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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26
The FerIy.FlfIh Congress.


The last session of the present congress
Is rapidly drawing to close and in less
than week the country will be deprived
of the daily reports of night sessions and
the results of personal and party wrangles
that is it will suffer deprivation unless
some OF the important appropriation bills
should fail and an extra session of the
forty-sixth congress be called immedi-
ately.
The most important bill affecting the
finances of the country that has passed
was the arrearaIes of pensions bill which
will OF course increase the public debt as
there is no surplus of revenue TO meet the
millions that will be called for. As for
financial legislation, commonly SO called,
the country may well be thankful that
there has been so little of it and that re-
sumption has net been interfered with.
The silver bill which caused SO much
commotlon year ago was followed by
little disturbance and was altogether as
harmless measure rs could have been
hoped for from body containing so many
men with queer theories.
With the close of this session both
Houses become democratic. The Senate
which for eighteen years has been repub-
ican will like the House of representatives
have democratic majority once more
and that party ,ill except so far as con-
trolled by the veto power have the full
responsibility for legislation in the future.
This is just about as well as TO have one
party controlling one House and the other
party the other House for we have had
enough of pulling and hauling and of di-
vided responsibility where each party can
with some show of reason accuse the
other of being to blame for bad legislation.
There is so much to be thankful for that
the forty-lifth congress threatened to do
and failed to do that it is not worth while
to complain very much about the minor
evils that have been brought about. The
investigation business has taken a great
deal OF time that could have been used to |
worse effect and on the whole tho Potter
committee, as the representative of its
class, was not the worst thing that could |
have been compounded. For one thing it |
has kept Springer and Blackburn and |
Stenger from interfering much in general
legislation and has had a quoting in.
liuence on the whole on General Butler.
The last two years have brought out
prominently the senator's who will have to
fight the political battles of the next ses-
sion-and that will be the one next pre-
ceding the campaign of 18S0-and we
may look for some stormy debates be.
tween Edmunds, Blaine and Conkling TO
whom will be added Carpenter) on the re.
publican side and Bayard and Thurman
for the democrats.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

DARTMOUTH CoLLEGE.-Thc winter
term of the public schools in the village
closed February ODD. The term under the
charge of Mr.. L. G.. Wheatlcy, of Brook
field, VT, Il member of the senior class, as
principal, has been very successful one.
Mr.. Haskell, the college janitor, who
was stricken with paralysis week since,
died on Monday last He was about
eighty years of age and had held the
position of janitor for forty years. He
was much respected citizen and will be
remembered by graduates of the college
as faithful and obliging in his official
duties.
The concert given by the glee club on
Monday evening for the benefit of the
University baseball nine was Il success
in every respect. Mr., q. w. Stevens, a
graduate of the class of " G. S. D., now
of the senior class T. S. G. e., and who
has been connected with the college choir
and the gleo club for the past six years,
has recently been appointed assistant
astronomer to the Argentine Republic at
yearly salary Of twelve hundred dollars,
and starts Immediately for the scene of his
lutes,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

Spelling matches are becoming frequent
in different paris Of the state.
Horatio Seymour pops up to support the
Chinese wall which congress has tried to
build.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont is reported
as saying that he knows of man who is
entitled to $4,000 under the arrears of
pensions bill.
The Maine Senate has passed resolu-
ton calling for the reduction of the presi.
dents salary to $4,000, and of members of
congress 10 $4,000.
a bill introduced in the Rhode Island
Senate requires all ballots in national,
state and town elections to be made of
clear white paper, and that they must be
enclosed in envelopes before being voted.
The Troy Methodist conference holds
its annual session at Bennington, beginning
April %, and the village extends its hospi-
tally to 800 ministers, but declines to pro.
vide for their wives, many of whom want
to come.
The newspapers of all parties, except on
the Pacific coast, are almost unanimous in
declaring the Chinese bill an unwise and
uncalled-for act of legislation. Not a
single journal of any prominence sustans
the action Of congress.
The agent of the Red path bureau is in
Burlington, arranging for the appearance
at the Howard Opera House, on March
18th, of Gilmore's Band of so peices.
including Levy, the famous cornet PLAYER,
and one of the leading American sopranos
The New York Times says:-John G.
Sake, who has been in delicate health and
hls done no literary work for some time.
Is now confined to his room in BROOKLYN. |
suffering, it is said. from chronic melan-
cholia, superinduced by illness in his own
case and among members of his family.
The normal school at johnson opened
It's spring term last week, with over 100
students. The present principal, Mr.
Crippen, is to be retained for a period of
five years, which argues we'll for his eff
cheney, and is considered by the friends of
the school as very much in its interest.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

Mr.. Blaine writes long letter on the
anti-Chinese bill to the Tribune in answer
to VIM. Lloyd Garrisons recent letter
Blaine defends the bill and his own posi-.
ton in supporting it by the consideration
OF the practical results existing and to he
expected from unrestricted immigration.
His reasoning rests chiefly upon the suppo.
sition that the Chinese Immigrants IRE
discharged upon the Pacific coast by nm
arrangement analogous to the old Slave
trade. In this particular, the evidence is
against Mr.. Blaine. The number If
Chinese arriving in California up to Octo.
Der, 1876, are stated to be 1888, 900, Of
whom only about 10000 remain on the
Pacific coast, nearly 100000 having re-.
turned to China, after having amassed
small fortunes of Il few hundred dollars
apiece, on which to live at home. It is
not believed that more than fifth part of
this number have been held under labor
contract. Another of Mr.. Blaine's lendino
arguments is, that the Chinese are dirty
immoral and labor for too low wages. b1,
he ought to know that the principal evils
complained of can be cured bv nroner
sanitary and reformatory legislation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26
BOSTON MARKET

thoCR-ls in fair demand at steady prices, sale,
oi western supertne at 5 'dj - " Lbl. common
extras at 81 Z al p; Wisconsin extras at - OuG
~ minnesota (ncudlng choice bakers biands
- z94oo Winter wheat ohio and Michigan at
- oG5 % Indiana and Illinois - Oua6; ST. Lou,
so-o 40 -; Patent Minnesota aud " t,consn ut
~ oods - per bbl spring whcats, and sGa7 81 for
winter Wheats Southern -Four Is sea- &c and quo.
talIons merely nominal.
uhaiN'-Corn IS quiet, but steady, we quote
nc" mixed and yellow At lsH5Dc t. 6ushcl. oats
are IN moderate demand at 3jt}sc fr 30. | and
extra whiie, JtD-c for 80. >, anu B. ti}a Tor no }
Whlte anu No. : mixed Rye Is selling at G)dc9,
pet Dushel' shorts are selling at Sl5 jOd Is -;
ali pert
PROVlSlONS.-Pork is in steady demlnd. with
SAFES at ~ OO19 % r. bill for new primo lOludll o.
10Y mess, and Sl2 GOAL 90 for clear and eAuA
S 90 Beel IS quiet but steady with sales at
% 'o0il W y Obl for mess aud extra mess and
q oC" l. 10 for family. Lard Is trman at "a &c
" 10 ior Boston and Western. Smoked Hams are
sso,llhR az ISU SIC y 10, tor city aul Western.
y H. ''9 "'' "''' 81 o'" w
,lHooCCE,-Bultcr-C Choice lots are in steady
uelnahu but other grades dull; We quote choice
D'eaineiles at 2td3Oci choice New York and Yer
mont dalles at 22d25c; and medium at |! a l6c per
quality. '''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26
Coon TEMPLAR Irrvs n.

Coon TEMPLAR IrEMs.-OD G.,
evening. the 10th, Mr.. Bryant snor, Jay
Williston, and on Monday evening nv. "
peak again but i'll health compalii,,. ~ ~. 10
silence the lecturer of the eyeni,,, . a'
w. S. Plumley, supplemented br7 WIS WIS y.
from Dist. Dep. Hall of l;irhmo7I 'u ~ eS'
Mr.. Wicker, 4 few words from NJ. ieE.
ant, and from other members Of th ,'' b'y'
ence. y lodge at the close Of tLc , "ul'
ing was Instituted containing ,hir,' nuee''
charter members, T. G.. Mariana -'w ",
C. r., and Mr.. Pine, l.. d. Tbor w..
their next meeting Mondav MIA, n'A
Grange Hall. gu Al
The continued i'll health Of Mr. D..
necessitated the withdrawal Of all hig ~!
gagements for last week, and will In tR-
vent Il fulfillment of most if not al r ~.
engagements this week. lie is b,, w., Ms
recovering and will soon be in the 6o II'eT
Hope Lodge, No. 1Gg was orr l.'n
last Tuesday, at Norwich By l.. l.. 6n- -.lya
Esq, with thirty-one charter mrroIa AM
NJ. j. Booth, Lodge Deputy. '''''
FRANK PLUNLEY, G. W :
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

r. o, liebert will made hot fight fol-
the seat Of Congressman Acklen. tba
Louisiana rolsterer. HILBERT claims 70 he
able to show note Of $500 that Acklen
gave to influence votes, and Acklen was
mixed up in plot to make way with
some who opposed his election.
A confederate paper in central Missour;
comes up out of the bush and exclaims
exultingly that while Senator Logan will
be the only man of any prominence who
served in the Union army during the war
in the next Senate, there will be sevcntecn
confederate brigadiers,
Uncle Hannibal Hamln has been hard
hit by President Hayes. He is the more
surprised at it because Mr.. HAYES has
never hit any of his assailants in the party
before. But, then, no one of them insulted
him quite as gratuitously and ostentatious.
" as did Hamlin. Boston Saturday Evsn.
ing Gazette
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

ST ALBANs BUTTER MARKET Feb. %
Attendance and receipts light; market dull
prices ranging from 10 to % cents ac.
cording to quality.
TIE WIDOWS MIrE.-rhe Methodist
church in Plainfield has long felt the need
of Il new organ, but how to get it these
hard times was the question not easily
solved. They had raised fifty dollars, but
it needed y hundred and fifty to purchase
what they desired. Some liberal soul that
does not want their LEFT hand to know
what their right hand doeth, has given the
sum needed, and 4 beautiful ORGAN occu-
pies n place in the gallery, sending forth
its sweet tones to the manifest pleasure of
tho worshipers. "The liberal soul dcviscth
liberal things and by liberal things shall
he stand" May the Lord bless the donor,
A MEMBER OF TIE CuuRcu.
A tolerably neat thing was said BY
Secretary Evarts ut dinner the other
night in reply to somebody who happen
ed to have been reading one of the rcgu.
ation jokes about the sccretary's endless
sentences, 'Oh, nonsense" said Mr.. Evarts
good-naturedly; " don't ohjec, to that
sort of thing at all. People who expect to
injure me by calling attention to my long
sentences forget that the only persons
really opposed to long sentences in this
country are the criminal classes who de-
serve them.n
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

about three hundred kilometres 10 tho
west of CapeEst, shut up in the lee, and it
is towards this point that the expedition
has started. This expedition will be COM
posed of natives, who will have with them
reindeer and dogs. At tho same time an
other expedition will attempt to enter with
u steamboat by Behring straits. There is
in the neghborhood of the spot where the
Vega now is Il village inhabited by ma
tiyes. and European colony at a distance
of four hundred kilometres. But it is
feared that these expeditions may arrive
too late. ALPHA,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26
MONTPELIER MAkKET

For tic 'oeet enaio0 Tuesday. February, 25, is7o.
, Apples, dried new s0lOc d n; Batter, li0!jc;
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ers 500; Coal = ton, 81 80 90 90; Cheese, p
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26
The Shakespeare collection in the Boston

The Shakespeare collection in the Boston
public library is not rs large as the
collection destroyed at Birmingham,
England, few weeks ago, but it is
much the largest in this country. and
ranks among the five or six best collec.
tons in the world. 1t contains all of the
first four folio editions of Shakespeare
and nearly one.third of the quarto editions
issued before 1923, of some of which M
copy is now known TO exist. The collec.
tion has just been catalogued, and contains
over nine hundred and ftly separate
editions. or tho collected works there
are one hundred and thrty.six editions
and of separate plays more than five
hundred numbered editions. The trans.
lations are more than two hundred in
number.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

Harmony is reported in the little green
back camp at Washington, and no fear is
admitted that Butler proposes to capture
the party. The fruit is not ripe for the
pIucking, but Ben will bear watching all
the time. He hasn't been graduated from
both the old political parties for nothing,
1t is now said that the democrats intend
to make record on the federal election
laws, and then to allow the amendment IN
fail in conference committee or by n
compromise. SO rs not to compel an cxIr,
session. The republicans seem onite will
ing to have them make the record.
The New Orleans Democrat is quite sure
that Senator Bayard, by opposing the reso-
luton to attach the repeal of the Jury test
oath and the " odious ~ Federal election
laws to the appropriation bills, has com.
pletely alienated the south from him, and
destroyed any chance that he mn, have
had for the democratic nomidation for
the presidency.
1t is reported that the judges of the Y.
S. supreme court are rtther sour over tbe
enactment Of the law allowing women to
appear in their presence rs ATTORNEYS. and
that one of them the other evening told
some ladies' who were quizzing him
about it that they intended 10 turn their
consulting room into nursery, where
women who wanted to argue cases before
them could leave their babes. But wc
guess the judges will not long fail to see
The propricty of accepting the inevitable,
The Marquis of Lorne opened the Cana
dian Parliament with speech, SETTING
forth the ministerial policy, in which he
limited that the deficiencies in the revenue
are to be made up by n re adjustment Of
The tariff. with the view of increasing the
'evenue and at The same time developin0
md encouraging the various industries
u Canada. A rumor that The measures
include extra export duties
IN lumber and other products of the Cana.
nan forests, causes some stir in business
circles interested.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

New York the other night for tho benefit
of the Atalanta boat club. He said: " 1t
is II mistake to suppose that only students
show II diiiicrnt state of affairs. Visit
any of them and you will fluid milionaires
turning somersauts, eminent lawyers
hanging by their toes, and ministers of
the gospel punching saw-dust bags as
though they were the heads of bishops.
You will observe dyspepsia climbing out of
sight on a rope ladder" He said nothing
about clerical ground and lofty tumbling;
but the World says that one of the chief
attractions OF Heaven for Mr.. Talmage
undoubtedly is that he will have wings to
flap there. rs well rs arms and legs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-02-26

The pope on Wednesday, replying to an
address from the cardinals, emphasized
his desire to reconcile the princes and
peoples to the church, his readiness to ex.
tend his hand TO all who repent and cease
prosecutions, ana his unfinching intention
always to combat, in defense of the rights
and independence of the church, those who
make war against her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-17
The Pathological Convention.

NEWPORT, X. l., July 11.-At the session OF
the American Pathological association yester-
day, paper was received by the secretary from
Prof. 6sZeman, OF the University OF PennSyl-
vanfa. (who was unable to attend) on ''Spurt.
Gus words" and 1t was read by DR.. Nelson. A
communication on Greek negatives, by Dr. A
Sauder, was read. Prof. T. d. Seymour, OF the
Western Reserve college, presented paper on
the date OF the "PrOmetheuS" of EschyluS-an
able and argumentative paper, which was lis
tined to with great interest. A paper was then
read by Prof. Marsh, OF Lafayette college, on
the English dictionary of the pathological asso-
ciation. The English Pathological society, said
the speaker, proposes to publish great histor-
ical dictionary or the English language. For
this purpose 1t had enlisted the services OF
many readers In England and few in America
The plan is to make the dictionary cover the
have been left the books Of the 18th century OF
american literature, and this alone Is as yet
unread for dictionary. Prof Marsh appealed
TO the members OF the society not to allow the
great TheSauruS which will be the standard
English dictionary for a generation to come to
OF American literature. Printed slips, he said,
should be given to those who were willing to
undertake the reading OF American literary
works with view to making excerpts and quo
tat1ODs for the dictionary. The society has
already made bargain with the managers OF
the Clarendon press OF Oxford, and hope to
bring out the work In ten years from 1880. The
materials already secured amount In weight to
two or three tons. Prof. Dodge examined crit
fcally the views of Prof. KerchOn of Berlin on
the final recenSion Of the Decameron, and was
followed by Prof. Packard, of Yale, who dis
cussed In an able and scholarly manner Geddes'
problem OF Homeric poems Prof. Tay, OF the
1sVllle KY, read paper entitled '.Model Ex-
pIeSSiOnS in Themidc"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-17

Editor Star:-Under the influence OF the mar
velous modesty or prudery Of our society, boy,
and especially girl, can find within walk OF
Washington no place to bathe free from arrest
bypolce unless he or she lives in house supplied
with bath-tub and pays heavy water rate
therefor. The water is the free gift of the
United States to the people for whose good the
District government Is organized, and heavily
paid by taxes on the people Cannot the Com
missioners open fire hydrant and flood some
square and set 1t aside for public and free bath
Ing during this intolerable weather?
Send any OF our city boys into the country
during this heated term and they Will be clean
and healthy, not dirty and liable to receive or
communicate Infection, for they will spend half
the day In mill-pOnd or trout stream splash
Ing and swimming and enjoying themselves
Let the BabcOck Lake be thrown open to the
people. 1t is f1lled with water from the Z. s,
Aqueduct. Erect dressing rooms for girls on
some part OF its shore, and let those who fear
to see the human form divine In town, though
they do not object to it at Long Branch take
their drives In some other part OF the city and
its vicinity.
The health and comfort of man and boy OF
woman and OF child is of more Importance to
the District than that OF the carp or any other
nSh. NJ. &. NJ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-17

~ Philadelphia is to have an elevated ra H.
road TO the centre OF the city, connecting with
the pennsylvania road by the way OF Fiber
street.
a. Mrs. Swift, mother OF Chas. Freeman, the
Pocasset child killer sticks to her belief that her
son did right, and thinks that God will Justify
him for the act.
U-A beheaded Kansas rooster still lives afte
four months OF decapitatiou. He is fed at tn
throat, and Is In good health. The head was cu
on at the base OF the brain without iniuring Il e
spinal column.
tR Pauline KuntZ, an Alsatian GIRL aged 49,
nas Deen sentenced at FribOurg to three months
imprisonment for speaking disrespectfuIly Of
photograph.
az A conspiracy to invade Costa Rica has
been discovered In Nicarauga and Its leaders.
Fredertco Mora and Ruiz Somdoval and Others
arrested.
"The Marquis OF Butte. who is a Catholic
convert, dislikes politics, is shy and Sensitive.
and has an income which Is popularly supposed
to reach 81 ,600, 600 q year.