Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-15


so we will sweetly drop the curtain, and
wish the newly married couple all manner
of happiness. ALPHA
The usual crop reports from the depart
ment of agriculture have not been forth
coming this spring. owing to row be-
tween the commissioner and the statlstl-
clan.
Charles O'Conner. OF New York, is like
that other fine ould Irish gintleman of
lyric notoriety, mighty hard to kill"
He had tough wrestle with death and
the doctors, two ar three years ago. ana is
now seven'y-four. healthy and vigorous.
In the U. S. Senate Friday, the bill re-
peaing the bankrupt law was passed'wlth
an amendment to make the repeal take
effect on the 1st of September, 1873.
This amendment was adopted by vote OF
81 to 81. The bill now goes TO the House
for the concurrence of that body.
Now. that Fourth of July is again APP
preaching. the figures OF damage by fire.
works aud firecrackers in connection with
the last national anniversary are interest
ing. The record foots 2S7 fires from such
causes during the month of July, 1871, de.
stroying S26l All worth of property, and
52S casualties, Of which 81 were fatal
A case of" quickened conscience " of n
very practical sort is reported from Ohio,
Henry Mattison of La Rue county, bach
elor of 65, supposing himself to be on his
death bed. has given his estate to the gov
eminent, rs II recompense for $4,000
which it has lost by his manufacture of
moonshne" whiskey since the war.
Fernando Wood. in conference with his
democratic friends who favor his bill. has
reluctantly yielded to proposition. when
the speeches are finished, for Il motion to
postpone the tariff bill till December. with
the understanding that a joint commission
shall be created to consider the whole
tariff system, his bill to be made the basis.
The speeches will consume several days.
The marriage of Senator Don Cameron
10 Miss Lizzie Sherman took place Wednes
day evening. in st. Paul's Episcopal
church, Cleveland, seven or eight hundred
people being present. The occasion WAS
brilliant one Don is fifty-two, and has
six daughters and three millions. Mrs.
Don is nearing her twentieth birthday.
She is blonde. with blue eyes, tall.
graceful figure, regular features, well
shaped head crowned with soft brown
hair.
A Washington despatch says the plan
to secure contributions from government
clerks for political campaign purposes is
likely to be defeated by forgotten clause
of the legislative appropriation bill of
| 1876, which makes it misdemeanor for
any government officer to give, request or
receive from another government officer,
any money or property for political pur-
poses. The only exceptions are office hold
ers deriving appointment directly from
the president,
Mr.. Edison, the inventor of the phono-
graph,is said to dislike eating, and TO con-
slider rs wasted time spent in that exercise.
His friends say that when the frenzy of Il
new invention is upon him they are oblig-
ed to study his moods and put food about
on his benches where he cannot he p seeing
it. He is now ut work upon a cheap
electrical motor for sewing machines and
light machinery. and has lately so far per-
fected his phonograph that it will repro
'luce words spoken fifteen feet from the
instrument.
The Tribune does not believe in the eff
cacy of mild remedies for communism. 1t
says: 1.-Two things are absolutely neces-
sary, if civilized society in this country is
not to be disordered for many years by
communism The first is that the public
must sand ready 10 crush every rev, 1t
against law. swiftly, thoroughly, merc-
Iessly. The la breaking communist must
meet no more federation than II mad dog.
Next, there NUT be II public opinion
which will staup out any party or leader
who atliliates with or courts The spirit OF
communism. C,vi.iz'd society must learn
to hold us public enemies every organizt-
ton, political or trade. and every public
man or official in any degree leaning
toward communism. 1t must be treated
as we treat cholera or the small pox, or its
work will be far more deadly"
Jonathan Walker known as the Man
with the Branded Hand, having been the
subject of John G Writers stirring poem
thus designated, recently died mt Mu,ke-
gon, Mich. He was through life strong
aboltionist, and from the year 1915 to
1850 delivered many lectures throughout
the country on slavery. He spent several
years of his life at sea, and for attempting
to free SOME slaves was captured in Flori
da in 1874, imprisoned one year, put in
the pilory and branded with hot iron on
the right hand with the letters " S. S,
meaning slave ste,ler, though Whittier
gave to the letters the significance, Sal
walton to the Slave" He died in great
poverty. An attempt was made some
months ago to raise funds for the old man,
but it resulted in nothing.
The new national party, which claims So,
900 votes in Pennsylvania, held a state con
vention in Philadelphia, last week, closing
on the 9Th. The party is composed of com
munists, strikers and greenbackers, .ant
the session was stormy affair. S. r
Mercer was nominated for governor, or
the second ballot. An effort to strike GU
the title of the party given in the las
platform, viz: that of greenback Labor
party, was unsuccessful. A resolution
condemning violence and lawlessness Wal
adopted. The platform advocates the re
peal of the resumption act; a reform il
the hours of labor; opposition to monopo
lies in the carrying trade; the substitution
of national money for bank notes lnterna
Improvements; and the encouragement o
shi building and oceanic transportation
by congress. The party will draw NOR
from the democrats than the republicans
and is looked on with some alarm by tn
former. .r..
Catherine E. Beecher, the Oldest siste
of Henry Ward Beecher. died on Sunday
at Elmira, N. Y, aged seventy-eigh
wears Miss Beecher was born in 100