Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-07-14


votes.
Col. William T. Pelton, nephew of ex-
Gov. Tilden. died Thursday morning. He
was 81 years old.
Cadet Whitaker is still under guard. He
maintains his stolid indifference, and never
speaks unless he is spoken to.
Gen. Butler will stump Maine for the
fusionists it is said. Whether he is for
Hancock or Weaver does not yet appear.
Something like deadlock is reported in
the wool trade. Growers demand higher
prices than the buying interest is willing
TO concede.
Secretary Sherman has returned to the
government three millions of dollars not
expended out of the appropriations for
carrying on his department during the past
fiscal year.
but what's his name or where's his
home"-this query of old time is now
rivaled to that of "what was it" in rela-
ton TO the Hancock Sherman letter.
Mr.. Toots remark is applicable.
Battleboro folks don't seem to know
where those one hundred republican SOL
diers who are going to vote for Hancock
are. That kind of material is good deal
more frequent in distant places than near
by anybody.
The Vermont press association will hold
its annual meeting at St. Adams, probably
| the last week in this month The address
will be given by Lewis b. Hbbard of the
Ludlow Tribune and the poem by Rev.
Homer White, of Enosburgh Falls. An
excursion to Quebec will be arranged if
convenient.
BURNED TO DEATH.-The old Dearborn
homestead at Auburn, N. H., occupied by
Frank |. Dearborn, was burned on the
night of July 9Th. A daughter, eight
years old, of Charles Horton, Dearborn's
hired man, perished in the flames. Horton
was seriously injured while trying to res
cue his child.
The Virginia readjustcrs last week put
an electoral ticket in the field They
support Hancock but will not vote for the
electoral ticket of the funders." This of
course will make the campaign lively
The funders, or regular democrats, say
they will not yield to the demands of the
readjusters.
The democratic party will find the ma
ority of the business men of the country
against them this year more powerfully
even than in 1876. The wheels OF trade
and commerce are moving along satisfac-
torily, and tho mercantile community
breads the dangers and agitations of a
political revolution in the government.
1t is worth remembering, perhaps, that
S. NJ. Waite, the defaulting banker of
l}rattleboro, was an aspirant for the state
ltrcasurership in 1866, when Hon. John A.
Page was first elected and it was under
stool three months ago that he contem-
plated another trial this year Where the
state finances would have come out, if be
had got in, may be imagined.
In New York DR.. Tanner still CONTINUES
his selfimposed task, and attracts the
usual crowd of morbid and sympathetic
sighlseers. The indications begin to null
tiply that he will fail to hold out many
days longer, although the doctor himself
does not seem 10 have lost confidence. He
began lasting at noon June % with the
determination TO fast forty days
One of the schemes for practical tele-
phoning ut long distances has taken shape
in the formation at Albany of the Inter-
state telephone company, which is to con =
struct line from Boston to Washington.
seems to be in good hands. Ex-Secretary
Benz amin II. Bristow is one of the direct
ors, and with him are associated on the
board Charles S. Smith, Frederick Kuhne
and others.
Gen. JAS. b. Weaver was ut Chattanooga
Monday on his way to Alabama where h,
opened his campaign at Scottsville yester
day. He feels confident that as the green
back candidate he can carry Alabama
Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, Missouri
Arkansas and West Virginia, and tina
Kearney will carry California for him
He also proposes to make great gain
J elsewhere.
- SUiCIDE.-Mrs. Henry Moulton of Shar
on committed suicide on Saturday last, b
hanging. Her husband was absent, an
= She had sent her only child, small boy
Il away to neighbours. She was frs
found by her husband on his return in tn
y evening The cause was temporary il
:, sanity, arising from long continued Hines
:, and family trouble. Her father hun
~ himself some years since.
W J. AMERICAN INsrTTUTE.-Rev. Henri
l. Ward Beecher gave the closing address
in the American institute of instruction ;
" Saratoga, N. Y, on Thursday afternoon
If the subject being the new profession. II
o said the great danger of our country is
"a the ignorance of our people. Don't q,
o. poor and cheap teachers for the childrc,
IN but get the best The business of teachin
must be made so honorable and lucrati,
W that it will command the best talent in Il
50 country.
re St. Louis was so hopping mad A." whc
10 the census supervisors returned but 375
r 900 inhabitants as her quota, that nun
,e Der of public spirited citizens subscribed
Us fund to pay the letter carriers for findin
lie out just how many had been missed I'll
carriers have turned in 2i,OOO name
overlooked altogether, and, while tn
,e leaves the Mound City 100000 behind riv.
n Chicago, they conceal their chagrin und,
/, a bitter attack on the careless enumeralir
% which skips one in every fifteen.
S A correspondent of the Hartford Cou
ID ant says General Gibson. representa-,
IS and senator elect from Louisiana. and