Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-11-27


next week-congress meets.
Colonel John c. Stearns, one of the Sen
ators from Orange county, is candidate
for Collector Dana's position.
The divorce bill was dead once last
night but the breath of life was blown in
It and it went through somewhat amend
ed.
The bill abolishing the Board of Agri
culture which passed the House bya large
majority, was rejected in the Senate Sat
urday.
There will be turkey buried at my
house on the 26th. You are respectfully
invited TO attend lis the latest and most
fashionable way of inviting friend to
take II Thanksgiving dinner with you.
The agricultural fair season is over in
the north, but it is in full blast down south,
South Carolina had very successful state
fair at Columbia last week, and Arkansas
has done the same thing at Little Rock
this week.
Gov. Proctor nominated, yesterday, for
trustees of the reform school, Hon. w. p.
Dillingham; of Waterbury, D. NJ. Camp of
Newport, and Hon. c. NJ. Spaulding of
Jericho-all excellent men, and well quail
flied for the trust.
The Potter committee probably don't
feel much heart for any more Investigate
ing, but they will probably conclude to
get ahead of the republicans in overhaul
ing the cipher dispatch business by being
first to summon the parties involved as
Witnesses.
This week is Thanksgiving week in
Canada rs well us in this country. Our
neighbors Of the Dominion will doubtless
spend the entire week in vast and varie-
gated merry-making in honor of the ar
rival of the Marquis of Lorne and the
Princess Louise.
On the night of November 25th the
steamer Pomerania collided with the
barque Noel Eilan about eight miles west
of Falkeston, England, and foundered in
about eight minutes. Some one hundred
and seventy persons on the steamer were
saved, and fifty-eight are reported missing.
some FIGUREs.-There are yearly rails
ed in Vermont, corn, 500, 1872 bushels;
wheat, 454, 703 bushels. There are in the
state two hundred and fifty grist-mills
worth 81, 250, 900. The average price of
corn now is fifty cents per bushel while
from 1852 TO 1877 it averaged I'M" cents
per bushel.
The feeling between III A The in
terror departments promiops lead to an
acrimonious correspondence. The weak
point in the case of the army is that some
officers in their zeal to secure n transfer of
the Indian management haYe accepted
stories of irresponsible persons and incor-
porated them in the official reports of
facts,
The genial doorkceper of the House
wants to be consul at St. Johns L" HI
ram " would attend to things tirst-rate
and we presume would be ready to an
nounce to the newly arrived marquis and
governor general message from the
Senate" if necessary. Canada would
think the Fenians were coming if he
should once let that voice loose.
Governor Proctor has appointed, and
the Senate have confirmed, for trust
ces Of state prison and work house, w. H.
II. Bingham Of Stowe, two years; N. P.
Simons of Rutland, two years; j. c. Park
er Of Hartford, four years. 1t is under
stood that Sheriff Trip of Middebury
has accepted the appointment of supcrin-
tcndent of the work house.
Hon. Dan. p. Webster, of Putney, the
newly elected state railroad commissioner,
was born in Northfeld Dec. I, 1915. He
is physician and was graduated at the
medical department of the U. V. NJ, in
1867. He was a member of the House in
1872 and IA and Is senator in the pres
ent legislature; was sergeon- general on
the staff of Gov. Peck in 1916, and is
Deputy Grand Master the Grand Lodge
CT. & A. NJ Of Vermont.
The Boston J0urnaL publishes long
statement of Hayden, the wife murderer
1t contains little that is new to the public.
He says that his wife's only fault was hel
love for him, He refers to the treachery
on the part of his relatives, and to his ex-
pectations of domestic happiness which
were blighted on the day of the crime,
and that it must have brought about u
feeling of despair, of frenzy, and uncon
sciously he did that which was contrary tc
his nature, desire, interest and peace o
mind.