Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-03
A. BANCROFT,
Agent for Middle and Western Vt.

Tho deficit in the grain and other crops
of Great Britain involving loss of about
5000, 100000, and the falling off in the
,grcultural products of France, presage
IN enormous demand for American cereals
The present year. With the wealth Europe
will pour into this country and the start
received by manufacturing and other
business, the coming autumn promises to
be very prosperous season.
The Middebury Register remarks that
the movement Of Merino sheep from that
vicinity westward has been lively, many
of the best tlockS losing choice members.
Cherbino & Williamson sold one of their
stock rams to A. & 0. B. Taylor, of York
Center, Ohio, for five hundred dollars.
They also sold to the same parties five
other rams and four ewes. One of these
five ram brought two hundred, and some
Of the others over one hundred dollars.
The Champlein Transportation Compa-
ny offer excursions during next month
One is to New York, from the llth to the
18th of September, with tickets for the
round trip at S.; the second is to Mon
treal, lasting the entire month of Septem-
Der, with round-trip tickets at 81; and the
third is to Lake George on the 10th of
September, with roundtrip tickets, includ-
ing meals and hotel accommodations, at
the very low rate OF So. These excursions
start from Burlington.
New York City steadily pursues the
suicidal policy which is increasing the
trade of other cities at her expense.
Besides shoaling her harbor with street
dumpings and making access difficult, the
port dues and charges are so heavy as to
make il cost from four to four and one
half cents bushel to get grain from a
car on steamer and outside of Sandy
Hook, while the charge is but about
twenty cents for bringing the grain in
the car from Chicago to New York.
The following extract is not taken from
II northern republican paper, but from a
Georgia democratic Journal eff the
governor of Mississippi feels that he is
unable to cope with the political bashi-
bazouks that infest the state, then it is his
duty either to convene the legislature or
to call upon the government for troops to
suppress the outbreaks; for it cannot be
denied that the wisest. most Just and
easiest solution of ruflianism that has
outgrown the powers of state is the
ba yonet."
President Bartlett, of Dartmouth college,
has some sound views in regard to the
practice of" hazing," and has written an
article in which he urges that if the young
men of colleges break the laws they must
suffer the penalty, like other offenders !;
that "hazing" must be broken up, and
those students unwilling to tell what they
know about such offences, when they
occur, must be expelled; and that college
students must be trained to habits of subor-
dination to authority, and, learn that they
are not to be tolerated in habits OF intem-
perance, in horn serenades, and insulting
songs to faithful teachers. He expresses
| the opinion that the institution that Sc
cures these results "unllinchngly and at
whatever cost will win the confidence of
judcious parents who wish to place their
sons where their physical, intellectual,
social and moral welfare will be safe.
DEATH OF GEN. HooD.-General John
B. Hood, whose death at New Orleans,
from yellow fever, was announced Satur-
day, was one of the bravest and most dis
tingushed officers Of the rebel army. He
was native of Kentucky, and graduated
at West Point in 1919. He was engaged
in garrison and frontier duty up to the
breaking out of the rebellion, and was for
some years lieutenant in the famous
second cavalry regiment. In 1857 he dis
linguished himself in hand-to-hand con-
hicl with the Comanohe Indians, in which
he was severely wounded. In the rebel
army he won rapid promotion, and when
it was found that the cautious Gen. Joe
Johnston could not stop the triumphant
march of Gen. Sherman through Georgia,
he succeeded to the command of the rebel
force in that quarter. Since the war he
has been little heard of, and has suffered
somewhat from the effects of wounds re-
ceived in battle. AS an officer he was
classed in the rank just below Lee, Jack
son, A. S. Johnston and Joe Johnston.
His wife and child have just died of yellow
fever, and two OF his eleven children are
in a sinking condition. The general leaves
manuscript history of the war which he
intended to have published this fall.