Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-12-13

james Malloy of Edgefeld, S. c., has
obtained a verdict of $4,000 against MIR.
James Gordon Bennett of the New York
Herald for alleged libel.
Senator Edmunds said, in the debate,
the other day. Oh tho political assessment
resolution, that so far from being the best
system of civil service in the world he
believed the Briisn system to be the
most corrupt in the world,
At Rutland, the marble savings bank
and the Rutland trust company, chartered
by the legislature in 1880 and 1882,
respectively, are in course of organization
Rutland will. then nave three national
banks, two trust CON panies and two saw
ngs banks.
Some of the newspapers talk about
Almon Meaker as the "child murderer"
just as in the legislature he was spoken Of
as little Almon Meakcr.' Perhaps the
computation of his sentence was better
than its execution would have been but he
is a "child murderer" only in the sense
that he murdered child.
The Marquis of Lorne, with the Princess
Louise, now in San Francisco, has applied
TO the secretary of war for military
escort rs far south as San Antonio, Texas.
They fear, it is said, that they may become
victims TO Fenian plot The secretary
of war has ordered ten men and an officer
to accompany the party.
Almon Meaker, the child murderer,
whose sentence has been mitigated, is
said to be working industriously at Wind
sor, trimming soles for shoes. His mother,
who is to hang on the last Friday of next
March, still leigns m7aness, is quiet and
violent by turns ana begs piteously DIT
n'ervals that her life be spared. She will
be he first woman hanged in the state.
Aln,Jn seems TO caro- little about her fate
A plainly dressed, unpretentous young
man with very poorly fitting clothes reg
islered as Newcastle, London" at Il
Washington iotel the other day and was.
promptly given top story room by the
usual clerk. Sunday he went to St.
Johns church, bat was told to wait
outside until the pawhoiders were sea ed,
and finally refused admission; and he
went away indignant to ask if such was
the custom of the country. The young
man was the duke of NeA castle, and by
this time he must think it necessary to
travel in the state which Americans so
loudly profess to despse in order to get
common civilily here.
Sr Hugh Allan died suddenly at Edin-
burgh, Scotland, on Saturday. He was
born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1910, and
was the son of shipmaster He came
to Montreal in 1926 and was clerk in
dry goods establishment four years Sub
sequenllY he bee lne clerk for firm of
ship builders, and four years later was
admitted a partner. In 1911. his firm
was employed to build several gunboats
for the great lakes, and afterwards built
sailing vessels, barges and tug bo5is.
Abpn, 1915, they established the Allan
line Of steamships. They at first cncoun-
tered great difficulties and losses, but
finally succeeded in placing the line on a
St udl ana prosperous basis.
The ballot question is lively in Connec-
tcut, aud pots and kettles are discussing
Q tch hers hues with freedom and direct
ness. The law is that the ballots shall he
on "plnin white paper " The New Haven
! Register admits tha the New Haven
democrats voted black ballots printed in
white, not only in the recent municipal
contest but in the state election, and that
in the municipal con est the democratic
vote may be iu validated on that ground
| But in the gubernatorial contest, it claims
that tie republican ballots all over the
state were equally defective. having II
deep black border. Bulkeley therefore
would lose more than Waller. This is
scandalous, for such ballot must destroy
the secrecy of the voters intentions. The
Register calls for reform on both sides and
puts he responsibility en- the democratic
town committee of New Haven and its
bungling and reckless chairman.
Two CHILDREN FATALLY BURNED "A
terrible affair occlrred ut + ,st Fairfield
on Thursday afternoon. which resulted in
the death of one child and injuries which
will probably prove fatal to another A
Mrs. Bailey, who lives in one Of } b
Webster's tenement hou ,es, went ont 10 a
neighbours for II short time, leaving two
children-one between four aud five years
old, and tho other about Two alone in IL
trund,e bel OF crib During hor absence
the children played with The fire Gas it is
supposedly and the clothes in the crib
caught fire, burning the oldest child 10
death and SO badly burning the other that
it was not expected 10 survive. Tho sad
affair has aroused the sympathy of the
| ,1sha1n community