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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10
FOOlishneSS.

There was meeting of members of the
republican national committee in Wash
ington last week, and Wm. L. Chandler
Gen Logan and some others pitched into
President Hayes and proposed that tn,
party proceed to get along by demo uncine
or Ignoring him
This met with lively opposition and tn,
meeting adjourned without doing anything
except to arrange for coming together
again. The party will find it for its nd
vantage to take the advice Of somebody
besides Chandler or Logan.
Their" is difference Of opinion abou
the wisdom of many of the presidents act
but he has. certainly us much honest,
and manhood aud common sense as thoS,
who step forward us his critics. Mr.
Hayes would have had votes enough ST.
that even Montgomery Blair would ncve
have questioned his tile if people bad no
been distrusIful Of the Logan sty.e of poll
ticians.
III the party proposes to succeed 1t hat
better 90 along paying attention to thing
to be done and not raving about thing
that have been done. Denunciation of TN
president will not avail TO change hi
course or to make the average republican
believe that he ought to change it. Their
may be Il good deal of spilled milk on tn
party premises, ahd there is more thai
one pailful and moru-tfh one man VIII
has done the deed. If John Logan ant
Chandler enjoy swearing about it they Wi
doubtless continue their enjoyment The
will not carry the party with them no
make it believe wholly MS they do as
who is responsible for the loss.
Republicans instead Of exaggeratin
their differences must dwell on thos
things in which they agree and can unite
That way lies success.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10
VT,
Resumption.

Secretary Sherman in his talk before
congressional committees holds ont that
resumption will be comfortably brought
about at tho time set by law, January OF
next year. lie says that the silver bill Is
not going to interfere with the process and
if congress will not NEEDLE the thing will
almost accomplish itself.
1t is true that the passage of the silver
bill has made no such trouble as its oppo-
nents expected. Gold is quoted as worth
less than one per cent premium-the lowest
point reached since the early part of the
war. In fact the premium is now so little
that it is almost farce TO talk about any
premium ut all.
With gold so low, and weak at that, il
does seem as though the worst must have
come so far rs evil effects to business from
depreciation of prices are concerned. And
this being the case there is no reason why
with decent economy and industry til,
country cannot begin upon a course o.
moderate business prosperity.
Trade in the cities is reported to be bet
ter than for some years previous, and there
is talk that the bankrupt act is to be re-
pealed-a proc' eding that so far as mer.
chants are concerned would tend to pros
perity, for dealers who buy goods and pay
for them have been for years laboring il
competition with bankrupt stocks Dough
for II song and carrying ruin to all regu
larity and common usage in trade.
Another hopeful sign is in the reported
change Of the current of change of resi-
dence. Heretofore the current has beer
from the country to towns and cities. The
latter have been overlun with people whit
could get little or nothing to do. Now i
is said II tendency is manifest to leave th,
evercrowded villages and cities and tax,
up with agriculture. This would restor,
many of our abandoned New Englant
farms, and increase the class of producer
to the general good of all,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

Alonzo Griffin, of Poultney, who was
attacked and robbed near Factory Point
last summer, is still suffering severely
from the injuries then It ceived, and fears
are entertained that he may never entirely
recover.
Quite festive gang of burglars and
burglaresses have lately been arrested at
Manchester, and bound over, as follows
Fred Woodward. the ringleader, is under
$4,000 bonds; Edward Dunbar, $4,000;
William Dunbar, " High" Kent and Mrs.
NJ. j. Dunbar, $500; Mary Dunbar $50.
1t speaks we'll for the Turks us marks
men that it is estimated that one Russian
in every six has been killed or wounded.
1t is said that, at an attempt on Prospect
Park. Brooklyn, last Friday. to make a
horse run one hundred miles in ten hours,
the horse dropped on the track at the end
of the seventy fifth mile, and was carried
off
Blacksmith Joseph RUSSELL of East Con
cord, left wife and three children TO SAY
nothing of II good busisnrss) to elop De
with Il Mrs. Paro, who for her part leave,
behind her II husband and an unsayor,
Reputation
At Hartford, Conn the other night, Sex
ton, the billiard player. was robbed of i.
very valuable champion badge and Other
property which were taken from his room
at the hotel while he was giving blliarc
exhibition. His loss is stated ut oyel
$1,000
Two young men, twins. of Hart comfy
Ga, worked out their fathers debts, il
compliance with his death. bed request
they were thirteen years of age whel
they began, and attained their maiorit,
before finishing. Although frequently lol,
that they were neither legally nor morally
bound 10 do So. they persisted until til,
last cent was paid.
| A pater familias, in Springfield, Mass.
afflicted with chronic love for Jokes OF
every body else, sent his landadys no,
down to the depot, April 1st to ask the
price of IL carload Of post holes " Jus
rs that boy was being sought for to bulc
the furnace fire. During the two hours h,
was gone on his wild-gooso chase, thai
whole household shivered, quivered anc
caught cold with no boy to start tue fire
One of the boarders went to bed TO escap,
death by freezing, and the rest held /,
prayer meeting for the conversion of the
Joker 10 Christianity.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

Concert hall, Mortified, was fairly Guos
Sunday afternoon last by those anxiou, 70
listen to the speaking of Miss Jennie p
Iiagan OF South Royalton. Curiosi,r
drew many as Miss IIagan's addresses and
poems are spoken under the impulse of
some power outside Of herself, or o.
claimed. by inspiration. Subjects for 10,
to speak from are given by the audienc.
after she takes the platform; and N.
usually gives prose address and several
poems; which are not senselcss chime q,
words, without point or meaning; bn, On
the contrary, are decidedly sensible, often
times keenly sarcastic. cutting and pierre
ing like pointed two-edged sword. Mis-,
IIagan is but seventeen years Of aga
with only very limited education; bpt
on the platform, shows n power transcend.
ing the old masters in learning. A.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

Poor Polk has followed in the footsteps
of his illustrious predecessor, Fizhugh.
that is to say, he has been kicked after
Fitzhugh into outer darkness. Eighty
forth upon the toe of the congressional
boot notwithsl anding. Then Gen. Butler
appeared on the scene and tried to have
the house elect Gen. James Shields in the
place of Polk But Shields though II
democrat and Il brave soldier in the Mexi.
can war is also an Irishman and served
braveIy in the Union army. And however
much northern democrats may be willing
to do for Union soldiers who are also
Irishmen, they are subject to the southern
democrats and the latter did not propose
to elect any such sort OF II man, when they
had true southern, native born and eX
confederate, who was willing to fill til,
place. They had elected Filzhugh nnt
Polk who met these requirements an,
having lost them had IL few more Of thu
same sort left. There WAS one Field whit
WAS not only y confederate soldier but af
forwards served in the army of the Khediv
of Egypt and Field wanted to be door
keeper. So the republicans voted 70
Shields and the democrats for Field an
Field was elected. His military career
varied us it was, had never been suied b
service in the Union army against til
south and he WAS neither northern mud
sill or an emigrant from Erin-two thing
which the truly aristocratic souther
democracy which is now the controIln
democracy of the country cannot abide
If Gen Shields had been born on this sid
and fought on the other side the confedel
ate brigadiers might have allowed th
northern democrats who have to serve
privates under them, to vote for him.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

The earl OF Loitrim, of Ireland, with his
clerk and driver, were murdered on Tues
day, April 3, opposite IL cottage from
which he had recently elected II widow.
The earl had left his residence at Milford
shortly before in the morning ON his way
to Derry to meet his solicitor. He always
carried arms. 1t is supposed that the as
sassins concealed themselves behind low
mba nkment between the road and the
plantation, and that, having first shot the
earl they shot the clerk and driver so that
there would be no witnesses. There is no
doubt that the murder was aGrarian. The
relations between the earl and his tenants
was unfriendly. His lordship was kind
and liberal to the poor but very particular
and exacting in his dealings with the ten
antry, visiting with unsparing severity the
slightest infraction of the rules of the es-
tate He had an iron will, which disre
garded alike appeals or menaces and pos
sesscd extraordinary courage and perse-
verance in the pursuit of his purposes.
XVI oNti lNNhNN hN'lIS Dttl
consolidating farms and turning his land
into immense grass farms, and during that
time had perhaps evicted more tenants
and received more threatening letters than
any landlord or agent in Ireland, and on
more than one occasion he is supposed to
have narrowly escaped with his life from
armed parties lying in wait for him. lie
owned immense tracts of land in the coun
tries of Donegal. Lei,rim and Derry, as
well us small estate in Kildare. 1t is
said that, unlike other landlords, he was
quite impartial in regard to the religion of
his tenants, and hundreds of sturdy Pres
byterian farmers now settled in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, rs well as Catholics,
were forced to give up their homes in Don.
egal and cmigrate. The popular press in
J Ireland have for years held tie earl ND IL
public odum as the worst of "eXtermi.
mating" landlords, and the ribbon society
} have II strong hold upon the country, ow.
I ing in great measure to his harshncss.
. The ftmily settled in Ireland during the
reign of james I. when they obtDjned
large tracts of cnntiSclted land, and The
: earl who has just been murdered added
! largely 10 his estates by purchase. lIe
t was unmarried. The London Times saws
| The news Of the murder of the earl nj
: Leltrim has struck the country with Ms
much pain and Amusement us IN unpro.
voked declaration of war" Two mer
, named Nc raggart and Friel have heen
arrested ON board II steamer going from
} Rathmullen to Londonderry, on su, piciur
OF completely in the murder of Lord Lei
trim.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

THE STEWART HOTEL FOR WOMEN was
opened last Wednesday. A reception was
had on Tuesday night at which thousands
were present. The building occupies the
west side of Fourth avenue. between Thir-
ty-second and Thirty-third streets, New
York city. The architect was the late John
Kellum. who designed the Stewart retail
store and residence, and is of the renas-
sance STYLE of architecture that Mr.. Stewart
liked. The hotel is eight stories high and
has very striking ahd imposing appear.
ance. The inside arrangements are carried
out with a view to have everything of Il
grand but substantial character, the fin.
ishng and furniture being mostly of sole
black walnut. 1t is thoroughly built and III
near fire proof us possible. twas supposed
to have been Mr.. Stewart idea to build II
hotel where the poor working women ant
shop girls could find IL home where some
the luxuries which only the wealthy can af
ford could be obtained ut nominal rate, r
fact - pir!ial ch,rity. but the rate for
board, Sc 90 per week, and from ST. 90 tc
$500 extra according to size Of room and
plrlor, will exclude all these. The rules
have been made very strict.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

TEMPLE OF IoNoR.-The officers OF
the Grand Temple of Vermont, assisted
by State Deputy Past G. w. T., c. w.
Guernsey, and j. A. Dewing, w. G. T. OF
N,iad Temple of Honor, instituted En-
manuel Temple Of Honor ut Ely on the If.
ternoon of March 28th, asrceably to the
request Of some sixty charter applicants
After the institution the following Off
GERS were elected: w. G. r.. Rev. I, IL.
DunsLon; w. V. T., VIM. Eustce; w, r..
r. F. Trcweeke; w. A. r Edwin Mills;
w. + r, j. j. Lugden; w. Treas, VIM,
Dunston; w. Chap, john Treyithick; w.
u, IL. Williams; w. D. u, Josiah Eva;
w. e., Joseph Harris; w. S, Fred Low
ry.
The installation ceremony WAS conduct
ed by c. w. Guernsey, Past G. w. I; G.
w. V. T., Josiah A. Persons of Corner
Stone Temple acting rs Grand Worthy
Usher. At the evening session, j. \.
Dewing, w. c. T.. of Naiad Temple in
the chair, twenty-one charter applicants
not present in the afternoon were duly in
itiated, when the officers of the newly in
stituled temple took their respective chairs
and the w. L. reported Il half score o
names on his table asking for an early ad
mission to membership.
A pleasant half hour was spent in dis
cussing the principles and usages of thu
order, when the temple was closed in form
1t does not often fall to the lot Of insti
tuting officers and their assistants, to NEE
a hourLier welcome or brotherhood nor,
intelligent and earnest in their purpose t,
battle man!ully with the demon drink.
May Heaven smile upon their effort
and make " Emmanuel - the banner tenn
pie in the state.
The brothers from Montpelier an
vicinity who loaned helping hand to thi
good work, remember with pleasure tn
genial courtesy extended to them by nj
and especially by Brothers Dunston an
Pascoe the latter, superintendent of tn
Vermont copper mines, for their efforts t
acquaint us with the wonders and method
of blasting, transporting, roasting an
smelling the ore taken from the bowels {
the earth thousands Of feet below the SUI
face.
If time and space would permit. woul
speak in detail of the original shaft, th
tunnel. first drift four hundred feet dee
and now full of water, the second drift fl
teen hundred feet deep, and ofthe ponder
GUS engine in spacious rock chamber ;
! the junction of the aforesaid shaft, tunne
and last mentioned drift. This POVERTY
machine with muscles of iron. nerves {
5 steel and breath of steam assisted by
steel wire cable some seventeen hundre
feet long, toys with the rail car loade
with tons of the rocky ore, as the gent
, breeze with the forest leaf In short,
understand and realize one must 90, Sc,
and meet down in the crucible of his ow
mind the sights connected with this ehtel
= prise. TEMPLAR.
: April 10, 1878.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

A New Yorker who gets his hen fruit
from his own plantation, found on his
breakfast table one morning u boiled egg
of unusual size. Breaking one end with
care so us to preserve 50 large a shell
nearly whole, to the surprise of everybody
there was found, INSIDE of tho white and
yoIk, another perfect egg, shell and all,
and OF nearly the usual size. This was
also carefully cracked and the usual white
and yolk taken out, leaving the two shells,
one inside Of the other. This kind of
wins is not very common among the
feathered bipeds.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

Congress is talking about the Pacific
railroads and Messrs. Edmunds and Tour
man have deeply offended Blaine by speak
ing sharply against the lobby and its in
fuences. Edmunds and Blaine had quite
u sharp tilt yesterday. the latter appearing
to act for the railroad interests and the
former for those of the government. Blaine
evidently does not mean to prove u dead
head in any railroad enterprise.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10
lion. Geo. W. GrandeY of Vergennes is

Hon. Geo. w. Grandey of Vergennes is
seriously i'll with pneumonia.
Brattleboro is to have poultry and pet
stock exhibition. the coming season.
Shoreham has ffty-year-old horse,
with something of the vigor of youth still
surviving.
Mr.. Silas w. Cummings has been APP
pointed general passenger agent oil the
Central Vermont Railroad
The President has nominated Justin b.
Colburn, Washington correspondent OF
the New York Times, to he Consul-Gen
eral of the United States at the City oil
Mexico. Mr.. Colburn is native of this
state.
The expectation to the West of Addl-
son county sheep still continues. Last
week one carload of sheep went from
Middlebury to Michigan and three to
Texas. Mr.. C. D. Mason, of Vergennes,
has q carload of selected blood sheep
nearly ready for shipment; and Mr.. j. H.
Kirkpatrick has just sent to Texas 50
bucks and 40 ewes, selected from the best
hocks in the county. From the other side
of the state shipments are also being con,
stantly made-the latest being that OF 4
carload of merino bucks to San Antonio
Texas, bv A. E. Perkins, of Pomfret.
Addison has notable old lady in tho
person of Mrs. Marine Wright, who is o.
years old; reads her Bible without the aid
of glasses, and last month made quilt oil
Sc pieces. She has occupied her presen
residence for 81 years, and her father S sid'
has known generations. Her health is
good, hearing excellent, and mind active.
She heard the cannon during the battle o.
Plattsburg, and after the engagement
went on board Commodore Macdonough's
hnr.sh Her father was a revolutionar.
soldier, and was with Ethan Allen Il
Ticonderoga.
The other day. David Ward, of Middle
sex. wood agent for the Central Vernon
railroad, placed 300 bin in an envelope
preparatory to sending it off in payment
debt Before posting the same, havin!
occasion to 90 to his barn for a few mo
ments, he laid the sealed envelope on
r able, and during his absence some mem
Der of the family, who wished to solve Al
arithmetical problem, used the cnvelop
: for that purpose. The probrem being
: knotty one, the envelope was covered
G with figures, and then some one. suppos
,, inc it to be valueless, threw it into thu
stove. much to the disgust of Mr.. Ward
At the state prison, at Windsor, som
@ 500 pairs of shoes are made daily, by til
l6l convcts. The work is all done By til
; convicts, save the sewing, which is don
n outside, in a shop adjoining, employing
d some forty girls.
y Things are looking somewhat azure, :
:, North Bennington. The two cotton mil
G have shut down and will be run but yer
little during the summer; the boot an
n shoe shop has been closed and the machine
+ ry removed and wages have been redu
ed in the paper mill.
o The Free Press says: The earliest +
d corded opening of steam navigation O
o Lake Champlain was it seems, in 1856
&c On the 25th of March, in that year, Il
> steamer Saranac, Captain John OGrad
:. commenced her trips between this eli
/ and Plattsburgh. This was six days ca
u ler than the commencement of the TRIP
:, Of the A. Williams this year.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

Montgomery Blair hasn't yet got hi,
bill passed by congress which is TO provide
ways for the supreme court to hear the
presidential question. But he may succeed
in taking that step. The New York Sun
is thanking God for Montgomery'S per.
formanoes; and they are about the onl,
things that the Sun finds to be grateful for
in these regenerate days.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, April o
Attendance good, receipts increasing,
market dull and lower. We quote com.
mon, IS to 20 cents; good to choice q to
26 cents; selections, y cents per pound
with occasionally Il fancy lot ut something
higher.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

General Banning, sometimes known as
- the Bounding Banning" is reported to
have said, with great emphasis, that thi,
hing of drag-net committees, mud-thow-
ms committees, smelling committees, nos
ing around after men and smirchng them
in The dark, is not so good thing us some
persons have supposed, and he, for one, is
not going to stand it. Mr.. Banning's out
burst was soon explained. The drag-nct
nad caught General Banning. not inten-
tionally, Of course; it would have been
more agreeable to Glover, who was the
Investigating committee, to spare the
statesmen OF his own party. But us he
runs Il drag net, of course, he has to take
what comes out Of the mud. He asked
one of his witnesses, 1t clerk in the audit
or's department, whether he knew of any
officer in the Union army who had drawn
pay twice tor the same service. Yes
said the witness, he knew of one such case
:" Who was it,? General Banning >
The general was notified of this discover,
and Immediately went to the department
and refunded, explaining to MIR. Glover
that the months pay in question had beer
drawn twice by mistake. Glover assurin.
Banning that he knew it must have beer
II mistake, but this apology did not APP
pease the latter's wrath. He says Glover
committee is us bad as the infamous sta
chamber court, it is a disgrace 10 the nine
tecnlh century, and for his part he doe
not see what II lot of confederates have t
.ln vii n tho IInia,, IF L,,r
drawn. This matter reminds the Indian
apolis journal of the story of The ma
who went fishing for catfish and threw
bass which he caught, with the indignan
remark, " When | go fishing for cats
want cats" The democrats in congress
are about in that predicament. They hay
been Throwing out their investigation drag
net in all directions for republicans, an
every time they haul it in they catch
democrat.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

Mrs. w. II. II. Murray, wife of the
well known Boston clergyman, and Miss
Kate Stanton, the lecturer, have just grad
uatcd from the New York Medical College
for women.
E. Morton Smith, the head of the Boston
Journal Bureau in this state, appears to be
unusually slack in furnishing sensational
items of late to that new.paper-when he
could get 'em so easy too.
At the late meeting of the American
Butter, Cheese and Egg Association al
Chicago, the agricultural editor Of the
FREEMAN was appointed member of the
committee on addresses and essays.
General C. w. Field, the new door
keeper of the house. has spent severa
years in the service of the Khedive. II,
resigned his post and returned to Georgi,
because of the lack of schools in Egyp
for his children, The political dsabilitie!
imposed upon him by his confederate ser
vice were removed about two months ago
The emigration fever seems TO be at
lacking the whole colored population o
the south, and the Liberia movement is be-
ing succeeded by an extensive migration
from the cotton-growing belt to tn,
grain growing regions farther northwest
which bids fair 10 rival in point of mum
bers the influx of whites into the sam,
region.
The republicans carried Rhode Islam,
last week by about $500 majority, gail
of 3OOJ over last year. Gov. Van 2 md
who is reelected is straght-out IIaye
republican; and that fact is commende, t,
the consideration of those members of tin
republican national committee who met il
Washington last week and spent most q
their tine in growing about the president
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10

The sultan asked the grand duke WHOM
the Russian troops would evacuate lIe
points on the Turkish side of the line If
demarcation. The grand duke in replv
alluded to the continuance of the British
fleet in the Sea of Marmora.