Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-01

per pound, ana nearly every arllcle oi
staple demand in proportion. A large
portion of this advance is speculative
and will not last, but the day of cheap
prices has unquestionably begun to de-
part.
This is not good year for republicans
to scratch their tickets. If there is any
moral power in republican successes in
other states, it is in the completeness of
the victory.-Burlington Ha,Ckeye (repub-
fcan).
No considerable friend of Gen. Grant
will endeavor to make out of these DEM
constructions the foundation of a political
BOOM" He belongs to the country
The gravest injustice that can be done to
him and to the country is TO ALLEVIATE,
through partisanship. any of his admirers.
-MiltoaNtee WIS., Sentinel.
Postmaster James of New York has
remarked that the law promulgated by
the president regarding political assess
ments would be posted in his Office, and
Collector Merritt said that every man in
the custom house could do as he pleased,
but if any officer having men under him
attempted to coerce his force in any way
to pay such assessments, he would be dis
charged.
Annie Louise Cary has been at Durham,
Maine, her old home, of late. but has now
gone. A Durham farmer says: "Annie's
Jest the girl she used to be. She don't
wear none of her fine dresses when she
comes back, nor her flashing diamonds
either. She's jest as natral as natur, and
don't put on no airs. She jest comes into
the old church and pipes us, and knows
everybody jest rs she did when she was a
school girl"
The recent installation of Rev. j. r,
Flint as pastor of the Congregational
church in Weston, took place under pecu-
liar circumstances, the society declining
to unite with the church in calling the
council. This action is not the result of
any prejudice against Mr. Flint, who has
the undivided good will of the congrega-
ton, but grew out the fact that the society
had difficulties with the last settled pastor
and was not willing to take part in max
ing another settlement.
Ira BemiS and I. w. Cunningham of
the Passumpsic railroad, were lost two
weeks ago in the Muskinoge forest, P. O.,
while on fishing expedition. The gallant
p. S. Benjamin, of Wolcott, and three
Newport men, who have been searching
f,r tIn,1 rnt n1 lngf ,1nt
with the lost fisherman. They were found
at an Indian encampment, where they
had been cared for by the squaws, and
told a thrilling story of exposure and en-
counters with wild beasts.
The Rutland Herald thinks the post
master generals announcement that, in
absence of local protection for his post
masters against murder, he can only
resent the crime by removing the post
office, is a lovely picture of that republican
form of government which the constitution
guarantees to every state. The New York
World (democraO warns the south "that
bye and bye the north will not strain al
the subtilitios of constitutional law; it will
put out of power completely the party
which is accessory after the fact in SC
many cases of political assassination"
The south is full of wealth, genius, eo
quence and invention. The mighty ele.
nents that helped to make the fire in tho
revolution are not dead. Harness thes,
elements to progress, inspire them will
Jetfersonian liberty, and before the nine
teenth century closes its doors, the ole
southern states will be abreast of the new
western republics. and the next silver
wedding of Kansas will find Texas divided
into four empires, each us grand an,
potential rs Kansas is at present, an,
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande M
athletic liberty as strong as that of Massa
chusetts and Pennsylvania to day.-C0l
fOrncydt The Kansas Centennial.
Mrs. Miranda Kellogg, widow of tn
late Judge Daniel Kellogg, has made tn
Windham county bar donation of a
oil portrait of her late husband, painte
by Miss Julia Brainerd of st. Abans
Good Judges pronounce it to be IN excel
lent work of art, and n strikinoly correc
likeness in every respect. 1t now hang
; in the Court House at Fayetteville. Th
, bar and the families of deceased member
have already secured and hung in til
court room the portraits, some in oil, som
. photographs, Of Stephen Roe Bradley, tn
a first lawyer admitted to the Vermont bal
n VIM. g. Bradley, Oscar l.. Shafter, As
Reyes, Daniel Kellogg, John f. Butte
Stephen P. Flagg and Alexander CAM
bell.
5 Cyrus W, Field replies in Saturda
e mornings World 10 Mr. Tiden's rccer
countcrblast. Mr.. Field rcitcrates h
u former statements of Tilden's faithle
transactions with elevated road stock an
v says: Il charge Mr.. Tilden with .deceptic
: aud DISQUALIFICATION both acted an
: spoken" Mr.. Field says Pel,on resignC
Il from the vice presidency because director
insisted upon his resignation or remova
, and says PGton knows only too well WIN
u he had to resign. Mr.. Field says Tilden
n actions show low standard of commerce.
s morality, and he knows no better way
ia checking such things than by singing Of
this conspicuous case and holding it up
. n warning and example.
Il In answer to tho democratic cry
it troops at the polls, an exchange repr
d duces the figures showing exactly no
s many soldiers are at present " endange
It ing the liberties y" of the south. In AL
}, bama there are so soldiers in the arsena
d in Arkansas 81; in Delaware not one;
Florida 1872 distributed at three separa
- barracks, the navy yards, etc; in Georg
:, 20; in Kentucky not one; in Louisiar
$3.50; in Maryland 192-at Fort McHenr,
:. in Mississippi not one; in Missouri II
~ one; in North Carolina Scat the fort
g the mouth of Cape Fear river; in Sout
g Carolina 123-guarding the Charlestc
=. harbor; in Tennessee not one; in Tex
II not one outside of frontier guard;
Virginia 282-at the school of practice
% Fortress Monroe; in West Virginia n,
IS one The sensible conclusion arrived
IS is that the south can stand the troops
d the troops can stand the south.
lie The New York Times speaks very der
u sively against the walking match AT Ne