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

DEATH IN A BRooK-THE DREADFUL
TRAGEDY AT NEwARK.-The Lyndon
Union says of the recent horrible poison
ing case:
Further particulars from the Morse
district in Newark. where the school chill
dren were poisoned, show that our report
of last week did not half describe it. 1t
seems that there were twenty children in
the school, seventeen of whom drank
water from the brook flowing past the
school house and in twenty-four hours
every one of them came down with blood
poison. not diphtheria as was at first sup
posed, and eleven of them at present
writing have died, after the most intense
suffering, turning purple before death.
After death they turn black and the flesh
falls of almost by touching. 1t seems
that above the school house was field
of potatoes last season where Paris green
had been extensively used and the potato
tops thrown into the brook. 1t is supposed
this is where the poison came from. A
horse died last year and was buried near
the brook above the house and some think
this may have something to do with the
poisoning, but the more plausible theory is
that the poison is the Paris green washed
from the potato tops. The district is terri
bly, afflicted, all work is neglected. and
the attention and sympathy of every one is
invested in behalf of families overwhelmed
by this sudden aflliction.n
An associated press dispatch says: John
Aldrich lost his entire family of five chill
dren. Mrs. Aldrich is hopelessly insane.
The children suffered untold agonios, and
after death the bodies became putrid and
required immediate burial Work has
been suspended and great excitement
prevails. The teacher of the school MOTTO
ed something wrong about the taste of the
water and forbade its use in the school,
but seventeen of the scholars used it and
were stricked down within twenty-four
hours. One of the children, a son of Mr.
Hudson, pulled through. just above the
school house was field OF potatoes last
season, and Paris green was used extern
sively to eXterminate potato bugs. The |
potato tops were dumped into the barn |
yard of Horace Cheney, who built drain |
from the barnyard to the brook; he also |
buried Il colt, in the spring of 1878, on the |
edge Of the brook, and the flowing water |
washed out parts OF the carcass. A Mr. |
Simpson, who has lost one child, objected |
to the colt being buried there, and caused |
Cheney to move it and bury it elsewhere,
which was done, but it was buried in
swamp only fifty feet from the brook, the
water of which ran intothe brook. Cheney
that he guessed he hadn' t
bettered it much. Violent threats are
freely expressed toward Cheney. Sam,
pies of the water have been sent to Boston
or analysis, and the selectmen will not
AXE any proceedings till the result is /
inown. Old and young are taking the
disease. but in milder form, and will
soon recover. Six physicians have been
in their attendance. Public
opinion runs high, each one having his or
Ter views of the trouble. no two stories
being alike. The matter will be thorough
y and properly sifled,and the offenders, il
my, will meet with just punishment.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04
School Books.

Mr.. EDTroR:-The text book committee
chosen to decide what books are to be
used in our schools for the next five years
have an important work before them. In
the first place it is very desirable that the
books be uniform all over the state, SO that
scholars going from one town to another
will not be obliged to buy new set OF
books. Still more important is the char
after of the books recommended 1t
seem TO me that it would not be desirable
that reading book should treat wholly of
any one subject; for instance. of agrcul-
ture or any one of the sciences, but rather
should consist of selections from a variety
of subjects which will be calculated to i'm
part information as well as modulate the
voice. have no fault to find with many
of the reading books that have been used
in our common schools for the last fifty
years. The old Art of Reading of our
fathers was a good book, and so was the
English Reader and Porter's Analysis and
Rhetorical Reader, and many of the series
of readers of recent date are all well
enough, and the same may he said of the
arithmetics and biographies. If the
scholar has not made progress he cannot
complain that he has not been furnished
with good books.
But there is one thing of which our
schools have right to complain,
and that is the high price at which all
school books have been held for the last
ten or fifteen years, and are sold at the
present time. While other books and pa
pers are printed and furnished very cheap.
school books are high. With all our ia
cilities for making paper and printing,
school books are higher to-day than they
were forty years age. Adams Arithmetic
was then sold for fifty cents day
French's Arithmetic, not half so well
pound, is sold ut dollar, and has been
'ven higher. Then a spellcr cost twelve
md onc-half cents-now they cost thirty
II forty cents, and one will have to handle
hem carefully, or they will fall to pieces
before you get them home. might 90
through with the whole list in the same
manner.
My boy brought home parsing book
which the teacher said he must have. 1t |
vas about the size of spelling book, and |
cry cheaply bound, and cost seventy-fve
ents.
There have been lots of dry tears shed
'ver the poor man and his poor children,
While system of operations has been
DING on that shows that there is some
hing rotten in Denmark, as desirable as
uniformity of school books would be. III
he text book committee cannot perfect
ONE plan whereby school books can be
FINISHED AS cheap as other books, then
he town committees can introduce into
he schools the Testament or Shakespeare,
he New York Tribune or the American
'~tivator which can he bought cheap.
L. w. b.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04
Senator Mat. Carpenter has gone to
Florida for the benefit of his health.

Senator Mat. Carpenter has gone to
Florida for the benefit Of his health.
If the Lord would raise up some one in
the Senate who could cope with Edmunds
the confederate brigadiers would feel that
lie had supplied II long felt want.-Cin.
ctl1RGH COMMERCIAL
Monday, the 26th, the anniversary of
Lees surrender, was Decoration day in
the south. In Louisville, after the con-
federate graves hnd been honored with
flowers, Colonel w. G. P. Breckenridge
delivered the eulogy, and said: 81 Law
my hand upon my heart and lift my ewes
to God. and in the name of this assem-.
blage avow that this homage is in honor
of martyrs to liberty, who died for the
right, and gave their lives in defence of
the truth, and that Il republic of states can
be preserved only on the PRINCIPLES ON
which the coniederacy was founded"
The ERUPTIoNs OF ErNA.-The exhi-
bition that the volcano of Etna. on the
island of Sicily, is now giving is the sew
enty-ninth, so says the record, and this one
seems likely to excel any of the others in
display and destruction. Showers of ashes
have fallen in Messina, forty.five miles
away. The ashes and the smoke obscure
the sun, and give the sky a gloomy and
terrible aspect. Piedmonte is said to he
la total darkness. New craters have been
formed, and two streams of lava--one
two hundred and thirty yards wide and
already four miles long-are flowing down
the mountain and endangering villages,
Huge fire balls are hurled from the bow.
els of the volcano, while earthquake
shocks add to the terror of the surround.
ing country. Etna was regarded by The
as one of the chmneys of vuI-
cans smithy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04
MONTPELIER MARKET.

TT V'V WV I'T03HV INtY0UY, ITWT ) TsII-
Apples dried new ul0o - N: ButIer. IjT2jr,
beei 4G2Oe; Beet, dried, green weight zoe, PoIk,
iresh, oMl! &C; PORK salt, l!1,c; Ham l5r; lad,
iSHci veal odl2c; Beans, y bushrl, Yad2 10.
Corn, sos Corn meal, A LIS hs. 81 ~; Ous r
oushel' 30 1iOc; Flour u Dbl, SG.OOa6.75 Crack.
els, 500; Coal, v ton, $3.50 O0OO Cheese, - y
, 2aUc; tish-tresh Cod, dressed, Iic. lIahbut,
loG oha,i, SOC; Mickerel l3c; salt Fish c id Dc;
salmon, l0Gl2Ec h; Tripo, l2,,c; Kerosene
o,i ,;, SEallGn, 2oe; Potatoes, - hus6e, 10000,
oau v Dnshei, 5Oai Dairy, IL y n; 81 slr
5 5Uta DOC; Maple Sugar, y ,6dS6;Sym u saion,
t too Tea 1910 %; Coffee, Old java roasted
sIo <, h3. toasted, soc 81 Herds Grass reed,
York do, 1lGl2c v pound, '' '''''''"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04
Che freeman.
MONTPELIER VT.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4. 1879.
Going West.

Whitelaw Reid. of the New York TriJ.
Une. has been following the footsteps Of
his ilustrious predecessor and getting
young people to go west" Somebody
PIT thousand dollars into his hands to
be used as he saw fit and he picked up
thirty or forty poor boys and got them
places out in Kansas. Two or three of them
did not like and found their way back but
the majority are well pleased with their
new situation.
An article in Il late number of the Tri5-
une in answer 10 II college boys question
as to where he had better settle contains
much good sense. The only trouble about
the wise observations lies in their applica-
ton. They amount to this-that man
had better 60 west if he is adapted to
succeed in that section of the country.
That is the very question, and it can
never be determined without practical
trial any more than man can tell before
hand in anything how he will come out
when placed under new conditions. Gen
orally it may be said that man who will
succeed west will do the same east. Per-
haps in certain cases man may get a
start there quicker and the prizes i'll
worked for and grasped are larger.
But there is no such dearth of opportu-
nifty in the east, comparatively speaking,
as some think. The same Industry and
the same willingness TO 60 without many
of the conveniences that enable men TO
succeed in the west would put them far on
the road to success in the east. In YER
mont there are farms enough that are un-
occupied where as good farming could be
done now as heretofore and be made to
pay.
We are not talking about that west
which is Illinois, Iowa and like western
states. In those states largely things are
fast becoming settled as in the east and
the same conditions more largely prevail.
They are getting to be old states, men
can't go there and "grow up" with the
country for that is already full grown.
New corners step into conditions of society
almost as fully established as in New
England.
But in Kansas and Nebraska one can
find the new" if he wants it. Hard
work, privation, and economy will give
man a start there-and here too. The
opposite sort of thing will leave n man
there as elsewhere badly off after ever so
many years. Nothing succeeds like success
and that is equally true on Vermont
flrm and on one subject to western {
cyclone. {
Master Cove of Berlin has left two
monster hens eggs on our desk. He
thinks his hen must have seen the item /
recently published and gone in to beat
on record and we think so too.
A clear case of Observation-Disclosures was
that of VIM. Best, of the firm of Horn.
brook e. Best, who stood up on the
platform of the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad depot on Monday morning and
allowed the train on which he was to take
his departure to leave him standing there :
He had Il Car load of hogs on the train
tendent StoweIl telegraphed to Plainfrld
and held the train there until he could
drive there in one of Ell. Irish 5 teams, an A.,
not often granted onroads +
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04

A natural washing machine b,.l
discovered in Tulare county. C,IitDIle.'
A boiling spring was found by fI la
with an ingenious turn Of mind. and ' 4,
once secured water right, cops,rno w a
clothes wringer TO be run bya water ., ,1 Z
at one side of the spring, where /, " lug.
over into another Of clear cold w.tc, 9 ~,
which he placed Il sack Of BIN. ,. ~ quo
The ranchers Of the settlement ,t1'
their clothes into the water wbi,l, ' Gy'
whirling motion, and are drawn In ~, "' q
sight. In about five minutes they ea ,,. o
the surface, float to the wrinper ,nJ %
run through into the other spring wb a,'
they are rinsed by passing through an r1s'
wringer, In less than thirty minute, ~
washing is done. "'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04

ST. ALBANS BUTTER MARKET, June ,.
good, receipts increasing,
market firm with slight advance in price.
We quote common to II cents per
pound; good to choice IS to II cents Der
pound; general price IA cents. Selections
10 cents per pound, with IN occasional
fancy lot at higher price. Another order
to-day for 100 tubs for direct shipment 10
Liverpool.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04

" She insists that it is of more import.
ance, that her family shall be kept in full
health, than that she should have all the
fashionable dresses and styles of the times.
She therefore sees to it, that each member
of her family is supplied with enough Hop
Bitters at the first appearance of any SYM
ptoms OF i'll health, to prevent u ii. Of
sickness with its attendant expense care
and anxiety. All women should exercise
their wisdom in this way."-Ed. rN22w2
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04

Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock,
the new president of the Northern Pacific
railroad, is now the largest individual
stakeholder, carrying 100000. Besides,
he is proprietor of $4,000 acres of fine
wheat land. lie is strong man intel
ectually, with faith in the paying devel-
opment of the Northern Pacific and its
land grant. He believes that in very
few years the road will be in operation
from St. Paul to Puget Sound.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04

There is in our politics of to-day not
only too much partyism but by lone odds
100 much sectlonaIism | never heard of
a solid south but with feelings of horror
1t rings in my ears like IL fire bell at nioht
solid south suggests the idea of n solid
north. In the name of all that is sensible
haven't we had enough of sectional divis.
ION, sectional strife, sectional war. section.
al desolatlonP l'appeal to you as patriots
10 SET your faces sternly against the whole
business. II you are not moved by the
loftler consideration of pat rio,ism. then 7
appeal to you MS southern men, not to
allow yourself to be drawn second time
into sectional conflict. | warn Won tbat
you will be beaten second time inst ne
you were the tirst.-EG- Cor. AlGeT n
BrOWn, Of Mississippi.
IHE FEELING AT WASHINGTON. Per.
ley" says in letter to the Boston ,L2ur.
nMt:-"Congressmen occasionally ono,ge
In examinations, but they do it in a pn1li3-
mentary and II mild hammered wov onl
in few hours aherward thew nav bo
seen meeting as guests at the same social
board, with every mark of rerinronai
cordially and respect" People at lorgo
have for some time been suspicious th9t
this was the case, and have therefore nnr.
slstently refused TO get excited over tho
most infiammatory, blood-curdling appeals
which congressman make for consumntion
among their constituents. 1t is a wonder
TINS fact has not dawned on the conscious.
ness of the average congressman. IF il
mad, we should have been spared a con.
siderable amount of bellicose sputterinU
Transcript.
A CHANGE OF SENTniENr.-We have
read not few reports of Decoration dav
speeches with the purpose of ascertaining
what sentiments We're uppermost in tI,So
minds OF the orators touching the traitor
GUS altitude of the south, and we baro
found scarcely one that went very heovi,,
upon Cancellation, forgiveness and ali tba;
A year ago it was different. NOTHING hni
fraternity was talked Of and all animosiY
lies on the part of the north engendered
by the rebellion appeared to have been
buried in the graves of our fallen deaJ
Unfortunately. the south has chosen 70
remember only the passions of the oonflct
and in congress and out of it has nlaveJ
The role of II braggart and bully. and
apparently been happy only as it demon.
'lrated to the country the ASTONISHING f,ct
hat the "confederates have cnntnre5 tho
'apital.-1roy Times. ''''
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-09
CO"Onel'S Inquest.

The members of the A. o. U. w. i'll this
city who were obliged to bury the body of
Frederick E. Seifert, who committed suicide
on Tuesday, he being member of their Or
der, decided that an inquest should be held.
Yesterday morning Deputy Coroner Rich
empanneled jury, and called number of
witnesses, but the evidence did not differ
from the account given in the GLOBE Of
Wednesday morning, except that several of
the witnesses stated that on Monday, the day
previous to his death, he showed signs of
insanity; and on going across the
suspension bridge remarked to a member
of the order of which he was member,
with whom he was walking, that he supposed
if man should kill himself his woman
would get the insurance money. In note
book found in his pocket was the following,
written in German with a lead pencil in q
large, sprawling hand, covering three pages
of the book:
''Dear brothers of the lodge, please take
care of my wife. am ready to die. leave
everything to my wife. 1 hope that I will
be buried by the lodge. My wife can bury
me where she pleases. Please look after my
wife. FREDERICK EDWARD SEIFERT"
From the testimony given the
jury returned q verdict that
the deceased came to his death
from poison administered by his own hands
while in an unsound state of mind.
The funeral services were held from his
late residence at 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon, under the direction of members of the
A. o. u. w. order. The body was inferred
in Layman's cemetery.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-09

Arrival and Departure Oh mails at the St.
Paul Post Office.

Eastern-Arrives daily except Monday at 80 q
m and 90 p m except Sunday. Closes daily except
Sunday at 10 As m, and As p m except Saturday.
spEo1AL-Hastings, Red Wing, Lake City, Waba-
shaw, Winona and La Crosse, Wis., arrives daily ex-
cept Monday at 80 ms and closes daily except Sat
MilwauEee &c ST. Paul Railroad, (Io1va Diy.)-
Arrives daily except Sunday at As Closes daily
st. Paul e st. Louis, NO., RoUte--Arrives daily
except Sunday at 90 a NJ Closes daily except Sat
| urday at 30 p m. .,.
closes daily except Sunday ut As Arrives
| daily except Sunday at II As M
West Wisconsin Raitroad-Arrives daily except
| Sunday at 90 M. Closes daily except Sunday at
STANDARDIZATION and Harvard Route-Black River
Falls Eau Claire and Menomnee, Wis.,, arrives daily
Monday excepted at ~ m. CLOSES dally SATURDAY
St. Paw 6 Ssour city Railroad-Arrives daily
except Sunday at II 80 m. Closes daily except
' For5 smeSsiag, Minn.-Arrives daily at 5 rs m.
Closes daily at IS am.
-Shakopee, Jordan, Belle flame. Hen,
and St. James, closes daily except Sunday at 30 q
m Arrives daily except Sunday at 6 25 m.
| Bloomington Fe7Ty-Wednesday and Saturday,
| closes at 6 SO m. Arrives at II 80 q NJ.
| st. Lavrence-Thursday, closes at 80 m. Ar
| rives at IL 80 o m.
Husti,,qs & Dakota R0ilroad-Arrives daily ex-
| cept Sunday at Is Closes daily except Sunday
St. Paul &c Pacific Railroad lltain Line0--,st
| Paul to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NuIAJ oASope .sAN~s
at 10 40 m. Closes daily except Sunday at 3o M
| SPEc1ALs-Deano, Litchfield, Willmar 4 Atwater
| Closes daily except Sunday at $500 m arrives
| daily except Sunday at As p m.
SPEo1ALs-M Minneapolis closes daily except Sunday
| 6 80 M II 80 m and 20 p m. Arrives daily ex-
| cept Sunday at 90 a m, 3 90 p m and 30 M.
| 81. Paul &c Pacific Raitrodd (Branch Lsne)-
| Arrives daily except Sunday at p m. Closes daily
except Sunday at 6 80 a m.
| F0rq0, Dakota and BisndrcE-Arriyes daily
| except Sunday at 10 Is Closes daily except
| Sunday at p M. ~
| SpEC1A1s-Anoka, st. Cloud, Sank Rapids, Elk
River Moorhead, Brainerd, Mimi. and Fargo, OAK,
| arrives daily except Sunday at 10 Is m. Closes
| daily except Sunday at m.
| ST. Paul ce Duluth Railrodd-Arrives daily ex-
| cept Sunday at 40 pm. Closes daily except sun
Observation-Disclosures, arrives daily, Sundays ex-
cepted at 10 30 m, and 40 M. Closes
! daily Sundays excepted, at 80 m, 10 As a m and
| North Wisconsin Railroads.&c.. Paul to Clayton,
| Wis-Arriyes at 3 90 m, closes at 10 As a m.
! Northern Pacific Railr00d-Arrives daily except
| Sunday at z D m. Closes at m.
Fort Buford, Dak0tG-Arives Mondays, Wednes-
| DAYS 4 Fridays, at 10 IS m. Closes Mondays,
| Wednesdays and Fridays, at p nj.
| F0rt Rprth0zd. DGEOtQ-Arrives Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 IS m. closes Mondays
| Wednesdays and Fridays, at 5 p M.
| Fort Ke0gh, M. T.-Arrives Mondays, Wednes-
| DAYS and Fridays at 10 AS m. Closes Mondays,
| Wednesdasya ndFridaysat M.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-09
SHERMAN'S BOOM.

The Secretary Working Slyty for the Ohio
GorernOrsItip--V ariOus Opinions.
Washington Special (hIay g. to Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Secretary Sherman's weak denials of his
intention to capture the Ohio Gubernatorial
nomination provoke only smiles here. They
have no smack of emphasis about them and
like the would-be prude in Don Juan, he will
consent while swearing no will not. Until
he makes his destinations more positive than
they have yet reached this point, no one will
believe them.
General Garfield returned here to-day. He
told number of his friends that Sherman
would be the nominee, and that Foster and
Taft would oct out of his way. Evidently
| Garfield and Sherman have had an under
standing, for Garfield feels confident that
Sherman has no designs on the Senatorship,
but will leave that prize open for him. Gar
field thinks that Sherman's objective point
is the Presidency only, and that he will from
henceforward strain every point to reach it.
If Sherman leaves the cabinet he will name
his own successor, and the immense patron
age of the treasury department will be used
in his interests to SGT up his delegations in
the South. AS these will be made UP princi-
pally of colored men, it is not hard to catch
the coon if the proper bait is set out for him.
The insolence of Office has no terrors for the
average Southern Republican.
Those who have doubts of Sherman's de-
sire to head the canvass in Ohio this fall say
that they cannot conceive wherein he will be
protited by such contest. 1t is in the long
look ahead that Sherman is wiser than they
The rival he fears IS Grant. His desire is
to make diversion that will distract public
attention from Grant and center it upon
himself: He knows well that Grant,
candidacy is only suggested seriously be-
cause it is deemed necessity. If he can
demonstrate that tho Republicans have q
fighting chance to win without Grant, hall
of the enthusiasm now displayed for "the
old man" can be bottled up. Why he wants
to be the central figure in the fall campaign
on his own native heath is to prove that
Grant is not necessity, and see to it that
Ohio's vote be given for him solid in the
next Republican Presidential convention.
If Sherman is not in Ohio seeking the
nomination, his friends here have yet to los'
faith in the conviction that he is. If he ha
only gone to repair fences, these run in de
vious line if they call him to the various i'm
portant points in the State mapped out
What is wanted here to weaken belief in hi
scheme is denial as emphatic as Thur
mans, There was no humbug in that.