Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-31
The hope that cold would freeze out the
pedestrian fever is a vain one.

I The hope that cold would freeze out the
pedestrian fever is a vain one.
Having blown the Cars shirts to Llazes.
the next move of the Nihilists will be to
saw his over shoes.
Life is put together considerably like n
set of harness. There are traces ofcare. line
of trouble. bits OF good fortune, breaches
of good manners. bridled tongues, and
everybody has TO tug to pull through
DeS MoiHeS Register.
SUICIDE.-A man about so years old,
named George Fields. of Westminster.
committed suicide Thursday afternoon by
shooting through the heart. He was
unmarried and lived with his parents.
Dissolute and Incorporate habits were the
causes.
ar. S. Childs, bennington, w." writes
to the New York Sun that Il. S. Childs, of
Bennington, VI, would like to "throw up
his hat for Tilden and English" and the
Rutland Herald thinks the Sun my Won
der what induced RI. S. Chids, of Ben
nington, VT" to swallow his hat.
The Tammany hall general committee
had something of row last week, and
there are rumors that the choice of new
committee for 1880 ut the primaries.
which takes place in week or two, will
lead to the election of number of anti
Kelly men; but this is highly improbable.
The Indianapolis Journal kindly informs
Secretary Sherman that he ought to wait
till 1884 for his presidential plum. If
anybody connected with the present ad-
ministration is to run, it prefers Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, whose administration will
90 into history as lone of the very best
the government has ever had" The
Journal objects to Grants candidacy
because of the probability that he would
be defeated, but objects to Sherman be-
cause it is almost certain that he would be
showed under.
The steamer, Prairie CITY plying on the
Wabash river, between New Harmony
and Wabash station, on the st. Louis and
Southeastern railsOad, blew up Saturday
afternoon below Hodges landing. The
fireman, cabin boy and female cook are
missing. The body of Mrs. Captain Me-
Intyre was found with both arms off.
Captain Cox, who was ut the Wheel was
blown up with it, fell in the wreck and
had his arm broken, ankle spraincd, and
was otherwise bruised The engineer
received only slight injuries. The sur
vivors escaped on barge.
The Mississippi river acts in more than
one way as a regulator on the traffic and
rates of the trunk lines leading east from
the grain fields. Partly because railroad
rates on grain are too high to make its
movement profitable to producers, still
more because heavy spectators in wheat
at New York and Chicago are holding
wheat from export in the hope of forcing
Il rise, grain has begun to go down the
Mississippi. New York now holds about
| 100000 bushels of wheat. nearly II tenth
the total annual export from that port.
Few cargoes are Offering, however, al
though the presence Of nearly 100 vessels
in port seeking grain freight has reduced
tonnage rates. AS Il result, five vessels
have sailed in ballast under charter to take
on wheat at New Orleans. At that port
the export trade is brisk enough. The
shipments in the week ending December
20 aggregated $3,000,000, fleet of fifteen
vessels, eight of which were steamships,
clearing on the last day of the week :,
carrying for one item 100000 bushels of
grain. This is merely temporary diver
sion of trade now, but it is by such changes
that the channels Of traffic are altered.
In Ireland Il large population is all tie
time so near the edge of want that slight
failure of the crops or u comparatively
trivial arrangement of the industries of
the island lead to distress if not to slarva-
ton. This year the failure in the crop is
severe, while the linen and the cotton
mills, not half as numerous now as ten
years ago, are working this year under
great stress. This may cause great suffer-
ing, enough to make necessary contribu-
items from this country; but it is fair to
remember that in these days of rapid COM
munication failing crop may not mean
dear food. The crop in England this year
is total failure, but the grain imported
has cost from three to five per cent less
than last year, bushel by bushel, and
nearly fifth less than the year before
John Bright said in II recent speech, and
the market reports bear him out, that
there has never been "A year in England
when the industrial classes had cheaper
food than in the season of bad crops Just
closing, a fact which should be weighed
and considered in answering calls for aid
Nothing illustrates the beneiicent results
of the modern improvements and econo,
mics in transportation better than the fact
that it has abolished " famine prices ="
from the terrorS of the civilized world.