Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-06-12
Vennor should be abated as nuisance

Out of seventy-seven members of the
graduating class ut Amherst college, for
ty-one are republicans. eleven are demo-
clats and the rest are " independents. ~
There are siXty-three free traders in the
class and only nine protectionists.
The people of Montreal are pr pairing
for warm time on the 18th of July
arrangements day, and unless measures are
taken by the provincial government to pre-
vent the parade of the Orange societies on
that day bloody riots will be the result.
We whisper to Mr.. Tilden in confidence
that no man will be thought of for presi-
dent in 1880 who is even suspected of hav-
ing been willing TO disturb the tranquility
of the country by questioning the title of
Hayes Philadelphia Times.
"Give him a consulship in u warm
place." said Mr.. Hayes when he endorsed
Anderson's application. We do not be-
tray confidence when we say this was Mr..
Havess Christian way of telling Ander-
son he might 90 to lI-alifax.-W WASH
ingtOn Post.
California leads off in enacting law to
compel life insurance companies to pay to
those of their policy-holders who elect not
to continue the payment of premiums an
equitable proportion of the amount which
has already been paid in. The law APP
plies only to policies taken out subsequent
to its enactment.
If a piece of paper be placed between
two sheets Of asbestos, and the whole sub
mitted to such heat that the paper will be
burned, whatever writing or printing had
been on the paper will, nevertheless, be
still legibe. This fact has Just been turn
ed to practical use. Albums of asbestos
are made in Germany for the protection of
bank notes and other documents. in case
OF fire. This will prove especially inter-
esting to editors and other moneyed men.
A quantity of well executed counterfeit
trade dollars have been captured in Cincn-
natl. They are composed of block tin,
bismu.h, and puverzed glass. They
possess pretty nearly the standard weight
and have the exact color and the true ring
of the real dollars. The only means Of
detecting them from the genuine is by
means of weigher or by pressing them
between the teeth, when the glass which
they contain emits cracking sound
Scientific american.
The wife of Jesse Billings, Jr., II large
owner and builder of canal boats, at Bea
con Ill., near Schuyerville, was sho
through a window about o'clock, las
Thursday evening, and killed. Mrs. Bill
; ings had long been Jealous of her husband
and had been much troubled in conse
quence. There is great excitement anC
suspicion is very strong against the hus
band, who has bean arrested. 1t is re
5 membered that Billings shot his brothe
! years ago, and excused it as accidetal.
Mr.. Edison is forced to defend his claim
to his inventions against English pretend
ers who have stolen his ideas, and ha
telegraphed to President Sir William
Thomson of the British association warn
: ing against one Prof. Hughes who has ap
propriated his ideas in the microphone, n
n instrument for hearing minute sounds at
great distance; and in the thermopile, o
heat measurer, which applies a principl
=. discovered by Mr., Edison in perfecting hi
d new carbon telephone, by which he coul
d detect one fifly-thousandth Of u degre
# Fahrenheit.