Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06

Cold and hunger are killing thousands
daily in Constantinople, and drouth is
blighting everything in Australia and the
Sandwich Islands.
Mr.. Beard, by the way, seems to have
been one of the genuine poor boys who
don't make parade of it-a Vermont
farmers boy. The fact didn't come out
till after he was nominated.
There is deficiency of $1,500,000 in
the finances of Canada for the past year,
and the country has q neat little debt of
100000, 900, or $40 per head of the popu-
lation.
A London correspondent writes that he
has been assured by journalist who
ought to know that Mr.. Stanley has really
declared his readiness to undertake the
discovery of the north pole. If he has,
says the correspondent, there will be an
end to that old secret. if the problem is
within the compass of mortal man to I'M
ravel it; for Stanley is rs patient and per-
severng rs he is resolute and courageous.
The Boston Globe, referring to the re-
cent act of congress which provides that
| women who are henceforth to be allowed
to practice in the Supreme Court of the
United States must be of "good moral
character" says: Suppose the same thing
were to be required of male lawyers, what
II thinning of the ranks there would be
But why insult women with this distnc-
ton and assume that they are less likely
to have good moral characterP
WELLS ONCE MoRE.-Ex-Gov. Wells of
| Louisiana says he is satisfied with his
recently published letter. 1t has been
published in pamphlet form and circulated
in New Orleans. He says: When my
case is called | will appear and tell
Judges Whitaker and Ogden that they
are Il pair of contemplate villains, and tell
the jury they are set of perjured scoun-
drels and defy them to do their worst. |
published letter, so that my children
when in years to come they read the abuse
heaped upon me by this gang, can also
read my opinion of the miserable devils
who have been abusing me-"
The new silver dollar bears on its OBJ
verse free cut head Of liberty crowned
with Phrygian cap, decorated with wheat
and cotton, the staples of the country, the
legend e PuribuS Unun1, thirteen stars
and the year of coinage. On the reverse,
surrounded by an olive wreath, is an eagle
with outspread wings, bearing in his talons
branch of olive and bundle OF arrows,
emblems of peace and war, the inscrip-
tions, United States of America" and
lone dollar" and the motto In God
we trust"
The Spanish governors of Cuba clinch
the surrender of the insurgents by pro-
claiming the complete recognition of the
de rlcto emancipation of all slaves who
took part in the rebellion; masters who
Joined in the instruction will be entitled
to no indemnity, but owners who remained
loyal will be Unidentified The island is
to have representation in the Spanish par
Lament on the same terms as Porto Rico,
proportionally larger according to popula'
ton, and to be subject to the general legis-
lation of the kingdom. 1t is Il good time
for Minister Lowell to get II reciprocity
treaty under way.
According to the Chicago Inter- Ocean
Mother SYMPTOMS prophecy is clever
fraud. 1t says: In 1862 Charles Hindley
of Brighton, England, published what he
said was reprint of an old edition o
Mother Symptoms pieces, but has since
acknowledged that the wonderful proph
ecy " and some other pieces in the book
were written by him at that time. Thi;
prophecy, which originally WAS claimed tt
have been written in 1883 and republsheC
in 1911, was first wrought out of the brair
of Mr. Hindley in 1862. Who Mothe
Shipton really was is not known. 1t i
probable such woman lived about 1883
but nothing but tradition is known of her
The production of gold and silver on thi
continent during the year 1877, west @
the Missouri river, including British Co
lumbia and the Pacific coast of Mexico
was S93 900, 000-an amount greater thai
! ever before, and an excess over 1876 @
~ ,UJO,puO. L TIC uluOtlII vi POll plONuCc
was $46,000,000, and Of silver $47 900
00O In this country the production G
gold has risen from thirty-three million
in 1870 to about forty-iive in 1871; in tn
same time the silver production has rise
from seventeen millions to forty-siX mil
ions. There is susgestiveness in thes
figures which every one would do well
heed.
Iowa has been trying the abolition of tn
death penalty for some years, and doesn
like it. Murders have grown more frt
quent. and the knowledge that the mul
derers wouldn't be hung, with the chanc
that they would be pardoned out in fe'
years, has stimulated lynch law, which ba
become alarmingly prevalent. The senat
' passed bill restoring the death penalt
Monday by vote of twenty. eight to ninC
, teen, and the house will, doubtless, cor
' cur. The old traditions are still so effGc
i've that few people are ready to accel
S any other application of such punishmel
: than by the rope, despite the shockin
! bunglings that are growing so dreadful
, common, and II proposition to substitut
the guillotine for the gallows got onl
four votes.