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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

The report which has been largely Cir
culated to the effect that DR.. Goldsmith of
Rutland had given his library to the Rut-
land county medical and surgical society
is untrue.
The Chittenden county text book con-
vention Monday adopted the report of
their text book committees in favor of
Appleton's readers and Guyot's geogra-
phies, while the consideration of arithme-
tics and some other books was postponed.
The Russian nhilsts are adding incend-
iarism to their practice of assassination.
Several cities and towns have recently
been burned, and all the circumstances
point to the nihilists as responsible for the
calamities. There can be but little SYM
pathy for an organization that intlicts such
wide spread misery as the burning of
hundreds of homes. The tyranny of the
nihilsts may prove more uncomfortable
than that of the government itself.
The Springfield Grange, No. III, will
hold picnic field meeting" at the farm
of Il. w. Whitney, in Springfield, on
Friday, the 18th day Of June next, at 10
o'clock A. NJ, for social intercourse and
the discussion of agricultural topics. Col.
John B. Mead, superintendent of agricul-
tural affairs, and other distinguished
speakers from abroad have been invited.
The meeting is not confined TO the order
of patrons, but all progressive citizens are
invited to bring their baskets and unite
with us in making it pleasant and profit
able day. JAS. r. WALKER, Master.
r. w. WHITNEY, Secretary.
Among the appointments for commence
ment exercises at Dartmouth college are
the following of students from this state:
English orations, Relation of the Orator
to His Audience" with valedictory nd.
dresses, Ashton r. Willard, Montpelier:
" British Interests and British Honor"
Harvey NJ. Rich, Morrisville; Milton. s
Ideals-lIuman and Divine" Clifford II.
Smith, Brattloboro; philosophical disputa-
ton, g Are Technical and Mechanical
Forces the Only Agents in Naturep"
Joseph Ii. DInbar, North IIartland, and
Henry B. Thayer, Northfioll; dissorta
ton, early and Recent English Criti-
cisms on America" Charles F. Chapman,
Woodstock; dissertation, Russian Mill
ISM" Herbert j. Hartman, St, Johns
bury; dissertation, 1.-THE Ring, the Lobby
and the Caucus" Frank f. Irish, Norris
town
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28
A Notable Life.

William Lloyd Garrison who died Satur-
day lived most remarkable life. Fifty
years or more ago he.was young man
publishing county newspaper in Ben
ningtoH, Vermont, unknown and with
opinions that were distasteful TO nearly all
other people.
lie came to have one idea, that of eman-
cipation, and he followed its lead for a
third of a century till victory came to his
side. When Wendell Phillips was still a
nice young man with Boston notions Gar
rison was publishing the Liberator and Of
Tending all that class to which Phillips
belonged. In fact it was the Garrison mob
in 1885 that "set the colors of Phillips
anti-slavery notions.
Garrison was intense. His fl re burned
always and always against the wall that
protected slavery. Imprisonment and
mobs merely gave him more fuel. The
GOODNESS of the churches made him fan the
blaze with greater zeal. And at last the
wall crumbled and fell. That it was
pounded down by cannon and musket does
not change the fact that it was the slow
fire of Garrison that weakened the wal
and that gave the sparks that drove the
lead.
Garrison was good man but not good
citizen. His republic would be one in
which everybody should do as Garrison
thought right, and he was Il good hater Of
all who did what he thought was wrong.
His life was IN active agency in the de-
struction ola great social wrong; it was OF
its own kind and can never be repeated
an its close helps to mark the change
from tie old to the new nation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

N. II. Dodge of South Calais, who has
kept an accurate record of the snowfall
during the past winter, hands us the fol-
lowing list:
The first snow fell on the hills, but
did not in the villages, October Goth.
November 9Th, one inch; November 9TH,
showed little; November 9Th, four
inches; November 18th. snow and blow
November 18Th, one inch November 25th,
two inches; November Goth, one inch;
total in November, nine inches; Deem
Der 4th, three inches, December 9th, three
inches; December 10th. three inches !;
December 18th. one inch; December 22d,
eight inches December 18th, three inches ;
December Goth four inches; December
9Th, one inch; December Both, two
inches; total in December, twenty. eight
inches January I'd, fifteen inches !;
January 9th, three inches; January 10th,
six inches; January 18th, four inches;
January odd four inches; January23d,two
inches; January 25th, eight inches; Janu-
airy 3lst, three inches; total in January,
forty-five incells; February LIST, one inch !;
February Sd, one and one-half inches !;
February 7th, two inches; February 9th,
three inches; February 18th, three inches !;
February 18th, two inches; February 18th,
five inches; February goth snow and blow,
no chance to measure; February Goth, two
inches; total in February, twenty-one
inches March 9th, Two inches; March
18th, one inch March 18th, two inches;
March 18th, six inches; March 2lst, two
inches; March 23d, eight inches; March
3Oth, four inches; March 3Iet, tno inches;
total in March, twenty-seven inches; April
10th, three inches; April 18th, eight inches
April 18th, three inches; total in April,
fourteen inches. The total fall for the
winter was one hundred and forty-four
inches-or twelve feet.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

The foretaste of the dog days, which we
have recently experienced, is suggestive
of the prevalence Of hydrophobia, which
has of late years claimed so many victims
in New England. The best and only
effective method of prevention of this dis
ease would be either the total extermina-
ton of the canine race or else their treat
ment in humane and considerable manner
with attention to all their physical needs !;
but as neither of these is practicable at
present it is well to have Il remedy at
hand, after the injuries which so often
result in death have been inflicted. A
medical man writing to the New York
Sun gives the following formula, the
ingredients of which are procurable at
any drug store: Chloroform and concen-
trated ammonia equal portions; mix and
apply with II sponge or piece of soft cloth
to the bitten parts for six or ten minutes.
The parts bitten, if swollen or infiamed,
may be rubbed with equal portions of am
monia and spirits of turpentine for day
or two to relieve soreness. The mixture,
he says, operates mechanically, causing
Il flow of blood from the wound and the
ammonia neutralzes any virus left in the
system. 1t is, he adds, IL harmless prepar-
alton, and useful also for snake bites and
the sting of poisonous insects.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

all parties at the north rs well as by many
at the south. His first idea was that
slavery might be abolished by moral
influence, with such incidental aid as the
national government could constitutional :
" afford, and without disturbing the
union of the states; but upon this point
he at length changed his opinions. His
observation of the movement of political
parties and his reflections upon the pro-
visions of the constitution relating to the
subject leading him to the settled conclu-
sion that some of the conditions Of COM
pact between the free and the slave states
were immotal and that a dissolution of
the Union was necessary to the freedom
of the north and the emancipation of the
slaves. lie continued to urge his opinion
until the breaking out of the civil war
in 1861 changed the entire aspect Of the
slavery question, and he saw clearly that
the system must inevitably be overthrown
by the exercise of the war powers of the
national government. Tenceforth he bent
his energies to the work of fastening that
contamination, and in April, 1865, by
invitation of the secretary of war, he join
ed the party of northerners who went TO
South Carolina to see the flag of an eman-
cipated Union raised upon the battlements
of Fort Sumter.
Soon after the close of the war, large
number of persons, including some of tho
most eminent in the land, united in pre-
senting Mr.. Garrison with the sum oil
about $4,000, in token of their apprecla-
ton of his unremitting labors for the
abolition of slavery. In 1867 he once
more visited Great Britain, where the
most distinguished citizens and statesmen
united in honoring him for his devotion to
the cause of the oppressed. lie made a
vigorous opposition to the "my pollcy
of President johnson, and urged his I'M
parchment. Since that time he has taken
II less active part in public affairs. His
last letters were in reference the to exodus
of the coored people to Kansas, and
expressed his hearty sympathy with the
movement. In 1873, a large number OF
ladies and gentlemen wrote letter to
him, requesting that he should prepare
an autobiography, but his health broke
down and he was unable to begin the
work.
The Springfield Republican ys:-Mr.
Garrison was a man of sweet nature in his
home. lie leaves daughter, Mrs. Henry
Willard, at whose residence in New York
his last illness overlook him, her husband
being a well known railroad manager, a
son, William Lloyd,in the wool business in
Boston. another, Wendell p, on the New
York Nation, and another, Frank, in the
house of Houghton, Osgood u Co., who
has kept up a home with him at Roxbury
Mr.. Garrison was deeply attached to the
mother of his children. who died few
years ago and has derived pleasure and
consolation from communications which
he deemed to have come from the spirit
world.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

I A vote was taken among the republicans r.
Pennsylvania railroad stock yards near Pt,.,.
Penn, with the following results: IIaves -
Grant 81 votes, Blaine I votes. Chandler -.
sherman 4 votes aud COnkling /.
Colonel Hayatt Of the military academr
err, Penn, notifies the cadets that the wbi.,,,-As
singing Of 1" Pinaiore " in the building or M "
grounds will be punished by two hours quad ~. us
on Saturday afternoon. The world is sr1v,r'.' 'e'
ter.
The midnight mission in Louion rep,r,. ,...
during the last year II 900 poor women Wen. u.
vised with in the streets, % were admiuel :.
night refugees, go more applied f,r a,lmis.f., we
were sent to homes, and 20 otherwise disp,..I :,
sent to friends, etc.
As match for sentence Of Drly.three ls,,s..
recently published in this column containi,, .,
the letters of the alphabet, Correspondent 49,
the following of only thirty three letters wbi,b,,
so ful1ls the same condition; 81. Grtv-p,.1
with my box live dozen quilts"
Colonel J. Z. Bryant, the chairman Of The ro,.,
ican state committee of Georgia, tell, reo,,.-
the Boston Traveller that be believes Nor,b Cay,
lima and Florida can be carried by the reppr,r.,-
in 1880. and that enough congressional district. -
fII4
control of the House.
Judge Dillon, of the seventh circuit orthe INIT,
states, has resigned to accept pro.e.,or,bio y,
Columbia college law school. \ washington ,l,'
patch says that the friends Of Secretary M.C-.
| on account OF his eminent fitness for the po.i,,,
have suggested that he be Appointed; bnt IN.
presidents desire to keep his cabinet untopobcI
| during the whole his administration mas prevar,
| Mr.. McCrary from being a candidate.
The trial of the Chisom murlerers in Ni.sis.io,
| has been set down for September next Mr.. cb'.
olm's son, who is now a messenger IN the ey,cp.
tive department at IIarrsburgh, Pa, says he b,,
been advised by friends in Mssiss pp not to Am
| pear against the five persons accused Of the mpr
der of his father and other relatives, but he Il.
determined to to testify, believing that he Will 70,
be molested during the short time his presence in
Mississippi will be required.
There were one hundred and three earthquake,
in 1873, thirty-nine of which occurred in wnter,,nd
twenty-siX in autumn The most destructive earth.
quake took place on January %, in TeIapoca, Soub
| America and another notable disturbance occurred
| in San salvador. In Europe one shock on Japu,rr
2S affected Southern England and part Of Fr,r,,.
| Switzerland, the Black Forest, the Tyrol, Lisbon
and Piedmont also suffered at different time, w01,
the earthquakes on the shores of the Bospborp
in April and May were felt by the British Acct
The Lower Rhine earthquake beginning on August
%, affected region of over 2 900 square mile,
| There were twelve volcanic eruptions-ln unnsusv
high number-and these occurred at places far
apart, and mostly proceeded from llltlcknown vol
canoes.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

Senator Matt Carpenter, who has been
troubled Of late with rheumatism, has gone
TO Florida, where he will remain fort
night for the benefit of his health.
New and dangerous counterfeit bills are
reported in circulation as follows: S. Fort
Stanwix National Bank of Rome, N. Y.
S. National Bank of Pawling, N. Y; $50
Metropolitan National Bank, New York.
Vice President Wheeler is troubled with
ronic-sleeplessness, the disease that
killed Horace Greeley. He has just start
ed on his annual trip to the Anirondacks
aud will not return to Washington during
the session.
CoNGREss.-Th House has passed the
Warner silver bill and the democrats are
going to wait till the Senate acts on it be-.
fore they determine what to do about
passing the appropriation bills. They
expect veto of the legislative appropria-
lion bill this week.
n DIV IJOu lplklN u YIN Tile SONNECIl-
oUr.-Forty million feet of logs left Con-
necticut lake Wednesday, the largest drive
by one-half ever taken down the Connec-
tcut river. Ten millions will stop at
Vandyke & Merrill's mill, at McIndoes,
and the remainder will 90 to Holyoke
mills. The drive is so large as to be be-
hind time, and may not get through this
season unless the river remains high.
Gov. PECK's FUNERAL.-The funeral
of Gov. Peck was held at Richmond last
Wednesday, Rev. Mr.. Hazen of Jericho
preaching the funeral sermon and Presi-
dent Buckham speaking for few minutes
most fitting words. There was quite II
large attendance of the neighbors of the
governor, and from Burlington. But few
were present from this county. The burial
was at IIinesburgh nine miles from Rich
mond.
Business men in New York fortnight
ago predicted that the revival of trade and
the increased demand for money at higher
rates would send the per cent bonds
down to 80. But they keep on going up,
and the belief is now general that they
will reach 1o5, which, the Troy Budget
thinks, is good for the governments cred
it, but not very cheering, as it indicates
that business confidence in other ventures
has not been restored. When obligations
bearing only per cent interest command
a premium, it is plain that there is not
much demand for money for those enter
prises which furnish employment.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

Since the failure of Gen. Grant to Get
the throne of Bulgaria he has been little
mentioned for any position except that Of
servant of the people as executive of the
United States. But now we hear of Il plan
in England to Gust Jewett from the presi.
dency of the Erie road and put Ulysses in
his place. 1t is also announced on the
authority of Sir Henry Tyler, president of
the Grand Trunk line, that the presidency
of the Atlantic and Great Western will be
accepted by Grant, after the road is reliey.
of its receivership.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28
Hon. John M, Thayer of Wyominp h

Hon. John M. Thayer of Wyoming has
addressed letter to the Cheyenne Leader,
in correction of statement to the effect
that he had said that nearly all the
republicans he met, while east, are in IA
vor of Grant for $780," General Thayer
says: THAT one word nearly is there
by mistake | met with no exceptions.
The stalwarts, of course, are for Grant,
the Greeley republicans are for Grant and
the conservative republicans are now for
Grant. | venture the prediction that when
the republican convention assemblies, it
will be simply to record the edict of the
republican party of the nation, already
declared, in favor of Grant as their nomi.
nee; that no other republican will permit
his name to be presented in the conven-
ton for that Office that Grant will accept;
that the result of the election will be so
decisive that cipher dispatches and all
attempts to buy returning boards will be
USELESS"
The negro exodus maintains its for
midable proportions. The refugees who
were in camp at lawrence. Kansas,
have been nearly all absorbed by the
surrounding country, where they are in
demand MS laborers, and movement is
in progress to aid the fugitives who are
detained on the way. 1t is stated that
Ohio river packets will be procured, pro-
vided with the means of caring for and
protecting them, and sent to the various
points where the refugees are encampcd,
to bring them away. General Conway
says he can fiud houses and places to
work for over 5000 and General Buffers
western lands will accommodate 500 fam-
lies, while 5000 hands can he employed
in railroad construction. The numbers,
Mt present comparatively insignificant,
will, of course, if the movement is at all
be enormously increased, for
here are already indications of Il hegira
from South Carolina and other states not
yet seriously affected. The exodus is
most significant fact, and its ultimate con
sequences no one can predict. J.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

An English journal frankly gives credit
to the American genius for at least fifteen
inventions and discoveries which have
been adopted all over the world. They
are the cotton gin, the planning machine,
the grass mower and grain reaper, the
rotary printing press, navigation by steam.
the hot air or caloric engine, the sewing
machine, the India rubber industry, the
machine manufacture of horse shoes the
sand blast for carving, the gauge lathe,
the grain elevator, artificial ice manufac-
ture on large scale, the electro magnet
and its practical application, and the COM
posing machine for printers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28
WOMAN'S WISDOM.

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
Btters at the first appearance ofany sym
ptoms of i'll health, to prevent fit of
sickness with its attendant expense, care
and anxiety. All women should exercise
their wisdom in this way.n-Ed. FM22w2.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28
NEW YORK Mnu % 1HzG

NEW iOhhi hiJ zUi 1907,
EDITOR FREEMAN:-In your issue OF
the 14th instant is published, at my re-
quest, and by permission of the writer, a
private letter of E. L. Foster which letter,
in tenor, was response to the poem,
q" My Child's Question" which appeared
in the New York Tribune sometime since.
| notice several typographical errors, the
most important of which would esteem
it a personal favor if you will kindly cause
to be corrected in your next issue. In
next the last line, the expression, We
went to the ballot box" ETC., should read
"We must 90 TO the ballot box" etc.
Two or three other little errors are so
obvious as hardly to require correction.
Your attention to the above will be duly
appreciated. Yours truly,
ii. S. FOSTER,
Lieut.. U. S A.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28
MONTPELIER MARKET.

For the oeek ending Tuesday, A prii 81, ls7a
Apples, dried new 6lOc p II; Butter, ljd35c;
Beef 4d2Oc; Beef, dried green weight. 21c; Pork f,
fresh, 6dlaysc; Pork, salt, l!Isc; Ham, l5c; Lard
IL &c; Veal 50l2c; Beans, T. bushel, S2a2t
Corn, $5Sc; Corn meal, A LIS ms, $L2l; Oats .
bushel, IS Gl0c; Flour v Dbl, S6.00G6.I5; Crack
ers, 1913; Coal v ton $750G0O.00; Cheese, y u ,
l5G0Oc; Fish-Fresh Cod, dressed, luc; Hahbul'
l5c; Shad, Sjc; Mackcrel lSc salt Fish, Cod &c +,
Oil, v gallon, Dos; Potatoes, p busbel, $75dsOt;
salt v bushel, sos; Dairy, lSd2c y 10 sugar
60075c; Maple Sugar h ,6asc syrup, y gallon
4OdS0; Tea, 5)cG00 IS; Coffee, Old Java roasted :,
l0c: Rio, roasted, SOC p q Herds Grass seei
York do, ll0t2c y pound
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28
"My Child's Question"

'Tis very pretty bit of poetry, but does
not the writer of the article following it
take rather pessimistic - view of the
situationP lie does not know what he
went to war for, now that the democratic
party has the majority in congress! Well,
were we not told that the war was to save
the Union, and is not the Union saved?
Is not slavery abolishedP Has not the
north an overwhelming majority of voters
and fighters, if necessary. TO keep all this
secureP True, the republican party has
not now the entire control of the national
government, but who is to blame for that?
Does any republican expect always to hold
that power intact without the party is right
on new issues as well as on the old ones
of the war? The republican party in the
war fought against the meanest nristocra-
cy but one that the world ever saw--an
aristocracy of slave dealers. What is the
one exception? 1t is the aristocracy OF
spectators and usererS and monopolizers
that are now trying to rule US, and which
has just received black eye in California.
Let the republican party set itself right on
this question, and it need quake no longer
with fear of /" southern brigadiers." But
if it makes of itself a party in the interest
of the money power let it remember that
The people hute all kimdS of ariSLocracy
Uith an impartial haired, and that its past
record, however good, will not save it
from the fate of every party that has lost
its love of liberty in the hunger of its
leaders for loaves and fishes. So fell the
old democracy. Let republicans remember
that, and be warned "ere it is everlasting
ly too late" II.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-28

William Hunter second assistant secre.
rary of state, has just completed fifty years
OF continuous service in the department
of state. His father, William Hunter, was
United States senator from Rhode Island
from 1911 to 1921, and minister to Brazil
from 1884 to 1913. Assistant Secretary
Hunter was apo inted clerk in the depart
ment of state by Secretary Van Buren, in
1929, and was gradually promoted until he
became chief clerk in 1852, and in 1866 by
the efforts of SECRETARY Seward he was
given his present position.