Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-01-23

noPHeW VI VIC litIe Ut. Marlyn Ialne, mas
filed objections to the latter's will. He
claims share of the portion of the estate
devised to Harvard, on the ground that the
requests are void by reason of the system
Of accumulation directed by the will; and
prays that the amounts thus devised be
to the hcirs.at- law.
DIR. Edmund Randolph Peaslee, for
some years past II lecturer of excellent
rank in the medical department of Dart
mouth College, and well known not only
in New Hampshire, but in New York city,
where he had large practice, died at New
York Monday of pneumonia. lie has been
several years surgeon at the woman's hos
ptal in New York. and has gained much
credit by books on histology and ovarian
tumors. lie was siXty-three years old.
The Sons and Daughters Of Vermont
gathered at Mechanics Hall in Worcester,
Mass, on Wednesday evening, to hold
their fifth annual reunion. The Spy says
the formal exercises of the evening opened
just before eight o'clock, when the curtain
rose, representing IL scene in farm house
in the state from which the members of
the organization came, with its old-fash-
Toned furniture and spinning wheels.
Some of our readers may not know that
the terrible potato fungus, and which
brings about the disease in unfavorable
potato seasons, is a species of perenospora
A remarkable discovery has recently been
made 10y an English microscopic, who has
detected closely allied species in fossil
state on scaly stem of a lepidodcndron
from the English coal measures. The spec
linens were so perfect that even the ZOOS
pores could be seen under the microscope.
Secretary Schurz's war upon the timber
thieves is showing results. Already one
hundred and ninety civil, and thrty-eighl
criminal suits have been begun, and $873,-
723 worth of property seized. In Mime
sofa the government has won all of the
sevcnty-eight civil and twenty five Grimm.
al suits, realizing $4,000 in sales and
1913 in judgments. Seventy suits have
been begun in Mississippi, and 1868 ,40e
Of lumber seized; in Florida, twelve suit:
and Sill 800 recovered. The prosecutions
in Louisiana have just begun, and promise
large results.
Richard II. Dana, Jr., says the civil
service reform fight is not going to be wor
by compromise, When the unconverted
sinner is doing the Lords work because il
happens to be for his interest to travel in
that way, we shouldn't forbid him. But
considering his unregencrate state, IL safe
policy for the future is not to make IL per.
manent alliance with him. A man witt
settled and proved good political princi-
pies makes more congenial and reliable
laborer in the reform vineyard. PROGRESSED
conversion is always the first requisite fol
admission to churches of good standing,
and even then it isn't NECESSARY to make
deacon Or society treasurer out of the
hitherto wicked novitiate at the start.
The common notion that -" music cures
madness y has been tested by Il series OIL
experiments ut the Blackwell's island in.
sumo asylum, and its .fllacy pretty
thoroughly demonstrated. Representa-.
tiveS of the various types of lunacy have
been subjected to the influence of music,
but, as rule, no stimulating effect upon
the mind could be detected. What i'm.
preston there was seemed to he mere
ly sensuous, and was shown in II quicken.
ing of the circulation, or in producing Il
desire to dance. The melancholic patients
appeared to experience no emotion what
ever under the tones. The effect upon the
manacal varied, and was not SATISFACTORY
ly determined.
1t is related that during the Crimean
campaign in 1855, French officer under
took TO chastise Turkish private for dis
obedience by slapping his face, that the
soldier threw off his coat and pummelled
the Frenchman so soundly that he cried
for quarter, and that, thereupon, the pant
ing private, bracing himself up, delivered
this piece of advice, which is said 10 have
made Il marked impression on the specta-
tors: Now, Misther Farley Woo, the
next time you strike II Turk, look out that
he is not IL Iipperary man. If we are
10 belief II writer in the Cork Examiner,
Suleiman Pasln is one Patrick Sullivan
from the County of Cork. The writer
gives u connected history of the youthful
Celt from his school days down to the time
that he entered the Military School at
Constantinople. He also states that the
gallant Patrick has been heard from since
he went into active service under the
shadow Of the Crescent.
Senator Morton's posthumous report on
the Chinese question exhibits, in more
striking way Than the eulogies in the Sem
ate, the peculiar qualities of his mind. 1t
is practical, positive and earnest; enter
tains no doubts, and urges all its conclu-
sions with the strength that comes of sin
cerity. The senator made what is at least
an able argument for the Chinese. He
the proposal to keep the Chi.
nese away from our shores rs simply the
revival on this side Of the Pacific of the
old policy OF exclusion, which China and
Japan have themselves recently discarded.
He declared that this was, after all, only
another prejudice against color, and be-
lieved "their difference in color, dress,
and religion to have moro to do
with this hostility than their alleged vices
Oh any actual injury to the white people,"
Instead Of finding that tho presence of
Chinese labor had undermined the eau.
casian race, the senator came to the con-
clusion that white labor was more con-
stantly employed and better paid than
elsewhere in the United States, and was
in his views by the testi
mony Of business men that many great
could not have been carried
On without the labor of the Chinese.
Looking to the past, Senator Morton be.
ieved that their presence had been great
benefit to California, and not an injury.
Looking to the future, he declared that
he Chinese would never be properly pro-
ected, until they were made citizens. In
aet, the senator regarded the Chinese
problem from the first MS he used to re-
gard the problem of southern slavery, and
t may be that he did not make sufficient
Allowance for the points of difference.