Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-19
The Richmond (va.) STATE is not satisfied


with Tilden's testimony. II says:-"Tht
examination has not cleared Up the cipher
dispatches, ard has not explained how q
mass Of correspondence touching bribery
in one shape or another could be conducted
under the nose Of Mr. Tilden without hi.
knowledge, and conducted by his eonfder.
lial friends, admirers and agents.
In the House, on Friday last. Gen But.
Ter virtually announced himself in favor
of putting confederate soldiers on the
pension rolls. Mr.. Blackburn, of Ken.
lucky, therefore arose and declared thai
no southern man asked the payment Of
war claims 10 concentrates or of pensions
that the south did not ask these and meyer
would. That is all very well but we
should like - little surer GUARANTY that MIR
Blackburn 5 assertion.
The Cincinnati Commercials CORES.
pondent telegraphs that Tilden's friends Ia
Washington are much elaied at what they
consider his vindication rs to connection
with the cipher dispatches, and there is i
strong uudercurrent of feeling in his favor
among democrats, as their slandard-bearel
in 1880. A southern member of congress
remarked that in the last two weeks he
had received forty letters from his district
in each of which it was suggested thai
sam Tilden was the best man for the
democracy next year.
An Bngl!shman writes to the London
Standard mournful letter upon the in
vasion of the British markets by American
manufacturers. lie found in his travel
that American calcoes and cdttons hat
superseded the 5aihe style of Englisl
goods on the Continent. Coming homt
he found his iron monger selling Ameri
can spades, saws, chisels hammers ant
axes, and other dealers with stocks Of
American leather is sent to England to bC
made up into shoes. English carriages
are built out of materials which have
crossed the Atlantic. States are now
quarred in the United States to roof En-
glish homes. My grocer, my buttermM
and probably my butcher" says the writer
deal largely in American goods of al
kinds;' even the cigarettes which h,
smokes are made in Richmond, Va, ant
he pen with which he writes GENES moi
from Birmingham, but from IN American
mandatory.
A SOLDIERS ORPHANS HOME BURNED
Tho administration building of the sol
diers' orphans home at Xenia. O., wa'
burned recently ut u loss of $4,000, bu
without loss of life or serious accident
The six hundred children at the home haC
Just finished breakfast in the main build
ing aud had returned TO their cottage
when the fire was discovered in the frs
story. Owing to the dense smoke III,
widest confusion prevailed among Tho
leachcrs, who Vainly sought to return tt
their rooms in the third story to save thei
personal effects. Several members of thu
legislature who were visiting the institu
lion narrowly escaped with thcir lives
Senator Richards md wife escaped by
dropping from second story window int
blankets held by men below. Senate
Sabin and wife, Representative Dodds ant
Mrs. Ben Ford, wife of the steward, save,
themselves by leaping from the secon,
story windows to the porch below.
A bill has passed both branches Of con
gress and been approved providing lha
any woman who shall have been IL membc
of the bar Of the highest court Of any stat,
or territory Of the district For three years
shall on niotion be admitted to practice il
the supreme court of the United States
1t is understood that the bill has passed
through the strenuous eXcrtionS of Mrs
B. A. Lockwood, who is member of the
supreme court bar for the District o
Columbia. She signalized her 9ratitud,
by laying bouquets upon the desks Of thos
senators who voted for her bill. Action o
this kind may he regarded with satisfaction
rs tending to allay useless debate ant
veXatous controversy, although substan
TALLY it may not work any practical
change. Very few lawyers acquire III
important and lucrative standing ut thu
bar of the supreme court of The Unite,
States; but if the litigants before tha
tribunal wish to employ II lady lawyer
by the law OF the largest liberty they may
be allowed to do SO,
There was not entire harmony in The
Senate discussions over the matter of new
accommodations for the congressiona
library. Senator Conkling wanted new
and separate building. Mr. Edmund
praperred that wing should be added
extending from the centre of the prcsen
capitol building either east or west. Sen
tor VOORHEES, opposed any change of til,
capitol building, for the reason that tn,
westward course of Empire would soon
render it necessary to remove the seat Of
government to some point in the MissisSip
ri valley. Mr.. Elmunds Is reported IL
have characterized tho dome ofthe present
capitol as IN cxcressenCo reminding him
of II battered old hat stuck on Il high pole
while his colleague contended that ii wa.
the growing glory of the finest state
building in the world. Senator Conklina
referred 10 the Senate chamber rs in iron
box in which life is maintained under
great difficulties, and he compared the
senators TO rats in an exhausted receiver
Mr.. Morrill, believed that no other room
in the world was so well ventilated as the
Senate chamber. Senrtor Thurman hal
no idea of his own upon the matter, an;
was not going to injure his presidential
prospects by committing himself on tn,
subject.
THE PLAGUE ABATING. No now case,
arc reported, and no deaths from the pla
que have occurred in Russia for the pas
two days. The Austrian maritime author
tiles in The order abolishing the quarantin,
against Turkish ports urge special aten
ton regarding spotted typhus, which /.
spreading in Salonica. The chief Of tn,
Berlin police has ordered IL special inspac.
ton of lodging houses on account of tho
prevalence OF spotted typhus. Surgeon
General Woodwork has warned the cpl
demic committee of the United State!
House of Representatives that the plague
may be introduced into this country by
means of infected clothing brought by
Mennonite cmigrants from southern Russa
and has recommended that United States
medical officers be stationed, one at Liver.
pool and one at some Mediterranean Dor
10 visit localities where epidemics break
out ani furnish health authorities of oul
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