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CROPS.

LONDON. Aug. PA volume of re-
ports on the harvest of the different
countries throughout the world brought
ont annually is now being issued.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08
BOSTON MARKET, June |.
SKIES, extended.
Nay five mar Cant rpQl

FLOUR.-The demand for -four is steady anu
quite firm. The sales have been at $4d4.35 t0I
western superhne; S4.50d475 for common extras
and a. .5005 rs for Wisconsin extras; and $jd6il
for Minnesota, including choice bakers brands.
w inter wheats have been IN demand at S5.75d6 q
for Ohio and Michigan; $5.750675 for Indiana, and
$3.50 AGO for St Louis and Illinois. Patent spring
wheats have been selling at $7dS, and patent winter
wheats at k6.7507 is per Dbl.
GRAIN-Is steady and in fair demand, with sales
of high mixed and yellow at 63 ld64c steamer
mixed and yellow at 81 r63c and grade ~
55G5Sc y bush. Oats are dull and prices are for me
white at 53a5jc; No white at SIC and No mixed
and No white at Assoc per bush. Rye IS quiet at
.2Odl 35 per BUSH Shorts and hue feed have Oeen
selling at $l5Gl6; and mddlings at $l7d2 per ton,
as to quality.
PRovISIONS.-The market for pork is quiet, and
the sales limited. We quote prime at $3dl5.3o,
ASA 1850 for old, and $l7. 5Odl Is for new aud
clear and extra clear at $2l02l 80 per Dbl lnclll.
ing backs Beef has been selling al SlOdl! lOI
mess and extra mess, and Sl3Gl4 for family, Lar a.!
has been selling at llSdllkc per 10 Tor city ana
western. Smoked hams range from lOb nc per
10, as to quality.
BUTFER.-Butter is in moderate demand, we
quote choice western and northern creamerles a.
2lG22c, and Is 02Oc for fair and good, New ron
aud Vermont diaries at l9d22c for choice l5dl e loI
fair and good, and 9Gi2c for old common chGlce
dairy packed western at 10 lie: ladle PaVAeii
western at l40l5c for choice, l2d 10 tor fair to goou
and hl2c v 10 for common.
CHEESE-Is in moderate demand. sales o.
choice fall cream at 91al0c, Sd9c for fair to soou
and 3d6c per ID. for common and skim.
EGGS-Are in demand at l4[Gl5c per dozen g =,
eastern, New York, Vermont, Canada and T. r.
Island, and l4c for western.
POTATOES.-rhe market Is dun and sales llmlt :
cd. Sales Of Aroostook Rose al 00c Maine Geht'a,t
Rose al 75dsOc Vermont and New YORK Rose at
7Od75oi Jacksons and Peerless al bodIOc' ana O"oU
goes at 6007Oc per bush.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

SHOCKING CAsUALTY.-A five. years-old
daughter of Isaac Cummings, wagon
painter, was drowned in Otter Creek, at
Vergennes, Sunday under the following
circumstances: Mr.. and Mrs. Cummings
left their home Saturday on visit, leaving
the girl and seven-years-old boy in
charge of the hired man, whose name we
did not learn. On Sunday the man took
the children, went down the creek two
miles and a half to pay visit, and, reach
ing the place, left the children in the boat
and went into the house. A strong wind
prevailed at the time, and soon the little
girl became frightened. The boy told her
to come and sit in his lap, and as she wa,
attempting to do so the wind and the mo
ton she impaired tipped the boat so that
the poor little girl was thrown into the
water. The boy could make no one hear
his cries, nor could he reach the girl.
though he says she rose to the surface five
times, but finally she sank to rise no more.
The body was recovered Sunday night.
AS we hear the story the hired man
showed cul pabIe and almost incredible
carelessness, and is directly responsible
for the little things life.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

SUNDAY TRAINs.-In letter relative TO
the refusal Of the Central Vermont man
agement to run Sunday train for the ac-
commodation Of the Grand Army of the
Republic Post at Brattleboro, Mr.. j. w.
Hobart, general superintendent SAYS: " 1t
is entirely useless to apply for Sunday
trains, because our rules regarding such
trains are positive, and we cannot under
any circumstances vary them unless in
case of distress, like death or destruction
of property. I know you will, upon re-
Election. see the propriety of our taking
this stand, as we should otherwise run into
an encouragement of all sorts of Sunday
gatherings which inevitably cover great
amount of drunkenness, swearing and
csrousing. The public, so far, fully sus-
tain us in our position, and ven those in
terested in camp meetings and other relig-
gious gatherings. especially desire that we
should not vary the rule. You can readily
see that unless we have such rule we
cannot easily discriminate between relig-
ious meetings without getting trouble at
once"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

Tricycling has become the fashionable
pursuit of the young men in England, and
as the ladies never fail to follow in the
wake of fashion when set by their admir-.
ers, the tricycle. has been adopted by them
with the greatest eagerness. At first ii
was considered rather FAST" and was
looked upon with shyness, but ever since
the newspaper account of the ride taken
by her majesty and the Princess Beatrice,
each royal lady mounted on her iron horse
and careering gayly on the high road and
through the green lanes round Osborne,
all scruple has banished. 1t is urged that
no danger can exist, as the queen, who is
a heavy, fat old lady, was enabled 10 sit
her sleed with as much ease and confidence
as when in former days she used to prance
so proudly on her high mettled horse be-
fore the troops at review. And 80 profess
sors of the bicycle and tricycle. abound in
London, and the racing and chasing along
the suburban roads at twilight and the
laughing and chatting as the iron coursers
shoot by, give quite a new aspect to the
solitary walks round London.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

The sale is announced of the Panama
railroad to the De Lesseps Panama Canal
company, the conditions being that the
stock of the company is to be bought at
$3.50, and that the railroad company is to
retain the cash assets now 10 its treasury,
which, it is estimated, amount to an addi-
tonal 45 per cent, so that the stockholders
will receive about 295 per cent for their
stock. Hon. Trenor w. Park, president
of the company, is understood TO be the
heaviest stakeholder and to control a
majority of the stock. The Canal compa-
ny is to pay $4,0O0,000 on July LIST, and
after that one fifth of the remainder of
the purchase money each year, with
interest at six per cent. The Panama
railroad company is to retain the posses
sion and management of the property
until the whole amount shall have been
paid, and also retain Il majority of the
seats in the board of directors. The CAPT
tai stock of the Panama railroad company
is $7,000,000, and at $50 the purchase
money would amount, therefore, to S17,-
100000. The cash assets to be retained
by the company, which amount to
something more than $3,000,000, make
the value of the property, according to
the agreement, between $4,000, 900 and
$2l 100000.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

New York physicians deprecate the use
of velocipedes by young boys on the
ground of its tendency to produce hernia
or rupture.
The new commissioner of agriculture,
Hon George B. Loring, will take possess
sion of the office July LIST, when Cen lie
Due retres.
Judge Wheeler has rendered decision
in the Stewart case, sustaining Mr.. Chtten.
dens claim TO act as counsel for Mr..
Stewart and leaving ex-Judge Barrett out
in the cold.
Gary knight of South Walden cut his
hand on Il circular saw about three weeks
ago, since which time he has been a great
sufferer from erysipelas, and died MAY 3lst.
Postmaster-General James expects to
reduce the annual expenses of the post
Office department one million dollars be-
fore the first of July without injury to the
service.
The Howe scale works, Rutland, are,
with the numerous engagements made
during the year past, too small to accom- :
modate the growing business of the COM
pany. 1t is now proposed to add fort Y
feet to the foundry.
An exchange says it is an error to sup
pose that only the editors and reporters
supply news worth reading. The skiIlful
advertiser furnishes great share of it,
and if there are any readers who fail to
bok over the advertising columns of their
paper, they miss great deal of informa-
ton that would prove valuable to them.
The thirteenth annual reunion of the
Army of the Potomac will be held at Hart.
ford, to-day. Secretary of War Lincoln,
Gen. Sherman, Gen. Burnside, Gov. Lit
tlefield of Rhode Island, Gov. Bigelow of
Connecticut and staff, Gen. Stewart L.
Woodford of Brooklyn and Gen. W. b.
Franklin will be present, and there is a
possibility that Gen. Grant will also at
tend. Daniel Dougherty of Philadelphia
will deliver the Grafton, and Col. Sumner
of the forth-ninth Massachusetts volun-
teers will read a poem. Probably fifteen
hundred ex-soldiers will be in line. Bur-
lngton will be represented by Generals
William Wells, w. w. Henry and T. s..
Peck and Messrs George II. Bigelow and
g. G.. Benedict
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

Mr.. Joseph Mckay, late head of the
firm of Joseph Mckay & Brother, dry
goods merchants of Montreal, has just
died in that city He was born in Scot
land, 1910. and removed to1Montreal fifty
years ago, engaging in the dry goods bust
ness. He amassed great fortune, esti-
mated at the time of his death to be be-
tween $4,000 900 and 100000, He was
never married, and leaves only one broth
er, who is also millionaire. He was
very liberal, established hospital and
gave generously towards its support, built
the Presbyterian college and was a constant
contributor to it, erected u palatial asylum
for the deaf and dumb, and gave largely
to houses of refuge and to the Presbyterian
church. His fortune is bequeathed tc
public and religious objects.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

PLANETS IN JUNE.-The astronomer of
the Providence journal promises that the
skies of June will be full Of attractions to
star-gazers, and especially to those whose
enthusiasm urges them to arise early in
the morning. Saturn and Jupiter are bid
ding farewell to each other for twenty
years, and Venus passes them both in her
rapid course, causing two brilliant con.
functions. Venus now rises IA little before
3 o'clock, and on the 9TH overtakes Saturn
passing within eleven minutes of him.
On the 9Th she reaches her point of great
est brilliancy, is bright enough to be
readily seen after sunrise and objects
illumined by her rays cast perceptibe
shadows. Jupiter is morning star and is
approaching the earth, and before the end
of the month will shine in increased size
and brightness. Saturn, Mars and Nep-
tune are also morning stare, and Mercury
and Uranus evening stars, the last in each
group being invisible to the naked eve.
Three quarters of an hour after sunset is
the best time to look for Mercury. when
he will be found about twelve degrees
above the horizon and one degree south
of the point of the suns setting. The
June moon fulls on the 18th, and gives us
the rare treat of a total lunar eclipse
This can only occur at the time of full
moon, and there would be total eclipse
of the moon every month if the suns path
and the moons path were on the same
plane or level, but as the moons orbit is
inclined to the ecliptic the moon must be
at her node or crossing point at the time
of full moon in order to he totally eclipsed
On the morning of the 18th the conditions
are favorable for grand exhibition. The
moon is full at her node at her nearest
point to the earth, and will pass centrally
through the earth's shadow The eclipse
begins 26 minutes after midnight. The
total phase commences at In. 49,. and ends
at Oh. Sim. The eclipse ends Oh. DOM
On the 2lst the moon is in conjunction
with Mars and Saturn. On the morning
of the 22d the heavens will present a
superb picture, made up of the waning
moon, the bright planets, Venus and
Jupiter. Between ) o'clock on the morn
ing oftthe 2lst and at o'clock in the after.
noon of the 22d the moon is in conjunction
with five planets, Mars Saturn. Neptune,
Jupiter and Venus.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

Carl Schurz is now revising the proof
sheets of his philosophical, psychological
and historical novel, soon to be published
by Boston house. 1t is to be entitled
" Max's Undersoul." In the preface the
author says: This creative work of the
imagination is both psychologist study
and a prose epic of great historical events =.
seek to give in the guise of fiction true
idea of some things that the historian 8
pen is not long enough or sharp. nibbed
enough to properly indite. seek at the
same time to trace the gradual develop
ment of a colossally noble soul through
much misfortune and heart-woe, and to
celebrate the ultimate triumph of aesthetic
qualities over the merely moral and
intellectual. incidentally, some of the
largest questions Of political, social, econ
mic, politico' social, socio-economic and
economi-poltical import are fully eluci.
dated" Max Wurst is the hero whose
fortunes are followed through four hundred
and forty-five pages duodecimo.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

WHAT FOUR WOMEN DTD.-Four sis
ters, the daughters of Vermont farmer,
were left orphans. They had farm up
in the mountains, which, at best, yielded
but scanty income. Their only brother
was young boy, for whom they were
very ambitious. With little money, and
and great fund of energy, they came to
Boston, mot TO put their names on the
books of some " Women's Union" or
semi charitable institution as highly
educated young ladies " who wanted lady
like employment and sit about for some
thing to turn up, finding fault, meantime,
with cold, unfeeling world. They took
house in the business part of the city
took what boardars they could accommo-
date, but made the piece de resistance OF
their euterprise-lay board. They OPEN
ed two parlors which we're for a dining
room. They are carpeted, draped. picture
hung, and made generally refined, and
people like to come to them. The tables
are arranged with the most scrupulous
neatness. The linen is dainty and always
fresh; the silver is bright; the details
in every respect, are those of refined
home. The meals are not elaborate, but
everything is excellent of its kind, per-
fectly cooked and perfectly served. With
the aid of one servant, these four young
women manage their establishment. In
dainty, white-rufled aprons. they serve
the guests at their table in graceful,
ladylike way that attracts people They
have placed their younger brother in a
good school; they are making a comforta-
BILE support, and their own pleasant home
altogether. Now. when women can at
tain to this manner of common sense in
their lives, which is quite as needful as
common sense in the household" we
shall not see thirty highly educated
young ladies advertised in the morning
papers OF Boston, at loss to know what
is going to become Of them.-Boston
Traveller.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

Sophie Pieoffsky. or Perowskaja, who
was lately hanged for her share in killing
Alexander H., had been socialist since
she was sixteen, laboring among peasants
in the fields rs n man, among mechanics
in work shops, and underwriting to awaken
dissatisfaction with their wretched lives.
This life continued twelve years, with an
episode Of transportation to Siberia, three
years ago. She escaped on the way by
dragging the tea of her guards, and
worked her way back to St. Petersburg in
peasants dress. She was never suspected
by lodging house keepers and police of
being lady, she had SO Unidentified her.
self with the people to whose elevation she
was devoted. They knew her only as she
revealed herself to further her purposes
1t is such marvellous devotion as this,
combined with their perfect organization
that gives nihilists their power.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

A TWELVE THOUSAND MILE CANOE
VoYAGE.-Two members of the American
canoe association and of the Lake George
canoe club will start from Lake George at
the close of the August meeting, on a
canoe voyage of twelve thousand miles.
They will go down Lake George to old
Fort Ticonderoga, through the neck Of
Lake Champlain to Whitehall and theme
through Champlain canal to Troy. There
they will take the Erie canal to Buffalo
the lake to Erie, the Allegheny river to
Pittsburg, down the Ohio and Mississippi
and around the coast of Central America
and to Cuba, and thence back to the Florida
reefs and home by the Atlantic coast
They expect to be absent about year
The voyage will be made in double canoe
sixteen feet long, thirty two inches beam
and fourteen inches depth.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08
A Yerltable Rebellion.

Under whatever polite disguise the
English or Irish see fit TO cover the pre-
sent condition of affairs in Ireland, that
country is in real re Oellion. The laws of
the land are violated in many cases with
impunity and nowhere are they executed
without the presence of governmental
machinery that marks the absence of
ordinary respect for law.
Tenants refuse to pay rent in great
majority Of cases and eviclions follow only
where the usual local force is supplanted
by outside aids. These aids bring to the
assistance of the police, which itself is
generally composed of much more than
the local force, both civic and military
organizations.
The landlords have a protective assoc-
alton which employs large body of men
and Ireland is crowded with English
troops The ordinary course of an evc-
ton, or turning out tenant, is this: the
cons'abulary and police appear on the
Gene in large numbers, and with thems
come body of men employed by the land
lords protective association, Buck of all
appears body of troops, sometimes of the
most famous regiments of her majesty S
soldiers. Arriving on the ground they
find the tenants IN possession who refuse
to leave without force, and hundreds Of
their neighbors and friends who have met
to behold the eviction.
The peasantry as a rule do not resort 10
violence, but groan and boot as the COM
bned civic and military power of the king
dom engage in the work of turning out
the family to be evicted and taking their
goods from the house. In many cases,
however, the police and troops are assault
ed in their work, but no organized attack
has yet been made by the Irish. Their
opposition as yet is that of mob instead OF
an army.
But after all this kind Of opposition is
full rs troublesome to the government as a
better organized one would be. 1t hardly
gives excuse for such use of military power
as would at once be made We're the people
arraved in regular ranks against the sol.
diers, and thus puts the soldiers in d
JENNA.
They must either submit to the hootings
of the people and the throwing of stones
and like demonstrations of dislike or go tc
shooting into a mob of men and women
in what must seem barbarous manner
And it does not appear what the govern
mpnt can do to help itself. As soon rs the
troops leave matters are much as they
were before; in many cases the evictct
tenants going right back TO the houses
from which they have been expelled.
Meantime the government is arrestine
many of the Irish lea iers but that does
not appear to amount to anything. And
at present landIordism in Ireland is at &
low state, from which it is doubtful if i
ever rises.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08
AUGUST.

Mondays cold snap was of wide extent.
At Essex Junction pools of water are re
ported to have frozen to the depth of one
eighth of an inch and young crops were
nearly destroyed. In ST. Adams there was
quite severe frost Sunday night, and 10
.5wanton and Georgia. At Swanton Cen
tire ice one-eighth of an inch thick was
formed aud all tender vegetation suffered
severely. At St. Johnsbury there was a
hard frost. At Derby Line, frost de
stroyed all the garden vegetables and fruit
and ice formed quarter of an inch in
thickness. At North Troy there was a
severe frost. Growing vegetables were
ruined and other crops damaged seriously
and in New York state, also, at Saratoga
Fort Edward, Sandy Hill and Glens Fall.
there was II heavy white frost Consider
able damage to tender vines is feared
especially to strawberries in bloom. AT
Saratoga the thermometer dropped below
forty degrees.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

SINGULAR CASE OF PoIsoNING.-Ihe
Herald of Island Pond says; Fred Fuller
of Lexington procured some corn meal
from Colebrook last week. and his vile
made johnny cake for supper from the
meal The family ate heartily OF the
cake. and almost Immediately after were
taken sick. vomiting. splitting and almost
convulsed with pain, but attributed It to
the warm sugar eaten with the cake. The
next morning another cake graced the
breakfast table. and was eaten with Il
relish by the other members of the family
1.-THE sick ones of the night previous being
unable to partake thereby, and they were
attacked in like manner. DR.. Harris was
summoned, and gave as bis opinion that
they were poisoned from eating sugar Of
lead. the lead being probably ground with
the corn. He further said: Uncooked,
the meal could be fed with perfect safety
to the swine" Now Freddie's piggies
think that Thanksgiving comes early this
year
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

The abstract of the reports of the ma
tional banks of their condi ton on the 9Th
of May shows thet the total amount of
specie held by the banks on that day was
1922, 62S, 562, which is seventeen and one
half millions more than at the date of the
last previous statement, March IL, and
thirty six millions more than April %,
1880. The specie now held by the banks
is composed of STA 100000 of gold coin
and $S,0O0,000 OF silver; of the gold coin
$44, 900 900 are composed of clearing house
certificates and $5,35l 900 of gold United
States treasury certificates; of the silver
coin, the banks hold 81 100000 only of
silver certificates. The banks also hold
S70,76l, 1896 of legal-tender notes, of which
$S,O45,0 900 are treasury certificates. This
is much the largest amount of specie ever
held by the national banks of the country.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

The race won on Wednesday at Epson
Downs by P. Lorillard's Iroquois was the
1O2d Derby. and is the first victory of an
American horse in the rate for the Derby
stakes. The Derby was first run in 1880,
and has since then ranked as zone Of the
principal events in England. In 1872,
when Mr.. Gladstone moved the customary
adjournment of the house of commons, the
motion was opposed by Mr.. Thomas
Hughes Che of Rugby. who remarked
that the house had recently waived its
former observance of Ascension Day and
would stultify itself In sacrificing a whole
day to the festival of the turf. A division
gave a majority of 1874 in favor of adjourn
ment. Last year the vote was 285 to lis
majority. 10. Only twice before now
have foreign bred horses won the Derby
namely. Gladiator, French horse, in
1865. and Kisber, Hungarian. in 1876
It is but few years since American racers
have been admitted to English tracks, and
their entry was greeted somewhat con-
temptuously by the British public; but
after the three successive victories of the
American horse Parole in 1879. the Eng.
gish changed their tack, and piled up
weights on the American horses in the
handicaps to such an extent as to bring
down not a little adverse criticism from
their own horsemen. But in the Derby
all colts carry the same weight, and in a
fair field with no favor. Iroquois proved
himself the best. 1t is only fair to say
however. that our English cousins accept
the result with good grace, as they we'll
may, for Iroquois, though bred in America
is of imported English stock, and was
ridden by the most famous English jockey
Archer. The story that Mr.. Lorilard
won two millions on the race has dwinded
to the statement, by Mr.. Lorillard, who
is in this country, that he won f25OO on
the race, and sent Gl000 of that to Archer