Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-10-08

Arguments in the Burdelte-Estey patent
suit at Brattleboro were concluded Thurs
day evening, and the result of Master
Stewards accounting is looked for this
month.
Connecticut, by popular vote on Mon
day, defeats the constitutional amendment
providing for biennial legislative elections
and sessions. The majority against the
amendment was very large.
The Windsor county agricultural society,
the oldest in the state, and for some time
sadly off for money, held its 34th annual
fair of three days at Woodstock last week,
and was quite successful. The society
has given up the address, and this year
did not even have tight rope performance
or agricultural wrestle;" nevertheless
the attendance was excellent.
John Williams gets ten years in the
state prison from the Franklin county
court for manslaughter at Jamaica; Den
mis- Rafferty,, the tramp, for an attempted
rape upon Mrs. Whitney, gets seven years;
Nathan Howard, for burglary, goes to the
reform school for the remainder of his
minority; Sweeney Mowry and Hall, for
injury to dam at Guilford, we're fined
fifteen dollars and costs, while William
Sweeney, for assault was fined ten dollars
and costs.
The London Times has recently been
making calculations as to how large a
population our coming census will show,
and is forced to admit that I" they exhibit
picture of progress which cannot fail to
gladden. the patriotic hearts of sanguine
citizens of the North American republic"
The Times regrets that no adequate data
have yet been supplied for deciding the
question as to whether the birth rate
among the descendants of the earliest
settlers falls below what it is among the
English race elsewhere.
Washington advces say that Professor
Collier, chemist Of the agricultural bu-
reau. is continuing his experiments with
corn stalks and sorghum for the purpose
of determining whether they can be used
proftably in the production of sugar; and
that he is satisfied that enough sugar
could be made by American farmers tc
lessen very much the demand for foreign
sugar. He thinks the sugar obtained is o
clear gain above the expense of cutting
pressing and boiling, for the corn is pluck
ed before the stalks are used and the
crushed stalks make good fodder after
passing through the mill.
FINALE FROM MAINE Full oflicia
returns of the vote cast in the rccen
election in Maine show the following
result; Whole number of votes, 139, 339
necessary for an election. $3.50. Davis
(rcpublican) had G9,1l0; Smith, (green
backer) 48,077; Garcelon, democrat
32,4S1; scattering, 81. Thus Mr.. Davis
lacks 33l votes of an election by the
people. In commenting upon the above
the Lewiston Journal says:
"The total vote of Maine has beer
increased 1920, the republican 1860
the democratic and greenback vote com
bined 3l9. The vote for Smith wa!
increased nearly 1000 by that number o
democrats abandoning Garcelon and sup
porting Smith. Of the $4,000 stay-at
home voters in 1878, who have come GU
this year. it is estimated that 5000 voted
the republican ticket and 1000 the oppo
sition ticket. About 5000 voters VIII,
supported the greenback or democratic
ticket last year have this year voted the
republican ticket. From the best infor
nation that can be obtained not NOR,
than 1000 or 5000 voters of repub
lican antecedents voted the grecnbacl
ticket this year, and more than three
fourths of these will probably return tt
the republican party next year The bes
informed men confidently predict tina
next year Maine will not give less thar
10000 republican majority.