Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-12-18

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sylvania have just received an order fol
several locomotives for Norway railroad
Mr.. Ely Goddard of West Fairlee, " the
swell legislator" was recently chosen the
president of debating society organized
at West Fairiee.
The Graphic administers consolation to
Wade Hampton with the remark that it /.
better to enter the Senate of the Uuited
States with one leg than to remain cover.
nor of South Carolina with two.
The people of Morocco are said TO be
starving, and as they consider handful oil
parched corn. for meal, high living,
even for good times. we infer that the
country must be in very empty condition,
at present.
From all present appearances the cleo
ton of 1880 will turn, as it often has be-
fore, on the vote of the state of New York.
If the democracy is defeated here it can
not hope to carry the country.-Otica o.
Serrer (Dem).
A rumor comes from Paris that bonnets
are to be worn on the head hereafter. 1t
strikes us that the head would be a first
rate place TO wear bonnet, but such a
departure will look little odd at first
NorriStosUn Herald.
Two years ago. Reuben Hale, an Ingham
county (AIichigan) boy. ended a years
sentence in the Detroit house of correction
for stealing $35, and just now the man
who made the cruel charge has found the
money in the lining of his vest.
BEST Book FOR EvERYBoDY.-The new
illustrated edition of Webster's Diction-
airy, containing three thousand engravings.
is the best book for everybody that the
press has produced in the present century,
and should be regarded as Indispensable to
the well-regulated home, reading-room,
library and place of ness.-Golden Era.
The largest orchard in the world is that
owned by Mr. Robert McKinstry, of Hud-
son. Columbia county, N. Y. The orchard
is situated on the east bank of the Hudson
river, on high, rolling table land, and con-
tains more than $4,000 apple trees, LOO
pears, 1000 cherries. 500 peaches, 200
plums. 200 crabs, 1000 vines. 600 currants
and 200 chestnuts.
A fire at Minneapolis, Mimi, Monday,
near the scene OF the big fire of last May,
and originating like that in the explosion
of fine flour dust. destroyed the Anchor
mill. Loss, $4,000. The blaze was
started by man with lantern attempt
ing TO correct stoppage in the flour
elevator. He dislodged the flour which
fell in cloud of dust and instantly flashed
into flames He barely escaped with
severe burns.
One of the most marked effects of the
recent elections observed by the Washing
ton correspondent of the Boston Herald is
the apparent extinction of the pestferous
prejudice against the east and the social
ed money power which found constant ut,
terance there last winter, Even Secretary
Sherman is but rarely cursed now IA days,
although a few months ago there was
nothing too hard for the western and
southern members to say about him.
In answer to the demands of Governor
CARRIER for aid to re-establish order in the
western part of Nebraska, he states he is
entirely helpless. In order to pursue
criminals men must be hired, and he has
not Il cent at his disposal for such pur-
pose He might call upon sheriffs. but
the counties in which the Disturbances
occurred have no funds. The Omaha
| Heraid states that nine murders occurred
in single week Desperadoes mob, kill
and burn alive at their pleasure.
We are loyal people, favorable to
monarchial institutions; but we are far
removed from St. James, and court can
take no root in soil where the echo of the
TX sand logging chain of the backwoods
rings with no uncertain sonnd through the
streets Of our commercial and political
metropolis We have not the elements to
constitute Il real court. A mock court
would be deplorable burlesque, from
which the good sense of all concerned
will, we feel sure, happily deliver u.s.
Toronto NaH
The car hasn't been shot at yet, and is
reported to have set back fire against
the socialist agitators by committing n
project for constitutional government to
his new minister Of interior. Schouvaloff
which will soon be put in force. The car
after the Crimea emancipated the serfs !;
he could not do better now than to give
his people parliamentary institutions. He
must be deeply impressed by the absolute
necessity for them, and in fact it is well
known that the vast despotism Of Russia
is fearfully cumbersome and unwieldy
government. The car will be driven to
constitutionalsm by the weight of the
imperial system.
| Louis +. IheraSson, Il lawyer of New
York city, was found guilty, the other day,
of swindling Mrs. Zabrski out of SIS, 200.
| The criminal was her most trusted adviser.
In 1874 he loaned the above amount which
he subsequently appropriated on property
in Harlem. The next year the mortgagors
were ready to pay, and Therasson induced
his client to sign II satisfaction piece on
the ground that the security was insecure,
and promised to re-invest the money. The
mortgage having been satisfied on the
record. the lawyer obtained the money and
and then gave Mrs. Zabriski fifth mort
gage on his house, representing it was the
first.
During his travel among the Alps, Herr
CHI Dufour repeatedly heard from the set
| lers there that avalanches would seldom
fall when the heavens were cloudy, but
that they would plunge in great numbers,
and especially in the morning. when the
sky was clear. The monks also of the
Great St. Bernard testified to this fact. In
the winter they advised travellers not to
leave the convent when the sky was clear.
Herr Dufour gives the following explana-
ton: "When in winter the sky is clear,
the temperature falls, especially before
SUNRISE then the little ice-threads which
connect the masses Of snow with the sides
J of the mountain contract and break
/ This starts the snow sliding. and it is we'll
known that alterward the slightest concus-
sion will cause the fall of enormous ava
lanches.
There is one county in Illinois that does
not appear to be in need of temperance So
cieties The people of Edwards county de-
cided twenty five years ago that no liquor
should be sold in the county, and since
that day they have sent but one person to
the pcnitentiary, and he committed a crime
while drunk with whiskey procured in an
adjoining county; they support but two or
three pauperS, and their jail is empty most
of the time. Their taxes are thirty-two
per cent lower than the adjoining counties.