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

| Queen Victoria is visiting in Italy but
goes back to England the last of this
week.
Mr.. Lorillard's six year Old racer,
Parole, won his second race in England
yesterday.
Judge Pierpoint was able to walk about
the streets of yergennes last week, and
was gradually recovering from the attack
which prostrated him in the Court House
at Burlington.
Ex-Governor Peck is very sick at his
home in Jericho; his disease has develop
ed into dropsy, and we understand that
DR.. Carpenter says the chances are de-
cidedly against his recovery.
The Free Press saws it is reported that
Samuel Morgan, the well known pension
agent who was sentenced to Il year ut
Windsor, and is now in Jail at Burlington,
has been pardoned by the president.
General William w. Henry was sworn
in rs United States marshal for the district
of Vermont at Rutland. on the 18th instant.
lie has appointed us his deputy Thomas
Failey. who served in that capacity under
the late General Foster.
Gov. Proctor has appointed Hon. G. G.
Benedict, of Burlington, military historian,
under the joint resolution passed at the
last session of the legislature with refer
cnce to the preparation of IA suitable
history Of the part taken by the Vermont
troops during the war.
In turning out Police Commissioner
Nichols, Mayor Cooper has turned out the
strongest man Tammany had on the New
York police board. and putting in Charles
Mclean, Tilden's old law clerk, Mayor
Cooper puts on the board a man particu-
larry disliked By Tammany hall.
The office of town superintendent in
Vermont has been occasionally held by a
woman for some ten years. Women have
been elected to the office in about twenty
towns, and this year in the following
towns: Addison, Ferrisburgh, Sutton,
Windham, Barnard, Pomfret.
Vennor predicts cold and wintry wealth
er the first week in May, and says that
month will be cold and wet throughout.
He also says that August, September and
hninhpp will bn thn ipoct h.. &c al,
year. OF late Vennor's predictions have
proved of little consequence.
Garibaldi is at his son Menottis house
in Rome and there is n good deal of anxi-
ETY. to know what the old liberator is up
to. Among them all, the radicals, the
supporters of the king and the adherents
to The papal claims for temporal suprem-
acy there is getting to be considerable po-
Iitical excitement in the Eternal City,
The famous Miss Julia Z. Smith, who
got married the other day, at the age of
sc, is the only one Of the five sisters who
married. They were the daughters of IN
eccentric clergyman of Glastonbury, the
Rev. Zephanah II. Smith, who named
them respectively Hancy Zcphina, Cyrin-
thia Sacretia, Laurilla Aleroya, Julia
Evclina and Abby IIadassah. Hancy
Zephina died in 1871, at the age of 81, Of
whooping cough.
f. Morton Smith, whom the Boston
journal so long kept as its Vermont cor
respondent, got some money out of one
G. X. Mckay of Philadelphia on check
signed by his wife and endorsed by him.
Mckay found the paper not good and
visited st. Adams Saturday. Monday
Smith secured Mckay (by part payment
and chattel mortgage) as well as another
creditor who had him arrested. Smith
says he expected money to meet the
drafts, and that he still expects it. lie is
Il curious genius.
The new town Of Ely is in trouble about
the legality of the meeting which gave it
birth. The friends of the old name, Yer
shire, have brought n suit of quo warranto,
based upon the omission of the meeting to
elect moderator. 1t is believed that the
point is well taken, and that a new meet
ing will be held and the whole thing done
over again. At the meeting of February
l. 1879, when it was voted to change the
name of Vershire to Ely, the old modera-
tor, who was elected at the previous
Mar a meeting, served under II mistaken
apprehension Of the statutes Of 1861.