Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06

BILE, W May; Listers 0 w May, q W Warren, VIM VI
aSe; Trusse Public Money Noai RobHson Fence
Viewers, " Moody, Fales; Emery Town; Grand
Pound Keeper, il Wells; Town Agent, NOAH Robin,
sOn; Superintendent of Schools WashbuTn. High
way tax, 10 cents. Town tax 80 cents.
Mrs. Phillips of Hopkins, Ky, went out
to shoot her husband, from whom she had
parted, and who was throwing stones at
her house. BY a mistaken aim she killed
her brother.
One-thlrd of the entire voting population
of Kentucky cannot read the ticket they
vote, and one hundred and fifty thousand
children are growing up Ignorant Of the
mere elements of an English education
louisville C0arier-JOurnaI.
Secretary Evarts will Immediately open
correspondence with the governments of
the Latin union and other European ma
tons, inviting them to Join in conference
to adopt comman ratio between gold and
silver.
A ROBBERS LAST REQUEST. Tracey,
the train robber, injured Wednesday, died
in the hospital at New York, Thursday.
His last request was, {" get me an 18-inch
jimmy. | should like to die with one in
my hand" lie was not accommodated.
The evil effects of this measure will not
be immediate except in one respect 1t
undoubtedly gives shock to American
credit. Whether that shock will pass
away, as the interest on our bonds contin-
ues TO be paid for the most part in gold
for successive quarters and half years,
remain to be seen.-Sprjngfeld Republic
Gun.
DR.. II. G. Staples, the Hanover, N. H.,
dentist, who attempted suicide December
2jth, lodging bullet in his brain, was
taken to his fathers home in Hardwick, in
this state, the other day. He is rational
most of the time. His oyeslght and articu-
Iation are affected. 1t is nearly impossible
to make himself understood. The ball has
never been extracted.
A sympathetic but inquisitive young
man, who was visiting country prison,
gently asked girl prisoner the cause of
her being in such a place. oh" said
she, with II contemptuous tOss of her head,
" l stole watermil, and got off safe, but,
like fool, went back after the stream
that turned it, and was arrested" The
sympathetic young man left Immediately
The late pope left two wills. In the
; first he leaves an annual sum of 100000
francs to his successor for the expenses OF
the holy see, and an annual allowance fol
the attendants of the former pontiical
administration. In the second will tho
tesator, speaking as IL private person
: makes his nephcws his heirs. and leaves
800, 900 francs TO be distributed among the
poor of Rome.
do not want to 20 to the United States
senate. would not 60 if | were elected
If l have any political ambition ut all, i
is to be the first governor of Georgia un
= der the rule of the new constitution bot
= T0OnbS.
Whatever way the figures are turred the
, result shows most conclusively that license
= does not prohibit, but is only pretext fol
free liquOr,an inducemGnt to intemperanct
; and sin. We can conceive how the run
interests of the land can smoothly tall
. license rs u means of gaining their point
but it is beyond our power of imagination
to see how Il real temperance man can ad
NUCulG -DUNG(UIttbIC UUVfHtbb.
/, The veto should never be referred /,
J. without special and honorable mention O
the southern democratic senator's, Mcssrs
I Bayard Of Delaware, Whyte of Maryland
= Butler of North Carolina and Lamar o
Mississippi, who voted no. No member o
IS either house made a more signal vlndica
ton of his manhood than Mr.. Lamar, VIII,
voted against the decided instructions o
n the legislature of his state. -HuLtor
u C0urant,
THE TINE TO ADvERTIsE.-A very sue
cessful merchant in a large New EnglAn
e city once remarked to the writer! II al
!, ways advertise most when times are dull
s In busy seasons it is only necessary t.
l. keep my name before the public; / an
n sure TO get my share of the spoutaneou
e traffic. But when business is light then
illuminate my broadsides of special bar
gains, and then is just the time when spe
e cial bargains are sought for. ~
II Erening Post.
IF A most shocking tragedy is reporte,
, from Munroe county, III. Moritz Kaiser
q Swiss farmer near Fisk Landing, age
q fifty, who has had difficulty in supportin!
70 his family and was to be turned out O
II home because he couldn't pay the rent
l. murdered his wife-an American woman
~ aged twenty fve-and his six children
e ranging from two-months. old girl to
ten-years-old boy, last Thursday night, AM
then burned his house over his head-him
l. self perishing in the flames.
e l. l.. Montplaisir, one of the colore,
% Jurors who convicted Returning Boar
If Anderson at New Orleans, prints a lette
p reaflirming the statement that both tn
o colored Jurors supposing that the recon
+ mendation to mercy would save the de
e PENDANT from imprisonment. and saying
o = have been free man all my life, IN,
4 have had the benefit Of schooling as such
n and, had been rightly posted as to tn
Il verdict that | have agreed to, | woul
never have rendered such verdict
because it is against my heart and con
l. science"
d The veto message has been general
: discussed to-day, and the president gel
o unstnted praise both for the matter an
1t the manner of it. The general opinion 9
st the friends of sound money is that IN
t. message will do good in Europe and serv
e TO allay somewhat the alarm which III
l. passage of the bill would be likelv +
e create There is no doubt, either that III
!, uncourteous manner of the two houses i
e tho summary action on the veto has, o
8 reflection, made many of those who loo
part in it ashamed,-Mr. Nordhof.