Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-08

NEWS Anu UOssips
The latter of Senator Thurman 10 the Teller
committee is generally pronounced a weak one
even among his party friends.
The New York Sun considers Elihu u. WASH
burne by far the strongest man that the republican
party could nominate for president in 1880
Western republican papers riiicuie the deel@Fa
,ion of some of Voorhees, friends that the money
mower is laboring to defeat his election to the sen
ate.
The Philadelphia Times is of the opinion 'ha'
eiyil.serylce reform is not only dead, but some
body has undoubtedly run away with the body"
The legislatures of three states-New York, Con-
necticut and Michigan-will meet in new capltois
this year.
| Columbus Alexander oil Washington expects to
see the grand jury soon iDdict Congressman Hun
ton of Virginia for challenging him to fight duel
last summer
Give away your mirror. Here's an item in a
Springfield paper stating that ga Lowell baboon
at sight of himself in mirror died of fright"
A boy of thirteen was killed and badly mutllated
by a chained bear at Thom's hotel, on the road to
Coney Island, Monday. The bear was shot
| There has been Gfty-onc failures in Montreal dur
ing the past three months, with liabilities of 1885,
900 and assets to the amount of l,7G2, OOl
The Mexican method of dealing with rebels is
speedy if not the bes. Eighty men of a rebelious
band were hung as soon as captured the other day.
While combing his hair at Trulant Mich, a
young man prcked a hole in his scalp with a
tooth of the comb and nearly bled 10 death. The
moral of this is that young man with soft head
should use q comb without teeth.
The government had New Years present of
subscription of nearly s9,OOO00O TO the Jour per
cent bonds. This is nearly three times as great as
any previous subscription of single day, and is
calculated to make Uncle Sam rub his hands TO-
gether.
The first narrow -guage train ever run over the
whole length of the Erie railway left Buffalo Mon
day, for New York. An entire new equipment of
locomotives and cars had been constructed while
the guage was being reduced and the Erie is now
on equalit with all of its rivals.
Two of the most troublesome men in the dom
cratic party to that party are Uncle Dick Bishop
and Uncle Sam Tilden The two uncles, both
strong in the concet of public usefulness, hold
grip on the rock-rbbed party, as if they had no
other sufficient peg upon which to hang their lives.
Mrs. Harriet Grote, widow of George Grote, the
English historian, who died in 1871, is dead. She
was the auhoress of Memoir of AIRY schefrer,"
published in 1860; " COLLECTED Papers in Prose and
Verse;" published in 1869; and of a sketch of MIR,
Grote's personal life, which was published in 1873.
There was notable gathering at the Academy
of Music in New York Monday night on the occa-
sion of the Bryant commemoraton, held under the
auspices of tho New York Historical Society. The
of the
who spoke for over two hours on The Life, Char.
acter and Writings of Willilm Cullen Bryant"
The Teller committee have organized for work
and appointed subcommittee, who will go to
New Orleans this week. The committee propose
to continue the investigation in northern and south
ern states, ranging from Louisiana through Missis-
sippi South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
York and Massachusetts,.
The German governments enforcing the anti
social law with remorseless spirit. Within six
weeks after the passage of the bill the officers
coniscated or prohibited IS newspapers, and
seized 1870 different kinds of books and pamphlets.
Two hundred and thirty-two societies. ranging
from singing schools to political clubs, have been
broken up and forbidden to meet again.
In the Nouveau Monde of Montreal, Gabrie
Cloutier, pous old man, deemed it his duty to
chastise for lntemperance and erring conduct his
two grown-up daughters. The girls, however,
chastised him and his MOTHER and one of them SC.
verely bit the third finger of his right hand Next
day he took out warrant for them, but when he
and the policeman arrive at the factory where the
girls work it found that the biting one had inst
had the third finger of her right hand taken of bv
machine. The policeman was dismissed, for the
old man perceived that the finger or God had been
laid in punishment upon the principal offender.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times has been oyerhaung ancient political his
tory IN south Carolina, and, to confirm the state
ment of Mr. Blaine, recently made, that there had
II never been fair election in the south" he quotes
from letter written nearly fifty years ago by
James L. Petigru. for years the acknowledged
leader of the South Carolina bar, in which he said
of the democrats of that day They outdd us in
maneuverng. TheyGdid buy those that were sold
before, and practice new and unheartl.of MEANS |
On election day they kept men drunk, locked up,
broke into houses and carried them of, etc.
We think the time has come ut last |
when tie miserable fools who think there
is no further treatment necessary for this
southern business than to turn up their
noses and say " bloody shirt. " have
ceased to hold the public ear. The thing
is to be investigated, and the truth, what
ever it may be.-Poughkeepsic Eagle.
The democrats and grcenbackcrs in the
Maine House of representatives having Sc
lected the names of Aonzo Garcelon.
democrat and Joseph l.. Smith green
hacker. to the Senate as the candidates for
governor, the Senate elected Garcelon by
vote of twenty-one to ten. Every re-
publican senator voted for Garcelon. So
that matter is settled.
The Central Vermont railroad is tryinp
to have the practice of giving return
passes to drovers or potato men discon-
tlnued, and it is thought that such an
agreement will be entered into by the fol-
lowing roads Southeastern, Fitchburgh,
Boston and Lowell, Northern, Portland
and Ogdensburgh, Passumpsic, Boston,
Concord and Gardner, Worcester and
Nashua, Concord, Boston, Clinton and
Fitchburgh, Boston, Barre and Gardner
Springfield Republican.
An emissary of the Boston Herald, a
considerable assistant democratic news
paper, has been travelling over Vermont
in search of a third term sentiment. He
found little talk about presidential can
didates, but concluded, partly from what
he heard and partly from his inner
that Graut was the first
choice for 1880. If the republicans can't
have Grant, he thinks they will try to
have Blaine,-N. Y Tribune.
That " emissary has not travelled over
Vermont at all, but lives in St. Adams
and has drawn almost wholly from his
inner consciousness.-NeSsen6er.