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

The famous Mrs. Hicks Lord, since the
death of her venerable husband in New
York, has gone back to London, taking
her horses and carriages with her.
The Missouri legislature has a novel
proposition before 1t, to punish voters who
stay away from the polls three times run
ming with forfeiture of their right to hold
any Office in the state.
The new constitution Of California pro-
vides that no native of China. no idiot,
insane person or person, convicted of any
infamous crime and no person hereafter
convicted of the embeZzlement or misap-
preparation of public money shall ever
exercise the privileges of an elector in that
state"
Some Of the southern democrats claim
to believe that the negro exodus Is abetted
by northern politicians for Il political pur-
pose. There may be something in this,
but it is more certain that II large number
of the culored men are leaving that region
because they have been practically de-
prived of citizenship.
The legal distractions of Controller
John Kelly having been removed. work
has been resumed on the great suspension
bridge between New York and Brooklyn.
The wire cables, each rs big around rs II
mans body, are complete, and one thou
sand men will soon be employed in push
ing the work upon the suspended road
way. 1t will still require two years, at
least, to bring the bridge to the point OF
opening to the public.
Representative De La Martyr has filed
an entirely characteristic bill providing
for the issue by the secretlry of the treas
ury of Sl,00O,00O,00O of "greenb tck cur
renew" in tiveS, tens, twenties and 50 on
up to $4,000, to be made legal tender, to
be loaned to certain canal companies in
sums of $60,CO0,000 down to S5,000,00
said companies to give bonls payable in
fifty years, the first live years without
interest, but at three per cent afterwards.
A part of the explanation of the i'm
mense demand for United States four per
cents by bankers is doubtless the fact that
the banks of England are overloaded with
clpilal that cannot find employment in
business enterprises. In addition to the
great depression in all sorts of Industry,
Beacons6ed is shaking confidence by his
foreign policy, and the British are looking
TO the land of the free and the home Of the
brave as u safe custodian of their spare
funds
The temperance reformers should lay
hold of the case of Pinckney, tnrned out OF
u snug Office in New York city Monday
Five or six years ago Pinckney was a
bright, CHEEKY fellow around the city hail
in New York, well liked by everybody,
and given 10 social habits and free life
Three years ago he had the luck to be
elected civil Justice for term of six years
at q salary OF $1,000. His habits went
| from bad to worse, and now he is removed
from the local bench for drunkenness, long
continued and Elegantly practiced.
1t is believed by many people in New
Orleans that the germs of last year 5
scourge were not eradcated, and the
belief is current that with the coming OF
warm weather the yellow fever will burst
ont again. The mayor of the city has
ordered that after the first of May n strict
quarantine shall be established against AL
ports where the yellow fever is likely t.
appear. A Memphis paper states that
New Orleans is one of the dirtiest cities ii
the country, but with the probabilities o
last summers horrors staring them in the
face, there has not been any deciced effort
made on the part of the residents to cleanse
the city.
MODERN SoCIALIsM.-It is not general
ly known that the late John Stuart Mill
perhaps the ablest of modern writers or
political and social science, commenced in
the year 1869 book on socialism, which
if it had been completed, would probably
have been recognized as the greatest Of
his works. Manuscript chapters of the
incomplete work have recently beer
brought to light, and found so nearly com.
plete in them selves. and so ably to discuss
questions now most prominent in the pub
lie thought, that London review, ant
also the Library Magazine of New Yorl
are publishing them. They are announced
to appear in book form on April 2jth
published by the AMERICAN Book Elk
CHANGE, New York. The price, postpaid
in cloth. will be so cents, or in paper q
cents. 1t is work which all students o
political and social topics. and all enlight
ened citizens, will be glad to read.