Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-24

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fighting in Cuba.
There were two or three incendiary
fires in St. Adams Saturday night.
1t is said McLin and Dennis of Florida
confess to stealing the vote of that state
for Hayes.
Twenty-one bankruptcies have been re.
corded ut Burlington since the first Of
April.
The president has nominated William H
Hunt of Louisiana TO be Judge of The
court of claims, vice Peck resigned.
DR.. r. V. Pierce's, great Invalids and
Tourists Hotel at Buffalo, N. Y, is to be
opened by receptions on April 29th and
30th.
A prominent democratic senator is cred
tied with saying: "If that house sits
much longer it will kill the democratic
party"
The Plymouth church people seem to be
settling down to an agreement to regard
Mrs. Tilton as crazy. and not pay any at
tention to her confession.
Switzerland is the first country to accept
the proposal of the United States to par
ticipate in an international congress to fix
the relative values of gold and silver.
Greece follows suit.
The double headed Canadian infant that
has been on exhibition at Burlington and
St.Albans, has been taken back to Canada
AS twin it beats any Siamese sample all
hollow, and is perhaps the greatest human
wonder ever seen.
VERMONT EDIToRs.-The annual meet
ing of the Vermont Editorial Association
will be held in June. at Brandon. The
literary exercises will consist of an address
by D. M. Camp of the Newport Erprcss
and poem by Mrs. Julia c. r. Dorr of
Rutland. An excursion 10 Lake Dunmore
will be among the attractions of the re-
union.
Mrs. Molloy is now conducting series
of temperance meetings in the vicinity Of
Boston, and will remain there until the
first of June. Early in the fall she will
sail for England, to introduce the Reform
ed Mems Club idea there. Since January
goth she has secured ten thousand sigma
lures to the pledge in the locality first
| mentioned.
Any one who proposes to live until 1901
should preserve this prophecy james
Nolan states from the spirit world, per the
Religio- Philosophical Journal. that in the
above mentioned year there will be lens
constructed by whose power 1.-The trees
and inhabitants on the planet nearest the
earth can be seem" This will be achieved
in England by person named Holdings
worth, who is yet boy.
The opinion of the supreme court, de-
livered by Judge Powers, in the Benning-
ton bond case is very clear exposition of
the law. But the towns bonded will
probably have no better opinion Of it than
if they were rogues and felt the halter.
Vermont is not a good place for repudia-
ton however hard the taxes may pinch.
The voice of the demagogue will very
likely though be heard in the land de-
nouncing the decision.
Reports from the west as TO the spring
wheat crop are full and encouraging. In
New England there is so far an excellent
prospect of a good hay crop. The winter
was mild, and if we had no snow to protect
the grass, so we had not long continued
and severe weather either as to the degree
of COLI, or the raking northwest winds
There has been rain enough to start the
growth, and it has been sufficiently warm.
Upon this crop in this state almost every
thing in the agricultural line depends. 1t
is our main crop. With good harvests this
year we shall have one of the most impor-
tant guarantees of revival of business.
Already our farmers are ploughing, seeding
their land, and making preparations for
their summer work.