Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04

DR.. Howard Crosby stated in an address
last week that his law and order society
had, during the past year, closed 1,739
whiskey saloons, in New York city.
Judge Dillon of the United States circuit
court, 9th circuit has resigned, and Gen.
George w. McCrary, secretary of war;
hes been nominated by the president to fill
the vacancy, which will occur September
LIST.
Gov. Andrews, Of Connecticut, has
received many letters urging him to par
don Kate Cobb,tbe Norwich murderess, but
he doesn't have anything TO do about par
dons, land if more governors didn't itwould
be we'll
To vote in Massachusetts for members
of the school committee, Il woman must be
twenty-one years old able to read and
write, and have paid tax within year
and resided that time in the state and six
months in the town where she is to vote.
Mr.. French, who succeeds Colonel En-
hardt as police commissioner of New York
city, is from Sag Harbor, Long Island, a
place described by one of the aldermen,
in a speech on Mr.. French's confirmation,
as "a little place almost at the east end of
nothing, with board nailed across it,"
General Joe" Johnston, once lieuten-
ant-general of the Confederate army, Offer
ed the resolution under which the House
of Representatives adjourned in honor of
Decoration day. 1t was graceful act
and so was the act which made it possible
for General Johnston to offer resolutions in
the House of Representatives.
DR.. Schlieman and Professor Virchow
have been having what school. girls call
"a perfectly lovely time " together. They
have been digging away at Troy, and
have not only come across great masses of
charred buildings, but also a splendid
treasure of long gold chains and gold
discs.
The 9TH of June will be inauguration
day in New Hampshire, and General Matt
Head, whom the democrats caused to be
locked out of the Senate two years AGO,
because his friends were bound he should
represent them under the pet name of
MATT" and 50 gave his enemies posi-
BILE legal opportunity to reject him, has
now ridden high over them. The old
band, of which the governor elect was for
many years leader, can have the pleasure
of doing him honor.
A new weather prophet has arisen-one
E. j. Lowe-who predicts period of
drouth during the present year, basing
the prophecy upon the theory of cycle
of the seasons once in eleven years, or
thereabout. In 1868 he finds drouth re.
corded, another in 1857, and others in
1915, 1884 and 1925, not exactly eleven
years in every Instance, but approximate
ly that number. Farmers are now in a
bad way, and they would be in far
worse way by next September should Mr..
loves forecast prove unhappily true.
Miss Fidelia Wheeler, only sister of
Vice President Wheeler. who died sud.
denly ut Mr.. Wheeler's home in Malone.
N. Y, at the age of g. last week, Wed.
nesday, was his only near relative. About
a month ago Mr.. Wheeler was called
from Washington to her bedside in the
that she was about to die,
but she has so steadily improved that he
at her own request, consented to take his
annual spring vacation among the Adiron-
dacks, and was absent from home at the |
time of her death. Miss Wheeler had been
an invalid, almost literally confined to her
room. for twenty years, at times suffering
greatly, and yet under her ailliction had
cultivated such sweetness of disposition
that she was loved by all who knew her.
By her death Mr.. Wheeler is left without
amily, his wife having died at Washing
on in 1875, and no children ever having
been born to him. His only surviving
elatlve Is solitary cousin, clergyman
u Pittsburg, Pa. who discovered his
relationship during the presidential cam
'aign of 1876.