Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-24

In 1910 lilt dZZttZheN fthaA~
exported was S62,OOO.OOO.
The place for Americans to be educated
in. is America. The notion that boy VIII
be better educated in Germany than IN the
United States is delusion and snare.
The notion that the German university
affords better preparation Tor useiul
life than an American college is a more
pardonable form of the same error
Christian Union.
Ofall roles in the world that of an artist
is the last in which anybody would expect
Gen. Grant to ever figure. Yet cores
pondent of the Detroit Post says that in
his earlier years the ex-pressdent was CIV
en- To the culture of art" and painted
number of pictures, one of wuich Is now
preserved in the library of the ex-secretary
Borie of Philadelphia. When he was in
Amsterdam last month he SAW a picture OF
a bull that he got quite enthusiastic over.
DR.. Polak, physician to the Shah. gives
some particulars of that potentate's habits
He ordinarily rises at sunrise and performs
his devotions, after which he spends some
lime in his harem. Then he receives his
ministers. After that he t. kes walk AMI
inspecls his fish ponds and avaries, or goes
out hunting, of which pas;ime he is pas
sona,ely fond. He is ordinarily very sim
Pile in his dress. and wears little jewrlry.
but the dagger he always carries Is richly
studded with gems.
Bismarck and Grant talked about the
way to deal with such fellows as Nothing,
who tried to shoot Emperor William.
Grant slid that the influence which aimed
at the emperor's life was an influence that
would destroy all government, all order.
all society, republics and empires, and
that some Of our people" are anx-
ious abott it. There is only one way tn
deal with it, and that is by the severest
methods"
The state papers will confer favor on
the NJ. E. church of Vermont, by correct
| ing the following mistake that WAS made in
the printed minutes of the Vermont con-
ference. 1t is in regard 10 the number Of
members. The minutes show decrease
in the membership Of l,27l, while there
really is net increa e of nearly 600. The
principal mistake is in regard to the footing
of the total membership of the Springfield
district. which SHOULD be 2,771, instead o.
1906 as the minutes have it; and this doe.
not include the charges from which there
there was no report.-EG.
ONO SOLDIERS REuNIoN.-Twenty
thousand people attended the OHIO sol
Iiers and sailors reunion at Newark
Ohio, July %. Among those present were
President Hayes and party, General Sher
man and Governor Bishop. During tht
procession 10 the old fort, near Newark
where the reunion was held, the president
General Sherman and other distinguished
visitors were repeatedly cheered. Genera
Refer, member of congress from the
Springfield district. delivered the GRAFTON
A considerable part of his opening was Il
eulogy of General Mcpherson, this being
the anniversary of his death. After the
address the president, General Sherman
and others were introduced 10 the crowd
A banquet was given in the evening.
Red squirrels are making nuisances O
themselves in Plattsburgh by destroying
fruit, killing young birds and otherwis,
misbehavng, These lively little fellow.
are unusually plenty in the Champlair
valley this summer. and it is curiou.
| fact for which we can personally vouct
that they are crossing in considerabl,
numbers from the Vermont to the New
York shores. One of them boarded oul
sail boat just south of Westport on the 8,
Of July. lie must have swan at leas
three miles, across North West Bay an,
was making for the New York shore will
| all his p,i,rht ~ TO I,, ,rI,I 20
Il ride. The same afternoon heavy vino
blew from the north, and the next day mum
bers Of them were observed floating lead il
the water to the southwark, having prohab
ly been swept up the lake by the gale an,
exhausted. Who can guess the object O
these migrations ?-Pattybargh R,publi
can.
The results which have attended the no
wave in its progress through the countr,
constitute, says the Troy Times, one of tn
most effective temperance lectures eve
preached. More than two-thirds of tn
persons stricken down by heat in the ives
were either drunkardS or habitutl drinker
Of intoxicating liquors. The fact that il
very hot weather the men and wome
who drink whiskev, brandy and othe
liquors to "cool off, are the first 10 sue
cumb, is rs well settled as anything Cal
he in medical science and experience; bu
public attention has never been called t
ii in manner so startling us during tn
past few days. Never before in the hi,tor
of this country have more than one thou
sand people been Frustrated by heat in
single city in Il brief period AS WAS tn
case in St. Louis during the ten days jus
! passed; and when it is known that owe
two-thrds of the sufferers were drinkin
men and women, the absolute danger
indulgence in hot weather presses itse
upon the public mind in way that mu,
, at once arrest grave consideration.
The July report of the agricultural d,
f partment gives the grain crop of the OH
l valley rs almost unexampled in luxuriant
f the average condition being: Ohio, II
per cent; Michigan, 105; Indiana, II;
: Illinois, 107. The average condition {
5 winter wheat for its entire breadths is lOl
e average condition of corn, 95 There is
t decrease in the acreage of corn in the Gel
n trail portion of the great corn GROWN
district of the west and IN increase in Il
south and about the same area in Il
s iddlem states rs in 1871 II slight reductic
j being apparent in New York and slig
J. increase-in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
The heaviest decline is in Illinois, amour
. ing t. about two-thirds of million acre
e or reduction of I per cent. The increa
/ in Texas, as indicated by the counties r
q ported, is 10 per cent of 100000 acre
Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi NAL
. II large advance, the former state abo
l. 100000 acres. The number of count
Of reporting the condition of corn is 1862,
If which 2S7 return 100, 252 above and 5
below that standard The extraordina
4 promise of last month is continued in Il
=, spring wheat region of the northwest Al
- in California and the east. The unprec
" dented average of LOG is made for the e
10 tire area of spring sown wheat in d
IS southern Atlantic states. The season b
- been unhvorable and the returns ar
~ ~ Virginia, 81; North Carolina, rs; Sou
~ Carolina, 6S; Georgia, 70.
n A CHURCH Row IN FLoRIDA.-Th
" are particular about the use of wor
l. down in Florida. A physicians wife {
'e ciral ia la.tva tho