Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-22
si,ty.six temperance papers and period

/ Sixty-six temperance papers and period
ical, have been started within a year.
The St. Albans Methodists have raised
the full ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to
pay the debt and complete their church.
The Middlebury Register has an article
strongly f,voring Hon. John w. Stewart
as successor to Congressman Joyce in the
first district.
The National Party" propose to hold
mass convention in Burlington, August
LIST, to nominate state, district, county and
town tickets.
Ex-Gov. John w. Stewart is a candidate
for the republican nomination for congress
in this district, and therefore the chances
are that the district convention will be
lively one.
The directors of the Bennington Battle
Monument Association held u meeting in
Burlington, the 10th. The reports pre-
scented were encouraging, and plan for
raising the $4,000 was adopted.
The ninth annual meeting of the YER
mont Baptist Sabbath school convention,
will be held at Newport, Wednesday and
Thursday. June 9Th and 9th, and will be
conducted by Prof. W. F. Sherwin, of
Newark, N. j.
Col. Proctor, Col. Merrill, Mt. Sprague
and A. L. Miner are the only candidates
for governor that are in the field The
probabilities are that the first named will
be chosen on the first ballot-ifno some
body out of the list, like Col. Veazey, will
be taken as compromise.
The SUNDAY Reriew says:-Mrs. Gov.
Underwood returned Saturday evening
from visit to her husband at Concord.
He is reported to be improving in health,
having gained in flesh forty pounds since
he went there. and it is thought there is u
probability of his ultimate recovery.
People who look on the bright side of
things say the cold snap is IN excellent
help for grain. Continued warmth, it is
argued, would produce II large crop of
straw unburdcned with heavy heads. 1t is
also claimed that the chilly weather will
enable potatoes to catch up with the vines.
Rutland did have very lively caucus,
Merrill succeeding as against Proctor by
297 to 273. The friends of the latter
claim that they were beaten by democratic
votes-an article that has no business in
any republican caucus. There will be n
contest over the admission of the delega-
ton before the committee on credentials
it is said.
Gov. Fairbanks has appointed Dr. Mid
dleton Goldsmith Of Rutland, DR.. o. F.
Fassett of St. Adams, and w. II. Walker,
Esq, of Ludlow, commissioners TO inves-
ligate The Brattleboro Asylum, and deter
mine what legislation, if any, is needed,
in reference to the care of the insaue in
our state; and they are engaged in an
examination of the asylum. The charac
ter of the gentlemen composing this com
mission is such rs TO insure II thorough
examination of the subject, and report
which will be entitled to weight in the
legislature, and in the state. We under
stand that the appointments were made
some time since; but that the commission
ers, for good reasons, desired that their
appointments should not be announced
ill Il later date.
Many of the new uniforms of the Cen
ral Vermont train MN were made by
Woolson Brothers, of Montpelier, whose
skill and reputation rs mel chant tailors
draws patronage from all over the country.
They are very elegant.
Mr.. Franklin Billings. who has resided
near the fair ground in Rutland nineteen
years. says that during that period bobo
links have not varied more than one or
two days from the 10Th of May in their
spring return TO the fair ground. This
spring, which was much earlier than usual
they arrived the 1llh of May. II fact which
would seem to show hat they do not oh
serve the progress of the season so much
rs the day of the month 10 their spring
| ght.-RHGtttn0 Herut0.
C. NJ. Stone, Esq, editor of the St.
Johnshury Caicdoninn, attended the recent
International S lbha School Convention
ut Atlanta. Ga, and says "All signs of
good feeling between the diff 'rent sections
of our country are worth recording. A
fortnight ago, Il large religious convention,
with delegates from thirty four states, met
at Atlanta. Ga. With great unanimity and
enthusiasm. the governor of that state was
elected to preside over the convention,
although he had been IL general in the
con fe,lerate army. Right nobly did he
demean himself, and mos lovingly did he
treat all in the convention who came from
the north as well rs those who came from
the south.
The Windsor republican caucus elected
Proctor delegates, and adopted the follow
ing resolution:
RESOLVED, That the republicans of Wind
sor. while admitting the differences of
opinion in regard TO certain acts and mat
ters of policy, do cordially approve the
administration of President Hayes, as one
of the most able. iudiclous and patriotic
with which the country has been favored
since the days of George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln, and that they regard
all attempts of congress, or other official
parties. to cast doubt on the legality of
his title to his office after the announced
results of the electoral commission, rs
revolutionary in their nature. reprehensi.
BILE in their motives and dangerous to the
peace and prosperity of the republic.
The democratic resolution is not only
indecent and knavish; it is an attempt to
get up new rebellion against lawful au-
lhority.-NeO York Tribune.
Against the cry of "fraud" the repub-
leans raise the cry of revolution" and
they will unite the whole north once more
in their support York Herald
Money is so plenty in st. Louis. says the
Journal of that city, that Young men are