Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26
From Our Regular Correspondent
EurOpean Letter.

LONDON. EIuS. oau' lo' A"OA'
AIthonoh much less disastrous than It's
predecessor, the year to when we nave
inst hidden adieu has proved anything out
:, nrosnerous one to the generality OF Brit
ish farmers. 1t opened ausplclous'y' ana
the spring season was one OF the hhest
ever known for tillage operations out Ihe
continuous heavy rains which character
ized the summer up to harvest time blight
ed the wheat crop and blackened barley
fields to prodigious extent. Probably
there WAS never year so disappointing
from these causes; the most experienced
farmers find their wheat stacks yleid
twenty per cent less than they were com
np,ed to contain. This is not exactly the
ease as regards barley, the quantity oil
which Welded is thoroughly satisfactory
INIT then the quality is most miserable,
(Which circumstance renders large pro-
norton unstable except at singularly low
prices.
The death of George Eliot, the cele-
hrated English novelist, has caused sorrow
to most of the English speaking world
8 Tho snirit that drew for US hundred
e nortraits from the life has left us. 10 that
s noble gallery of English men and women
= no new picture shall now be added.
think of them with an inexplicable sad
ness. 1t seems, somehow, that they are
70 gone along with the hand that drew them
- But 1t is not so. My great grandson VIII
KNOW ,hem-or some of them-as well Al
I do. There is one face that alWay
b,pnts me-that of Amos Barton. Neve
In can genius accomplish a finer thing thal
K to endow the common place with vita
en- interest; Tor. alas, most Of us are common
he place people, and it is we'll to be reminde
nj that in commonplace people lie the capa
lat blities of feeling trouble and wrong an
intense sorrow as in their more senslIiV
,ed fellow creatures If any man can rea
pd that narrative of humble human exper
os- pnce without being the better for it, d
It not envy him his philosophy. He mu
ON not only be descended from the ape
inc must he the ape himself If one cnn
en- saw George Eliot has increased the su
of human happiness by her writing
sha has increased that of its wisdom. a
has left us more thoughtful, purer, IL
jus selfish and more self-relant.
'' There is no moral agent so powerful
10" music. was the other day listening II
~ district greatly dedicated to out'd'
> = 'o - preaching. There was one man pour
','' out his soul in the matter of his COW
o''S sion which was brought about in the M
''S sudden way; another, but very IL
distance from him, was inveighing agal
They the confessional with much violence; WI
in "A third told his hearers that If they Ia
ere to make Sunday an exclusive chuI
re its going day, it would be made hot for I'll
gone presently. Each of these three preach
the seemed thoroughly in earnest, and
lians listeners who surrounded them appea
cess. to be engrossed by what was said.
# the all Mt once the strains of brass band
m of to be heard, and in very little time
performers-a very ragged lot-came
from What chance hao ti'0 Spe"No''
road musiclansP None lhey wo'0 noO
aking it, and were lmmea'a'e'y 'ei' u0'o
loco. 7 remember line in an old song W
Tioga says: 1.-The village went ihao "'
everal sound of the drum IL Is the S"the
nen in in measure. IL one "au1eo W io'.o
d one every inhabitant in any court or ALE
COM this metropolis, doubt whether any b
,ars in means could be desired for bringing a
xpress this result than oy ihSVfuc''hs "
g bag player to perform al one opening u
court.