Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-12-11

Gen. Fremont is making himself popular
in Arizona. He is non-partizan governor,
and attends to. business.
Did Paul write his epistles on parchment
or paper?-Eschange On neither He
used Apostle card.-Somercill Journal.
The thought of Nephew Pelton up under
oath before the bar of the Senate, with
such man as George F. Fdmunds asking
questions, is a horrible one, even to the
most hide-bound Democrat-TFoy Times.
North Elba, the home of John Brown,
where his body lies Wondering in the grave
Of the body-snatchers have not visited iD
bids fair to be the great center of the Adj.
rondack region. There are already six
hotels in the town, and three more in pro-
cess of erection.
Judge Nelson of Brooklyn, who made
such an excellent reputation during the
Beecher Tilton trial, believes in calling
things by their right names. Better call
her woman" he said to lawyer who
was talking about lady the other day;
" God made woman, but lady is only
modern fixture in fine dress
Senator Wallace of Pennsylvania pro-
fesses to believe that the democratic party
lost 12,0 900 votes in his state at the recent
election because of the interference of
federal officers at the polls. This is a
doubtful calculation, but if the persons
thus deprived of suffrage were not legally
entitled to vote, as is probable, there is no
reasonable cause for complaint.
Rensselaer, county. N. Y, may well
take pride in the grand jury who have Just
been sitting at Troy. Besides their find
ings against members of the ring, and a
lot of other offenders. they have indicted
two members of their own body fUr illegal
rum-selling, also president Tierney and
Alderman Morrissey. who were drunk at
a recent meeting of the city council.
A New York despatch says that Miss
Maud f. Davenport of that city is TO at
tempt to walk thirty miles against Horace
Baxter, walking fifty miles, at the Town
hall in Rutland, January 14th. Miss
Davenport is twenty-one years of age and
Il native of Auburn. A few days ago she
walked from Sing Sing to New York, u
distance of thirty miles, in eight hours
and forty minutes.
There is no prejudice against carpet
baggers in Dakota. w. H. Birdsell went
out to Lake county few weeks before
election to buy land, announced himself
u candidate for sheriff, and, though enter
ing the canvass a total stranger to every
one, was elected by one hundred majority
over man who had served his constitu-
ents for six years, and was known through
out the county as good officer.
Representative Chalmop (dem.) has in
troduced bill making it penal offence
to assess persons in government employ,
for election purposes. Every officer or
other person, violating the provisions of
the bill, is deemed guilty of misdemean-
or, and, on conviction, fined not exceeding
one thousand dollars 1t imposes the same
fine upon persons who are convicted Of
soliciting or otherwise attempting to in
duce government clerks to contribute for
election purposes.
Where there's will there's way. So
thought alliterative Miss Mary Naples, of
Norwich, Connecticut. She married one
Chase against her fathers wishes, and
when the stony parent left this world he
also left Il will, in which he bequeathed his
estate-an immense one-to his daughter,
to be given to her when she renowned her
husband. After brief season of sorrow
Mary proved herself worthy of the tradi-
lions of the state of wooden nutmegs by
procuring IL divorce from her husband,
gaining possession of the estate, and then
-remarrying Chase. And this idyll of
post-orbit swindling is not a Pigment of the
imagination, but an actual fact.
Apparently Gen. Grant has persuaded
his wife that she would enjoy trip 10
India. The cx-president has long desired
to return home around the world, but Mrs.
Grant did not relish the idea, and like q
good husband, the general had about given
it up. But cable dispatch has Just been
received from him accepting the govern
ment's invitation to become the guest of
Rear Admiral Patterson, who is about
sailing from this country in the United
States steamship Richmond to India, China
and japan. This will bring Grant home
| by ,ay of the Gollen Gate about year
hence. and Il few months before the repub-
ican nominating convention of 1880.
DECEMBER'S CELESTIAL PHENOMENA
| From the 9th to the 18th of the month
more than the usual number of shooting.
stars may be noticed. A little after mid
night on the 9th VEINS will be near the
moon, Jupiter but IL short distance from
the same Iuminary on the morning of the
Goth, and Saturn in conjunction with it
about o'cl6ck A. NJ on the Goth. With
these exceptions no unusual phenomena,
such as make November and some other
months conspicuous in the annals of as
tronomy, will be seen. But if December
is deficient in periodical celestial occur
rences, the consultations which have the
greatest number of bright stars and pre-
sent the most interesting appearances to
the unaded eye, may be traced during its
long nights. Among these are the Pleia-
desc Sirius, Castor and Pollux, the con-
stellation of Orion, in which there are
seventy stars visible to the naked eye,
Procvon and the constellation Leo.
AN ENGLISH WRITER'S VIEW OF
AMERICA.-English writers on America
have not always been wont to express
themselves with rs much freedom as the
author of II recent book entitled. "Notes
of Tour in America" He frankly says
be thinks the Hudson river far finer than
the finest part of the Rhine. The car
riages built in this country he terms mas
terpieces, and in prasing the New York
ferry boats he suggests that it would be
well, before many more bridges are built
across the Thames, to see whether similar
boats would not answer the. purpose.
While he speaks in the highest terms of
the hospitality Of Americans, of their
great politeness and of many other good
social qualities. he does not like the Amer
lean hotels. The cost is great and the
cooking bad. He always lived ut the best
hotels, and can only recall two where the
cooking was really good He went to
Washington when congress was in session.
The speaker of the House, he thinks,
lacks dignity. springs up with rapid mo-
ton and bangs his hammer down with
alarming yigor. But the practices" he
adds, (which appeared to me most sub
versiye of quiet deliberaton, are the read
ing, writing and standing of members in
the gangways and on The floor of the
House, and more especially the running
about of GRAND boys, who lounge near
the speakers chair, and, who summoned
by member clapping his hands, rush to
him at top speed. The most unseemly in
terruption is constantly going on"