Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-12


Mr. Arthur is the sixth president who
goes wfeIess to the White House. Jeffer-
son, Jackson, Van Buren, and Tyler were
wldowers and Buc anan bachelor.
Dean Stanley made one significant bequest
He left Sl5 700 as fund for the paymen
If the guides who show visitors abou
Westminster Abbey in order that fees
may no longer be exacted there for such
services.
VERMONT AT YoKTOwN.-At yorktown
he Vermont troops are to be boarded BY
It Washington caterer, Glascock, who viii
erect large building" Hotel Continen
al stones throw in rear Of the camp
He will receive 81 % per day for eacl
man. He will also board he C3nnecticul
and Michigan troops.
Not many men can say as did the veneer
BILE Ex-Governor Hiland Hall ut the
Bennington Garfield memorial exercises:
Il heard the announcements Of the death
| Of all the deceased presidents at the tim,
| they occurred, beginning with that Ui
Washington and ending with that of Gar
field, whom we mourn to day"
| 1t is now stated that the statement re
Gently published that a hundred Pulmar
conductors upon our eastern roads have
peen discharged was incorrect. Mr.
Brown. general superintendent of the
company, states that about twelve men in
All nave been dischtrged. This was done
for dishonesty. and they were entrapped
~ specials" on the trains.
Mr.. Blaine, it is reported agreed to
write L biography of President Garfield
the proceeds OF the sale to be given to the
young dau yhter of his dead friend. The
Hartford firm, however, which proposed
the arrangement, would allow the secre.
tary only six months for the work, and b.
declined at last to undertake so importan
Il task in so short a time.
An exchange says the unusual sight o.
chestnut burs opening on the trees befor,
Tue occurrence of any frost has been wit
messed this year in Massachusetts. The
trees are loaded with nuts and people who
helieve in the thin or thick corn husk, ant
the behavior of the beaver and the musk.
rat, rs weather signs, Can accept this fac
Is An Indication that the squirrels are t,
be provided fOr and that the winter is Il
be Il hard and long one.
The OCTOBER ELECTToNs.-The election
in OhiO called out a very small vote. an,
there was good deal of scratching, boil
Foster and Bookwslter suffering from it
A Columbus dispatch says, returns from
100 voting places give democratic gaIr
Of 273 which ratio kept up over the state
would leave about $4,000 plurality fo
Foster, republican. The temperance vot,
is estimated at 10000. There are As We
No returns from the Iowa election.
The New York democrats at Albap,
yesterday admitted the delegates choser
by the new organization in New York
city, excluding Tammany and Irving
Hall, by vote of 80 to 3. Tammany auc
Irving Hail however make contest be
fore the committee on credentials and In,
convention adjourned till this morning tc
give time for the hearing. 1t is very Ger
tain however that the sitting deIegatio,
will remain and that Tammany will %
back with the hardest blow on the bea,
hat it has ever received at any state con
vention.
TOBACCO IN VERMONT. To
recently issued census bulletin 1871. Az:
pounds Of tobacco were raised on "a acre
of land in this state in 1879. Windbau
is the leading tobacco raising county. de
voting to that crop IA acres and producing
1929 pounds. Chittenden and Rutland
counties had each two acres and RAISED
espectively 1856 and 76O pounds. Addison
Bennington. Franklin, Lamoille, Washing
ton and Windsor had each one acre an,
raised an average of 42s pounds.