Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-02-04

The value of merchandise exported from
this country during 1879 exceeded that of
the year 1873 to the amount of SIS, 03S, APO.
Wisconsn's prison directors take the
novel ground that life Imprisonment is
too cruel Il punishment for murder, though
it is strange how they can think that
when 81 of the 81 life term convicts
committed to their prison have been par
doned or otherwise released.
Indian Commissioner IIoyt has been
removed by Secretary Sehurz. lie had
been engaged in corrupt practices in
which Inspector Hammond was concerned.
Hammond confessed. Gen. Fiske of St.
Louis was the man who brought the
matter to Il conclusion and deserves the
credit of it.
REV. Cowley, of the New York So
called Shepherds Fold has been favored
with twenty-five indictments for cruelty to
children under his charge. If the indct-
ments result in what the law calls for, the
inhuman reverend will get twenty-five
years in prison and fine of six thousand
dollars. Let him have it all. He deserves
it.
Stephen a. Douglas, Jr., recently of
North Carolina, has been making speech
in Illinois, in which he said: The people
of the south want Grant. They have
confidence in him. They believe that he
will finnish the protection that the repub-
licans need. They do not say just how
they expect him to regulate things, but
they think he can and will do it. The
south believes ne can be trus ed, and will
stick to him.
The president has signed patent for
grant of land in California, claimed by
the New Idria quicksilver mining compa-
ny, thus ending, so far as the executive is
concerned, the famous McGarrahan case,
which has occupied the attention of the
plblic for quarter of a century. and has
been the direct cause of the removal of at
lCISU GNO u tbiIitb iulIltSlClSs oOOlto vi
congressman and other public men have
been publicly accused Of being in connec-
ton with it.
MAINE.-The fusion Legislature submit
ted questions to the supreme court and
last week received an answer plainly de-
ciarinS that the republican legislature was
the legal enc. The fusionists then adj
burned till AoSa-t, but IL majority OF
them have gone into the regular legisla-
ture and taken their seats, The military
has gone home; " Governor" Smith has
returned to Olltown; the fusionist secre-
tary of state, Sawyer, has given up the
great seal and the records and all is once
more quiet in MIne
ALMOST BURIED ALIvE.-At Ottawa,
Canada, the other day, II small pox patient
came very near being buried alive. After
the coffin had been lowered into the grave,
the noise of the first two or three shovelfuls
of earth on the lid aroused the supposed
q dead man and caused him TO kick Justify.
The coffin was hastily drawn out and the
lid unscrewed. This supposed corpse sat
up and exclaimed, my God, have had
such II narrow cscape?" lie was at once
lifted out, an overcoat thrown over his
shoulders, and removed to the hospital,
where he is doing we'll and will recover.
The treasury statement for January
shows the effect of the business revival in
reduction of Sl1,014,263 in the debt,
which is now, less cash in the treasury,
$4,000, 1920. The per cent bonds of
1881 are reduced by s3,O55, 900 and the
fves of 1881 by S1,9450O0 the amount of
the secretary's recent purchases for the
sinking fund. The outstanding per cent
certificates are $4,000, 800, which is 1885,
600 less than a month ago, the four per
cent bonds being just so much increased
by conversion of the certificates into them.
The cash in the treasury amounts to
$203, 742, 26S, or little over $4,000, 900
less than a month ago.