Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-11-20

another survivor of the Inflated Huron
has turned up. lie was picked up the day
after the wreck by Norwegian bark,
having drifted sixty miles out to sea- was e
taken to Norway and brought back to a
Baltimore by the same vessel.
The partisans of silver are furious
against the action of the New York banks.
Why should they be? The banks have
simply said that those who deposit silver
shall draw in silver. If silver is good
enough to deposit why not to draw.
Three Dartmouth sophomores were re-
Gently compelled by their classmates to
have their whiskers and mustaches shaved. |
One Young man was calling upon young |
lady and was called out to be subjected to
having one side of his face shaven. The
whole affair is considered disgraceful by
the better portion of the college boys rs
we'll as the citizens.
The Boston Herald complains that the
Maine republicans, after having fought the
c,mnaion on the " honest money issue,
are willing to allow Smith, the gEeenback
candidate, to be chosen governor by the
LEGISLATURE, in preference to hard
money democrat who could stand on Mr..
Rlaine's platform but for his preference of
graenbacks to National Bank notes AS n
| Circulating medium The Herald be-
| lieves that this step will be taken for
# " party reasons"
. II is said that Vermont stands ut the
: head of the New England states in the
- relative proportion of her agricultural
! to her total population. Over fifty
If Nor cent of all who are engaged in nj
: occupations are engaged in agriculture
while the percentage thus engaged ii
- Maine is less than forty, in New Hamp
IS shire thirty eight. in Massachusetts les
,c Than thirteen, in Connecticut about twenty
two and in Rhode Island about thirteen
n per cent.
in The Washington correspondent of tn
M BOSTON Journal says: what is called tn
new departure in the treatment of tn
y soutb. means that the president has bee
IN compelled to change his estimate OF south
s. ern politicians, and to some extent of south
IN ern people. He seems no longer to hav
absolute confidence in the perfectiblity {
} the southern nature The administrator
IL insists that it has always been part {
is the southern policy, and of the genera
as policy of the administration, to enforc
o nenaities of so much of the systemat
violation of the law as can be direct
Ut traced to offenders.
WRESTLING MATCH.-James Owens,
n Vermont, has accepted the challenge
he Charles Conner, of Newly rk, for wires
Ia ling match. The stakes are $500 sid
he of Which one-half $3.50 Il side, was put l
- "a forfeit on Wednesday last, 9th instan
- the remainder to be posted on the l9t
'l' the day before the contest, which w
ar take place at Beethoven Hall on Wednf
re. dav evening. the Goth instant. The ia
are best two in three, fair back falls, Al
wv as both men are about equal in size t
ere battle will probably be one of the hard'
| to that Owens has yet been engaged in.
'ne The Rutland Herald notes the singu]
OIL effect of Thanksgiving proclamations,
follows: A Baxter street citizen motto.
tate shortly after the presidents proclnmati
,nv announcing the 2Sth as Thanksgiving d
WY the disappearance of his hens. This
'ere merely a coincidence, and as the fowls
lost turned to their accustomed roosting phi
ng. in day or two he paid but little attent
,.oo to the matter. But the day that G
''e ", Proctor promulg tied his official ayr
po'l ment with the president in regard to
ting dav selected, etc, those hens again
the came scarce, and they have not been
It of since.
mail A Washington dispatch says:-Sen'
cX- Conklino's friends admit that he is
we're deavoring to place himself in cordial
and tons with the administration, his ultin
tried purpose being the presidential nomina
g. in 1880. Harmony has become his wa
It's word, and he will not be apt to make
and further trouble in the matter OF the
out York custom house nominations. will
cast seek the reappoinment of Arthur,
49,. will allow Cornell to shift for him
'niS' Movements, the purpose of which
were secure reconciliation with the preslden
&c of is said, will become manifest at an e
and day.