Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-01-30

Farmers National Bank of Virginia, Hi
nois, is reported in circulation.
A newsboy on the New Haven Railroad
was blown from the platform of a car, last
week, and over fence,a distance Of TWEEN
ty feet. lie was not much injured
The largest oyster on record in the
United States was one taken from the beds
in Mobile in 1910. 1t measured 81 inches
in length, and 90 IL inches in breadth
across its widest part.
Senator M. G. Butler says that, when
his tenants can buy bacon for six and
three,fo fourth cents IL pound, he doesn't
think anybody had better fool with the cur
rency, and get up lurore of high prices.
He also noticed that the southern mer.
chants'came back from New York in good
spirits last fall, and wisely concludes that
tie present stable financial policy is best
for the interests of the people.
The Cincinnati Gazette observes that
the papers which are opening new war
on Brislow, alarmed at the recent public
attentions paid him, are journals which
were equally touched when Bristow made
war on the whiskey ring, or which are
owned and run by operators who have
great schemes for plundering the Govern
ment. All the corrupt elements recognize
Bristow rs their natural enemy.
The silver miners are reported to be
distributing 100000 in the east to obtain
the support of speakers and writers.
Meanwhile the miners are keeping pro-
duction down so rs to maintain the market
price of the metal This is an interesting
commentary on the recent declaration of
the bonanza kings that they really didn't
banker after the passage Of silver bill.
Ex-Governor Straw writes from New
Hampshire that the abundance of depre-
ciated coin is costing the working people
there dear.
In view of the appalling increase of
murders in Kentucky, the House has passed
n bill making hanging the only punishment
for this crime. A few years ago the jures
were given the option of fixing death or
imprisonment for life as the penalty, but
this discretion hrs been so abused that of
late the few convictions obtained have
been followed almost invariably by the
lighter sentence. The only result of chang
ing the law, however, until public senti-
ment is toned up, will probably be to pre-
vent convictions altogether.
An analysis of the vote on the Matthews
silver resolution shows that for the resou-
ton there were twenty-three democrats,
nineteen republicans and one independent
Davis Of Illinois,; against it, fifteen re-
publicans and seven democrats One adj
ditiona vote would have given it two
thirds majority. There were four pairs;
two absentees not paired (Sharon and
Ingalls,, and one dodger (Kellogg). If all
the senators had been present, and Sharon,
Ingalls, and kellogg had voted in favor of
silver, there would have been fifty in the
affirmative and twenty-six in the negative.
According to Senator Jones of Florida,
gold is the unstable thing, and greenbacks
are the only true measure of value, which
leads the Tri6m1e to suggest that if Mr..
Jones would exchange his seat in the
Senate for one on see-saw, for which he
is apparently better fitted, he would per-
ceive that the ground didn't move although
it seemed to- and he might then under
stand how it was that gold was stable and
paper did the see saving"
Senator Butler of South Carolina is at
least sound on the currency question,
which is mole than can be said of the
other Butler. He says: 1.-The laboling
and consuming classes of the country, and
also the producing classes, require for
their protection against spectators and
-harpers stable, Notwithstanding, pcrma-
nent unit of value, which can only be
found in II single standard. This regard
us absolutely necessary to II healthful con-
dition of our finances"
RECENT DEATHS FROM IIYDROPuoBIA.
The death, from hldrophobia of Ash
bel Buckland of Chicopce Mass, has been
by the death of DR.. S. L. Way,
of Sullied, Conn., who died on Friday
of the terrible malady, the cause
being u bite inflicted by dog on the 2SlhI
Of December. A hoe bitten at about the