Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-12
Distinctions in crime are almost as thin

charged WIFI OOutlnln8 money unuci h'ioN
pretences remarked in court recently that
although he might be a swindler. he was
not n thief.
Boston Post: Congress will meet three
weeks from to-day. A good many gentle
men have seen their constituents and
heard from the country since tho extra
session. We trust any hints and sugges'
tions they may have received will be sane
titled to their good.
There has been fresh outbreak OF the
temperance crusade in Ohio. In Freder-
icktown in that state number OF women
turned out at given signal and marched
in n body 10 the saloons Of the place.
Those that they found open they entered
with hatchets and broke in the liquor
barrels, and demolished everything that
was breakable.
The whipping post is appearing as one
of the features of the next campaign IN
Texas. The Lamar county grand jury
formally advise its adoption rs likely 10
do away with many of the cases brought
before them, and the Paris North Texan
wants no man elected 10 the legislature
unless he promises to support its introduce
ton.
SENATOR" said General Beatty TO the
late Senator Chandler not long ago. " /
would like to see you president; you are
the sort of man we need just now" mo,
no." he replied. Il hope I'll never get
the presidential fever. 1t is sure death.
Men recover from the small pox, cholera
and yellow fever, but they never get over
the presidential fever"
Three Indian murderers confined in n
Washington territory jai assaulted the
jailer with bayoneted muskets. The query
is, how came they to have the muskets3
But after all, it is only the usual method
on n small scale. The savages are supplied
with arms and ammunition, and then,
whenever they have the slightest cause
therefor, they do not hesitate to use them
in butchering the whites.
The present feeling of the democracy
over the elections of the last three months
may be illustrated by the following:
Onr dear son Gustav lost his life by fall.
ing from the spire Of the Lutheran church.
Only those who know the height of the
steeple can measure the depth of our grief
OBITUARY Column Of q German Ne,Os.
piper.
The west span OF the St. Charles bridge
over the Missouri river at st. Louis gave
way under freight train Saturday, pre-
cipitating II cars of live stock and the
caboose into the abyss. The engine and
one car, with the conductor, engineer and
fireman, were saved by the breaking of
the connection between the cars. Three
dead bodies and three badly injured men
have been recovered from the river.
The Canadian government Is complain
ing of the circulation in the dominion of
such immoral publications as the Police
Gazette, etc. The postal authorities of
that country have requested the United
States authorities to take measures to
prevent the forwarding of such papers in
Canadian mails, and the postmaster gen
eral has issued in order that all such pub
lications addressed to Canada shall be
unmailnble. Now the job ought to be
completed by stopping the publication al.
together.
Here is another utterance of Gen. Grant
on the third term question. 1t came viii Q
he was at Cheyenne, receiving a Colorado
delegation. Some Jealous admirer re-
marked to him: II saw you last in the
White House. general and l don't mean
to rest till you get there again" II am
now chiefly DESTROYS of getting into my
own house at Galena, 'replied the general,
land when once get there l don't think
| can he induced to exchange it fcl any
other house that know of, white or
black"
Htrpcr'S Weebly 1t was unnecessary
to vote against Gov. Robinson in order 10
prevent the candidacy of Mr.. Tilden, for
his is undoubtedly the weakest democratic
nomination now possible. The only argyll
ment for his nomination was that he could
carry New York. But events before the
election proved conclusively that any
other democrat could carry New York
more easily. If, therefore, as we suppose.
it shall appear when this paper is issued,
that the republicans have carried New
York, the democrat who is sure not to be
the presidential candidate of his party next
year is Mr.. Tilden.
Tho Aretriop howl pnht,a Iot urr; o5
at New York with six survivors of the
twenly-one persons On board the New.
buryport schooner, Petrol, which sal lei
October 2jth for whaling voyage in the
Atlantic, having number of paid of
Portuguese whalemen for passengers, to be
landed mt Faynl in the Azores and on the
Madeira and Canary islands. The vessel
was dismasted by gales the last of Octo-
Der, and on the Goth she was capsized and
lost fifteen persons, including Captain
Fisher. The six survivors We're exposed
to the cold wind and waves for five days
with bat little food or water, till they
managed to signal the Rebus and were
rescued.
The growing prosperity Of the United
States is too manifest to require the testi-
mony OF any individual Observers but i,
is nevertheless somewhat gratifying to
find that 50 competent and disinterested a
man rs Mr.. Finlay Dim, whom the Lon
don Times sent TO this country to spy out
the land speaks more favorably of our
immediate future than even the most
optimistic of our own people. Mr. Dun
speaks glowngly of the present and says
he finds himself utterly unable to describe
The amazing dcvelopm emit and wondrous
possibilities that have co nfronted him, ant
sees awaiting the enterp rise of the future
results that will startle even imaginative
men.
Till the comparison is made in figures,
it is not easy to appreciate how completely
the United States overshadows England
and the rest of the civilized world in its
food producing power. England has
2,900,000 acres of wheat this year, and
AuSfralit eunrlon, ontr this will Q 600 Nnn