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

I Some interested persons who have been
looking up the matter find that OF the
three hundred drunkards converted and
reformed at the Moody meetings in Boston
one year ago, only about ten have fallen
back to their old ways. This result is
striking comment on the power OF the gos'
pei to save from the fearful bondage of ap-
petite.
At the annual Commencement of the
Montreal Veterinary College, on the 2Sth
ult., F. W. Mcclellan of Bridgeport, Conn,
carried of the medal. and Noah Cressy,
NJ. D., of Amherst, who has been there
taking a course in veterinary surgery re-
ceved the second prize. Pleasant remarks
were made by DIR. Leclare, the principal,
Mr.. McEachran and others, who congratu-
lated the successful candidates, and espe-
cially New England on the honor of twice
having carried away the medal,
All the Indian chiefs in the region of
Wood mountain, Manitoba, have sworn
loyalty to the British government by their
most solemn oath, but they mutter some
threats against the United States, and
boast that there are three thousand war
riors Just south of the line ready to help
them strike blow at Miles. Sitting Bulls
people have wintered well, and are in ex-
cellent trim for fighting. Their braves
cross the frontier almost every week. and
hold conferences with the southern hostiles.
Some more or less interesting statistics
of the agriculture of the country are given
in the annual report of the New York
Produce Exchange. In the aggregate the
crops cover 1873 900 900 acres and their to-
tai value was 81, 900, 100000. In wheat
there are three million acres; corn, fifty
million; oats, thirteen million rye, mill
ion and a half; barley, two million. Iowa
raises the largest crop of wheat, Illinois
the most corn and oats, Pennsylvania the
q eatest amount of rye, and California the
largest crop of barley.
Cleveland and Detroit are worried be-
cause of the invasion of their water by the
cyclops, a one-eyed microscopic lobster.
An exchange thus describes the upleasant
event: L" The people of Cleveland swal
lowed the cyclops by the million rs he was
pumped up with the lake water, and with
no apparent injury. In the city of Detroit,
which takes water from the river, there
now prevails a malady which is almost IN
epidemic. 1t is accompanied with nausea,
headache and other symptoms OF disorder
ed stomach. The doctors were puzzled
until servant took a little vial of water
from one of the finest residences and placed
it under the microscope. 1t fairly swarm
ed with cyclops. The city engineer was
treated to view of one drop of this water
which he was pumping for the city out of
Detroit River. He was appalled,. Unwise
engineering has destroyed the health of
Il city. Cleveland is nervous about the
cyclops. fearing that it will soon SO multi
ply in the lake as to poison the water sup
ply We see that it is not a bad idea to
have city's water examined once in a
while.
CITY SLIDING DowN.-A change of
level and position is going on at Virginia
City. New, which may be worthy the study
of experts in seismology The whole locali-
ty has been burrowed under by the silver
mines. As consequence the whole town
is slowly descending the face Of the noun
tain on which it rests The movement is
so uniform and gradual as not to be MOTTO
ed on the surface. A water main recently
uncovered mt II street crossing was found
to be telescoped for the space of II foot.
and was also so bent that two feet of it had
to be replaced. In another part of the
town the underground pipes are found to
be crowding toward each other. A long
crack has been traced in the ground on the
western side of the town; it is about eight
inches wide, The ground on one side OF
his crack is about three feet lower than
on the other. The International hotel is
said to have moved five inches since it was
built. The Inhabitants regard these facts
with an equanimity that would be impos.
,ible in more settled communities, and
takes the chances of an earthquake with
apparent indifference.