Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-03

The senate, Monday, by vote of TWEEN
ty-seven to fourteen. rejected the nominal
ton of Alexander G. Reed for postmaster
1T Toledo, o., and y personal row. which
has been thrust upon public attention for
nearly year, is at last ended.
The HORSE TO HIS MAsTER.-Goiug up
hill. whip me not going down hill, hurry
me not; on level road, spare me not; loose
in stable, forget me not; of hay and corn
rob me not; of clean water stint me not
of soft, dry bed deprive me not; tired or
hot. wash me not; if sick or cold. chill me
not; with sponge and brush, neglect nc
not; with bits and reins, o jerk me not
md when you are angry, strike me not.
Sidney Pitts and A. P. Thoms of East
will, Northampton county, Va, had diff
ference over what is not reported, and re.
solved to settle it with pistols. They stood
only six feet apart, and, as one round
didn t do the business even then. insisted
upon second. The result was that Pitts
was killed, and Thoms received wound
in the head from which he will probably
die. But outraged honor was avenged.
The report from Calcutta that Mana Sa-
hib is again at large reads like wild tic
ton. If Mana is still alive, he must have
as many lives as a cat Not even the
wooden-legged Santa Anna himself was
buried and resurrected rs often us the Gel
ebrated author of the Indian massacre has
been. If Mana Sahb is to lead the Mo
hammedan subjects of Queen Victoria in
another instruction, it must be in some
thing of the capacity of Cid.
| At the close of a lecture the other night
in Springfield, Mass, Mr.. John b. Cough
said that he had lectured nearly one hun
dred times in that city during the last
thirty-fve years. During that time he had
taken no rest-working in the summer on
new lectures and getting new materials
for old ones. lie said that he intended to
go to London to deliver thirty lectures in
June, after which he would go so some
country where the English language is not
spoken, and there he meant to rest.
Ny. William Bowman of Hart county,
Ky, has most remarkable history.
When an infant he was thrown away by
his unnatural parents in the Appalachian
Mountains, N. c., where he was found bv
II bear, taken to cave and sucked by the
beast. At the age of ten years he was
captured by party of hunters, who found
that he could not talk nor be persuaded to
take any food except milk, which he suck
ed from bottle, showing that he had liv-
ed solely from the nursing of the bear.
He is now farmer and in comfortable
circumstances.
The Moffett bell-punch is leaping into
popularity all over the country as means
of raising revenue for the state out of the
liquor traffic. 1t is the invention of a
Virginia farmer. and the system of takin o
half q cent on drink of ale or beer, and
two and n half for strong drinks,-with a
little register to keep the account in every
bar-room, has worked so well in the Old
Dominion during the first year of its trial
that they expect to get at least 5000, 900
annually out of it, against less than half
rs much under the old system of taxation.
Several southern legislatures have discuss
ed its introduction the past winter. and
lnhUN I%ouioi'h" nu"iiJ teSOlNeu 10 bfy IL.
A bill foi It's introduction in Pennsylvania
: has been favorably reported in the legis.
: lature of that state, the New York Assem-
bly, last week adopted resolution to try
it in the metropolis, and movement in
the same direction has been set on foot at
Boston The system has proved both
practicable and profitable elsewhere; it
gets taxes out of people who would drink
any way, but wouldn't pay anything into
the state treasury otherwise.