Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-05-14

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the senders. G. G. BENEDICT,
State Military Historian.
Burlington, VT. May z, 1879
The South Carolina papers complain
that, instead of hiring out, tho black man
is renting land and buying mules.
The Tribune says that whether Secretary
| Sherman runs for governor or not, he has
received gratifying evidence of his presi-
dental strength.
1t is claimed that the re-opening OF the
Kellogg case is the result of nice Political
calculations rs to the balance of power in
the Senate of 1881.
1t is believed that President Hayes, in
his present state of mind, would veto Mrs.
llay es's new spring bonnet bill If it were
presented to him bv II democratic millner.
-Richmond (Fa) Stts.
The New Orleans police found pistols
on seventy. of the men attending II
ball the other night. and the district altor-
new and city officials are bestirring them
selves to enforce the law against concealed
weapons.
Regarding candidates for the presidency.
Secretary Sherman said in Ohio, the other
day; g hear II good deal said about can
li,l.tes, but | have nothing to say concern
ing that subject. Public opinion will
settle The question in due time"
The president tells correspondent that
there was one thing in the constitution of
IL 81, h,t hn hD,l - In,
approved-a clause allowing the president
to strike objectionable items from an
appropriation bill, without killing the bill
itself.
Dennis kearney announces rs the result
of the adoption IF the new constitution by
G ,lifornia that "the Chinese must go, the
bread and water Beecher must 90, the
screaming Talmage must go. the lecherous
bondhollerS must 90; Sherman, Shvlock,
Syndicate e Co. must go, us neither can
exist under the new order of things"
The Washington correspondent of the
Hartford Times says "origlnL speech
writer's in Washington have been extra
busy of late. One of these gentlemen
furnished six speeches on the army bill,
one on the legislative bill, and has four
in hand now, all stored with more facts
than IN average congressman could gather
in month.
The political question is hardly at stake
in Kentucky, the state is so intensely dem
orralic. but the whipping post is to be a
lively issue in the coming campaign. The
farmers are almost unanimous in favor of
the la-h, but public opinion in the cities
and towns sets the other way.and defeated
the revival of the whipping post in the
last legislature.
ExSpcretary McCulloch has been talk
ing to the Harvard boys on the currency
question, and says he has experienced {;
change of views He strongly advocates
b-metalism, and advises that the policy
of France be initiated and silver coined II,
long rs it can be maintained at n parity
with gold. There is wide difference
between such II policy and the wild silver
schemes of Buckner and other democrati,
linanciers.
A blunder in the California constitution
has left the state without any state fficers
from the time when the new constitution
is proclaimed till it goes into effect mex
January, The old constitution and it,
officers lapsing with the adoption Of the
new one; but there will probably be nc
difficulty in bridging the gap in u stat,
which set up IN Independent fl ~ of its
own before its cesSon from Mexico, ant
organized its own government after thu
cession.
Every newspaper man knows something
of the class to which belongs the Cincin
natl mprch,nt who sent IN tba Enonj,.ei
of that city communication complaining
of sidewalk loafprs, congregating in from
of his store. " BY their loud and ungen
tlemanly talk he wrote, "they otfent
ladies who come to examine my immens,
stock OF callcos and glnghamS. just re
reived from eastern markets, which an
selling ut prices to defy competition.
Strange to say, when the ingenious cham
pion of public decency came TO read hi
production in the paper, he found that thu
signature and address were omitted.
Paw M Moroon INV of No,u yor,.
denies t'ie 'ece"' s'"'e''enI ''''' thc orig
inal draft OF the famous dispatch of thu
late General Dix, "lf any one attempts It
haul down the American flag. shoot hin
ON the spot" is owned by II man in Ierr
, c,'n',,, J;.n,trh is in nv nnss,.sinn an,
has hann FIR ,hn Inst sixteen years Snn
., af,sr ,La Jism,,ch was semi NV tnha,
: C..nor,I Xiv r,,t tho or;r;n,l Iron, III
ta'anr"',b &c., in W.sbin7,,nn and raw
!; ;. ~ me p fo ~ safe keeniny / b,J it Cr,%s
-, "nd hnnr in nv honso ,nJ bava NV.
S S;nao ' ,h", time ,re,sureJ II with the ore,,
o. 90, o.r r, :, '' 0' wv iva INV '''
!. ''' 0"ie'
h. Senator Edmunds is not an orator
. Doubtless he might be, but he never tric
to be. No throng of pleasure seeker
j. crowd the galleries and stand around i
i the corridors when he is announced for
speech; and nothing save the close atlcn