Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-12-22

Rutland disgorged itself the other day
To have looked around the state house
one would have thought that the capital
had been moved into the house of correc-
ton.
DR.. H. G. Brigham breaks up house.
keeping next month and goes to board
with Mrs. Hubbard on State street. MIR.
H c. Webster, now living on Berlin
street, is to move into the house which
DR.. Brigham vacates.
The Worcester Spy says of the Ver-
mont railroad litigation; The bar of
Vermont has lived and grown fat on YER
mont Central litigation for twenty years
or more, and if the latest decision were
final, the learned and ingenious lawyers
I of Vermont might well go into mourning
| There is no occasion for that yet, however,
and we see no reason to doubt that another
generation of Vermont lawyers may get
profit and honor from the Vermont Cen
trail case, as their fathers have done. The
facts of the case are complicated beyond
all ordinary powers of comprehension
The famous Schleswig- Holstein case,
which only one man in Europe under
stood, was not more so.
| VERMONT SHEEP ABRoAD.-It would
seem that this country is distined to excel
in about everything in the way of stock as
compared with European countries, and
now it is sheep which are gaining in repu-
taton and are being sought by foreign
breeders. At the meeting of the national
wool growers association, held not long
ago at Philadelphia, heeces from Australia
and America were secured for comparison
The persons in charge of the securing had
no knowledge of the nativity of the sheep
from which the feeces were shorn. Com
petent judges were secured to appraise the
heeces when secured and found that the
American fleeces produced l-2 pounds of
dressed wool, and the Australian less than
I412. On heariug of this result a promi-
nent sheep-breeder of Melbourne visited
this state and New York and was con
WINGED that our sheep are far superior to
those of his country, and bought two rams
and two ewes for immediate shipment to
his home. The secretary of the national
wool growers association some time ago
sent three car loads of American Merinoes
to Japan.
New LAws.-Last week tho following
, House bills, among others, were signed
, by Governor Farnham: Legalizing thir-
teen town grand lists; changing the name
, of Norwich university to Lewis college
providing that the legal highway tax paid
} in labor shall be twenty-five cents on the
J dollar; by vote of town, highway tax
paid in money shall be twenty-five cents
on the dollar; requiring town superinten-
dents of schools to make detailed
account of services rendered and certify
to same before justice; then selectmen
shall draw an order to pay same; provid-
; ing that where writ or other process is
served by party specially authorized,
the amount recovered as costs shall not
be more than one-half of fees of regular
officers; laying tax on Chittenden coun-
tv of two cents on the dollar; appropria-
+ ting 81 900 for the house OF correction at
Rutland; amending the general statutes,
so that a school meeting by two-thirds
s vote and majority of grand list, may
sell property, etc. Among the Senate
, bills were the following: Providing that
the legislature shall fill all vacancies in
offices existing while the legislature is in
s session where the officers by law are
o elected by the Legislature; providing thai
when collector of taxes is restrained by
'' Injunction the time such injunction is il
= force shall not be construed part of the
. time within which the collector isrequiret
t to execute the warrant; and extending
~ the time for the construction of Wood
:. stock railroad len years and fifteen year
to put in operation.