Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-01

At St. Adams, Sunday, Sl2,5O0 was
raised to pay the debt on the Methodist
church.
The old proverb is "Betwixt April and
May if there be rain, it is worth more than
oxen or grain"
Petroleum V. Nasty has got back
again to the Toledo Blade, where he made
his fame. and fortune.
Good news from Mississippi" the
Murphy movement seems to be carrying
the various cities by Storm
Russia and England face to face, do not
know whether to advance or retreat A
cartoon in the Graphic intimates that both
will 90 back.
There is one plank in Genaral Banks
platform for 1873 that almost any con-
gresham could stand on. 1t is on the
subject of finance, and is in these words :
I" | don't understand it."
The St. Adams MESSENGER advocates
the nomination of Bradley Barlow for con-
gress. The Burlington Free Press opposes
Barlow strongly, and talks favorably of
re-nominating M. Hcndee.
Saratoga dispatches say that John Nor
rissey's right arm became paralyzed on
Sunday. He has not spoken since, although
he has seemed to recognize people. The
doctors report him as sinking fast.
Gen. Henry Smalley Of New York, son
of the late Judge Smalley, has been off on
a prolonged drunk, and when last heard
from was in Canada. His wife Julia has
brought suit for divorce charging adultery.
The funniest joke of to-day comes from
Paris and is to the effect that the army
of honorary commissioners to the exposi-
ton from the United States will have 70
pay like common people every time they
go in.
We see it announced that the Co-opera.
tive company of Springfield, VT, are to
remove to Fairfax county, Virginia when
they have purchased 300 acres of land and
propose to take their machinery and carry
on manufacturing and farming.
A carefully prepared table has just beer
completed by DR.. Hitchcock of Amherst
college, which proves from Stats tics con-
corning eleven New England colleges
that there are proportionately less college
educated men now than in the early part
of the century.
Hannibal Hamlin, in his tour through
the south TO and from Cuba, stopped owe
day in Richmond on the way back, ant
told prominent citizen that the negro i
better off now than he was under the ole
regime, and that he thought the colore,
people in Virginia were getting on bette
than the laboring class at the north.
One of the patriarchs of the New Yorl
postoffice died, the other day, in the persol
of John II. Hallett, superintendent of tn
" Inquiry and Dead Letter Department
who had seen fifty one years of contnuou
service, and had only one senior-Charle
Forester who has been postoffice cler
for fifty-threc years. Mr. Halett was frs
appointed in 1926.
Some fourteen years ago the AtIanti
MonthIa had very entertaining article o
the Total Depravity of Inanimat
Things" We never knew the types
swear of their own accord till last weel
when they changed an innocent word j
our leader into a profane one, one mad
mighty out of what should have been ntqh,
Iy, and so forth. But these things NOV
us not.
There was sad tragedy in Cambridg
Sunday afternoon. Barney Gray, a youn
man laboring for Thomas Edwards. q
East Cambridge, shot his brother, job
Gray, with shot gun, killing him instant
ly. They were visiting with others, i
, Edwards barn, when Barney took gu
and pointed it saying, look out; I'll shoe
you," fired, and the shot took effect in tn
neck, nearly severing the head. The GU
was supposed to be unloaded
Gold and greenbacks are once NOR
practically at par Gold took its first stal
: January 18th, 1862 when it sold for 81 .OS
on Christmas day of the same year it wa
81. 80; in March, 1868. it was Sl.7l; O
the 18th of July, 1868, it reached its HIGH
est point S2.S5; receding. in February
1865. it was 30 90; in January, 1865, ST.
IS; for the next three years it average
about Sl.35; Black Friday, September "a
/, | 1860 sent II I'M IN G1 50. Donan,Lo, O,