Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-09
Che freeman.


sas in The fall.
trained kitten at North Berwick, Me-,
drinks milk out Of an ounce vial, which it
raises to its mouth with its fore paws. II
never takes IL meal without wearing bib
and always has its mouth wiped afterward.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes having been ap-
piled to for permission to print Tom
brown" in raised characters for The blind,
granted the desired permission and enclos
ed check to half pay the expense.
The Egyptian obelisk should he erected
in C,ramercy Park, New York. in front of
the democratic national headquarters in
that cily. 1t is covered all over with
cphers.- Washington Republican.
Some ill-na'ured fellow, who is Jealous
of the Buckeye state, says that the rumor
is contradcted that an Ohio nun tele-
craphed to President Hayes to keep the
position of prince imperial open TO him.
Annoyed because they can bring nc
danrging charge against the republ can
cand nate for governor in Ohio, the Gin
mtti Enquirer has taken to spelling his
name "Clawl les Phawslah." Awful hard
up for weapons, aren't they?
The largest oyster ever found was one
taken at Mobile in 1910. 1t measured
three feet and one inch in length, and
twenty-one and one half inches in breadth
across its widest part. 1t was opened and
served up in savory stew.
4 young man who went from Iowa to
I.eadvile about six weeks ago, writes
cheerfully back to his friends: " have
gained three pounds since came here and
g.ned it all in half founce instalments
Haven't been shot in the head yet"
Speaking of Grant and his travels, the
Boston Transcript remarks that if there is
one thing more than another that army
life brings to II man, it is the rare for
Amprcans) accomplishment of loafng,
contenledly, by the month and year.
Watterson is anxious and worried over
the democratic prospect in Ohio. He now
asks his democratic brethren in that lively
state to let the financial differences go and
fight the campaign for the obliteralon of
sectionalism from politics and ION con-
stitutonal issues"
Buffers prospects are said TO be good in
the line OF governorship. Representative
men of the Widow " wing of the Mas
sachusetts democratic party state that he
will receive and accept the nomination
both from the labor reform and democratic
conventions this fall. They say reports
have been received from the largest
towns in the state during last week, and
with but single exception these reports
favored Buffers nomination. They say
their convention will he held in Worcester
in September, hut the gubernatoral NOM
ination of Butler will be made previously
hv either the labor reform or greenback
organization.
The Spartanburg Is. c. grand jury
evidently believe in capital punishment.
Judge Presley of the court Of general
sessions called their attention TO the recent
lynchng Of John j. Moore, the villain
who ravished and then murdered young
woman, as an unlawful act. The jury
examined into and reported in justification
of the lynching, us an oulburst of popular
Indignation which merely anticipated the
sentence of the law of the land. Further
more, went on to charge the increase OF
crime in the state to the substitution oI
pcnitentiary discipline for the galIows,
frankly admitting that they h.d little faitl
in the reformation of criminals.
The other day Plattsburg fisherman
caught a five pound salmon near the
m nth of the Saranac-the first one taken
in these waters for over forty years. They
a. ,,,ft
and great numbers were speared there
and the question is, Is this salmon one o
the OH stock which followed the custom o
its remote ancestors, and strayed from the
sea up the ST. Lawrence and Richeiel
rivers into Lake Champlain, in search o
the old spawning beds in the Slranat
river, from which they were shut off by
dams nearly century ago; or are they
some of the results of Seth Green alleged
salmon stocking of Lake Champain few
years ago?
Some four or five years ago Genera
Beauregard was serenaded in b Gilmore
by some young bloods who made laudltor,
speeches in praise of the chieftain, ut the
same time trumphanlly declaring thai
they were not conquered in the conilc
with the north, but merely overcome by
numbers. After listening to the cheal
bravado, Beauregard said: Gentlemen
did any of you do any fighting during TIM
late warp" To this there was only Il neg
alive response. Well, gentlemen, | die
do some Eghling, and | was conquered
Good night, gentlemen" Beauregard ha
since that day been treated by the soutl
with the same contempt that has been Law
ished upon Longstreet.
Real estate is rising in New York, unde
the clear indications of a general reviva
of business. A large block of real estat
was sold there, last week, for $4,000
more than the sum at which it was la
summer offered without eliciting singl
bid. The Philadelphia Ledger, alludini
to the excess of 262,940 bushels {
wheat and of 1915 665 bushels of corn il
our grain exports of the past eight week
over those Of the same period last yeal
and to the promise of the great souIher
cotton crop, says that "the actual worf
ingmen of the country are to-day NOR
fully employed and at better wages. tn
purchasing power of money considere'
than at any pei iod since the disbandmcI
of the armies at the close of the war"
may claim to have been one of tn
aspostles of independent journalism, bl
the zeal of the new converts has quite le
me among The old fogies. 1t never occui
red to me that in refusing TO obey blindl
every behest Of party it was necessary
keep aloOf from party-to shut off one
self from the sole agency through whicl
among free people, lasting political resul
can be attained. A government like oul
without parties is impossible. Substanti
reform can only be reached through tn
action of parties. The true statesman an
the really influential editor are those WI
are able TO control and guide parties, n,
those who waste their strength in. merel
thrustng aside and breaking up the on
tools with which their work Can be don
-WhiteiuaO Reid.
While there is little need of cautionin
the majority of people against exposir
themselves during thunder storm, I'll
killing of two children in a summer hou
near New York on Sunday is remnd'
of the possibilities in an electric visitation
Nppa but tho foolharlv iut Orant Of Wh