Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-04-07

four candidates for governor, republican,
democratic, prohibition and greenback.
A petition signed by $4,000 women.
asking for the regulation of the alcoholic
liquor traffic. was presented in the House,
on Tuesday.
Kearneyism has received a setback in
san Francisco. The citizens ticket was
successful by seven thousand five hundred
majority last week in that city.
The bill to pay the marshals passed the
Senate last week with the house rider upon
it. Mr.. Edmunds made the only speech
against it, the democrats declining debate.
A cyclone Friday evening at Ottawa,
Kansas, and along Thunderbolt Greek
killed three persons, wounded many more,
destroyed seventeen houses and much
other property.
For the month of February the value of
imports into the customs district of YER
mont was Sj97,O53; and the domestic
exports from and through the district
we're valued at S59,S9S.
The execution of Tatro made the fourth
f Vermont murderers within fifteen
months; and one more, Hayden, the wife
murderer is confined at Windsor, sentence
ID to be hanged in 1881.
Warlike movements continue in Russia
md China, and it looks as though a clash
If arms between the two countries were
| probable. The former natiUu looks TO-
ward America for arms, ammunition and
coal.
The strike among the New York plane
workmen is over and they have returned
to work ut advanced wages. There is m
important strike in the COhoes, n. Y,
mills where neither party seems inclined
to yield.
Speaker Randall is in bad odor among
his fellow democrats at Washington. and
is accused Of working to secure his own
ends, to the detrment of democratic adj
vantage in the House. The Georgia Con-
stttutsooa thinks there is nobody 50 dead in
politics as Randall.
Rhode Island has a state election on
Wednesday, when the republicans are OK
| pected to carry the state, Us usual. The
prohibtionists have separate candidate
this year, and this may throw the election
into the legislature, us majority is nee.
essary TO elect.
Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher
died in Boston Monday. lie was Il grand.
son of Gen. Knox of the revolution and
was born in 1906 at Gen. knoX's residence
in Maine, then part of Massachusetts.
He had been for some years on the retired
list.
B. P. Cheney of Boston and y. White oil
Concord, N. H., have sold the United
States and Canada express company to the
American express company. No change
however is contemplated in the manage
ment at present and the change of owner
ship involves nothing affecting the rela-
tons of the business to the general pub
lie.
Senator Edmunds is the first choice Of
eight members Of the republican city
committee of Worcester, Mass. and the
second choice of five. Gen. Grant is the
first choice of five and the second choice
of four, while Secretary Sherman is the
first choice of one and the second choice
Of three. Senator Blaine is the second
choice of one.
The reduction Of the national deb. for
the last month was fourteen millions and
three quarters, the largest reduction in
any single month during the whole history
of the country, and the llrsest reduction
of its national debt ever male by any
country in the world in one month. If
this rate could be maintained the whole
debt would be paid in eleven wears; but
that is not to be expected. if it is to be
desired.
The unusual mildness of the past win.
ter is accounted for, according to the New
York Herald, by the discovery that the
temperature of the ocean near the coasts
of North America is several degree,
warmer han in former years. Such \
change of course is not temporary. bnt
must depend upon causes which will last
and are probably progressive. The dis.
covcrers of this fact are Of opinion that
the coming summer will be warm and
moist.
RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.-The
House foreign Affairs committee raye =
hearing, Friday, on the subject of the
Canadian reciprocity treaty, prominent
merchants of Boston and Portland appear.
Ing in advocacy of such u treaty. A letter
WAS read from Ex-Governor John Gregory
Smith advocating the proposed commits.
SION to ascertain on what basis CONNER.
clal treaty can be negotiated for the mutual
benefit of the United States and Canada,
and saying he did not believe Congress
man Joyce represented flirly the senti.
ment of the people of Vermont
The exodus of skilled labor from Cana
da to the United States proves keen
weapon in the hands of the opposition.
who ascrbe it to the governments pro-
tective tariff. French Canadians are also
aocking to this side of the line, according
to the Montreal Sur, as well as mer.
chants and business men who have been
losing money in the dominion. The tariff
is especially obnoxious in New Brunswick
which was the only province returning 4
liberal majority at the general elections,
and its leading men openly threaten to
secede from the confederation unless they
are given relief
Senator Eaton sometime ago threatened
to "jump on Blaine" lie never jumped.
but an equally interesting scene with what
this would have been was enacted in the