Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-13

Senator Carpenter was buried Sunday in
Milwaukee,; thousands attending the fu-
neral.
The dead lock in the Senate still contin.
ueS. Senator Elmunds has returned from
FIcrida and Monday was in his seat in
improved health.
The conSprators who caused the death
They boldly acknowledged their acts and
Sophie Pieffsky, womln of noble birth,
asked that in her punishment her sex be
not regarded
STATE PRISON AND HOUSE OF CoRREC-
TIoN.-Lieuten,nt. Governor John l.. Bar
stow of Sheburn and Hon. Charles
Thatcher of North Bennington. one of the
directors of the state prison and house of
correction, visited the latter institution
Tuesday, to which it is proposed to make
n forty feet addition TO the workshop as
soon rs the weather moderates sufficiently.
lfN Iuti Wtll W w Iu'ISOT, where LUB
new contractors are to take possession at
once.
The St.Albans Messenger says that when
Gen james S. Peck is confirmed as post.
master of Montpelier he will be under the,
necessity of resigning his office of adiutHG +
and inspector general, thus making 4 va
cpncy in thlt Office which the governor
will have to fill. There are already
scvesNl candidates for it, but think the
governor could appoint no more proper or
competent person than Col. Theodore s.
Peck of Burlington. Col Peck has rem
dercd great service to the militia of the
state and has earned promotion. if any one
has We think his appointment would be
very satisfactory to all, except, possibly,
the other candidates and their particular
friends.
The Spirit of The Times, determined to
settle the question whether Garfield or
Hancock had n plurality in the late elec-
ton, wrote to the secretaries of state of all
the states for the official returns of the
vote, and it finds that the republican can
dd1tp had plurality of 1922. The totals
were Garfield, 4,446, G28; Hancock + .443 =
lO6. The Spirit is no. partisan journal.
and the statement it makes is unqueslion
ably correct.
The island Of Chic. famous as Scio,i an
tquity. has Just suffered from a terribl,
earthquake. The shock destroyed man,
houses in the town of Chic, and seriously
damaged nearly all those left standing
Many inhabitants were killed and the re.
mainder are encamped in the fields Many
Of the neghboring villages were also de
strovel. A government dispatch received
Mt Athens GAYS that the persons killed and
injured are estimated at 5000.
THE METHODIST CHURCH. There arr
81 annual conferences in the Methods
Episcopal denomination, and 10 mission
outside Of conferences: i'nerant preach
err, 1906 local preachers, 12,555; la
members in full connection, ,56f 105
practitioners, 1887 IF the deaths ar
M led, which were q 2ol, and other ne
losses from removals, tleclensiO with
driwal.. transfers to other churches etc.
amounting to twice as many more. per
hnps the total increase of membership
would he about 100000 persons who hlv,
bnpn hrnuyht into the church connection
during 1880
The basis Of taxation in this state is
stumbling block to MANY people outside
The Con1reqGtionGltSt, among other news
papers is astonished at the high taxes pai
IN some towns. Mount Holly pays hun
bred cents on dollar, Clarendont wenty
five cents, Baltimore forty cents. In viey
of such exorbitant taxation. the Bosto
editor thinks "it would take a Chimes
wall and standing army to keep any
body in such town ms Baltimore that is
if the tax is ever to be collected; it must b
clearly in the interest of the people there
TO emigrale without delay, even if all thei
property must be left behind" When i
is understood that one per cent of our tax
able property is put into what we call
grand list" and the taxes are voted o.
that, the reason assigned by the Congrega
tiOnHiiSt for emigration from this state i
one hundred times smaller than it wa
thought to be-.