Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-15

Justice Ward Hunt of the United State.
supreme court is dying with paralysis.
The Ohio democrats have :plan fol-
catching greenbackers by putting two
members of that party on the state ticket.
RAILROAD SECURITIES. Rutland rail.
road preferred stock is selling in Boston
at So; and Vermont Central IS, 1891,
&c.
BAPTIsTS IN VERMoNT.-The Baptists
have one hundred and two churches in
Vermont, of which twenty three are with,
out pastors.
Vermont has $50 grist mills valued at
100000. The annual yield of wheat in
the state is estimated at 455,70O bushels,
and of corn, 100000 bushels.
Senator Kellogg has returned to WASH
ington from New Orleans and SAYS that
the Louisiana democrats were never SO
disorganized, and the republicans never
more united.
The Brandon Bank officials claim that
the case against James II. Batchelder, the
Middlebury forger, will be pushed to the
bitter end, and that important testimony
against him is continually accommodating.
Vermont raises annually 1895, ss2
bushels of corn and 454,7O3 bushels of
wheat, the price of the former averaging
80 cents bushel, against an average of
80 cents from 1852 to 1877. The state has
250 grist-mils worth $l,25O,000.
The Nevada legislature re-elects John
Z. Jones United States senator; and that
of Colorado elects to succeed Senator Ii .
M. Teller, Mr., Nathaniel p. Hill, general
manager of the Boston and Colorado
smelling works at Argo, on the outskirts
of Denver.
If nothing interferes, three murderers
will be hanged this year at the Vermont
state prison, as follows: March 14th,
Henry Gravclin, for killing Herbert O..
White at Wethersfeld; April 4th, John P.
Phair, for killing Mrs. Frieze at Rutland :;
November 2Sth, Asa S. Magoon, for killing
Streetcr at Barre.
The Vermont Numismatic society held
an adjourned meeting at Burlington Jan.
9Th, to reorganize under the charter grant
ed by the legislature. Officers were
elected as follows M. D. Gilman, Mont,
pelier, president; A. G. Spauldiug Jericho
vice-prcsident; H. P. Allen, secretary; A.
g. Spaulding, Jericho treasurer and cura-
tor. The next meeting will be held at
Essex Junction, April lst.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENr-Wm.
l.. Baldwin, a prominent citizen of North
Stratferd, was killed, the other day, in the
following singular manner: While driving
pair of horses he stood up in his sleigh
to put on fur coat The sleigh was not
rightly balanced, and while the coat was
part way on, the sleigh jack knitted togeth-
CT. throwing Mr.. Baldwin upon the heels
OF his horses. lie lived in an unconscious
state some twenty-six hours. A fracture
of the skull above one eye indicated that
he was kicked. Mr. Baldwin was some
60 years old, and leaves . wife and three
children.
The Tribune almanac for 1879 has inst
appeared. rs full of political information
oil all sorts as any of its predecessors
some OF its contents are abstracts of Dub
lie laws passed by the forty-ffth congress
ut Its first and second sessions, the consti-
tutlonal amendments adopted in the states
during the past year; prrty platforms of
1878; election of United States senators.
electoral vote for president; the principal
executive, diplomatic and judicial officers
oil the United States, with their salaries
statistics of trade and commerce; reye-
nues, expenditures and appropriations;
railroad tables; gold and silver tables
national bank and currency table; with
full election returns from each state and
territory. These are conveniently ar
ranged, and the name of the editor. Ed.
ward MCPHERSON, is u sufficient guaranty
of their accuracy.