Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23

opposed Matthews comm nation.
Mrs. Lincoln has never recovered from
he shock of the martyred presidents
death. In 1868, unable to live quietly at
home. she crossed the Atlantic, and has
since resided most OF the time in Europe.
At pre sent she is in this country, having
returned in October last, still broken in
health and spirits.
The New York Times says that it is
said that Mr.. Billings is not at all disturb
ed by the rumors that Mr.. Willard has
bought "A majority of the stock of the
Northern Pacific railroad company, and
hat he has no fears that the enterprise OF
which he is the head will ever be
subordinated to the Oregon railway and
navigation company.
David Davis proposes to have statue
erected TO John Marshall OF all great
Americans, John Marshall-one of the
four or five greatest Americans-is the
only one with neither statue nor an ade
uuate life. 1t was his misfortune to be
born at the south, which talks much of its
heroes and does little to prepetuate their
memory, There is bust of Marshall in
the supreme court chamber at Washington,
and also fine one in the library OF tn e
Boston atheneum.
Dispatches from St. Petersburg tell of
plots to kill the royal family. A revolu-
tionary proclamation is issued which de-
clares that the nihiists will continue their
work, and warns the emperor to expect to
meet the same fate as his father. 1t is
stated that the assassination of the car
was instigated by an international society
having for its watchword The murder
of monarchs and the overthrow of govern
ments," and that the emperor was
murdered by members of the Nhilist
Paternity holding some high official posi-
ton.
Efforts which. it is said, are likely tc
prove successful. are being made to bring
the celebrated French billiardist, Vignaux
to this country on professional visit
Slosson, who was recently defeated by him
in Paris, with. as is generally claimed,
the unfair rulings of the umpire, desires
to play five nights match with him fol
from S25O0 to $4,000 a side Sexton want
to play him at cushion carroms $1,000 I
side. and Sohaeffer also wishes to get up :
match with him. He is therefore likely
to have his hands full if he comes t.
America and to 90 back to France either
with full pockets or utterly strapped"
; Last September Matt Carpenter wrote
= to Professor David Swing: whoever will
read Cicero's Twilight Speculatons abou
Duty and the Future Life, remembering
! that perhaps he was the fullest man of al
antiquity, the ripest scholar and student o
= the highest period of Roman civilization
and remembering that from tho birth Q
E Caesar to the birth of Christ the on
4 change that came 10 civilization was de
/ cline, and that Jesus belonged to an out
of-the- way people-a people apart fron
The high tides of human greatness-an
then will read the Sermon on the Mount,
cannot comprehend how he can escape tn
conclusion that the difference is not one q
!. degree, but of kind. That Jesus. sui
= rounded rs He was, could have promulgat
ed system of morals embodying all tina
is most valuable in the prior life of tn
i world, and to which nineteen centuries c
II civilization have been unable 10 add
It thought or impart an ornament, is fac
h not to be- explained by any ridcule."
it New York Tribune gives list {
= subscribers to the fund for Gen. Gran
:; According to this j. w. Mackey, ia
= Gould, and w. II. Vanderbilt subscribe
1925, 900 each; John NJ. Forbes of Bosto
$4,000; D. o. Mills, Sidney Dillon
!. Thomas Barbour, Oliver Hoyt. Lelan
IS Stanford, Frank Work and j. j. Aston
s So, 900 each; l.. P. Morton, G. G. Carr
i, son, L. ID. Morgan, Moses Taylor Cor
1t nelus Vanderbilt, W. B. Dinsmore, {
P. Huntington. j. +, Delaware, j. H
p, Starin and j. W. Seligman & Co., $3.50
i each; David Davis and E. w. Stoughtol
n 81. 900; George Bliss, Kuhn, Loeb & Co
|, Russell Sage, Horace Porter, G. M. Pull
}. man. John Roach, T. B. Musgrave. 5. W
e Babcock, George Jones of the Time
e John Sloane, Rufus Hatch, H. r. Bishop
d II. b. Claim, r. S. Kennedy, G. /
d Tiffany. w. A. Bostwick and ]. i
IS Rockefeller. $1,000 each Postmaster-Ger
n eral James and Vice President Arthu
1920 each,