Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-04-14

school, and feroclously attacked ths llltle
girls. The mistress told the pupils to
stand on their desks. and they did so, but
not before fourteen had been bitten.
Pennsylvania retains on its statute books
a law taxing watches, but the returns seem
to show that few watches are owned in the
state. In some wealthy towns the asses
sors do DOT know person who owns
watch of any kind.
Gen. A. F. Stevens, of Nashua will pre-
side over the New Hampshire republican
convention May 9Th. The Manchester
Mirror and Anlerican Newspaper, which
has declared for Edmunds, says this is IL
good selection "of n representative man
who does not wear the collar of any pres
idential candidate"
The six years-old son of James Lewis,
who keeps a saloon on Fourth street, Troy.
was left alone. He helped himself 10 a
quantity of whskey from barrel, and
when his parents returned they found him
stupefied. A doctor was summoned, and
did all in his power, but in few hours
death put an end to the boy suliering'.
Some days ago one of the brainiest and
most prominent members of the United
States Senate made an application through
the local office of New York insurance
company to have his life insured. The
usual examination followed, and his pa
pers were returned to him with the eXpla-
nation that they were rejected on account
of his drunkenness.
The king of Siam is about to make a
tour to England and this country, coming
hither about July LIST. He will be accom-
panied by splendid retinue, among whom
will be several royal princes, the ministers
of war and foreign affairs and dozen
prominent noblemen. He will remain
three weeks in America, going south as
far as Richmond and West as far AS
Chicago. His visit is the result of an
earnest invitation extended by the ex-
president when he was the kings guest in
Siam.
RATHER Too SANGuINE. The last bulle-
tin from Bltines bureau ut Washington
claims, rs usual, that his nomination is
certain, and, among its reasons for think
ing so, declares that he is dead sure of ten
votes in Massachusetts and solid dele
CATION from New Hampshire. This may
do to tell marines of the Mississippi val
lev, but everybody in New England
knows that he won't get four votes from
Massachusetts unless he steals them, and
if New Hampshire republicans are fairly
Represented at Chicago. he had better not
pay for solid delegation from this state
till he sees the e.-MancheSter Mirror
The fifteen great American invention
of worldwide adoption are: l. The cotton
gin. 2. The planning machine. 3. The
great mower and reaper. 4. The rotary
printing press. 5. Navigation by steam
6. The hot air engine. z. The sewing
machine. 8. The India rubber industry
TO-. The machine manufacture of horse
shoes. 10. The sand blast for carving.
IL. The gauge lathe. II. The grain
elevator. -. Artificial ice making on Il
large scale. IA. The electric magnet and
its practical application. 10. The com
JUSTLY lltChIHt lul pllIlteIS. n SlAlpcnll
must be added-the telephone.
tits reported that rilden is physically
undone and that his physicians warn hin
against the strain of another contest
Nevertheless the old gentleman propose
to stick TO the candidacy as long as ther,
is any hope for him. A certain humble
of democrats who were in favor of tn
Jewett boom called recently on Mr.. Tildei
to learn his views concerning their favor
lite, and were told that he (riden) wa
himself a candidate, and he did not pro
, pose to allow anybody else to stand in hi
way if he could hell it. Whereupon tn,
Jewett men departed with the admission
it is said, that nothing but death coult
relax Tilden's hold on the democrats
f party.
Iron is the first of the great staples t.
fall sharply. cluster of mills in easter
Pennsylvania having dropped the pric
r to S35 u ton. and II large number of othe
establishments through the state havin,
: stopped work, alloge her in the hope G
r keeping up prices. As n general rule
e however, establishments engaged in tn
+ manufacture of iron are still at work I'm
! lder profitable contracts, while the reduction
bites into the profits of those holding larg
stocks for speculative rise. Pig-iron !,
$40 a ton, its quotation for three month
Q past. was in abnormal price which il VIA
CLEARLY impossible long to maintain, and
fall in CT t,In q uhnln Si,
= that the speculative boom of the last 81
months is nearly over.
+ Commercial Bulletin : Strikes are ba
for both manufacturers and workmen
d, is hard to believe that workingmen rs
whole have ever been benefited by them
If wages have many times been increased
a great deal of time has also been sper
q ia striking, Count the value of the tim
n that has been lost against the increase {
r. wages and the balance will be against tn
strike, every time. Ask any fair minde
/. laborer if he believes that the strike h
a was engaged in II year ago has put NOR
money into his pocket than he would hav
had if he bad continued to work rigt
IS along through the time lost and be wi
invariably tell you no. Then there ar
all the bills of the strike to be paid; tn
poor men to be carried through; and tn
unpleasantness an the worry. Strike
do not pay the laborer. and they N
+. ruinous to the manufacturer.
e The last of the $4,000 shares held b
d the New York Central railroad syndcat
g has been disposed of, the demand bein
o so great that subscribers could get but s
per cent of the amount they desired.
a is said that the Gould clique hold the Ell
r tire $50, 900 shares, and that Gould an
Dillon will be made directors of the Cen
trail railroad at the next election in Jun,
e 1t is Furthermore stated that Vanderbilt i
le working in harmony with Gould in carry
~ ing out the atter's idea of grand railroa
IS mnopoly between the Atlantic and tn
re Pacific. Vanderbilt invested S36,00OOO
Of in government four per cents. all of whic
l. is believed to have been derived from r,
le cent sales of Central stocks. As he ha
ot disposed OF but about one-third of tn
Is whole amount Of the Central stock. all