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

! In fourteen months Gov. Blackburn of
Kentucky has pardoned over l, 900 peniten-
iiary convicis and RENTED fines to the
amount of $4,000.
1t is estimated that 800, OOO0 900 of cap
ital has been withdrawn from California
in consequence of the burdens imposed
upon it by the new constitution.
There are some $4,000 more females
than males in Philadelphia, and vet some
people wonder why some girls marry
bow-legged Philadelphia Chronicle.
In nearly every state where there was
free and fair election the percentage of the
republican increase of vote at the late
election was larger than that of the
democrats.
The Philadelphia american gets Mr..
Hayes s idea. 1t expects Gen Towards
influence to counterfeit "some of the worst
mischiefs in the moral atmosphere of our
military monastery on the Hudson"
L. J. Jennings, the London correspond
ent of the New York World, says that the
English demand for American canned
goods is being ruined by the poor quality
of the goods now being sent.
Vennor's latest cheering prediction is
that we are 10 have n terrible snowstorm,
beginning December 22d and continuing
seventeen hours, during which time an
average depth of eleven feet and half of
snow will fall. Perhaps it would be as
well to begin to prepare to dig out now.
Bernhardt's receipts in Boston will
| RI oh ot lon,t oRn ono h. 81 <Df
engagement there. She has had good
time off the stage during her stay in
Boston, visiting puplic places of interest,
and though she has not circulated freely
in Bacon street she has talked with
Harvard professors. and received much
attention from artists and members of the
press.
A London special says: The earl of
Dutferin will be transte rred from st. Pc
tersburgh to the British embassy at Con-
stantinople, in place of Mr.. Goschen. Sir
Edward Thornton, now minister at Wash
ington, will be raised to the rank of am
bassador, and sent to succeed the earl of
Dufferin at st Petershurgh. The post
vacated by Sir Edward Thornton will be
filled bv the promotion of Francis Clare
Ford, Esq formerly secretary of legation
at Washington, who succeeded the late
Mr. G. Buckley Matthew in June, 1879, as
British minister at Rio de Janerio.
The latest dispatches from London are
of an ominous tenor. The excitement
over the Irish question, which has been
increasing rapidly of late, seems now to
be at fever heat. Lord Cranbrook, the
distinguished conservative statesman. Sc
verely denounced the present government
in an address, declaring that if the habeaS
corpus act was not suspended, further
outrages must be laid wholly to the COVER
ment's charge. Meanwhile outrages are
increasing, and a positive regin of terror
seems to have begun. The news from
Ireland may at any moment be of a
startling character,
The death of Horace Morrell, wealthy
and eccentric retired California merchant,
was telegraphed from Philadelphia.
| Mr.. Morrell boarded at the Windsor
House, Oakland, in the spring of 1877.
The proprietor, Mr. Wheeler, describes
him as reserved in manner and very
eccentric. He generally ordered dozen
or so of pies to be set upon the table
before him, and then from this congrega-
ton of the tempting but indgestive viands
would select one pie and carve out Just the
sized triangle that suited his very peculiar
ideas. He might not want a large piece,
but he did want the privilege of making a
selection. Other traits and whims are
men Toned which would have won him
honorary membership in the eccentric
club of London.-San Francisco Post, Nov.
| l6,