Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-27

Gen. Melikoff, like most men of his
race-he is an Armenian-looks a good
deal like Jew. He has large nose,
bright, restless, black eyes, genial ex-
preston and long whiskers. He is OF
middle height and thin, carrying his fifty
six years lightly.
The following we'll known citizens ar @
wardens of Episcopal churches in New
York: Hamilton Fish, Levi P. Morton.
VIM. H. Vanderbilt. s. D. Babcock, Post
master Gen. James, J. Pierpont Morgan
and John j. Astor.
The particulars regarding the killing of
her five children by Mrs. Mutt near Cam
lien, Ark, are that the frenzied woman
called her eldest child boy twelve years
old, from field where he was blowing.
knocked him on the head. and threw him
into the well, where she had previously
thrown her four other children. Finding
one of The children had not drowned. but
was clinging to the sides of the we'll, she
descended into the well, tore away its
grasp and thrust it down into the water,
thus completing her diabolical work.
A plot to escape from the penitentiary
among The negro convicts has been dis
covered at Columbia, S. c.. and frustrated
During the Investigations a band of coun.
lerfeiters WAS discovered among the white
convicts, and counterfeiting materials
were found in their cells. Large quantities
of coined silver dollars, tifty-cent pieces
and quarters we're also found. These coins
were so skillfully made that but for theil
light weight no bank clerk could have
detected their spurious character. 1t is
said that Columbia is flooded with this
money Several of the guards are impl
Gated, and William Lowreny, one of the
guards. is under arrest.
The national convention of land Lacquer:
opened at Dublin on Thursday, a Thousand
delegates being present. Resolution!
were unanimously passed declaring tina
Davitt, imprisoned because of his defence
of prosecuted tenants, should be released
and expressing heartfelt thanks to Irish
men in America for their sacrifices te
, sustain the struggle for the abolition o
, landlordism. Mr.. Parnell commented
unfavorably upon the land bill, complain
ing that it did nothing for laborers, ant
that the leading procedure prescribed by
it being complicated and expensive would
deprive tenants of any hope of redress
The effect of the bill. he said, would be t,
= raise and not lower rents. The oonven
ton adjourned to Monday next. Th,
q opinions expressed by delegates wer,
l strongly adverse to the provisions of the
land bill. but it was generally concede,
that the measure should not be rejected
until effort is made to amend ii.
DIsRAELfs RELIGIOUS BELiEF.-LorC
Beaconsfields religious belief was thu
summed up in "Lothair :" "Chance
necessity atomic.theories, nebular hypoth
eses, development, evolution. the origin o.
q worlds, human ancestry-and what then
a There must be design. The reasoning an,
: the research of all philosophy could no
be valid against that conviction. If Their
q were no design, why, it would be all non
sense; and he could not believe in non
0 sense. And If there were design, Their
0 must be intelligence; and if intelligence
D pure intellige noe, and pure intelligence
o was inconsistent with any disposition bu
0 perfect good, Man requires tina
D there shall be direct relations between tn
0 created and Creator. and that in these re
} ations he should find solution of th
perplexities Of existence. The brain tina
teens with illimitable thought will neve
recognize as his creator any power of ma
. ture, however irresistible, that is not giftec
with consciousness. Atheism may be con
sistent with fine taste. and a fine taste I'm
= der certain conditions may for time reg
> ulate polished society," but ethics witt
; atheism are impossible, and without ethic
no human order can be strong or perma
nent,"