Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-08

Senator Ben Hill has lost one hundred
and ninety thousand dollars in three
years, from his planting interests.
The fight between Governor Colquitt
and Senator Ben Hill in Georgia continues,
and is likely 10 result in party rupture.
Failures: Grin Lawyer, a Chester far.
mer, with liabilities of Sc, 200 and assets Of
$4,000; Gilchrist e Perry, of McIndoes
Falls.
Jones of Nevada thinks that Hamilton
Fish "could carry the majority of the
electoral votes more readily than any other
person could name"
FAvAL ACCIDENT.-Mrs.E usepa Kings
bury, of Groton, recently fell and broke
her hip while in her room, from the effects
of which she died in few days.
A London letter says the London Times
no longer controls public opinion rs in
former years. 1t is weak in some of its
important departments.
The latest from Senator Thurman is that
he will not be candidate for governor of
Ohio next fall, and that it is no use to at
tempt to make him reconsider his refusal.
Honore Block, Chicago, in which was
the post office and General Sheridan's
headquarters, was burned Saturday. 1t
was one of the finest buildings in the city.
Henry Wells, the founder of the express
system and of Wells college, was native
of Thetford, Vermont, though the papers
generally have spoken of him as native
of New Hampshire. His father removed
to central New York when Henry was two
years old.
The ill repute of our state in the matter
of easy divorce laws has spread across the
water; and we find the following in the
London Echo:
In the state of Vermont there is now on
the average one divorce to every fifteen
marriages, and the proportion is increas-
ing. We believe that is the state where II
little boy, walking with his mother, re-
marked that on the opposite side of the
way was the gentleman that was pa last
year"
The Bennington town bond suits have
been removed to Rutland county for trial,
on the ground that it would be difficult TO
get Il jury in Bennington county, so many
towns being interested in the suits. The
defendants requested that, if they be re-
moved at all, they be tried in Windham
county, but the court decided that Rutland
county, all things considered, would be
more convenient, with just as good ncili-
ties for an impartial trial.
The opening of the year finds the banks
of New York city in Il strong and healthy
condition. Their reserve is upward of sixty
million dollars-an excess of more than
one-fifth above the legal requirements.
They hold thirty per cent of their deposits.
Last year their available resource was
only $35,000,000 Of legal tenders against
S198 100000 of deposits. Now it is SAL
100000 of legal tenders and $20,000,000
in gold.
DIR. Schiemann is now engaged in
working over Homer to suit the things he
finds at Tissarlik, which he with such GER
tainty pronounces Troy. Homer, he argues,
lived when the Troy he sung was buried
in debris, and new city had arisen in
its ruins. He describes Pram's palace as
built of polished stones, but DR.. Schlie-
mann has found n house constructed of
rough stones cemented with clay which he
calls Priam's and then arbitrarily decides
that Homer ascribed to the palace of the
Trojan king the characteristics of build
ings of his own day. The doctor seems to
identify his correspondence and contrasts
with equal confidence.
A decision was rendered Monday, by
The United States supreme court in the
Utah case which involves the whole ques-
lion Of polygamy in the territories and the
of the laws passed by
for its suppression. One Rey-
holds was indicted by the grand jury for
II bigamous marriage. He
was tried in the third judicial court of Utah
md found guilty. lie appealed TO the
supreme court of the territory and finally
10 this court, which now atlirms the iudg-
ment of the lower tribunal and decides that
congress had power to pass laws prohibit
ing polygamous marriages in Utah and
hat such laws are constitutional
A New York Herald correspondent who
has pushed through to Tashkend, Turkes-
ian, in Central Asia, where the Russian
General Kaufman has his headquarters,
the highly important news that
he car will not intervene to assist the
ameer in his war with England. Shere
Ali is at present at Mazar i-Sharif, in the
northern part of Afghanistan about one
hundred and fifty miles from Cabul and
four hundred and fifty miles from fash
lend. Thence he sent an embassy to Gen
eral Kaufman to implore Russian assist
lnce. The correspondent, who was pres
ent at the interview, says that the Russian
general in behalf of his government de-
,lared that his imperial majesty, the car,
absolutely refused to intervene in the
,tfalrs OF Afghanistan.
Cleveland summoned all northern Ohio
md all tho great men she could get hold
IF anywhere, to attend the dedication oil
ler great viaduct last week,-the biggest
event in local history for years. The via
luct is indeed worthy to rank among the
great public works. spanning
he Cuyahoga river and valley, as it docs,
With ten stone arches and an iron draw
bridge, nearly two-thirds of mile in |
lnited length, sixty-four feet wide and
seventy feet above the rivers low water
mark. 1t has been four years in building,
1t cost of 2,170,000. including the right
If way, and enables the cast and west
ides to see and meet eye to eve, across
he vale where the rival cities of Ohio and
cleveland fought tooth and nail before
heir consolidation some twenty-five years
go.
The awards at the Paris eXposition of