Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

1t is reported that the New York Ndtto"
is to be absorbed in the Evening FoSs'
Vanderbilt and Gould, it is said, have
fallen out,-will the public be gamers by
it?
Up to the present time COnkling doesn't
seem to have stepped on any one but
Plat and himself.
Rev. DR.. Swing of Chicago says shat
whole chapters and whole books ought to
be omitted in the revised Scriptures.
Jay Gould is said to have sold the bulk
of his interest in the New York Tribune
to William Walter Phelps OF New jersey.
Ex-Gov. Bross of Illinois says that
there was more drunkenness in Chicago
when it had only $4,000 people than there
Is now.
The new secretary of war has prohibit
ed the use of tobacco by the West Point
cadets. This has created great consterna-
ton, as fuur-ifths OF the cadets are tobacco
users.
An American horse, Iroquois, has won
the Derby races. John Bull feels as
badly about it as we should If they should
come over here and carry off the honors
at 4th of July celebration.
A London paper says that American
agriculturists are we'll enabled to compete
with the British farmer when the rate OF
freight on wheat from New York to Liver
pool is 81 20 per ton, while the railroad
rate from Liverpool to Birmingham (about
one hundred miIes) is 1915 per ton.
Senator Conking retains the support OF
Just the same proportion of his own party
in the New York legislature as Lucifer
had of the angels when he got mad and
part of heavens souls, and in "nine days
he Tell, according to Mlllon.-Heratd.
A Washington girl has highly interest
ing hair. Its color used to be light
blonde. DIR. d. w. Prentiss reports 10
the Smil hsonan Institution that he gave
aborandi, a Brazilian plant rs a cure for
blood poisoning. Her hair soon began to
darken, and in four months was almost
black.
The Iowa greenback state convention
was held Wednesday seven hundred dele
gates were present. Resolutions were
adopted favorng the greenback principles
and endorsing unequivocally woman suf-
frage, also committing the party to the
anti-mo nopoly movement.
Now I've fixed you." said Jim Hogan
to his wife, at Monticello, Ohio. He had
good reason to think so, for he had shot
five bullets into her body; yet he was
mistaken, for she revived soon after be
had killed himself with the remaining
charge in the revolver, and is now as wei
as ever.
The Lacy boys of Madison, Wis, went
to menagerie and became filed with the
idea of starting beast show of their own
using such material as was within theiI
reach. They painted stripes on a white
pony for a zebra, sheared the hind half Of
big Newfoundland dog for lion, cut of
the fore legs of calf for a kangaroo. and
were about to make tailless cat by chop
ping when their father discovered them.
Another new slate mill will be erected
at Fair Haven during the monthiwith cap
ital of $4,000. The slate and milling
interests of Vermont were never before in
such hourishing condition as at present
Large orders for slate and mill stock are
constantly received The demand is 81
great it is almost impossible to fill orders
promptly. Roofing slate is daily becom
ing scarce, and the same can be said Of
mill stock Notwithstanding the supply was
greatly increased the past few years.
W. A. Cook, better known as "Billy
Cook" who has Just been made specia
counsel for the government in the star
route cases, is a thin-faced weasel-lik,
Washington lawyer; one who can wriggl,
through smaller hole in defense thai
any other lawyer in the District of Colum.
bia, where he is generally the first mai
retained by people in trouble" He may
be employed now by the government t
keep him off the other side; but it is pos
sible that Cook, who has ambitions, i
anxious to begin making reputation. o
his keen head, there can be no question
1t is not a big head, it comes to poin
and has eyes which look over your shout
der; but what there is Off works like
a steel trap.
In recent interview Secretary Window
expressed some very sensible opinions a
to the conduct of the New York custom
house. He said: "Mr. Robertson's ap
pointment does not give any control O
patronage to his faction. The New Yorl
custom house will be run for the bushes
to be done by it, not for political purpose
at all. This disturbance will have no effec
at all on the progress of civil servic
reform. The fact is, the New Yorl
custom house has been run under civi
service rules for several yeas; that is
during Collector Merritt's term, in compli
ance with proclamation of Presiden
Hayes. 1t will continue to be so run"
THE ARMY WoRM.-The report from
localities lately infested by the arm,
worm, both IN Franklin and St. Lawrenc
counties. N. Y, is that they have cease'
to be alarming, and have practically dis
appeared. The rains have been too mucl
for them, and in some quarters wher'
gullies were cut out by waller the groun'
was literally covered with the dead YER
min to the depth of several inches
Parasites have also preyed on them, an,
combined with the rains for their extermi
nation. In general, pastures which wer
stripped by them have become gree
again, and are doing well. From onl
one section-in the northern part o
Dickinson-do any different tidings come
There the worms are said to be still a
work and the prospect is dubious.