Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-08-04

| against 627,0OO in 1870.
Pittsburgh ice dealers have got up
corner in ice, and consumers are obliged
to pay 20 .cents 100 pounds for ice in
small quantities.
ALABAMA ELECTIoN.-All the returns
indicate an immense democratic majority.
The republicans had no ticket in the field.
Fifty thousand democratic majority is
low estimate.
An Ottawa dispatch says that sixty-fve
million feet of lumber have been sold
within the past week by Ottawa mill
owners to American dealers, fifty million
feet to be delivered this fall.
The census Office says that the total
population of the United States will be n
little over 49,00O,0O0 The official count
will be needed to determine whether Ohio
or Illinois is the third state of the Union
in population.
Secretary Sherman has filed and index
ed every letter he has received for forty
years. He and his brother, the general,
have corresponded ever since they were
little boys. The letters number thousands,
and make three huge volumes. Some of
them, written before and some after great
movements and battles, cover 20 pages of
letter paper.
,,ntt, Ern, fnf, Of thn f.,
counties of Vermont show net gain for
the decade of 1869. OF the ten counties
Franklin, Washington and Windsor lost
1887; and Addison. Grand Isle, Lamolle,
Orange, Orleans, Rutland and Windham
gained 4,046. Rutland county makes the
largest gain-1.120; and Washington
shows the largest decreased, 16l.
There are S6,497 miles of railroad in
operation in the United States, according
to Poor's Manual for 1872 and the Rail
way Age reports greater activity in the
projection and construction of railways
for the year 1890 than has been equaled in
this country since the panic of 1873. It'll
is not improbable that the number of
miles of new road built this year will ex-
coed that of 1871, the year of greatest
increase, when 1879 miles of new track
were laid.
Gen. Hancock and Mr.. English have
written their letters of acceptance. That
Af Cn, IInpooolz &c I,o 1otto,, of
man-wherein it differs from that of Mr..
English whose letter reads like the letter
of demagogue. Gen. Hancock is let
ter of generaliies and especially on linan-
cial questions he makes no declaration
that will satisfy business men that he will
not fall before the vagaries of southern in
| tlationists.
The AntiMasons have nominated Gen.
John w. Phelps. of Brattleboro. for presi-
dent and the venerable general accepts. 1t
is question whether Gen. Phelps or Gen.
Dow will get the fewer votes. Their
running will be a good deal like the mans
moving out west. His household goods
had been started with an ox.team that
was Just about stalled in the muddy road.
A horseman came by and hailed him with,
moving, are you?' The man took n
survey of his pretended procession and
replied, blamed little, if any"
That famous letter of Hancock's that
was so much talked about at Cincinnati
has been published 1t bears date Dec.
26, 1876 and its main interest lies in the
fact that it would take Il Philadelphia law
yer about seven years to find out the place
in it where Hancock said anything about
obeying Tilden after the then next third of
March. The letter consists of an abund-
ance of lame reasoning to prove that if
the Senate and House didn't agree as to
who was elected president the House
might then proceed to elect at once.
A circular issued by an accident insur-
dnce company of Mobile, contains table
giving the names of persons who have re-
ceived accident policies during the past
six or seven years In each instance the
amount paid and the character of the "ac-
cident" are given. OF the fifteen persons
named, one was injured by fall. one was
killed by railroad train, and one was
drowned. The accidents " in the other
twelve cases are put down MS follows
Killed by pistol" " Hung by mob. I"
&" Gun shot wound" Pistol shot" "Kill-
ed gun shot" KILLED, gun shot" "Kill-
ed, gun shot" KILLED, attempting to
make arrest" KILLED, gun shot" Kill
ed, pistol shot" pistol shot, "Mur-
dered."
SOME STATE CENSUS RETURNs.-Census
returns from few of the larger states are
so full that their population can be closely
estimated. The states included in the fol-
lowing list are all commonwealth whose
growth from 1870 to 1880 is likely to be
above rather than below the average:
State. 1880. 1870.
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