Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-30

The report is that Mormonism Is to he
hanked BY oh ,nge in the territorial gov
eminent of Utah. President Garfield is
said to have laid down a. one ofthe objects
of his ambition to have his administration
stamp out polygamy. The means to be
adopted are legislation putting Utah under
control of board of commissioners APP
pointed by the president.
In the course of a debate In the Senate
Senator Hor made retOrt worthy OF
preservation. Mr.. johnson asked "What
i a Bourbon" Senator Hoar Immediately
sprang to his feet and replied; can tell
the senator from Virginia what Bourbon
is If ne wants to know He was once
man who never learned anything or forgot
ANYTHING. The Bourbon has advanced
somewhat. He is now u man who never
learns anything and forgets great deal.
Ouida, the British novelist, is the victim
of the non existence Of an international
copyright. Until recently Lippincott paid
her 81 800 for the advance sheets of each
of her works, but can do so no longer,
because every new book is at once repub
lished by Munroe & Co., in what she styles
'cheap and villainously printed paper
copies" She denounces this as unblushlng
robbery, and demands the same protection
for her literary productions rs for her
horse, her rings, her cooks saucepan and
her gardeners spade, and calls the whole
American nation to account for It's enjoy
ment of stolen goods.
The funeral of the late czar, Alexander
III. took place at St. Petersburg, Sunday,
in the Cathedral of SIS. Peter and Pau,
and was one of impressive sDlendor.
Among those present were the car.
Alexander I'LL, the empress and all of the
imperial family; the prince and princess
of Wales. the crown prince of Prussia, the
duke and duchess of Edinburgh, and
delegates from all parts of Russia. At
the close of the service the ear kissed his
dead father. The coffin was then carried
to the vault in the cathedral, by the
emperor and the grand dukes. and the
coffin was then lowered into the gaate
amid salvo of actillery.
The Peoples Telephone Company OIL
New York, which insists that Daniel
Drawbaugh of Pennsylvania is the origina
inventor of. the speaking telephone, has
commenced taking testimony to that effec
in Harrisburg. Upward of 100 wi,nesse,
have been summoned, many of whom re
cognizc awbaugh's Instruments, now
exhibited, IS the identical ones which they
talked through about twelve years ago
There is also another claimant in the per
son of an impecunious Staten Islander
who invented IL contrvance of II telephone
nature as early as 1872, two years sub'e
quent to Drawbaugh's productions, bu
several years previous to the invention
of either Bell, Gray or Edison. The claim
Of this Staten Island man is substantiate.
by the original caveat which he filed il
the patent office early in 1872, and whicl
is now in possession of the Peoples Tele
phone Company, which.has also purchases
the invention. The instrument, inside ant
out, is almost fac smile of the Bell tele
a phone now in use. The inquiry in pro
; gress will last several days.
a The alleged weather prophet of Mon
e treal gives the following programme @
the weather for Aprl There will h
sharp frost in the beginning of April, wit
: snow fall on the 4th or 9TH, but tn
spring will open flvorably, and everythin
will be pretty well advanced by Apr
), 10Th. Floods may be expected in Chcag
about the first week in April, with hig
: winds also prevailing in the early part {
&c the month. Snow falls are probable abou
1t April 9Th. Navigation is likely to ope
o on Lake Ontario about April 7th. TIL
st. Lawrence will open about the 9th {
III 18th, and The first steamship will probabl
% arrive about the 18th or 18th. The weatl
er will be very stormy in the lowe
provinces about the 20th, with very hig
water prevailing, hut in the west, Apr
= will be dry month. There will be war
l. weather just following the Goth, ending
" thunder storms on the 2Ith and 25ti
= Snow storms are probable In the far we
on the 25th and 26th, and snow falls al
not unlikely to occur in England at Il
lie close of the month. The month will on
I'd wet and cold, but on the whole, will
4 like may month"