Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-11-22

An analysis of the vote cast in Indiana
for candidates for the legislature is said to
show majority in favor of submitting
a prohibitory amendment to the people.
In eightY-seven counties the nominees
who favored submission received 800. S05
while the democratic candidates received
207 1924 votes. But AS the democrats
control the legislature, this majority in
favor of giving the people an opportunity
to express an opinion on prohibition will,
of course, count for nothing.
The Illinois legislature will! be republi
can on joint ballot by at least 10 majority,
and consequently Senator David Davis
will be succeeded by republican. The
candidates are Governor Collum and Gen.
Raum, the present commissioner of inter-
nal revenue. The Illinois press seem to
think that, while Collum is tho better
politician, Raum has the most personal
popularity, and that the contest between
Them is pretty evenly matched. There is
also large stable of dark horses, of
whom ex-senator Oglesby and Secretary
Lincoln are foremost.
According to the Medical Times and
Gazette the oyster contains fourteen pei
cent of flesh forming material, this being
almost precisely the amount obtained from
the egg. Lean beef contains but two pei
more muscle making matter and but two
per cent more of fat than the oyster
Among the many thousand species o
shell fish there are only two or three
known to be poisonous yet but few kinds
such as cookies, periwinkles. anG mussels
are used besides clans and oysters. The
consumption of periwinkles in London
often amounts to 2000 bushels weekly.
Several American railroad managcrs
have received overtures from parties ir
Havana TO furnish railroad ties At frs
this might be considesad absurd, from th,
fact that during the Dt4t hundred wear,
the United States have furnished nearl,
all the lumber consumed for building
purposes, etc, in the West Indies. Bnt
there is growth of hard timber on tn,
island of Cuba exactly fitted for raljroal
ties, and for nothing else We are run
ming short ofrailroad ties, in tbs country
particularly in the material which vii
last. Transportation can be made ems,
the only question is in the matter of duty
The little village Of North Pownal is al
in II fermcnt over case Of suspected
wife poisoning. Il seeuis that the wife of
DR. Bailey, a practicing physician there
has been tor some time rapidly failing il
health and losing vitality from no appar
cnt cause, 1t now transpirr. hat he,
husband has been administering ouiate,
and other drugs to her, keeping her in
stupOr for days at a time. 1t is also assert
cd that ho denied her sufficient food for
subsistence. The nei2hbors suspected
from her extreme weakness and emnciatio,
that something was not right in be,
domestic life, and after some care(u
watching they discovered the state O
affairs which we have described. A,
soon as the cause of the lady's declin,
was known delegation of Indignant
villagers waited upon her inhuman hus
band and gave him to understand that III,
quicker he left town the better it womb
be for him. This advice was promptly
followed, and the unhappy wife was
sent home to her friends in Massachusetts