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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-02-14

Lizards, flies, miniature sqalI NJ,
and mice are now stuck here ana ~
over Partisan bonnets.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

According TO tho mercantile agency's
report, tho number of failures in the
United States for the third quarter of the
present year were 1862, with liabilities of
Sl5,275. $50, while for the corresponding
quarter of 1873 the figures were 1858 and
$66,37S, 900. For the first 8 months of
this year there were $500 failures with
liabilities of $sl, 054,00O, while for the
same term of 1873 the number was 1878
and the liabilities $l97, 100000 In other
words, for the third quarter of 1879, the
failures in the United States have been
less than one-half than for the third
quarter of 1873, the precise decrease being
1901. The liabilities show even u much
larger proportionate reduction, being less
than one-quarter of what they were in the
same period of last year. For the first 2
months of the third quarter of 1878 the
failures were unusually numerous owing
to the prospective repeal of the bankrupt
into consideration, the decrease in the last
quarter is remarkable, considering that
the average number of failures for the
third quarter of the preceding A years
was 1928 or nearly double the number of
the last quarters failures, while the
average liabilities for the third quarter of
the years was S52,000,000, exceeding by
3 times the amount of liabilities of the
third quarter of 1879. The figures for the
quarter just ended, therefore, add another
to the many indications of the wonderfully
improved condition Of trade throughout
the country. For 9 months of the 2 years,
the comparison is almost as favorable as
for the quarter just closed--the reduction
in liabilities being more than one-half.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22
THE HAwKEYE ON BENEDICT ARNOLD

THE HAwKEYE ON BENEDICT ARNOLD.
-Burdette, of the Burlington Qowa)
HaWbeqe, has been visiting at Frederic
town, New Brunswick, the house built by
Benedict Arnold after lie fled from this
country, and describes it as "a story and
a half house, with n dormer window look
out of the roof. The sides are weather
boarded, but shing!ed. The front door
opens directly on the street, and there is a
single window on either side of it." Of
Arnold he says:
He lived in century too early, this man
of hateful and accursed memory. Had he
lived a hundred years later he might have
committed treason more hateful, he might
have foresworn himself in national coun-
ellis and drawn his sword against the coun-
try that taught him to use it; he might
have plundered the national treasury, rob
bed the government of arsenals and stolen
its navy yards, fought for years against
the flag that waved over his birth and
then. A tainted namep A traitors
DOOM An accursed memory A haunted,
desolate life? Oh, no, Lord love you, sim
ple-minded young patriot, nothing of the
sort. He would come back and be elected
to congress. he would be a senator, he
would run the government he would talk
more loudly about the constitution he at
tempted to destroy than the men who
saved it, he would write books and defy
public opinion, and the only thing about
him to show that God hated him would be
his blighted eye. If Benedict Arnold ever
looks around this plane and sees how JEFF.
ferson Davis is getting along. it must
make him feel that he was martyr and
deeply injured man.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22
BOSTON MARKET

Raw and refined Sugars, Java and Mocha Coffee
are firm at full prices, and Teas are also higher.
Inc stock of MOlasses in first hands is quite small
Tor the season. New Malaga Rasins and Cranes
are higher and still tend upward for recent storms
and Hoods in Spain are known to have caused great
damage to the fruit crops, and have unsettled
prices
SPICES.-Are more inquired for with sales of
Nutmegs at 9Jd02Hc per 10, as to quality; Suga.
pore Pepper at l3dl3nc in gold; Ginger at 44d5c
pr TO- IN gold for Calcutta, and 5ajS for African;
vi oloves at 4oO47c; of Cassia at lOIl0Ht, ard OF
fimento at 10 d20c in gold per ID.
ouGARS.-The market is very firm and prices
arc well main tanned. We quote fair to good rein.
my al ISdISc per h., with stocks reduced and few
sellers except at high prices. Refined Sugars ad-
vanced and the demand has been quite active Tor
consumption and for the west. Wequotc standard
eeu al &c; and coffee crushed a. 81 az &C per ID.
according 10 grade.
IEAS-liave been in active dcmani. Common
Amoys have advanced to % d20,; and Formosa to
5odioc per ID. We quote Gunpowder at 3JaS0c per
10. Imperial 3OdS0c.; Tyson 21G40c; Young IIy-
son 2od65c; Twankey IA 02Oc; Tyson Skin llq1Oc;
Cong0u 20a75c; Souchong 200i5c; Oolong 2JdG5;
and Japans 22G75c.
WOOL-The receipts of domestic have been g.
va oales against 3,62S bales the same week of last
year aud OF foreign l,2l7 bales this week against
$50 Dales during the responding week OF 1875.
Ihe sales OF the week add up 3.0li 800 lbs of ali
klnus. inc market Is very steady and remarkably
lLee from excitement Ohio, Pennsylvania and Viz
glna neeces, X, Xxx and No. l, 4Odl7 New lamp
sure , and other neeces, 3jHal3R. COmbing and
aeiaine neeces SSdi!; unwashed combDgs, 80; I'M
""s"cu anu understandable feeces, 2laS3c per ID.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

Mr.. Frank Dixon. of Yazoo county,
Miss, told a New York Times CORE
spondent, in Washington, on Wednesday,
that there was not the least doubt in his
mind that his brother was murdered by
order of the democratic committee, and
that he knew that the chairman of that
committee planned the assassination.
Barksdale proved a willing tool, and he
was selected to commit the deed. Had he
refused or failed, there were forty or fifty
others who would have done it. He says,
further. that other plans of assassination
had been made, but none had proved
successful. He had heard of men loung-
ing about the alleys of Yazoo City, and
even Disgusting themselves in women's
dress, with the purpose of killing his
brother. but they were always foied by
accident. He expects that there will be
more killing in Yazoo before the election
is over. Had he remained there he GER
tainly would have been killed. Flanagan
and colored man who had been an indie
pendent candidate supported by Dixon
had been compelled to leave, the latter
sacrificing nearly all of his property He
does not believe that Barksdale will be
indicted by the grand jury. If the indie
pendent ticket is given fair chance, he
says, it will be elected, as over two-thirds
of the voters of the county are negroes
who will vote solidly for the independent
candidates.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

called in tho United States "three minute
trotters." The use of the horse in England
for pleasure driving is said in the same
article to be "an after thought" and in
harness their horses are represent as
" breaking into ponderous canter when
urged to faster gait" Upon the race
course and for following the hounds there
are no such horses as the English, but, on
the other hand, the Central Park in New
York far surpasses Hyde Park "i in the
elegance and grace of its driving teams"
Even the finest London carriage horses
are alleged to be hunters which have
fallen from their high estate, and the
production of the driving horse is practi-
cally an accident. The time may, perhaps,
be not far distaut when every country
house in England will have its American
buggy, drawn by American horses without
blinkers, bearing reins or massive curb
chains, and filling those who use it with
establishment that they should so long
have been ignorant of its manifold ad-
vantages. When that day comes, fox
hunters, whether young or old, will have
an additional enjoyment in store for them
while preparing to put in an appearance
at the first meet of the season."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

Only five changes, says the Washington
Star, are required TO make the United
States Senate tie in 1881. Thurman will
be succeeded by republican, but there
will be stand-off with the democratic
senator who will be chosen to succeed
Senator Bruce. The gains which the re-
pubicans hope to make are in the success.
Sors to Senators Herman of New York,
Eaton of Connecticut, Mcdonald of Indi-
ana, Randolph of New Jersey and Wallace
of Pennsylvania. If they make gains in
all these cases the Senate will be equally
divided, and for the democrats to have a
majority Kellogg would have to be ousted.
Davis Of Illinois is not included in the
calculation, because it is not known where
he stands when the two parties are SO
closely divided.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

END OF ANOTHER WALK. Even the
fact that the great S4hours walk for large
money prizes was drawing to close was
not sufficient to draw crowd to witness
the struggles of the 7 men who succeeded
in keeping the track. The last night there
were not more than 5000 people in the
garden and a large number of them were
said to be dead heads. The prizes are
$1,000 to first, 5000 to second, $500 to
the third, 800 TO fourth, and 200 to fifth.
Any man going 325 miles gets his entrance
money back and for every additional mile
$40. Score at TO- Barber 3l9, Campana
1868, Colston 800, Dufrane 1913, Fitzgerald
377. Campana retired at AS with Il
record of 1868 miles, good for the third
prize. Fitzgerald retired at $50, with
377, miles and the certainty of the first
money. Colston, the Big Swede," retired
at 1910, with $40 miles and the second
place TO his credit. The other scores
were: Dutrane 1925, Waters 1888, Vint $50,
Barber $40.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22
MONTPELIER.YI
The Pistol Mania.

The trial of Joseph A. Blair of Newark,
New Jersey, in which the jury at last
accounts was still out, comes as an evil
result of pistol ownership. Blair was a
teller in New York bank. lived in Mont
clair. New Jersey, and had coachman OF
man of all work named Armstrong who
slept in room in the barn.
In Armstrong; room was an old fash.
Toned pistol that was kept on a shelf and
because of the habit of the age kept
loaded. In the house Blair had modern
pistol or revolver-which particular form
of cold lead propeller we do not remember
and this was loaded too. Ready perhaps
for burglars who never came.
Armstrong was a rough and abusive
fellow who, when Blair went out to the
BARN to reprove him for not doing his
duty, swore at and threatened Blair and
Mrs. Blair. Blair discharged him on the
spot, but the quarrel continued, and on
further threatening language from Arm
strong, went into the house and got hi
pistol. Then Armstrong started for his
room, presumably after the old pistol.
The result was that Armstrong was
fatally shot.
At the momont of shooting no doubt
both these men were in imminent danger.
Both were excited, each knew the other
had means of death at his command, and
the instinct OF self-preservation as well as
angry passion moved each man to do the
other deadly injury.
This is what too often comes of the I'm
necessary presence of fire arms. 1t is Il
case too where with the present notions
about weapons their presence would be
justified by all unthnking and many think
ing persons The pistols were not carried
about the person, but put away where
they could be obtained for what would
have been a proper use, to defend the
premises against burglars.
But Blair's trouble did not come from
having weapon in his house to be used
only when that house should be attacked
He was q sort of lmarksman and was to
some degree wonted " to the use of fire
arms. He had the modern notions about
rights" and backing them up with an
appeal to the " last resort"
The whole thing amounts to an ilustra-
ton of the fact that the safest thing to do
is to be without fire arms. If one must to
quiet his nerves be the owner of deadly
weapons.he had better get blunderhuss
that he would be ashamed to be seen with
aud that would be about as dangerous ut
one end rs the other, or else hire Patling
gan and fortify the house which is his
castle according to the full science and art
of defensive ratification.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

Christian X. Ross, the father of the
IN ssing Charley Ross, received an anony-
nous letter saying that Il man, named
Cochnour, in the Ohio penitentiary, knew
all about Charley's abduction. He was
interviewed and told an apparently
straight story that be had been detective
and Texas ranger, but he evades direct
questions. He says that he had the miss
ing boy in Virginia on Juue Z, 8, 9 and 10,
in the year 1877, but refuses to designate
the place. He says further that he was
one of n band of six men, banded together
for the purposes of concealing Charlie and
keeping him out of the hands of the detec-
tives.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

Georgas gold mines are proving quite
a source of profit, though most of them
are yet worked by the simplest methods.
The gold craze began in 1917, when
nuggets, some of them quite valuable,
were found in the "branches' of the Blue
Ridge region in the northern part of the
state. The story Of these discoveries
brought in miners by the thousands, who
in vaded the Creek reservation and fought
the Indians, us has recently been done in
the case of the Utcs in Colorado. The
gold was washed out in pans, but in a
dozen years this surface mining had play
ed out and the miners left. Northern CAPT
talisls inspected the forsaken territory after
the war, and, finding the quartz rich and
easily worked, several companies invested
heavily. They bought the mines at a
lrille, put in elaborate machinery Gone
company building an aqueduct 40 miles
long,, and have brought the yield up from
less than 100000 i years ago to over
81, 100000 year now, with new machin-
cry constantly going up. The Magruder
mine just in the edge of Lincoln county
is worked day and night, and yields 10C
pennyweights of gold per hour, or $500 a
day, and the Georgia papers think that
ere long their state will rival Colorado's
mineral richn ess.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

AN INTRODUCTION BY THE "lNNOCENTS.p
Mark Twain Samuel l.. Cemens) pre-
sided ut a republican meeting in Elmira,
N. Y, on Saturday evening, and intro
duced Gen. Hawley of Connecticut as the
orator of the evening, of whom he said:
=" lie is member of my church at Hart
ford and the author of" Beautiful Snow"
Maybe he will deny that. But l am only
here to give him character from his last
place. AS Il pure citizen, respect him;
us apersonal friend of years, have the
warmest regard for him; as neighbor,
whose vegetable garden adjoins mine,
why-why, watch him. That's nothing.
We all do that with any ncighbor. Gen.
Hawley keeps his promises not only in
private but in public. lie is an editor
who believes what he writes in his own
paper. AS the author of Beautiful Snow
he has added new pang to winter. He
is broad souled, generous, noble, liberal,
alive to his moral and religious RESPONSE
blities. Whenever the contribution box
was passed never knew him to take out
II cent. He is square, true man in
politics, and | must say he occupies q
HllguLY IOHcSuiuc I'OolIlou' Alo u'to HCNCI
shirked duty or backed down from any
position taken in public life. He has
been right every time, and stood there.
As governor. us congressman, as a soldier,
as the head of the centennial commission,
which increased our trade in every port
and pushed American production into all
the known world, he has conferred honor
and credit upon the United States. He is
an American of Americans. Would we
had more such men! So broad, so boun
tiful is his character that he never turned
a tramp empty handed from his door, but
always gave him letter of introduction
to nue.. His public trusts have been many
and never in the slightest did lie prove
unfaithful. Pure, honest, uncorruptible,
that is Joe Hawley. Such man in poll
tics is like bottle of perfamery in a glue
factory-it may modify the stencil if it |
doesn't destroy it. And now in speaking
thus highly OF the speaker of the evening, |
| haven't said any more of him than |
would say of myself. Ladies and gentle
men, this is General Hawley.'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22
Il II E NJ A r K L Z S .
Reported and tete9rGphe expressly for the 'iyeen
Mountain Freeman,
BOSTON CATTLE MARKET.
AT CAMBRIDGE AND BRIGHTON.


For the meek ending Tuesday, October 81 1879.
Cattle. Sheep. Hogs. CGiU's
" !" last week, 86ll 7I4 i2,i3 ISL
one year ago, 3,7il 1914 l2,li5 Is
PaIcEs.-Beef Cattle-Extra fat and heavy
p,eniu oxen, $6.I507.OO; first quality, $1,000
so; seeoud quality. s5.OOG5.jO, third quality,
si.5004,75 p his, on total weigh. of hi &c, tai.
low and dressed beef. A few choice single pans,
s12507.5O; Balls, etc, 2i.C)0+25.
Working oxen-slOJ0l5O Y pmr, or according
to their value as beet. Han " steers, Sli0IlO.
Mich Cows-Fair quality, s10d3j extra good,
Si0d5O, with or without calves, as may be agreed;
arrow aud ordinary, $lOd2s; ycarliugs, $1,000
olds, $2000d3S.00
Sheep and Lambs-Common, sake: cxtra,5d0
5@c. per tb live weight, or sO,ODfc0,IO p head.
Shotes-Wholesale, 0Oa0Jc.; retail, 0Od0c. T. h.
Fat hogs 42S04Sc. b h.
Veal Calves-2aG5Kc v pound.
Hides = Brighton, lax; country lots, GJa d7C,
Pt Calf skins, l0Gl2c. Talow, 4!a4X u Ii; country
404Ic. Shearcd pelts, SO075c each; lamb SKINS, 75c
each.
MARKS.-Ncarly 500 head OF the total number
of cattle at market were from the North, and over
0 head from the East Prices are substantially
the same as last week, with better dena d this
morning for small cattle in fair flesh by country
butchers. The cooler weather is conducive to u
better meat demand. A. n. Monroe sold IS Texas
cattle, average 81 lbs at 1887 T. cwt, live and
90 others, average l3Os sat sc Pib live; j. Qnin
IAN sold ten lat cows TO dress 500 TBS each at j.c
Y ID, dressed E. n. Bissell sold six Sugars obi
| steers at 4H04&c " ID, live. Butchers agents
bought up several lots of lambs on the wav to mar
ket which being n0ised abroad, was sufficient to
start up prices at least &c v ID. H. Il Wheeler
sold 81 lambs. and A old sheep, gross weight To-
9i0 ms, at &c; i. A. tlack sold 63 head, average
l3K TBS, at SIC; j. A. Murray sold 81 sheen and
lambs average 50 lbs, at 4%c; II. Tasting sold IS
lambs, average go lbs lat SIC per Id. York Stale
lots OF poultry sell at SG9c, and Vermont lots at 10
Ollc per pound,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22
Bishop Hall of the Episcopal diocese Of

Bishop Hall of the Episcopal diocese of
Maryland died Friday, aged "a.
The Iowa election was good repubi-
can victory, the majority over all being
$4,000 or 100000
Senator David Davis predicted that if
Ewing was defeated Grant would be the
next republican president and would never
leave the White House alive.
In Ohio Foster has 10000 over Ewing,
and has majority we understand over all
the opposition candidates combined. The
Senate is republican by five or seven ma
jority, and the House by about twenty five.
The victory is more complete than the
most sanguine republicans really expected.
In the Chittendcn county court on the
18th inst, Hon. Daniel Roberts presented
resolutions of respect to the memory of
the late Hon. Asahel Peck, ex-governor
of Vermont and Judge of the supreme
court, paying the deceased beautiful
tribute. Eulogistic speeches we're made
by Hon. w. G. Shaw, Hon. Torrey +.
Wales and his honor Judge Powers. The
resolutions, with the proce edings, were
ordered entered on the records.
Gen. Grant summed up the result in
Ohio in two compact sentences. He said :
Ewing, as the representative of false
and dangerous financial doctrines, de-
served defeat. For many years the country
had been struggling to reach sound
financial basis, and it is inexcusable in
any man to take a position which would
again debase the currency and impair the
public credit"
Postmaster General Key has taken pains
to define his position for his southern
friends in recent speech at Richmond,
Va. Appomattox settled the rebellion for
him, and his hearty desire is to have every
vestige of sectional feeling swept away
and the best way to accomplish this, no
sensibly says, is an earnest effort through.
out the south to rival the north in industry,
federation and the honest and careful adj
ministration of law. g..
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

Postmaster General Key publishes q
justification Of his recent order requiring
all matter not directed to the postoffice
address, to be returned to the sender, if
known, or otherwise transmitted to the
dead letter office. He says that no post
master will be justified in refusing to
forward a prepaid letter addressed to
" New York City," or in refusing to
deliver drop letters addressed City" and
that it has not been the intention of the
department to prevent the delivery of
matter whose destination is positively
known 10 the postal officials handling it.
He says most of the complaints came
from New England, which is most bene-
fled by the order, and says that us the
facts are developed the stronger is his
conviction that the order should have been
enforced years ago. lie declines to
rescind the order.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

1t now comes out that the Tilden nego-
tiator in South Carolina, who proposed to
bride four members of the Legislature in
that state in November, 1876, with $4,000,
and then secure the arrest of the republi-
can electors so as to prevent them from
casting the electoral vote of that state,
was Mr.. Mclean, the Tilden police COM
missioner of New York. When the
cipher dispatches fell into the hands of the
Tribune, he begged so hard not to be
exposed that he was promised that it
would not be done unless it was necessary.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

The New POSTAL CARD.-The new
postal card can be sent to all countries
represented in the Union, including about
all of Europe, China, ia pan, Brazil, etc.
The design necessarily contains more
printing than the present card, and has a
border something like the old one. At the
top are the words, " Universal Postal
Union," little curved and repeated in
French in smaller type beneath. Then
comes the words, in bold type, United
States of America" also repeated in
French, and then the line, in English only,
Write only the address on this side"
The stamp is well-designed head of Lib
erty, surrounded by an elliptical border
with figure 90" on each side, and the
words. "U. S. Postal Card" around it..
The issue of the cards will begin early
next month.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-22

HARVEY FILDEN. Judge. N. A. CHASE. Register
The following business was transacted
in the Probate Court of the District of
Washington during the week ending
Oct. goth, 1879:
Oct. IA. j. B. Woodward's estate
Mary E. Woodward, administrative; c.
j. Gleason and II. A. Huse, appraisers and
commissioners. Porter PERKINS, estate
license to sell personal estate granted.
Moses Bass decentralization account
allowed.
Oct. IS. Daniel Ralph's estate-will
proved; Z. A. Eldridge, executor; n. L.
Dickinson and Sylvester Bannister, ap-
praisers and commissioners. Charles A.
Tabor's estate-will proved; S. S. Kelton
executor; Joel Foster. Jr., and i. T.
Mallory, appraisers and commissioners.
Abigail Parsons Observation-Disclosures
account allowed and decree made.
Oct. 20. Josiah Chase's estate--com
missioners' report returned second time.