Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-12-11
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Tennyson is now engaged on a poem
the hero of which is Thomas Beckett.
The idea that Samuel J. Tilden would
not put his hand in the presidential contest
of 1880 is pretty effectualy dissipated by
the revealment of the scope of his plans
in this state. He has clear hold in the
elements of strength in his party in this
state, and it is presumed in other states.-I
PittstHrg (Rr) Commercial.
Among the nominations sent to the Sem
ate by the president, are the following:
Edwin A Merritt, collector of customs;
Charles X. Graham, surveyor of customs;
Silas w, Burt, naval officer; Thomas Hill
house, United States assistant treasurer;
all of New York; John S. Mosby of Vir-
ginia, consul at Hong Kong.
FOUND DEAD IN THE WooDs.-Last
Saturday. William Olmslead,a aged eighteen,
was found dead in the great north woods
of New York near Stony Lake. A week |
before he started out to assist some hunters
in packing their traps, and failing to re-
turn search was made for him. He had |
evidently missed the trail after leaving
the hunters and wandered about until he
died from hunger and exhaustion.
A girl at Binghampton, N. Y, went re-
Gently to drug store to buy arsenic with
which to kill herself The clerk happened |
to know that she had quarreled with her
lover, and he guessed her purpose. So he
gave her corn starch instead of arsenic. and |
hurried out to tell her lover. The lover
repented, went to his sweetheart's house, |
found her lying on the sofa waiting in
vain to die, and made up the quarrel.
Mr.. Mcmahon, member of the Potter
committee, says that subcommittee will
be sent to New Orleans to continue the in
vestigation there which was terminated
by the yellow fever. lie thinks that under
the resolution appointing the committee it |
can without any supplementary authority
90 into the investigation of the cipher tel
egralns. He says the committee intends
to 90 ahead with the investigation of the
alleged presidential frauds. no matter who
is hurt.
The democratic senators are almost
unanimous in favor of an extra executive
session at the expiration of the present
congress, to elect democratic officers of
the Senate to supersede the republicans
now in office. Senator Thurman will
probably be elected president pro TEN ., and
Senator Dennis of Maryland whose term
expires March 4th, is mentioned for the
secretaryship in place of George G. Cor
ham. The salary attached to the latter
Office is $4,000.
Among the lawyers prominently men
toned as possible successors to United
States District Judge John Lowell of
Boston, is Thomas l.. Nelson, of Worcester.
Mr.. Nelson is Il graduate of the U. V. NJ
in the class of 1916 (among his CLASSMATES
being II. o. lloughton, DR.. Sidney II.
Marsh, Hon. John A. Jameson and Hon.
John Wilder May, and has been prac-
Using lawyer in Worcester since 1885. His
legal rank is very high and his candidature
for the judgeship is said to be II promising
one.
The Canadians are not entirely pleased
with their new governor general. He is
alt gether too royalistic in his notions to
suit their tastes. He exceeded the state of
any of his predecessors at II levee he held
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the multitude by standing on II raised plat
form under canopy and bowling stifily for
in hour or more to those who passed
before him. Only those were admitted to
the vice-regal presence who dressed in
prescribed manner, and they approached
It's mimic throne past II row of nearly 100
attendants in red uniform. What was
quite as bad, delegations of different socie-
ties which presented addresses, and who
represented the moral worth, culture and
wealth of Ontario, were obliged to wait
twenty four hours for IN answer to their
polite requests for an opportunity to pay
their respects to the Princess, though in
some cases three messages were sent to
the private secretary of the governor
general.
The following from the New York Eren-
ing Post is calculated to inspire Il realizing
sense of the inconvenience which will
ensue from the circulation of silver coins
in large quantities:
The new vault in the United States sub
treasury, which has been prepared for the
storage of silver dollars, is As feet in length
80 feet in width and II feet in heigth. IfI
every available inch should be packed
solidly with 4l2 IL grain dollars it would
hold not far from S40,000,000. Every one
knows that silver is bulky but few persons
are aware how bulky it is. A bag of
$1,000 4l2 1-2 grain dollars weighes 50
3-16 pounds avoirdupois. Accordingly
100000 Of the dollars weigh not far from
three tons If merchant or banker
having ii payment of $4,000 to make is
compelled by circumstances to pay with
silver dollars he would need II vehicle as
strong and rs large as an ordinary coal
cart (made to carry a ton of coal) to trans
port them, and if this should be heaped up
not more than $4,000 silver dollars could
be loaded on it,
We give below Il very simple method
of detecting fraudulent United States
notes:
United States notes are printed in
sheets of four notes Of one denomination
on each sheet. These notes are letcred,
respectively, in the upper and lower cor
ners diagonally opposite, A, B, g, and d.
Each United States note has distinct num-
Der and the notes are always numbered in
their order on the sheets: thus, all notes
of letter A will be |, or II number which
if divided by would leave l remainder;
B, 2; G, 3, and ID, 4, or the number will
be divided by 4 without a remainder. This
test, while not by any means certain, will
enable any one to detect one third of the
counterfeits in circulation. Any United
States note upon which the ndmber can
not be divided by 4 without showing the
above result is II counterfeit. Bear in mind
that all genuine notes with letters A and G
will have odd numbers, and all with b
and ID even numbers"
fla note will not stand this test it should
be rejected. Nevertheless, it is possible
that note that would stand the test may
be counterfeit But it is hardly safe for
any one to receive suspected money with
out strict comparison with the detailed de-
scription of known counterfets.
The joint commission having under con-
consideration the proposed transfer of the
Indian bureau to the war department
heard Secretary Schurz's views Friday.
He dsclaimed any personal desire to re-
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