Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-13

The Portland Press notes the wonder
full progress made by the greenbackers
in Maine since last falls state elebtion.
and thinks that " the greenback de!'usion
will have its run like the know-nohhing
excitement in 1854 or the anti-Masonic
rage many years before"
The Hoosac tunnel, under the tolt-gate
management, has netted 1897 900 during
| the past year, which, as the superintend-
ent's report proudly states it, " is nearly 5
per cent on two millions of the cost of the
tunnel Or something less than 5-S of l
per cent on The whole cost of IS millions,
as we should put it.-Bosto1 Traveller
ANOTHER WARNING TO TOBACCO CHEW
ERs.-Daniel Holland, of Boston, went TO
| bed with Il {" chew y Of tobacco in his
mouth and in his sleep the quid fell down
his throat, completely closing the passage
and causing death by strangulation. Young
man, beware!
A snow storm which began mt various
points on the Pacific railroads on Thurs
day and Friday, with wind blowing In
some places at from fifty to sixty miles an
hour, almost completely stopped travel
the cuts being filled with snow and the
sheds in one or two cases broken down.
The snow banks were ten to fifteen leet
high at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Dr. Brundage of Newark was called to
visit poor girl at So Nassau street, New
York, the other day, on the representation
that she was insane though harmless, but
no sooner had he closed the door than she
sprang at him with an ax that she had
concealed in the room, and he avoided
having his head split by lodging and
receiving II terrible cash on his arm. The
girl was finally dsarmed a nd bound.
President McCosh of Princeton college
writes letter to correct some exaggerated
reports concerning the recent hazine
scrape in that institution and to deny thai
hazing is carried to greater extent by
Princeton students than others; he insist:
that it is only brought more prominently
into the foreground by the efforts OF the
faculty to eradicate it.
No people are fit to be free, or will Ions
retain their freedom, without that enlight-
ened patriotism hich is alone the resul
of education. Ne yer forget that the school
house is as much, an arsenal for the main
tenance of onr il lstitutions and liberties a
Old Point Comfort, Fort Moultrie or evcr
Sumpter. We are poor, indeed, but we ar
not too poor to provide for the education 0
our people.-Ge n. McGOUan Of South car
Olinu.
A German ba liking house in New Yor
advises its BerE constituency us follows
." We might MOI urge our friends to real
ize the ) per &c Mt bonds, because Germa
bonds alfording the same degree of securit
can hardly be ought at Il profitable price
on the other hand, or IL per Ger
guaranteed Ger man securities would IT
suit in almorst as considerable n reductio
, of the annuity rs would be effected by tn
passage of the silver bill.n
The secretary of the treasury has dc
termned that he first silver dollars issue
: will be used on ly in exchange at par fo
gold coin or for the purchase of silve
bullion at the market price. He does nc
feel at liberty { 0 use them to pay for cur
; rent expenses, until the amount of coin i
l sufficient to furnish all alike without dies
elimination; Elor does he deem it eXpedi
ent ut present. to exchange them for Unit
ed States notd or to use them in the pay
G ment of interest on the public debt, unit
S the amount coined is sufficient to cnabl
, him to do SC, impartially.
t The great advance in the market valu
o of silver, predicted by those who imagn
ed that reconciliation would not onl,
soothe our financial woes but make til,
4l2l grain dollar as good as gold, has no
= taken place. The Bland bill passed til
f house Nov. 9th, and on that day silver il
n London market (and it was the same a
: our mint was 545 to sod per ounce. O
the 9th instant, after reconciliation ha
taken place and coinage commenced,
'i was actually lower being only 54td. Thi
u shows how pOwerless the government
:, l." fist " that we have heard so much abor
is to affect the actual value of things Il
's against the laws of trade.
l. The state of Bulgaria, which is to tax
lie the place of large part of European Tul
key, will extend from the Danube on til
Is north 10 the -Egean sea on the south, rul
< ming about II hundred miles along tt
C. coast of the latter; and from Servia on til
t. west to the Black sea on the east, eXtenC
81 ing along that coast fully two hundre
" miles. Turkey is allowed military ron
n for reaching her western provinces, frol
+ which she would otherwise be cut off, hi
e her troops, it is agreed, must not NAL
any considerable halt while passin
through the country Bulgaria will ha,
al an area of $1,000 square miles, or abor
I'd the size of New England with Connect
as cut left out, and population Of ov
100000.
,e The ways and means committee of Il
" house have adopted the Fernando Wo,
70 schedule of reduction of the duties {
n. wool. They have done so against the pr
lie test of representatives, of the united wo
j. interests of this country, representa-
"a twelve distinct branches of industry, III
q. two hundred millions of dollars
TX capital, and in spite of resolutions decla
lo ing that the prosperity of wool producti
ho and sheep husbandry of the United Stat
Nv require the full measure of the existil
W. protective duties on wool, received fire.
the State Wool Growers Assoeia,io
nc of Vermont, New York, Ohio Michga
an Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania n
Is West Virginia, from the State Agrcultul
na Association of Georgia, and from 9th
IF sources.
ats
is; A CONFEDERATE GEOGRAPHICAL co
we federate geography was brought TO lie
by a correspondent of the Chicago TriJua
1t was printed in England for use us
IA text book in southern schools and w