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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
THE WORLD FROM THE SIDEWALK.

Did you ever stand in the crowded street,
In the glare OF the city lamp.
And list to the tread of the million feet
In their quantity musical tramp?
As this surging crowd go to and fro
'ris pleasant sight, ween,
To mark the figures that come and go
In the exchanging scene.
Here the publican walks with the sinner proud
And the priest in his gloomy cowl,
Aud Dives walks in the motley crowd
With Lazarus, cheek by jowl,
And the daughter of toll with her fresh young heart
As pure as her spotless anne,
Keeps step with the woman who makes her mart
In the haunts Of sin and shame.
How lightly trips the country lass
In the midst of the cty's ills!
As freshly pure as the daisied grass
That grows on her native hills.
And the beggar, too. with his hungry eye
Aud his lean, wan face aud crutch,
Gives blessing the same to the passer-by,
As he gives him little or much.
When time has beaten the worlds tattoo,
And in dusky armor Digit
Is treading with echoless footsteps through
The gloom of the silent night,
How many of these shall be daintily fed
And shall sink to slumbers sweet
While many will 90 to a seepless bed
With never a crumb to eat!
All me when the hours go joyful by,
How little we stop to heed
Our brothers and sisters despairing cry
In their and their bitter need
Yet such a world as the angels sought
This world of ours we'd call,
If the brotherly love that the Father taught
Was felt by each for all.
Yet in few short years and this motley throng
Will all have passed away.
And the rich and the poor and the old and the young
Will be undistinguished clay,
And lips that laugh and lips that moan
Shall in silence alike be sealed.
And some will lie under stately stone
And some in the Potters Field
But the sun will be shining Just as bright,
And so will the silver moon,
And just such crowd will be here at night.
And Just such crowd at noon.
And men will be wicked and women will sin,
AS ever since Adqm's fall,
With the same old world to labor in,
And thu same God over all.
"A. Il. DVett, in Nep York Erening Post
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

A SAFE MAN.-That man who Is scru-
pulously polite and respectful to all
women in public, but habitually saves
coarse manners and vulgar language for
his own wife and daughters, is no gentle
man. He is only an impostor. The young
man who oils his hair, puts sweet odors
upon his pocket handkerchief, and bows
with charming elegance to Miss Arabella
Spriggins and her lady friends, and goes
home to sneer at his mother, disobey her
wishes, and treat her with familiar dis
courtesy, is pinchback imitation only OF
4 gentleman. Genuine good manners and
gentle breeding should begin at home.
AS rule the men in q community who
are the most trusted are the best men at
home. When man opens his front gate,
only to meet his wife's face at the door
radiant with pleasure, and hear the shout
from the eager children papa is coming" r."
it is safe as II rule to lend that man money.
He is honest and will repay it if he can.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

There is good deal fsuggestion in this
paragraph: A state superintendent who
had made, during a long term of Office,
hundreds of visits TO ungraded country
schools, declared that he never once saw a
teacher conducting recitation without !,
text book in her hand; that he seldom
saw either teacher or pupils at the black
board that he never saw school globe
actually in use; that he never saw a
teacher give an object lesson; that he
never heard a lesson on morals or man
ners; that he never saw but one school
cabinet; that he never saw reading class
trained to stand erect and hold u book
properly; that he never heard teacher
give lesson in local geography; that
classes, when asked to point north, uni
formly pointed upward to the zenith; that
he never heard spelling lesson dictated
in which the teacher did not mispronounce
one or more words; and that he never
found school where the pupils had been
trained to write letter, either business or
friendship"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

ADJUSTMENTS AT SEA.-All the Cunard
and other large steamships possess good
library for light reading, besides there are
usually many little solacements for Ie-
lieving the tedium Of the tirst-cass passen-
gers. When the weather is fine there are
games of shuf1leboard on the deck that
draw number of players and on-lookers.
The pieces of wood are flat disks, easily
handled in showing them along to Il goal,
as in the case of bowls. This forms an
agreeable recreation and affords good eX-
ercse. When out door amusement is
impracticable the saloon has its cluster of
passengers busy at something or other.
One party will be playing whist; another
is eagerly watching game at chess; n
third party will be listening to thrilling
tale of the sea by an old SALT Il fourth
party is attending to a game of backgam-
mon. In the evening, when lamps are
lighted, there is sometimes kind Of
musical concert, for which an obliging
young lady, or perhaps muscally in
clined purser, presides at the piano. Often
in ships of this description there is a
good deal of heavy betting. The bets
will be as to the day and hour Of arrival
at port, what will be the number of the
first pilot boat that presents itself, and so
on; some of the bets being sufficiently
ridiculous and the cause of much fun, but
also the loss of good deal Of money. In
all the well regulated vessels the ship
officers are strictly excluded from bet
ting The youngsters who happen to
be on board have their own amusements
in The games and sports of children. To
these Juveniles the COW is an object of
REQUIRED for the sake of its milk, occupies
(as we have iO booth at the corner of
one of the paddle boxes. There. well
bedded and tied up COW fashion, it is OBJ
served munching its food with the most
perfect placidity, although thousand
miles from home and the sea all around
with long sweeping waves, might be sup
posed to disturb its equanimity. For air
it has a door, with the upper part LEFT
open. Stretching over the lower half
door, the children look in and make their
comments on the comfortable quarters,
speak of the nice smell of the hay and
wonder if the COW is ever seasick. We
have seldom seen II fractions child in arms
who has not been soothed by being treated
to look at the COW. This practice of
taking cows to sea is one of the luxuries
of modern travelling. A concern such as
the Cunard has an establishment of COWS
at Liverpool and New York, and there is
change of animals each voyage. A
curious life that for COW. Twelve days
browsing in field and stretching its legs
and the next twelve crossing the Atlantic.
If one of these cows could write the story
of its life, it might tell of having crossed
the Atlantic one hundred and fifty times
and seen good deal of the world.-Frone
Good NeaOS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

A few days ago Wombwell's menagerie
visited Tenbury in England. Among the
animals is very fine elephant, Lizzie" )"
This animal was attacked with u violent
fit of collie. A local apothecary of con-
siderable skill AS an animal doctor was
called into the menagerie when the life Of
the animal was despaired oil. BY his Wig
orous efforts and skillful treatment the life
of the animal was saved. The elephant,
" Lizzie" did not forget her doctor, for
on the procession coming down Seine
street three days later she Immediately
recognized the chemist at the door of his
shop, and going to him. gracefully placed
her trunk il his hand. The chemist visited
the exhibition at night, and met with an
unexpected reception from his former
patient. Gently seizing the "doctor y
with her trunk, the elephant encircled him
with it to the terror of the audience. who
expected to see him crushed to death. 1t
was some time before the animal could be
induced to go away from the doctor,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

He WANTED TO SEE WHAT IT VAS
He was from Vermont, and he OdS green,
if he was an editor. He walked into the
dining-room of one of the New York ho-
tells, took n seat, and called for his dinner
in manner that made the guests stare.
After eating enough for two common men
he took up the bill of fare and carefully
scanned it for fifteen minutes, seeking
new worlds to conquer" At last his search
was rewarded, and stretching out a long,
bony arm, beloved out to the waiter, in a
deep, sepuchral voice:
"Hey! See here"
He Of the white apron was promptly at
his side, when our Green Mountain friend
politely remarked:
"Say, you; bring me tbat," pointing to
the words Irish Stew" on the bill ol
fare.
The dish was promptly set before him,
and, after gazing at it for few moments,
he said, while broad grin overspread his
open. very open countenance:
:" Wal, say, mister, look-a-here.
can't 90 this. l only wanted to see wha
the blamed stuff was"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

WANTED SOMETHING USELEss.-Gentle-
men whose wives. sisters, cousins and
aunts are strongly addicted to the practice
of making six or eight Christmases year
by fanatical celebration of Birthdays, ami
versares of weddings, and other nota-
BILE domestic events, have been known,
under financial pressure. to resort to the
contemplate subLerfuge of offering
presents Of various useful articles for
household, table, or personal use which
would naturally come of themselves if
there were no gift.offerings thought Of
Sometimes the family unanimously prac-
tice this little game, and actually feel
that common necessities are somehow in
vested with new value by the operation,
But there are others, doubtless, who look
at the practice in another light, and like
the little French girl would like a change
occasionally. This young lady. it is re.
lated, was in the habit of receiving from
the prudent father every holiday useful
gift, like dress, or hat, or pair of fine
boots. Papa" finally said the little one
my birthday comes next week. If you
love me and think have been real goot
girl, you might give me something that
useless"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

A SOAP MINE.-A natural soap mine
has been struck in Elko county, New. 1t
is remarkable stratum, that rests hori-
zontally in steep bluff of volcanic matter
which fanks the eastern side of Smiths
Creek Valley. The stratum of steatite is
from three to ten feet in diameter. 1t is
easily worked, and the farmers. cattle
men and sheep herders in that region all
use the natural article for washing pup
poses. Chemically considered, this pecu-
liar clay is q hydrated silicate of alumna,
magnesa, potash and lime. When the
steatite is first dug from the stratum it
looks like immense masses of mottled
CASTLE soap, the mottling element being
small percentage of iron oxide. A few
days ago Professor Stewart, of Virginia
City, received sample of the soap, pre-
pared by firm in Elko, who have under
taken to introduce it into the market. II
is similar in appearance to the CASTLE
soap sold in large bars, Nothing is added
to the mineral but trife more alkali and
some seeming extracts. Its detersive
qualities are as powerful as those of any
manufactured soap.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

The sensation at Newport is the
greatest trunk on earth," which a vera
cious correspondent has measured, with
results us follows Length, feet inches
hight, 5 feet inches; width, 4 feet 9
inches. The owner could find but one
hotel in the country with room door
large enough to admit her trunk, so per
force she must pass the summer at New
port. The trunk bears this legend
" Baggage Smashers: If you can't lift
me, call for more help. Swearing won't
make me bulge an inch. Remember the
commandments Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

POWER OF MUSIC.-Many Of US, most
of us, have aspirations and emotions for
the expression of which in words it is as
if we were voiceless and dumb, but which
find full and ready expression in music !;
even though, | have sometimes thought,
the words which we freight with them
might be mere jargon. Under the right
circumstances, and given only q touch, a
tone, II sudden remembrance, anything to
unlock the emotions, and the song goes
forth, telling for every individual singer q
different story. Perhaps this is most
noticeable in the midst of sympathetic
numbers, as in the crowds who used to
meet together and sing out all their secret
feeling in the strange, unreal light of the
Chicago tabernacle. | shall never forget
q face which | saw there one stormy
winter afternoon; one which touched me
more than any other of the many express
sive faces which | used to see there full OF
emotion day after day. 1t was only an
every day face, that of worn old woman
dressed in deep mourning; and, with
family and friendly groups on every side
of her, seeming so alone in her Loneliness
and old age. Was there anything in the
words of the song, in the singing of which
she joined with her tremulous tones, which
could fifty express the emotion that filled
face and voice? p The song was only one ol
the many changes rung on the dear old
themes, yet the words came to my ear
freighted with her loneliness and yearn-
ing until l longed to place gently my own
in her poor, tired, empty hands, if haply
mine could in any measure fill their
emptiness; to say word which might
brighten the poor, withcred, old face, SC
utterly pathetic in its far-of look of long
ing. Such a strangely far-away look il
was, as if the yearuing eyes had sent theil
gaze over the ocean in search of the lost
ones, to where, mayhap, their graves
were made in 4" the old country" and
failing to find them there had gone
straight on into the heavenly land.
Did she find them? Who knows? Bu
the song whose musical strains gave
voice that day to her longing for the dear
dead faces, will always be to her in very
truth " sacred song" To one heart. a
least, cool, critical analysis of its com
position would be sacrilege. To one Of
another of us perhaps this would be tru,
in regard to every one of the familiar ole
songs. 1t is too late; we could no
criticise them if we would. Love is blind
and we love them every one!-Sundal
| Afternoon,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

PROFANITY all who are afflicted
with the habit of profanity, and who are
desirous of curing themselves of it the
Louisville Courier-JourtaL suggests that,
as beginning, they resolve and rigidly
adhere to the resolution, that whenever
they feel disposition to swear they will
take no other name in vain except that
of the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli.
That will give their anger q chance to
cool and to disappear before they get to
the other end of the word, and they will
not thus be guilty of a complete oath.
And if Huitzilopochtli wont break them,
their cases are no peless.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

By THE SAD SEA WAvEs.-A gaunt
young man, with long dark hair and a
look of yearning after the unknowable, was
standing on Coney Island beach on Satur-
day, and by his side woman whom he
addressed as "My love-" He was watch
ing the white caps far from shore, and she
seemed to be looking at the bathers.
Without removing his gaze from the
wrinkled surface of the distant water, he
exclaimed, Z" Oh, that great day when the
boundless sea shall give up its secrets3'
Yes" the woman said with languid
interest; II wonder ifthat dumpy woman's
hair is her own"
A look of extreme sadness came over
his face like the shadow of an umbrella,
and he involuntarily drew back single
step. In so doing he stepped into a hole
dug by golden haired little fairy of four
or five summers, and turned back somer.
sault.
My love" looked at him reproachfully
and said: &" Leonidas, am ashamed of
you"
He murmured something about the mis-.
chievous boys that "put holes behind
people for them TO tumble over" and then
sat down in the sand to take off his shoes
and empty the ballast out of them. He
had one shoe off and was dusting his in
step; just then the largest wave of the
afternoon came up and obliterated all the
prints in the sand around him-but one.
His wife had retreated, and the appealing
look that he cast at her while the waves
were receding, threw gloom over al
| the CAV throng on the beach.
Leonidas," she said. in voice chokeG
with emotion, you had better find a
seat on the sunny side of the next train ant
keep it."
Toward sundown the pair were seen
strolling on the asphalt near Cables
The warm sun and drying wind had done
much to repair the mans misfortune, an'
my love " was evidently regarding hin
more hopefully; for she was telling him
that one of the pony carriages was -" thu
Midgett's coach" and the urchin drive
was Tom Thumb.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

A brother of Mrs. Dorsey, who left
fortune to JEFF Davis in her will, says her
enthusiasm in the cause of southern indie
pendence amounted to a mania, and she
believed no reward too great for the head
rebels "great work" But it must be
admitted that she was no more crazy than
lots of living southern women on that
subject.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30

AUSTRALIAN VENGEANCE.-A writer on
Australian life relates the following story
in the Boston Commercial Bulletin: One
evening on the return of the miners to
camp there was a terrible outcry from one
of the tents. Scores of miners rushed in
a body to the place whence the cry issued,
and found miner bending over his mate,
who had been sick and not gone out that
day. The sick man was dead with dag
ger in his heart, and the box on which he
lay for a bed showed evidence of having
been broken open and rifled of its contents
The body was still warm, showing that the
deel had but recently been perpetrated
The miners Immediately scattered in pur-
suit of murderer or murderers. An hour
after man was brought in-one of the
most villainous looking characters l ever
beheld. His pockets were filled with gold
which was identified by the surviving mate
as the property of himself and his dead
comrade.
There was no mistake about the matter
The bags in which the dust was contained
were marked with the joint names of the
mates, and the identity of the nuggets the
surviving mate swore to. This was sufli-
cient to establish the guilt of the accused.
Some were for hanging him on the spot,
but tho law-abiding portion of the commu-
nifty, being in the majority, insisted upon
his having fair trial. He was remanded
for the night and guard placed over him.
Next morning he was missing. How he
had eluded the guards they knew not, but
that he had escaped there could be no
doubt. What was worst, he carried off the
gold with him, which had been placed in
safe-keeping in the prison with him, to be
used as testimony against him,
1t was deemed idle to persue him, but
description of the murderer was drawn
up and circulated, and a reward offered for
his capture dead Or alive. A week passed
away without any tidings being heard OF
the fugitive. AT the end of that time a
native came into camp, and leaving let
ter for the presiding magistrate, disap-
peared as suddenly rs he came. The letter
was curt, but it was to the point:
Mr.. MAGISTRATE: :-Jem Bell 0he
murdered MANI was once matey of mine
He was a good man. You will find Bill
Grimes (his murderer) at the head Of
Dead Horse Gully. have kept the gold
for the reward.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
KANGAROO BILL,
Captain of the Bushrangers. "

A party of miners Immediately proceed
ed to the locality described, expecting to
find the murderer fastened to a tree or
rock. What was their horror on approach
ing the place to find nothing but flesh
less skeleton, every bone picked clean un-
til it glistened like ivory in the sun. The
bushrangers had robbed the murderer, and
then, driving stakes into the ground, they
had fastened him, back down, to an ant
hill. The ants of Victoria are as vora-
cious as death. The murderer had been
eaten alive.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
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The New York herald., 1879-08-06
MR.. MURRAY HEARD FROM.

NOT HUNTING OR ANGLING IN THE ADIRoN-
DAcKs, BUT ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE SELLING
MANUFACTURING STOCK.
,BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
New HAVEN. Conn.,, August s. 1s79
Some light is thrown upon the.affairs Of Rev. W.
H. H. Murray by the arrival in this city this evening
OF his confidential secretary. Miss Lille NJ Hodg-
kins. direct from the Adirondacks. Miss Hodgkins.
who is q very prctty and engaging young lady. is
quite Indignant ut the manner In which her name
has been connected with MIR. Murray's She denies
that she has been on pleasure trip with him in the
Adirondacks anywhere else On the contrary,
has been spending her vacation alone. while Mr..
Murray for the past three weeks has been
i'll the West and is San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Murray, she says, left for Chicago
before the middle of July to sell stock Of his buck
board company, and that his family and friends
disposng OF his stock Chicago. he continued the
journey to san Francisco. as it WAS understood he
would do before he started. Letters have been
ceived from him since his arrival in San Francisco in
which he speaks encouragingly of his prospects
there.
SURPRISE.
Miss Hodgkins says Mr.. Murray had no idea when
he left OF the possibility OF trouble of the kind that
has arisen. He had arranged everything, he sup
posed satisfactorily. aud the knowledge of what his
creditors have done will undo oubtedly be great
will return at and set everything straight
As for the scandal part OF the story tar she is
concerned. she declares there is not one word OF
truth in IL.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06
A DESPERATE AFFRAY,

Troy, N. Y, August s, 1879.
At the corner Of Madison and Fourth streets this
afternoon three brothers. Patrick, Cornelius and
Michael Dwyer, were assaulted by William. Thomas.
Lawrence and Michael Myers and two men named
Stapleton and Connors. Tho Dwyer brothers had
no weapons. while their assailants armed with
stones, pistols and knives. which they used with
probably fatal effect. Patrick Dwyor stabbed
seven times and his life is despaircd Of. His two
brothers were also stabbed and Cornelius nose
bitten of. Officer Manion attempted to arrest Will
lam Myers and knocked down with q stone The
assailants all escaped The entire force Of the First
precinct is engaged in their pursuit The
is the result of a long existing feud between the
Dwyer and Myers families.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06
MURDER AND SUICIDE.

CHICAGO. ILL.,. August g. 1879.
A most astonishing murder aud suicide occurred
at No. 81 Polk street this afternoon. Solomon Som.
q partner in the firm OF Schillo. Kossman 4 Sem.
iron founders. shooting the foreman Of the firm.
Conrad Enslcman through tho head. and then. after
swapping the revolver ut his own head retiring to
his private Office and cutting his throat from to
ear with knife. Both men leave families
sober and Industrious and not quarrelsome. The
quarrel was about pillar which was being cast in
the foundry. and which Sem claimed was being
spoiled by Engleman. The latter denied this. and.
after resigning his position the spot and being
paid OF. Sem reiterated his charge. when Engleman
gave him the lie aud the tragedy was at once en-
acted.