Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-03-01

Miss Henrietta Dewcome-In answer TO
your question about "unkissed kisses, we
may say we are prepared to unkiss any
kisses we may have kissed outside of the
family for tile last five ycass.-Hdrcdrd
LdnlpOon.
The inmates of the Massachusetts reform
school have been so largely reduced that
less than half the space available Is re-
quired-a gratifying illustration of the
improved condition Of the juveniles Of the
state. 1t is now proposed to use the unoc-
cupied space rs an inebriate reformatory
for young men.
Reports from the numbering districts on
the south side of the Ottawa river in Cana
da state that numbering operations are al
most completely at a standstill owing to
the scarcity of snow. Many of the chop.
pers have ceased operations. On the
uorth side of the Ottawa the snow is so
Deceptive feet on the level in the woods
that there is great difficulty in getting
out timber.
Roscoe Conkling is lifty.two years old,
having been born at Albany, October 80,
1929. lie received an academic education !;
studied law and entered upon its practice;
he was representative in the thirty-sixth,
thirty-seventh and thirty-ninth congresses;
was elected TO the fortieth congress, but
was Immediately after elected to the Unit
ed States Senate. in March, 1867; was re-
elected in 1873 and in 1879; resigning in
1881.
Among the Star-route contractors who
are in trouble is J. L. Sanderson of st.
Louis, formerly of St. Adams, who, in
addition to being presented for indictment
for conspiracy to defraud the government,
has been presented for indictment for per-
jury in connection with the route from
Saguatch to Lake City, Colorado. Mr..
Sanderson began his active life as driver
| from St. Adams to Richford.
The Pittsburgh Sentinel claims the
cake for Clinton county for perpetual mo.
ton inventions. E. Putnam, of Plattsburgh
and Joseph Hartman, Of Champlain, have
already announced that they had overcome
the laws of friction and cohesion, and now
Brancham Coakley, ofMooers, after twenty
years of labor in experiments on this hid.
den science promises to have q machine
on exhibition shortly.
A New York rumseller undertook IL
avoid the responsibilities of the excise law
by putting bis real estate into the hands o.
his wife. A woman whose husband had
lost his life because of drinking in the
mans saloon, sued for damages, ant
the wife of the seller, as owner of the sa-
loon, was Joined in the suit. The highest
court of the state has just decided that thu
wife is responsible, and the widow gets
the damages she claimed.
Abiding to the bill for retiring Genera
Grant, the Providence Journal says: ~
is not too much TO say that the result O
the civil war was determined by Ulysses
S. Grant as much as that of the Revolution
by George Washington, and this withou
detracting from the just claims of any ON
else. And in this view there is no question
about the prupicty of the proposed pay
ment, and those who carp at any Nationa
generosity to Grant will be reckoned il
history with the detraciors of Washing
ton"
Col. w. i. Grcenleaf has issued genera
orders, No. to the LIST Regiment, N. G
v, ordering three drills monthly unit
July Of at least one hour each. Eacl
company will report to headquarters th
number present for drill, and the TIM
actually occupied in drill, and from thes
the relative standing in the regiment, O
each company, will be computed. In &C
cordance with these orders the Ransom
Guard and Barlow Grays will begin drill
ing regularly in March.
Joseph T. Temple of Philadelphia ha
contracted with John Rogers, the sculptor
to complete an equestrian statue of Gen
Reynolds within two years, for $50, 900 @
which Mr., Temple contributes 1926, O0C
1t is intended 10 raise $4,000 to pay tn
remainder not covered by Mr.. Temple
gift and build a pedestal. Mr.. Tempt
expressed his willingness to contribut
the whole amount required, but it wa
thought best to permit those who Tough
under the gallant soldier to contribute t
the erection of the monument.
Aaron A. Sargent of Nevada City, Cal
the newly-appointed United States minis
ter at Berlin, was born in Newburyport
Mass. September %, 1897; was a printe
and editor in early life; emigrated to Cal
fornia in 1919; studied law and came t
: the bar in 1854; was district attorney O
Nevada county, CAL, in 1855 and 1856
received the degree of NJ. A. from tn
College of California in 1865; was electe
to the Thirty-seventh and Forty.first Con
crosses; was reelected TO theForty- secon
Congress rs republican. and was subse
quently elected TO the United States Senat
8 as republican, to succeed G. Cole, remit
g lican, and took his seat March 4, 1873. H
term of Office expired March 3, 1879.
Senator Logan, it is announced, will 500
deliver Il carefully prepared speech favor
ing the bill providing that all revenues {
the government hereafter derived fror
the tax on the manufacture and sale of di
titled spirits shall be divided among tt
q states and territories in proportion to thei
respective population exclusively for edit
: cational purposes. He has been collec
It ing statistics On the subject. and says th,
j. the expense of carrying on the scho,
c system of the states and territories do,
not exceed S75,000,000, which is lust tn
: sum that it is estimated will be receive
: from the tax on liquor during the presel
t fiscal year MI Logan thinks that
such law is passed it will at once becou
popular as well as permanent.
IS ILLEGAL FISHING IN LAKE CHAMpLAu
t. 1t was decided at the meeting of tt
!, Champlain fish protective associate
o for Saturday, to take immediate ster
IS preventing illegal fishing by seines ar
a nets the lower waters of Lake Chan
II plain this spring. A man will be hired
r all the points where this illegal fishing hi
q been done and paid 500 a month and h
IS board for the next three months to watt
h for vioators Of the law. Attorneys ha,
n been engaged and measures taken to bres
h up this practice. Last spring pike M
e bass. to say nothing about other fish, we
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