Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-27

UNITED STATES CoURT.-The regular
October term of the United States court
will begin at Rutland next Tuesday, Judge
Wheeler presiding.
DR.. E. Stone wiggings, of the finance
department at Ottawa, who sometime ago
predicted that the recent gale would sweep
from east TO west over the continent, says
a great storm will strike this planet in
March next He certainly means that
the public shall be warned in season.
A peculiar system of mortgaging farms
is used in Switzerland. A farmer may
borrow of n dozen men successfully, the
simple record in an official book showing
their order. Ifhe fails TO pay, successor
is found for him by beginning at the bot
tom of the list of creditors, and cal ling on
each other in his order to assume all the
debts and manage the farm, or step aside
and lose his claim.
y statement from the treasury says that
during the entire period since the 3lst of
August, 1865, when the public debt was at
It's highest point, the interest bearing debt
has been reduced from S2,3S1, $50, 29i.06
to 81 ,437 1880, a reduction of S9l3,S36,-
i4l o., or 10 per &c It; the total debt, less
cash in the treasury. has been reduced
from $2,Sl2, G62,17S 92-estimating the
interest due and accrued on the 3lst of
August at 56,230, 607.49, which was the
amount due and accrued on the 1st of july,
1868, when the interest was stated as part
of the public deht-to 81, 65S, 1926, III. 96, a
reduction of S1,153, 735, 009. 96, or al per
cent. The annual saving of interest paya-
bic on that portion of the public debt
bearing interest is represented by the
reduction from $3.50, S77 ,697 81 to $50.
ZIG, lS8. 50, total of S9l 81, 200. 81, or
about IS per cent.
We have heard a good tlcal of late of
railroad building in Mexico, and all the
stories hovo been pleasant ones. But in
m article in the current Htrpcr'S John
Bigelow points out the obstacles which lie
in the way of rapid development of
Mexico, and comes 10 tho conclusion that
inventors will do well to pause before put
ing their money into enterprises the
returns from which arc exceedingly
doubtful. He alleges that there is not a
navigablc stream in the country, and that
agriculture can never be made to pay
that fuel for the locomotives on the rail
way lines must be imported, and that poor
wood costs 1913 cord. The country is
still so unsettled that military guards have
to accompany every train and surround
every station. The government subsidies
handicap the roads more than they assist
them. Emigration can not be depended
upon, rs in the United States, 10 build UP
cities along the line of new railways In
general Mr.. Bigelow's conclusion is that
the great investment of American and
! gi-h capital in Mexican railways is a
very fine thing for Mexico and a very poor
thng for the inventors.
TIE New ENGLAND INSTITUTE FAIR -
The great Industrial exhibition fair of the
New England manufacturers and me.
chancs' institute, which was opened in
Boston on September 6, still continues to
attract its thousands of visitors The few
exhibitors who were behind time in arrang.
ing displays have, during the past few
days. got their exhibits into shape, and
now everything is in full running order
Never before has Boston presented to a
public so vast collection of industrial
exhibits; nor has any former exhibition
been of so much national importance
The industries OF q states of the Union
are here collected, giving to the people Of
New England an opportunity to study the
industries of our sister states. The pro
cesses of manufacture, which so interest
not only the mechanical student, but the
general public, are the great attractions
of the exhibition.
While the visitor is carefully examining
the many objects of interest so profusely
displayed before him, sweet strains Of
music break upon his ear, giving an air Of
melody and quiet to the surroundings
For the coming week Baldwin's Boston
cadet band is engaged for grand concerts
together with Walter Emerson, the emf
ncnt cornct virtuoso. and other soloiss.