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

experience and knowledge which age
alone can acquire. Social life was not
made for men alone, but also for women
and the speaker was convinced that the
women of France were finely devoted to
ideas.
The Burlington Free Press says: "a
C ounty in Pennsylvania has n Jail Just
like ours. The sheriff has to repair the
doors continually to keep out the tramps
and burglars"
The speech OF Mr.. Davitt, recently,
which led the British cabinet to consider
the expediency of arresting him. is pub
lished. The points he makes are by no
means novel. He declares that the land
act is a failure; Ireland, he says, repudiates
it: he insists that there must and will be
an Irish Parliament. making laws for
Ireland; that when landlordsm is legally
abolished, be will contest with Mr.. Parnell
the principles of final settlement of the
land question.
TIE PosToFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL.
AS finally agreed upon by the committee,
the postofIice appropriation bill appropri-
atcs S4s, 94S,6 900 or $695,OO0 less than for
the current fiscal year. The carrier SER
vice may be extended to ten or twelve
new cities during 1888, the cities 10 have
O population of 20, 900 or postoflice rev.
enue of $4,000 and the service to be fur
nished at the discretion of the postmaster
general. The amount for star routes is
reduced S2,250,000.
General Toombs of Georgia, recently
said TO Washington reporter: "a great
many of our best men are really taking
no interest in politics. The late methods
of obtaining political preferment are very
distasteful to our best citizens. They
won't take office. They look upon politics
with loathing. Joe Brown who, by an
organized system, controls the 10000
negro votes of Georgia, has entered into u
combination with certain democratS-or
men who call themselves democrats-they
are not in truth-and they manage TO
control everything and distribute the
offices to suit themselves. That is the
way Georgia politics are run"
The following is the programme for the
week of prayer in 1888: Sunday, Jan. 7
Sermons, For there is one God, and
one Mediator between God and man, the
Christ Jesus, who gave himself ransom
for ALL e. Timothy 2:5. 6). Monday,
Jan. 8-Praise and thanksgiving. Tues,
dsy, Jan. illumination and confession.
| T., for fut lins
Thursday. Jan. 11-Prayer for the church
universal. Friday, Jan. 12-Prayer for
the nations. Saturday, Jan. 1S-Prayer
for missions. Sunday, Jan. 14-Sermons,
Looking for that blessed hope and the
glorious appearing Of the great God and
our Saviour Jesus Christ" Critu3 2:13.
KILLED HIMSELF WITH STEAM.-The
morning when one of the workmen at the
county house, Pittsburgh, went abound
to open the cells of insane panpers to lei
them out to breakfast, he found Charles
Macy lying on the floor, dead. An exam
ination of the room disclosed the fact thai
the steam radiator had been torn down
and one of the points of the steam pipe
broken open 1t was evident that Macy
had, with a slat from his bedsead, torn
the radiator from its fastenings, and wher
the pipe was broken, the hot steam
escaped into the room. Macy was badly
scalded, and evidently came to his death
from inhaling the hot steam About six
years ago be jumped from third story
window to the roof of the wing, about ID
feet, and had to call for help to get down
He was about 6S years of age.
Jay Gould has been endeavoring tc
have the charter of the mutual unor
telegraph company vacated, and now th'
attention is returned, application having
been made to the attorney general Of
New York, Saturday, to vacate the charter
of the western union-or, to quote the
words of the application, to ''vacate The
charter aud annul the existence of sale
company and to remove the dir &c, or:
from office, and compel them to accoun
for their official conduct in the manage
ment of the funds and property mmitteC
to their charge. and to pay to the corpor.
alton, or its creditors, the money and tho
value of the property which they have
transferred to others, lost and wasted by
violation of their duties" The grounC
of the application is the stock watering o
the western union.
AS eleven men employed about tn
saw mill of j. Vincent & Son of Shaw
neetown, ILL.,, were sitting in the 'engin,
room at noon, December llih, eating
their luncheon. the boiler exploded witt
great violence, completely wrccking tn
mill, throwing some of the iron plate
600 yards, killing eight Of the men an,
wounding the other three. One was blow
into the river, 200 yards away. Severn
of the men were actually blown into mine
meat and their friends subsequently wen
about with pals picking up the fragments
The names of the killed are: VIM
Montgomery, Charles Bloss, Henry Hinges
Charles Baker. George Price, w. p. Cove
James Mclaughlin and Samuel Kennedy
Waldo Kee was blown q considerable dis
lance, both his arms and legs were broke
and he was otherwise injured. lie die
an hour afterward The remaining TIVE
were badly hurt-one it is believed fatally
Several of the men leave families il
INDECENT circumstances. The cause of tn
explosion Is unknown.
The recent visit of the emperor anC
empress to St. Petersburgh was attende,
with extra precautions on the part of tn
authorities. All along the route, iron
the Warsaw railway terminus to TIN
Annilchkin palace, police officers il
. sledges and on foot were met with at ever
f half II dozen yards, and all the hous
porters of the streets crossing the mail
route were collected in groups ut eacl
corner, for the double purpose of keepin!
a watch for suspicious persons and cheer
ing the imperial party. Policemen wer
posted at intervals in the center of tn
street, while the bridges over the cana!
were closely guardedby the marine police
in some cases an officer patrolling on tn,
fOolway of the bridge and private OF
the other. Where there were any bur
racks along the way, the soldiers. with
their bands and singing choirs, wor,
turned out 10 make show. The number
OF secret police agents and detectives OF
the alert 1t was, of course, impossible t,
tell On the whole, there was n marke,
contrast with the former free and uncere
monius visits of the imperial family t,
the chapel.