Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-07-10

Consul Packard has left New Orleans
for Liverpool.
Mrs jerks is candidate for consul
ship to the Isle of Man. It is recorded
us special case.
Dom Pedro is already anxious TO be
rushing around the world again, and is
about starting for the Paris exposition.
They call him apollo Potter" now.
because every time lie calls Il new witness
he strikes fresh lyre.-Fhltadelphta Bui-
tetin.
Jersey justice has again indicated its
reputation. Ben Noyes, the insurance
sharp, Was sentenced on Saturday TO a
year and Il half IN the state prison.
William II. Vanderbilt is reported as
returning 10 New York from his western
"TRIP III exc, llent humor. A man who con-
Lrols corporate wealth of more than Two
hundred and lhirly-three millions gu gnt to
feel lolerably comfortable, if money Will
do it.
Catholics in Lisbon, according to the
Manchester ELtt1.t,ner, are excited bv the
discovery that some Of the priests Of The
city are Free Masons, whom every Catho-
lie lay man is forbidden to join. The Pa
pal Nuncio, ina letter to Leo XIII, points
cut rs the safest remedy Tie calling of the
priests to Rome, and there to place them
IN monastery.
A Raleigh letter to the Times says the
new election law of North arolna is one
Of unexampled meanness. for after COM
polling the negroes to comply with sever
Al qualifications IN order TO be regIslered
The Judges Of election can deny suffrage to
my one whom they may deem is uuqu;,ll-
ned to vote.
A farmer of Knox county, Ohio, stated
to parties in Cleveland that there was con.
siderable excitement relative to threats
from tramps to destroy the property
of farmers who use machines TO gather
their crops. The farmers have formed
secret organizations, one of the duties be-
ing to keep their guns loaded to shoot any
one tamperlng with their machines or
crops
Some Ohio republican of Statistical bent
has figured up the delalcations of coun,v
Urea urers IN that state. He finds thai of
the eighty eight counties of Ohio, forty
eight are usually democratic, and of the
forty eight democratic lreasurers nineteen
have within few years been guilty of de-
talcalion. OF the forty republican coun-
ties, three have had lef;tuiling treasurers
in the same length of lime.
A Quebec Dispatch says the bush fires
continue to spread, and the smoke is 30
densc on the ST. Lawrence that the steam
er from Montreal due at in the morning
only arrived at at night An immense
fire is raging back of lhree Rivers in II
swamp. 1t has already destroyed large
portion of the North Shore railroad. The
river Noir bridge hld II narrow escape.
The houses in the vicinity and 1000 cords
of wood were destroyed
The bite of II pet dog has proved the
death of NJ Cheri Monligny, son of the
manager of II Paris theater, but it is not
decided whether death was caused bv nv
drcphoha or a disordered fancy. Mon.
ligny's two dogs welcomed him home one
dny with caresses, as was their wont, dur
ing which one of them, large terrier, bit
his masterslightly on the nose. The dog
died soon, veterinary surgeon said of in
ternal inflammation, but his victim read
all he could find on hydrophobia, had a
straight jacket made and died in fifteen
days in horrible contortions.
The forcible re-adjusters in Virginia, as
the Reputation party prefer to be called,
have set ut work to secure constitution
al convention. Gov. Holiday blocked
their game at the last session of the leyis-
laiure, and the supreme court has since
affirmed the involabiIily of the funding
bill which they attacked. So their ONLY
resource seems to be u convention, whicl
may override the decision of tho cour
and wipe out as much of the debt ms il
wants TO. The whole movement for seal
ing down the debt is diSgraceful, as the
state can carry the whole without hurtinO
it. but it is apparently going to succeed, in
one way or another.
Ben Butler told his hearers on the 4tb
that the word " communist " is used as a
term of reproach to workingmen who
seek to right their wrongs. very much rs
the epithet of abnlitonist " was appliel
in former times TO the men who sought TO
make liberty universal in this country
Whereupon the Troy Times cruelty saws:
d" The latter term never was applied to
Butler. He was the open defender of
slavery; and If the remark we have
quoted shows the spirit of bis speech he il
to-day as of yore the blind leader of the
blind. 1t is no reproach 10 saw of Ben. as
it would be of most men, that he is an ar
rant demagogue, and he knows il, too.