Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-27

inches long.
An American president, when asked
yh,, was his coat of arms. remembering
that he had been woodchopper IN Ms
youth, replied, "A pair of shirt sleeves
The Chicago Times has been studying
the life of Sunset Cox, and has reached
the painful conclusion that he Is the
smallest insect in the national house.
Fred Douglass admits that the average
darkey is prone to chicken stealing: put
thinks he may some time reach the hiSher
civilization of the whites, which does
allow thief to take anything less thah
100000 or so.
According to a new law in Connecticut,
divorces can henceforth only be granted
by reason of adultery, fraudulent contract,
wilfnl desertion for three years. seven
years absence and not heard from. habit
ual intemperance, intolerable cruelty, and
Imprisonment for infamous crime in the
state prison.
Moody is particularly strenuous III his
advice 10 Young converts not TO marry
unbelievcrs. lie thinks the time will soon
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form the ceremonies in such cases III
also censured Connecticut valley deacon'
who raise tobacco, saying it was not done
for the glory of God.
Grace and Blanche Richie, two little
Missouri girls, have just been awarded
$4,000 in Il suit against the Missouri Pa
citic railroad for the death OF their parents
who were killed near Big Bend last Au-
gust. One of the children had previously
Obtained Judgment of $4,000 against the
road for personal injuries.
A scrimmage among the custodians oil
the Fenean treasury has disclosed the fact
that the skrmishing fund ought t.
amount to about $20,000.> The fund prob
ably derives its name from the circum'
stance that it has taken great deal OF
skirmishing to raise it and that no amount
of skirmishing will find it when it is
wanted.
A family of Canton, Mass, suffocating
with coal gas, were saved through the
insrumentality of dog. They were all
nsensible, with the exception of the father
who was just able to 90 to another room
to get some water, when he tainted. The
house dog licked his face until he was
restored to consciousness, just in time to
revive the family.
Last Sundays record of crimes and cas-
ualties was tremendously bloodstained. At
Wheeling, West Virginia, mob hung
John Wallace, who had outraged and
murdered his brothers wife. At Montreal,
Ann Kane scal,led to death her lover, Peter
Deeg n. AT Cicero, n. Y, her own daugh-
ter slew eighty-year old Lucy Day. At
St. Louis, Charles Smith was assassinated
while fishing, and thrown into the Mi s.
issppi There were seven fatal accidents
in various parts Of the country, and there
was one suicide. Mar the Isle of Wight
the British frigate Eurydice went down,
with three hundred souls on board. Alto
gether it was memorable Sabbath.
An act to repeal the present session of
congress would do Il good deal to revive
the spring trade,-Phitadeiphta Times.
If people are ever tempted 10 feel ,lissat-
isiied with the president. they should look
at Blaine and ConkIing and think what
might have been.-R0St0D Herald.
The ordinary idea of hell is a place of
intense heat; the Ilottentot's, y place Oh
extreme cold; the Boston mans place
where there are no Goldfish and beans -
Cncinndtj EnQairer,
When II wife in Woodford forgets to
sew the suSpender buttons on her hus-
bands trousers she is palted on the buck
for half an hour with pine board an inch
thick Manchester Journal.
They are going to have an artificial
Niagara Falls at the Paris exhibition; but
unless IN American is charged fifteen dol
lars for looking ut it. and has his pockej
picked by hackman, he will fail to recog.
nize it.-NoTriS,Ot0H HerdH.
a New York paper is trying to get up n
sensation about new invention for max
inc gas ont of water. When we learn to
make water out Of gas some of these met
ropolitan editors can be condense into Il
spring freshet, Boston Hcrald.
They are going to put on the new silver
dollar the legend In God We trust
That's what the old woman, being run
away with, said she did until the brGTechin'
broke. The silver madness is running
away with the country, and the breechn
broke in congress the other day.-Aibapl
Evening JournaI,
The New York Times is confident tina,
Secretary Sherman's plan to float $500.
100000 of greenbacks ut par with gold
will fail. The Times thinks that Sl5O.
100000 will be the limit of greenback>
that can be kept in circulation at par with
gold. The Tribune thinks it is mistake
to name so large sum.
We believe that We're a presidential cleo
ton to ocenr in November next, there is
no one of the republican congressman now
prominent ut Washington. particularly in
the senate, who could poll rs large n re
publican vote rs President Hayes; and
that there is no prominent republican there
who would receive anything like the num-
Der OF democratic votes Mr.. Hayes would
certainly win from the moderate section
of that party.-Aitcbf Id CO.. Inquirer.
| Happily for the people. the next con
gress is sure TO be tocrablv close in any
case, and no great harm is likely to come
to the republic if the democrats control
both branches Of it. 1t concerns the re.
publican managers more than the rest OF
us whether they learn in advance the les
son that their only hope of carrying the
country in 1880 is by planting themselves
on the Hayes platform of 1876, revised and
improved, or will only believe it after a
defeat in lS78.-Sprt"gfeld Republican.
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