Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-18

hctSulOu ny thO SOSss VI
Agriculture LIE Dues sugar is the very
best in the world 1t is made from beets
at an expense to the government of SO 50 |
per pound, and is served to members of |
congress and others in the shape of taffy. |
Secretary Blaine has invited James R. |
O4good, Joseph w. Harper. Jr., George
William Curtis and w. d. Howells to talk
over the international copyright question
with him and they are to meet him in
Washington for that purpose this week.
Secretary Window thinks that there
oughtto bea new department forme by the
government. 1t shonld embrace agricul-
lure, commerce, home and foreign manu-
featuring and mining. This department
should nuke continued and special study
of these features.
J.J. Myer of Rutland having failed to
make out and return an inventory to the
listers, his personal property has been
assessed ut s so 900, and the list doubled
in accordance with law. This sum, with
others, will, it is thought, add about $780,
900 to the total of the property valuation
of Rutland rs recently published.
According to the FrGnbfurter Zeitung
large eagle was shot on April 10 that Max.
koo Lapland, which had around its neck
brass chain with little tin box at
tached to it. This box contained a slip
of paper on which was written In Danish;
Caught and set free again in 1892 by N
and G. Anderson. Boetod in Falster,
Denmark"
An OK weighing two thousand eight
hundred and fifty pounds was received at
ike Union Market, Watertown, Friday. 1t
was raised in Addison county, VT. and
was the largest ever received at the Union
Market Last week a pair of cattle weigh
ing five thousand two hundred and fifty
pounds was received from the same
county. Boston Traveller.
The Brattleboro assessment rolls show
the following aggregate: First-class real
estate (houses, lots, etc, with land less
than 10 acres). Sl,480, sos; second class
real estate (arms, ETC., of more than 10
acres). 1852, $50; personal property, ST.
2l6,6l6: railroads, S24799; 1858 polls,
S27l 600; total valuation, 1886, 800
One per cent of this sum shows the grand
list to be $33.765. Last year the or nd
list was S22 ,909.
The negro exodus to Indiana and Kan
sas since 1873 has generally been supposed
to be great, and an item has been going
the rounds of the press to the effect that
100000 "eXodusers ~ have gone into
Kansas and 10000 more into Indiana. A
correspondent of the New York Nation
calls attention to the fact that from 1870
to 1880 the colored population of Kansas
increased only % 1888, and that of Indiana
only H. 438. In Kansas the increase was
actually not as great rs it would be ex-
pecled to he from natural causes alone if
there had been no Immigration
An anti Jewish movement is in progress
in Southern Russia, and the warehouses
of Jewish merchants at Kieff and other
places have been for the past week prey
to pillage. The losses by the riots at
Elizabethgrad, in which the Jews suffered
terribly, are officially stated at 1900, 900
. rubles. In consequence of the disorders
, trade ut Odessa and in the district is com
t pletely paralvzed. An official dispatch
announces that order has been restored al
Kieff, but that there has been further seri
} GUS rioting at Vaslikow, where the people
1 attacked the Jews at the railway station
| when the latter were about to leave town
I Troops had to go to the rescue of the He
4 bre0s. Similar but less serious excesse,
1 have occurred at two others towns
. We do not wonder that Senator Ed
! munds was disguised over the confirma
:. ton of Stanley Matthews, against hi
: earnest protest, backed up by all but two
. members of the Judiciary committee. Th
= is beautiful illustration of senatorial
. courtesy Or proper esprit de corps, a
its chief newspaper apologist styles 1t
. The word of Il senator is TO be taken a
=, final and conclusive against nominee
= from his own state, no matter how fit an,
= deserving the individual may be; but tn
= deliberate Judgment of a lawyer and legs
y Iator of the character and rank of Senate
:, Edmunds, sustained by the committee T.
70 whose consideration the nominations wer
, referred. counts for nothing against me
like Matthews and Chandler F! This
courtesy and Difference" with a ven
geance. If by any chance Chande
'e should be confirmed, and Senator EC
% munds does not resign his craftsmanship
,r the quality OF his spirit has been overrateC
" -BdSton Herald.
,r The Senate committee on public builG
s. ings have inspected the White House an
Is report it rs in bad condition. The base
Sc ment is cold, damp, mouldy and infeste
id with rats. Many conveniences, now COL
e sidered essential for comfort, are LACKING
o and cannot be introduced without "a recor
~ struction Of the whole building. Th
IS timbers are shaky and some of the fiool
of have sagged several inches. The acoomo
J. dations are scanty also, and so much
II, the space is occupied with offices an
m grand reception rooms that the family ar
very much crowded. Although the Gal
field children sleep two in room, there
only one room to spare for visitor.
Senator Morrll has u plan, which is sal
IS to impress the committee favorably, I
in build another White House few rod
Il from the present one connected with it b
IL broad corridor, the new building to b
10 used for domestic purposes only, tie oil
= one Tor executive offices, public receptio
Q rooms, and so forth. This of cours
= would remove some of the objections b
o the present executive mansion, but tn
a malarious site would continue to be
fruitful source of disease.