Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-29
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The supreme court of Massachusetts, has
decided that n note given for n ehurch
subscription does not carry with 1t an Cd
legation 10 pay, since it is given without
consideration.
President HAYES has directed the drop
ping of the Kuklux cases that have betn
SO long on The docket of the United States
court at Columbia, S. c., and the three
prisoners who are sill serving sentenc,
for similar offenses in the Albany IN. I }
panitenliary will doubtless be pardoned
before long.
Services in memory OF the late Judge
Chisolm, son and daug liter, murdered a
year ago in Kemper county, Miss were
held in the Metropolitan District Episcopal
church, in Washington, on Sunday. Rev.
Ii r. Naylor, the pastor, preached a ser
mon before large congregation, Mis-.
Chisolm being present.
Speaker Randall says "it is idiotic 10
talk of unsealing Hayes" and the Potter
committee q will simply gather up and
crystalline the evidence we have been
familiar with since its publication. and
place it on the enduring records Of con-
GItSS its II NluliShblOL VI Jul SOANANN NA
ing the whole canvass"
1t is much more of crime in many
mountain districts of the south to testify
for the prosecution in a government suit
than to still whiskey on the sly. So Hend-
rcks and Bonner of Lumpkin county, Ca,
found it when disguised party took them
| from their houses one night last week and
cruelty whipped them with hickory
swilc es for having been witnesses in the
United States courts. And complaints OF
outrages upon witnesses in similar cases
in southwestern Virginia are reported.
A Paris letter contains an interview
with Gen. Grant, in which he denies the
statement OF rebel Gen. TAYLOR in the
North American ReuiesS, that Gen. Grant
fought his campli5n against his own ju1g-
ment. and in doing so had thrown away
the lives of II hundred thousand men. Grant
sli that the part of Taylor's article which
referred to him is wholly false, and with
out Il shadow of Il foundation. A letter
from Gen. Bideau, sfnrmer secretary OF
Gen. Grant, denies all the statements oil
Gen. Taylor and Gideon Wells, rejecting
upon Gen. Grant.
II. G.. Pyles, u clerk Of Louisiana re-
turning board, was, until recently, en-.
ployed in the pension Office. He applied
to be reinstated threatening damaging
disclosures The commissioner of PEN
sious asked him: "Do | understand you
> that nets
transactions which throw discredit upon
the action of the returning board?" Pyle
answered in the affirmative. Then,
said the commissioner, you can never bt
IN employee of this bureau with my con
sent"
The hardest hail storm ever known by
the oldest inhabitants of Exeter, n. II.
with thunder and lightning, of about hal
an hours duration, visited that place Sat
urday afternoon. Hail stones the size of
robins egg and larger, lay in drifts fou
, inches to Il foot deep, around the building
sometime after the storm. The leaves o
trees are badly cut. 1t is thought that
2 great deal of damage is done to fruit tree
and early crops. During the storm leave
were falling in clouds from the trees ant
the ground was thickly covered with bat
p ter, d leaves and twigs, after the storm
Hne streets were converted to rivers. Con
siderable glass is reported broken in TIN
windows.
Gen. Grant has written II letter home il
which he says that foreign sights an
p scenes and ceremonies begin to pail upo
+ his appetite. He is tired of official recep
! tions, and would decline them, but that h
q long since came to regard them as compl
, ments to his country rather than TO him
f self. lie will possibly remain abroa
: another year. lie says there is still
: great struggle to be gone through in thi
s country before the political status can b
regarded us permanently established with
:, in the bounds OF legitimate and safe pollt
- ical issue and party feeling. He is prepaI
II ed to do his duty us II private citizen, bu
+. new responsibilities in the public servic
J. he shall persistenlly decline.
d The fifty thousand dollars libel suit c
n Wallace p. Groom against Peter Coope
d has ended in 4 disagreement of the jury
d 1t has only served 10 make more clear tn
n wholesale way in which the venerabl
presidential candidate was bled by the de;t
=. beats who saw IL chance to make none
u out of his confdng good nature by pre-
IS Tossing great zeal for the greenback cause
II He complains that even to this day he
pestered by men who want five dollar
. api ce for election work, and is still pay
% ing them. The interesting fact was deVe
h opcd in the trial that Mr.. Coopers coacl
Of man voted for Iilden, but he had sutficel
; loyalty to his employer to - bounce " tn
- democrats who had captured the Coope
=" booth at his polling place and set men
g distributing greenback tickets.