Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-09-24

Mr.. james Russell Lowell will be sixty
wears old in February. 1t is limited in
Roston that Mrs. Lowell's i'll health and
his own dislike for the monotony of his
duties in Spain may cause him TO resign.
ANOTHER CONvERT.-A Milwaukee
dispatch says it is reported that Alex.
Mitchell declined the democratic nomina-
ton for governor of Wisconsin, because of
his financial views, which place him again
in sympathy with the republican party.
In the advertising column of a Portland
paper appears this notice: TO whom it
may concern. Any man or woman SELL
ing me one drop of intoxicating liquor
on or after this date. will prosecute
to the full extent Of the law. Woodbury.
S. Pennell."
According to the Chicago Times cores
pondent, the meeting of the democratic
national committee was not over harmo-
NOUS. The western members, with one
voice, asked Senator Barnum if he could
not raise money for the Ohio campaign in
New York, and Barnum curly replied
that eastern democrats were tired of be-
ing abused as bond-holders and gold-bugs.
The election of Sir George Macpherson
to parliament from Scotland over Brodie
of Brodie, tory, has some significance as
the foreign policy of Beaconsield was
much discussed upon the stump and the
subject of some questions from the Scotch
farmers. Lord Macduf, the previous
member. who has just become peer, was
also liberal.
No man has been so warmly welcomed
in America as Gen. Grant will be, since
Lafayette was here more than half cen
fury ago. No American has ever made
the tour of the world amid honors SC
universal aad elaborate. His reception al
San Francisco is enthusiastic and warm,
Notwithstanding his disagreement with
local sentiment on the Chinese question.
1t is the first time he has ever been in San
Francisco since he became famous, and
all California has turned out TO celebrate
the Union, American nationality and Gen.
Grant. The demonstration seems to be
spontaneous and devoid of political signif-
icance, and is undoubtedly quite as agree
able to the general as an organized trans
continental d" boom would have been.
If there be any communist element which
| is anxious to assault Gen. Grant as the
representative of society, it has been
swamped in the general loyalty.
The late Austin Birchard, of Fayette.
vile, President Hayes's uncle, was one o
a committe to build the first meeting house
at Fay etteville, town auditor for twent,
years, and in 1888 he was elected mem
Der of the old council. In 184l he was
upon the council board, anC
moved to abolish the council, which mo
ton, then failing, was adopted by thu
constitutional convention in 1870. He wa
chosen state senator in 1916; in 1850 ht
retired from trade and four years later HI
was made treasurer af the Windhan
County Savings Bank, which office he helC
for twenty years. From early manhood
he was a strenuous opponent of slavery
and secret societies. cheerful contributor
to public and private charities and
faithful member of the Congregations
church.
The St. Adams Messenger Of Friday
evening gives an account of an assault
upon Mrs. Giles Merrill, whose HUSBAND
was for SO many years general superin
tendent of the Central road. This occurred
while the lady was returning from churcl
and the villain took hold of her and pre-
vented her from screaming by placing hi
hands over her mouth; but she finally 60
away from him. The same evenin!
another lady was assaulted in the sam
manner. but made violent defence witt
an umbrella and drove the fellow of
These assaults presumably occurred in tn
thckly settled portions of the village an(
at a reasonably early hour, and yet in bot
cases the ladies had considerable trouble il
Kidding themselves of their tormentors, AN,
in neither did any help appear, whicl
speaks i'll for the police regulations of tina
village, to say the least.