Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-27

Franklin county, Ohio, is one of the
for the democracy in the state.
At Il meeting of the managers u few days
since it was discovered that twenty of the
heretofore most active workers are using
their influence to defeat the party ticket.
Now, if exposing and opposing the fla
grant, forcible and confessed attempt [of
the southern democracy at usurpation is
shaking the bloody shirt, the bloody shirt
has become the banner of American lib
erty. and he who does not wave it is
contemplate coward,-Hgrper'S Weekly,
Congressman Morrison of Illinois, who
has chung to his hard money faith in the
west almost alone in his party, probably
takes grim satisfaction in telling an in
terviewcr, as lie has just done ut Wash
ington, that Ewing's prospects in Ohio are
not in the least encouraging.
President Hayes has taken no step dur
ing his term of service which was not that
of an honest, Christian statesman, working
on behalf of his highest conception of
order and right. So quiet and unobtrusive
has been his work that the nation has not
yet recognized how rare in its uprightness
it has been. No trumpet has been blown
before him by himself or his friends,
simply because he, unlike any other pres
ident for two generations, has not done
the work with the aim of reelection.
When his administration is over we shall
probably appreciate its solid value to the
country.-Ne,O York Tribune.
A Memphis dispatch says prominent
physicians believe there will be contnu-
ed increase of yellow fever until October.
Mrs Minnie Wilkins, just previous to her
death yesterday, had several attacks of
black vomit During the intervals she
asked her husband to kiss her. which he
did several times, regardless of the great
danger She died with her arms about
his neck. About an hour afterwards Mr..
wilkins was taken with malignant fever.
Although he had severe attack last year,
he may die.
KILLED BY A STEEL PEN.-Several
German papers announce the death of
Herr Franz Kotz, parish priest at Puch-
kirchen, in Syria. from wound caused
by steel pen, He had careless habit
of leaving his pens in the inkstand with
the point sticking upward. In replacing
book on his writing table near the ink
stand he Inadvertently struck with the
palm of his hand rusty pen thus sticking
upward. The hand was slightly wounded
but it seemed so insignificant an affair that
he took no heed. Next day, however, he
felt seriously i'll, and the doctor declared
it was case OF blood poisoning. On the
third day the hand and arm were terribly
swollen, as high up as the shoulder, and,
after suffering great pain during eight
weeks, he died.
A few days ago Mr.. Jefferson Davis
was interviewed in regard to the senatori-
al question, when he said he did not au-
thorize any one to use his name in con-
nection with office, and further that he was
not candidate. During the interview
Mr.. Davis took occasion to say: II have
been elected to the United States Senate
three times, and appointed once, and |
have never yet been candidate for the
position" In response to this the New
York Tribune very pertnently asks:
" Did Mr.. Davis ever hear the conundrum
about the hoy who said: That girls
father is my father and her mother is my
mother, yet she is not my sister9' A
great many people have puzzled over that
The answer to it. as every
body now knows, is, The boy lied.' Mr..
Davis has been senator three times by
election and once by appointment, but
was never a candidate. No more is he
candidate now. All the same he may be
elected, and he is very careful to say that
lie has not authorized any one to speak for
linn"