Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-23

DR.. Horatio Paine, of New York,
nephew of the late DR.. Martyr Paine, has
filed objections to the latter's will. He
claiuIs IL share of the portion of the estate
devised to Harvard, on the ground that the
requests are void by reason of the system
Of accumulation directed by the will and
prays that the amounts thus devised be
distributed TO the heirs-at- law.
DR.. Edmund Randolph Peaslee. for
some years past a lecturer of excellent
rank in the medical department of Dart
mouth College, and well known not only
in New Hampshire, but in New York city,
where he had large practice, died at New
York Monday of pneumonia. lie has been
several years surgeon at the woman's hos
piLal in New York. and has gained much
credit by books on histology and ovarian
tumors. He was sixty-three years old.
The Sons and Daughters of Vermont
gathered at Mechanics Hall in Worcester,
Mass, on Wednesday evening, to hold
their fifth annual reunion. The Spy says
the formal exercises of the evening opcne d
just before eight o'clock, when the curtain
rose, representing scene in farm house
in the state from which the members of
the organization came, with its old-fash-
Toned furniture and spinning wheels.
Some of our readers may not know that
the terrible potato fungus, and which
brings about the "disease in unfayorable
potato seasons, is a species of perenospora.
A remarkable discovery has recently been
made by an English microscopic, who has
detected closely allied species in a fossil
state on II seal stem of lcpidodcndron
from the English coal measures. The spec
linens were so perfect that even the ZOOS
pores could be seen under the microscope
Secretary Schurz's war upon the timber
thieves is showing results. Already one
hundred and ninety civil, and thirty Eight
criminal suits have been begun, and S973,-
1913 worth Of property seized In Mime
sofa the government has won all of the
seventy-eight civil and twenty-five Grimm.
al suits, realizing $4,000 in sales ant
1918 in judgments. Seventy suits have
been begun in Mississippi, and S36S, 40s
of lumber seized; in Florida, twelve suits
and Slll $40 recovered. The prosecutions
in Louisiana have just begun, and promise
large results.
Richard IL. Dana, Jr.. says the civi
service reform fight is not going to be wor
by compromise. When the unconverted
sinner is doing the Lords work because i
happens to be for his interest to travel If
that way, we shouldn't forbid him. But
considering his unregenerate state, Il safe
policy for the future is not to make a per.
manent alliance with him. A man witt
settled and proved good political prnci.
pies makes more con9enial and reliable
laborer in the reform vineyard. Professet
conversion is always the first requisite fol
admission to churches of good standing,
and even then it isn't necessary to make
u deacon or society treasurer out of the
hitherto wicked novitiate at the start.
The common notion that music cures
madness has been tested by series oil
experiments at the BlackwelIs island in.
sumo asylum. and its fallacy pretty
thoroughly demonstrated. Representa-.
tlVes OF the various types of lunacy have
been subjected to the influence of music,
but, as rule. no stimulating effect upon
the mind could be detected. What i'm.
preston there was seemed to be mere
ly sensuous, and was shown in quicken.
ing of the circulation, or in producing "A
desire TO dance. The melancholic patients
appeared to experience no emotion what.
ever under the tones. The effect upon the
maniacal varied, and was not SATISFACTORY.
ly determined.
1t is related that during the Crmean
campaign in 1856, a French officer under.
took to chastise u Turkish private for dis
obedience by slappng his face, that the
soldier threw off his coat and pummelled
the Frenchman so soundly that he cried
Tor quarter, and that, thereupon, the pant
ing private, bracing himself up, delivered
this piece of advice, which is said TO have
made marked impression on the specta-
tors: Now, Misther Farley Voc, the
next time you strike Turk, look out that
he is not IL Tipperary man." If we are
TO belief u writer in the Cork E1aniner.
Suleiman Pasha is one Patrick Sullivan
from the County of Cork. The writer
gives connected history of the youthful
Celt from his school days down to the time
that he entered the Military School at
Constantinople. lie also states that the
gallant Patrick has been heard from since
he went into active service under the
shadow of the Crescent.
Senator Morton's posthumous report on
the Chinese question exhibits, in more
striking way Than the eulogies in the Sem
ate, the peculiar qualities of his mind. It
is practical, positive and earnest; enter
tans no doubts, and urges all its conclu-
sions with the strength that comes of sin.
certify. The senator made what is Mt least
an able argument for the Chinese. ue
denounced the proposal to keep the Chi.
nese away from our shores rs simply the
revival on this side of the Pacific Of tbo
old policy OF exclusion, which China and
Japan have themselves recently discarded
lie declared that this was, after ALL only
another prejudice against color. and bo-
lieved "their difference in color Jroso
manners and religion to have moro to 10
win TINS hostility than their alleged vices
1r any actual injury to the white people. y
instead OF hnding that the presence If
Chinese labor had undermined the Cou VI
casian race, the senator came to the o cou
cluslon that white labor was more con
stanlly employed and better paid thar
elsewhere in the United States, and was
strengthened in his views by the testi'
mony OF business men that MANY orea,
enterprises could not have been carrieJ
on without the labor of the Chinese
il LOON T. 70 the past Senator Morton be-.
iieVea that their presence had been n grast
benefit to California, and not an ;rS;r 49,
Looking to the future, he declared NY,
inc Chinese would never be properly nrn
tected' until they were made citizens pt IT,
lact' the senator regarded the Chnosn
problem from the first rs he used to r 90
gard the problem of southern slavery and ~,
II may be that he did not make sufiici @n1
allowance for the points of difference, '''n'