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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-07-31
IA NEW ENTERPRISE I
ORNAMENTAL BESIeas FOR seaelL WORK
FxcouRAcE HOME INDUSTRY

Z have this day fitted up spacious and com
Portable room, at MOonS's HoTEL for the pur.
pose OF carrying on the above-namcd work IN
all its branches. Decorass Jour homes IN
charming lnanner, and that you can have done
bF calling or sendiRg your orders 70
n. c. MOORE, Moofe's Hotel.
r. 8. The ladies particularly are invited 70
witness the wonderful workings Patterns o.
Al kinds on hand. April IL, ls7s-sm.
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Surveying.

nARTTES wishing to employ The
services Of the undersigned a.
surveyor viii address
GEO. b. DENT
Great Nil p. o., Id.
march IS. IS72-tf.
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roR sHERIFF.

1kssra. Eafkors- GsatiemeH-Please announce
n. = anFTI.. En-. a. 4 candidate fDr Sheriff nc
- s.,srfuv siection. Mr. Abel i an old, tired
ofssc1r ana We feel certain this announcement and
rs sseesan win meet with the appreciation Ct toe
business community ST large irrespective @ PAr-
ties- Seventh District.
! Iuns g. 1879.
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NOTICE.

TRANSPORTATION 4 ENTERTAINMENT
a. aa reasonable rates can he had By parties n
sransif 10 and from Baltimore az Forests wharf
per Pataxentsseamers By calling On
JOHN III. BTCKLER
Nov 9,ls7s-tfoT Forrest wharf. Nd
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A 8 MOORES HOTEL l. in great need Of re-
- pairs and as contemplate making them
this Spring with other Improvements, respect
fully and earnestly request that all persons in
debied TO the House win pay Up withous fssther
delay, II not fhliy, a. least partially.
HERBERT p. MOORE,
March n. 1870. Moore's Hotel.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

Edison's electric light has been so much
promised and so long delayed that public
faith has been exhausted. The gas stocks
have crept back to their old figures, and
when long and somewhat pretentious
letter from New York appeared in the
London Times II fortnight ago formally
announcing Edison's failure it was gener-
oily believed. The truth of this letter Edison
denies in an interview in the New York
Sun. Interviews are not enthusiastically
sources of information, but there are rea-
sons which make Edison's interviews in
the Sun reliable. They are sure to show
ut least what Edison wants to have be-
lieved; whether it ought to be believed is
another matter, about which some of Edi-
sons best friends are occasionally at fault.
Like other great inventors Edison does not
always tell what he knows. In six weeks
Edison promises TO have all the houses in
Menlo Park lit by an electric light whose
subdivision proves perfect. The lamp is
a small coil of platinum wire in glass
bulb costing $3.50, with n regulator which
prevents the platinum from melting unless
the light is turned up to equal three or
binary gas jets. The latest Improvements
make this regulator unnecessary to pro-
tect the platinum; its only use is to turn
the light up and down. A light equal in
brilliancy to ordinary gas is furnished ut
one-lhrd the cost. 1t gives no heat. II
has the tints of solar light. 1t is simple
and manageable. There are now sixteen
such lights in use in Edison's machine
shop. The process is the simple one of
heating strip of platinum wire to mean
descence by electricity with regulator at
tached which reduces the current as the
platinum nears the melting point.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

The Windsor Journal claims that since
Gravelin was hung additional evidence
has turned up going, like that on the trial,
to show conclusively he was guilty of the
murder of White
General "Dick" Taylor, son of Presi-
dent Zachary, and brilliant confederate
leader during the civil war, died Saturday
morning in New York, where he was
visiting, at the age of ffty-three years.
Ex-Gov. Asahel Peck is seriously sick
at his home in Jericho and Judge Pier
point has been sick at Vergennes for some
days, his disease lately taking an unfavor-
able turn and being now dangerous.
Judge Powers and Judge Redfeld will
hold Judge Pierpoint's Chttenden court
for him.
PSI UPsILoN.-Thc 10th general con-
vention of the Psi Epsilon fraternity is to
be held at New Haven, Conn. May 9th
and 9TH, Gov. Andrews presiding, The
orator is B. X. Phelps gale '53) of New
York; poet, DIR. j. G. Holland; chaplain,
Rev. H. M. Dexter yale 40) editor of the
COngregGtionaliSt; writer of annual con-
vention song, H. M, Finch yale 40.
author of The Blue and the Cray. The
new fraternity catalogue is now out, con-
tanning 1923 names and much information
about each member. 1t shows there are
81 Psi US in Vermont, of which number
Woodstock has 10 and Montpelier 7.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

CONGRESS. There has been little done
except to talk on the army bill in the Sem
ate the last week. The republicans of that
body take the ground that the " rider > is
bad one, that is that it not only excludes
troops from the polls but also civilians
who may have dnty there by federal law.
They do not attack the bill because it has
rider attached, all of which shows that
there is not substantial agreement among
the republicans upon the proper ground Of
opposition to the democratic scheme.
While we believe that some of the propos
ed democratic legislation is utterly bad the
time has not yet come when it can be
called revolutionary. A thing isn't rebel
lion because supported by those who were
once rebels but if ex-rebels or anybody
else support bad thing it should be
opposed.
Mr.. Bell of New Hampshire has been
admitted to his seat by vote of IS to %,
ten democrats voting for him and two re-
publicans against him. The House has
opened the door to financial legislatio ion
and the greenbackers are in hopes to get
larger issue of silver coin. 10 get some
more greenbacks into circulation, and to
retire the national bank currency and fill
its place with greenbacks.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

Speaking Of seasons reminds Col, II. d.
Hopkins of one or two incidents in his
recollection, of which be writes as follows
Speaking Of this coll and backward
spring, am reminded of the season thirty.
six years ago. was then a boy at home.
on the farm, in the eastern part of Frank
lin county. On the 18th of April my
brothers and myself got the sugar buckets
from the chamber where they were slowed
washed them and loaded them for reno
val 10 the sugar place. We had not pro-
ceeded far across the pasture, however,
before we became stalled in three feet of
snow and were obliged to leave our load
until the next day, when we were able to
reach the sugar place.
And this leads me to speak of another
season, nine years before that, when on
the 9th of April, was sent, n small boy.
a very small boy, with the oxen, g Buck
and Bright" n distance of six miles, to
haul a load of goods for q gentleman who
was moving into our neighborhood. On
the next day we, Buck, Bright and /,
returned. The birds were flying cheer
fully about, singing their spring song; the
farmers were blowing and the roads were
so dry that, us well remember, the dust
gathered on my boots. This was IN
exceptionally early season; but if rem
ember correctly, a heavy snow fell about
the 18th of May, followed by severe
freeze. Lambs were chilled, birds were
killed and the young corn, which WAS
already up, was cut down, and, as the
farmers thought utterly ruined 1t was
not SO, however. The season proved a
very good one.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

A FUNNY SCENE IN THE HoUsE.-In the
United States house of Representatives
there is no such thing as freedom of debate.
A man cannot arise when he pleases and
discuss any pending measure dd ti6itum.
The business is prepared in committees
and when it comes up in the House the
chairman of the committee having charge
of the measure, regulates the speaking.
under certain limitations fixed by the
rules. This results in the accumulation,
by him, of a list of those who previously
notify him of their desire to speak on the
measure. A copy of this list is given to
the speaker (or to the chairman if the
House be in committee of the whole), and
he usually follows it though he is not
bound to. One day last week Mr.. Black
burn took the chair on the Legislative bill
and declared his purpose to ignore the
list of speakers previously prepared, and
to recognize only gentlemen in the order
in which their names appeared on n new
list to be made. No sooner were the
words uttered than ut least 100 members
rushed down upon the speakers desk,
overturning chairs and spittoons and STUN
bling against each other. The confusion
and disorder, became so great that Chair
man Blackburn directed the sergeant-at-
arms to compel the gentlemen to take
their seats, which was only accomplished
with difficulty. During the scramble on
the floor the spectators in the galleries
were convulsed with laughter, and fairly
screamed ut the righteousness of the spec
tacle.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16
The Canadian tariff is making itself felt

The Canadian tariff is making itself felt
on New England trade with the dominion,
and for the most part after prohibitory
fashion. So far MS cotton goods and hard
ware are concerned. Boston merchants
feel themselves well able to compete with
England so far as there is no discrimina-
ton in her favor. The trade in bread
stuffs, our largest with the provinces, is
wholly cut off by the tariff, but this to tho
benefit of American channels of trans
portation, and so are our exports of re-
fined sugar, in which discrimination is
made against the product of American
refinerics. In levying duty on sugar, by
the way, Sir John Mcdonald has followed
the least defensble feature of our tariff
and adopted the Dutch standard. In fur
niture, leather and its manufactures, to-
bacco and number of minor manufac-
lures the duties are almost prohibitory.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16
T H E M A R K E T S.
Reported and teie0raphed expressly FOR the Gree
Mountain Freeman.
BOSTON CATTLE MARKET.
AT CAMBRIDGE AND BRIGHTON.

For the tcesk ending TuesdGV. Af,ii l5,l.7s
At marke, this week, s 26t sS7s 6%9 'G IS
last week, 2,iS3 6,Gc, g,lOg ~
one year ago, 1881 1855 $3.50 $50
PRIoEs.-Beef Cattle-Extra lat and heavy
100: second quality, $5j0d6Ol, third qialtv,
S475d5.O0 p j Il on total weight of h.e, tai.
low and dressed beef. A few cho'cc single pans,
$7500775; Bulls etc, sl.2jdi ~.
Working OXen-Sl006l.6l r par. OF according
to hen value as beet. Handy steers, sjIdllO.
Mich Cows-Fair quality, a2JG3,; extra good,
SiOG55, with or without calves, as may be agleed;
lhrrow and ordinary, slOd4i. yearImgs, 5000
II 90; two-Years.ol'ls, >l2.U 800; lhree-year.
olds, Sl5.00d35.00.
Sheep and Lambs-Commou, 81 dj4r!eXtra, ia
exc. per ID live weight, or s2.OO'tj.j0 IT. head,
ShOtes-Wholesale, OOdOOc.; retail, VoGoor, y Il,
Fat hogs, 00d5c. b H., live weight.
Veal Caves-S4.O0 800 f. he ,d.
Hides-Brghton, $6d64 country lots, iGjIac,
v h. Calf skins, loo. TALON, "; country 4Htic.
Pelts with wool on, slOOd 81 each; country lots,
ola 80 each.
REMA RKS.-There we've 2,IOi head OF cattle for
the week, including cattle from Maine which were
light. There was fair activity TO the market, and
prices were fairly held. We notice I1!c r h,
Western ranged mostly at 5dj3sc, live weight \
call for good Strengthening steers. j i. Cook sol
II steers, average 1901 TBS, at al CO. A. n. Monroe
sold 81 steers, average ,265 MS at sc'J. SetsOn
sold cattle at5'4 d5Xc h ID, as 10 quality. Neas
sold at 4d5c y ID. Sheep sold at unchanged rates.
shipped to Liverpool from this polt. We do not
expect advanced rates, as veals will increase In
supply. French and Son sold 80 sheep, gross
weight e,730 lbs, at 54c, and 81 head weighing
1870 h s, mostly lambs, at tic; l.. W. Tinker sOda
small lot, averaging 100 lbs, at jt1c per poUnd,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

Mrs. Emma Molloy. the temperance
lecturer. is now one of the editors Of The
Morning, temperance paper published in
New York city.
Coon TEMPLAR ITEMs.-Lodges have
recently been organized by II. NJ. Bryant
at Rutland, Taftsville. Bridgewater and
Windsor with good memberships.
lie also instituted lodge at East Wal
lingford last Friday evening with twenty
five charter members. j. X. Fuller, lodge
deputy.
There was lively meeting of policy
holders in the defunct Champlain Mutual
Fire Insurance Company Mt Burlington,
Thursday last. Occasion, the % per cent
assessment lately made. Occasion of the
assessment, too many losses and too few
good premium notes or collections upon
them. Occasion of the last occasion,
loose management Result of the meet
ing, explanations by p. S. Benjamin, r..
S. Taft. B. B. Smalley, NJ. S. Coburn and
others who had been directors showing
they knew little about the management,
and the appointment of an investigating
committee, consisting of Col. w. G. Yea
zey, Hiram Atkins, Esq, and Hon. R. F.
Parker to examine the legality of the
assessment and other things. This fable
teaches as many others have done that the
success of an insurance company " de-
pends."
VERMONT HANGMGs.- have been
twelve men hung in Vermont. David
Redding in Bennington in 177S, Cyrus B.
Dean, in 1903, in Burlington; in 1918.
Samuel E. Godfrey, in Woodstock; Vir-
ginia, colored man, in St. Adams, in
1920; in 1889. Archibald Bates, at Ben
nington. This was the last public execu.
ton in the state. The number of persons
who gathered 10 witness this execution
was estimated to have been some fifteen
thousand. The legislature, soon after,
passed the law that all executions should
be within the prison yard at Windsor
Sandy kavanagh and William Barnet,
both for wife murder, were executed at
the same time, January 20, 1864; March
20, 1868, John Ward, executed for the
murder of Mrs. Griswold; June 25. 1863
Hiram Miller, for the murder of Mr.. and
Mrs, Joshua G. Gowan, in Ascutneyvile
Henry Welcome, for the murder of Perry
Russell, January 80, 1871; Henry Grave
lin, March IA, 1879, for the murder of II
o. White, at Weathersfield, and John P.
Phair, April 10, 1879, for the murder OF
Mrs. Frieze. There still remain in the
state prison three more under sentence OF
death: Asa Magoon, the fourth Friday in
November, 1879; Edward Tatro, the first
Friday in April 1880, and E. q. Hayden in
1881.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

Robert G. Ingersoll offers 81 0OO at once and halt
his income for the next five years, if necessary, in
aid of colored Southern refugees Gen. Conway OF
New Jersey, has been requested TO proceed to The
Mississippi valley to investigate the extent and
bearings of the exodus and the condition of emf.
grants. Senator Chandler says he will give homes
and employment to 100 of them on his property
Michigan and that thousands will be gladly wei.
coined in that State C.. H. Tandy, coored, has
arrived in Washington, bearing memorial signed
by the mayor, city and federal officers, and other
prominent citizens of st. Louis, calling attention
to the condition of the colored people arriving in
that city from Mississippi and Louisiana, and urg
ing congress to adopt measures for speedy relief
Only one inch of rain fell during the
month of March in northern Texas. There
is great deal of suffering among the
farmers. Some of them have to 20 five
miles to the nearest beer saloon for water.
I-GalreSton (7eTaS) Ne'cS.
RICHMOND MARKET, April ll.-Butter
sold rs follows: Fair to good, - to II
cents; choice. u to 16 cents; fine, 16 to
IS cents. Maple sugar sold at to 10
cents per h., and maple syrup at Gj to 81
cents per gallon.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

The will of Charles L. Jones, of Cam.
bridge, Mass, leaves $4,000 to Harvard
College to found six scholarships. The
Vermont academy, which Mr.. Jones
founded and endowed, gets $4,000.
The latest southern complaint is that of
MIR. Blackburn, of Kentucky, who charged
in debate that Secretary Evarts had come
into the House 10 listen to Mr.. Garfeld's
speech, and. by his presence and an
proval, intimidate, overawe, and browbeat
the American congress!'
Mr.. Hamilton G. Howard, of Detroit
Mich, son of the late Senator Jacob M
Howard, who has been prominent as n
greenbacker, and was the candidate for
state senator last fall, announces that he
will vote the straight republican ticket ms
the greenback party of Michigan is being
absorbed by the democratic. lie SAYS that
at this juncture he prefers TO trust to the
loyalty and Intelligence of the masses in
the republican party, rather than to a party
that Is the same to-day rs in 1860, and is
dominated again by the solid south.
Miss Julia Z. Smith, the only survivor
OF the famous Smith sisters of Gaston-
bury, Conn, has married Amos G., Parker
of New Hampshire. lie is lawyer and
poet, elghty-six years of age, and his
bride is over eighty. He is widower. in
robust health, and apparently ten years
voJInOer Than hio n;fa ,,,hc =;
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

VERMONT. Over twenty years ago the
New York Tribune (of January 2Slh, 1866,
said:
In several particulars, Vermont is the
banner state of the union. As a fine wool
producing state 1t is hard to beat. As II
producer of real, genn;' men and women
-"Green Mountain Girls 1T cannot be
beaten. 1t is far up NORTH, yet as farm
ing state, it goes far ahead of most of its
southern neighbors occupying the same
area. Vermont can support million of
people. 1t has most lealthful climate,
and the best Of pure water; and the coun-
try is interspersed with good roads, as the
fashion goes, and the people have pretty
good schools and colleges. There are so
many owners of farms in Vermont sick
with the emigrant fever-a sort of itching
to move we5t-that land can be bought
cheap. The only object in going west
must be to get great domain for the
price of the old homestead in Vermont.
In real home comforts the emigrant will
never find the home he parts with
That was some time before Mr.. Greeley
gave his famous advIce-not to Yer
monter-to go West" But it was all
true then and is true still.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

Monday evening, and was favorably re-
ceived by large audience. The play.
which is in blank verse, is based on the
old Faust legend, but the story varies very
considerable from that of Gethe's famous
poem. The historical romance of 1.-The
Crimson Cross has closed its brief career
at the Adelphi; and on Saturday evening
" The Hunchback was revived with a
strong cast. At the lyceum 1.-The Lady
of Lyons is to be revived on Thursday of
Easter week. In June Mr.. Irving will
produce 1.-THE Corsican Brothers." and
during the coming season will give per-
formances of " Hamlet" and of those
plays which have been associated with
Mr.. Irving's name. There is some talk of
building a theatre on the site of the Argyll
Rooms, or rather of reconstructing that
notorious casino for the purpose.
ALPHA,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

GRAND LODGE OF KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Knights Of Honor of Vermont (Which
is an organization of Free Masons) was
held at Bellows Falls on the OH instant.
The grand dictator, l.. NJ. Read of Bellows
Falls, made report, showing that the Or
der is in tlourishing condition. Grand
Reporter ID. L. Herrck and Grand Treas
urer John w. Clark, also gave reports of
their offices; and it was voted that these
reports and the Proceedings of the meeting
be printed in pamphlet form. The follow
ing officers were then elected and installed
for the ensuing year:
Grand dictator. D. l.. llerrick, Bratlle-
borO.
Vice grand dictator, Geo. w. Tilden,
Barre.
Assistant grand dictator, DR.. G. Whit
man, Bellows Falls.
Grand chaplain, c. l.. Piper, Brattle-
boro.
Grand guide, c. R. Stevens, Brattle-
boro.
Grand reporter, w. p. Jones, Jackson
vile.
Grand treasurer, j. W. Clark, Montpc-
lier.
Grand guardian, A. c. Stetson, Jackson
vile.
Grand sentinel, d. Z. Tasker, Brattle-
boro,
Grand trustees, l.. NJ. Reed, Bellows
Falls, Henry Clark, Rutland; o. S. Ladd,
st. Johnsbury.
Representatives to supreme grand lodge
at Nashville. Tenn, in May: L. NJ. Reed,
Bellows Falls; alternate, Geo. w. Tilden,
Barre; John W. Clark, Montpelier; alter
nate, Henry Clark, Rutland
The grand lodge voted to hold their
next session at Montpelier, the second
Wednesday in April, 1880.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16
ALPHA.

Another slaughter of British troops. by
the Zulus, is annouced A British convoy
of supplies. escorted by 1O4 men of the
S0th regiment, was attacked at daybreak,
March 18th, by 1000 Zulus and over.
whelmed. Capt. Moriarty and 40 men
were killed, and 40 are missing. The
fate of the wagon drivers is unknown
Forty men escaped, and l50 men OF the
S0th regiment subsequently, proceeded &C
the scene and recovered a quantity Of
ammunition. and buried the dead. Twenty
wagons containing supplies were lost
Much sickness is reported in Col. Pearson
command, which is beseiged at Ekowe
and his provisions are getting very scarce
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-16

A Boston Journal special from Wash
ington says that in the debate last week
Frye of Maine read the famous article
from the Okolona Stale newspaper entitled,
We have captured the Capitol" AT
that time Muldrow, representative from
Mississippi, rose in his place and said that
that paper was edited by an Ohio carpet
Dagger. and represented no respectable
element in Mississippi. Frye presented to
the House Tuesday morning letter fro u
the editor of that paper showing that he
was confederate soldier throughout the
war, and that. whether the Okolona State
represented respectable people or not, it
supported this Mr.. Muldrow himself for
congress.