Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-19

seQuently has 10 pay high rate OF interest,"
On all OF its deUt while only part Is
reached by the tax gatherer.
Sunset Cox has been sick at home with
a "malarial" fever. If he had it here he
would get 80 days in the work house.
Dissipation is said to be wearing him out.
Silver certificates are 50 common in |
Kansas that they have received popular
name, Withdrawals AS the banks can
not use them in remittances east and they |
are not legal tender, they are causing
much annoyance.
Two young men who were tobagganing
on Brehant's HILL Montreal. on Saturday
afternoon, lost control of their frail craft
and were hurled against fence like shot
from a catapult. One of them, named
Frazer, was dead when picked up, and the
other, Patrick Guy, is not expected TO
recover.
Tennyson had his hair cut by London
barber, the other day, and the knight of
the scissors made quite speculation by
disposing of the locks. One enterprising
American offered handsome sum for the
entire crop, and enthusiastic women ad-
mirers are persistent in their demands for
few hairs to work into rings and brooch
es as souvenirs.
There is likely to be some sharp lobby
work in Washington by the rival inter-
oceanic transit companies. Ex-Secretary
Thompson is there favoring the De Les
seps Panama canal scheme; Elk Commits
sioner Phelps is urging the Nicaragua
route; and Captain Eads has the Tehuan-
tepec ship railway in charge.
President Porter, at the Yale dinner in
Cincinnati last week, explains why Ohio
is becoming the mother of presidon is.
Not alone to its eastern blood, he said, and
the intermixture OF Scotch and Irish, but
to the institutions of learning so literally
scattered all over the state, more perhaps
than any other fact, is due the pre-
eminence that Ohio maintains in furnish
ing the nation with leading men.
Mr.. Kasson's friends. who are urging
his election as speaker of the next House,
claims that he is protectionist. In bis
diplomatic correspondence, published by
the state Department for the last two or
three years, Mr.. Kasson has made pro-
lection leading and frequent feature.
mentioning his observation OF the i'll
results of free trade abroad, and giving
his views as to the growing necessity OF
fostprinO protpptinn a holoa
A dispatch from the City of Mexico,
dated 9TH inst, says: Every steamer
brings a number of Americans to Mexico
some come to connect themselves with the
railways in course of construction neal
this city; others are representatives o
commercial interests. and still others are
tourists. The work is being pushed on al
railroads in the course of construction il
Mexico. Four rich mines in Sonora re
Gently changed hands, an American com
pany having paid 100000 for Quintana.
The London News, abiding to the dis
closures with regard to the fisheries Stats.
tics SAYS the OBJECT of the statements O
Henry Youe Hind is to vitiate the fisher
les award by vtiating the statistics
, accepted by both governments, on which
it rests. If Hints figures are correct
Justification has been committed, and tn
whole question must be reopened. Th,
9 Ne,Os adds: I'VE hope the government
, will refuse, in the name of English honor
, to profit by misstated case, and insist OIL
complete investigation"
Mrs. Valeria G. Stone of Boston ha
e made the following distributions from tn
Stone estate during the present month
Hampton Institute, Fortress Monroe, Va
800 600; Olivet College, Olivet. Mich
$4,000; Ripton College, Rpton. Wis
$4,000; Illinois College. Jacksonville
= Ill.,, $4,000; Marietta College, Marriott;
e Ohio, $40, 900; Beoit College, Beloit, Wis
, $4,000; Robert College. Constantinople
800, 900; Howard University, Washington
1926, 900; Berea College, Berea. Ky $40
J 900; New West Education Commission
n $12, $40; Evangelical work in France
e $4,000
i The San Francisco Alta, in an artic1
e upon the subject, asserts that, thanks t
Kearneyism, there has been decrease {
d thirty three million dollars in the bankin
If capital of California, that the improvement
J. of property has been checked, that tt
- number of depositors in the savings banl
has fallen off, that the looms of the banl
u were less last year than the repayments
ID borrowers, that the state, and that til
l. home capitalists are transferring the
h business to New York-certainly IN ell
:" gent crop of whirwind from the stor
T. sown by Kearney and his following.
~ Inspectors Richardson and Glidden
" Boston. Saturday morning, arrested o.
" William Worth, alias Frank Foster, ali
y Charles Mobiles, alias Williams, ali
% Forbes, alias several other names, up
~ charge of swindlng several women @
al of sums of money, varying from five
ly twenty five dollars. He some time a
he opened telegraph institute at No. |
ed fremont street, advertising to give
struction in all branches of the art
~ telegraphing, and to secure positions
Its pupils as soon as they were proficient
SO the art. The result was that he soon h
,at large class formed to whom he gave o
lesson, ut which he collected fees for /
Vi course, and decamped before the mt
mt lesson. He also admitted that he was
'or man who some time ago perpetrated t
40 same swindle in Providence, and
49, whom the police of that city have be
'0' looking for some time.
ng
loo Some interesting statistics of or
lin religious denomination are given in
on recently issued Methodist Year Book
ma, 1881. There are now in church fellc
ship 4,699,0 900 followers of John Wesl
with Methodist population estimate /
ers 23,400000. There are nineteen liv
'as bishops, of whom IL are in active serv
in in the northern states and in the sou
red ern. The net capital of The publish
nth house of the northern church is 81 $50, G
ere and its total profits in A years have b.
the over $3,0O0,O00. 1t issues 1000 book
OK day on the average. About TO periodic
1t emanate from the church in the north, ;
the $50 from all Methodisms. The church
nd, the north appropriates for missions $77
ys, 600 for 1881, about half of which will
ish expended at home, and the balance
be foreign fields. There are 10000 timer
its preachers in the field, and $1,000 |,