Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-09

| The sale OF td,OOO,V1O VI per Se"'' wa WV
out the last of the 3d.
ira a poor mule that wont work both ways, cay s
the Cincinnati Enquirer.
In. James DeKoyen has left Racine College si0,-
600 and his valuable library.
Was ever an honest voter frightened by the army
bue7 Not much-[ Boston Herald.
There is nothing so fatal to comfort we'll as to
Jecorum, as Fuss-says a social philosopher.
Dispatches from South America Indicate that the
war between Bolivia and Chill will be fierce and
bloody.
Nineteen members of a battalion of French
zouaves persisted in a severe snow storm inAlgeria
on March %.
Peru and Bolivia have concluded an offensive
defensive alliance and both countries have declar
cd war against Chilli
Two hundred men are at work on the Long Is
| land Railroad removing snow and sand blown over
the tracks in Sundays storm.
The returned Bosnian refugees have applied TO
Austria for 10 eased relief II is said that 20 0OO
of them have died of priyation since their flight.
Thirty million feet of logs are gathered round
and about the head waters OF the Connecticut
river, and will be run down during the month of
May.
Gen. Joe Johnston they say, blushed to the roots
OF his hair bile he stood waiting as two loyal men
from Virginia took the test OATH ill he could take
the modified OATH
| Pleasant Valley has two remarkable boys, one
aged IA that weighs 2GG pounds the other, aged L.,
has nicely peced three bed quilts and is now at
woI K on the fourth.
| Blackburn is always intense, but he is apt to
waste his fury-he would like cyclone TO blow
out his candle every night when he goes TO bed
Spring field Republican.
| The Albany Law Journal naively says: at lie
our sincere conviction that the portion OF The Van
derbilt estate which Is most usefully bestowed is
that which goes TO the lawyers"
1t lie now believed that Mr.. Tilden habitually
wears liver pad. Every day some new and MOI
terrible disclosure m kes the American people glau
they did not elect this man president
The new Canadian tarn takes $4,000 out of the
Grand Trunk railroad at the first dash the company
having been obliged to pay that amount on so OOl
tons of coal bought in nsylvania before the
tariff bill passed, but not delivered until afte,.
wards.
Mr. Blackburn, in congress, last week, remark ed
that "Louisana is, thank God, sovereign state in
the confederacy." Perhaps Mr.. Blackburn is right
but we hope TO live to zee Louisiana state of the
Union.
A Harvard senior took young lady of high social
standing 10 a dinner at one of the Boston hotels
| and got drunk. The young lady walked home
while The young gentleman was carried back TO
college in hack.
| Last year the steamer Williams made her first
A.
however, was the earliest opening of the lake ever
| recorded save 1859, when the steamer Saranac
| crossed March 18th.
The first step toward benn ial sessions has been
taken in New York state by the passage of con-
sttutional amendment by the assembly. 1t is yet
to pass another legislature within two years and be
ratified by the people
Another church in Spain has been robbed of q
valuable picture. The thieves in that country
seem to have peculiar cupidity for religious paint
ngs. This time they capped the climax Of th lev
ing by taking picture of Christ.
Hon. jefferson P.Kidder ,once leuteant. governor
of Vermont, has been re-appoin ted to his position
| as associate justice Of the supr me court OF Da.
kota, which he resigned four years ago 10 serve as
delegate from that territory in congress.
has refused $4,000. And yet the speed of the
offspring is only conjctured by that of the dam
horse OF good pedigree often attains to a better
reputation than that of good road horse.
Mr.. Barber. of Illinois, made speech in the
House, last Friday, in which he said that he took
the present opportunity for speaking because il
seemed probable from the present condition of at
fairs that this would be the last session of the
American congress ever held.
The Richmond (Va.) dispatch thus tells the ex.
rebel democrats /" how to do it," "Unseat every
congressman elected by the supervisors and depu
ty marshas. Not man Of them ought to be allow
ed to lcgisiate for free people. They are mere
tools of despotic government"
Quebec dispatch states that a number Of
prominent conservatives were interviewed Fri.
day, and live out of six aveIred that they prefer
annexation to the United States to the regime Of
the English whip and Downing street Interference
with responsible government in Canada
The Virginia court of appeals, the only court
that has refused to obey the order of the United
States supreme court reversing its judgments las
it did in 1909 has finally yielded to federal authoi
ty and reversed one of Its judgments in comnN
ance with the order of the supreme court
i"e NC" olledus auNllllly sanitary ass DC lltion
composed OF the leading merchants of that city,
has organized to cooperate with the municipal and
health authorities in an active and unremitting
enortt preserve in New o. leans, throughout the
summer, the present unexampled good health of
its citizens.
The Illinois legislature has before it a proposi.
ton for constitution amendment providing that
sessions of the general assembly for The burmese f
law-making shall he held but once in six years lint
that the biennial SEES ions shall be continued tor
the purpose oil making the regular APPROXIMATIONS
and tax levies.
The Chicago Inter. Ocean has done a very c,uel
thing. 1t has canvasscd the county IAN to anJ ont
the politics OF TIE inmates II finds that On raroo
the two leading parties are concerned, the arpres
stand lG3 TO p. And there is not an intelligent,
man in the country who needs to be told 70 which
party the higher figure belongs.
touching incident In the Cleyeland tOhio) no.
lice court the other day was the venerable Judue
Tilden's prosecution of his own son Tor stealing n
coat and then pawning 1t. After examining his son
and saying that he was satisfied that the youpq
man was guilty, Judge Tilden burst into tears and
could not control himself for some minutes.
Controller Kelley, ofNew York, has promised
The Brooklyn bri lge trustees to pay 400 900 a,
once toward completing the bridge, and the same
amount every month until the million due ia maid
The total cost of the bridge will be $l3 $50 Co., and
it will take So 10000 beside the present million
due from New York to complete the structure.
England Is getting taste of the depress sion which
has been 80 bitterly felt this side of the Atlantic
during the past six years the worst of 1t is that
no present prospect of reliefs visible The renor,s
of the export trade are especially discourarinp il
having come to that pass that there Is talk of start
ing lines of steamers to come over here in ballao,
for the purpose of carrying back American c.ttla
When the will of the late Theod Marsh pa,
sale, N. j., was opened it was found that be hod
made liberal provision for his four horses uo
stipulated that $500 year should be set aside cor
each, payable in monthly install lments tha, ,hor
should have the use of his farm for their lives no
side 81, 800 to build them a suitable stabe II Mil
require an investment of $4,000 to secure the in.
come for the horses.
Charles Wing, the Chinamau who was natural
lied In New York the the other day, saws h. mill
fight for this country If necessary-eyen agairs,
China; that the difference between the Irishmon
and the Chinaman is, the former aosen,t wan, -
work and the latter does; and finally, that he will
vote for Mclean man every time, and for Irish |
man not once. That settles 1t. The Cbineso w.,