of lht
=: brides parents, the ceremony being per
a formed by Rev. N. S. Ruison, rector o
n St Paul's Episcopal church About seven
q IT, five friends of the bride and groom
IS were present. The bride is II pretty youn.
+ woman of twenty-four, with so little Alri
can blood as to he hardly noticeable, AM
= has been successful teacher in the public
{ schools for several years. Her father is
Is dentist, her brother IL well known lawyer
= and she is quite accomplished.
a New YoRK.-The business men of thi
o city express unqualified qualification at tn
adjournment of congress and the expires
a sion is universal that business will rov
!; improve. A prominent operator in Unitc
e States securities says that rs soon is tn
Re adjournment of congress became fiXr
~ fact there was an immediate increase o
s. activity in business and especially in Unite
s. States bonds, probably growing out of tn
ID feeling that there will he no further tink
d ering by congress with the finances. Sine
: the adjournment there has been IL steal
u improvement in the market for all classe
of government securities.
. The New Orleans Times quotes Ger
III Sherman rs saying that he will have t
or depend chiefly on the militia in case ther
Ia should be recurrence of last years dis
a orders this summer, land | want no bel
ter soldiers than the men who fought m
from Atlanta to the sea He has yer
Ii little faith in the militia system of tn
49, northern states, because the officers al
" too apt to be chosen bec,u they ar
G. good fellows and would not be too hA,
re on the boys" rather than for any real so
81 dierly qualities. The Times promises III
IL general two thousand good men from Ne
N Oileans in case he needs them.
V The dispute between Mr., A. S. Hewi
and Henry Watlerson derives additions
:; interest from the fact that Mr.. Hewitt
=" who contributed so literally to he dpm'
II cratic funds while he was chairman of II
or democratic national committee, has n,
lis been on good terms for some time wit
al. Mr. Tlden, and has not been consulted h
Ne him in regard to political mat ers fi
IL months. The sympathy of most peopl
at here, who know the facts which are in di
,ss pute, is with Mr.. Hewitt 1t is believe
that Mr. Watterson expresses Mr.. Tllden
feeling in finding fault with Mr.. Hewitt
q, Washington SpeciM 10 Boston Herald.
70 The fact to be remembered now is tina
NJ rs the history of the congress that has iu
~. m' adjourned shows, on all great question
~, the great parties are broken up, and th
n ns they cohere only by force of the part
", came and tradition. This is situatc