Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-09-29

Mrs w Briggs Montpelier, cut MOVERS 81
Gen. Weaver, in congratulatory dis
patch TO Gen. Plaisted, scorns the idea
that it was democratic victory in Maine,
and lets out the fact that, when the
democratic committee demanded pledges
Of Plaisted. and he declined to make them,
he was invited to take himself out of the
way, Taht he also declined to do.
A Young Japanese lady of sixteen, Miss
Minei Yabu, daughter of an official in the
emperor's household, has arrived in the
east from San Francisco. She is graduate
of the English school in Toxic, and will re-
main three years in America to perfect her
education She is poet and landscape
painter, and is described rs petite with
light com plexon, black eye and bright,
cheerful counntenace.
THE SEAT OF HoNoR.-Justus Dart,
elected representative from Weathersfield,
by majority of II over all, is to be con-
tested by r. B. Roundy, the democratic
nominee, because Of the ineligibility of Mr..
Dart. by reason of having lived just over
the line in Springfield, since the fire in Au-
gust which destroyed his house.
There was a curiously dramatic scene in
Delmonico's, New York. the other day,
A slight young fellow, with red moustache
sat in the cafe with couple of friends.
An elderly man, with gray moustache,
sat at a neighboring table and played with
IL crutch as he watched the younger man.
The Young man was James Barton Key
The elderly man was Gen. d lniel Sickles,
who killed Philip Barton Key one remark
able day in Washington. Fortunately the
| vendetta is not an American institution.
What does Mr. Smalley, secretary of the
| democratic national committee, me al
| when he cautiously informed his friend,
that the democrats will have four mem bers
of congress from ManeP Does he caun
I1add and Murch, greenbackers, as demo
Gratis and does he mean to say that tn,
present clerk of the House will not put the
names of Messrs. Reed and Lindsey on the
roll of the next congress? When at home
in Burlington. VT, the other day, Mr.
Smaley was qnite lippy over the prospec
! of four democratic members of congress
! from Maine.-Troy Times
The Eighth Women's Congress will b,
held in Boston, October l3. IA and 10
The object is further organization amons
| 10 Iar nd liSnugo he, lan
questions of the day. Mrs. Kate N. Dag
gett of Chicago is the president, and Mrs
Mary F. Eastman of Massachusetts secre
tary of the Congress. Among the prom;
,,nent eastern women who are officers ar
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs M. A. Liver
more, Prof. Maria Mitchell, Prof Ellen S
Richards, Abby w. May, Mary Putnam
Jacobs. NJ. D., Kate. Gennett Wells. Jen
ME June Croly and others.
| ENCOURAGING THE SAVING OF LITTLE
MIR. Fawcett, the post mastergeneral O
Great Britain, has hit upon u very cleve
device for the purpose of saving none.
among the lower classes. The govern
ment now issues at its various post Office
an official strip of paper, having upon
places for twelve postage stamps to b
struck. The possessor, man, woman, o
child, can whenever he has spare penn
buy a stamp and stick it upon the slip
When the slip is full, that is when twelv
stamps have been glued on, the holde
i. can, by taking the slip to the post Office
get saving bank receipt for shilling
which is the minimum deposit that tn
post office savings bank will take. 1t wi
be seen that this brings the advantages {
3 the government savings bank plan With
4 the reach of large neutrality-suspicious.
- children-who would receive no benet
it from it. In England much more than i
, this country, shilling represents quite
sum of money, and there are many VIII
could make up the hmount by fraction;
=; payments much easier than by one effort
A lesson in federation, not to sa
charity, may be drawn for our northern
d communities from the Maine election
l. Here is a state that boa SITS of being in I'll
van of American progr ess, in all that pei
tains TO the religion, morality and INTEL
. gence of her citizens. She is daughter
Massachusetts, and if she hasn't had
good bringing up, it isn't from lack
a, good example and good advioe-Senatc
+ Blaine to the contrary. She has had til
education of hundred years of fire.
" school, free press and free churches. an
-, through her seaport towns has receive
the impress of the wide worlds though
in and customs. And yet, when high officia
, of the state engaged in deliberate col
spiraey to reverse the result of popul,
x verdict, and to retain place and power /
= IA fraudulent subversion of the will of I'll
% people-bringing the state to the vere
49, of revolution and violence-and the
, crimes were detected, proven, and thwarte
a majority of the voters actually turnt
49, over to the foiled conspirators. at the vel
er first election when they could be rewardt
r, the office which they stole, but hadn't tn
It courage to keep! This is a step beyond Me:
, co, where they only honor successful usurl
p" ers. Such things might be expected
IT, states like Arkansas or Alabama, upC
which the blight of slavery so long reste
r. hut is the first instance, we believe, where
'6 crime against the electoral franchise, M
Id IL gross breach of official trust. has bee
=. openly and defiantlv rewarded by Ne
4. Z, ngland community. We can certain
n, afford to be more lenent hereafter
Judging southern assaults upon the ballo
g. box.-BOSton Herald,