Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-26


Chicago is making determined effr,
10 secure the national convention mex
year.
John l. Delane, for 81 years managing
editor Of the London Times, is dead, ut the
age Of GO. lie retired from the Times
management two years ago.
Passage has been secured by Gen. Grant
on the steamer City OF Alexandria, which
sails from New York for the West Indies
and Mexico December 9th.
Prof Richard A Proctor lectures in
the Howard opera house, Burlington, mex
Monday evening. Half fare rates fol
those who desire 10 hear the great astron,
omer, will be given and the Montpelier
people can get back here the same night
MIDDLEBURY CoLLEGE-The Middle.
bury college difficulties have been settled.
and the students returned Monday morn
ing. few Of them applied for dismissal.
but most will remain until the end of the
year awaiting the reorganization of the
faculty.
The supreme court of Iowa have made
decision against the patent right swim
oilers who operate among the farmers.
The pretence that such "notes " must be
paid because they have got into some
" innocent holders hands is not to hold
in Iowa. The court holds that though the
signatures may be genuine, any alteration
of such blanks is ~ forgery, and no person
is to be compelled 10 pay such a contract
This ought to be the established law
everywhere.
A METEoRIC SHOwEE,-Th astrono-
mers predict Il unique and grand method
of celebrating Thanksgiving this year
Mr.. Richard A. Proctor, the distinguished
English astronomer, whe lectures at Bur-
lington next Monday, predicts that there
will be one of the finest meteoric displays
OF the century on or about that time.
While Thanksgiving day is the olc cSpe-
cially named, it is stated that the shooting
stars may appear on any night between
November 18th and December LIST.
Apropos of the coming entertainments
at the Howard Opera House which promise
to attract crowded audiences, the Free
Press says that the fire escapes have been
completed. thus aifording safe and easy
exit in case of any disaster. Two doors
at the west side OF the auditorium open
upon spacious rallied platforms, from
which three stairways Of goodly breadth
and easy grade lead to the ground. With
these means of egress in addition to the
main hallway the house can be verv
speedily emptied and no one need feel the
slightest apprehension on this score.
Explorers in Alaska announce the dis.
covery of one Of the largest rivers in the
worId-the Yukon, rs navigabe for steam.
crs $500 miles, and 500 miles from its
mouth it receives very large navigable
tributary. The basin formed by the con-
fluence is "a miles wide. Yukon is nearly
as large as our Mississippi Indians arc
everywhere, and war between the tribes is
fixed institution. There is snow for six
months, and without roads dog sledge.
find g'od travelling Game abounds, and
the Indians have an easy life.
MANE.-The republican candidates ap.
piled to the supreme court for an order
allowing them to inspect the election re.
turns but in view of action taken by The
governor and council on the 22d they will
probably have no hearing before the court.
Saturday the governor and council gave
notice they will be in session from the 1st
TO the 18th of December for the purpose of
examining The official returns, and that
candidates claiming irregularities or other
causes presumed to vitiate their election
will have reasonable opportunity to be
heard personally or by duly authorized
counsel,