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

said that a good stand at high rent is
better than a poor one rent free. Well,
advertising brings man before the public
in a way that makes any stand good.
The best stand you can have is to be in
the newspapers"
Governor Mcclellan refuses to call a
special session of the court of pardons of
New Jersey. to consider the case of Ben
jamin Hunter. the murderer of Armstrong,
on the plea of insanity. The last hope is
now vanished and Hunter will be hanged
on the 10th of January.
The Cincinnati Commercial remarks:
D." If Ben Butler does not push the investi-
CATION of the cipher kilograms, he will
lose his hold on the people in a degree
greater than he imagines. A great many
people have liking for Butler on the
ground that his deviment is impartial,
and has its utilities"
The ice in the St. Lawrence river broke
away, Tuesday night. taking with it q
fishing cabins and two men from Portneuf,
Z. z. Search has been made along the
beach, but nothing has been heard of
them.
Another snow storm has blocked the
Scotch railways worse than ever. 1t is
thawing in London.
A few miles northwest Of GAINESVILLE,
Fla, there was until recently pond, about
30 feet deep. and covering about II acres
of ground, all the water from which has
disappeared in one night. A number of
persons have visited the place and exp lor-
ed the sink. A few years ago. short
distance from the same place, the earth
fell in, cutting a road in two, which had
been travelled a few hours before.
The Saturday Mlgasinc is q new week
ly publication, filled with well chosen
selections mainly from first-class foreign
periodicals. 1t is published ut l l Brom-
field street, Boston, and carefully edited by
Mr.. +. B. Perkins. The contents are
varied and attractive combining fact and
fiction in the proper proportion. $3.50
per annum; 81 for months; single copy
s cents.
Leonard Woods, who died in Boston,
recently, was born in Newbury, Mass,
June oath, 1907, and was graduated at
Union College in 1927, and from 1889 to
1866 was president Of Bowdoin College.
He was the author of many volumes, and
in 1867 he visited Europe to complete the
documentary history of Maine. He re-
ceved the degree of D. D. from Harvard
in 1916 and LII. D. from Bowdoin in 1866.
The New York Mail probably has a
correct view of the next presidential con-
test, when it says:-The next president of
the United States Will be made so by the
spontaneous choice Of the people, on the
issues dominant in 1880. and will not be
made by any efforts, schemes, or t" com
binations of his own. And personal char
acter and popularity will be more impor-
tant elements than at any period since
Jackson's time.
Four men while hunting near the Jacob
PIERCE estate in Cambridge street, in the
south-westerly part of Woburn, Mass,
found the body of II man frozen into the
swamp some distance from the road firm
ly imbedded in the mud, only the skull
and feet being visible. 1t had evidently
been there a long time. 1t is thought to
be the body Of man named Flying, of
Exeter, N H.. missing since year ago
last October, who hired barn in the
vicinity to gather sumac.
South Carolina is the worst state in the
country Tor couples to emigrate to who
want to get divorced. Before the war di-
vorce was unknown, but under rcconstruc-
I, i,Nt,n 10 E.,E Ill
way over toward the Indiana freedom. A
bill was introduced at a recent session of
the legislature limiting the ground for
divorce to the ancient one of adultery, but
it was finally amended by repeating the
whole law now on the statute books and
thus leaving no way at all open to secure
a divorce.
The indignant protest of the Canadian
papers against the "low-neck " dress
edct appears to have had a salutary effect
at Rideau Hall. rs Lord Iorne and the
Princess Louise are now reported as
receiving deputatons in n very simple.
and cordial manner, without
any display of royal state or costume. In
deed, it is said That there is less formality
than during the administration OF Lord
Dutferin. The princess takes good deal
of exercise, walking out daily, wearing
good stout English walking boots, and not
minding the weather.
There is to be, it seems, an investigation
Of the cipher kilograms, to take place in
the latter part of the present session of
congress. Chairman Potter is reported us
being decidedly opposed to it, but some of
the other democratic presidential candi-
dates have come to the conclusion that Mr..
Tilden is not so dead politically but that |
an investigation will leave him trifle
more defunct; and then the democrats
think there is some hope of getting the in
side history of the manner in which they |
claim money was used in Florida and |
Louisiana by the republicans.
Five of the eight Carmelito nuns at
Hochelaga, suburb of Montreal, are pros
trated with illness; one is in an advanced |
stage of consumption. another suffers from
neuralgia, third is laid up with chronic
dyspepsia and two are said to be suffering
from exhaustion brought on by the auster-
tiles of their life. A Montreal paper saws
that the Pteure, a woman of siXtv.two,
has not tasted meat for forty two years
alone form their food, of which
for half the year they only pnrtako once
day. They wear sandals, with piece of
serge wrapped round the ankle instead of
shoes,
The late snow storms seem to have been
most severe in western New York and in
Europe. IIereabouts only eight or ten
inches have fallen, but in Buffalo, n. Y.
three feet or more and at Wa'ertown, n.
Y, four feet are reported and the storm
was raging ut latest advices Trains are
showed in and there is almost n complete
blockade of railroad travel. The snowfall
in that section is reported the heaviest
ever known in a similar space of time. In
Scotland, very similar condition of
things is reported, and from France, Ger
many and Switzerland come stories of I'M
precedented snowfalls and delays to rail
way travel.
The remains of Bayard Taylor will be
buried at Longwood cemetery, Kennett
township, Chester county, Pa, in the
same lot where lie the remains of his