Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-22

ALPHA.
McLin is reported to be on his death BET
and the democrats are alarmed lest he anC
not his offense shall smell to heaven"
The latest estimate of the effect of thu
democratic redistricting scheme in Ohio
puts down six districts as certainly repub
lican; seven as certainly democratic, anC
seven as doubtful. OF the latter, two were
republican in 1876, and five were demo.
cratic.
The democrats went and voted agans
the bill to put Gen. Shields on the retired
list when it was amended so as to include
Grants name. They couldn't afford to g
before their constituents with the record o
having voted pension to the man who
crushed the rebellion.
A theater at Ahmednugger. India
caught fire during a recent performance
and 40 persons were burned TO death.
The Ohio legislature has enacted law
requiring the superintendent of insurance
to examine annually every regular Ohio
life company and determine as to the cor
RICHNESS of its last annual statement.
The general conference of the Methods
church south in session at Atlanta, GA.
passed resolutions favoring Methodist
ecumenical conference and grand cen
tennary of American Methodists, to bt
held in Boston December %, 1884.
The Ohio democrats treated O'Conner
the ex-convict, bounty jumper and desert
err, most shabbily. For many of the wors
measures adopted, O'Conner's vote was
necessary, and he was therefore retained
until the last moment, when his seat wa
declared vacant.
They had little row in the reporters
gallery of the house Friday afternoon, jus
to be in the fashion. A correspondent
named Painter slapped another nance
Hart in the face. and Hart returned tn,
compliment with his fist. Such are thu
demoralizlng consequences of familiarity
with congressman and their ways.
The secretary of the Minneapolis boarc
of trade denies that the recent explosion
OF mills will materially cripple that city IA
the men who owned them are all wealthy
and will soon rebuild. He states tina
there are in the city to-day 16 mills run
ming, with 13l run of stone, and capacity
for turning out $500 barrels of -four daily
An addition to one of the mills now run
ming 80 run of stone will he ready for tn,
new crop Of wheat, and the smaller mill.
destroyed will be rebuilt by next January
Edison is now at work upon an appara
tus to enable the deaf to hear, and says
" | feel sure that will produce practica
apparatus within six months" The wisl
may be father to the thought with the in
ventor of the phi nograph, for he is meas
urably deaf himself; still it really seem,
as if Ed>on might do it if he tried. But
what the world principally longs for ~
present is mechanical and therefore III
honest treasurer, for use in towns, manu-
factories and saving banks; let Mr.. Euson
consider this.
The repeal of the bankrupt law will re-
vive the state insolvent laws, which Were
suspended by its enactment, but the revi
val of those laws will not allow parties to
escape responsibility for indebtedness ex
isting at the time of such repeal. Senator
Edmunds says: THE present repeal of the
bankrupt act, although it revives the in
solvent systems of all the states. does not
revive them as to any existing deb or any
existing credit. The relations of every
creditor and every debtor now existing
this act being repealed, to-day, will con
tinue to exist, in spite of state laws"
Harper's Magazine for June is first
rate number. The illustrated papers ar,
Along the South Shore, describing bits o
coast and rural scenery between Hull and
Plymouth. Mass; description of Heigo
land a paper on Delft Ware, finely illus
trated; the Battle of Monmouth described
with fifteen illustrations. Other interest
ing papers Treat of the Poetry of the In
dians; "reminiscences of New York thirty
years ago; Manufactured Comet, etc
The two serials are continued. and there
are good short stories and poems. Th,
editorial departments are full of interest
ing matter. For sale at Writings.
The Atlantic Monthly for June contain.
the closing chapters of Mr.. Bishops 70
nance, Dctmold; an Imaginary Dialogue
on Decorative Art, by Trowbridge; anoth
er installment of Thoreau's days il
june" a critical article on New Books in
Art; England on Rails, by Richard Gran,
White; paper on Count Pulaski
Strange Power" relating some curious in
cidents of his career; an interesting paper
on Timothy Pickering; and many othel
articles of equal interest, besides mum
Der of good poems. Charles Dudley War
ner's sixth paper on the Adirondack
treats of Camping Out. The Contributors
Club is varied and entertaining as usual.
Mr.. Alexander H. Stephens knows abou
as well as anybody what the first demo
cratic rebellion was, and he says that i
hardly equalled in stupidity this, the sec
ond democratic rebellion. OF the Potte
resolution he says: Positively it is thu
most uncommon piece of political unwis
dom | can recall. 1t does seem TO me ther,
never was such set, except those who
led us into secession. Northrrt
papers say we are sitting investigation
afraid to face the music of election frauds
except rs we hope to make capital fo
ourselves. That's true 1t looks exact,
like that to the country in general. If thi
resolution passes without the Hale amend
ment, or some other equally broad, m,
prediction is that we shall have anothe
bloody shirt campaign on our hands, ant
| would not give fig for our chances tC
hold the next house of representatives
If we or the country want nm,
Of it, we want it all; probe the who'll
fraud, or let it alone"
In an exchange, an old business ma,
takes occasion TO correct the prevailin,
opinion that the present financial and bust
ness panic and consequent depression i
the longest and most severe that was eve,
experienced in this country. He says tina
the loss of property and the depression
consequent TO the panic of 1897 was mucl
greater and of much longer duration tha,
the present. Fiy.e years after the panic o
1887, there was nothing like the vitality il
t...r.