Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-23

Charles II. Hoyt. late of the St. Adams
Advertiser, succeeds George b. Goodwin
rs "All Sorts" man on the Boston Post.
A London paper thinks that by residing
in Europe an American girl can gradually
{" get rid of her war-whoop." American
girls don't war whoops now.
Kentucky told Massachusetts to sit down
Yesterday in the national Senate chamber.
Massachusetts sat accordingly. Mr.. Beck,
who was underneath, knows now just how
hard she sits down.-BoStOn TrdUctler.
New bills always swarm into congress
in the early days of every session in way
to remind one of the Egyptian plague of
lice. The 1900 introduced into the House
Monday were the old lot revamped, and the
great bulk of them will meet the same fate
that has beflllen them in past sessions.
The Boston Herald says" Bradley Bar
low contributed $500 to the republican
committee toward the expenses of that
party in the electoral commission contest,
and thinks it pretty hard that the commit
tee should have sent during the last cleo
ton just that sum into Vermont to help
defeat Mr.. Barlow"
In the suit of Geo. l.. Reynolds, VS.. the
city of Burlington, 10 recover damages for
injuries received on defective highway,
the jury awarded the plaintiff $4,000. The
case goes to the supreme court on eXcep-
tons. The Free Press says the suit could
ut one time have been compromised for
| less than One-half the sum which the city
will now have to pay.
FATAL Accidental boy of seventeen
years, named Evarts, living two miles
south of st. Adams Bay, shot himself
Monday afternoon. lie was shooting
pckere in the lake, with shot gun,
which was accidentally discharged by
striking the stump on which the boy was
standing, and the contents entered his
abdomen. He fell into the water, but was
dragged out by companions who were
near by and conveyed to his home. 1t is
believed that the wound will prove fatal.
The CdledOnian gives an account Of a
deadly assault on VIM. c. Stowe of ST.
Johnsbury, the other evening; Mr.. Stowe
went into the cemetery to look after his
traps. lie found skunk in one of them,
and while he was engaged in killing it, he
thinks some one hit him on the side of the
head with club. At all events, when he
came to himself there was n severe cut in
his head and his face was battered up He
managed to report himself at police head
quarters, and investigation disclosed tracks
in the snow and blood about. but who
made the cowardly attempt on the old
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In the convention of colored people at
New Orleans, Friday, the committee on
address reported at length showing among
other things the disparity in the matter of
population as between the white and col!
ored in the Red river parishes, there being
two to one in favor of the colored popula-
ton. The point was made that if the
negroes were given their rights they
would carry the election. The colored
people, however, propose to emigrate and
settle where they would be free from shot
guns. The address touched on emigra-
ton. Resolutions to emigrate aud asking
aid of the north provoked discussion
which led to some confusion.
The latest dispatches from South Africa
report that the relief column which set
out on the 18th ultimo to succor Colonel
Pearson ut Elkowe is composed of six
thousand men, two Gattling guns and two
cannon. On the 30th the troops had come
within sight of Elkowe, and The beeagur-
ed force signaed that one hundred and
fifty men were in the hospital, and that
only five hundred men could cooperate in
! the efforts of the relieving column TO raise
the siege. The Zuus lying around the
post are variously estimated at from twen-
ty thousand to thirty five thousand. The
dispatches also contain some particulars of
the victory of Colonel Woods command
over a large force of Zulus about the same
date, when the latter were defeated with
great loss, the British suffering to the ex.
tent of seventy.seven killed and wounded
Here is Il touching paragraph from the
Portsmouth, Va, Times showing what
the average southron thinks of himself
and his kind:
The real reason of this grand and amaz.
inc upheaval of affairs which resulted in
placing the southern people in triumph in
the chief places of the national govern
ment is due to the grand superiority of the
southern race. Never Were such people
seen under the sun; 50 grand, SO steadfast,
so faithful and true, 50 full of sublime pa
lience, so quiet under unmerited oppres-
siOnS, 50 generous, so brave, SO full of
fortitude, temperate wisdom and exquisite
knowledge how TO act. All these qualities
combined with that wonderful recupera-
tive faculty which is so emnently Il char
acterstic, have produced their natural
result, so that now the precedence and
power of the south in congress is like any
other established fact.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune reports that the dem
ocratic Barnum has been trying to settle
claims Of the interna-revenue bureau
against Samuel Tilden's patent medicine
establishment at Lebanon. The law re
quirea stamp of from one to four cents
on every pill box and bottle, but LARGE
quantity of the invigorating products of
The 1ilden establishment have been found
at various points in the country with
stamps on only n few of the top packages
The manufacturers claim that they bought
the stamps, which it seems are not "pro-
prietary," as most patent medicine stamps
are, and that the clerk whose business it
was to stick them on stole them. This is
rather extraordinary. A new nephew of
Mr. Tiden, bearing his own name, has
been at Washington on this business, and
another one was appointed police commits.
sioner ut New York The determination
again expressed by the attorney generals
office to prosecute the old internal revenue
suits against Mr.. Tilden at once " is out
of date and growing stale
Ono Of tLo Nom York Jivnrnn l.,u,vor,